Member: continuum100

Library154 books — see library

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Tagscriticism (25), poetry (22), writing (19), how-to (16), philosophy (14), business (10), management (9), textbooks (8) — see all tags

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Favorite authorsMatthew Arnold, Robert Byron, David Magarshack, Ralph Russell, Arthur Waley (Shared favorites)

About me Self-employed.
Editor and author.
Specialising in professional and academic non-fiction.

When I was a child I alternated between spells of reading books and spells of not doing so. I would find an author or a cluster of books I liked every year or two. First A.A. Milne; then Dr Doolittle; then Paddington; then Arthur Ransome; then John Wyndham and PG Wodehouse (a bit). I didn't start reading regularly until my mid-teens, when I started to explore the local library more - mainly to read books about cricket, but then to read some classics - especially Russian and Chinese literature in translation.

I've never really enjoyed reading books because I have to.I prefer to find books for myself and make my own decisions. These days I read mostly serious non-fiction. Every now and then, though, I read something humorous. The first book I can remember laughing out loud over was a story about Paddington in France. I have a great respect for authors who can make me laugh. They include Jerome K. Jerome, Reggie Perrin (I forget the author's name), AG Macdonnell, and Auberon Waugh.

These days I read a lot of books to help me with the business I run. Not just how-to books about aspecst of business, but also books about the context for my business. I use a mnemonic - EPISTLE - to help me organise my reading.
E = economic
P = political
I = intellectual
S = social
T = technical
L - legal
E = environmnetal

About my library I have a few thousand books around the house. Quite a mixture, including:
reference
writing and publishing
literary criticism, literary theory, aesthetics, philosophy
cricket
poetry
education
Fontana Modern Masters

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LocationNewmarket, UK

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Member sinceMar 24, 2008