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Favorite authorsKathy Acker, John Bellairs, L. M. Boston, Elizabeth Bowen, Luke Bowyer, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Richard Brautigan, Roger Lancelyn Green, Russell Hoban, Gary Indiana, M. R. James, Derek Jarman, Terry Jones, Paul Magrs, Alberto Manguel, Mary Norton, Grace Paley, Iain Sinclair, Ali Smith, John Symonds, Denton Welch, T. H. White, Jeanette Winterson, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAny Amount of Books, Blackwell Charing Cross Road, Bookends, Chener Books, Dulwich Books, Forbidden Planet - London, Foyles, Halcyon Books, Kirkdale Bookshop, Review, The Muse Bookshop, Tlön Books, Waterstone's Llandudno, Waterstone's Piccadilly

Favorite librariesBangor Library - Llyfrgell Bangor, Bangor University, Main Library / Prifysgol Bangor, Y Brif Lyfrgell, Bethesda Library - Llyfrgell Bethesda, Dulwich Library, Newington Library, Peckham Library, University of the Arts - London College of Fashion Library

About meCurrently reading:
Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel

About my libraryAlright. Here goes.

Anglo-Saxon riddles. Arthur and the Arthurian. Baum and the Oz books. Big, lonely houses. Carroll and the Alice books. Communes and farms, and cities esp. London, esp. East, South and Outer London, and New York or San Francisco, and anywhere Scandinavian but especially Finland. Cookbooks. Doctor Who, esp. not the New Series (in book terms alone). Elizabeth I, Elizabethan intrigue, and Doctor Dee (as well as other magicians). General children's fiction, particularly pre-1950s to 1970s and either eerie (Diana Wynne-Jones, John Bellairs) or North American mundane (E.L. Konigsburg, Louise Fitzhugh). Folk Tales and Fairy Tales. Literature of Genius Loci, the NeoRomantics, Psychogeography. London, esp. South and Outer London. Magic Realism, esp. writers uncomfortable with the term. M.R. James and ghost stories in his tradition. The mystic novel (Gustav Meyrink, Sylvie Germain). Old-school Russian novelists, and massive German novels. Oulipo and playful people (Georges Perec, Italo calvino). Poetry, esp. not verse unless Elizabethan. Pretentious ambition. Savants. The Sublime, and the Uncanny, as subjects and as themes. Surrealists and Nonsense. Theory, Philosophy, Social Sciences. Wales, esp. North Wales and writers in Welsh. Walkers and wanderers and travellers. Woolf and Bloomsbury, and any other great English eccentrics of difficult sexuality (Denton Welch, T.H. White).

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Member sinceFeb 2, 2006

Currently readingIris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus by Stuart Douglas
The Wine-dark Sea by Robert Aickman