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CollectionsBooks read in 2009 (15), Your library (2,380), Wishlist (3), Currently reading (2), To read (919), All collections (2,380)

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Favorite authorsKōbō 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, Joe Brainyard, 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, Ryū 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, Alexander Solzjenitsyn, 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 meWho 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 libraryCURRENTLY READING The Fire Gospel Michel Faber

Current total: 51 of 51

# = Cult Fiction

Read in 2008

52 ways of looking at Poem by Ruth Padel
Alternative Scriptwriting by Ken Dancyger and Jeff Rush
A novel in Letters by Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: (or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge)… by John O'Farrell
Beware of God by Shalom Auslander
#Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
Country of the Grand by Gerard Donovan
#Crash by J.G. Ballard
Cultural Amnesia by Clive James
Fresh by Mark McNay
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
#How German is it by Walter Abish
How to avoid making Art by Julia Cameron
i, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
I Remember by Joe Brainard
In the Miso soup by Ryu Murakami
Its Superman by Tom De Haveland
Jasmine's Tortoise by Corinne Souza
Lang by Kjell Westo
#Money by Martin Amis
My Soul to Keep by Melanie Wells
Pashazade by John Courtney Grimwood
Scenes from a Revolution: The Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris
#Slabrat by Ted Heller
Slow River by Nicola Griffith
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Spunk and Bite by Authur Plotnik
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Book of Erotic Failures by Peter Kinnell
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
The Collector of Worlds by Iliya Troyanov
The Contractor by Charles Holdefer
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
The Giver by Lois Lowery
#The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster **
The pirates! : in an adventure with scientists by Gideon Defoe
The Pirates in an Adventure with Whaling by Gideon Defoe
The Saddlebag by Bahiyyih Nakhijavni
The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
The Sound of Laughter by Peter Kay
The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton
#The Tidewater Tales by John Barth
#The Wanderers by Richard Price
The White War by Mark Thompson
#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
Writing tools by Roy Peter Clark
Yellow Fever by Steffan Piper
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

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
#Where I'm Calling From...stories by Raymond Carver

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!

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