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Three Novels of Ancient Egypt: Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War (Everyman's Library) by Naguib Mahfouz

Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business by Dolly Parton

The Child in Time by Ian Mcewan

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu

Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman

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Favorite authorsDjuna Barnes, J. M. Coetzee, Charles Dickens, Dave Eggers, Thomas Hardy, Ernest Hemingway, Miranda July, Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, V. S. Naipaul, Flannery O'Connor, Salman Rushdie, José Saramago, William Makepeace Thackeray, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)

About meLiving in Boston, working in publishing. Like to check books off long lists (working on Bookers, but will move next to Pulitzers and National Book Awards).

About my libraryMy library is getting married! No, really. We're finally both buying books together and adding them to the same shelves. And it's a mess. And most of our $$ goes right on our bookshelves.

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Member sinceMar 15, 2007

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The Bad Girl: A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa

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The Road Home: A Novel by Rose Tremain

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The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman

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Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

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Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living: A Novel by Carrie Tiffany

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The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble

You share the most books with my of my library! Congrats :) We also both are in publishing and in Boston. How about that?

posted by lunasilentio at 8:07 pm (EST) on Aug 20, 2009

Dang, but you nailed it in your assessment of Nikolski, which I am also currently reading:

"While an experienced reader does sense that Dickner is a masterful, creative storyteller who deeply understands the impact of myth, he's got a lot to learn about what makes a novel compelling, readable, and timeless."

Yes... all the signs of greatness in this young author, apart from the maturity which recognizes that stories involve people - not just ideas. I would say the same about Jeanette Winterson's first novel, "Sexing the Cherry", which was big on myth and short on human interest, in my opinion.

posted by downstreamer at 2:29 pm (EST) on Apr 16, 2009

Glad to see you recently added the Story of Lucy Gault. It is one of my favorite books of the past decade and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did. Trevor really is good. Have you read Atonement? For some reason it reminded me a good deal of that book (which I also liked).
Don't think I am stalking your library. I came to it because you'd popped up when I search for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - and when I went to your page I saw Lucy Gault in your "recent activity" section.
I think you are also listed on my page as an interesting or similar library - ah yes, I see the message below - so I do find your choices interesting!.
cheers
RMT

posted by RoxanneMcT at 9:55 pm (EST) on Oct 29, 2008

Actually, I hadn't heard of that site or any of those books, so I thank you for the recommendations. I will have to start reading some of them and let you know what I think. Have you read "The Uncommon Reader" by ALan Bennett? It's quite new and a fast read and very light, but funny and entertaining for anyone who loves to read. He imagines what would happen if the Queen became addicted to reading.

posted by islandgalcal at 3:59 pm (EST) on Apr 18, 2008

Thanks for the reply, hotel du lac sounds vaguely familiar and I will have to take a look at it b/c I think I may have read that one. I was surprised by the incest in Moon Tiger! I don't know about you, but that's not a subject I have encountered much in my reading. I don't know that I'll be as dedicated as you were with reading the entire list ( I am a great starter of projects but easily distracted) Sometimes I am just really in the mood for some lovely British lit and that is why I thought I'd go with the Booker prize winners for a while. I will have to look into some of the others you recommended. Have you read Shirley Hazzard? She is an Australian author and tops my list of all-time favorites.

posted by islandgalcal at 7:33 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2008

I am working on Booker Prize winners too! Have recently read the Sea the Sea, by Iris Murdoch, and then a booker prize winner the bookshop by penelope fitzgerald, which didn't win but she had won with another book, and then penelope lively's moon tiger and just finished pat barker's new one, which again she is a prize winner I think--maybe for Regeneration, i read that one in college. i did love Iris Murdoch's and I did love Life Class. What have you enjoyed?

posted by islandgalcal at 2:48 pm (EST) on Mar 28, 2008

I saw that you like Djuna Barnes. I don't know if you're familiar with Anais Nin's Diaries. Djuna Barnes' name comes up in them a number of times, if you enjoy learning personal biographical details about your favorite writers.

posted by pchen at 8:53 am (EST) on Mar 7, 2008

Oh, a cover on one of the Cell mags--that's a nice achievement. Frame-worthy!

posted by LolaWalser at 12:35 pm (EST) on Nov 28, 2007

Molecular Cell! That earns a "hello"! :)

posted by LolaWalser at 12:55 pm (EST) on Nov 23, 2007

Hi, I stumbled upon your library because our taste in reading are so similiar. I enjoyed browsing through your list.

posted by hansel714 at 3:56 am (EST) on Oct 22, 2007

Hey now, it's not all I do! I do...a couple other things.

posted by shawnamuffin at 1:02 pm (EST) on Aug 20, 2007

Also, what did you think of _Heat_ (if you've read it)?

posted by oncomouse at 5:11 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2007

I can see what you mean. I got books in the mail today and thought "oh boy now I can put these on library thing" (instead of "ooh my books" or something normal).

posted by oncomouse at 5:09 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2007

Your teetering bookstacks bear a remarkable similiarity to my own...

posted by artymiss at 8:18 am (EST) on Jul 8, 2007

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