Member: g026r

CollectionsYour library (2,753), Currently reading (6), To read (826), Novels (621), Short stories (239), Non-fiction (247), Graphic novels & comic strips (587), Drama (138), Poetry (209), Religion, mythology, folk tales (58), Magazines & pulps (45), Reference (26), Cookbooks (25), Gaming (617), Miscellany (29), Government press (66), To be replaced (7), Previously owned (497), Wishlist (280), Read but unowned (71), All collections (3,644)

Reviews242 reviews

Tagssoftcover (1,698), hardcover (541), japanese (267), mass market (215), russian (207), penguin (184), vintage (145), dc (130), chaosium (120), white wolf (115) — see all tags

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About my library* Novels: Long-form fiction works, including novellas.
* Short stories: Not novels.
* Graphic novels & comic strips: Original graphic novels, manga, and compilations collecting comic-book stories and newspaper strips.
* Drama: Play scripts.
* Poetry: Also includes essays by poets on the subject of poetry.
* Religion, mythology, folk tales: Books on or about the aforementioned subject, including collections of myths, tales, &c.
* Magazines & pulps: What it says.
* Reference: Dictionaries. Encyclopedias.
* Cookbooks: Mmmm.
* Gaming: Mostly roleplaying games.
* Miscellany: Generally books published as non-fiction though clearly fiction (e.g. Geoffrey of Monmouth), but also other odds & ends (e.g. prose translations of poetry).
* Government press: My minor hobby. Books produced for export by government-run publishers from the People's Republic of China up to the end of the Cultural Revolution (though a few post-Mao publications slip in as well), and the Soviet Union. (Would like to add books from: Albania, East Germany, DPRK, and Yugoslavia, but those are less common in second-hand shops.)

GroupsCombiners!, Legacy Libraries

Favorite authorsPierre Bayard, Ray Bradbury, Michail Bulgakov, Albert Camus, Lord Dunsany, Harlan Ellison, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Pablo Neruda, Mordecai Richler, Salman Rushdie, Tom Stoppard (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites | Visited

Favorite bookstoresBMV (Annex), BMV (Edward Street), Chapters - Festival Hall, Chapters - World's Biggest Book Store, Eliot's Bookshop, Owl's Nest Bookstore, She Said Boom! Records & Books, Strange Adventures Comic Bookshop, The Labyrinth, Westminster Books

Favorite publishersNYRB Classics

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LocationToronto, Ontario, Canada

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Member sinceJun 30, 2009

Currently readingThe Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s by Richard Wolin
Dynasties and Interludes: Past and Present in Canadian Electoral Politics by Lawrence LeDuc
The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers by Gordon Weiss
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
Selected Works by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum
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