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Sophie Mayer

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?opt...

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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Member sinceApr 16, 2006

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deliriumslibrarian reviewed, rated, added:
Dido by Adele Geras

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Imagination Verses (Salt Modern Poets) by Jennifer Moxley

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Uncertain Poetries: Selected Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics (Reconstruction) by Michael Heller

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Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan

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Wardolly by Elizabeth Treadwell

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Napoleon's Travelling Bookshelf by Sarah Hesketh

ah! but what do you *really* think of him?

posted by nickbradshaw at 6:59 am (EST) on Mar 9, 2009

I really liked the Cardiff/Miller exhibition, thanks - fascinating and thought-provoking. I went back a couple of days later for another visit, and bought a copy of the book.

posted by nicholas at 7:12 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2008

I see you joined the yurts group. I hope you will take a minute to go to the introductions thread and tell us a little bit about yourself. and, thanks, for marking my library as interesting. Obviously, I think it is and it is nice to see others are interested.

posted by maggie1944 at 12:07 pm (EST) on Jul 31, 2008

I started a new group about yurts and thought since you had used that tag, at least once, you might be interested in checking it out: go here - http://www.librarything.com/groups/yurts...

posted by maggie1944 at 8:24 pm (EST) on Jul 29, 2008

I love your user pic, too!!

posted by rdixon98 at 10:18 am (EST) on Jul 26, 2008

I have to admit. I love your userpic

posted by lisa211 at 7:07 am (EST) on Apr 25, 2008

ermm...I think so...She goes on another one I go on and I put the address on there.

posted by doctor-who-mad-gal at 12:01 pm (EST) on Jan 9, 2008

hi I'm Alice.
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 :)

posted by doctor-who-mad-gal at 10:55 am (EST) on Dec 31, 2007

I was intrigued to see that you enjoyed Julie Bertagna's 'Exodus' as much as I did. (I read it three times, over two months, and am fascinated and deeply rattled by Bertagna's world). It astonishes me that this book is so (relatively) obscure. It ranks among the Pullmans for me. I've just read the sequel, and although it didn't have the punch that 'Exodus' had,I can't stop thinking about it. My kids (aged 14 and 16) have raced through both books in the past few days, and have come over all quiet and thoughtful. Now I'm going to give them Meg Rosoff's 'How I Live Now', which frightened me half to death. Rgds, Jericho

posted by Jericho at 5:02 pm (EST) on Aug 7, 2007

Good eye! indeed it was 36--until I realized that you'd managed to catalog your Death comics...now it's 37. I wonder why Amazon's engine only knows certain issues and not others?

posted by Leah.Hannah at 2:39 am (EST) on Jul 18, 2007

I sure wish I had more grown-up manga recommendations but am coming up dry. Blue was a gift...maybe I should ask the giver for ideas.

posted by BellyandKill at 6:05 pm (EST) on May 16, 2007

Wow, I didn't know that about Russian literature. Where might I read more about that? It would be interesting to know Francesca's opinion.

posted by witchbaby at 1:13 am (EST) on May 2, 2007

Wow, you're popular! I'm a big Anne Carson fan, too, nice to see more of em. Check out the Euripides translations, they're great too.

posted by jeremysabol at 6:57 pm (EST) on Apr 12, 2007

I've been spending more time on this site of late and I keep running into your comments in interesting groups or discussion. I'll have you know that you inspired me to pick up Nicola Griffith's Ammonite and Decreation (my interest in Anne Carson having been temporarily dormant). So—hi and thanks!

posted by oh_that_zoe at 12:06 am (EST) on Feb 8, 2007

Hi - Thanks for writing to me about the Wyatt and Sidney books. I really love having older books; I think they have a lot of character. I found my Wyatt at Argosy book store in NYC in 1983, along with a matching Surrey. They are some of my favorite books. And I've had the Sidney about that long, too.

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

I will have to rent that movie!

:)

posted by ghostwire at 6:34 pm (EST) on Nov 13, 2006

I really like your review of The Waves. I'm slowly, slowly making my way through it. I feel the same about Rhoda, too.

posted by ghostwire at 6:27 pm (EST) on Nov 13, 2006

Hi - I'm looking forward to reading the Warner once the student I've lent it to returns it. Christmas reading, I think. I'm dismayed by the sub-editing problems you mention in your review, however.

posted by drspkelly at 11:37 am (EST) on Nov 6, 2006

thx Lady!!!! Am a little slow getting here... need to get moving listing my books :) and I now have another distraction... Buffy... way to go ;)

xoxoxoxoxo

posted by shebytches at 8:41 pm (EST) on Aug 25, 2006

Thanks for your comment! Delirium is my favourite of the Sandman comics too, and I feel like I am very similar to her, so I was glad to see that picture in your profile. And... Sally Potter! :D

Niceta meetcha.

posted by woolgathering at 9:21 pm (EST) on Jul 5, 2006

'siyo! Thanks for your kind words here and on your blog! I'm excited to meet you in person, and hope that will happen very soon!

posted by Qwofacenosehead at 5:18 pm (EST) on Jun 28, 2006

You know, this is all your fault... I am actually buying books... just to have an excuse to add stuff to my library... and I haven't finished adding all the books I already have.... xoox

posted by shebytches at 9:37 pm (EST) on Apr 29, 2006

Ooh, I have to agree -- we do share some great books! I love your user image -- the colors are incredible. I can't wait to see your zine collection -- I'm always on the lookout for good ones to read!

posted by daykeeper at 4:03 pm (EST) on Apr 28, 2006

Sorry for the delay in response! The picture on my profile is by the Argentine-Italian surrealist artist, Leonor Fini. It's entitled 'La Somnambule' (The Sleepwalker). Fini was among the most independent and self-directed of all the first-wave female surrealists (she never married, although she had a few serious male lovers, and was openly hostile to Andre Breton, questioning his puritanism and barely concealed misogyny)and was good friends with another of the finest and most rebellious female surrealist painters, Leonora Carrington. Fini's work reflects her unabashed bisexuality, her intense sensuality and her ideal of an "autonomous, absolute woman...governed by passion."

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/4031... 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

posted by marietherese at 1:52 am (EST) on Apr 24, 2006

I've been meaning to buy that Jill Thompson book for the longest time. You just reminded me! I also wish I could draw like that... Yeah, you can find SiP here, thank God. They cost a fortune though so whenever I can, I buy them in the States.

posted by Thalia at 1:33 pm (EST) on Apr 22, 2006

I can recommend pretty much everything in my collection (check my "central asia" tag); specifically, Philip Glazebrook's Journey to Khiva and Colin Thubron's The Lost Heart of Asia are good travel books, the Lattimore and Maclean books are enjoyable memoirs, and the Allworth titles are excellent scholarly works.

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.

posted by languagehat at 5:25 pm (EST) on Apr 19, 2006

Oooh... that's a good question! I have very few in my own collection (except for a not-quite-complete run of "Murder Can Be Fun") so I haven't really thought about it. As a general rule, I'm always a fan of metal edge products. They're acid & lignin-free and come in a lot of different sizes. I like the flip-top boxes, personally. Check out some of these and maybe they'd work for you:
http://www.lightimpressionsdirect.com/se...

posted by kenaz at 9:22 pm (EST) on Apr 16, 2006

Yes, still publishing, and still using the iron logo. I tend to buy far more Virago titles than WP ones, but I do have a hardback copy of Josyane Savigneau's biography of Carson McCullers, which was published in about 2003.

posted by scarletslippers at 5:01 pm (EST) on Apr 16, 2006

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