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Member: SilentInAWay

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Favorite authorsDante Alighieri, Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Amy Clampitt, Michel Foucault, Elizabeth George, Knut Hamsun, Mario Vargas Llosa, George du Maurier, Yukio Mishima, Pablo Neruda, Richard Powers, Salman Rushdie, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Murasaki Shikibu, Rex Stout, Rabindranath Tagore, Paco Ignacio Taibo, W. B. Yeats (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAcres of Books (Long Beach, CA), Beijing Books Building (Xidan Bookstore) [西单北京图书大厦], Librería El Parnaso, Librería Martínez, Renaissance Books, The Bookman, UCI Bookstore

About me"In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited." (Schopenhauer)

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"To a greater or lesser degree every man is suspended upon narratives, on novels, which reveal to him the multiplicity of life. Only these narratives, often read in a trance, situate him before his fate." (Bataille)

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About my library“The book borrower of real stature whom we envisage here proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures and by the deaf ear which he turns to all reminders from the everyday world of legality as by his failure to read these books." (Walter Benjamin)

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"When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes." (Erasmus)

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Member sinceJan 13, 2007

Currently readingReversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry by Mónica de la Torre
Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form by Helen Vendler
Piano Sonata No. 2 - "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860" [sheet music] by Charles Ives
Essays Before a Sonata, The Majority and Other Writings by Charles Ives
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset