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Tagsfiction-british and irish (193), received as gift (142), art history and architecture (137), bought for class-undergrad (105), fiction-american (96), american studies (80), $1 or less! (62), humour (61), tintin (56), for dissertation (53) — see all tags
Groups50 Book Challenge, Comics, Graduate Students, Hogwarts Express, Things found in books
Favorite authorsPeter Ackroyd, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, Jane Austen, Paul Auster, L. Frank Baum, A. S. Byatt, Wilkie Collins, Hart Crane, Robertson Davies, Tibor Fischer, E. M. Forster, John Fowles, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, Hergé, Jack Kerouac, Andrew Lang, C. S. Lewis, Alan Moore, Brian Moore, Iris Murdoch, George Orwell, Orhan Pamuk, Henry Roth, Philip Roth, Anya Seton, Graham Swift, John Updike, Alison Weir, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresAcres of Books, Akateeminen kirjakauppa - Helsinki, BookPeople, Cellar Stories Bookstore, Follett's Intellectual Property, Half Price Books - Broadway, Half Price Books - East Northwest Highway, Half Price Books - North Lamar, Half Price Books - South Lamar, Librairie Kléber, open, Red Bus Bookstore, Shakespeare & Company, St. Mark's Bookshop, Strand Bookstore, The Harvard Coop, Waterstone's Trafalgar Square, WHSmith Paris
About me Ph.D. student.
My hobbies are reading, sewing (quilts, clothes, and x-stitch), music (singing, piano, karaoke!), and baking/cooking.
My academic interests are 19th-20th century American and European art, history of photography, American studies, and history of technology.
About my library I read mainly fiction in my spare time. I like "classics," 20th century American and British lit, historical fiction, mysteries, and a smattering of popular fantasy/YA.
I have a ton of books that I bought for college, grad school classes, or my dissertation. Pretty much any nonfiction I own will fall into this category, except the British history.
Collections: Tintin books in foreign languages, illustrated children's adventure/fairy tale books, and MAD magazine books from the 1950s-70s.
I have another account here, in which I'm trying to reconstruct all the books I've read in my life.
Real nameVanessa
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The next book comes in Denmark this Friday, so I know what I am to do this weekend lol
posted by cassalvira at 9:39 am (EST) on Apr 1, 2008
No problem about Brian Moore, I just thought that he had made a huge departure from his norm in his old age! The books that I have have all been found on ebay, though Powell's also carries him. It is a shame that he isn't easier to find-maybe his native Ireland appreciates him more?
Now I will be looking for those Howard Pyle books, since I know that they exist, and thanks for the info.
I've just added more books on my list so we may have more shared books!
posted by mstrust at 5:55 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2008
I love The Hobbit and the humour in it
I haven't had time to add more books right now, but I hope to soon do.
Have you heard of The Legend of The Ice People?
Written by Margit Sandemo
I don't know if it's been translated into English yet
You can read about it here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_om_Is...
and here
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spellbound-Legen...
I am waiting impatiently for the next book in the series to come to the shops, it's second time it is printed as far as I have understood it.
When I begin reading it, then I cannot stop until last page, it is so good.
Margit Sandemo is my favourite author above all :-)
posted by cassalvira at 4:06 pm (EST) on Mar 30, 2008
I also didn't know that Brian Moore had written a graphic novel. I saw you had one listed that I didn't have-Blood something. Is that the one? I so glad to meet another fan of his work, he should be more well-known than he is.
I believe you have a book of photography by Nick Yapp listed. Do you have his book called London? If you don't, I'll put it on my list next so you can get the publishing info.
Hope to talk soon!
posted by mstrust at 11:44 am (EST) on Mar 30, 2008
posted by mstrust at 7:53 pm (EST) on Mar 27, 2008
I especially like reading fantasy, humour and romantic + historical books
I have the HP books and also The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings book one (though I haven't read it yet)
I just haven't had time to register all of the books I have, only a few so far, so it'll take some time until they all are registered here :-)
What kind of books do you enjoy reading the most?
posted by cassalvira at 4:59 pm (EST) on Mar 24, 2008
The books I found interesting besides the easy answer of "most of them", well the ones that caught my eye were the Rupert Annuals, Tin Tin and the Moomins. I've just found 3 of my Rupert Annuals hiding in a box, and I'm going to enter them when I get the chance, it's nice to see you have yours up there in the catalogue.
Imp
posted by TheBookImp at 7:08 pm (EST) on Mar 17, 2008
Hope you don't mind but I've added you to my interesting libraries. You have a few books that will probably end up on my wish list.
Imp
posted by TheBookImp at 10:48 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2008
The link on my profile is just HTML. The code is [a href= "yourlinkhere"]Link Text Here[/a], only with pointy brackets, (are they called carrots or something similar?), instead of square ones.
posted by xicanti at 10:47 am (EST) on Feb 29, 2008
posted by findundercan at 2:57 pm (EST) on Jan 31, 2008
http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Tintin-...
They're not perfect adaptations of the books, but they look awfully cool in the DVD collection and they are bilingual (French/English).
posted by findundercan at 2:35 pm (EST) on Jan 8, 2008
I was just going through some libraries and yours to me was very impressive, And you read them all. I need to quit my job to compete with you.
posted by KKovach at 7:27 pm (EST) on Nov 1, 2007
Yes, the painting on my profile page is a Waterhouse; it's Ophelia, but he's obviously set her back beyond Shakespeare's day. She does look Arthurian.
I recently read an interesting piece of biofiction that you might enjoy: The Wayward Muse by Elizabeth Hiskey. She has written quite a few novels about artist's models; this one is about Jane Burden, a young working class girl who became one of the great pre-Raphaelite models. She married William Morris but had a lengthy affair with Rosetti. Your Arthurian interests made me think of this one, since she was a frequent model for Guinevere.
Happy reading!
posted by Cariola at 6:47 pm (EST) on Nov 1, 2007
The dissertation sounds interesting, the way some things sound as long as someone else is doing the work.
posted by findundercan at 3:37 pm (EST) on Oct 26, 2007
What exactly was that American art-history labor gender dissertation?
posted by findundercan at 12:19 pm (EST) on Oct 21, 2007
You and I are two of only three people who list Kingsley Amis as a favorite author. What a shame that he isn't better represented. Lucky Jim is an all-time favorite of mine.
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posted by tartalom at 2:27 pm (EST) on Jul 20, 2007
Best profile picture I've seen so far - chapeau!
All the best, Carolyn
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