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Member: klarusu

Library915 books — see library

Reviews38 reviews — see reviews

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud

TagsTo Be Reviewed (831), Fiction (701), Unread (500), Read (354), Modern Fiction (182), Non-Fiction (180), 1001 Books List (152), Fantasy (132), Modern Classics (72), Young Adult (71) — see all tags

Groups1001 Books to read before you die, 50 Book Challenge, 888 Challenge, Banned Books, Blog the Book, Bloggers, Book Listers UNITE!, BookCrossers, BookMooching, Eversholt Readers Group — show all groups , Go Review That Book!, Group Reads - Literature, HMS Surprise, Hogwarts Express, Reading Globally, Science!, The Green Dragon

Favorite authorsRobert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cormac McCarthy, Haruki Murakami, Hunter S. Thompson, Emile Zola (Shared favorites)

Favorite librariesOpen University Library (Betty Boothroyd Library)

About me Bibliophile - like to organise things. Tags are good! Love fountain pens with purple ink and moleskine notebooks. Think LT is the cyber version of my Moleskines. I'm a PhD student in Molecular Genetics which sounds really complicated but I really spend my day's fiddling with fruitflies and sploshing liquids in tubes. I would have finished by now if it wasn't for LibraryThing taking over my life! I did two years of an English degree before the science bit but found it took the joy out of reading (and that was just unacceptable!)

The image is of my favourite bookshop ever, Wildside Books in Tofino, BC.

About my library Really eclectic - I read what I like, not what looks cool. Most books (with a few really bad notable exceptions) I can't bear to part with once I'm done, although I'm having to limit myself to keeping ones I'll read again due to space (as you can see, that's working well ....). I have Guilty Pleasures and Shelves of Shame and I'm proud of them! Books have to be enjoyable - well written, good story, significant, make you think, help you switch off ... one or all of the above! I give most things a chance, always finish books and then get really cross about the time spent on the bad ones. There's little excuse in life for bad writing! I'm still cataloguing my books here but pretty much everything here I own (unless I've tagged it as 'Borrowed' or 'Sold'). I haven't catalogued any of my books that are in Polish ... I might eventually but right now I'm working on the English ones. I haven't included any of my husband's books. If I read any of them, I will put them on but tag them as 'Marek' - I don't want him messing up my online library as well as the real one! I'm desperately trying to review as many of these as possible and carry a big pile of Moleskine notebooks in my overworked bag so I can write reviews whenever I finish something. Not quite keeping up, but getting better.

Currently Reading
The Double Helix by James Watson for Go Review That Book!
37 / 175(21.1%)
Changing English by L.S. Graddol
116 / 268(43.3%)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton for Group Reads - Literature
128 / 365(35.1%)

Trying to restrict myself to 1 book per reading group plus 1 fiction and 1 non-fiction so my In Progress tag isn't too long.

Challenges for 2008

50 Book Challenge
25 / 50(50.0%)

888 Challenge
1. Fantasy
7 / 8(87.5%)
2. Young Adult
3 / 8(37.5%)
3. Non-Fiction
4 / 8(50.0%)
4. Modern Classics
3 / 8(37.5%)
5. Japan
3 / 8(37.5%)
6. Cyberpunk/Industrial/Dystopia
3 / 8(37.5%)
7. 1001 Books List
3 / 8(37.5%)
8. Classic Literature
1 / 8(12.5%)

1001 Books List
92 / 1,001(9.2%)

Quotes
"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." - Mark Twain
"A man's mind - what there is of it - has always the advantage of being masculine - as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm - and even his ignorance is of sounder quality" - George Eliot

Homepagehttp://50book2007.blogspot.com/

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Membership LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Real nameClaire

LocationMilton Keynes,England

Account typepublic, lifetime

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

Member sinceFeb 21, 2007