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Member: ablueidol

Library2,195 books — see library

Reviews373 reviews — see reviews

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TagsFiction (926), TBR (822), SF (220), ML200~ (193), Reference (190), swapped (187), Religion (128), Cult (122), History (113), ML100~ (104) — see all tags

Groups50 Book Challenge, A Pearl of Wisdom and Enlightenment, Ancient History, Archaeology, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, Biblical History, Biographies, Memoirs and Autobiographies, BookMooching, business ethics and leadership, Christianity — show all groups , Doctor Who, Early Reviewers, Economics, Hardboiled / Noir Crime Fiction, Humor, Philosophy and Theory, Progressive & Liberal!, Progressive Christianity, Psychology, Quakerly readers, radicalhistory, ReadItSwapIt, Science Fiction Fans, Science!, Storytelling, Tea!, Unitarian Universalist Readers, What Are You Reading Now?, Writer-readers

Favorite authorsKobo Abe, Walter Abish, Nelson Algren, Martin Amis, Poul Anderson, Karen Armstrong, Isaac Asimov, Paul Auster, Iain Banks, John Barth, William Blake, Lionel Blue, Alain de Botton, David Boulton, Bill Bryson, Italo Calvino, Julia Cameron, Michael Chabon, Raymond Chandler, Gideon Defoe, Bart D. Ehrman, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Jasper Fforde, E.M. Forster, Stephen Jay Gould, Ursula K. Le Guin, Dashiell Hammett, Charles B. Handy, Tim Harford, Ted Heller, Bohumil Hrabal, Panos Karnezis, D.H. Lawrence, Laurie Lee, David Mitchell, Blake Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Ryu Murakami, George Orwell, Elaine Pagels, Jeremy Paxman, Mervyn Peake, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman, Edvard Radzinsky, David Rakoff, J.K. Rowling, Geoff Ryman, Louis Sachar, Saki, David Sedaris, Aleksander Solzenitsyn, John Shelby Spong, Olaf Stapledon, James Thurber, Sandi Toksvig, J.R.R. Tolkien, Vernor Vinge, Evelyn Waugh, Jiri Weil, Edward M. White, P.G. Wodehouse, Emile Zola (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBook Barn

About me Who am I?

Some who tries to live by these rules:

God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change…
Courage to change the things I can
And Wisdom to know the difference…

What have I done…

*Given a voice to the disposed homeless
*Defended the dignity of the old
*Helped the anger of the young grow into understanding
*Stood with the powerless against the jobworths
*Celebrated with parents the humanity of their child
*Enabled education to be a door rather than a wall
*Turned dreams of a future into a living experience
*Worked to make the light shine in all of us
*Assisted other to connect and walk the talk

My aims for the next few years?

*Build up a storytelling practice
*Explore Lifeforce drama counselling
*Move Quakers back into focus
*Support my wife through her future health
*Help my son become the man he is

About my library Challenge Books progress
27 / 50(54.0%)

Challenge Pages read
8,116 / 15,000(54.1%)

Well set myself a goal to read 50 and then 100 books in 12 months and in the end read 110 books. If you want to see them in genre categories then go to

http://blueidol-notesofabookdreamer.blogspot.com/2007/12/well-final-count-for-books-read-in-2007.html

This year I will set a goal of at least 50 books or 15,000 pages. Books to read will be drawn from

a)The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction
b)Books from a 100 best of SF list
c)Any non-fiction book that catches my eyes

If read 6 in a month I will use the spare days to scan my TBR pile to see if they can pass the first 100page test-fail then on the swap pile they go.

I will also be reading review copies as and when they appear

CURRENTLY reading Where I'm Calling From...stories by Raymond Carver AND The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

** counts as three

Current total: 27 of 50

# = Cult Fiction

Read in 2008
A novel in Letters by Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
#Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
#Crash by J.G. Ballard
Fresh by Mark McNay
#How German is it by Walter Abish
In the Miso soup by Ryu Murakami
Jasmine's Tortoise by Corinne Souza
Lang by Kjell Westo
#Money by Martin Amis
My Soul to Keep by Melanie Wells
The pirates! : in an adventure with scientists by Gideon Defoe
Scenes from a Revolution: The Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris
#Slabrat by Ted Heller
Slow River by Nicola Griffith
The Book of Erotic Failures by Peter Kinnell
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
The Giver by Lois Lowery
#The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster **
The Saddlebag by Bahiyyih Nakhijavni
The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
#The Tidewater Tales by John Barth
#The Wanderers by Richard Price
#The Women in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
#Uncle Petros and Golbach’s Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis
#Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren

Abandoned in 2008

#Blood and Guts in High School Plus Two by Kathy Acker
Lost Worlds: What Have We Lost and Where Did It Go? by Michael Baywater
#Shoeless Joe by W.P.Kinsella
#The Tetherballs of Bougainville by Mark Leyner

The reasons why Books stay with me vary. Sometimes I lack the experience to read them yet but will one day (And Have!). Other times they are a memory of the times they shared with me. Not to forget that some books I read and reread them because they let me enter into a world I enjoy or make me think of what could be.

The reason they come into my world is as varied. I pick up a book that leads me down one line and then buy books that remain on the to be read pile when in the meanwhile another book has sent me off into an other line. They then wait until I come back into their direction months and years later?

If I had to sum up my library, all the books are windows into worlds that enable me to enjoy or understand this one more!

Homepagehttp://blueidol-notesofabookdreamer.blogspot.com

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Member sinceSep 23, 2006