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CollectionsYour library (1,289), Kindle (70), Audiobooks (60), Currently reading (12), 75 Book Challenge (55), TIOLI (21), To read (43), Fiction (1,043), Non-Fiction (271), Wishlist (78), Favorites (46), Folio Society (37), Virago Modern Classics (20), Review Pending (57), Reviewed (78), Graphic Novels (39), Poetry (102), Plays (12), Short Stories (46), Reference (38), Introductions (8), Antiquarian (19), ebooks (2), Shelf of Shame (39), Lily (48), No Longer in Library (61), Read but unowned (50), BookMooch Inventory (2), 1001 Books List (212), For Culling (17), Amazon Cover (822), Check Editions (1,160), Amazon source with reviews (58), All collections (1,609)

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Groups10,000 Page Club, 75 Books Challenge for 2011, 75 Books Challenge for 2012, Ancient History, Author Theme Reads, BannedBooksLibrary, Board for Extreme Thing Advances, Books in 2025: The Future of the Book World, Brights, Bug Collectors —show all groups

Favorite authorsJane Austen, Honoré de Balzac, Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Gabriel García Márquez, Cormac McCarthy, Haruki Murakami, Hunter S. Thompson, Sarah Waters, Émile Zola (Shared favorites)

Favorite librariesOpen University Library (Betty Boothroyd Library), Woburn Sands Library

About meBibliophile - 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. At present, I'm putting my doctorate in Genetics to work in an accountancy firm - ultimately, it matters little whether I count money or fruitflies (well, it would matter a lot if it was my money, but alas it isn't). 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!)

I'm around on LT a bit less right now because my job keeps me away from the Internet but before long I shall treat myself to a cataloguing binge & whip my library back into shape.

Combiners!
If you have a question about or a problem with any combination work I've done, please feel free to leave me a comment. No offense will be taken. Same goes for any incorrect entries in my library - I'd rather know if there's a wrong author attributed to something (for the same reason all my books have to be lined up in a special order on my shelves at home ....)

klarusujunior is for my daughter's books. I thought it might be a nice idea to catalogue all her books so that in the future she can look back at everything she's ever read (and I have a CueCat now that is just waiting to pounce!). Disturbingly (or not, as the case may be), it looks like I'm going to have to upgrade to a paid account already and she's only 18 months old!

About my libraryReally 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 'No Longer in Library' or 'Library Book'). 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.

Non-fiction recommendations most welcome at the moment - leave a comment.

A Note on Tags
I tag for me not for social purposes so I make no apologies for the fact that my tags might not make sense to you. I'm in the process of more systematically tagging my library. Anything with a # in it means there's information to be added. I'm still sorting the tags out to work inside my Collections framework (ever get the feeling you've started a lifetime pursuit?).

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