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About meReader of all sorts of things, usually all at once. I like to learn languages from books which is a strange occupation and which results in me never learning to understand anyone else when they speak as well as my being frozen with fear when I try to open my mouth in a language in which I can speak quite a bit when alone which in turn leads to me forgetting how to speak said language. Otherwise I am mostly sane.

About my libraryMix of mine and my wife's. Mostly ours anyway. But I claim no responsibility for the Agatha Christie obsession! Mostly fiction. Growing collection of history and some light philosophy. A few biographies and autobiographies. Lots of cookbooks. Their inclusion says something about the place of cooking in our lives. Some of our favourite kids books from when we were little. Where to draw the line though?

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Ad nauseam : a miscellany of Latin words & phrases by Lorna Robinson

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Jungle Capitalists: A Story of Globalisation, Greed and Revolution by Peter Chapman

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Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson

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The Great War by Les Carlyon

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Working with Timber by ANON

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Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

Thank you, Mark, your comments are very kind:)
I see that we also have Death Sentence in common, and Sea of Poppies (I've blogged that too () - wonderful book - and it's going to be a trilogy so there's more to look forward too.
Cheers
Lisa

posted by gunung at 8:45 am (EST) on Apr 30, 2009

Hello Putty, I'm Lisa alias gunung and I see from your comment on Australian Library Thingers group chat that we both like My Brother Jack! Since you are interested in war, I thought I would recommend to you a very interesting book called An Awkward Truth which I have just read. I've blogged my review here.
http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/0...
Cheers
Lisa
PS Where are you? I'm in Melbourne.

posted by gunung at 7:16 am (EST) on Mar 25, 2009

I agree with every word of your review about Eucalyptus! How it ever won the Miles Franklin I do not know!
Lisa (Cheltenham, Melbourne)

posted by gunung at 6:08 pm (EST) on Dec 24, 2008

Yes, I think I may have to wrap it is black plastic and dispose of that book. You know, now that I think of it, I don't think I ever read it anyway. I have a few odd books like that one. Something called 'The Winning Family', again one I don't recall ever opening. I think I may have tried to get into the self help phase at some time in the nineties but it was clearly not interesting enough reading and I abandoned it. Maybe that is when I took up red wine a bit more seriously!

posted by driftwords at 5:08 am (EST) on May 13, 2008

I have the same dilemma. Do I admit to having Dan Brown in the house, albeit buried behind Kurt Vonnegut, and does the world really need to know there's a copy of that bloody awful Men from Mars Women from Venus twaddle?

posted by driftwords at 9:23 am (EST) on Apr 1, 2008

What to leave in, what to leave out? Am I cataloguing my books or presenting a picture of myself as I'd like to be seen? Do I leave in all the Agatha Christies and Le Carres? What about the old kids books and the slightly embarrassing self-help books? "Cure yourself of warts", that sort of thing.

posted by putty41273 at 10:52 pm (EST) on Jan 14, 2008

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