Member: bec012

CollectionsYour library (298), Wishlist (2), Currently reading (8), To read (2), Favorites (15), All collections (300)

Reviews3 reviews

TagsFiction (203), Novel (181), Made into Movie (78), Classic (70), Dymocks Booklovers' Best (69), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (59), Series (52), Historical Backdrop (36), Fantasy (36), Children's Literature (31) — see all tags

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud

GroupsAustralian LibraryThingers

Favorite authorsAgatha Christie (Shared favorites)

About me"I've traveled the world twice over,
Met the famous; saints and sinners,
Poets and artists, kings and queens,
Old stars and hopeful beginners,
I've been where no-one's been before,
Learned secrets from writers and cooks
All with one library ticket
To the wonderful world of books."
- Anonymous

"There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?"
- Marina Tsvetaeva

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something- a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things- which you had thought unique and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours."
- Alan Bennett

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be
chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts,
others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly,
and with diligence and attention"
- Francis Bacon

"The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man:
nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish;
civilization grow old and die out; new races build others.
But in the world of books are volumes that have seen
this happen again and again and yet live on.
Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written,
still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead."
- Clarence Day

Account typepublic, lifetime

Connection NewsConnection News

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/bec012 (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/bec012 (library)

Common KnowledgeSeries (47), Awards (274), Characters (2732), Places (621)

Member sinceAug 3, 2007

Currently readingLisey's Story: A Novel by Stephen King
The Essential Dalai Lama: His Important Teachings by Rajiv Mehrotra
The Old Man and the Sea (Vintage Classics) by Ernest Hemingway
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny by Robin S. Sharma
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
show all (8)