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Member: annesadleirCollectionsYour library (2,538), Read2013 (62), Read2010orBefore (1,462), Currently reading (3), To read (611), Unowned (10), Computing (16), Reference (34), Failed (37), Read2012 (176), Read2011 (209), All collections (2,548) Reviews361 reviews TagsKindle (618), Project Gutenberg (57), Apr2012 (34), Feb2011 (31), Jan2011 (29), Dec2011 (25), Aug2011 (25), May2012 (23), July2011 (20), Mar2012 (19) — see all tags Cloudstag cloud, author cloud, tag mirror About meI like novels of most genres -- I'm not keen on horror or explicit crime -- and non-fiction books including biography. I'm not great with books about ideas, though, they tend to annoy me. I'd rather read War and Peace again than some book on whether the internet is destroying our attention spans. About my librarySo far I have catalogued: my TBR pile; about the first five shelves in my parents' library (but only my own books or ones I've read); and books I have read recently. I have also imported a list of about 800 books which I made some years ago in my flat in Cambridge -- it wasn't all the books I had there, but it was the majority of them. I intend to continue cataloguing my books in my parents' library, to continue to add books I acquire or borrow, and at some point to add my academic library too. (But not until I've thought through the implications of doing it in LibraryThing not EndNote.) Also when I get somewhere to live I will do my main paperback library, which is currently stored in boxes at my parents' house, and which is likely to have quite a bit of overlap with the 800-ish books in my old catalogue. GroupsNone Favorite authorsKate Atkinson, John Aubrey, Kage Baker, Pamela Belle, E. F. Benson, Jorge Luis Borges, Sir Thomas Browne, Sarah Caudwell, Robertson Davies, John Donne, Lawrence Durrell, Michel Faber, Ismail Kadare, Javier Marías, John Julius Norwich, K. J. Parker, Iain Pears, Thomas Pynchon, Neal Stephenson, Barbara Trapido, Jo Walton, Sarah Waters (Shared favorites) VenuesFavorites Favorite bookstoresBook-Cycle, Waterstone's Exeter High Street Account typepublic, lifetime URLs
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A friend of mine wrote her thesis on George Herbert, jointly supervised by Rowan Williams and someone from the English Dept. One of her books is: Theory and Theology in George Herbert's Poetry: 'Divinitie, and poesie, met', which is I think a published version of her thesis, so may be worth a look out for.
posted by gennyt at 2:24 pm (EST) on May 28, 2011
The George Herbert book is one I started and read half of, well over a year ago, and somehow never finished. (Often my list of 'currently reading' consists mainly of books started and not finished.) I enjoyed the first half, which was a critique of how not so much Herbert himself as later (mis)perceptions of the ideal of pastoral ministry modelled on Herbert have a negative impact on clergy's understanding of their role today. I think in the second half he goes on to propose a healthier model of ministry. On the whole, therefore, it's more a book about issues in contemporary Christian ministry than about Herbert himself - but certainly worth a look at.
Genny
posted by gennyt at 1:20 pm (EST) on May 28, 2011
Like you, I'm still a long way from cataloguing my whole collection. The overlaps with other people will no doubt change once the true picture finally emerges of what books I own and have read (I'm finding LT useful for keeping a note of library books read and returned too).
What's your academic area of interest?
posted by gennyt at 11:26 am (EST) on May 28, 2011