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Diane Arbus by Patricia Bosworth
Rommel Drives Deep Into Egypt by Richard Brautigan
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TagsVirago Modern Classics (199), Fiction - Women (139), Literary Fiction - Women (81), British (74), French (24), Fiction (19), Belles Lettres - Women (18), Biography - Literary Women (17), Poetry (14), Canadian (13) — see all tags
GroupsAnglophiles, Girlybooks, Group Reads - Literature, Loitering with Intent, Lost Generation, New York Review Books, Persephone Readers, Reading Globally, The Diogenes Club, The Red Room — show all groups
Favorite authorsAnna Akhmatova, Elizabeth Von Arnim, Kate Atkinson, Margaret Atwood, Nina Auerbach, Djuna Barnes, Nina Bawden, Sylvia Beach, Simone De Beauvoir, Vanessa Bell, Elizabeth Bishop, Marie-Claire Blais, Elizabeth Bowen, Jane Bowles, Richard Brautigan, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anita Brookner, Pearl S. Buck, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Fanny Burney, A.S. Byatt, Leonora Carrington, Anne Carson, Angela Carter, Willa Cather, Colette, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Robertson Davies, Robert Desnos, Emily Dickinson, Isak Dinesen, Margaret Drabble, Helen Dunmore, Marguerite Duras, T. S. Eliot, Lillian Faderman, Penelope Fitzgerald, Louise Fitzhugh, Gustave Flaubert, E.M. Forster, Margaret Forster, Janet Frame, Miles Franklin, Janice Galloway, Jane Gardam, Elizabeth Gaskell, Sandra M. Gilbert, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Victoria Glendinning, Barbara Gowdy, Hella S. Haasse, Helene Hanff, Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Georgette Heyer, Brenda Hillman, Winifred Holtby, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Nancy Huston, Henry James, Marghanita Laski, D.H. Lawrence, Hermione Lee, Doris Lessing, Penelope Lively, Mina Loy, Rose Macaulay, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Olivia Manning, Katherine Mansfield, Jan Marsh, Carole Maso, W. Somerset Maugham, Guy de Maupassant, Daphne Du Maurier, Regina McBride, Carson McCullers, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Joni Mitchell, Nancy Mitford, Kate Moses, Iris Murdoch, Audrey Niffenegger, Anais Nin, Edna O'Brien, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath, Beatrix Potter, Barbara Pym, Jean Rhys, Rainer Maria Rilke, Michele Roberts, Christina Rossetti, Vita Sackville-West, Francoise Sagan, Sappho, May Sarton, Dorothy L. Sayers, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Anne Sexton, William Shakespeare, Margery Sharp, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Elaine Showalter, Dodie Smith, Stevie Smith, Muriel Spark, Christina Stead, C. K. Stead, John Steinbeck, May Swenson, Donna Tartt, Elizabeth Taylor, Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson, Angela Thirkell, Henry David Thoreau, Lynne Tillman, Claire Tomalin, Violet Trefusis, Rose Tremain, Marina Tsvetaeva, Linn Ullmann, Jane Urquhart, Marina Warner, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Herbjorg Wassmo, Winifred Watson, Mary Webb, Rebecca Wells, Eudora Welty, Mary Wesley, Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, Antonia White, Tennessee Williams, Jeanette Winterson, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresAardvark Books, Abandoned Planet Bookstore, Athenaeum Boekhandel, Black Oak Books - Berkeley, Black Oak Books - San Francisco, Book Passage, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Bruised Apple Books and Music, City Lights Bookstore, Diesel, a bookstore, Green Apple Books, Half Price Books - Berkeley, Half Price Books - East Northwest Highway, Hatchards, International Center for Photography Bookstore, Kepler's Books, Modern Times Bookstore, Moe's Books, Paperbacks Plus, Pendragon Books, Penn Books, Persephone Books, Powell's City of Books, Rizzoli Bookstore, Shakespeare & Co. Books, Shakespeare & Company, St. Mark's Bookshop, Strand Bookstore, Tattered Cover Book Store - Colfax Avenue, The Book Collector, The Drama Book Shop, Three Lives & Company, Time Tested books, University Press Books, Waterstone’s - Amsterdam, Waterstone's Piccadilly
Favorite librariesDallas Public Library - J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, New York Public Library - Humanities and Social Sciences Library, San Francisco Public Library, The Morgan Library & Museum
Other favoritesThe Cloisters (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
About me Nothing was distinct, or of its own indivisible nature, nothing was fixed, nothing was demanded - all was wavering spirit and intuition. Rapture and ecstasy, ecstasy and rapture! These were imaginations' transports, abetted by the piercing sweetness of melancholy.
For the romantic, everything dissolves into feeling; everything becomes mere mood; everything becomes subjective. Fervently, the romantic enjoys the highest delight and the deepest pain day after day; she enjoys the most enchanting and the most sublime; she enjoys her wounds and the streaming blood of her heart. Experiences with their many echoes and billows stand higher in her estimation than life with its tasks, for tasks always establish a bond with harsh reality. And from this, she is in flight.
The incantatory romantic - its transports and exultations, its voluptuously nurtured sorrows, its illusory beauty anchored in nothing but vapor.
~Cynthia Ozick
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posted by urania1 at 5:31 pm (EST) on Jun 22, 2008
Also, of course, I'm a terrible aesthete, and they are beautiful books.
I don't have anything like my full library listed, but I see we share Written on the Body, so you probably know what I mean about gendered fiction!
posted by bencritchley at 7:31 am (EST) on Jun 22, 2008
posted by finebalance at 5:05 pm (EST) on Jun 16, 2008
posted by Megami at 1:42 am (EST) on Jun 13, 2008
Thank you so much for including the extra surprise. It was so sweet of you to add something extra from my Top 10 list! It was an even bigger surprise since I also received The Semi-Attached Couple & The Semi-Detached House today from Christina! Isn't there an old saying about great minds? ;-)
Bernadette
posted by sqdancer at 12:36 am (EST) on Jun 10, 2008
Thank you thank you thank you!! The package from you arrived safely today. And--What a treat!--there was a surprise with Together and Apart. Thank you for both books: Together and Apart and The Camomile. I look forward to reading both.
Christina
posted by christiguc at 10:11 pm (EST) on Jun 3, 2008
Char
posted by charbutton at 2:58 am (EST) on Jun 3, 2008
posted by englishrose60 at 5:48 pm (EST) on May 31, 2008
posted by juliette07 at 4:42 pm (EST) on May 31, 2008
Ha! To the sun shining in London! It is raining of course. I'm not sure we're having summer this year. We didn't last year either now that I think about it...it's been awhile.
Nope, no poetry online, but cinnamon press sells a few titles online. I'm only in the anthologies: Perhaps, Sometimes, and Shape Sifting (of which I think only Shape Sifting is available). I'll pick a few poems and email them...
Just mooched Fall on Your Knees today because of your comments, have added Too Close to the Sun to my abebooks basket, and you've stirred up an old love for Julia Margaret Cameron. Trouble trouble trouble. And I must find a copy of that Idina Sackville photo.
heather
posted by hjelliot at 4:31 pm (EST) on May 29, 2008
posted by hjelliot at 5:30 pm (EST) on May 28, 2008
You are brilliant! And, you are the devil! I've been browsing your library and there are so many books I never knew I needed. Fabulous interesting collection. I must acquire a few of those titles. I will check out the 'Published in Paris' as well. I stop in at Shakespeare and Company whenever I'm in Paris, but I actually like Abbey Bookshop (it's run by a Canadian gentleman) a bit better. But since it's just around the corner from S&C, might as well hit both!
I am so happy I was able to add my beloved bookshops and libraries of the world! A thousand thanks! You made my day. ;)
heather
posted by hjelliot at 5:28 pm (EST) on May 28, 2008
Thanks in advance.
heather
posted by hjelliot at 1:12 pm (EST) on May 28, 2008
posted by Sibylle.Night at 3:09 am (EST) on Apr 28, 2008
Stefanie
posted by wellred2 at 9:13 am (EST) on Apr 26, 2008
posted by redredshoes at 1:24 am (EST) on Apr 20, 2008
Thank you for the warm welcome to LT and the Virago Group. I see my Virago library is small compared to most in the group. Hmm, I'd better work on that ... as a matter of fact I found 4 Viragos today ! :-)
Looking forward to being a part of the group.
Jayne
posted by mrspurdy at 6:28 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2008
I am new to the Virago Group and to LT. Still in the process of listing my books and struggling to edit my profile page ... not right yet, oh how to get rid of the tag field. Anyway, glad to see we have 31 books in common so far, mostly Viragos !! Enjoying reading all the VG entries and feeling I have at last found like-minded readers.
Mrs. Purdy
posted by mrspurdy at 3:04 pm (EST) on Apr 6, 2008
Rosie
posted by brunhilde at 9:43 am (EST) on Mar 24, 2008
Bibi in Montreal
PS Your moniker, "Bleuroses", is indeed poetic and witty.
posted by lapassionata at 4:08 pm (EST) on Feb 13, 2008
Thanks again,
Helen xx
posted by miss_read at 9:28 am (EST) on Feb 1, 2008
posted by lindsacl at 7:38 am (EST) on Feb 1, 2008
I'm a huge fan of Persephone Books & Virago Modern Classics. I also love travel writing (with particular reference to Italy). Do you keep a book blog at all?
posted by swanbreast at 12:05 pm (EST) on Jan 24, 2008
Thank you so much for thinking of me! I'd love to have the book if it's still homeless! Thanks!
- Helen xx
posted by miss_read at 11:19 am (EST) on Jan 22, 2008
I think I first noticed your library through the Lovers of NZ Lit connection. Although you and I only share 37 books they are among my toppest top favourites so after that connection your library just registered on my consciousness whenever it popped up!
Z
posted by zappa at 2:30 am (EST) on Jan 3, 2008
posted by iamwhoambic at 4:13 pm (EST) on Dec 29, 2007
posted by avaland at 6:52 pm (EST) on Dec 16, 2007
Glad you liked it :)
Happy Holidays
warmest wishes
Louise
posted by fabrile-heart at 7:33 pm (EST) on Dec 15, 2007
P.S Loved the holiday outfit! Where can I find one?
posted by finebalance at 12:40 pm (EST) on Dec 11, 2007
The bookselling part: I started off working for a (then) five branch bookchain, which has now expanded to over 50 stores throughout Southern Africa. I have recently moved from a wonderful store in Rosebank, Johannesburg, which I managed for 5 years, into the online realm. It has been quite an adjustment for me, but has forced me to consider my purchases more carefully. Not too many of those impulse-buying splurges to be had anymore. Besides, I think (and hope) that I will receive better recommondations here on LT!
I am currently involved in launching a children's website for children's books in South Africa, and am organizing a literary festival for children which takes place next March. I will let you know when the children's website is up and working. In the meantime, you may want to have a look at our website: www.exclusivebooks.com. It also has photographs of some of the "real" stores I've worked in. (Be warned - connectivity is dismal at present. this is the result of unseasonal rainstorms which have literally submurged our lines!)
My husband saw October Project live several years ago when he was visiting the States. I'd introduced him to their music several years before, so I was most peeved at not being there with him.
I love Cameron, too. There is something eerily other-worldly about her images, yet at the sme time so serene. I'm afraid the only book I own about her is a biography, but this may be the excuse I need to go out and purchase the exquisite Thames and Hudson compilation of her work.
Happy reading,
Celeste
posted by CelesteM at 6:32 pm (EST) on Nov 29, 2007
Kind regards,
Celeste
posted by CelesteM at 5:36 am (EST) on Nov 28, 2007
Yeah, I suppose "nohrt4me" is kind of like a vanity license plate or something. But I like to think that when women type it in, they'll think twice about taking hormone therapy for menopause, like it's some type of disease.
Yeah, you get a bit hot and cold, and whatnot, but I found the discomforts of menopause vastly overstated, and in many ways going through the change is a very freeing and wonderful time.
I like the new Gish pic, BTW. She was so beautiful and dainty.
posted by nohrt4me at 12:16 pm (EST) on Nov 8, 2007
Which Gish is that in your picture? I loved Lillian Gish. Can't watch her in "Night of the Hunter" without getting choked up. But, of course "Whales of August" was a triple hankie. But her silent work is great, too, even in "Birth of a Nation," which started out interesting and turned into a big racist screed, sadly.
posted by nohrt4me at 8:02 am (EST) on Nov 2, 2007
Plus I'm not sure i really have a vocation; mostly I just want some damn peace and quiet and not have to worry about what to wear every day (though you buy yourself only black pants and whatever shirts go with that for work or home, and you've pretty much got your choices narrowed and you've cut your accessory needs and expenses in half because you don't need brown anymore).
Dystopian novels remind me of Purgatory because they involve, at heart, a struggle of the spirit. Most dystopians are about the world in a big mess that only the virtuous can overcome. And even if the virtuous are doomed, the trying matters. After reading a dystopian, where else is there to look but up, since there's no justice in this life.
Dystopians reflect the faith of the hopeless, which is one of those weird contradictions you get in literature and religion--yeah, people are the enemy, but the only way out of the mess is to connect with other people.
Hope this doesn't make me sound like a religious nut. I'm really quite a very bad Catholic, mostly because I don't think those running the Church are all that much better, more disinterested, or smarter than the rest of us. They're all men who've been kept away from women for most of their adult lives. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that's two handicaps right there.
I try to be very strict about donating my paperbacks to the library's used book sale or giving them to friends.
Thanks for asking, but I bet you're sorry after this blah blah.
For what it's worth, you are doing the right thing trying to simplify your life. Less encumbered with stuff, more open to what's outside your stuff. St. Francis, St. Clare, and all that.
And there are some pretty amazing things that get overlooked. Ever notice how when it's below zero, the crows can still sit on pole in the wind and chip frozen carrion with their beaks? And not get food poisoning? Now there's a lesson in fortitude sitting right in front of you that you don't get if you're worried about your stuff.
posted by nohrt4me at 7:56 am (EST) on Nov 2, 2007
I have a lot of opinions, but i guess you really don't get to middle age without thinking you know more than most people.
posted by nohrt4me at 3:50 pm (EST) on Nov 1, 2007
posted by kambrogi at 8:25 am (EST) on Oct 29, 2007
posted by kambrogi at 5:13 pm (EST) on Oct 28, 2007
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posted by purpleelephant at 8:56 am (EST) on Oct 28, 2007
I have seen The Lover but never read it. It was a beautiful movie. I will make a point to add Duras to my wish list.
Ponder
posted by ponder at 5:36 pm (EST) on Sep 29, 2007
Thank you for your lovely message. I look forward to nosing about your library in detail.
I know what you mean about it being addictive - I can't seem to tear myself away. And yet, I won't get any reading done if I don't!
Looking forward to getting to know you,
Allie
posted by AllieW at 4:01 pm (EST) on Sep 25, 2007
If only I was the REAL Molly Gibson! :) She's too sweet for words. I love the book & movie; the actress who plays her is perfect.
I haven't yet seen Becoming Jane as it hasn't played anywhere near me so I'm waiting for it on PPV or DVD. I'm also looking forward to the new line-up of Austen movies coming to Masterpiece Theatre in January!
Cheers!
posted by MollyGibson at 6:45 am (EST) on Sep 21, 2007
I have not read Marguerite Duras. What is a good book to start with?
The painting is of George Sand by Eugene Delacroix. Moving isn't it?
Ponder
posted by ponder at 7:10 pm (EST) on Sep 9, 2007
posted by tiffin at 10:11 am (EST) on Sep 4, 2007
posted by msggoat at 6:21 pm (EST) on Aug 23, 2007
posted by readaholic12 at 4:02 pm (EST) on Aug 21, 2007
I can tell you already (up to p.70) that Moon Tiger is very good. Some of the writing is quite brilliant. It's the sort of book I would read again just to savour some of the ideas and observations and the language.
Amanda
posted by amandameale at 10:43 pm (EST) on Aug 19, 2007
posted by Megami at 9:58 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2007
I have no doubt in my mind that you are all very intelligent. However, I have yet to come across an Italian who is not crazy, so I also know that at least one of you is crazy as well. ;=) Anything else I should know before the two of you head this way?
posted by izzybee at 12:42 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2007
posted by izzybee at 4:32 pm (EST) on Aug 12, 2007
posted by Esta1923 at 2:50 pm (EST) on Aug 12, 2007
T'was the Shared favorites feature that led me to your library. :)
posted by aeosdur at 9:20 am (EST) on Aug 12, 2007
posted by TheresaWilliams at 8:37 pm (EST) on Aug 7, 2007
Hope you're having a nice summer! :D
Drinks? Sometime you're in town again? I finally made it down to The Strand, I want to move there! Do you suppose they'll let me bunk it in the fiction section?
Much love,
"barnacle" Suge
posted by suge at 8:34 pm (EST) on Aug 6, 2007
I found a Virago Modern Classic in my favourite charity bookshop today: The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby. Hurrah!
Michelle
posted by artymiss at 1:21 pm (EST) on Jul 27, 2007
Thanks so much for your encouraging comments! I will read the Carole Maso book on your recommendation, it sounds so good. I do try to write stuff that will move people in some way, but it doesn't always work!
I don't get back to the blogging as much as I would like to, so I know it gets a bit stale over there in wordygecko-land. Far too many books to read to spend too much time on it.
Hooroo for now,
Sue
posted by thewordygecko at 1:01 am (EST) on Jul 24, 2007
posted by artymiss at 12:28 pm (EST) on Jul 21, 2007
I must look out for the film. Reading the The Piano Teacher is rather harrowing. The style makes it so, and the subject matter adds to it. Nevertheless, I was glad I read it.
Amanda
posted by amandameale at 7:50 am (EST) on Jun 18, 2007
posted by xtien at 7:21 am (EST) on Jun 16, 2007
I finished "Underworld" by Don Delillo last week. He uses the same half sentences as Krause, like individual sentences that are just "But." or "And yet.". They must share some cultural reference where they picked up that language, or it's something that's widely know and it's just me who doesn't.
posted by xtien at 1:55 pm (EST) on Jun 9, 2007
posted by avaland at 2:01 pm (EST) on Jun 8, 2007
I just now finished reading You Can't Catch Death by Ianthe Brautigan. It was beautiful. I'd say this is a *must read* for any fan of Richard Brautigan. It's a bit about his life and especially about his relationship to his daughter, followed by his ghosts which remain and his living legacy - a daughter and granddaughter. I won't tell you about the book's ending...which was quite a surprise for me.
No question about it. Read the book. Your rose-colored glasses will remain just as lovely after you're done. Perhaps even rosier...
Regards,
Madeline (...who's truly happy people still read Brautigan's books!)
P.S. ...and let me know what you thought of it.
posted by SqueakyChu at 9:15 pm (EST) on Jun 6, 2007
Is it ok if I add you to my contacts? I'm trying to figure out what that does, other than just showing other peoples nicks on my profile page.
posted by xtien at 8:55 pm (EST) on Jun 5, 2007
I haven't seen the recent movie of The Painted Veil, but I did see the old b/w version with Greta Garbo, George Brent and Herbert Marshall (who was also in the first version of The Razor's Edge) several years ago. I would love to see the more recent version, so I may rent it soon. I have a copy of the book, but haven't read it, so let me know when you get around to reading it and I will, too. Maybe by then I will have seen the film, too, and we can compare notes on book vs. film! Happy reading!
Marise
posted by marise at 2:06 pm (EST) on Jun 2, 2007
Marise
posted by marise at 11:53 am (EST) on Jun 1, 2007
posted by marise at 8:29 pm (EST) on May 27, 2007
I love your picture, who is the artist?
posted by marise at 10:52 am (EST) on May 27, 2007
Let me know when you get to Northern California! It would be fun to meet other LT users :) I'm located in Shasta County.
posted by writestuff at 8:00 am (EST) on Apr 28, 2007
It was a very pleasant afternoon on Saturday. And not only did I go home with my stack of Persephone books, but I browsed a bookshop while waiting for friends later and picked up a biography of Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt. So, all in all, an expensive little jaunt.
Lovely to meet you!
Becky
posted by rec at 9:30 am (EST) on Apr 17, 2007
before his gate carts and horses are rare
the forest is quiet but partial to birds
the streams are wide and home to fish
with his son he picks wild fruit
with his wife he hoes between rocks
what does he have at home
a shelf full of nothing but books
Han Shan, known as Cold Mountain lived 1200 years ago in China's Tientai Mountains
I send his poem for poetry month. Esta 1923
posted by Esta1923 at 3:01 pm (EST) on Apr 10, 2007
posted by bookstopshere at 10:09 am (EST) on Feb 20, 2007
I know Amanda "spreads rumours" about me (ha ha ha ha!!!), but I actually am still working on the 'crazy' aspect of my personality....;-)
I do enjoy the Persephone group VERY MUCH, and am really looking forward to the April tea. Keep posting your thoughts on LT, they are quite interesting.
Paola :-))
posted by aluvalibri at 12:20 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2007
Dont't talk to PAOLA - she's this crazy Italian woman. JOKING
Amanda
posted by amandameale at 6:50 am (EST) on Feb 14, 2007
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