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CollectionsYour library (2,358), Wishlist (9), Currently reading (3), To read (3), Fannish books (40), Music Media (26), Moved on (9), Read but unowned (1), Knitting, sewing, etc (147), All collections (2,368)

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Favorite authorsElizabeth Bear, Sarah Caudwell, C. J. Cherryh, Edmund Crispin, Peter Dickinson, Leon Garfield, Rudyard Kipling, Ellen Kushner, Tanith Lee, Robin McKinley, Naomi Mitchison, Arthur Ransome, Steven Saylor, Rex Stout, Rosemary Sutcliff, Josephine Tey, P. G. Wodehouse, Ella Young (Shared favorites)

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About meI've been a life-long reader, since I was 5. Of course, since I have worked in a university library for many years I tend to read much more than I own. My collection of books are often gathered because the library did not have them; this accounts for some of the fantasy. I also have a few childhood books still around, and some that I bought because I wanted to have what I remembered from the small-town library of my childhood. I hoped to introduce my nieces to books I enjoyed, but our tastes, and certainly the cultural drives of my youth are different from those my nieces and great-niece feel.

About my libraryI'm adding to this as I get the urge, which I seem to have quite a bit. I'll probably move to a paid account so I can add more of my books. I am surprised at how many connections I get - mostly for C.J. Cherryh and Robin Hobb. I've stopped adding other fantasy and started picking though my shelves for other material. I'll be interested to see just how much overlap my collection my show. I'm a little shocked myself. I never thought of myself as that much of a fantasy fan, but that seems to be what connects me to others on the site so far. There are many more books in my house.
Well, I did go to a lifetime account, and have been adding books, but no tags as yet. I've added a lot of fantasy and sf; i'm going to work on the mysteries and non-fiction. I found several duplicates in my collection; that may be one of the biggest values of this exercise for me, as I get rid of them and acquire more shelving space. I'm also fascinated at the titles only one or two other members own, and even more at those for which I am so far the only lister. Book gatherers are a varied lot.

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Hey, Friend!
We have wonderful books and authors in common! How about Sayers and Tey and Saylor and Wallace Stevens!? (And I do have one R.A. MacAvoy that I always thought looked promising; I never read it because I buy faster than I read and am always trying to catch up.) I'll look forward to your additions with great joy!
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 6:54 pm (EST) on Nov 6, 2009

Susan, I am really a Susan too! I noticed the Ransome comment below. I bought all of his books about the Swallows and Amazons a few years ago, hoping my children might love them as much as I do, and also because I like to read them still myself. Have you found a copy of the unpublished one? i would love to get it.
Kokipy

posted by kokipy at 9:40 am (EST) on Oct 6, 2009

I actually don't remember even doing that entry, let alone where I got the information. Sorry I can't be more helpful.

I agree with you--I loved the book.

posted by juglicerr at 11:03 pm (EST) on Jul 24, 2009

Hi again, Susan! Thanks for friending me here. I look forward to browsing your library. You're right, I do tend to prefer things like character-driven or exotic stories. As I've gotten older, I've found myself leaning more towards non-fiction, but I've never lost my love of a good story.

I'm in the middle -- literally, that's what I'm doing right now -- of transferring all my Amazon.com book reviews to this site. Many of the things I've reviewed I no longer own, but I'd rather preserve the reviews, so I'm opening up my library to include things I've read but not kept. And as my profile indicates, the collection also includes Dawn's books. Since we share a house it made sense to catalog the books in the building so we don't duplicate new purchases.

I love this site. I love just looking at what people read and what they have to say about it.

Jean

posted by dargie at 7:00 pm (EST) on May 7, 2009

I just added a disabig. notice to Michael McDowell saying that the common knowledge data appears to be for the 2nd Michael McDowell. Since you added most of the information you know if that is true or not.

To be honest, I don't recall if I did enter the CK information, or just combined a couple of the variant names. Regardless, at the time the author wasn't split in two, and I didn't even know that there were two authors by that name. That said, it looks like you're right and the CK and Wikipedia link belong to the second author.

posted by rorrison at 5:45 pm (EST) on Apr 20, 2009

You make good points about that social history tag for "Across the Great Divide." I must admit, I read it years ago and tagged it almost on instinct, based on somewhat fuzzy recollection. Certainly the book focused on the enormous impact that the Band had on the music scene in general, which in turn influenced popular culture in a turn from the psychedelic sixties to the back-to-the-country ethos of the early seventies.

posted by RDH28 at 9:06 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2009

Great arethusarose -- very glad to have you, and please feel free to say as little or as much as you wish. Any thought is welcome!

posted by stellarexplorer at 12:38 pm (EST) on Mar 29, 2009

You got to be my first comment! I've got more books all over the house (stacked on footstools, in a chair or two, and more bookcases) so I've got to join so I can get them in the virtual library. I input the 200 last Sat./Sun. I'll probably adjust my tags as I add more; determine what's important, what's not, and in what order. Is it a sickness that I find this fun? We seem to share a love of gardening. That's cool. I look forward to stomping around your library and seeing your preferences, particularly the science fiction-- I haven't input any of the SciFi in the house (1 Issac Asimov so far!). Talk at you later.

posted by ThePrib at 8:14 pm (EST) on Aug 8, 2008

Hey, the file that we're using is a catalog of his books left at Connemara. The NPS set up a catalog on Excel of their holdings and J_ipsen was good enough to host them for us. He has them in .xls,.pdf, and .zip formats. These are at message 13 in this thread http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph.... Its funny that you contacted me, since I didn't know who to contact at U of Ill. for the holdings that they received. Any help that you could give me would be appreciated. Let me know if you would like to help with the data entry and I'll set you up.

posted by KCGordon at 8:17 pm (EST) on Jul 29, 2008

Hi Arethausarose,
I see you are a fellow fan of ancient English crime novels.
Pam

posted by pamelad at 9:01 am (EST) on Jun 7, 2008

The unfinished Ransome is published with the title Coots in the North by Cape as ISBN 0224026054 / 9780224026055. That book has some other previously unpublished Ransome stuff too. The TARS website online store gathers a lot of good stuff tiogether too, but I'm not sure if they do international delivery. Galoots if they don't!

posted by josiasporter at 2:28 pm (EST) on Jan 13, 2008

Wave Without a Shore is probably one of my favorite Cherryh's! I like all her works, equally for the very reason you describe. She's puts real characters in impossible situations and makes them thrive. I hadn't heard about the Cyteen sequel! I'll have to be on the look out. Thanks for the tip! *smiles*

posted by Clanky at 3:36 pm (EST) on Dec 25, 2007

Hmm, favorite Heyers. I think mine are The Reluctant Widow and Frederica. And now I've gone and dug out Frederica and started reading it again when I have books checked out from the library that I haven't read yet. Isn't it odd that librarians so often have overdue books? I guess our eyes are bigger than our reading capacity.

I'm a big Cherryh fan too. I think she does really good aliens. They're not just humans in funny suits. Have you read any of Elizabeth Moon's books? They're more space opera, but it's nice to have the dashing hero be a woman.

posted by Dragonfly at 10:15 pm (EST) on Dec 17, 2007

Oh! I'm a big Cherryh fan and when I ever saw you had 110 books, I thought, I have 36 and I had no idea she had written three times that many!

posted by Clanky at 5:14 pm (EST) on Dec 15, 2007

Greetings from another librarian. I happened across your comment in one of the groups on rereading and how Heyer comes out when you have the flu. That certainly made for a smile of recognition -- I do the exact same thing. We both have several books by Elizabeth Goudge. I didn't know that anyone else remembered her. I'm still looking for a copy of The Little White Horse which I loved when I was a kid.

posted by Dragonfly at 11:46 pm (EST) on Dec 14, 2007

Hey no worries, I'm mostly learning from the "cleaning up" people are doing to mine! I noted the Cherryh books only because I'm reading her atm - I have a feeling I'll be adding more once I'm done.

Anyhow, cheers :)

posted by philosojerk at 6:30 pm (EST) on Oct 15, 2007

Just checking in on fellow gardeners. What struck a chord was your comment about your nieces' reading habits. I have four daughters and a house full of books. But connecting them is not easy.

Gerald

sintra, portugal

posted by botanica at 4:22 pm (EST) on Sep 8, 2007

Hi Susan

Thanks for your lovely comment about Towers of trebizond. When I wrote that review I had just read it again (I like to do this every few years) - there's certainly a lifetime of contemplation in there! There's so much more to ponder, but I do like to return to some of the books that leave a great impression and see what else there might be from time to time!

I don't lnow much about Macauley herself - do you? Better go and google...

Sally

posted by saliero at 4:57 am (EST) on Jun 17, 2007

Just brousing past from talk.

Wow that's a lot of Cherryh! DO you have everything she's written so far?

Which is your favourite? Having just recently finished Cyteen I think that is mine. I can't wait for the sequal she's currently writing. If you don't already know about her fansite at Shejidan you may be interested to brouse through there - if you can spare the time from LT!

posted by reading_fox at 10:35 am (EST) on Jun 14, 2007

Sorry I've not responded sooner. School actually takes up quite a bit of my time lately, although I have an enormous case of senior-itis! I know I have more McKinley somewhere, must be packed away in my storage shed. I love fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales. But I agree about Myrtle Reed --- I enjoy the look into another time, one that may not have actually existed, but might have been romanticized at the time. But lovely and compelling all the same.

posted by floridanightowl at 9:19 pm (EST) on Mar 20, 2007

I too am fascinated by the books I share with just a few others at this site. That being said, it's especially nice to find a fellow Myrtle Reed fan. I've been hooked on her since I was about 7 or 8, although it wasn't until a bit later that I fully appreciated Spinner in the Sun. But Myrtle Reed set me on the path of book collecting. I just had to have everything else! At 43 I'm still trying to complete that particular list, but I've found others to collect along the way. And I too seem to have a bit more fantasy than I would have thought, but I still have over 200 boxes in storage that I've not even started on!

posted by floridanightowl at 12:33 am (EST) on Mar 9, 2007

OK. I went hunting by entry date and recognized other books entered near it and had no trouble finding The Unicorn with Silver Shoes. This was the first time I've used Library Thing to find a book in our scattered library, so it is a good thing to be able to do.

Apparently we acquired it in the last year or so from a thrift store in Atlanta. Both spouse and offspring recognized it immediately though neither had read it (and it is living on offspring's shelves). Apparently it was mostly bought for the beautiful art. It is a green and black hardback in good shape though with folded pages. Copyright 1968, 215 pages, illustrated by Robert Lawson.

And it is officially on the To-Be-Read pile along with about 50 other books.

I would have more books entered in then I do, but it got too cold in the garage to enter books of late, so I'm going to have to wait...

posted by mjfmjfmjf at 12:41 am (EST) on Jan 16, 2007

Sad to say none of us recognize [[The Unicorn with Silver Shoes]]. And our library is so confused at the moment that putting our hands on that book would be difficult. We do have quite a bit of celtic stories and histories and mythologies and so forth. As well as short story collections in general. So I think it probably just an accident that we acquired it at all. Though anything with a [[Mabinogion]] reference would have been acquired...

posted by mjfmjfmjf at 11:57 pm (EST) on Jan 15, 2007

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