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GroupsAdoption, Arab, North African and Middle Eastern Literature, Banned Books, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, Blank Generation, Bloggers, Blur(b), Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fiction/Non-Fiction, Comics by Women, Cover Design Junkies —show all groups, Editors, Researchers, Whatever, Feminist SF, Feminist Theory, genderqueer, Girlybooks, Homer, the Trojan war, and pre-classical Greece, In Translation, It's a LondonThing, Lusty Ladies Who LibraryThing, Native/First Nations Literatures & Studies, Neuroscience, Queer and Trans Lit, Radical Theatre and Performance, Read YA Lit, Reading Globally, Sustainability, Tea!, The 'verse, The Scepter'd Isle, medieval history of England, 500 to 1500 AD, theory, Travel and Exploration literature, Writer-readers, Xperi-mental, Yurts, Zinesters who LibraryThing
Favorite authorsKathy Acker, Dodie Bellamy, John Berger, Julie Bertagna, Charlotte Brontë, Nicole Brossard, Andy Brown, Anne Carson, Angela Carter, Chrystos, Michelle Citron, Chynna Clugston-Major, Alison Croggon, Stevie Davies, Maya Deren, Emily Dickinson, Qwo-Li Driskill, Marilyn Dumont, Margaret Elphinstone, Mai Ghoussoub, W.S. Graham, Ursula K. Le Guin, Steven Heighton, Dorothea Rosa Herliany, LeAnne Howe, Linda Hutcheon, Alootook Ipellie, Kathleen Jamie, Tove Jansson, Derek Jarman, Daniel Heath Justice, Larissa Lai, Federico García Lorca, David Mack, Geraldine McCaughrean, Hilary McKay, Maria Rosa Menocal, Deborah A. Miranda, Terry Moore, David Morley, Grace Paley, Shahrnush Parsipur, Sally Potter, Claudia Roden, SF Said, Gregory Scofield, Jo Shapcott, Ali Smith, Rebecca Solnit, Susan Sontag, Juliana Spahr, Gertrude Stein, Jill Thompson, Marina Warner, Joss Whedon, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresAbracadabra Llibres, Arthur Probsthain: Oriental & African Bookseller, Bags of Books, Balfour Books, BFI Filmstore, Book City (Annex), Book City (Danforth), Book City (The Beach), Bookartbookshop, Caledonia Books, Casa del Popolo, Cinéphilia, Clerkenwell Tales, Compendium Bookshop, Fantasy Centre, Forres Bookshop, Foyles, Foyles at Southbank Centre, Fremont Books, Fruitmarket Gallery, G. David, Galignani, Gay's the Word (Bloomsbury, London), Giovanni's Room, Gosh! Comics, Grant and Cutler Ltd., Housing Works Used Book Cafe, Joseph's Bookstore, Koenig Books, La Librería de Lavapies, Les Mots à la Bouche, Mál og Menning, Moe's Books, Muswell Hill Bookshop, News From Nowhere, Oxfam Bookshop (Bloomsbury St, London), Page & Turners, Pages of Hackney, Prospero's Books, Queen's Park Books, Stanford's, Strand Bookstore, Tate Modern Shop, The Beguiling, The Broadway Bookshop, The Owl Bookshop, This Ain't the Rosedale Library, Toronto Women's Bookstore, Whitney Museum of American Art Bookstore, Winding Stair Bookshop and Restaurant, Word Power Bookshop
Favorite librariesBritish Library, Hornsey Library, Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation & Fantasy, Toronto Public Library, The London Library, Toronto Public Library - Riverdale, Toronto Public Library - Wychwood
Other favoritesThe British Museum, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Free Word Centre, Cinéphilia West
About meI live, breathe & eat books; wish i still worked in a bookstore (and almost got a job in a library!); write books; write in books (pencil only); have friends who write books; edit friends' books. I love the experimental, the obscure, the activist and the whimsical. Sometimes I buy a book I already have. Sometimes I lose a book I love. I lend books like pennies. I guess that's why they call me delirium.
Current obsessive online pursuit: chasing links through the world of contemporary Arabic literature at the English PEN Online Atlas http://penatlas.org/online/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=2
About my libraryEver-changing. Full of obsessions, past and present: modernist women's poetry; the Silk Road; film; classical Greece; Anne Carson; Sally Potter; visual culture; women artists; mythology and fairy tales, eco-living; graphic novels. Always trying to make space for what's coming next, always browsing, rereading, sharing.
In the throes of a serious AbeBooks addiction as I try to work out my next project. Thinking about a new more abstract set of tags: hopeful, passionate, alive...
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posted by susanbooks at 10:46 am (EST) on Jun 28, 2010
It's for my book, Lost & Found: A Memoir of Mothers, about my birthmother finding me through my mom's obituary.
My memoir has been featured on national ABC news and in major metropolitan papers across the country. Hope you get a chance to check it out!
Best,
Kate St. Vincent Vogl
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posted by doctor-who-mad-gal at 12:01 pm (EST) on Jan 9, 2008
I saw you like Alison Croggon, well I have a forum about the Pellinor books at www.pellinormadpeeps.myfreeforum.org we're a very friendly if rather crazy bunch and I'd love it if you took a look *ahem joined*
cheerio :)
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posted by oh_that_zoe at 12:06 am (EST) on Feb 8, 2007
When I first noticed your name around LT, I thought it was probably a reference to the Sandman. I don't have any of the Sandman series, because once I start buying them, I'll have to get them all and I can't afford them right now (especially since I've already read at least half of them). I think Death is my favorite character, though Delirium is certainly endearing:)
Yes, Gaiman and Woolf seem pretty far apart. I was once very interested in Woolf back in college, and Lighthouse remains one of my favorite books. But I have to say that overall I like Gaiman more.
Your library looks excellent. I've made note of a couple books I want to look for to add to my own library (thanks!) We share some other works that are titled differently (the Keats comes to mind). And I'm a Firefly/Serenity fan; I have the DVDs, comics, and Serenity book, and have knitted Jayne hats. (I guess that's enough to claim browncoat status.)
Anyhow, I'm happy to "meet" you:)
Maggie
posted by MaggieO at 1:02 pm (EST) on Dec 29, 2006
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posted by shebytches at 8:41 pm (EST) on Aug 25, 2006
Niceta meetcha.
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posted by daykeeper at 4:03 pm (EST) on Apr 28, 2006
Unfortunately, there's not much printed information currently available on Leonor Fini (even the website I captured this particular image from is no longer in existence). In my catalog, you'll find a book by Esther Selsdon. It's inexpensive and not a bad introduction: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/403132 I also own a documentary film by Belgian director Chris Vermorcken, titled 'Leonor Fini: Portrait of an Artist' (Films Dulac, 1987) that's rather nice. Most of the European publications devoted to Fini that I know of are out of print and now absurdly expensive. But her lithographs, etchings, etc. still sell well and I imagine it's only a matter of time before Leonor Fini receives once again the attention and adulation she so enjoyed.
Off to check out what you've added to your library!
Kind regards,
MT
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posted by Thalia at 1:33 pm (EST) on Apr 22, 2006
You have a very interesting collection yourself, and I love your "I live, breathe & eat books; work in a bookstore; write books; write in books (pencil only); have friends who write books..."! I could have said the same, except that I had to give up working in bookstores when I found I couldn't make ends meet. But I sometimes get to edit them.
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