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Member: Tinwara

CollectionsYour library (717), Currently reading (3), To read (106), All collections (717)

Reviews76 reviews

Tagsfiction (392), non-fiction (270), Africa (66), USA (57), read in 2009 (52), Netherlands (46), children's books (46), Asia (39), history (35), read in 2008 (33) — see all tags

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GroupsReading Globally, The City and the Book

Favorite authorsDamon Galgut, Amitav Ghosh, Siri Hustvedt, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Haruki Murakami (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAthenaeum Boekhandel, De Slegte Amsterdam, Hoogstins, Island Bookstore, Selexyz Scheltema - Koningsplein

Favorite librariesOpenbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam - Centrale Bibliotheek

About meBooks are my weakness! They are the only things I keep on buying, even if most of them end up at the shelves after reading, and stay closed for the rest of their lives. I like to read "world literature", this is my way of travelling in a period of my life that is filled up with work.

About my libraryThis catalogue took me awhile. It's been quite an experience to take all these beloved (and not so beloved) books from their shelves, browse through them and remember the stories, to find strange relics from the past between the pages, bus tickets from times and places I passed through, little notes from people I used to know. Makes me think of the places where I read these books, and the ways these books affected me.

The big problem is, handling these books makes me want to reread them! How am I going to do this, considering the long list of books at my wishlist, and all that is not yet published, but will be....? Panic!

My library consists of fiction mainly, a small collection of art books, and coursebooks from all the courses I started and sometimes even finished. I own all these books, but have not read them all yet.

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LocationAmsterdam, the Netherlands

Account typepublic, lifetime

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Common KnowledgeSeries (50), Awards (318), Characters (1666), Places (470)

Member sinceDec 6, 2007

Currently readingEn je zult spinazie eten : aan tafel bij Spinoza, filosoof van de blijdschap by Jan Knol
Wat was er voor de oerknal? : en andere kwesties die het voorstellingsvermogen te boven gaan by Govert Schilling
Status anxiety by Alain De Botton