Member: NancyKay_Shapiro
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About meWriter (a novel, What Love Means To You People), reader, dog-lover, New Yorker.
About my libraryVast swathes of NYRB reprints, Virago Modern Classics, 19th century English novels, 20th and 21st century fiction. Small collection of old quirky books about New York City which I'm always looking to add to.
Groups18th-19th Century Britain, 75 Books Challenge for 2012, Anglophiles, Deep South, Famous voluminous novels, Letters & diaries, Literary Snobs, Nabokov!, New York Review Books, New Yorkers City —show all groups, The Brontës, Trollope lovers unite or fight, Virago Modern Classics, What Are You Reading Now?, What the Dickens...?, William Faulkner and his Literary Kin, Writer-readers
Favorite authorsJane Austen, Sybille Bedford, Charlotte Brontë, Hortense Calisher, Willa Cather, Dan Chaon, Colette, Laurie Colwin, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, William Faulkner, Rachel Ferguson, Penelope Fitzgerald, Alan Furst, Mavis Gallant, Elizabeth Gaskell, Andrew Holleran, Alan Hollinghurst, M. V. Hughes, Henry James, Denis Johnson, A. J. Liebling, Janet Malcolm, Hilary Mantel, Benjamin Markovits, William Maxwell, F.M. Mayor, Eugene McCabe, John McGahern, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov, The New York Public Library, Edna O'Brien, Grace Paley, Anthony Powell, Mary Robison, Philip Roth, Lore Segal, NancyKay Shapiro, Jim Shepard, Edward St Aubyn, Elizabeth Taylor, Colm Tóibín, Leo Tolstoy, Calvin Trillin, Anthony Trollope, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Eudora Welty, Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, Edmund White (Shared favorites)
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posted by elenchus at 3:23 pm (EST) on May 12, 2013
I've marked yours as an Interesting Library, which I do primarily as a way of coming across reviews for titles I've not catalogued. But please, no pressure intended.
posted by elenchus at 1:12 am (EST) on May 11, 2013
I've marked yours as an Interesting Library, which I do primarily as a way of coming across reviews for titles I've not catalogued. But please, no pressure intended.
posted by elenchus at 1:11 am (EST) on May 11, 2013
I've marked yours as an Interesting Library, which I do primarily as a way of coming across reviews for titles I've not catalogued. But please, no pressure intended.
posted by elenchus at 1:11 am (EST) on May 11, 2013
I've marked yours as an Interesting Library, which I do primarily as a way of coming across reviews for titles I've not catalogued. But please, no pressure intended.
posted by elenchus at 1:10 am (EST) on May 11, 2013
I came to her oddly -- I'm a fan of Arthur Machen the Welsh mystical christian horror writer (odd combo!) and STW was his niece by marriage (his 2nd wife was the sister of STW's mother). A Machen journal I subscribe to reprinted one of her stories, which I liked a lot... I followed up, and here I am with a bunch of her books. I plan to tackle The Corner that held them vaguely soon...
posted by Crypto-Willobie at 12:17 pm (EST) on Nov 28, 2012
posted by Crypto-Willobie at 3:46 pm (EST) on Nov 25, 2012
posted by rebeccanyc at 4:55 pm (EST) on Jul 6, 2012
posted by LizzieD at 11:30 am (EST) on Jul 5, 2011
As well as I remember, you have to go to the book page or the author page where there will be a place to click on "Add to Favorites." There's probably an easier way, but that's what I did.
My favorite Virago author is Elizabeth Taylor - just thought I'd say - with Young and W. Holtby coming in second.
posted by LizzieD at 7:29 pm (EST) on Jul 3, 2011
The Blue Flower was my first Fitzgerald, and I ended up not getting it. I own The Bookshop and was sufficiently intrigued by the flower not to give up on her. And STW rises higher and higher on my Mt. Bookpile. I'm not sure that I have the one that the VMC group are all praising to the skies.
I think a lot of us love EH Young. I certainly do! Not so many people read Mayor though, and I thoroughly enjoyed - uh oh. I have Mayor confused with G.B. Stern.....must have been the initials. She's another I have yet to read.
Yow! I have to go feed the cats! The time escaped me - and when I went to what I thought was your author page, it was the main one, so I'll have to do better research later.
Well-met though!
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 6:37 pm (EST) on Jul 3, 2011
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 5:50 pm (EST) on Jul 3, 2011