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About me Born in Scotland 66 years ago. Lived and worked south of the border since 1970. Studied at London Film School and University of Newcastle. Settled at Newcastle in 1988. Have been retired for several years. Reading and listening to music (classical) are my greatest pleasures, followed by travel and walking in the country. Have been interested in photography since my late teens and my work has appeared in magazines and books. Have been invited to exhibit at Berlin and Istanbul. I will have a one-man exhibition devoted to my early work next year at Newcastle.I contribute texts from old books to Project Gutenberg and he Baldwin Project. I also engage in print on demand publishing on a small scale.

About my library I have so far catalogued only a small part of my collection - it is an ongoing project. My books reflect my interests in Classical culture, the Renaissance in Europe, architecture and 19th Century literature.Children's literature is a great interest and I am active in preparing new texts and editions of old classics for the web as well as for print-on-demand. Am keen to find others who share these interests.Many of the volumes have been called into service when I have been preparing texts to contribute to Project Gutenberg and the Baldwin Project.I also have a large collection of classical music on CD, LP and 78rpm.

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Member sinceMar 28, 2007

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Thanks for the recommendation David. I looked up Varieties of Religious Experience and it looks like just my kind of book! Hopefully I'll be popping up to Carlisle in the next few days so I'll look out for it in Bookcase. Have you ever been there? It's a wonderful shop. I hear Alnwick is the place to go for books in the North-East.

posted by bettie at 5:29 pm (EST) on Jun 12, 2008

Hi David, thanks for adding me. You have an interesting library. I noticed you've added Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Reader to your library recently. How is that? I'd be interested to read that one having just finished studying Psychology and moving on to Mental Health Nursing in Spetember. As well as my personal criticisms of psychoanalysis!

posted by bettie at 4:45 pm (EST) on Jun 8, 2008

p.s. While I am talking to you, do you remember where you found your copy of English Fairy Tales: Being the Two Collections English Fairy Tales & More English Fairy Tales? It appears to be out of print, but I would love to find it.

posted by malinablue at 4:59 pm (EST) on Apr 2, 2008

Hi, and thanks for adding me to your friends list. I love your library and would love to talk sometime. I found you when I was looking to see if anyone had the edition of English Fairy Tales and More English Fairy Tales edited by Donald Haase. I have the rest of that ABC-CLIO series and have been seeking that particular volume for some time, with no luck so far. I have been passionate about folklore since I was a kid and read just about everything I can get my hands on. Would love to chat.

Cindy

posted by malinablue at 4:58 pm (EST) on Apr 2, 2008

I'm glad you found Surlalune interesting, David. May your holidays be filled with good cheer--particularly the sort that comes from good new books (a must on one's wish list, right?)! Grace

posted by bluereader at 10:57 pm (EST) on Dec 17, 2007

Thank you, David. Modern retellings of fairy tales are popular with my teens (the girls, anyway), and I'll certainly try to steer them toward the originals. You're right about the illustrations being the source of half the pleasure of reading the tales--I owe a lot to used-book stores for hard-to-find illustrated collections. The Web site http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/ is an excellent source of fairy tale and folklore studies, full-text e-books, and illustrations.

posted by bluereader at 11:10 pm (EST) on Dec 7, 2007

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