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Tagshistory (73), assigned (53), fantasy (38), mystery (28), bm (26), reference (22), historical fiction (18), sherlock holmes (17), civil war (14) — see all tags
Groups20-Something LibraryThingers, Amateur Historians, American Civil War, Baker Street and Beyond, BookMooching, Books on Books, British & Irish Crime Fiction, Church Libraries, FantasyFans, Hatrack — show all groups
Favorite authorsJane Austen, Alexandre Dumas, Jasper Fforde, Laurie R. King, George R.R. Martin, Garth Nix, Patrick O'Brian, Dorothy L. Sayers, J.R.R. Tolkien, Connie Willis (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresAtlantic Book Warehouse, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Montgomeryville, Last Word Bookshop, Strand Bookstore, The Compleat Strategist - King of Prussia
Favorite librariesFree Library of Philadelphia - Central Library, University of Pennsylvania Van Pelt Library, Wissahickon Valley Public Library
About me 
A diplomatic history degree (with an emphasis on Asian and military history) does not get one readily employed. I'm now nearly at the end of my stint in Library School (at Drexel) and am starting the slow but deadly job hunt. This will be soon followed by a vain attempt to combine many, many books, a marriage, and one small apartment.
Aside from pining after Stephen Maturin and Lord Peter Wimsey (and Bunter as well), wishing I could time or fiction travel, and eating unmentionable things referenced in books, I've a fondness for real board games, backstabing my friends for fun and profit, taking photographs, Anglo-Catholicism, drinking tea in large quantities (and subduing a small case of Anglo-phila) , and baking bread - at least for now.
About my library As can be seen by the existence of my Goodreads widget, I don't list books I don't own here. A good number of these are unread - blame the existence of Bookmooch :)
Tags for my classes have been added for my various undergraduate history classes. Right now, they're mostly done by course code, with Hist000 or Hist- for seminars. I have yet to add my textbooks from Library school - that will be coming up during my break.
Favorite authors will shuffle a bit - I haven't decided if I'll keep them all, but for future reference, these are the ones which will be constant to this list: Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice), Patrick O'Brian (Aubrey-Maturin), Dorothy L. Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey), J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings), Connie Willis (Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog).
I have a tendency to get omnibus volumes or sets rather than single books in a series (and I very desperately await collection support!), and I've tried to be as exact as I can with listing the correct editions. I also do have several repeated books, such as many different versions of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, three copies of Master and Commander, and an extra spiffy edition of David Copperfield (my first book-love).
I've taken out my very old section on ratings, but I admit that they are rather high - it's hard for me to find a book I don't like, and I usually give away the ones on that list!
Last but not least, I highly recommend any of these books.
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posted by khage at 10:11 am (EST) on Mar 26, 2008
My wife & I are just coming out from a long bout of some kinda flu and 2 weeks of holiday company. I hope Santa treated you well, I received an armload of books (Rome, ACW, Napoleonics, WWI, WWII, scifi)…which I’m currently plowing through. Among them were several from the “print on demand” publishers which provide hard to find monographs (WWI in East Africa). I received & read that old classic GOSHAWK SQUADRON by Derek Robinson (better than BLUE MAX to me). Adrian Goldsworth’s CANNAE is a quick read. Sloan’s ULTIMATE BATTLE (Okinawa) is a collection of oral history anecdotes not an operational study but a good one of that genre. I recommend the new STALINGRAD by Michael Jones, lots of new research & analysis incorporated (and corrects some myths along the way). I also finished McCullough’s final Masters of Rome volume: ANTONY & CLEOPATRA, not up to her others in my opinion. Also the newest from Dan Abnett’s “Gaunt’s Ghosts” series, ONLY in DEATH, gripping space opera! I was also surprised to find that my (American) football team, the Redskins, somehow slipped into the playoffs. We’ll see how long that lasts! Well, I’ll be interested in checking to see what yall have added to your collections. I hope 2008 is a banner year for stocking your shelves with goodies. Regards from a damp Maryland, Ammianus
posted by Ammianus at 8:11 am (EST) on Jan 1, 2008
posted by homeschoolmom at 4:11 am (EST) on Dec 30, 2007
I'm not hurrying to read the M & C series, because I want to have the first three books in hand before I start. The man at our used bookstore also highly recommended them, but he said a lot of people don't like how detailed the author is about the ships, etc. That's what I like in my sailing books!
I'm in the same waiting boat with Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series. I have the first, third and fourth books.
I'll start the thread, we may want to start a couple, though, if it gets too long?
posted by MrsLee at 1:47 pm (EST) on Dec 6, 2007
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posted by ladygata at 9:50 am (EST) on Aug 29, 2007
posted by madinkbeard at 1:06 pm (EST) on May 8, 2007
My history class is actually on world history since 1600. My instructor has as of yet to make any mention of pirates. The book "Under the Black Flag" was simply one of seven choices I had available to do a sort of report on, and later, a class presentation. As I'm beginning to read the book tomorrow afternoon, I'm unable to say anything about pirates that I haven't heard in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. If I remember, I'll let you know how he book turns out.
posted by Kerian at 7:01 pm (EST) on Apr 4, 2007
Amanda
posted by amandameale at 1:31 am (EST) on Jan 25, 2007
I was just writing to tunarubber and noticed your Reading Resolutions note. What is it? Sounds interesting.
Amanda
posted by amandameale at 7:50 am (EST) on Jan 24, 2007
posted by SamHouston at 6:24 pm (EST) on Dec 24, 2006
Yeah, it really does have a lot of options. And even more that are hidden and not open for general consumption just yet. I also got Unicode support working today. Tim is doing the setup page to generate the link, which will make things a whole lot more useful.
Thanks for trying it out!
[chris]
posted by chrisgann at 1:04 am (EST) on Dec 22, 2006
posted by SleepyReader at 4:55 pm (EST) on Dec 21, 2006
posted by Ragnell at 8:30 pm (EST) on Dec 18, 2006
I see your a history/political science major, so am I!! Crazy. I have 18 classes to finish my bachelor's but am taking a little break. I take classes online and had three classses for five weeks (because the terms overlapped), and I was going crazy. Top it off with homeschooling, hubby deployed and the holidays. I need a little break to get caught up on some reading of my own. Books stacked to the ceiling!
Yes, we loved [Treasure Island] and [Kidnapped] is on the list to read also. I have to get through Peter Pan and an abridged version of [Three Musketeers] first. We had a lazy day and watched the Disney movie, he loved it. The best part is that he knows the book will be waaayyyy better than the movie was. I had tried to read the originial a few years ago and got lost in the first few pages, its still on my list to conquer one day.
How fun that your parents are in Tokyo!! That's about an hour from me. We often take trips up there to the New Sanno and tour some of the museums and such. Have you been over here yet? Its a wonderful counrty to live in. The people are fantastic and so gracious.
Hope to "chat" with you some more!
posted by homeschoolmom at 3:44 am (EST) on Dec 18, 2006
nadine
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posted by MrsLee at 2:03 am (EST) on Nov 29, 2006
posted by MrsLee at 2:01 am (EST) on Nov 29, 2006
I have a friend whose parents used to live in Philly. They went to Temple. Wow you should see the book I found today, see my dad is an Antique Collector so he has millions of old book, I think I have the history gene. The Book, called The Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War by Benson Lossing is huge. It is 4 inches from front cover to back cover. Although it is really old, 1870's, I might read it I bet you would like it.
On another note just thought I'd mention that the other day I found an autograph book from the 1870's. Looking through it I think I got something good. Autographed by Winfield Scott Hancock, Jefferson Davis, Mark Twain, Hemingway, Horatio Alger, Rutherford Hayes, and about 30 other big named people from the period. Hey I gotta pay for my new books some how, this will probably be the way.
posted by thibs53 at 4:21 pm (EST) on Oct 23, 2006
I am just finsihing Of Human Bondage by Maugham today, ever read it, not history but very good piece of lit?
posted by thibs53 at 2:43 pm (EST) on Oct 21, 2006
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posted by ggchickapee at 4:05 pm (EST) on Oct 19, 2006
posted by thibs53 at 3:20 pm (EST) on Oct 19, 2006
Pilgrim that I was on for about a year. She is located approx. 1 hour north of San Diego and the old
Rose. I am hoping that the rumors are true that the HMS Rose/Surprise
will be reconfigured into sailing/training condition again. Have you tall-ship sailed?
posted by KCGordon at 12:02 pm (EST) on Nov 18, 2005
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