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Member: fallaspen

CollectionsYour library (1,128), Currently reading (1), All collections (1,128)

Reviews1 review

Tagsfiction (373), Thoroughbreds (221), history (140), cookbooks (98), pedigrees (92), Kentucky (78), England (71), reference (70), biography (63), horse racing (55) — see all tags

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GroupsAnglophiles, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, Horses, What Are You Reading Now?

Favorite authorsIsabel Allende, Stephen E. Ambrose, Albert Camus, A. J. Cronin, Kim Edwards, Dick Francis, Antonia Fraser, James Baker Hall, John Irving, Barbara Kingsolver, Milan Kundera, Jean-Paul Sartre (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBlack Swan Books, Cambridge University Press Bookshop, Davis-Kidd Booksellers - Nashville, Elder's Bookstore, Joseph-Beth Booksellers - Lexington, Lyrical Ballad Bookstore, Tattered Cover Book Store - Highlands Ranch, the Morris book shop.

Favorite librariesKeeneland Library, Lexington Public Library - Central Library, William T. Young Library

Other favoritesKentucky Book Fair

About meA reader, collector, gardener, cook, researcher, writer, film buff and traveller who loves being surrounded by favorite books.

About my libraryMy collection has been slowly but steadily growing for many years. My specific areas of interest include Thoroughbred horse racing and breeding (hence the large number of obscure annuals only horse people would appreciate), Kentucky history, and contemporary Kentucky authors. Also a bit of an Anglophile and enjoy English history, fiction, and the great English mystery writers. Art, architecture and gardening books are other genres I gravitate towards, and of course, fiction. I 'inherited' a large number of books on trees, birds, and plant life. Lots of cookbooks, too. Love finding rare books in out of the way places, especially underpriced ones!

Recently Read Books:
Thinks, by David Lodge
The Breakers, by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall
Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Fourth Hand, by John Irving
Silks, by Dick Francis
The Luncheon of the Boating Party, by Susan Vreeland
John Adams, by David McCullough
Ines of My Soul, by Isabel Allende
Memory Keeper's Daughter, by Kim Edwards
The Boleyn Inheritance, by Philippa Gregory
The Undomestic Goddess, by Sophie Kinsella
The Piano Tuner, by Daniel Mason
The Green Knight, by Iris Murdoch
What Came Before He Shot Her, by Elizabeth George
The Birth of Venus, by Sarah Dunant
Swift as Desire, by Laura Esquivel
The Grave Digger's Daughter, by Joyce Carol Oates
Two Brothers: One North, One South, by David H. Jones
The History of Canada, by Craig Brown