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Member: veritas

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Favorite authorsGaston Bachelard, Jean Baudrillard, Enid Blyton, Jorge Luis Borges, Lord Byron, Linda Chapman, Dazai Osamu, Alasdair Duncan, Nancy Garden, Thich Nhat Hanh, Yasunari Kawabata, Halldór Laxness, Haruki Murakami, Anaïs Nin, Alexander Pushkin, Salman Rushdie, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Junichiro Tanizaki, Jeanette Winterson (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresArgosy Books, Asia Bookroom, Avid Reader, Bent Books, Beyond Q : Books / Bar Barista, Clousten and Hall Booksellers (Civic), Coaldrakes Bookstore, Emporium, Electric Shadows Bookshop, Folio Books, Hares and Hyenas, Impact Comics!, National Gallery of Australia Shop, Paperchain Bookstore, PolyEster Books, Readings, Smiths Alternative Bookshop, Strand Bookstore, The Oscar Wilde Bookshop, Three Lives & Company

Favorite librariesNational Library of Australia, State Library of Queensland, State Library of Victoria

About mei enjoy

ripping the plastic of new books
small format hardcovers
antiquarian small format hardcovers
the smell of old books
the way sometimes, the type on really old books makes an imprint on the next page, so the surface is dappled.

books too old to have ISBN's.

stuck in canberra, but working in my dream job. thus why i am in canberra.

About my libraryabout 40% catalogued - ongoing process of relocating collection

varied and adored.

Book Interests:
Art. (artist specific...)
japanese mid-century and prior lit, as well as some contemporary writers.
chinese lit, SE asian lit.
icelandic and northern european lit.
digging up contemporary translations.
reading all 101 nobel prize winners, and making stuffed animal representations of all of the writers.
buddhism, esp. shambhala publications.
children's literature.
YA literature.
YA lit containing representations of YA lesbian/bisexual relationships.
feminism - books about all forms, historical, etc.
queer theory, gay and lesbian theory, bisexual theory.
sociology and subcultures.
colette, winterson, et al queer woman writers throughout history.
knitting.
religion in general.
natural history.
poetry.
romantic era poetry - esp. byron & shelley
symbolist poetry - esp verlaine baudelaire and rimbaud
antiquarian/first editions of any of the above.

beautiful editions and covers of any sort seduce me also.

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LocationCanberra, ACT

Emailsky.between.branchesgmail.com

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Member sinceAug 24, 2006