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August Folly by Angela Thirkell
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
Martin Chuzzlewit (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection) by Charles Dickens
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
THE COLLECTED ESSAYS, JOURNALISM AND LETTERS: IN FRONT OF YOUR NOSE, 1945-50 V. 4 by GEORGE ORWELL
A Tale of A Tub (Penguin Great Ideas) by Jonathan Swift
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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About meI'm a librarian by training - now I work from home on a web site and am a freelance information specialist (apparently). Married, no children, but we have recently become cat owners and are well and truly under the paw.
About my libraryMany years ago I realised that you didn't have to read every book you owned before buying more, and since then, the brakes have been off. Moving to a smaller house three years ago forced some ruthless pruning of the collection, but there are still boxes of books in the garage that have never been unpacked. I mainly read fiction, with a particular fondness for crime, as well as modern and classic fiction. I'm also interested in literary criticism, the psychology of music and World war II social history. Although I part with most of my crime novels when I've read them, I am trying to collect the works of Henning Mankell, Sjowall and Wahloo, Alexander McCall Smith and Lindsey Davis. I also like the Persephone books and Virago Modern Classics.
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Currently readingDreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
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posted by VictoriaPL at 7:30 am (EST) on Apr 24, 2009
I didn't want to post this in your thread so I hope you don't me writing you here. If you're looking for suggestions on WW2 books, I read several last year. You'll find them in my library under the tag "NaNoWriMo 08".
Looking forward to seeing what books you pick for your crime category.
Have a great day!
posted by VictoriaPL at 12:21 pm (EST) on Apr 23, 2009
Jenny
posted by mumoftheanimals at 10:18 am (EST) on Mar 13, 2009
I was just re-reading my 50 books challenge and you recommended two authors to me - Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Taylor. Pym looks interesting so many thanks for that. Elizabeth Taylor - there is nothing. Is it a typo or are you one of the first - if the latter catalogue one of her books soon!
posted by mumoftheanimals at 7:22 am (EST) on Mar 12, 2009
Keep in touch.
Jenny
posted by mumoftheanimals at 9:02 am (EST) on Mar 2, 2009
Just wanted to come over and say hi! I've seen your posts in the Virago group and now your books are popping up on my homepage. I see you just added Girls High by Barbara Anderson - for a New Zealander I read far too little NZ fiction, but I enjoyed that one. I'm in the middle of Thinks... at the moment.
Cheers
Cushla
posted by cmt at 2:31 pm (EST) on Feb 28, 2009
:-))
posted by aluvalibri at 9:34 am (EST) on Feb 18, 2009