Member: konallis
CollectionsYour library (1,330), Currently reading (2), Read but unowned (24), All collections (1,354)
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Tagschildren's/young adult (302), poetry (254), fantasy (231), read 2010 (149), Richard Aldington (142), read 2011 (138), history (117), read 2012 (117), historical fiction (113), medieval literature (91) — see all tags
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About meTechnical writer and would-be writer-writer. Likes to read children's books and call it 'research'.
About my libraryMostly genre or period lit, children's books and nonfiction.
Mostly secondhand, though if I like a living author I do try to buy at least some of his or her books new.
Mostly read... though only because my TBR pile isn't catalogued.
All proudly made from paper and ink.
GroupsBrits, List Five Books Parlour Game, Name that Book, ROOT - 2013 Read Our Own Tomes
Favorite authorsJoan Aiken, Richard Aldington, Lloyd Alexander, Jorge Luis Borges, Peter Dickinson, Catherine Fisher, Leon Garfield, Elizabeth Gaskell, Louise Glück, Ursula K. Le Guin, Georgette Heyer, Diana Wynne Jones, Una McCormack, Garth Nix, Thomas Love Peacock, Ellis Peters, Terry Pratchett, Rosemary Sutcliff, J. R. R. Tolkien (Shared favorites)
VenuesFavorites
Favorite bookstoresBooks for Amnesty, G. David, Heffers Cambridge, Oxfam Bookshop - Cambridge, Plurabelle Books, Topping & Company
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Real nameGemma Bristow
LocationEly, Cambridgeshire, UK
Account typepublic, lifetime
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http://www.librarything.com/catalog/konallis (library)
Member sinceJan 30, 2008
Currently readingCaptives: Britain, Empire and the World, 1600-1850 by Linda Colley
The Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales by Rudyard Kipling
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Thank you for adding to my list of children's books about WW1 & WW2!
casaloma
posted by casaloma at 2:55 pm (EST) on Nov 20, 2012
posted by wisewoman at 4:14 pm (EST) on Jan 31, 2012
posted by cherlee at 10:58 pm (EST) on Jun 20, 2011
posted by antiquary at 8:02 pm (EST) on Jan 23, 2011
I haven't had time to explore your library much, but looking at your recent additions, I greatly enjoyed T. H. White's The Age i=of Scandal years ago, and it is currently on my rereading pile, though so are a lot of other books, so I don't get to it very often.
I have not read the Oracle series, but it sounds interesting. The reviews remind me of Peter Dickinson's The Blue Hawk, which I like very much --also set in a quasi-ancient Egyptian/ancient Mesopotamian fantasy civilization.
I see you list Dickinson as a favorite author, so I expect you have read it. My own feelings on Dickinson are mixed --I am very fond of Blue Hawk and Tulku, but did not much enjoy some of his others.
posted by antiquary at 9:38 pm (EST) on Jan 18, 2011
posted by Altariel at 11:01 am (EST) on Jun 6, 2008
posted by brunhilde at 9:56 am (EST) on Mar 18, 2008
posted by Altariel at 3:17 pm (EST) on Feb 6, 2008