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Member: afinpassing

CollectionsYour library (325), Currently reading (3), To read (173), Read (100), Partially read (18), Read but unowned (31), Loaned out (2), Reference (59), Oversize (6), 80YA (5), BookMooch (11), Wishlist (133), All collections (489)

Reviews13 reviews

Tagsnovel (120), women's literature (108), film (103), British (87), American (80), Golden Age (67), biography (60), Bloomsbury (40), biography--women (39), New Yorker (35) — see all tags

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud

GroupsBiographies, Memoirs and Autobiographies, BookMooching, Feminist Theory, Letters & diaries, Librarians who LibraryThing, Made into a Movie, Persephone Readers, Taggers!, Virago Modern Classics

Favorite authorsEdward Albee, Djuna Barnes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Janet Flanner, E. M. Forster, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Iris Murdoch, Eugene O'Neill, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Anne Porter, Marcel Proust, Susan Sontag, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Jeanette Winterson, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)

About me26, librarian by training, office worker by occupation, and you know... LibraryThing might just be enough for me, for the time being.

About my libraryI've gone through the painful process of paring my once-robust collection down to a "movable" ~300 volumes, and I struggle all the time to keep it there until paychecks & living space allow for more.

In my library, you'll find... 20th Century literature, culture and history—mainly 1920-1950; Virago & Persephone & other publishers of neglected women writers; Virginia Woolf & Bloomsbury; Left Bankers & Jazz Agers & Lost-Gen expats; high modernism; Algonquins & New Yorkers; film theory & history; feminist/queer cinema; pre-Code cinema; Golden Age auto/biographies; feminist/queer theory; women's studies/history; anyone's letters, diaries & memoirs.

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COLLECTIONS

Usage
--To separate my physical library from books I have another type of relationship with (the future wishlist, the past read but unowned)
--To track read status, regardless of ownership
--Implemented instead of tags where information is unique to my library/use and not useful to others/relevant to the work itself (loaned in, loaned out)

Your library: books I actually own/currently have in my possession (includes Loaned IN & Loaned OUT)
Currently reading
To read: owned books I have not yet read (excluding reference)
Read: owned or unowned books I have read (working toward a comprehensive list at least 2000-current)
Partially read: if only to shame myself into finishing them.
Read but unowned
Loaned in
Loaned out
Reference: owned, not to be read cover to cover
Oversize: owned, does not fit in regular bookshelf
80YA: shorthand for 80 years ago—it's a thing I do, watch movies from 80 years ago, read books from 80 years ago, read the news of 80 years ago to the date. These are the books that go along with that project, and wherever possible the books themselves are 80 years old, though I don't collect first editions for their [financial] value.
BookMooch: owned, in my BookMooch inventory. These are books that fit in my library and, if un-Mooched, I'd be happy to keep. I have a few other books I'm just trying to get rid of that I will not catalog on LT.
Wishlist

Where Read + Partially read + Currently reading + Reference + To Read - Read but unowned = Your library.

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SOME NOTES TO SELF
to ensure future consistent cataloging :)

TAGGING

Studies/theory/criticism. I find the distinction easier to make in some subjects than others. Film, for example. In other subjects, the concept is murkier, debatable, or overlapping. Literature, say. I generally use the term "studies" to encompass both theory and criticism.
Art studies
Cultural studies
Feminist theory as subset of women's studies (which is applied to ALL in subject)
Film criticism (to mean a more sophisticated and holistic kind of reviewership), film theory
Literary studies
Political theory, political philosophy
Queer studies

Publishers. I tag some notable publishers, including...
Norton
Persephone
Taschen
Vintage
Virago

Literary circles. I collocate some circles and satellite figures, including...
Bloomsbury
Algonquin
New Yorker
1920s Paris (comprising Lost Generation, Left Bank, expats & natives running wild in Paris in the first half of the 20th century... there should be distinctions, but there's too much overlapping)
1960s Paris (Duras, Robbe-Grillet)

Biography. All are tagged "biography," and then relevant sub-tags, for example...
Biography--art
Biography--autobiography
Biography--film
Biography--history
Biography--literature
Biography--sports
Biography--theater (to mean actors, producers, personalities; playwrights generally filed under literature)
Biography--women

History. Overall tag "history" and sub-tags apply only to hard/pure history, ie...
History
History--20thC
History--interwar
History--prohibition
But,
Film history
Women's history
[Literary studies -- so far, I haven't found a compelling need to distinguish history]

Some miscellaneous distinctions
Drama (plays: works); theater (culture, history)
Francais: a book IN French (as opposed to France, French)

Some overlapping tags, how to handle:
Film and literature
Homosexuality in film
Women in film

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WISHLIST TAGGING

Different set from owned tags, because they describe WHY I want to own the book, ie to what interest a book speaks, rather than the book's aboutness/use which is a slightly different focus, eh? Yknow, so when I want to buy some books for interest X, I can filter my wishlist on the relevant tag.

Film (general)
women in film
Golden Age (1930s/40s Hollywood)

20thCWL (20th Century Women's Literature... shorthand the Persephone crowd)
fiction (just interesting novels)

lives (auto/bios, letters, diaries)
history (/culture/society)
1930s
1920s
glbt

These are murky, but work for me:
Paris (Left Bank girls, Beach, Monnier, Barnes, Flanner)
New Yorker (including satellite Algonquins)
Jazz Agers (Fitzgeralds and friends, expats, Lost Gens, general flapper histories)
the girls (Hollywood/Broadway lesbians & their crowd)

A few people I collect anything & everything by/about:
Woolf
Chatterton
Dunne

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CLASSIFICATION SCHEME (work in progress)
I know this seems insane (...or maybe not, if you've made it this far!), but I've invented a classification scheme to force my LT Catalog to display my books in the exact order I place them on my physical shelves. I put the # in the comments and sort on that, et voilà! This will be easy to extend as my collection in any given area of interest grows and deepens. And yes, this is the nerdiest thing I have ever done.

A - LITERATURE
A.Name.XTitle

.1 Title
.2 Stories/Collection
.3 Autiobio
.4 Diaries -- letters and diaries under .4
.5 Letters
.6 Biography
.7 Criticism
.8 Creative works
.9 Other

B - ANTHOLOGIES & GENERAL
BA.1Title

BA Books about books, lists, etc
.1 - lists
.2 - non-fic

BB Comprehensive anthology
.1 - World
.2 - Thematic
.3 - UK
.30 All
.31 Early modern (Elizabethan, Restoration)
.32 Romantic
.33 Victorian
.34 20th C
.35 Contemporary

.4 - US
.40 All
.41 Colonial
.42 19th C
.43 1900-1950
.44 1950-2000
.45 Contemporary

.5 - Europe
.6 - Russia
.7 - Asia
.8 - Latin America

BC Prose anthologies, short stories
BD Drama anthologies
BE Poetry anthologies
BF Letters

C - FILM

CA - General
.1 Lists, Encyclopedias
.2 Comprehensive, textbook
.3 Comparative, literature, arts

CB - History
.1 General, comprehensive
.2 By country
.20 US
.201 Silent era
.202 Pre-Code
.203 Golden Age
.21 France
.22 Italy
.23 Western Europe
.24 Scandinavia
.25 Russia/Eastern Europe
.26 Asia
.27 India
.28 Latin America
.29 Other

.3 By theme/genre
.31 Pre-Code

.4 Social context
.41 Women
.42 Queer cinema

CC - Theory/Studies
.1 General
.2 Genre
.21 Comedy
.211 Screwball/1930s romantic comedy
.22 Film noir

.3 Feminist/Queer

CD - Criticism/Review collections
By author
.1 publication
.2 collection

CE - Lives
CE.0 - General/Various
CE.Subject.1Title
.1 Autobiography, other writing, interviews
.2 Biography
.3 Studies
.4 Picture books

General: CE-0Subject-Title

D - WOMEN'S STUDIES

DA - General
.1 Cultural studies, philosophy, interdisciplinary
.10 Culture
.11 Comparative, interdisciplinary, arts

.2 Women's studies
.20 Theorists
.21 Literature, arts
.22 Philosophy and psychology

.3 Queer and gender

.4 Other

DB - History

.1 General, comprehensive

.2 By country
.20 US
.21 UK
.22 Western Europe
.23 Russia/Eastern Europe
.24 Asia
.25 India
.26 Middle East
.27 Latin America
.28 Other

.3 By time
.30 Ancient
.31 Early modern
.32 18th century
.33 19th century
.34 Suffrage
.35 Wars
.36 60s/70s
.37 Late 20th C
.38 Contemporary

.4 By subject
.40 Workplace

DC - Theory - by author
.1 Works
.2 Studies/biographies

E - BIOGRAPHIES, LETTERS, DIARIES
[unless filed under a heading above]

By subject
E.name.1Title
.1 Autobiography
.2 Biography
.3 Diaries
.4 Letters

F - GENERAL NON-FICTION

FA - Language
FA.2Title

.1 General
.2 French
.20 Dictionaries
.21 Textbooks
.22 Readers

.3 Spanish

FB - Librarania
.1 General
.2 Cataloging

FC - History, Philosophy, Psychology
.1 History
.2 Philosophy
-.1 Work
-.2 Collection, etc
by author

.3 Psychology

FD - Travel
FD.place.title

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