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About me Grad student at the University of Glasgow. Bet you can't guess my research area from my tags! (Yes, that was sarcastic.)

Most of my books live with my husband in Georgia. The math and computing texts are his.

About my library When I was little, my mother decided that the best way to bribe me to do my chores was to offer me a new book after I'd done a certain number of things.
When I was maybe fourteen, my father started trying to refuse to give me books for my birthday or christmas, because he thought I had too many. (He ended up buying them anyways.)
In college, one of my boyfriends threatened to break up with me just so he wouldn't have to help me move all those boxes ever again.
And when I got married and bought a house, the first modification we made was to add built-in bookshelves. A year later, we added them in another room. A year after that, I had to go buy another wall's worth of shelving from IKEA.
The collection is fairly mixed, but dominated by fiction and texts related to my research. It is now entered in its entirety, unless I go crazy and start cataloguing sketchbooks, sheet music, and comics.

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Enjoyed your stories about book shelves and heavy boxes. Two rooms-full and another wall from IKEA! That particular marvel arrived too late to Portugal for me, though. My walls are coveted by pictures AND books, though the books are winning and I have stacks of frames piled up on the floor waiting for a gap. What I don't understand is how the mega libraries of LT are accomodated. I even have books in the kitchen.

Just checked up on our books in common. See you have Bertrand Russell on microfilm. Maybe that's how they do it!

Gerald
Portugal

posted by botanica at 4:31 am (EST) on Sep 30, 2007

Aloha! I wish I had known about this sooner. It's great! I've been trying to figure out a way to log all my books and be able to sort by genre, author, and a variety of other means. This is perfect! But now it's going to take me forever to get my whole library logged. Thankfully (or sadly, depending on your perspective), I only have a few hundred books.

And now I'm off to Half Price Books to buy more. Squee!!!!!

Good to see you here. Once I get all my books in, we can talk bout some of the ones we have in common!

-Michele/Littie

posted by Bners911 at 3:49 pm (EST) on Jul 20, 2007

I see that you have Kate Soper's book "What is Nature". I was wondering if you've read it, and if so, what you thought of it. How did you come to buy it?

posted by Lodhi at 3:53 pm (EST) on Jul 10, 2007

My wife found Silence and Honeycakes similar in style to his other more popular-market oriented books, ie he's drawing on his extensive knowledge of the Desert Fathers but much more focussed on making it relevant to now rather than as a history lesson. She found it a very refreshing approach.

(I should add that I haven't read most of our "religion"-tagged books, and have only tagged as "unread" those that I do intend to read someday!)

posted by nwhyte at 6:32 am (EST) on Oct 16, 2005

Hello. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to respond. I have been off LibraryThing for a week or so. A lot of the "criticism" I own is partly to give me ideas on who to buy or what to read next, although I do enjoy it for it's own sake as well. I haven't seen the Attebery book but the reviewer on Amazon gave it high marks. On your recommendation I will add it to my Wish List. The work of criticism or biography that made the biggest impression on me recently was The Unmasking Of Oscar Wilde by Joseph Pearce. I hadn't known much about Wilde before I read the book, but it made me pick up his Complete Works for the first time. What a fascinating character! Have you read much Wilde? (I noticed you also had his complete works.)

posted by oakesspalding at 2:37 am (EST) on Oct 16, 2005

Multiple copies of P&P? :D

Because I collect Austen stuff, and whenever I see an interesting-looking edition, I buy it. Also, most books come with preface or afterword essays that I like to own.

posted by deedeeinfj at 11:34 am (EST) on Sep 19, 2005

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