Hello Mike,

I finished reading The Uncommon Reader this morning! What a great book--I really enjoyed it. Such dry, understated wit, and a wonderful concept. Of course, and this may be the extreme lack of sleep talking here (I didn't sleep much last night), I couldn't help but wonder if the Queen herself has read it. ::grin:: How weird would it be for her to read a book about her, reading books? So, thank you again--excellent choice. I look forward to the next one!

Happy New Year!

posted by Rachael at 10:00 pm (EST) on Dec 30, 2007

Hello Mike (a.k.a. Secret Santa!),

My books were waiting for me when I got home just now. Thank you so much! I'm really looking forward to reading them. I'd never heard of either one and they both sound quite fabulous. I think you picked the perfect ones for me. Looks like we have some similar tastes in reading material. What a great collection of books you have!

Happy Christmas, and I hope you got something great from whoever your Secret Santa was. :-)

Rachael

posted by Rachael at 8:26 pm (EST) on Dec 27, 2007

Hello. I', a 33 year old teacher whos house cannot contain his books. Only 3 of us read No Telling. It blew me away. What did you think of it?

posted by stephenmurphy at 6:49 am (EST) on Mar 8, 2007

hey you're the only person I share Jellyroll with. Did you not like his other books?

posted by catmistressel at 7:45 pm (EST) on Feb 24, 2007

Number one on my shared list.... perhaps we just reflect the fact thats theres just nothing much to do?!

posted by MoolyShape at 9:53 am (EST) on Jan 17, 2007

We 'share' Too Small for Basketball :-)
3,500+ books catalogued, phew! My New Years resolution= read, and catalogue lots more books!

posted by wonderlake at 9:34 am (EST) on Jan 2, 2007

Hiya,

We have 65 books in common so far, which is quite a surprise since I've only added about 450 of the 3000+ books in my house so far. It'll be interesting to see what the number reaches when I've finished...

Cheers
Simon

posted by SimonHaynes at 9:11 am (EST) on Dec 22, 2006

Cool! 200 books in common. You have a full sixth of my library at your place. Not bad considering that a quarter of my books are in French or about non overlapping hobbies. You're on my watchlist now.

posted by ThierryWasserman at 12:45 pm (EST) on Dec 17, 2006

Hi

I've logged 30-something books so far and share 15, and not just familar titles as well. When I finally finish putting all mine on would be interesting to see if you have some of the titles I consider obscure (as in, took a while to find in shops).

Anyway, enjoy Lincoln, lived there until age 20 (my parents live near there).

James

posted by JamesCotton at 7:32 am (EST) on Nov 23, 2006

I've only logged 41 of my collection so far and already we share 26...it must be a Glasgow thing.

posted by davenelli at 10:30 am (EST) on Nov 20, 2006

What good taste you have :-D

I think you would like Ursula Le Guin's short stories from the stuff we have in common.

posted by holy.cow at 3:59 pm (EST) on Oct 8, 2006

I have an author suggestion for you, Dave Eggers. I think you'd really love him. He's only written a few but 'You shall know our velocity...' is his best. Any advice for me?

posted by word_grubber at 2:29 pm (EST) on Sep 25, 2006

you're number 2 on my list but I really suggest you read the Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell. then you'll be number 1!

posted by boundoriginals at 2:41 pm (EST) on Sep 23, 2006

I'm very impressed that you have 55 of the same books as me. Considering I only have an inadequate 130 books listed, that's very impressive. What did you think of Hotel World? I thought it was pretty awful myself but who throws out books?

posted by word_grubber at 8:44 am (EST) on Sep 21, 2006

I'm very impressed you can fit that many books into a small flat! :) We've only got about 2000 here and it's a three bedroom!

posted by amandaellis at 9:35 am (EST) on Sep 18, 2006

Hi Mike,

What can I say, thousands of miles apart, yet share moments with our hearts and minds lost in the same words and sentences.

Alana

posted by camelspit at 12:51 am (EST) on Sep 7, 2006

We share odd books. Who else has Al Qaeda and What it Means to Be Modern AND American Gods AND Hey Nostradamus?

posted by Mathew at 2:44 am (EST) on Aug 18, 2006

Hi Mike

I'm in Glasgow too - and you are also #1 on my shared list. Perhaps we just use the same bookshop :) ?

posted by Karenv at 11:43 am (EST) on Jul 31, 2006

You're number 1 on my shared list.

Cheers!
Stewart

posted by InfinityParadox at 2:08 am (EST) on Jul 30, 2006

Interesting -- you're also #2 on *my* shared list.

I'm cleaning up the Neil Gaiman listings, and thought you might want to fix "Books of Magic: Death After Death." All the Books of Magic after the first are actually by John Ney Reiber, not Neil Gaiman.

posted by grunin at 2:10 am (EST) on Jul 25, 2006

Like everyone else, you have most my books! Still cataloguing, and you have 160 of mine!

will browse your list. any recommendation? :)

Mike
Profile name "WhoElse"

posted by WhoElse at 10:40 am (EST) on Jul 10, 2006

Whoa, we have 181 of the same books (and I haven't even finished my catalogue uploading yet) - pretty impressive overlap :)

Going to add you to my watchlist and have a good look through your catalogue to see what else might be of interest...

posted by scifi_nut at 7:26 am (EST) on Jul 7, 2006

Hi, I have only read the first couple of issues of Authority - Revolution. What is the latter part like?

cheers,

bt

posted by bluetyson at 4:33 am (EST) on May 16, 2006

Lol! No. 1 on my list of 'what I'm reading', started this month.

posted by Kate_JJM at 1:02 pm (EST) on Mar 21, 2006

Hi Mike,

It's Carissa... You are #2 on my "users who have the same books as you." It's either 36 or 38. I don't remember which. Such a small world. I'm going to go look at the rest of your list. :)

posted by Doodlebugs at 4:47 pm (EST) on Mar 15, 2006