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Groups75 Books Challenge for 2009, Anglophiles, Barbara Pym Fan Club, Bloomsbury Group and their friends, Early Reviewers, Girlybooks, Needlearts, Project 1929, The Red Room, Virago Modern Classics — show all groups , Workspace B

Favorite authorsMargaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Anita Rau Badami, E. F. Benson, William Blake, Mikhail Bulgakov, James Branch Cabell, Geoffrey Chaucer, Leonard Cohen, Colm Toibin, Robertson Davies, Samuel R. Delany, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Desíderíus Erasmus, Northrop Frye, Jean Genet, Seamus Heaney, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Keats, Margaret Kennedy, Dalai Lama, Margaret Laurence, John Milton, Rohinton Mistry, Mervyn Peake, Ezra Pound, Barbara Pym, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sheri S. Tepper, Dylan Thomas, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, W. B. Yeats (Shared favorites)

About mePROFILE PHOTO: Hydrangea, burning bush and cimifuga

CURRENT READING: undecided

TOP 2009 READS:
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel {5 heartfelt stars}
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak {5 stars}
The Pendragon Legend by Antal Szerb {4 stars}
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman {4 stars}
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (4 1/2 stars}
The Boys in the Trees by Mary Swan {4 1/2 stars} A CANADIAN
Du Fu, A Life in Poetry by Du Fu, Translated by David Young {5 stars}
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese {4 1/2 stars}
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke {4 stars}
The Morville Hours by Katherine Swift (5 stars)

LIFETIME BOOKS WHICH HAVE LEFT THEIR MARK
The Idiot, Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Shakespeare, plays and sonnets (I can't pick just one but The Tempest is a great favourite)
The Divine Comedy by Dante
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Magister Ludi by Hermann Hesse
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Fifth Business/Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
We by Zamiatin
Mapp & Lucia series by E.F. Benson: all time most favourite comfort read
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
The works of Barbara Pym for her exquisite portrayals of ordinary people
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
{still working on this}

About my libraryGive light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Desiderius Erasmus

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Member sinceFeb 26, 2007