Hello DGR

I have just purchased a copy of the Feminine Middlebrow Novel 1920's to 1950's by Nicola Humble and have on order Elizabeth and Ivy by Robert Liddell that you kindly recommended via your blog, which, by the way, I have so much enjoyed reading. I have added you to my list of interesting libraries, I hope this is ok?

Louise

posted by fabrile-heart at 6:02 pm (EST) on May 10, 2008

Hi! I don't know if you remember me, but I do you! I love the fact that we have two books in common. Have you read the Anna Kavan biography? I've been working my way through her books and would love to know if you've read any of them. I like her early work. I'm coming towards her books written when she became Anna, so we will see how I like them. The biography is really interesting since I'm reading it while reading her other books.

Dawn
www.roomswithbooks.blogspot.com

posted by dlad2002 at 1:28 pm (EST) on May 4, 2008

Hi Lynne, it was lovely to meet you today at Mostly Books. When I got home I went straight to your Blog and remembered to bookmark it this time. I shall certainly keep an eye on it as we seemed to agree on quite a few of the books we talked about - I'm trying to remember which ones I was going to elevate up my to be read pile!
Best wishes
Annabel

posted by gaskella at 8:06 am (EST) on Apr 1, 2008

Hello Lynne - In response to your Virago assistance required this is just to let you know that I flagged up your request to those in th eVirago group here on LT. I am so looking forward to next Monday - just hope it is dry! Christchurch meadows can be very wet. Don't forget your wellies! Best wishes Julie

posted by juliette07 at 7:13 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2008

I'm delighted to finally start finding others who share books in all three of my major non-fiction categories - textiles, cooking, and theology. You're obviously more of a quilter than I am - I mostly embroider, but here in Vienna there is a really good quilting shop, and interesting embroidery supplies are harder to get. It'll be while before I get as much catalogued as you have, but a little more each day. (It would go faster if I could resist visiting other libraries.)

posted by MarthaJeanne at 2:05 pm (EST) on Mar 2, 2008

By the way, I'm so happy to see that you're such a huge admirer of Irmgard Keun - she's marvellous and sadly much overlooked...
Hooray for Michael Hoffmann!

posted by citizenkelly at 7:18 am (EST) on Dec 12, 2007

Hallo dovegreyreader. I can't believe I've been reading your blog for well over a year without once realising that you're on Library Thing too! You lead the kind of life I dream of. I enjoy your blog very much!
All the best, Carolyn

posted by citizenkelly at 6:23 am (EST) on Dec 12, 2007

I've just realized from reading your lit blog that it was you who put me onto several of my recent favourites.Eucalyptus,The Observations,and The Welsh Girl come immediately to mind.I'm particular about what I read, so thank you.

posted by posthumose at 3:20 am (EST) on Dec 7, 2007

Hello! I have recently become deeply addicted to this site, thought I'd pop by and say hello. Kirsty x

posted by otherstories at 10:14 am (EST) on Nov 9, 2007

Hello,
I have just entered in a review for 'The Herring Seller's Apprentice', which I see you also own.I was wondering what you thought of it, as a few weeks ago I met the author at Heffers Bookshop in Cambridge.I don't know if you know the shop,but if you don't and are ever in Cambridge,do call in and have a look. it is fantastic. It is where I buy quite a few of my books I must admit.I see by the way that we share some 465 books which can't be bad.
Best wishes from the midlands.

posted by devenish at 3:40 am (EST) on Nov 4, 2007

I don't know why it didn't occur to me that you would be on here as well. I have been envying your access to free books to review and I just snagged a free one to review on here. I am delighted. I think after the internet itself, librarything is my favorite invention.

posted by CandySchultz at 12:00 am (EST) on Oct 18, 2007

I have read your blog for a while now and recognized your name. We have 161 books in common. I will try to read your blog more regularly, it is certainly better than many.

posted by posthumose at 11:58 am (EST) on Aug 27, 2007

Why dovegrey? You have an astonishingly varied collection - clearly a mind for all colours. Especially pleased to see Roth, Szerb, Marai - not just one of those, picked up by chance, but a real strand. I will definitely revisit your library, when I take another unwarranted break from the report I'm supposed to be writing...

posted by Tiresias at 5:40 pm (EST) on Jul 5, 2007

Hi, we share lots of books! I shall go and check out your blog now.

posted by charl08 at 9:59 am (EST) on Apr 18, 2007

Hi

Just started my library and found you as a fellow Persephone buyer. Do you buy all of them or just the ones you think will interest you? I must admit I tend to be the former and have yet to be disappointed!

Susan

posted by auntysassy at 3:23 pm (EST) on Oct 12, 2006

Hello-
I don't see that you have any of Marilyn Bowering's work catalogued yet, but I bet you'd enjoy her fiction - I'm reading her newest (What it Takes to Be Human) and it's quite compelling, lyrical (Bowering is also a fine poet and one really notices that in her fiction). Another great Canadian author to add to your collection!
Cheers,
Nikki

posted by BiblioFool at 1:14 am (EST) on Oct 10, 2006

Lynne,

I just started cataloging some of my recent reads (roughly last two years) and it seems we have much in common. I, too, adore Atwood and Eliot, fiction written by women, literary criticism and poetry... Over the last five or so years, I've taken to reading off the Orange Prize nomination list (an obsessive enough to order it from across the pond, if it's not available here in the US). What is the most recent excellent book you've read? My last three in reverse order: Night Watch by Sarah Waters, The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly and Un Lun Dun by China Mieville (loved all three).

Lois

posted by avaland at 11:07 am (EST) on Oct 5, 2006

Hello! Apparently I share a book with you and no other person - 'Bottle' by Margaret Atwood. Nicely obsessive collecting...best wishes, Jo

posted by joleo at 6:19 am (EST) on Sep 28, 2006

You are very high up my 'books we share' list. The ones I am most keen to bend your ear about when we meet up are Saul & Patsy, Colour Of A Dog, Duncton Wood and The Geographer's Library.

S

posted by scottpack at 3:58 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2006

It is wonderfully addictive isn't it? I have some chores to do today and am 'treating' myself to cataloguing a shelf each time I finish a job.

posted by scottpack at 8:38 am (EST) on Aug 27, 2006

As a high school librarian who lives in the world of young adult literature, I feel like I've found a truly adult playpen in your blog! You even support my forgotten habit of quilting!!

posted by edi.mom at 12:10 pm (EST) on Aug 5, 2006

Wonderful library! I'm truly impressed by your collection of books by and on Ted Hughes (perhaps my favorite 20th century English poet). I hope someday to own most of the works you list.

Your blog is fantastic! I have added it to my list of blogs to check daily. I look forward to reading many more "scribbles" from you.

Kind regards,
Marie Therese

posted by marietherese at 11:13 pm (EST) on Jul 27, 2006

WOW - I'm impressed. Also visited your homepage and I am overwhelmed!!
You are welcome to visit my modest library.

Sincerely Nina

posted by ninelle at 4:41 am (EST) on Jul 6, 2006

I've begun to catalogue Lynne and already we have one book in common.Daphne alias Wormauld

posted by wormauld at 8:24 am (EST) on Jun 28, 2006

Hello hello,

I had a look at your books by Canadian women and the only thing I can think of off the top of my head that you must, must read is The Gravesavers by Sheree Fitch. It's YA, but it's also wonderful. If you read French or can find translated copies, I would recommend Anne Hebert and Gabrielle Roy.
Have you read The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke, or anything by Sara Jeanette Duncan (The Imperialist or Cousin Cinderella)? They're fairly canonical as far as early works are concerned. I will think on this more. Sorry to be so long getting back to you!

posted by Beatrice at 12:05 am (EST) on Jun 24, 2006

i hope you're enjoying angela carter! cool blog... i like the photos.

posted by deliriumslibrarian at 12:40 am (EST) on Apr 18, 2006

I see you're a Neil Young fan, too! Sharon

posted by Ex_Libris at 11:38 am (EST) on Apr 17, 2006

I do sub to Mslexia, but can't catalogue them as I don't keep my copies - I photocopy anything I want to keep, then pass on the magazines to a writing friend in the States :-)

posted by scarletslippers at 4:57 pm (EST) on Apr 16, 2006

Oh no - did you give up BookCrossing? It's such fun and has brought me so many new friends when I moved cities last year. I'm LyzzyBee on there, too, by the way.

posted by LyzzyBee at 1:53 pm (EST) on Apr 9, 2006

Hello! Yes, that was me asking about Persephone (I'm going to the shop after Easter- the one thing I miss about living in central London!) and yes, indeed, that's me on transita. Small book world indeed! All you need to do is be a BookCrosser and it will all overlap!
Liz

posted by LyzzyBee at 5:01 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2006

You know, I guessed from your username that you might collect Persephone Books - does that make me a bit sad? Will be looking through your quilting books later...

Oh - and have you come across BookCrossing for culling purposes (although you do end up with even more in the end...)

Regards

Liz

posted by LyzzyBee at 2:15 pm (EST) on Nov 21, 2005

Lynne, are you a PD James fan? I see we share some of her titles. She is one of my favorite mystery authors! Sharon

posted by Ex_Libris at 9:48 pm (EST) on Oct 7, 2005

Yes we do, although you have a few more books on your shelves than I do! I see I have my work cut out for me to catch up with you and Lisa :) Sharon

posted by Ex_Libris at 7:34 pm (EST) on Oct 4, 2005

You can go to "zeitgeist," if you want to be REALLY obsessive, and see who's entered more than you in the last hour, too! But it takes a while to update, alas.. Lisa, typing away...

posted by MissWoodhouse at 3:00 pm (EST) on Oct 2, 2005

Lynne! You and I match quite highly for "book obscurity," curiously enough! Welcome to your new obsession.. Lisa

posted by MissWoodhouse at 2:25 pm (EST) on Oct 2, 2005

I came across Mollie Panter-Downes through a quotation in a book by the American writer Connie Willis set in wartime England. I had always thought she was an author of children's books - pony stories and such, couldn't have been more wrong! Incidentally, Willis "Doomsday Book" set in modern and 14th century Oxfordshire is both funny and tragic, if you haven't come across it.

posted by gibbon at 8:28 am (EST) on Oct 2, 2005

Hi Lynne,

Good to see you here! This is very addictive. Almost makes you want to go out and buy more books so you can add them! Right now we only share 3 books, but I'm sure that will change. Feel free to visit my catalog any time!

Sharon

Sharon

posted by Ex_Libris at 2:59 am (EST) on Oct 2, 2005