Search divinenanny's books

Random books from divinenanny's library

De terugkeer van de Jedi by James Kahn

Quidditch Through the Ages by J.K. Rowling

Kamer 13 by Edgar Wallace

On Roads: A Hidden History by Joe Moran

Het bottenpaleis by Pam Emmerik

Een swibbel voor dag en nacht by Philip K. Dick

Tover Slang by Margaret Weis

Members with divinenanny's books

Member connections

Friends: clamairy, cmbohn, DebbievdZande, elliepotten, FiveBooks, hfglen, HiramHolliday, ijderaap, KellyManzo, lilmanmom, Lotusbibliotheek, MartijnL, Oodwerc, sabdasagar, Storeetllr, Tammiejx, Travis1259, wookiebender

Interesting library: Bibliotecaboy, boekenwijs, Busifer, cactus, cushlareads, DevourerOfBooks, dkathman, katylit, luklaer, PhilipPoulenc, s.e.c.

Member gallery (12)

(see all 12 pictures)

RSS feeds

Recently-added books

divinenanny's reviews

Reviews of divinenanny's books, not including divinenanny's

Helper badges

see all 12 pictures

Member: divinenanny

CollectionsYour library (2,697), eBooks (974), Currently reading (1), To read (1,012), Reading next (max 5) (3), Read (707), Read 2013 (14), Read 2012 (91), Read 2011 (153), Read 2010 (132), Read 2009 (86), Read 2008 (32), Favorites (93), Abandoned (13), Buy and Get 2013 (98), Buy and Get 2012 (751), Buy and Get 2011 (518), Buy and Get 2010 (171), Buy and Get 2009 (177), Buy and Get 2008 (168), Buy and Get 2007 (93), ARC (6), List books (11), Wishlist (64), Craft wishlist (7), Interesting wishlist (98), England wishlist (45), Unread (1,363), Readable (2,080), Read but unowned (61), Zolder Helmond (12), England 2011 (103), Ex Libris Sale 2012 (305), Papa's verzameling (82), Henk's ongelezen (235), Henk's Wishlist (20), All collections (2,964)

Reviews347 reviews

Tagsscience fiction (534), fiction (297), reference (223), history (213), fantasy (198), detective (187), historical fiction (163), museology (149), england (146), 1900s (134) — see all tags

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud, tag mirror

Recommendations9 recommendations

About meI studied Cultural Heritage and love to read. I work as a software tester. I'm a huge fan of Bette Midler (that explains my four copies of A view from a broad). I love history, especially the middle ages (preferably early middle ages). I also knit, cross stitch (working on a replica of The Lady and The Unicorn: A Mon Seul Desir now), crochet amigurumi and game (Nintendo DS and Wii).

About my library

What kind of books do I like?
Ever since I started to really frequent LibraryThing I have started to read more and more. Slowly I see that my taste in books is changing. I used to love (and still like) my historical adventures (when they keep their facts at least a bit straight). I still like historical fiction (but not so much the romance or murder mysteries that just happened to be set in an certain time period), especially about the middle ages. I also like fantasy and science fiction, although lately I am moving more and more towards SF, away from fantasy. I am now trying to read more "regular" novels and classics, to broaden my horizons. That way I found out that I love Jane Austen and Charlotte Brönte, and I cannot wait to try more of their works. I also found out that nineteenth century novels are quite readable, so I will enjoy more of them in the coming years.
I also read a lot of non-fiction, mostly about medieval history, but also about popular science.

I used to read almost exclusively books I own, and almost never borrow. I am always "a bit" behind in reading of my shelves, although recently I have been trying to at least read what I have last bought first, before buying more. This year, I am saving money and have become a member of my local public library. Now over half the books I read are borrowed.

Anything I read before I started keeping lists of dates read I give the read dates of 2003-01-01/2003-01-02, even if the book is published after that time. I just have no clue when I read them. I need to work on tagging. I'll at least keep genre tags (my own genres :D) and am working on subject tags, at least for time, location and historical personalities.

My Challenges
100 books in 2012
100 books in 2011, and the 2nd thread - Completed July 26th, 2011
100 books in 2010 - Completed October 6, 2010
1010 Category Challenge - Completed September 23, 2010
50 books in 2009 - Completed September 8, 2009
75 books in 2009 - Completed November 19, 2009
Books from the 1001 Books you Must Read Before You Die list

My Reading Lists
My 2009 reading
2009 stats: 86 books, 36271 pages. 3 books in Dutch, 83 in English. 30 non-fiction, 56 fiction.
My 2010 reading
2010 stats: 132 books, 42083 pages. 15 books in Dutch, 116 in English, 1 in German. 15 non-fiction, 117 fiction. 12 graphic novels. 114 'real' books, 18 e-books.
My 2011 reading
2011 stats: 153 books, 60416 pages. 86 books in Dutch, 67 in English. 8 non-fiction, 143 fiction. 2 graphic novels.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2008 edition)

100 Books in 2012

Now reading

2012 reading list

Groups100 Books in 2013 Challenge, 1001 Books to read before you die, Board for Extreme Thing Advances, Bug Collectors, Hacking LibraryThing, Science Fiction Fans, The Diogenes Club, The Green Dragon, What Are You Reading Now?

Favorite authorsJohn Ajvide Lindqvist, Isaac Asimov, Margaret Atwood, Iain M. Banks, Greg Bear, Steve Berry, Alfred Bester, Max Brooks, Dan Brown, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur C. Clarke, David Eddings, Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Joe Haldeman, Frank Herbert, Tom Holland, Kazuo Ishiguro, Elizabeth Kostova, George R. R. Martin, Bette Midler, China Miéville, Rita Monaldi, Haruki Murakami, Rick Riordan, Patrick Rothfuss, Neal Stephenson, Thomas Thiemeyer, Philipp Vandenberg, John Wyndham (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites | Visited

Favorite bookstoresAthenaeum Boekhandel, De Slegte Amsterdam, De Slegte Den Haag, De Slegte Leiden, Foyles, Selexyz Kooyker, Selexyz Scheltema - Koningsplein, Selexyz van Piere (Nieuwe Emmasingel), Strand Bookstore, The American Book Center, The American Book Center, Van Stockum Boekverkopers, Van Stockum Boekverkopers, Verwijs + de Slegte, Waterstone's Amsterdam

Favorite librariesKoninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands, Openbare Bibliotheek Hoorn (Centrale)

Other favoritesMuseum Meermanno|Huis van het boek

Homepagehttp://www.divinenanny.nl

Also onDailymile, Facebook, Flickr, Garmin Connect, LinkedIn, Nike Plus, Pinterest, Ravelry, RunKeeper, Twitter

Membership LibraryThing Early Reviewers/Member Giveaway

Real nameSara Raap-van Bussel

LocationAlphen aan den Rijn

Account typepublic, lifetime

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/divinenanny (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/divinenanny (library)

Member sinceJul 22, 2006

Currently readingNecronomicon; The best weird tales of H.P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft

Most recent activity

divinenanny added:
De zwaarden van Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber

divinenanny added:
Waar de Tijdwind waait by Robert Holdstock

divinenanny added:
Ganymedes 9 by Vincent van der Linden

divinenanny added:
De stervende aarde by Jack Vance

divinenanny added:
Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett

divinenanny added:
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

Thanks Sara. Have you ever used http://apps.facebook.com/xedarexu/friends/ ? I have about nine FB and LT connections. Since last year I worked on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:VIAF_inter_project_linking . Yesterday I met first time a very skilled technician who compared YIVO Enciclopedia with DNB and added the YIVO spellings to DNB. see http://www.historische-kommission-muenchen-editionen.de/beacond/jewishenc.php?be... (and http://beacon.findbuch.de/seealso/pnd-aks ) details are available at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BEACON
----
Please feel free to let people know about http://epo.librarything.com/groups/yivoencyclopedia and http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org

posted by gangleri at 3:28 pm (EST) on Apr 18, 2012

Dear Sara; I tagged long time all books imported from KN.nl with "↑KB.nl" http://www.librarything.com/tag/%E2%86%91KB.nl . As you can see at http://www.librarything.com/work/details/53428519 I added year and languages from http://opc4.kb.nl/PPN?PPN=301339708 . Can you address this issue? Maybe one should wait for the fix first.
Best regards Reinhardt P.S. I need to work on books tagged "↑KB.nl••" later-

posted by gangleri at 2:54 pm (EST) on Apr 18, 2012

Comment on this image. Image comments only appear on your own profile page and the image page itself.

Awesome bookcase!

posted by DaveLancaster at 2:53 pm (EST) on Apr 18, 2012

Hah! Thanks, Sara. I should've known. The City and the City and Perdido are two of my favorites. Glad you liked them, too. I look forward to hearing what you think of Embassytown.

Best - Joe

posted by jnwelch at 2:40 pm (EST) on Jun 15, 2011

At first I was a little worried about your starting with Embassytown as your first Mieville, Sara, because it's pretty complex sci-fi (not that I could think of an easier one of his when I tried!). But I see you've already got some challenging sci-fi in your library, so this should fit right in.

I'll look forward to hearing what you think of it.

Best wishes - Joe

posted by jnwelch at 5:59 pm (EST) on Jun 14, 2011

Graag!
Eerst maar eens deel 2

posted by ijderaap at 5:06 am (EST) on Jun 29, 2010

Thanks!

posted by lilmanmom at 9:18 am (EST) on Feb 19, 2010

One more thing, how close together did you put the brackets? I don't want the shelves to bow. Thanks so much for your help!

posted by lilmanmom at 8:42 am (EST) on Feb 19, 2010

Thanks for the quick response! That was my thinking, that buying lumber would be much more economical than the "pre-stained shelves." I love your library by the way, I'm sending a friend request!

posted by lilmanmom at 3:58 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2010

I love your shelves! When you purchased the shelves to go on the "tracking", did you buy boards in the lumber department or did you buy the "pre-made" shelves that go with the tracking components? I'm planning to put up a wall of shelves and wanted to get your opinion. Thanks!

posted by lilmanmom at 3:27 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2010

Hi Sara- I had to drop you a note, after seeing that you are starting "Never Let Me Go". I just finished it the other day. It's an amazing thought-provoking book. You'll have to fill me in, as you are reading it. It's only the 2nd book I've read by Ishiguro but it will not be the last!
I love your book-shelves!

Mark

posted by msf59 at 8:00 pm (EST) on Feb 17, 2010

Hi, Sara ~ Thanks for the friend invitation! I see we have a lot of books in common (the Matthew Shardlake mysteries for one, but also Thursday Next and Sookie Stackhouse). Looking forward to sharing opinions and ideas with you and getting recommendations from you!

How are you liking "Soveriegn?"

Good reading!

Mary

posted by Storeetllr at 1:39 am (EST) on Jan 27, 2010

Hai,

Heb jij Karen Maitland - Het gezelschap van leugenaars gelezen? 1348, pestilentie, engeland.

posted by DebbievdZande at 8:52 am (EST) on Nov 2, 2009

Hello Sara,
Re your query regarding 'Jaguars & Electric Eels'. No,this is merely an abridgment (as are all of this excellent series) If you do a search of Googlebooks,they have a fuller (I'm not sure if they give the complete book - doubtful -but certainly a fuller account at any rate. You could also try Project Gutenburgh who may have the fuller text.
Hope this is of help.
Peter (devenish)

posted by devenish at 7:53 am (EST) on Oct 1, 2009

Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries list - I'm flattered!

I've just been having a wee look in your library and see that the Name of the Rose is in your next 5 to read. I finally read it last year - it'd been on the shelf for over 10 years - and really, really loved it. I haven't managed to read anything else by Eco yet though.

Also just went to a map of the Netherlands to see where Hoorn is... I've been to Amsterdam a couple of times because good friends were living there - a lovely city. Last time, in 2002, they drove us over the dyke between Lelystad and Enkhuizen, which looks pretty close to you!

Right, better go and read a book or something. Hope you like the 75 BC group - there are tons of nice people in it.

posted by cushlareads at 4:31 am (EST) on Sep 12, 2009

Thank you for participating in my thread

posted by callmejacx at 10:30 am (EST) on Aug 11, 2009

Hi again

No problemo! One of the dubious advantages of being a South African of "a certain age" is that we all had to learn Afrikaans at school, and I don't find the conversion to reading Dutch all that difficult. In fact, two years ago when I had the pleasure of visiting your country (Wageningen, Harderwijk, Schovenhorst, Hoge Veluwe, Baarn, Utrecht) I even found I could converse with some of the locals in a strange hybrid Afrikaans/Dutch/accent-without-a-trace-of-either! So bigh thankyous for those sites, which I shall certainly pass on to the others on the committee.

Would you accept a virtual long-distance hug an an expression of gratitude? If so, ((((hugs))))

All best
Hugh

posted by hfglen at 11:07 am (EST) on Aug 4, 2009

Yes please!! All information gratefully received!

Thanks a million
Hugh

posted by hfglen at 3:54 am (EST) on Aug 4, 2009

Hello Sara

You are an angel straight from heaven, and I shall call on your help in as much detail and at as great a length as you let me! Yes I do need all the help I can get. The score at the moment is that Busifer needs to locate a friend who's away on holiday right now, so things are stalled for a couple of weeks there. But I mentioned it to the others (International Code for Botanical Nomenclature, Special Committee on Electronic Publication if you want to know) and they want a document to refer to in the discussions we'll be having over the next 2 years. So I'm now thinking I should come to you cap-in-hand when I have something, and ask for your take on it before posting idiocy and nonsense.

The basic problem is that on the one hand, the cost of academic publication as ink-on-paper is astronomical, so more and more journals are going electronic. On the other, the old-men-in-suits (of both genders and all ages, actually) who vote on changes to the code have not as yet had the courage to face up to the problem, and hide behind the mantra that e-publication is ephemeral, and will be unreadable in decades when original descriptions of new species (etc.) need to be readable for ever. Which is not totally untrue, but omits to note the number of cases where all copies of a paper publication have been destroyed over the last 250 years.

Thank you, thank you and thank you again a million times over for your kind offer, which is much appreciated.

All best
Hugh

posted by hfglen at 3:27 am (EST) on Aug 4, 2009

Thank you for posting in my thread. I am looking forward to see you there often.

posted by callmejacx at 4:42 pm (EST) on Jul 28, 2009

Hi, I saw your comment in the Green Dragon about Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. I think it helps if you are a Jane Austen fan to get through it. It is slow, with a sly, sneaky humor. So if you don't care for Austen, I'm not sure you would like it ever. The size and weight was daunting for me, but I really enjoyed the alternate take on our history. It may have helped that I recently read a very large and thorough history volume on the Regency period. :)

posted by MrsLee at 11:17 am (EST) on Mar 25, 2009