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Member: ummu_fatimah

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Tagsfiction (129), Malay literature (108), non-fiction (53), English literature (47), YA literature (42), Islam (35), collection & anthology (23), Indonesian literature (23), memoir/biography (22), self-help (21) — see all tags

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Groups50 Book Challenge, 75 Books Challenge for 2009, Books in Books, Indonesiana, ISLAM, Librarians who LibraryThing, Malaysian LibraryThingers, The Intifada Literature

Favorite authorsFaisal Tehrani, Malcolm Gladwell, W. Somerset Maugham, A. Samad Said, David Suzuki, Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Shared favorites)

About me


I'm trained as a librarian, have been in love with books since childhood. Unfortunately after getting married in 2005 and have kid in 2006, I'm forced to slow down my reading and book collecting activities.

So in 2008, I made a resolution to start reading and collecting books seriously again; and to uplift my spirit I paid for a lifetime LT account at the end of December.

In the future, I plan to collect more books on oceans, which is actually my rekindled old flame - my mom's family hailed from the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia and she lived her childhood by the sea. I fall hopelessly in love with the sea solely by this reason. I even dream to sail around the world when I was little, but unfortunately I'm a girl and a woman mariner was unheard of in Malaysia during that time. It also explains my interest in travel literature, developed by the desire to know what lays beyond the vast blue water at the other side of the South China Sea.

About my libraryHISTORY OF MY LIBRARY

Up to 2007, the books that I cataloged are those that the family owns: my late father's, my mother's, brother's, sister's and mine, all being kept in my mother's house. Collection has begun as early as 1950s (my late father's), my mother's in 1970s, and the three of us in 1980s.

Mom's collection and ours still growing at considerable rate, except that my sis and bro hadn't brought home their books anymore that much, because they've moved out and staying elsewhere.

Since 2008, after I got married and also moved out, I no longer record my bro's and sis' books which has grown separately from mine, except those that I ever borrowed from them and read, just to keep track of my reading and their books that I took interest in.

Instead, I will begin to cover my husband's and little kid's books. So you can found children books in my library from now on (it's December 2008 when I wrote this) and scarce collection of my hubby's (he's not that much a book lover, but he does read quite a lot of magazines and avid reader of news).

So there goes the history of my library. Will add more stories soon when the library grows.

AREAS OF COLLECTION TO BE EMPHASIZED IN FUTURE

Books on oceans; memoirs; travel literature (travelogue); children literature; Islamic thoughts and culture; Asian literature; history; books on books; books on environment & environmentalism; international law (Law of the Sea, environmental law and diversity law)

TO INCLUDE IN LIBRARY SOON...

Books in my Amazon wish list... :)

Homepagehttp://bukuria-malaysia.com

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Real nameNajibah

LocationShah Alam, Malaysia

Account typepublic, lifetime

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Common KnowledgeSeries (16), Awards (71), Characters (378), Places (70)

Member sinceApr 22, 2006

Currently readingKepustakaan Ilmu Tradisional by
Pengembaraan ke Kedah, Perlis dan Kelantan by Za'ba