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Favorite authorsIain Pears, Deanna Raybourn, Kathy Reichs (Shared favorites)

About meI run an online reputation management company which keeps me pretty busy. However, I still manage to find the time to read voraciously, go horse riding, run marathons and drive fast cars so I keep out of mischief.

About my libraryI read absolutely anything, but I particularly like crime fiction, science, classics and history. I keep all of my books except those I didn't really enjoy and am pretty confident I won't read again. That generally isn't many. I love trying new books and genres and adore getting recommendations.

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I was just adding Letters from a Lost Generation to my book collection and saw that there was a review and decide to read it. Thank you for your review that has moved me to read this book again.
Best wishes
Barbara

posted by BluebellWood at 4:14 pm (EST) on Jun 11, 2009

Awesome! Pleasure making your acquaintance too and happy to have you aboard.

All the best,
Brent

posted by EnriqueFreeque at 12:22 pm (EST) on Feb 23, 2009

Thanks for the kind words, booktiger. I appreciate the fact that you stop by the blog - I do the same with yours, BTW.

I really miss Twickenham sometimes, especially the way I could hear the rugby crowds sing "God Save the Queen" from the open window of my flat. Those were the days...

Sam

posted by SamSattler at 9:51 pm (EST) on Nov 30, 2008

I am so pleased that somebody reads my reviews, frankly. They are not anything but comments, but htere i no spinin them--they are exactly what I thought after I finished reading the book.

I am listing you as a friend, if it is all right with you. And I am looking up Twickenham on Wikipedia, sinc eI don't know where it is.

posted by Schmerguls at 7:44 am (EST) on Nov 12, 2008

I love your library - although we don't share that many books, you have some really interesting ones on there.

posted by Fluffyblue at 3:48 pm (EST) on Jul 27, 2008

Hi Nancy
Thanks for being my friend !
We seem to have a lot of books in common despite the age difference !
I get a lot of my books from Readitswapit and have loads more books than listed on Librarything.
I live in Scotland now but lived not to far away from you in Barnes at one time !
Will be in touch again shortly.....Shirley

posted by shirley8 at 7:58 am (EST) on Jun 26, 2008

I enjoyed that much more than the half: http://tomroper.typepad.com/marathon2005...
Just started reading this: http://www.librarything.com/work/5633459
Not written with elegance, but fascinating nevertheless. I may write a review
Tom

posted by tomroper at 4:22 am (EST) on Jun 17, 2008

Do do Seaford if you can. Gorgeous scenery and a 9 am start, so we miss the noon heat. This will be my fifth attempt. Once broke two hours.
Let me know if you're coming and I'll look out for you. I'm easily recognised: I actually look a little like my profile picture:-). Otherwise, a typical middle-aged male runner, that is to say, look for a fanatical stare in the eye, grey hair, odd clothes sense...

posted by tomroper at 4:29 pm (EST) on May 12, 2008

How's the recovery going? Four weeks since London now. I ran nine very hard miles today, as the Seaford half is three weeks away. I think I retain some residual fitness from the London training, but four weeks of drinking and eating a lot have done no good.
I once beat two hours in the Seaford half, but only once. It's a hard, but beautiful course.
What next for you?

posted by tomroper at 4:36 pm (EST) on May 11, 2008

Hi Nancy, thanks for your reply! I read down further in your comments about you running a marathon. My good friend just ran a marathon here in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and he tells me there are two parts to a marathon: the first 20 miles and the last 6. Without ever running one, I understood what he meant!

By the way, the Economist magazine recently had a great graph depicting the record times of running the marathon since 1912. The current world's record is 2 hours 6 minutes. That's averaging less than 4 minutes 50 secs a mile! The guy was sprinting the whole time. Does that seem human? They anticipate that it would take runners another 10 years before someone can run a marathon under 2 hours. I'd say 50 years (when we have robots)!

Sincerely, Thomas

posted by sonshi at 8:28 pm (EST) on Apr 24, 2008

Hi Nancy, thank you for connecting with me. You must have ran across Sun Tzu's The Art of War because of your interest in history. Am I right? At least I know it's not from your interest in cooking and recipes! :-) Good to meet you. Sincerely, Thomas

posted by sonshi at 8:30 pm (EST) on Apr 23, 2008

Fantastic! Your sub-4.00 is very impressive. I still dream of such a time, though the closest I have got to it is 4:10 on the Isle of Wight in 2006. I have thought of Dublin in the past, and have been urged to do it by every Irish runner I’ve ever met. The trouble is it’s the same weekend as my home marathon, Beachy Head (BHM) which, if I enter it this time, will be my fifth BHM and ninth overall. No chance of beating 4 at BHM, but it is an experience.
Some people run a triple of BHM on the Saturday, the Snowdonia marathon on the Sunday and Dublin on the Monday (a public holiday in Ireland). Then again there’s the Hastings centenary marathon in December.
Bit odd to be discussing running on a bibliophile's network but, then again, why not?

posted by tomroper at 5:08 pm (EST) on Apr 23, 2008

So, how did you do? 4:28:12 for me, a bit slower than I'd hoped, but still...

posted by tomroper at 10:46 am (EST) on Apr 16, 2008

Hi Nancy. Yes, I bought the Bryant at the Expo yesterday evening, when I picked up my number. One of my half-formed projects is to write a history of the marathon in antiquity.
Are you running yourself on Sunday? Good luck if you are. I see we also share Jancis Robinson's Oxford Companion to Wine. No wine has passed my lips in the latter stages of training, but I look forward to correcting that on Sunday evening to drink to a personal best.
Tom

posted by tomroper at 2:22 pm (EST) on Apr 11, 2008

Hey Nancy,
Thanks for adding me as a friend. I am glad you liked All quiet on the Western front, it is a great book. I love your library!!! I gotta say whoever created this website is a genius cause through this site, I am getting so many great ideas on books to read and seeing what people around America and the world are reading.

I look forward to talking to you more.

Have a great day!!
Patricia

posted by TrishNYC at 4:29 pm (EST) on Mar 25, 2008

Tiger, are you done with Western front yet? To answer your question, I sadly have not read as much as I would like to about WWII. But I would recommend a book that I read while in college. The book is The vintage book of war fiction. It is edited by Sebastian Faulks. It compiles so many different stories from different authors on different wars(but I think mainly WWI and WWII). It even has the chapter that involves Paul from Western front and "the guy in the trench"(you know the one I mean). It is very good. Its been about four years ago since I read it for school but I remember liking the book and thinking it was good. Hey, it will inspire you to read the books that it takes excerpts from.

posted by TrishNYC at 9:12 am (EST) on Mar 23, 2008

Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries! In spite of the fact that we only show one book in common, we actually overlap a bit more. One of these days I really need to get the rest of my books in...8^} Good luck with your reading challenge!

Regards,
Jim

posted by drneutron at 2:46 pm (EST) on Mar 14, 2008

the stepehn king book!

interesting that you'd mention this one: my girlfriend and i just hunted this down for her at a local library, they'd only let it out for 7 days.

she sat down, opened the book, and ran through it. and loved it. so, there's a good review for you.

me, i read so little, been on Savage Detectives for into my second month now ... i'll hold off on reviewing it in case you've heard of it and are interested. Bolano was a Mexican author, died young.

anyway, another smile, thanks for writing back. i like your collection of art & art histroy books, i haven't put ours up here yet, this is certainly a delicious distraction, this site ...

posted by tcw at 1:48 pm (EST) on Mar 14, 2008

Hello, Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries. We certainly have many books in commen. If you have any books that really speak to you, please let me know. Happy reading, Carrie

posted by cal8769 at 6:49 pm (EST) on Mar 3, 2008

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