Member: sylphette

Creator hear us, for we are your children.

Father we thank you for all that you have given us.

We thank you for the lessons that you have taught us and
for the life that you have allowed us to lead.

We thank you Mother Earth for your beauty and sustenance.

We thank the masters of this universe
for their guidance, protection and direction.

Father we thank you for the white light that surrounds us, and for
that same white light which transmutes all negativity
into love and healing.

We thank you father, for the healing of our souls,
the healing of the Earth and for the healing of all mankind.

We call upon the power of the universe, to
allow us happiness, prosperity, healing and love.

We call upon the power of the universe for
good relationship to all things.

We call upon the power of the universe, for sacred direction,
sacred protection, sacred correction and sacred connection.

We call upon the power of the universe for magic and miracles.

We honor you Creator, as we honor all things seen and unseen.

We honor you Creator, as we honor our ancestors,
as we honor ourselves.

AHO

- grant redhawk - two feathers - native american

posted by theoldman at 12:13 pm (EST) on May 27, 2009

My best to you and yours during the holidays and in the coming new year.

posted by prufrock21 at 6:03 pm (EST) on Dec 24, 2008

It's disheartening, really. By the time I get to request a book, there are literally hundreds
of requests ahead of mine.

posted by prufrock21 at 2:48 pm (EST) on Dec 17, 2008

Have you ever received an Early Reviewer book? I've been trying without success.

posted by prufrock21 at 8:03 am (EST) on Dec 12, 2008

Thanks, Syl. Don't forget to tell your friends, family, neighbors--the entire
book-reading universe. :)

posted by prufrock21 at 7:52 am (EST) on Dec 9, 2008

Great news, S. One of my short stories will appear in an anthology, "One World," in May published by
New Internationalist of Oxford, England. Check my page for info.

posted by prufrock21 at 8:08 pm (EST) on Oct 10, 2008

I'm so sweet my middle name is Sugar. Did you notice the book cover photo
I posted on my site? Soon I'll be able to add it to my library; that is, a
short story collection in which one of my stories will appear. You can read
about it here: http://theoneworldproject.blogspot.com

posted by prufrock21 at 10:01 am (EST) on Sep 18, 2008

You changed your photo. Still gorgeous.

posted by prufrock21 at 4:22 pm (EST) on Sep 12, 2008

Yeah, my friends almost lynched me the last time I moved. Might need professionals next time. And there's definitely something about a physical book that's nice to have. Difficulty in transporting aside.

posted by hdaemon at 12:49 pm (EST) on Sep 1, 2008

I see we share ATONEMENT in our respective libraries. I'm curious to see what you thought of it. I had heard so many good things about it but never could get into it for some reason.

posted by rdixon98 at 4:25 pm (EST) on Jul 13, 2008

Doing well. Writing and, of course, reading. Hearing from you and knowing you are well is recommendation enough. :)

posted by prufrock21 at 8:12 pm (EST) on Jun 11, 2008

Until today I had no idea that H.G. Wells had written a book called Ann Veronica. How did I go through university in Literature without running across this fact?

posted by veronicarichmond at 7:21 pm (EST) on May 20, 2008

You have an intensely amazing library.

posted by kleahey at 7:00 pm (EST) on May 13, 2008

Hola. How is your PhD coming along? And what have you read lately?

posted by prufrock21 at 9:06 am (EST) on Apr 22, 2008

Fantastic library! I enjoyed browsing through your list. We only have 4 books in common, but they're particularly interesting ones, in my opinion. :)

posted by Zz9pluralzalpha at 3:39 pm (EST) on Jan 26, 2008

Hi. I'm back, after a sabbatical of sorts, and have added to my library. Hope everything is OK with you
and yours. My best in the New Year.

on the kitchen floor
one discarded cherry bomb
in the New Year

posted by prufrock21 at 3:17 pm (EST) on Jan 17, 2008

! how flattering

and i join you in having too many books in too little a space. all these books are going to be a pain to move, especially since i live on the top floor of my building.

good luck with your academic endeavours.

have a fabulous day !

posted by aznstarlette at 8:39 pm (EST) on Dec 3, 2007

Ah, I only wish I had the time to write historical novels! I teach at Shippensburg University, which is one of the PA State System schools. Unfortunately, we teach a 4/4 course load that includes freshman writing classes--no TAs in our department. That leaves little time for other pursuits. I was at University of Missouri for a few years, and I got my PhD at University of Michigan.

I enjoyed Sophie Gee's book. I thought she did a good job of conveying the superficial aspect of Pope's society--coffee, conversation, focus on wit, appearances, etc. A number of colleagues have complained that the book doesn't give an in-depth characterization of Pope--but I don't think that was really the author's intention. It's worth reading, I think.

What is your dissertation topic? How much longer until you're finished?

posted by Cariola at 8:01 pm (EST) on Oct 30, 2007

I see we share a few books.

Lolita is one of my favorites! I love Nabokov.

I really enjoyed the Time Traveler's Wife. I had a hard time putting it down.

I just picked up Dubliners the other day. How did you like it?

posted by poetontheone at 11:24 am (EST) on Oct 29, 2007

Hope you don't mind my adding your to my list of interesting libraries. We share a lot of books and undoubtedly will share more as I get my drama collection and more lit crit books loaded from my office library.

posted by Cariola at 2:43 pm (EST) on Oct 27, 2007

Hola. It's been a while. How have you been?

posted by prufrock21 at 8:24 am (EST) on Oct 11, 2007

Wow! Someone else who has Melmoth the Wanderer!! What drew you to the book? What did you think of it? (I stumbled across it at a bookstore in San Francisco. I thought it started out okay, but fell apart horrible past the halfway point).

posted by kbroenkow at 12:58 am (EST) on Sep 4, 2007

I'm surprised at some of the books we share. The Metaphysical Club, In the Devil's Snare and especially The Elegant Universe, which is an awesome book. The first two I got when I was working at The English-Speaking Union. Go history and science! I'd like to get Einstein's new biography, as well as this book on the War of 1812 and the Adams vs. Jefferson election. Aahhh, books . . .

posted by akire4n6 at 7:29 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2007

I put the Simpsonization picture up because I need to take a nice picture in front of my books too. It would have been smart of me to do that before I packed everything, but I'm not that smart. You should try the Simpsonization page now that the movie promos have died down a bit. As for the 4n6 in my name, it's phonetic--forensics. Dorky, yes. But who on this site isn't? :)

posted by akire4n6 at 7:21 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2007

Well, I've only catalogued 200 of my books and already we share 82. I wonder what will happen when I've done more. You are more 'OCD' than I am about caring for your books, and I think I'm pretty bad! My daughter tries to avoid cracking spines. I don't go that far - though I don't actively try to crack them either. Anyhow, this is just a hello from a LibraryThinger!

posted by minerva2607 at 7:24 am (EST) on Jun 19, 2007

Wow, that's a lot of books you've got cataloged. I see that you've got some classics in there like Howard's End. I'm going to check out some of the books you've 5 starred, thanks!

posted by eshannon12 at 1:59 pm (EST) on Jun 15, 2007

I noticed that you have an interest in Literary Criticism as well as owning "A Grief Observed". May I recommend "An Experiment in Criticism" by C.S. Lewis published by Canto.

posted by JeremiahBailey at 1:38 am (EST) on Jun 5, 2007

Great indeed! Well, one can hardly be blamed for not having gone through the James canon - he's a bit of a beast. But I must confess, it is one of my dearest ambitions to join the noble ranks of those who have - er, all three or four of them....

posted by Trevor at 12:33 am (EST) on May 11, 2007

I discovered you on the Library Thing home page. I see you have a bit of James. That is a beautiful thing. It gladdens me to see him making it off bookstore shelves and into personal libraries.

posted by Trevor at 4:12 am (EST) on Apr 2, 2007

I was looking at the books that we have in commonand i was blown away ! I loved of them, and didn't want them to end. I especially love David Mitchell's works. I see you like historical fiction; check out Jeffery lent's work and Morality Play by Barry Unsworth; all sublime reading experiences...-starchild

posted by starchild at 1:24 am (EST) on Apr 2, 2007

Followed the path from the Librarything.com home page to your profile. I noticed your mention of Ex_Libris by Anne Fadiman. What a wonderful collection of essays about reading!

posted by punxsygal at 8:07 am (EST) on Mar 28, 2007

Hey there. I don't know if I ever replied to the note you left me a long time ago. I'm so sorry if I didn't! I didn't mean to be rude.

Yeah, there are some great bookshops in Ithaca. I haven't been there for awhile. I'd love to go back sometime.

Email me: lportzline@comcast.net.

Take care!

Larry

posted by lportzline at 9:47 pm (EST) on Mar 5, 2007

Hi I just signed in today. Wow you have a lot of books cataloged! You may have known by now, but there is an article in todays "New York Times" regarding www.LibraryThing.com and I saw your name on the homepage!
Can you catalog art magazines and art journals, or only hard back copies of art books. As you might guess my main interest is art, but I have a lot of other books and a library of over 10,000 books to start cataloging. It is an addiction, and I am glad this new house/studio I have has come with a library.

Sincerely,
Paul

posted by carllewis at 11:25 am (EST) on Mar 4, 2007

Your collection is lovely and enviable, patially because I myself am a carnal lover of books, and I imagine your shelves as beautiful and pristine as Martha Stewart's linen cupboard.

posted by elizabeththewellread at 1:09 am (EST) on Mar 2, 2007

Hello Sylphette,

[begs the Paracelsian conundrum - are people full of hot air drawn to airy elements?]

Speaking of the romantics in conjunction with PERFUME, you may also want to get a copy of this;

http://tinyurl.com/us6pr

somewhere down the road. It's a Lord Byron vampire novel but it's not quite as cheesey as it sounds. Not in the same league as PERFUME, but almost nothing is.

I'm thinking you also need a copy of NEIGHBORING LIVES by Disch & Naylor.

http://tinyurl.com/yxk58z

From the Amazon page; "Carlyle, Swinburne, John Stuart Mill... Rossetti, Whistler, Lewis Carol... these and other characters come vividly to life in this extraordinary novel. Set within a few square blocks along the Thames, in Chelsea, Neighboring Lives is a glorious re-creation, based on historical fact, of the private and working lives of many of the nineteenth century's greatest writers and artists."

The Carlyle stuff is particularly fascinating. I don't really even LIKE Carlyle but this completely sucked me in.

And now to find some coffee.

- Barney Dannelke [Any & All Books]

dannelke@gmail.com
http://barney.wordpress.com/
http://profile.myspace.com/dannelke

posted by Dannelke at 11:28 am (EST) on Jan 4, 2007

Thank you for the kind comments on our library. As you can tell, I am quite concerned about the editions of literary classics. Broadview does a wonderful job; I just wish they published them in cloth.I particularly like as well the series Oxford English Novels. This cloth-bound series was published from the sixties until the early seventies. Some of the titles published in this series have become quite rare.

On another note, I hope you don't become as disillusioned about academia as I did. I noticed, over my thirty years, a decline, not so much in the quality of students, but in the quality of faculty (who have become quite narrow in their interests) and, most importantly, the administration, particularly university presidents. Remember, Harvard was the landlord for many of those bookstores in Cambridge. It kept raising the rents until these bookstores were forced to move.

posted by fillpail at 9:03 am (EST) on Jan 4, 2007

"our" NOT "are"

and "anybody", not "nybody".

Boy I wish these things had an edit feature. - Barney

posted by Dannelke at 2:19 pm (EST) on Dec 31, 2006

Hello,

Yes, (Any & All Books) is my store. I've been picked fairly clean over the holiday but I generally have 7-10 thousand books up on Amazon. So my personal discount is both infinite and hellish. Deciding the criteria for what is "mine" and what is the store's once I get past Mark Twain and Harlan Ellison gets dicey. Usually I'm trading up from mass market to trade paperback to HC 1st's.

I see you have some Annie Proulx. Remind me to tell you my Proulx/GAYDAR magazine story sometime.

I was mildly suprised you didn't have a copy of Patrick Suskind's PERFUME. Given your tastes and interests I suspect this will be very much something you'll enjoy. There is also a movie on the horizon. I have high hopes.

One of the places are interests "might" dovetail is Mary Shelley. I'm currently working on a book about Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN. The title is PROMETHEUS UNMADE: ORIGINS OF A MONSTER. It's fiction with a ton of historical grounding and spans the period from approx. 50 years prior to Mary's birth to first Universal film version in the late 1930's.

I have some of the obvious research material like the Muriel Spark biography but if you know of any juicy Lord Byron or Percy Bysshe Shelley or John Polidori anecdotes tucked away in other books you've read feel free to shoot me a reference and I'll track it down.

My other suggestion would be T.C. Boyle's WATER MUSIC. nybody who owns THE SHELTERING SKY and has Dickens AND and African Studies tag would simply have to love this book. It's fiction, Dickensian farce and uses the three expeditions of the real African explorer Mungo Parks as the structure to hang it's hat.

There you go. ;-)

- Barney Dannelke

http://barney.wordpress.com/
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fus...

posted by Dannelke at 11:32 pm (EST) on Dec 28, 2006

We don't have a ton of books in common - but we do have a couple of hundred pounds of GREAT books in common.

NICE library.

Regards - Barney Dannelke

posted by Dannelke at 9:51 pm (EST) on Dec 21, 2006

I liked your profile and agree about the care and feeding of books. I also agree about Broadview Press. I have even mad a special tag for their books.

posted by fillpail at 10:22 am (EST) on Nov 26, 2006

Hey Sara,

I stumbled upon your profile this morning and, I must say with authority, your collection is mighty impressive considering what you've gathered over the years. I mean, it's frightening since I purchase one or two books per week. Like yourself, I have a huge obesession with independent bookstores (as I work one--or did--in the city) and literary/critical theory. Can you offer any advice to a prospective graduate student pursuing a career in literary studies? After spending several years of researching schools and potential thesis advisors, it seems--not to burst your bubble--that the academic market for graduates in English looks very bleak. UW-Madison will possibly be my first choice for literature; but, regardless, what are your insights in this matter? By the way, have you taken a course with Alison Lurie?

posted by seemingmeaning at 1:45 pm (EST) on Oct 13, 2006

Hello!

Just wanted to say hi, welcome to the English Majors! group (hopefully there'll be more than two of us soon ;) ), and wow... 1800 books... I wonder how many I'd have if I sat down and counted them all. Probably not that many.

Also, yay used bookstores! I tend not to buy current literature from them, though; I look for the old editions, and weird things like books about the psychology of sex from the early 1900s.

posted by fleurdiabolique at 11:35 pm (EST) on Oct 2, 2006

I clicked on your profile because I saw that we had a substantial library overlap, and I wanted to see whether you were a slimmer Smurfette. Not so much, I would say, seeing that you are not blue.

After reading your profile, I'm wondering if you have family approval, applause, etc. for hanging in there with literature and not veering off to law school, investment bankerhood, consultant-dom, etc. As a total stranger, I think it's great.

posted by betweencovers at 6:35 pm (EST) on Sep 11, 2006

In regards to the hope emanating from another PhD working within the academy, let me quote from Pete Townsend, who says, "the simple things you see are really quite complicated."

posted by firstcitybook at 12:35 am (EST) on Sep 7, 2006

i think that your collection is both interesting and impressive. we have 194 books in common, which may have something to do with the fact that i was also an english major :)

posted by amanaceerdh at 2:20 pm (EST) on Sep 5, 2006

You have an impressive collection of books. I assume you don't move very often. I placed more emphasis on my poetry during my years in grad school. Best of luck to you in your leaping through the hoops of a PhD. The best thing about getting a PhD is knowing that you have earned a terminal degree and have the opportunity to live a real life afterwards. As one of my colleagues once said, "after the PhD, everything else is easy," except, of course, for paying off the student loans.

posted by firstcitybook at 10:55 pm (EST) on Aug 24, 2006

For "immersion value," I purchased Lucy Moore's The Thieves' Opera, which I see you have. Have you read it? It sounds excellent. I also found A Traitor's Kiss, which is a biography on Richard Sherdian, the playright/MP. Both sound excellent. When I'll actually read them, I don't know. But I like having them :-)

posted by aarti at 10:33 pm (EST) on Aug 21, 2006

I can't believe you have a book that's solely about middle-class Victorian women stealing from department stores. Talk about a refined taste :-) Are you like me in that if you see a book that relates to a particular period, no matter what it's about, you buy it solely for "immersion" value? Immersion value is why I read Fanny Burney's Evelina (which is a fine novel, but I feel most books written in the 19th century could have been culled quite a bit) and why I am debating trying Radcliffe's Udolpho.

posted by aarti at 12:40 am (EST) on Aug 6, 2006

Thanks for visiting my blog and I'm glad you liked Bookwormz, too. Perhaps someday we'll be as popular as LT!

You know, there have to be more courtly book lovers out there - perhaps an LT group is in order?

posted by Cinnamon-Girl at 1:26 am (EST) on Aug 3, 2006

Thanks for your comments. Yes, check out Blindness when you have time. It's a very dark vision and in some ways a different kind of novel for Saramago, but Saramago pulls it off. When I saw the images from New Orleans following the hurricane I couldn't help but be reminded of Blindness.

posted by balthazarb at 9:47 am (EST) on Jul 24, 2006

Hey, I wanted to tell you that your book collection fills me with a boundless jealousy. I feel almost as if, contrary to every indication, I've been frugal in my book buying habits. You on the other hand have clearly been wonderfully prodigal in your collecting.

posted by balthazarb at 11:53 am (EST) on Jul 23, 2006

Thanks for your wonderful comment!

posted by wellred2 at 7:38 pm (EST) on Jul 15, 2006

Oops -- I forgot to mention -- you said you liked the Broadview series. Our Gothic Classics series more closely resembles Penguin Classics, while our Valancourt Classics are similar to Broadview. And we have a number of Broadview editors (Pam Perkins, Natalie Schroeder, et al.) doing texts for us :)

posted by valancourtbooks at 11:21 pm (EST) on Jul 7, 2006

Hi -- thanks for your comment -- sorry I'm so slow to respond!

All our books are newly set in modern typefaces, not facsimile reproductions. Our first 6 books were set in Sylfaen; since then, we've done a couple in Adobe Garamond, one (The Magic Ring) in Bembo Book, and the latest, (The Forest of Valancourt) in Minion Pro.... Typography is becoming one of my new dorky fascinations.

Thanks for checking out our press! :)

posted by valancourtbooks at 11:19 pm (EST) on Jul 7, 2006

Yes, good news but with a caveat. Jeff Rivera liked my book idea
but wants me to rewrite the storyline so it will fit into the
style his company publishes, so-called urban fiction. I suggested
that instead of rewriting my novel I write a new book with the
same character but slanted for his press. What think?

posted by prufrock21 at 7:04 am (EST) on Jun 29, 2006

More good news! Jeff Rivera of Urbano Publishing
is reviewing my hardboiled detective mystery
The Concrete Tiger. That's two out of two.
I'm currently on a roll. Wonder how long it
will last.

posted by prufrock21 at 8:17 am (EST) on Jun 20, 2006

Review process just got started. Might take a while. But I'm
willing to wait if it means my book will be published.

posted by prufrock21 at 10:40 am (EST) on Jun 19, 2006

Great news! Curbstone Press (CT) is considering my
book of short stories, ISLANDERS, for publication.
Wish me luck. M

posted by prufrock21 at 9:32 am (EST) on Jun 16, 2006

One could interpret it that way or say I'm just an attention whore :). Actually, the Powells thing happened because I met and befriended the gang from Powells.com when I was on tour there last summer. Dave Weich, who runs things over there, is one of my favorite people. The Bookmarks thing was something I muttered to them at a lunch maybe 4 years ago but I guess is still in circulation. That'll teach me.

How is your PhD work coming?

posted by Smokler at 1:57 am (EST) on May 30, 2006

Been cool. Nice to hear from you again. Recently the island was in the news. Government (darn revenuers!) shut down for two weeks
because the legislative and executive powers couldn't get their act straight. So the little guy (me, too, I work for the govenment)
paid the consequences. Thank God things are back to normal.
1491 is great. Must read it. I also read The Last Templar. Good,
but not as good as The Da Vinci Code. And u?

posted by prufrock21 at 9:59 am (EST) on May 27, 2006

Have been reading an excellent book, which I recommend highly. 1491 by Charles C. Mann. Finally someone does justice to the history of preColumbian native peoples in the Americas.

posted by prufrock21 at 5:38 pm (EST) on Apr 23, 2006

just finished my Ph.D. and am now unemployed and over-educated -- it's less well paid than being an adjunct, but not by much! I'm not so much into the C18th/19th stuff, having grown up in London surrounded by it (except Villette, which I love). Broadview are nice but I find them very serious... I like to look out for quirky editions (Virago Villette with an intro by angela carter...) Good luck with the Ph.D.!

posted by deliriumslibrarian at 3:29 pm (EST) on Apr 16, 2006

Broadview press looks interesting, I'm going to have to add them to my list of independent presses. Do you know Hesperus Press? I think you would enjoy them as well.

posted by to_wit at 10:08 pm (EST) on Apr 15, 2006

dear sylphette
heartening indeed to note that there are still book lovers in the age of the world wide web. your collection is superb. more significant is the pain you have taken to let it be known to others. this combination of scholarship and generosity is something unique.
gopalmoorthy, kerala

posted by gopalmoorthy at 8:11 am (EST) on Apr 10, 2006

hey sylphette! i recently turned in some course proposals, and i wonder if you'd like to take a peep at them and let me know what you think. thanks!

posted by kittenry at 5:26 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2006

H. Wallbangers are a snap to make. Orange juice,
vodka to your liking, and a few drops of Galeano Gold for a pleasant sweet taste. They were the rage in Chicago.
You're close to dissertation? That's great!
What is your subject and can I help?
(Yes, will upgrade LT sometime.)

posted by prufrock21 at 5:30 pm (EST) on Mar 28, 2006

Pirates are associated with the Caribbean, and , of course, PR rum is world known. However, I'm partial to
European beer and Harvey Wallbangers.

posted by prufrock21 at 7:15 am (EST) on Mar 27, 2006

Queer theory sounds--well--queer. What's it about? You're taking one class only? When will you ever finish?

posted by prufrock21 at 5:59 am (EST) on Mar 27, 2006

Happy to help. I don't recall Fish. Warren Cheston was Chancellor when I went to UIC. Prof. Paul Carroll was in the English Department. Sterling Plump, a black poet, was also there. (Jane Fonda visited there once, and gave an anti-war speech, so you can guess the timeline.)
I live in Hormigueros, which is at the extreme western coast, about 90 miles from San Juan (the capital) and from there 27 miles by boat to Vieques. Strangely, though born in PR, I've never been to either Vieques or Culebra. Something I hope to remedy in the future. May I ask what classes
you are taking at Cornell?

posted by prufrock21 at 6:21 am (EST) on Mar 16, 2006

The classics you mention--Brothers K, War & Peace,
Pickwick Papers, etc. are all slow, tedious reads.
I recommend the following for each author: Notes
From Underground by Dostoevsky, The Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy, A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens,
and a modern translation of Beowulf (of which there are many). As for an American classic, consider Hawthorne's The Scarlett Letter, and, if you can stand the long haul, Melville's Moby Dick.
I'm pretty well versed in modern classics; anything by Hemingway (especially the stories), Steinbeck and Faulkner (in particular, Light in August).
The poetry of T.S. Eliot, Hart Crane, W.H. Auden,
Wallace Stevens, Robinson Jeffers, ee cummings,
Dylan Thomas, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent
Millay, and others.
The following are favorites of mine: Catcher in the Rye, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Winesburg, Ohio, Fear of Flying (not a classic, but should be), Black Boy and Native Son, the stories of Flannery O'Connor and the stories of James Purdy.
There's more but will save for another day. Thank you for responding.

posted by prufrock21 at 3:24 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2006

Yes, a good sized independent bookstore would be great! Especially if it was located in downtown Binghamton, I think... maybe in the old library. I'm attending Broome Community College. I wanted to save my money for when I transfer, but I ended up hating it so much it was hardly worth the savings!

posted by marcia_g at 12:26 am (EST) on Mar 11, 2006

Cornell and no Pynchon floating about in your author cloud? Is that an oddity? Great library you have, and impressive no doubt...... good luck!

posted by JacobNHastad at 2:03 am (EST) on Mar 2, 2006

Hi.
I read your bio and noticed you have classics you haven't read. I prefer to read mainly classics, so list a few and I'll tell you if it's worth the bother.
Martin

posted by prufrock21 at 2:18 pm (EST) on Feb 8, 2006

Hey! I was placing myself on the Fraggr map thing, and I saw you were from Endicott. I'm from Binghamton, myself, so I thought I'd just drop by and say hello! :)

posted by marcia_g at 11:43 pm (EST) on Jan 8, 2006

(I didn't include any of my partner's books because, well, he really doesn't own very many (not a reader - scandalous!), and the titles that he does own are textbooks.)

Ha! Yeah, that's pretty much the situation in my household, too!

posted by kenaz at 7:07 pm (EST) on Dec 30, 2005

you have 26 of the ~100 books i have listed, so i decided to stop by. i also have to finish a book even if i hate it. i got my ma in 2004 in publishing. good luck wiht your degree(s)!

posted by u2smg at 2:48 pm (EST) on Dec 28, 2005

I saw that you have the most similar library to mine, so just wanted to drop a note and say hi. great collection! I earned my MA last year, am debating about going on to a Ph.D. I also can't skim books...

posted by nybrainterrain at 6:10 pm (EST) on Dec 26, 2005

Sorry to just now be getting back to you! It's great to meet another English PhD student! Yeah, I don't even want to think about shipping all our books home... :) Good luck with your research. I'm looking at British emigration and American literature between 1760 to 1860 (along with issues of travel writing, narration, etc) -- re your Q on transatlantic studies.

posted by ahales at 4:22 pm (EST) on Oct 28, 2005

Hi! Pleased to meet someone who shares my (somewhat unlikely) combination of interests. I, too, am building my Broadview library...

posted by zugenia at 3:32 pm (EST) on Oct 28, 2005

Hey, you have "Adventures of a Simpleton" by Hans Grimmelshausen, too -- and you get an English degree at B.C., too! Smal world, indeed.

This is actually my wife's book; did you get it at B.C.? If so, for what class? She was School of Management, so I've always wondered what she was doing with it...

posted by wenestvedt at 2:43 pm (EST) on Oct 14, 2005

Glad you thought V Wilkins might interest you. I see that top of your random list is Q Eliz; do you know what she said to the Bishop of London when he refused to give up part of his garden as a present for Sir Christopher Hatton?
"My Lord Bishop! You know what you were before I made you what you are now. If you do not instantly comply with my request, I will unfrock you, by God!"
Hatton Garden is still there, a centre of the diamond trade.

posted by gibbon at 4:50 pm (EST) on Oct 11, 2005

Thanks for your lovely message, Sylphette! You are clearly a gentleman's daughter of refined sensibilities. And, sympathies on the non-reading partner. I can relate to that!

posted by MissWoodhouse at 4:35 pm (EST) on Oct 11, 2005

You might like Vaughan Wilkins, a historical novelist of the 1950's who has almost completely dropped over everyone's horizon and whose books are therefore very cheap and easy to find second-hand (one of the translations of "Hermsprong" is by him). If you look in my catalogue you will see a complete list. Prctically all his books were published in the US and are physically better produced than the wartime and immediately post war British versions.

Best wishes, Gibbon, Bristol, England

posted by gibbon at 3:46 pm (EST) on Sep 29, 2005

Moving books isn't as expensive if you can move them yourself, but it's very time-consuming and, after a while, quite painful. (I learned this the hard way.)

posted by bostonian71 at 2:28 pm (EST) on Sep 28, 2005

So far your library is the one most closely matched to mine, but I haven't entered a lot of my modern books yet. Then again, I have lots more 18thC-related, as well. I work in a library, though I'm not a librarian, and in my off hours I enjoy cataloguing books. I think that makes me a bibliophile!

posted by MissWoodhouse at 9:37 am (EST) on Sep 23, 2005

Once I saw your name on my 'similar libraries' list I went through your catalog and added all of the ones that I also had, which increases the resemblance. Once I've added the rest of mine (if that ever happens) the overlap may not be so large -right now, we seem to be sharing a library, though!

posted by klytaimnestra at 1:27 am (EST) on Sep 23, 2005

I've since learned that books are very expensive to move.

I learned that after a trip to England wherein I stocked up on the British editions of my favourite series. Shipping them home cost nearly as much as the books themselves!

posted by angharad at 4:42 am (EST) on Sep 18, 2005