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Member: klarusu

CollectionsYour library (1,228), Currently reading (6), To read (32), Audiobooks (8), Wishlist (64), Favorites (43), 999 Challenge (43), 55 Book Challenge (43), Folio Society (23), Virago Modern Classics (20), Review Pending (25), Reviewed (76), Fiction (923), Graphic Novels (38), 1001 Books List (212), Poetry (101), Plays (12), Short Stories (42), Non-Fiction (223), Reference (37), Introductions (5), Antiquarian (19), ebooks (2), Shelf of Shame (39), Lily (43), No Longer in Library (58), Read but unowned (46), 888 Challenge (50), 50 Book Challenge 2008 (50), 50 Book Challenge 2007 (36), All collections (1,405)

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Groups50 Book Challenge, 8-9-10 Challenge, 999 Challenge, Ancient History, And Now For Something Completely Different, Arr, me hearties!, Author Theme Reads, BannedBooksLibrary, Board for Extreme Thing Advances, BookMooching — show all groups , Build the Open Shelves Classification, Club Read 2009, Combiners!, Crambo!, Cricket, Folio Society devotees, Go Review That Book!, Group Reads - Literature, Medieval Europe, Monthly Author Reads, Name that Book, Nobel Laureates in Literature, Non-Fiction Readers, Open University, Pro and Con, Reviews reviewed, The Europe Endless Challenge, The Random Group for Fogies and Curmudgeons of All Ages, Until the hunt is done, Virago Modern Classics, Writer-readers

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. I'm a PhD student in 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!)

In addition to my blog listed below, I also have a reviews blog here.

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.

I'm systematically reading short stories at the moment because I'm doing a creative writing course this year. My random notes about them are in the comments field of the Short Stories collection if anyone's interested. They're not reviews, just musings and there may be spoilers but feel free to browse. Short story recommendations also gratefully received.

A Statement of Intent (or 'How I Changed My Attitude to Cataloguing on LT')

I've recently had a 'sea-change' of sorts as to how I use this catalogue. It's the product of my ever-evolving use of LT and the things I realise I cannot do. This was, at one stage, an actual list of my physical books. I've finally made the liberating switch to release myself from that restriction (which, let's face it, I imposed on myself anyway). There is one collection of books here that is the actual physical collection that sits on my shelves. When 'Collections' comes online, this will be reflected as a standing collection. However, until we get some kind of 'contained in' relationship between books, contents and works, I've had to change how I catalogue short stories and significant critical essays and introductions, alongside multiple translations of works that I own. The original book in its original form is still catalogued in the section referring to my physical library but I am now cataloguing contents of some books separately. The reasoning behind this is on my wiki (if you're interested in the slightly crazy workings of my mind).

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?).

Homepagehttp://klarusu.wordpress.com

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Real nameClaire

LocationMilton Keynes,England

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Member sinceFeb 21, 2007

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