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Optical Illusions: Puzzles, Paradoxes and Brain Teasers, No 4 by Stan Gibilisco
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Eyewitness Science: Time and Space by John Gribbin
The poisonwood Bible : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver
Devil's Gonna Get Him (Tamara Hayle Mysteries) by Valerie W. Wesley
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
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Interesting libraries: aarti, altima313, Booksloth, dorisdayrules, Luciana43, matapaha, maya-shakti, timspalding
Member: bolero
Library294 books — see library
Reviews18 reviews — see reviews
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TagsAfrican-American women (20), detective (4) — see all tags
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Favorite authorsJane Austen, E. F. Benson, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Georgette Heyer, Victor Hugo, Henry James, Doris Lessing, Walter Mosley, Vladimir Nabokov, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope (Shared favorites)
About me I've been keeping a list of books read since 1991 - and I'm slowly entering them in this library in chronological order by year read. I don't own most of these and rarely buy books anymore except for special needs or reference. I love reference books. I lost most of my owned books in a flood which were temporarily in storage years ago. I'm limiting myself to two or three bookcases now.
Profile picture is esteemed great grandson, Hatsuki, who resides in Japan.
About my library All of my ratings are generally based on my personal enjoyment level and don't reflect my estimation or anyone else's on literary merit. So they may not be reliable recommendations for others.
I generally don't rate books marked NF (couldn't finish), Shakespeare(he doesn't need my ratings), or non-fiction.
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posted by matapaha at 5:14 pm (EST) on Sep 24, 2008
Yes, Doris Lessing has been a fascination to me since the 70s. Nice to hear from a guy who liked Golden Notebook. My husband really likes the Shikasta series, but can't get him to read much else.
I recently retired from an academic library cataloging job, so LibraryThing is kind of like 'fun work' for me. Wanted to get my own books in order.
Luciana
posted by Luciana43 at 2:24 pm (EST) on Sep 9, 2008
Luciana
posted by Luciana43 at 5:56 pm (EST) on Sep 6, 2008
Your great grandson is very impressive!
Luciana
posted by Luciana43 at 5:52 pm (EST) on Sep 4, 2008
posted by altima313 at 4:05 pm (EST) on Sep 3, 2008
One of the courses I studied at uni was on Victorian literature and I do love it -partly for all the great books (of course) and partly because of the way so much of it informs and foreshadows modern literature. I'm quite a history fan anyway (especially of the Victorians and Tudors) and I completely believe that we get a far better understanding of anything if we know something about the history that led up to it.
I'm also very fond of contemporary books set in Victorian times. My absolute favourite - about which I've drooled endlesly on LT - is Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White which, in my opinion is one of the best novels ever written about the Victorians. In fact, I'd put any of his books at the top of all my lists, he writes so beautifully that Id be perfectly happy to read his shopping lists.
By the way, I haven't read the Dale Spender book you mention either and it looks like yet another one for the wishlist. I love books about books anyway so this one can't posibly fail! I think I may have to add some E F Benson too now.
posted by Booksloth at 5:56 am (EST) on Aug 23, 2008
posted by Booksloth at 8:19 am (EST) on Aug 21, 2008
Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries list - it's always good to know that someone else appreciates the same books that you do. Sorry to hear about the loss of your books - it'd take me some time to get over that if it happened to me. Re your ratings, I always feel that personal enjoyment is the best recommendation for any book!
Esteemed grandson looks a cracker - you must be very proud.
Regards
posted by dorisdayrules at 1:55 pm (EST) on Jul 19, 2008