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Favorite authorsGeorge Eliot, Violet Needham, Colm Tóibín, Evelyn Waugh (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAvid Reader, Coaldrakes Bookstore, Emporium, Dymocks (Indooroopilly), Mary Ryan's, New Farm, Novel Lines, The Book Bank, The Library Shop

Favorite librariesState Library of Queensland

Other favoritesBrisbane Writers Festival

About meHmmmm - how to explain that when we went househunting the books were a major factor that needed to be accommodated...how to explain the two towers by my bed that never diminish in size...I love fiction but I stretch to non-fiction too.

Books I've read this year:

1. The Zookeeper's War by Steven Conte
2. Liberty by Garrison Keillor
3. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
4. The Spare Room by Helen Garner
5. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen
6. The Time We have Taken by Steven Carroll
7. The Brief and Wodnrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
8. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
9. Girl who played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
10. Grand Days by Frank Moorhouse
11. Die Glut by Sandor Marai
12. Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky
13. Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
14. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
15. Humiliated and Insulted by Dotoyevsky
16. Wash this Blood Clean from My Hand by Fred Vargas
17. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
18. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
19. Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
20. Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
21. Love and Summer by William Trevor
22. Shooting Balibo by Tony Maniaty
23. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
24. Not untrue and not unkind by Ed O'Loughlin
25. The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
26. Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
27. The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
28. The Little Stranger by Sarah Walters

About my libraryOur collection is the product of my husband's obsession with science fiction, fantasy and horror and my obsession with everything else be it Arthur Mee's encylopaedia, cookery books, how to books, Australian literature, contemporary fiction, sociology, family history, reference books and everything in between.

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Currently readingThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson
Michael Parkinson Autobiography by Michael Parkinson
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

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My ancestors were Londoners: How can I find out more about them? by Cliff Webb

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Hi! I enjoyed your blog, and thank you for visiting me. I'm sorry it took me so long to respond to your comment, too. It's been a busy month, and I've missed being here:) and like your 2009 list-we overlap some.

Have a great Thanksgiving (if you're American)
Sharyl

posted by actonbell at 9:52 pm (EST) on Nov 20, 2009

Thank you for adding my library to your interesting library list. I am happy to return the compliment. For a knitter with interesting books. Actually, looking at some of your books you might be interested in the Virago Modern Classics Group. Great books by women from the British publishing hous. It seems like you might like some of the titles and we have a fair number of Australians in the group as well.

Cheers, Maren

posted by Marensr at 1:53 pm (EST) on Oct 21, 2009

Thank you for thinking my library is interesting, Luvvie!
Now I shall do the same with yours, and I will browse through it at leisure.
Happy reading, and happy Spring from the Northern hemisphere.

Paola :-))

posted by aluvalibri at 6:57 pm (EST) on Oct 4, 2009

Thank you! I actually cheated with a little copy and paste job from my blog. :-}

A good cover has never hurt a book, that's for sure!

posted by PaperbackPirate at 9:40 pm (EST) on Sep 30, 2009

Thanks for stopping in. I haven't really been here "since birth"---well, almost since the birth of LibraryThing! It's a marvelous place, isn't it? One meets the nicest sort of people here--many of them from Australia, actually. In fact, I've met a good handful of LT'ers in person in the last couple years, but they've all been Americans or Canadians so far. My lovely puppy is named Callie, and she's 7 years old. She's a Shetland Sheepdog, and the latest in a line of them that have been part of our family. They are sweet companions. My husband is a science fiction/fantasy/horror reader as well. He's currently working his way through Peter Straub's "Ghost Story", and enjoying it quite a lot. I'm off to read some of your reviews.

posted by laytonwoman3rd at 9:36 pm (EST) on Sep 16, 2009

Just added you on Twitter - I'm still getting used to it!

I laughed at your profile comment about buying the house. Same thing happened to us. My husband's built lots of bookshelves in ours now, but before we moved 4 years ago we looked at one beautiful place that had no room at all for books. I asked the real estate agent where the books were meant to go and she asked how many we had and pointed at the mingy little shelf that housed about 100!

I don't think I'm going to make 75 but I'll try. I'm reading Richard Dawkins' book on evolution at the moment and loving it but it's taken a week. Real life, in the form of the kids and writing an exam, is getting in the way again...

posted by cmt at 9:22 pm (EST) on Sep 16, 2009

"Disgrace" the movie? Why ever? Oh well, once a philosopher, right Mlle Voltaire?

As to the lovely compliment of being fun to be around, both my boyfriend and my wife would argue con on that resolved today. Some days are crap, aren't they?

Heavens to Betsy Snakes, you're either on a van Vogt binge or are catching up on your cataloging. Is he a favorite of yours? And have you read any of Tim Jones's work, him being a kiwi and them being closer to y'all than anyone else? I persuaded a friend to send me a copy of a story collection of his, blahblah All-Black's blah, and I await its arrival with simple survival. (Old American song lyric, sorry, habits die hard.) He's an LT author and his stuff hasn't been translated from the New Zealandish and published here, so I had to resort to an exchange of hostages to get a copy. I'm expecting good things, but hoping for some Sherpa work....

Cheers
RMD

posted by richardderus at 10:59 pm (EST) on Sep 8, 2009

I forgot to thank you for the review you put on my thread, and the comment you left on The Lectern. My manners have slipped in the typhoon. Apologies.

I thought this might interest you:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2...
Murr
:)

posted by tomcatMurr at 12:00 pm (EST) on Aug 22, 2009

P.S. I like your new picture!

posted by PaperbackPirate at 9:02 pm (EST) on Aug 11, 2009

A scrapbook for your daughter's birthday would be really cute! I got my start by going to a Creative Memories party with my sister, which is like a Tupperware party but with scrapbooking stuff. I don't know how it is there, but the scrapbook stores and craft stores here offer classes as well. How much time do you have until her birthday?

posted by PaperbackPirate at 8:49 pm (EST) on Aug 11, 2009

LT brings me many thrills, not the least of which is the feeling of being appreciated when a member rates my library as "interesting"--thank you very much for the compliment! May I return the favor?

I ventured to your blog and enjoyed several of your recent posts--lucky you are to have seen S&G in concert! I would've cried, too.

Thanks for posting on TomcatMurr's thread about the Malaysian English crisis. When I get a bit more time, I'll leave my comments over there, although I haven't anything intelligent to add.

Happy reading,
julia

posted by nobooksnolife at 3:49 am (EST) on Jul 20, 2009

I'm glad! I thought it was time we made things official. ;-)

posted by PaperbackPirate at 3:27 pm (EST) on Jun 19, 2009

HAHAH, nice one!
you're welcome!

posted by tomcatMurr at 9:39 pm (EST) on May 3, 2009

Hello! I've been to Barbados many times; it is a lovely place. My main genealogical specialties are the Carolinas and the British West Indies, particularly Barbados, so I try to collect as much as I can :-) Jeff

posted by jhaines at 11:16 pm (EST) on Mar 23, 2009

Hey Luvvie! Thanks for the comment - and the kind words :) Let's see...*checking out profile* very cute picture of dog (thumbs up) and ooh you have a blog! I'm going there right now.
P.S. Very warm night in Greece too... and I'm kind of sick of it :(

posted by girlunderglass at 7:06 am (EST) on Feb 10, 2009

Hi

Sorry, I've been away.

Fortunes of Poppy Treloar? We (my sister and I, who collect old children/schoolgirl books, the badder the better) are very fond of it; it's by no means brilliant and oh, the cliches... but it's better written than a lot of similar ones.

sallymn

posted by sallymn at 5:52 pm (EST) on Jan 9, 2009

Hi Alex,

Sadly the opportunities for charm and elegance are few and far between these days. One makes the best of it, but I still hold out hope that one day I shall be called upon to know what neckline is appropriate for an evening soiree. :^)

Happy New Year,

L

posted by linus_evans at 1:00 pm (EST) on Jan 1, 2009

Hiya Alex,

I read 'Future War' so many years ago it is scary (very early 80s). At the time there was a 'New Age' shop in the arcade where I worked and for some reason they decided to carry the 'Void' publishing line (a local SciFi publishing house).

Personally I really enjoyed the book, specifically the first story 'Butcher Mackerson' and also the quite interesting 'Pet'.

I think that Heinlien in 'Starship Troopers' still has the definitive word on future war - despite higher and more lethal technologies for waging war there is still the need for the application of controlled force for taking and holding objectives, as long as that is required, the wars drag

Merry Christmas from Canberra

cheers

posted by Macbeth at 7:50 am (EST) on Dec 23, 2008

Cool Pic :)

What did you think of 'Future War'

Cheers

posted by Macbeth at 5:46 pm (EST) on Nov 11, 2008

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