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Tagshistorical mystery (686), series (592), england (302), roman (67), medieval (55), egypt (37), australia (25), civil war (19), mystery (12), japan (10) — see all tags

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GroupsAncient History, Bloggers, Build the Open Shelves Classification, Fforde Ffans, Historical Fiction, Historical Mysteries, History: On learning from and writing history, Mac Users at LibraryThing, Military History

Favorite authorsSusan Wittig Albert, Rhys Bowen, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lindsey Davis, Jasper Fforde, Nigel Tranter, Arthur William Upfield (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Bandera, Borders - San Antonio, Half Price Books - Bandera Rd.

Favorite librariesCastroville Public Library, San Antonio Public Library - Central Library

Other favoritesGEMINI INK

About meI'm a reader, not a collector, but I keep books I really enjoy and know I will read again. I prefer paperbacks to hardcovers. I like to read series books in order. I don't skip ahead and I hate spoilers. If I don't like a book, I don't finish it for the sake of finishing it -- I move on to another. I often have more than one book going at a time, as long as they are different genres.

I buy new and used books, online and at retail stores. I should own stock in Amazon.com... I love Half Price Books stores. My husband is a big reader, too, and like many of you, our home is overflowing with books. We need more shelves!

About my libraryThese are mostly my historical mysteries. I also read (some) contemporary mysteries, historical novels, fantasies, adventure/thrillers, many non-fiction histories, and have seemingly endless shelves of reference books on everything from writing and editing to computer (Macintosh and web development, etc.) and nature field guides (mostly birds).

CAVEAT: I have NOT read all of the books in my list. There are many there that I'm waiting to acquire and/or that are on my TO BE READ list.

I do not use LibThing as my main book cataloging database...yet. For that I use Bookpedia software for Mac, and occasionally transfer a subset of my database to LibThing. I have always been very interested in how others catalog their libraries. If you want to talk about it, please let me know! (Esp. if you use a Mac.)

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Hiya Janice,

you will find 'Under Vesuvius' a marvellous read when you get to it. I can remember passing up the chance to buy SPQR I and II at a secondhand market stall back in the early 90s. Kicked myself stupid when I read some of the short stories in the Mike Ashley collections :(. I eventually tracked them down (I - III) before he landed his current publisher and started rolling them out. Recently I even bought new copies of the first 3 to get them all in the same size and printing (how obsessive can one get).

Currently I'm working my way through Tom Holland's 'Millenium' which is an excellent narrative history of dark age Europe. Nearly finished and then I have to decide what next.

David

cheers from Canberra
Happy new year Janice,

I hope that 2009 goes well for you (50 minutes to go in Canberra)

I have recently finished the latest from Rowland ('The Snow Empress') and Roberts ('Under Vesuvius')

Loved them both, the mystery story in Snow Empress was weak but the setting was brilliant. As for the latest SPQR - he never dissapoints.

Cheers
Thanks for your comment! I've horribly neglected Library Thing, and hence just read your note. I've only entered a fraction of the library--haven't gotten to the Texas shelves yet! But I'm hoping to do better this year. We'll see. I've made these resolutions before.
Thanks for the comment. I really like the Murdoch series as well. Did you know that it has been made into a TV series in Canada? I see that you have recently added the first Vicky Bliss novel. I love Elizabeth Peters! It took me a while to get to the Bliss series and I sort of avoided it for a while because it wasn't really historical, well maybe the 70's is considered historical now, boy that makes me feel old! I really enjoyed this Bliss series, and she has written another one too, so the series isn't over yet. Enjoy!
Hi
I added you to my 'interesting library' list (which I hope you don't mind) primarily because of your picture. It reminds me of my school pictures from the 1950s. The bangs are quite similar. Similar collars. Oh - also, I love Historical Mysteries so there is that. I think our school pictures are Historical Mysteries. Oh wait maybe thats your monther's school picture. Nevermind.
Hi Janice,

thankyou for tagging me as an intersting library. My tags to some degree reflect the way I shelve my books (and like you my house is overflowing with books - we take delivery of a new 7'x4' shelf soon YAY!!). I keep my books together by Period/Theme - when an author branches out I have to decide whether to seperate the different books or to try and keep the two subjects close on the shelves.

My love affair with the Historical Novel began in my early teen years when my grandmother loaned me Tranter's "Macbeth the King" and Cannings "The Crimson Chalice". I have been a great fan of Tranter, but found the later (post 1993) novels to be more like repetitive lowland soap operas. However he gave us so many great novels over so many years - I built up a wargames army of Macbeth's Scots on the strength of Macbeth the King.

I did try and aquire the Chisolm novels - I had two later ones from one of my favourite bookshops. "Gaslight Books" - which you can find on the net do both new and secondhand crime and scifi/fantasy. I could never find the first two of Chisolms so I traded them back in (at the time my daughters were in daycare and money was tight - I traded back some books at Gaslight to ensure I could keep up with Jecks, Rowland and Doherty (to name a few).

I still have a lot of books to add to my LT catalouge - I am hoping to have some time to myself to paint toy soldiers, catalouge books (including scan the covers) and generally tidy up my hobbies.

I will look out for Chisolm again and look through your library to see what else jumps out.

All the best

David (aka Macbeth)
Why, thank you! It's nice to hear. Could you give me one or two examples of how you found my tags useful or whatever?
You are on my list of interesting libraries, too. Ideas for new reads! BYW, I love Georgetter Heyer, just haven't gotten her entered yet.
Sara
Thanks for the nice comment. My late grandmother introduced me to Georgette Heyer and I am so glad that she did.
Finally, a library that is similar to mine not just because of the many Star trek books I have read! (Well, there used to be another, but he made his library private.) I made your library "interesting".
Wow I absolutely love your library. My historical mystery library seems to dull in comparison. By the way, I added you to my "interesting library" list.
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