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Member: TonyH

Library592 books — see library

ReviewedNone so far

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Tagsfiction (199), read (195), part read (187), unread (107), history (98), 2nd hand (81), poetry (59), philosophy (54), psychology (52), counselling (45) — see all tags

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, Books Compared — show all groups , Books that made me think, Brits, Buddhism, EmilyDickinson, Ethical Theory, Fans of Russian authors, Group Reads - Literature, Hard-Boiled Wonderland, Love and Death: for Woody Allen fans, Monks, Monasteries and Monasticism, Non-Fiction Readers, Participants in Immensity, Penguin Classics, Philosophy and Theory, Philosophy Book Group, Poetry Fool, Poetry Readers, Poets' Corner: Librarythingers, 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, Michael Chabon, 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, Robert M. Pirsig, Sylvia Plath, Marcel Proust, Thomas Pynchon, Carl R. Rogers, Salman Rushdie, J.D. Salinger, R.S. Thomas, Brian Thorne, Leo Tolstoy, William Trevor, Ludwig Wittgenstein (Shared favorites)

About me I 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

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Member sinceMar 26, 2007