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About meI adore books. And therefore I am loving LibraryThing.

My books take up seven bookcases, mostly from IKEA. Currently they're all in alphabetical order (see why I like LibraryThing? But I'm an archivist by profession so at least I have an excuse).

About my libraryAt the last measurement, there were about 18 linear metres of them. They're not all mine - if it's in German, for example, you can assume it's my husband's. But most of them are.

My husband and I met at university, where we were studying English and Modern Languages, and our shelves reflect this, but you'll also see a lot of popular science, humour, and speculative fiction and fantasy. I think my husband would like to distance himself from the last two.

If you see something I've got that you'd like to read, or have already read, please comment. I love talking about books almost as much as I love reading them. Or go to my Livejournal - my username is the same.

Groups50 Book Challenge, Archivists on LibraryThing, Librarians who LibraryThing, Scottish LibraryThingers, Shakespeare

Favorite authorsMargaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Lois McMaster Bujold, Lindsey Davis, Charles Dickens, Denis Diderot, John Donne, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. Le Guin, George Herbert, Diana Wynne Jones, Norman MacCaig, Terry Pratchett, Arthur Ransome, William Shakespeare, Carol Shields, Robert Louis Stevenson, Connie Willis (Shared favorites)

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Membership LibraryThing Early Reviewers/Member Giveaway

LocationEdinburgh

Account typepublic, lifetime

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/kicking_k (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/kicking_k (library)

Member sinceSep 13, 2006

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kicking_k added:
The Margarets (Gollancz S.F.) by Sheri S. Tepper

kicking_k added:
Grass (S.F. Masterworks) by Sheri S. Tepper

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Knitting Brioche: The Essential Guide to the Brioche Stitch technique by Nancy Marchant

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The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination by Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Witch of Clatteringshaws (Wolves Chronicles) by Joan Aiken

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Midwinter Nightingale by Joan Aiken

Not a problem, just trying to be helpful. I specifically left mine public so you wouldn't get a bunch of private comments with that info. And certainly don't feel bad for posting in the 10 requests list. I request stuff all the time even when Tim doesn't ask for ideas!

posted by readafew at 2:29 pm (EST) on Mar 29, 2008

I read your top 10, thought I'd let you know about a couple things

4 - The tag mirror is half back as of Yesterday! You can see the tags, they just don't go anywhere when you click on them

6 - This IS possible there is a check box on your edit profile page with will let you receive emails when ever you receive a comment.

3 - a work around until such time as this is available, when you add your books as a bunch you can then go to the catalog view and sort by date added so all the recent books are at the top. Then have a view that has the tag column available. Type the tags once and copy it then just paste them into the the others.

posted by readafew at 8:31 am (EST) on Mar 29, 2008

Yup, that's me :)

posted by Nymeth at 7:58 am (EST) on Mar 12, 2008

Welcome to Shakespeare!

posted by akfarrar at 12:58 am (EST) on Dec 12, 2007

Hello
I'm training to be a librarian in the UK - your library looks very interesting. We share 12 books! And I haven't added my discworld collection yer.
Are you an ann radcliffe fan too? I wrote about her works for my undergrad dissertation.

posted by mrsradcliffe at 7:53 am (EST) on Aug 30, 2007

Getting the pictures right is quite addictive, isn't it? I am also a complete sucker for looking at each book's social page, and seeing how other people tagged it, and then following up related books....

posted by dryad_wombat at 5:25 pm (EST) on Mar 5, 2007

In my tags, "Pic" means "Wrong cover picture" :) - I am (sadly and obsessively!) now trying to scan the right pictures for those too. :)

It's lovely to think you're peering at my stuff occassionally. I'm ogling yours too :) This site really is marvellous!

posted by dryad_wombat at 7:49 am (EST) on Mar 5, 2007

I see you read The Ladies of Grace Adieu, did you enjoy it? I loved it! But then, I also enjoyed Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell quite a lot.
I hope Susanna Clarke writes more, and soon!!

Paola :-))

posted by aluvalibri at 6:59 pm (EST) on Feb 24, 2007

I am indeed the Bookzombie who is friended to Caball, whom I know through the WisCon feminist SF convention. Nice to meet you! Please feel free to add me to your watch list (which is a timely reminder that I am way out of date on updating LibraryThing!)

posted by bookzombie at 2:14 pm (EST) on Feb 24, 2007

Grin - luckily I have this snazzy scanner - it doesn't scan barcodes, but it DOES scan text straight into my computer. (It is a GODSEND in all kinmds of ways - I use it a lot when working.) I used it to scan the ISBNs inside covers. It takes about 5 seconds per book, max.

posted by dryad_wombat at 12:23 pm (EST) on Feb 24, 2007

Sweets! This is so much fun and so addictive!

posted by dryad_wombat at 8:25 pm (EST) on Feb 23, 2007

Books read so far this year:

1. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
2. The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
3. A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K Le Guin
4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens*
5. Hogfather and the Discworld Companion (2nd edn) by Terry Pratchett**
6. Mixed Magics by Diana Wynne Jones
7. The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh by Chiang Yee
8. The Dark Side of the Sun by Terry Pratchett
9. The Ogre Downstairs by Diana Wynne Jones
10. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
11. The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
12. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
13. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula Le Guin
14. The Farthest Shore by Ursula Le Guin
15. Tehanu by Ursula Le Guin
16. Tales of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
17. The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin
18. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë*
19. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes*
20. The Time of the Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones

Books not previously read (bold) = 25%
Ursula K Le Guin = 40%
Diana Wynne Jones = 15%

I am trying to read more varied books and fewer old favourites - but by the looks of things, I need to try harder!

* Classics Challenge.
** Counted as one because I didn't really mean to read the Companion from beginning to end...

posted by kicking_k at 12:46 pm (EST) on Feb 13, 2007

Hey K!

You have Religion and the Decline of Magic too! *grin*

~E

posted by Quixotic at 8:46 am (EST) on Jan 5, 2007

Congratulations on Power of Three! Enjoy it mightily. I will still keep looking for "Dogsbody" for you - occasionally I come across it in battered format.
Happy New Reading Year.
Liz...r

posted by lizzier at 12:31 pm (EST) on Jan 3, 2007

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