Member: featherwate

CollectionsYour library (2,628), Gone away (24), Lost Forever (14), Given away (762), Currently reading (1), Read but unowned (81), Theatre memorabilia (2), Kindle (16), Returned to rightful owner (5), All collections (3,516)

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TagsCrime & mystery (473), Unabridged audiobook (274), Folio Society (259), Limited Editions Club (105), Poetry (85), Heritage Press (49), The Great Gladys (41), Gardening (38), The Penguin Shakespeare (36), Drama (34) — see all tags

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About meThese shrivelled sinews and this bending frame,
The workmanship of TIME's strong hand proclaim...
- Krates, brother of the less famous Epilycus (fl.5th century)
Or,
as a great American poet puts it,
"I'm an old truck up on cinder blocks, missing all my wheels."

About my libraryA ramshackle collection of books, most of which lack shelves, and some of which have accompanied me from home to home for over 65 years (the longer we've been together, the harder I find it to turn them out to fend for themselves in the real world).
Deteriorating eyesight means that I'm buying fewer physical books and relying more on unabridged audio, from cassettes to downloads. That I can do this rather than have to give up reading seems to me one of the great blessings of modern technology; and in a way, of course, it is a return to the roots of literature: listening to a storyteller.

GroupsE. F. Benson, Fine Press Forum, George Macy devotees

Favorite authorsCyril Alington, E. F. Benson, Ronald Blythe, Jacques Brel, Cyril Connolly, Norman Douglas, Ruth Dudley Edwards, John Fothergill, Christopher Fowler, Thomas Hardy, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Robert Herrick, Michael Innes, Quintin Jardine, W. E. Johns, Laurie R. King, Gillian Linscott, Gladys Mitchell, Jacques Prévert, Brian Sewell, Edward Thomas, François Villon, Geoffrey Willans (Shared favorites)

LocationEngland

Account typepublic, lifetime

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Member sinceAug 12, 2007

Currently readingDeath at the Jesus Hospital by David Dickinson