LibraryThing Author: Stephen Edward Stratton

About me Academic Librarian/faculty. I love travel tales, memoirs, short stories, african fiction, sociology, and anything glbt themed. I have never read Dan Brown and most likely never will.

Last 10 (or so) books read

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle...Robyn Scott
Fish...T.J. Parsell
God's Middle Finer...Richard Grant
The Second World...Parag Khanna
Historical Dict. of the Gulf Arab States...Malcolm C Peck
Coyotes...Ted Conover
Across the Wire...Luis Urrea
In Arabian Nights...Tahir Shah
Aidsafari...Adam LEvin
I Had to Say Something...Mike Jones
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You...Peter Cameron
Down the Nile...Rosemary Mahoney

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About my library It changes size when I move as I can not afford to cart the books around the country with me. I have given away probably as many books as I currently have in my library.

Homepagehttp://www.schwabebooks.com/

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Real nameSteve

LocationCamarillo, California

Emailstevestrattongmail.com

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Member sinceDec 23, 2005

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Hey!

Saw you tagged me as interesting libraries. I ran across your library some time ago and saw we shared some of my favorite books and authors and thought I would keep an eye on your library to see what you have been adding. I tend to be a snoop by nature, esp. with people's books. That is what makes this website so GREAT!

Hope you are well

ken

posted by Kenkwa at 4:28 pm (EST) on Apr 17, 2008

It's a query regarding the Amazon rather than Africa but you may understand why I ask...has anyone done good memoiring about field research in the Critical Minimum Size project near Manaus & related ecological work there (started out, or continued existence for many years as, as World Wildlife Fund work under T.L.'s directorship).

posted by Singlegayenviro at 12:51 pm (EST) on Apr 4, 2008

He's one of the more interesting. I can't read him in the original, alas, but my editor for this series has read everything by him, and thinks that he's going to be one of the most important writers to come out of Africa in a long time. 30 years old, with 9 books already, many translated into several languages. But we seem to always be quite behind, us anglophones.

Dan

posted by biblioasis at 1:24 pm (EST) on Mar 1, 2008

Hello,

I recently joined the All Books Africa Group. As a publisher who has just released a novel about the Angolan Civil War, I thought it might be worth bringing to your attention. Ondjaki's Good morning Comrades has just been released (indeed, i'm not sure amazon has changed it status yet). Ondjaki is a Lusophone writer of international reputation, and our edition of Good morning Comrades introduces him to an English speaking audience for the first time. It will not be the last: Aflame Books in the UK is set to release his fable The Whistler, and I know New Directions is also looking at publishing something by him soon. We expect he will become one of the most celebrated African novelists of his generation.

Anyway, if you would like further information on Comrades, you can chcekc out our website at www.biblioasis.com. It is also available online on amazon and elsewhere, and available through any good bookstore.

Thansk for your time, and I do hope that this was not too intrusive. (We're a small literary press based in Canada, and we're just trying to do whatever we can to let potential readers know about the book.

Best wishes,

Dan Wells

posted by biblioasis at 9:50 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008

I noticed that you were a fan of Ryszard Kapuscinski, so I thought I'd let you know that a small Canadian press, Biblioasis, has just brought out a volume of his selected poetry. It's the only edition of Kapuscinski's poetry available in english. It's called I Wrote Stone, and was translated from the Polish by Diana Kuprel and Marek Kusiba.

His verse is interesting, and as one would expect, thoughtful, philosophical, aphoristic and engaged politically, morally and viscerally with the world around him. It's something all fans of Kapuscinski should read, a book that meant a lot to him, and that he worked very hard to see published before his death. It's a shame, alas, that he did not quite make it.

Anyway, it's available from Biblioasis. Online (www.biblioasis.com, www.amazon.com) and anywhere else you can find good books. Check it out.

(Sorry: I am an interested party: the publisher. But we're a small, literary press, and we're just doing our best to let anyone who might be interested know about this collection. Pardon my intrusion.)

Dan Wells

posted by biblioasis at 4:19 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008

Hey, I got your comment on my L.T. - not sure how long it was in there! Yes, I'm the ufcub in ATL, but I may be the ufcub in SF sometime in 2008 ;)

posted by ufcub at 4:57 pm (EST) on Sep 13, 2007

Hi, thanks for dropping by. What were the books from my library that you were keen on? I'm considering doing a "culling exercise" through Book Mooch because I've bought more even more books during the past two months (which I have yet to add in Librarything!) and need some space! Ah, the problems of a bibliophile. ;)

posted by marisamisron at 8:35 pm (EST) on Aug 4, 2007

Steve, took me six months, but I did just see your comment, Yup, it's me/Soft Skull, though I don't check in on it that often as you can tell! Sorry I couldn't make it to mid-Winter ALA in Seattle, our distributor went bankrupt Dec 29th, 2006, so things have been a bit crazy...

posted by softskull at 12:37 pm (EST) on May 7, 2007

How was The Torrid Zone? I flipped through it recently, thought it seemed a bit dry, so went on to another book instead.

posted by Seajack at 10:36 pm (EST) on Apr 11, 2007

I know, I know...I'm spending my time reading rather than listing my books. Working and sleeping, too... LOL!

posted by libleconge at 11:44 pm (EST) on Apr 4, 2007

Wow, don't you have to update that last 10 books thing every week? I'd go nuts.

posted by marfita at 10:43 am (EST) on Mar 8, 2007

Steve, good to see a familiar face on this thing! And better still to see that share at least a few books.

posted by phepbu at 11:47 pm (EST) on Feb 28, 2007

I'm impressed you found me! LibraryThing is intriguing.

posted by dale-in-queens at 11:42 pm (EST) on Feb 20, 2007

I read "Lost Cosmonaut" recently myself. Were you turned off by the author's repeated, not-so-flattering gay references, or just chalk them up to a juvenile personality? "Doth protest too much"? I wasn't sure exactly what to make of that aspect of the book.

posted by Seajack at 9:24 pm (EST) on Feb 15, 2007

Hey - I see you're the only person on LT who's read Brazil: Life Blood Soul. What did you think of it? I'm just starting to read it myself. :)

posted by tronella at 2:28 pm (EST) on Sep 2, 2006

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