Random books from LyzzyBee's library

About me I'm a librarian by trade and, at the moment, in practice. In fact I'm a cataloguer - you'd think I could find something other to do with my spare time! Recently moved to Birmingham with my partner, and for the first time I have all the books out of storage! They're not all in the same room, but you can't have everything...

About my library I've been reading and collecting books since I can remember. It'll be interesting to find out just how many books I do have - I airily say "about 2,000", but I think it might be less than that! I collect literary fiction, travel, biography, music and psychology, also have quite a few children's books from the 1950s, though I'm trying to stop collecting encyclopaedias.

Note: Any bookcrossing (www.bookcrossing.com) books which I am not intending to keep, are not recorded on here but can be found on my BookCrossing page www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/lyzzybee . Any BC books which I am keeping for the moment are tagged as BC while I look for non-BC replacements!

Homepagehttp://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/lyzzybe

Membership LibraryThing Early Reviewers

LocationBirmingham, UK

Account typepublic, lifetime

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/LyzzyBee (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/LyzzyBee (library)

Member sinceNov 13, 2005

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Hi: Thanks for adding us as links. That is really great! I am tehnologically challenged and I am not sure how to do this, can you help me? Have a great weekend.

posted by Nitestar at 12:13 pm (EST) on May 10, 2008

LizzyBee, thank you! Rights to publish in England haven't been separately sold, but I just checked and the novel will be available on Amazon in the uk (and with your favorable exchange rate). The link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wednesday-Sisters-Meg-Waite-Clayton/dp/0345502825/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209323137&sr=8-1

posted by megwaiteclayton at 3:07 pm (EST) on Apr 27, 2008

And not only did we join LT a day apart, but I used to work in a library. Very, very scary! I often do a double take when I see your name. :=)

posted by izzybee at 12:28 pm (EST) on Oct 16, 2007

Would you mind discussing with the a comparison and contrast of reading habits of children ages 10-18 in Britain vs. the same age group in the colonies?

posted by kennethrbesser at 8:16 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2007

Lizzy:

Did you ever manage to get into the Second Life chat? If so, what did you do to fix the problem (as we shared the same symptom)?

Jack

posted by Seajack at 2:00 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2007

Hello,
I found you! I'm going to try and sort my list out because I haven't caught up since Christmas. A fair few things to add and a few to take off as I've had a clear out.

posted by darktea at 9:26 am (EST) on Feb 17, 2007

Hello Liz,
I've given in at last and signed up! I'm starting with my Virago bookshelf and noticed you pop up as one of the users with similar books to me!
PurpleElephant

posted by purpleelephant at 5:01 am (EST) on Feb 4, 2007

heeeeeeeeeeeeeee I'm here too, I siad I wouldn't, but I have.

posted by Heaven-Ali at 3:14 pm (EST) on Jan 30, 2007

I'm curious which ones from the 2006 non-fiction thread you were interested in reading when you said "more for my wishlist"?

posted by Seajack at 8:01 pm (EST) on Jan 2, 2007

My cousin lives in Birmingham and used to dance with the Royal Ballet Company there. We love visiting England. It's just hard to get all the books we buy back into our suitcases!

-Rus

posted by rdixon98 at 8:17 am (EST) on Sep 7, 2006

If you're unhappy that librarianship is under ZZ, imagine how theological librarians feel about the Bible being under BS . . .

posted by asquonk at 4:50 pm (EST) on Aug 1, 2006

Thanks for all your tips. The anthology one is a good idea - a good way to sort out who you like and who you don't like. I'm keen on American travel books too and picked up a few nice ones while on holiday there last month. Another recent buy was Selected Travel Tales by Paul Theroux, so nice to see you recommend him. Thanks again!

posted by Caffy at 3:23 pm (EST) on Jul 5, 2006

I'm very envious of your wonderful collection of travel books. I'm just starting my own collection, are there any you would describe as 'must haves'? We're two of only four people who have the book of the TV series, 'Coast', btw...

posted by Caffy at 6:57 pm (EST) on Jun 28, 2006

Thanks, LizzyBee!

posted by thecardiffgiant at 9:33 am (EST) on Jun 11, 2006

Hi. I noticed that you have the Suffrage of Elvira by V.S. Naipaul. His middle name is actually Surajprasad, not Shiva. Shiva Naipaul was his younger brother, and there's some confusion in different catalogues about the names. If you could change Shiva to Surajprasad it would really help. Thanks!

posted by thecardiffgiant at 2:59 pm (EST) on Jun 3, 2006

The nearest organised group was in Bristol,it's not really taken off this far West to my knowledge.

posted by dovegreyreader at 7:10 am (EST) on Apr 10, 2006

oops where did that name go? sunnylanes disappeared off the end!

posted by dovegreyreader at 10:13 am (EST) on Apr 4, 2006

Funny you should say that! I was a very early Book Crosser and may still be on there as
Lynne

posted by dovegreyreader at 10:12 am (EST) on Apr 4, 2006

Is there any difference between tags fiction and Fiction, or were you caught out by tags becoming case sensitive?
Warning: last time I tried it (a couple of wweks ago), adding tags was case sensitive, but removing them using power edit was not! I selected jim burns cover tag, addded Jim Burns cover, deleted jim burns cover and lost the new tags as well. LT changes so fast it might be different now.

posted by ringman at 6:53 am (EST) on Mar 2, 2006

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