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Tags20th Cent. fiction (126), fantasy (121), English lit (98), children's lit (93), science fiction (80), mystery (72), 19th Cent. fiction (64), illustration (62), JB (50), comics (49) — see all tags

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Groups18th-19th Century Britain, Anglophiles, Author Theme Reads, Baseball, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, Comics, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Early Reviewers, New York Review Books, Rare, Old or Offbeat — show all groups

Favorite authorsEric Ambler, Kingsley Amis, John Banville, Nicola Barker, William Boyd, John Buchan, William S. Burroughs, A. S. Byatt, Raymond Chandler, Charles Dickens, Philip K. Dick, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexandre Dumas, William Gaddis, Graham Greene, Shirley Hazzard, Harry Mathews, David Mitchell, Haruki Murakami, Raymond Queneau, Sir Walter Scott, W. G. Sebald, Tobias Smollett, Gertrude Stein, Laurence Sterne, Graham Swift, Angela Thirkell, Anthony Trollope, Jules Verne (Shared favorites)

About meBrooklyn (out of Canada) designer book junkie reading omnivore.

About my library"Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?" he asked. "Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
AAiW

"Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, – where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Let us read and let us dance ... two amusements that will never do any harm to the world."
Voltaire

READING 2009
Chronicler of the Wind – Henning Mankell
The Coffee Trader – David Liss
Ella Minnow Pea – Mark Dunn
The Children's Hospital – Chris Adrian
Lark and Termite – Jayne Anne Phillips
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
The Complete Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
The Sailor From Gibraltar – Marguerite Duras
I Served the King of England – Bohumil Hrabal
A Farewell To Arms – Ernest Hemingway
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
Outcasts United – Warren St.John
My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle - Marcel Pagnol
Stories from the Vinyl Cafe - Stuart McLean
Vinyl Cafe Diaries - Stuart McLean
London River - H.M.Tomlinson
The Black Doll - Edward Gorey
The Fat Man and Infinity - António Lobo Antunes
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
The Railway Detective - Edward Marston
Jim the Boy - Tony Earley
Seven Days in the Art World - Sarah Thornton
The Painter of Signs - R. K. Narayan
Old Junk - H.M.Tomlinson
The Manual of Detection - Jedediah Berry
InterWorld - Neil Gaiman
The Blue Star - Tony Earley
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
Satchel: Life and Times of an American Legend - Larry Tye
Wanting - Richard Flanagan
The Snoring Bird - Bernd Heinrich
Tidemarks - H.M.Tomlinson
Italian Shoes - Henning Mankell
The Lost City of Z - David Grann
The Wind Is Rising - H.M.Tomlinson
The Mexican Dream - J.M.G.Le Clezio
1491-New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus - Charles C. Mann
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon
Hell - Robert Olen Butler
The Infinities - John Banville
Homer & Langley - E.L.Doctorow
The Anthologist - Nicholson Baker
Human Smoke - Nicholson Baker
Double Fold: Libraries & the Assault on Paper - Nicholson Baker
Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy - Flora Thompson
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth - Apostolos Doxiadis
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography - David Michaelis
The Children's Book - A.S.Byatt
Odd and the Frost Giant - Neil Gaiman
Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art - James Rosenquist
The Passport - Herta Muller
Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives - Peter Ackroyd
After London: Or, Wild England - Richard Jefferies
A Writer's Britain - Margaret Drabble
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

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Member sinceFeb 8, 2007

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The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd

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Was Superman a Spy?: And Other Comic Book Legends Revealed by Brian Cronin

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The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell

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After London: Or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies

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Newton (Ackroyd's Brief Lives) by Peter Ackroyd

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Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives (Ackroyd Brief Lives) by Peter Ackroyd

I never knew, or I've forgotten, that Drabble and Byatt are sisters.

posted by jbealy at 5:03 pm (EST) on Nov 6, 2009

I added Homer & Langley to my wishlist after hearing Mr. Doctorow on NPR. Glad to hear you liked it!

posted by PaperbackPirate at 1:24 am (EST) on Sep 13, 2009

I loved your review of The Manual of Detection nearly as much as I loved the book itself. I must peruse your library post haste and acquire a copy each of your books.

posted by blakefraina at 3:14 pm (EST) on May 18, 2009

Hey, I see you like Lud-In-The-Mist as well as Stardust. Those are two of my favorite books ever. I fell in love with lud-in-the-mist straight from the first page, and I honestly can't get enough of it. Can you suggest anything similar? I'm always looking for great fantasy works. I added you to my list, by the way. Hope that's okay!

posted by twilightnocturne at 3:03 am (EST) on May 10, 2009

The Highly-Rated Book Group has begun a Group Read of The Blind Assassin. Sign up here: http://www.librarything.com/groups/thebl...

and don’t forget to join in my Book Quiz.

- TT

posted by TheTortoise at 12:20 pm (EST) on Mar 10, 2009

Seriously what does it matter what the book came packaged in??? I wouldn't care if they sent it wrapped in newspaper or sent it by Pony Express - I GOT A FREE BOOK (and it was good too)!

posted by Sodapop at 1:13 pm (EST) on Jan 23, 2009

I like your selection of books by John Buchan very much. He is a favourite of mine.

Yours

Messpots

posted by messpots at 6:29 pm (EST) on Jan 4, 2009

Welcome to The Highly Rated Book Group!

We are so glad you could join us again for some more great book reads!

vintage_books

posted by vintage_books at 3:14 pm (EST) on Dec 24, 2008

You are cordially invited to join our new Generic Book Group and to take part in our group reads:

http://www.librarything.com/groups/thehi...

We look forward to welcoming you as a new or continuing member.

- TT

posted by TheTortoise at 5:21 am (EST) on Dec 20, 2008

I'm flattered that you have added me to your interesting libraries. By the way, I absolutely adore your profile picture. Is it one of your designs? I'm off to ramble through your library now.

posted by urania1 at 8:13 pm (EST) on Nov 21, 2008

Ahoy me Hearty!

The “Pirate Riddles of the Seven Seas” and “Who Wants to Be a Buccaneer?” Quizzes start this Sunday 2nd November at 8.00pm (GMT).

Be sure to check in every day if you want to win at:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/47884

- Yer First Mate, The Piratical Tortoise

posted by TheTortoise at 3:36 pm (EST) on Oct 30, 2008

I thanks ye for signin' up and markin' your spot to be on me Pirate crew. Since we have a vast, big ship, we ain't got 'nough crew to man her across the seven seas and me thinks that the seas be rough this time o' year. We needs many more hands to sail and not much time 'fore we launch.

I be's invitin' you to looks at the new PRE-CONTEST over in ye's Pirate Book Thread. Its be open until November 2, so ye wants to look soon.

Yer Captain

posted by vintage_books at 1:29 am (EST) on Oct 20, 2008

Heigh ho, me hearty! I see you have a copy of “A Pirate of Exquisite Mind” in your library. The Highly-Rated Book Group is boarding the Pirate Ship of William Dampier and heading off into the high seas for a rollicking Buccaneering Adventure in the wild blue yonder. We are splicing the main brace and trimming the sails to set off with the tide on 3rd November 2008. So don’t be a landlubber, come and swash some buckles by climbing on board at:

http://www.librarything.com/groups/apira...

-TT

posted by TheTortoise at 2:51 pm (EST) on Oct 7, 2008

ha-ha, no kool-aid here, just easier than making up my own words this early in the morning.

posted by jbealy at 9:44 am (EST) on Aug 12, 2008

I'm flattered that you find my library interesting. Thanks for adding me.
What did you think of Against the Day. I guess I'm alone in this judgment, but it seems to me as good as anything Pynchon's done.

What did you think?

posted by dcozy at 5:49 pm (EST) on Jun 2, 2008

That is so funny you ask about Behindlings because I just pulled it off the shelf to read tonight! I'll let you know how I like it.

posted by jbealy at 11:59 pm (EST) on Apr 18, 2008

Hello

Thank you for your kind words - One of the things that appealed to me about LT was seeing one's covers all together - which I have tried to remeber when scanning and loading covers seems to take forever....
I notice that you too have loaded all your covers - I agree that it makes browsing a library more enjoyable ...

Cheers

posted by Caesia at 7:50 am (EST) on Apr 5, 2008

Hello

Thank you for adding me to your interesting library list - I note that we have a number of books in common.

Regards

posted by Caesia at 10:02 am (EST) on Apr 3, 2008

Have you read Sherry's 3 volume bio. of Graham Greene. It is long and exhausting but well worth it.drckol

posted by drckol at 4:48 pm (EST) on Feb 2, 2008

Hi abealy, and thanks for the rec on Nicola Barker's book. I've never read any of her stuff, but I'm thinking of reading Darkmans, despite several luke-warm reviews of it I've seen lately. I thought the Jim Shepard book was as cohesive, and as entertaining, a group of stories as I've found in a while. I also noticed that you have all 3 of the Art Spiegelman Little Lit books in your library too, and I absolutely love 'em, and my 8-year-old triplets have read them cover-to-cover. Good luck!

Louis

posted by LouisBranning at 8:48 am (EST) on Jan 27, 2008

You're getting a book from the main Jan batch of LTER books (The Resurrectionist). You're not getting a second book from the "bonus batch" though. Does that make sense?
Abby

posted by ablachly at 12:22 pm (EST) on Jan 24, 2008

Looks like I read four of such. I remember them since they read fast. I think I was in third grade when I read them.

posted by Schmerguls at 8:02 am (EST) on Jan 4, 2008

I notice that only you and I include in our library Freckles and the Lost Diamond Mine. It is in my list because I have kept track of every book I have read, and while when I read that book I did not note the day I finished the book I estimate it must have been between 1936 and 1938. How is it that it is in your listing? Most of my titles around that time are similarly kiddish, but I did read a book by Henryk Sienkiewicz in the time before I read Freckles and the Lost Diamond Mine. And a book by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Those seem to be the only adult-type books I read before that read.

posted by Schmerguls at 8:29 am (EST) on Dec 31, 2007

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