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Favorite authorsMargaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Anita Rau Badami, E. F. Benson, William Blake, Mikhail Bulgakov, James Branch Cabell, Geoffrey Chaucer, Leonard Cohen, Robertson Davies, Samuel R. Delany, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Desiderius Erasmus, Northrop Frye, Jean Genet, Seamus Heaney, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Helen Humphreys, Kazuo Ishiguro, 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, Colm Tóibín, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, W. B. Yeats (Shared favorites)

About mePROFILE PHOTO: My dog, who loves the snow

TOP 2012 READS:
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 4.85 stars
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht 4.5 stars

LIFETIME BOOKS WHICH HAVE LEFT THEIR MARK(even though I might not read some of them again)
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
various Virginia Woolf novels: Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One's Own, To the Lighthouse
{still working on this}

And in case there is any doubt:

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

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Member sinceFeb 26, 2007

Currently readingHigh Rising (Angela Thirkell Barsetshire Series) by Angela Thirkell

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tiffin reviewed:
Madame De Pompadour by Nancy Mitford (read review)

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A Double Affair by Angela Thirkell

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Three Score and Ten by Angela Thirkell

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High Rising (Angela Thirkell Barsetshire Series) by Angela Thirkell

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Death At Wentwater Court by Carola Dunn

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The Colors Of Infamy by Albert Cossery

Dear Esme,

How kind of you to pose for such a lovely picture to adorn Tiffin's profile. Snow looks like fun. We don't get much snow here, and the salt air from the sea stops what we do get from sticking. But we do have good beaches to play on, and Jane has promised to take me to Marazion tomorrow. Hooray!

Love,

Briar x x x

posted by Briar-the-dog at 5:18 pm (EST) on Feb 7, 2012

I'm apprehensive now about the C&B Thirkell editions. I've lately gotten three of them from PBS, and I was delighted because they look so pretty. I hope they're old enough to be well-edited. I haven't had any trouble at all with my old Carroll-Graf productions, cheapos that they are. I really think that publishers have quit paying copy editors OR nobody is left who knows how to do it.
PBS is a wonder! It's finally loosening my grip on some series mysteries that I know I'll never read or never read again. (Something certainly needed to!)

posted by LizzieD at 10:16 pm (EST) on Feb 1, 2012

Oh! Snooping in Caro's message to you, you'll be happy for me that my copy of Night Circus is promised from PBS. I'm excited!

posted by LizzieD at 8:11 pm (EST) on Feb 1, 2012

Hi Tui,

I have to admit that when I first started 1Q84, the last Murakami book I read was The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles and while I admired his style of writing, it was really more bizarre than I had expected. I was thus, a little afraid of what 1Q84 would be like, more so because it's such a thick book. But my trepidation was squashed within the first 2 chapters. I fell in love with the 2 main characters and I really hated having to put the book down.

I hope you get around to reading this. I really do. If you like the Night Circus, you have no trouble suspending belief. ;-)

hugs
caro

posted by cameling at 7:18 pm (EST) on Jan 10, 2012

I enjoyed my visit to your page. About 2/3 of your lifetime books are on my list, too. someday I will get around to compiling that list and put it on LT.

posted by MusicMom41 at 1:24 am (EST) on Aug 10, 2011