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The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Snow by Orhan Pamuk

Complete World Bartender Guide: The Standard Reference to More than 2,400 Drinks by Bob Sennett

Gray's Anatomy: The Classic Collector's Edition by Henry Gray

THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT Cambridge Edition by Sir Walter Scott

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Inner Circle by T.C. Boyle

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Library709 books — see library

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Tagsread (257), fiction (222), novel (213), tbr (130), non-fiction (90), history (87), readin2007 (51), oregon (43), david (40) — see all tags

Groups18th-19th Century Britain, 50 Book Challenge, Ancient History, Group Reads - Literature, Medieval Europe, Portland Readers, Powell's City of Books, TuesdayThingers, What Are You Reading Now?

Favorite authorsT.C. Boyle, Willa Cather, Jonathan Safran Foer, Cormac McCarthy, David Mitchell, Vladimir Nabokov, Joyce Carol Oates, Jose SARAMAGO, Neal Stephenson (Shared favorites)

About me Greetings! To put it lightly, I like to read. I am lucky enough to have a library (in a physical sense) in my house, though it's a small room and bursting at the seams. My constant affliction is being one bookcase short.

I'm also lucky enough to live in Portland, Ore., which means frequent trips to Powell's, the Best Bookstore in the World (OK, so their used books are overpriced. But still).

I belong to 3 book clubs because I just can't get enough. My 2008 plans include reading between 50 and 75 books (I hit 52 last year--not quite convinced I can make 75, so I'm gunshy of setting that goal).

I use the tag '2008readinglist' to track books I am trying to get through this year.

About my library Things I own and generally read a lot of:
* Modern literature
* 19th-century European literature
* 19th- and 20th-century American literature
* Popular history, popular non-fiction
* Shakespeare
* Classical works (Greek/Roman)

Except for extremely rare exception, anything listed in my library corresponds to a hard copy in my personal library. I've read considerably more books than I have listed here, but as I'm using LibraryThing to track my physical library, I only list things I own.

Homepagehttp://www.lyza.com

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Member sinceFeb 14, 2007

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Flattered that you find my library interesting. I once had the pleasure to be in Powell's, but it was during a 24 hour layover and I could only buy one book because my bags were packed and had no room.

posted by OldSarge at 6:48 am (EST) on Jun 11, 2008

Hiya Lyza, I started with The Windup Bird Chronicles and moved on from there. Some of the other books are quite different but still uniquely Murakami but TWBC has elements of all of them. So I would say you're on the right track. Hope you enjoy it!

posted by klarusu at 2:57 am (EST) on Jun 7, 2008

Hi - Thanks for adding my library to your "interesting libraries" list. It is a pretty odd assortment, but I enjoy almost any kind of nonfiction. I hope you find some interesting ideas for your TBR list - I know I have found many while perusing other libraries here.

posted by oregonobsessionz at 9:54 am (EST) on May 8, 2008

Hi Lyza,

I just read your comments on Manguel's book about Homer. I have had the same thoughts about Homer, feeling I have to find out more. But I did not go to Manguel's book for it (I may yet) but got from The Teaching Company audio courses by Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, one on Odyssey and one on Iliad. Since I spend a lot of time every day in the car, commuting to work, I have loved the format and each course of 12 lectures is spectacular, presented by a most knowledgeable professor. This might give you more insight if you wish it. The Teaching Company has its own site and the courses are frequently available inexpensively on Ebay. I could also be persuaded to lend them to you.

posted by polutropos at 11:45 am (EST) on Mar 29, 2008

Hi there. Liked your review of the Iliad. Don't forget that the reason we 'know' everything but don't hear it in the Iliad is because the Iliad is one part of a 12 part Epic Cycle, most of which is lost. The Odyssey is the only other part we still have. Effectively, the only reason we 'know' anything about the remainder of these myths is because parts of it are reported in later sources, such as imperial Roman or later Classical Greek sources (think Aeschylus's Orestia). If we didn't have those later retellings either, we wouldn't know about the rest of the myth. Also, we really don't know whether these retellings were accurate in the first place! All incredibly fascinating stuff, no?

posted by notmyrealname at 7:57 am (EST) on Mar 17, 2008

Hi Lyza -- I like your reviews and found I basically agreed with them on the books we have in common -- I, Claudius; Vanity Fair; Thirteen Moons -- to name a few I've recently read. Jen

posted by jhowell at 9:51 am (EST) on Feb 28, 2008

Hi, Lyza. I really liked and resonated with your review of A Long Way Gone. I read it last summer, and found it disturbing...not just by its subject matter, which I think is true and horrific, but by Beah. There just seemed to be something fishy there -- maybe all that did happen to him, or maybe he added into his experiences some that he saw or happened around him. It was a lack of affect, I think, that was hardest for me to grasp. I also read a similar, but I thought much better, book along the same lines, What is the What? by Dave Eggers about one of the Sudanese "Lost Boys." Here the person's soul and spirit were really engaged in the story, though it was fictionalized and written by a very gifted professional writer, which may have been the difference between the two books. I also thought the main character's Christian faith in What is the What? made a huge difference, both in what happened and in the telling of it. Martha Huntley

posted by MarthaHuntley at 9:25 pm (EST) on Nov 26, 2007

Lyza, this is your Irish aunt here, just set up my account (1 book). Love your picture. C.

posted by corklizard at 8:47 am (EST) on Apr 21, 2007

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