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Phoebe Junior by Mrs Oliphant
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The Fat Black Woman's Poems by Grace Nichols
The Central Line: A novel by John Lawton Wilkinson
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
An Evening In by Marion Dalley
Pingouin Nr.107 by Pingouin
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CollectionsYour library (2,530), Mooch (4), Mine (1,473), Mum's (907), Pre-ISBN Penguins (178), Currently reading (5), All collections (2,531)
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Groups20-Something LibraryThingers, BBC Radio 4 Listeners, BookMooching, Combiners!, Crambo!, Fiber Arts, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, List Five Books Parlour Game, Medieval Europe, Penguin Books — show all groups
Favorite authorsJoan Aiken, Ros Asquith, Neil Astley, W. H. Auden, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Susan Cooper, Umberto Eco, Anne Fine, Tomoko Fuse, Alan Garner, Rumer Godden, Roger Lancelyn Green, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kathleen Hale, Molly Keane, C. S. Lewis, Louis MacNeice, Allegra McEvedy, Frank O'Hara, K.M. Peyton, Gwen Raverat, Dorothy L. Sayers, Simon Schama, George Bernard Shaw, Nigel Slater, Rosemary Sutcliff, Josephine Tey, Barbara Trapido, Anthony Trollope, John Verney, Jill Paton Walsh, John Wyndham (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresCambridge University Press Bookshop, G. David, Help the Aged bookshop, Broomhill, Oxfam Bookshop, Oxfam Broomhill, Waterstone's Sheffield Orchard Square
Favorite librariesAnglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Library, Cambridge University Library, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, Gonville & Caius College Library, University of Cambridge, University of Sheffield - Western Bank Library
About meThe few books I have managed to read this year that are not related to the Anglo-Saxons or any of their contemporaries:
The Constant Nymph
Two Days in Aragon (SO GOOD)
The Rising Tide
Gone to Earth
Precious Bane (SO GOOD)
Four Frightened People (urrgh)
Canon in Residence
A lot of Margery Allingham (can't remember which)
Some Ngaio Marsh (can't remember which)
South Riding
The Lift and the Drop
Murder in Hospital (so very racist)
The True Heart (SO GOOD)
Venereal Disease in Britian (a classic)
The Black Girl in Search of God
The Documents in the Case (again)
Under the Red Robe (again - yay!)
African Discovery
The Golden Box
When Last I Died (weeeird)
The Owl Service (SO GOOD)
Jane and Prudence
Probably some Trollope - can't quite remember.
The Robber Bridegroom
A Pin to See the Peepshow (excellent)
The Little Disturbances of Man (excellent)
The Rector and the Doctor's Family
Good Behaviour (great)
Jo Returns to the Chalet School (!)
Enromous Changes at the Last Minute (wonderful)
Moonraker
Suddenly at His Residence (slightly disappointing, but only because London Particular was so good)
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day
Mr Fortune's Maggot
About my librarySlowly, very slowly, uploading all the books in our (mine and my mum's) house. I like to have the correct covers in decent quality (I am deeply superficial), and thus have devoted untold hours of my life to photographing/scanning books, continuing long past the point at which this ceases to be fun.
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Currently readingMr Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Canon In Residence by V. L. Whitechurch
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
The Brontes Went to Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson
The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy
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Charlotte
posted by charlottestar at 5:09 pm (EST) on Sep 29, 2009
Living apart from a scanner sounds very frustrating!! Will the books also live in Cambridge or can you at least scan them as a batch when you go to Sheffield??
Does this mean you also live apart from (some of?) your books? I have worked out that I prefer to have the books around me and properly shelved - to the extent that I prefer bookcases in rooms rather than in the hallway - because of the inability to sit and be. An increasing number of my books are currently in piles awaiting new bookcases and I do not enjoy even this level of inaccessibility! (but I also fear that obsessions can grow)
I do like you “pre-IBSN” penguin collection by the way especially your old king penguins etc!
If you do manage to be restrained in your book buying, would you please let me know how you did it!!
Take care
Caesia
posted by Caesia at 8:10 pm (EST) on Sep 28, 2009
posted by janeajones at 11:39 am (EST) on Sep 27, 2009
I just thought I would say - 'keep up the godd work with the scanning!'
I had a slight interest in covers - pre LT - but found that seeing them all on the screen - particulalry with the cover view - quite entrancing, and an obsession was born...
A friend introduced me to LT - so I knew up front that I would prefer to have all my covers loaded. I then found out that I also wanted them to be a good quality image ... so I did go back and scan in the ones that other members had loaded that could be improved. It took ages and seemed thankless - but I am very pleased with the outcome (an obsessive interest in unimportant detailis imply not to be even mentioned!)
I now scan in each cover when I am adding books, so that each book now has the right cover at a reasonable quality.
Take Care
Caesia
posted by Caesia at 11:33 pm (EST) on Sep 24, 2009
I've told my husband and daughter that they cannot put books back on shelves. They have to give them to me so that I can "file" them properly.
karenmarie
posted by karenmarie at 5:37 am (EST) on Sep 22, 2009
I went over to MerryMary's profile to wish her a happy 60th birthday tomorrow, and shamelessly read the comments.... noticed that you obsess over getting the correct covers, which is also something I do! I've just learned how to scan on my printer, and have over 300 covers to scan in to get the right ones (I have a tag called scan that I assigned when I realized I couldn't find the right cover!). It's important.
Plus you use location tags too. Great minds and all that.
karenmarie
posted by karenmarie at 8:33 pm (EST) on Sep 17, 2009
Regards, Valerie
posted by englishrose60 at 8:37 am (EST) on Sep 14, 2009
posted by englishrose60 at 1:48 pm (EST) on Sep 10, 2009
posted by MerryMary at 12:34 pm (EST) on Jun 6, 2009
posted by CraigChaffin123 at 10:53 pm (EST) on Mar 23, 2009
where would we be without the deeply superficial. keep up the good work.
posted by Porius at 2:49 am (EST) on Jan 6, 2009
posted by charbutton at 11:35 am (EST) on Dec 22, 2008
I recently noticed you share with me Emile Delavenay's rare autobiography. How can it be, if I am not too curious and intrusive?
Yours
posted by Pepys at 7:51 am (EST) on Nov 11, 2008