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Favorite authorsAnita Brookner, Helen Dunmore, Orlando Figes, Rumer Godden, Barbara Kingsolver, Mary McGarry Morris, Vikram Seth, Lionel Shriver, Jane Smiley, Claire Tomalin, Anthony Trollope, Joanna Trollope, Anne Tyler (Shared favorites)

About meReading a good book is my greatest pleasure in life, but at the moment I usually only have time to read a few pages before falling asleep at night.
I plan to write a novel one day - it will no doubt be semi-autobiographical with a dash of humour.
I see that everyone seems to be reading J. K. Rowling. I have no inclination to, but out of curiosity as to what everyone else sees in them, might give one of her books a try sometime.

About my libraryI love to buy and keep the books I enjoy or that are useful to me. However, what with changing continents a few years ago, I have had to travel light. I have got into the habit of jettisoning any book that doesn't pass muster - it ends up at the Oxfam bookshop. I will put my name (literally) to a book that I approve of. When I've finished it, I write in it my name, the month, year and where I read it.
I'm keen to make new friends and contacts on LibraryThing, so do make contact. I'm sure I'd love to hear from you.

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Dear sainsborough
Thanks for your nice comment. Yes, I love that book too. It came to us from my mother in law who had a lot of Rowse's books about English history and who liked cats as much as the rest of the family. The tale of Peter, The White Cat of Trenarren stuck me particularly because, like Rowse, we have our old farmhouse down in the countryside and a cat living in it. It has been with us now for 14 years. I have tried to learn from Rowse's tale so I try to take good care of it.

Cats are wonderful company. Whenever I drive my car into the courtyard I hear its voice usually within seconds and I think: Yes, this is a house fit for living in. When we had just taken over the house I spent about half the working week down there. Being an historian, although not very eminent, I sat down to write a book. The mother of our present cat was then still with us and used to love resting on the keyboard of my Mac bringing (more) confusion into my text.

Thanks for the cover too. I have not been very systematic about scanning covers because I try to get through our book collection. There are so many books and so little time. And like you just now I can only sneak in a few pages just before sleeping. And just half an hour or so every now and then to add books to LT.

posted by kaatmann at 6:05 pm (EST) on Jul 30, 2009

I just read your 26 October comment to us regarding Jane Smiley's AGE OF GRIEF. I can see why you are puzzled. I did a search of our catalogue and found that our "review" is not for Smiley's book, but for WEAVERS OF WISDOM: WOMEN OF THE 20TH CENTURY by Anne Bancroft. What an interesting jumbling of data you have unearthed! I suppose we should call it to the attention of Librarything, but I haven't yet discovered how to do that. My hands have been very full just trying to get our library catalogued on librarything. My determination to write something about the contents of each book as I enter it (even though I haven't read most of them), has created quite a chore for me. Most Quaker Meetings have libraries. We are a bookish sort. In addition to books written by and about Quakers, we collect others that are of interest to the Meeting. Actually most of our books have been donated, and our libraries reflect the interests of members and attenders. Women's studies are one of the areas that interest Quakers as a result of one of our primary testimonies: Equality.

posted by WARM at 3:03 am (EST) on Nov 19, 2008

Hi Alison, thank you for your comment. It's good to hear from you and I'm sorry to be slow to respond. Life's a little busy and I get to LT less than I'd like! I'm still working on cataloguing books. I think I need to move continent to force me to cull. While I've moved a lot in London it only temporarily restrains me. I hope you enjoyed 'Half of a Yellow Sun'. It was one of my favourite reads last year. I've not yet found that 'stop you in your tracks' book this year. A good excuse to keep reading!

posted by finebalance at 11:28 am (EST) on Sep 2, 2008

OTS = over the side....

posted by firedrake1942 at 4:22 am (EST) on Aug 27, 2008

Apologies for taking so long to reply and thanks for the poem. I had a good giggle. I'm another South African who wasn't born in SA. What can I say about Joburg? It's busy, noisy and the traffic jams are dreadful, but apart from that it's pretty good. Spring is around the corner. Today was hot!!

I have discovered many wonderful authors as a result of LT. Be warned! It's an addictive site full of great people.

Happy reading!
Isabel

posted by izzybee at 11:21 am (EST) on Aug 23, 2008

Hello and welcome to LT,

Thanks for the fun poem which made me laugh!

I think you will enjoy LT, although the book addict in me has suffered a big relapse! There are some very interesting people here to meet.

Glad you introduced yourself.

Cheers, Karen

posted by kiwidoc at 11:52 am (EST) on Aug 3, 2008

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