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Member: TonyH

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Groups1001 Books to read before you die, 50 Book Challenge, A Pearl of Wisdom and Enlightenment, All the World's a Stage, Ancient History, Anglophiles, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, BBC Radio 4 Listeners, Best of British, Bob Dylan — show all groups , Books Compared, Books that made me think, Brits, Buddhism, Club Read 2009, EmilyDickinson, Ethical Theory, Fans of Russian authors, Group Reads - Literature, Hard-Boiled Wonderland, Hellas, Learning Ancient Greek, Literary Snobs, Love and Death: for Woody Allen fans, Monks, Monasteries and Monasticism, Nabokov!, Non-Fiction Readers, Penguin Classics, Philosophy and Theory, Philosophy Book Group, Poetry Fool, Poetry Readers, Poets' Corner: Librarythingers, Prolapses in Immensity, Proust, Psychology, Pynchon Pandæmonium, Reading Globally, ReJoyce, Taking Salinger Seriously, Taoism, The Globe, The Name of Queen Baudolino's Pendulum of the Flame Before, Travel and Exploration literature, Wallace Stevens, Writer-readers, Zen

Favorite authorsPeter Ackroyd, Douglas Adams, Samuel Beckett, Michael Chabon, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Piero Ferrucci, John Fowles, Erich Fromm, Thom Gunn, Martin Heidegger, Joseph Heller, Ernest Hemingway, Ted Hughes, Ken Kesey, Milan Kundera, Hanif Kureishi, R.D. Laing, Philip Larkin, Dave Mearns, David Mitchell, Mary Oliver, Robert M. Pirsig, Sylvia Plath, Marcel Proust, Thomas Pynchon, Carl R. Rogers, Salman Rushdie, J.D. Salinger, William Shakespeare, R. S. Thomas, Brian Thorne, Leo Tolstoy, William Trevor, David Foster Wallace, Ludwig Wittgenstein, William Wordsworth (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBarter Books, London Review Bookshop, Waterstone's Piccadilly

Favorite librariesDurham University - Education Library, Durham University - Main Library, Newcastle City Library, Newcastle University - Robinson Library, Northumbria University - Coach Lane Campus Library, The Literary and Philosophical Society (The Lit and Phil)

About meI like books but I’m an intermittent bookworm, going through binges and dry spells. I joined the 50 book challenge group, hoping that aim might help boost my consistency, and it has, though I’m not really bothered how many books I read in a year as long as the books I do read are doing what I like them to do for me. The non-fiction side of my library was shaped by the courses I have done. I don’t read much history these days but still have an ongoing interest in philosophy and counselling (humanistic especially person centred). Fiction wise I’m glad I have never really studied literature beyond a basic level so it’s all fresh discovery for me untainted by academic knowledge, poetry too. At the moment I’m enjoying getting to grips with classics I know a bit about for some reason but have never actually read. I like to dabble with writing poetry amongst other things. I'm trying to keep on top of reading all the books I own, but my buying is always ahead of my reading.

My progress on the 50 book challenge is here:

1 March 07- 29 Feb 08

1 March 08 - 28 Feb 09

My Club Read 2009 reading journal

Oh dear they've given me 'helper' badges cos I filled in some common knowledge bits - I hope they go away.

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Member sinceMar 26, 2007

Currently readingSentimental Education (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Prelude (Norton Critical Edition) by William Wordsworth
In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way Vol 1 (Vintage Classics) by Marcel Proust
Opened Ground: Poems, 1966-96 by Seamus Heaney
Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics) by R.S. Thomas
The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth by Robert Graves
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
An Introduction to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Skills and Applications by David Westbrook
The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 by Samuel Beckett
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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