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Five on Finniston Farm (Knight Books) by Enid Blyton
The Man Who Ate Everything: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Food, But Were Afraid to Ask by Jeffrey Steingarten
Five Have Plenty of Fun (Knight Books) by Enid Blyton
Mansfield Park (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen
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About me33yo, lived in london for past 10 years. single. primary school teacher. 6'2". cycle everywhere (don't own a car).also into cheesy SF, theatre, movies, cooking, conversation etc etc :)
spend far too much of my non existant disposable income on books and heaven knows how long it will take me to list all my books!
About my librarywide ranging! I still have my complete Famous Five collection with the 70's TV covers and i don't care what people think about them. a worringly large collection of very bad gay crime/romance. a fair bit of SF (but absolutley NO fantasy), any fiction goes really. can't really get into poetry or short stories so much, and try the classics every so often because i feel i should but struggle with most of them if i'm honest (jane austen being the obvious exception). have a smattering of politics/ history along my shelves as well
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posted by mcnorton at 8:05 am (EST) on Nov 28, 2006
With the English classics, I am bowling underarm, hehe. Since I am German, I look for a recent translation, so that I don't have to deal with 19th century German at the same time! This actually got me reading Shakespeare in English (which still is work, so I use bi-lingual editions). It's fun, Shakespeare can be so funny! My next project are the Canterbury Tales, first in German, and maybe in English (I had a peek, and it seems feasible).
You're not the only one keeping children's books, lol! I actually went and stocked up my "Mark Brandis" (YA science fiction) a few years back, once the used book sellers found out about the internet.
posted by GirlFromIpanema at 4:21 pm (EST) on Aug 31, 2006