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Tragedies by William Shakespeare

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Lleyn Peninsula (Landranger Maps) by Ordnance Survey

Traditional Carol Book: All the Favourites for Carol Singers, Choirs, Organists, Pianists and Keyboard Players by Geoffrey Moore

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Member: Stromata

Library1,684 books — see library

ReviewedNone so far

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TagsFiction (287), Biography (274), Art (153), Classics (113), History - British (95), Folio Society (91), Places (84), Architecture (82), Literature (76), History - Ancient (71) — see all tags

GroupsAncient History, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, Books on Books, Folio Society devotees, It's a LondonThing, Medieval Europe

About me Bibliophile, bookworm, philhellene, with a day job as a researcher, writer and lecturer - mainly in the field of the history of architecture. I live in a small cottage in the beautiful Scottish Borders but spend a few days every month in London.

About my library I have rather an eclectic mix of books here which reflect my academic interests; a first degree in Modern History and a Masters in the Classics, my work in architecture and my passions – art, music, literature, biography and travel. As well as owning a house full of books I also borrow books from various libraries – I have not included these in my library list. Many novels and other paperback books I give away, unless I intend reading them again.

2008 Books Read for Pleasure:

The Man in the Picture - Susan Hill
The Tenderness of Wolves - Steph Penney
At Large and At Small - Anne Fadiman
Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman
I Found My Horn - Jasper Rees
We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
Gilgamesh
Captain Professor - Michael Howard
Our Horses in Egypt - Roslin Balsen
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
The Careful Use of Compliments - Alexander McCall Smith
Utz - Bruce Chatwin
Oxford Letters - Veronica Stallwood
The Welsh Girl - Peter Ho Davies
Oxford Exit - Veronica Stallwood
Evening in the Palace of Reason - James Gaines
An Equal Music - Vikram Seth
Quicksands - Sybille Bedford
Jigsaw - Sybille Bedford
Barcelona - the Great Enchantress - Robert Hughes
The Concert Pianist - Conrad Williams
The Boy Who Loved Books - John Sutherland
Diaries, 1971 - 1988, James Lees-Milne
Another Self - James Lees-Milne
Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Immortality - Milan Kundera
Publisher - Tom Maschler
The Untouchable - John Banville

Membership LibraryThing Early Reviewers

LocationScottish Borders

Favorite authorsNone specified

Account typepublic, lifetime

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

Member sinceJan 4, 2008

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Hi Marriane - happy to be added to your interesting libraries list, I hope you don't mind if I add you. I see you too are a Folio fan, I have just been very bad and ordered my bi-annual mass order and of course get very generous freebies with it, hopefully it will come into land by the end of next week.

I have the Sybille Bedford 'Jigsaw' in my 'to read soon' pile, which I see you have already read this year, did it come up to expectations?

Yes, you will enjoy the Manguel. You have quite an impressive amount of reading done yourself this year. I shall enjoy surfing around your library.

Kind regards
Caroline

posted by Caroline_McElwee at 6:59 am (EST) on May 3, 2008

Yes, I used to visit the Lit and Phil when I had more time ten years ago now, alas, life has crowded out the possibility of visiting more than once in a blue moon.

posted by antimuzak at 2:55 am (EST) on Apr 24, 2008

Greetings! A pleasure to be on your interesting libraries list. Haven't added much other than fiction recently. But there is plenty more to come......

posted by whiteroseofyork at 6:22 pm (EST) on Apr 16, 2008

We do seem to have common interests - the classics, history, art... I hope you don't mind my adding your books to my "interesting libraries" list.

posted by Romanus at 4:03 pm (EST) on Apr 10, 2008

I understand your reluctance to have a tv in the house. I lived for 11 years without one, and would probably do better without one now. I also understand the desire to read/reread the books as I am cataloging them, though at present I am trying to restrain myself on that. You are much more fortunate than I am in going to London so often. I try to get there once a year for a week or so, and that is better than I did at one time.

posted by antiquary at 5:12 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2008

I gather we have some similar interests, including classsics and London (I was there for research again this March). However, we seem to have adopted opposite cataloging strategies -- aside from a few books in my first few days of membership, I have been cataloging my serious books before going on to my light fiction, while you are doing it the other way round. I have been listing my current light reading on Goodreads, so my list there may be more parallel to what you are doing here.

posted by antiquary at 2:49 pm (EST) on Apr 1, 2008

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