Member: konallis

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Favorite authorsRichard Aldington, Lloyd Alexander, Jorge Luis Borges, Elizabeth Gaskell, Louise Glück, Ursula K. Le Guin, Diana Wynne Jones, Garth Nix, Thomas Love Peacock (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBooks for Amnesty, G. David, Oxfam Bookshop - Cambridge, Topping & Company

About meI'm a tech writer for a small software company. I have two degrees in ancient/medieval/early modern history (not yet represented in my library here) and a PhD in the historiography of the Imagist poetry movement (a bit over-represented).

I live in a Grade II listed Victorian worker's cottage that has become the new millstone of responsibility around my neck. Other than book-hunting, my hobbies include cooking, walking, interactive fiction games, vinyl records, cult fantasy TV and very bad films.

About my libraryMostly secondhand. The books I've catalogued so far mostly consist of the working library for my PhD + books I've acquired since then. A lot of my older books are in storage at the family home; I hope to retrieve and catalogue them once I've put up more shelving in my tiny house!

I collect, in a semi-serious way, first/interesting editions by or relating to the Imagist writer Richard Aldington. All my books in this collection (including anthologies featuring Aldington) are tagged 'richard aldington'.

The leisure reading portion of the library is mostly YA lit and fantasy.

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Real nameGemma Bristow

LocationEly, Cambridgeshire, UK

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Member sinceJan 30, 2008

Currently readingAnd Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
The House on the Borderland and Other Novels (Fantasy Masterworks) by William Hope Hodgson