Member: staffordcastle

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About meThis account is my non-fiction library. Fiction belonging to my husband and myself is under the account name joiedelivre.

About my library"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."
-- Carl Sagan

"That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues."
-- Beaumont & Fletcher, The Elder Brother (act I, sc. 2, l. 177)

"When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, for which I was born. There I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives for their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the course of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexations, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death; I pass into their world."
-- Niccolò Machiavelli

"Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance."
-- A.E. Newton

"Tea and books -- mmmmmm, two of life's exquisite pleasures that together bring near-bliss."
-- Christine Hanrahan

Groups(BOMBS) Books Off My Book Shelves 2012 Challenge, 50-Something Library Thingers, Book Arts, Book Care and Repair, Bookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill, Books in 2025: The Future of the Book World, Books off the Shelf Challenge, Bug Collectors, Cats, books, life is good., Elizabethan England —show all groups, Flaggers!, Gardens & Books, Heraldry, History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture, History Fans, Hugotontheonbiquiffinarians, Legacy Libraries, Librarything Series, Mac Users at LibraryThing, Needlearts, ravelry, ReadaThing, ROOT - 2013 Read Our Own Tomes, SF Bay Area Librarythingers, Staffordcastle's Joiedelivre, Tea!, The Great LOC Collection Game!, Unique Library Thing Book Group, Victoriana

Favorite authorsJanet Arnold, Jane Ashelford, Jane Austen, Thomasina Beck, Stella Blum, Anne Buck, Penelope Byrde, David Crystal, C. Willett Cunnington, Mark Girouard, Jean Hunnisett, Claudia Brush Kidwell, David Loades, Beverley Nichols, Aileen Ribeiro, Roy Strong, Neville Williams (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites | Visited

Favorite bookstoresBay Books - Concord, Black Oak Books - Berkeley, Blackwell's Oxford, British Museum - Bookshop, Dark Carnival, de Young Museum Store, Fitz-Gerald Manor Shop, Foyles, Green Apple Books, Hatchards, Lacis, Legion of Honor Museum Store, Moe's Books, Pegasus Books, The Other Change of Hobbit, University Press Books

Favorite librariesContra Costa County Library - Kensington Library, Doe Library - UC Berkeley

Favorite publishersShire Publications

Also onFlickr, LiveJournal, Ravelry, Wordie

Membership LibraryThing Early Reviewers/Member Giveaway

LocationSan Francisco Bay Area

Account typepublic, lifetime

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/staffordcastle (profile)
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Member sinceFeb 12, 2006

Currently readingA perfect red : empire, espionage, and the quest for the color of desire by Amy Butler Greenfield