view larger

Member: amarie

CollectionsYour library (402), Currently reading (2), To read (26), Read but unowned (62), Wishlist (15), Childhood (11), Gone but remembered (17), All collections (507)

Reviews59 reviews

Tagspaperback (303), hardcover (174), star wars (75), historical fiction (55), history (52), filmmaking (46), library (43), fantasy (35), 19th century (33), lord of the rings (32) — see all tags

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud

GroupsAnglophiles, Archivists on LibraryThing, Fforde Ffans, History Readers: Clio's (Pleasure?) Palace, Librarians who LibraryThing, Lingua Latina, More Power to the Date Fields!, Richard III

Favorite authorsJane Austen, Orson Scott Card, Jasper Fforde, Robert Fulghum, Robert Kirby, Sharon Kay Penman, Judith Merkle Riley, J. K. Rowling, William Shakespeare, Sharon Shinn, J. R. R. Tolkien, Cynthia Voigt (Shared favorites)

About meLifelong habitual reader. I would be fine reading almost everything out of the library. Many years ago, I asked the librarian if they had a list of what I had checked out, but alas they did not for privacy. Here is my opportunity to collect and remember.

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." --Jorge Luis Borges, "Poema de los Dones," from El Hacedor

About my library::Old tags page::

Fictional novels I have especially enjoyed over the years, and a small number of reference books in areas of interest (history of England, Latin language, mythology). Also beginning to include books read out of the library or borrowed from others.

If I "weed" a book out, but want to remember that I read it (or rated, reviewed, etc.) I'll leave it with the tag "weeded." However, if I read it but don't care to remember it after not owning it anymore, I just delete it.

Special note: So, quite a lot of Star Wars books, and perhaps some explanation is in order (if nothing else to remind myself). I have tagged eras based on Del Rey/Lucasarts, which reference more in-universe terms instead of "prequel trilogy." "Rise of the Empire" covers the time period of the prequel movies. "Era of Rebellion" covers the classic or original trilogy movies. "The New Republic" is post-Return of the Jedi. The tag of "filmmaking" covers behind the scenes, production, art design, costumes and visual effects.

About tagging "paperback" and "hardcover." Why? I have long been curious about the proportion in my library. I still prefer paperback for novels so they are more portable, but will admit to becoming more attached to books as objects, so hardcovers with sturdier bindings are becoming attractive. That and they are more affordable thanks to discounting and remainder bargains (a particular weakness of mine). I'll read either out of the library though!

Collections
In addition the standards like Currently Reading and Read but Unowned, some personal ones:

Childhood - These are books initially entered from memory, and are novels that I owned and read as a child that I have kept in storage. As such, this is distinct from a book simply being tagged something like "children" which would instead say something about the content and not its storage location.

Account typepublic, lifetime

Connection NewsConnection News

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/amarie (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/amarie (library)

Common KnowledgeSeries (108), Awards (209), Characters (2303), Places (444)

Member sinceOct 29, 2005

Currently readingThe Unicorn by Nancy Hathaway
The ladies of Grace Adieu : and other stories by Susanna Clarke