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Member: edwinbcn

Library4,488 books — see library

Reviews14 reviews — see reviews

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TagsEnglish Literature (1,417), British Literature (827), BJ (752), Novel (734), HHW (719), Hardcover (665), Dutch Literature (601), American Literature (332), Biography (306), 19th Century (275) — see all tags

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Favorite authorsJane Austen, Paul Auster, John Buchan, Louis Couperus, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Marguerite Duras, Max Frisch, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Hella S. Haasse, Peter Handke, Thomas Hardy, Hermann Hesse, Christopher Isherwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Henry James, Franz Kafka, John Keats, Iris Murdoch, Orhan Pamuk, Plato, Pascal Quignard, Philip Roth, Ernesto Sabato, Jorge Semprun, Jonathan D. Spence, Robert Walser (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresabc test, Alibri Llibrería (Llibrería Herder), Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn, Athenaeum Boekhandel, Blackwell's, Boekhandel Vrolijk, Buchhandlung Die Weisse Rose, Buchhaus Konrad Wittwer, Intermale, L'Arbre du Voyageur de Pékin, Les Mots à la Bouche, One Way Street Library 单向街 (圆明园店), Page One (Century Square), Plantage boekhandel Edelman Ten Have, Selexyz Scheltema - Koningsplein, The American Book Center, The Beijing Bookworm [北京书虫], The Book Exchange, The Commercial Press Bookstore [商务印书馆]

Favorite librariesKoninklijke Bibliotheek - Nationale bibliotheek van Nederland, The Library of the Western Belvedere - 福州大学西观藏书楼

About me Living in Beijing since 2000.

19 / 100 (19.0%)

I have never made it to read a hundred books in a year, but the years I came closest to it were 1991 (92 books), 1993 (63 books), 2000 (62 books) and 2006 (74 books).

About my library Anyone who is deprived of life's contingencies, that is, of the experience of the companionship of good books, cannot possess perfect judgement (even if this judgement is a natural gift). -- Vasari, The Lives of the Artists (1568)

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Real nameEdwin Baak

LocationBeijing, China

Emailedwinbcnyahoo.co.uk

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Member sinceFeb 21, 2007