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The Female Man (A Women's Press Classic) by Joanna Russ

Lord of Emperors (The Sarantine Mosaic) by Guy Gavriel Kay

The Inheritors by William Golding

The Myth of Sisyphus (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus

Some Rain Must Fall and Other Stories by Michel Faber

The Virtu by Sarah Monette

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

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Favorite authorsMargaret Atwood, Dorothy Dunnett, Patrick O'Brian, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)

About meI'm a 24 year old medieval history graduate currently working as an Archives and Research Assistant at The Borthwick Institute, the ecclesiastical records depository for the Archdiocese of York. I live in York with my partner, two spoiled, fat guinea pigs and not enough shelving. (Definitely not enough shelving.)

About my libraryMy library is desperately eclectic, although it includes a good dose of speculative fiction and fantasy, and is most definitely a work in progress.

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Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

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Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Soderberg

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Don't Sleep There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel Everett

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The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman

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The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith

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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Guardian Angel
by Rolf Jacobsen

I am the bird that flutters against your window in the morning,
and your closest friend, whom you can never know,
blossoms that light up for the blind.

I am the glacier shining over the woods, so pale,
and heavy voices from the cathedral tower.
The thought that suddenly hits you in the middle of the day
and makes you feel so fantastically happy.

I am the one you have loved for many years.
I walk beside you all day and look intently at you
and put my mouth against your heart
though you're not aware of it.

I am your third arm, your second
shadow, the white one,
whom you cannot accept,
and who can never forget you.

posted by theoldman at 8:03 am (EST) on Feb 21, 2009

Hi again - posted a comment on your blog regarding Eagleton and Dickens. First time poster but long time lurker on Eve's Alexandria: I love digging through all the old posts. Now I can find about a hundred more books I "need" by browsing your library :) As far as the "controversy" of unpaid bloggers doing what paid critics "should" be doing (sorry no more quotation marks, I promise), I find that all of the posts on Eve's are much better than those of say, The New York Times Book Review, Slate or Salon.com and at least on par with the Guardian. The New York Review of Books is perhaps my favorite periodical about books, but it is nice to get both analysis and a personal response. Happy reading to you and all the Eve's posters!
twacorbies (Sean)

posted by twacorbies at 12:59 pm (EST) on Jan 30, 2008

I have not posted many books yet, but we share unusual ones. Care to talk?

posted by yareader2 at 9:18 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2007

Hello Victoria, we share 83 books, and a quick glance at your collection shows a lot more that I've considered but haven't got round to reading. Weird coincidence - my daughter graduated from York this summer, her dissertation was on medieval clergy! she's now working at Lambeth Palace. What are you aiming to do after your MA?

posted by mlfhlibrarian at 3:00 pm (EST) on Dec 14, 2006

Victoria I love Diana Gabaldon. It all began with a beat up paperback copy of Outlander someone left in the free book box outside the library. I haven't read Breath of Snow and Ashes yet though. I can't do it knowing it is the last in the series!

posted by wellred2 at 8:34 am (EST) on Sep 20, 2006

Hi Victoria--I think we actually have more books in common--but I have been too lazy to drag them upstairs to my computer to add them....I love your "fluff" tag! :)

posted by dtorres at 3:01 pm (EST) on Sep 17, 2006

Welcome to LibraryThing Victoria! I'm looking forward to perusing your shelves at leisure. And congratulations on finishing the thesis!

posted by Antheras at 7:49 am (EST) on Sep 17, 2006

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