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Favorite authorsJane Austen, Alexandre Dumas, George Eliot, Charlaine Harris, Stephenie Meyer, Edgar Allan Poe, J. K. Rowling, John Steinbeck, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Paul Zindel (Shared favorites)
About meLife keeps me too busy to read most of the time, but I am able to sneak a few pages here and there. I finally bought a kindle so maybe I can keep up more...and stop lining my walls with bookshelves.
About my libraryI decided to read all "the classics." Although as a child I raided my dad's bookshelf on a regular basis, reading Moby Dick, some Steinbeck, and other well-regarded books, I missed out on a lot of the classics. So I have now taken it upon myself to make my own assigned reading list.
I rarely buy books new, as I prefer those that are old, yellowed, and filled with writing. I especially love old books with gift markings in them---my latest additions are some weathered hardback Dickens books that have "Mary L Carpenter from Aunt Sue 1896" written in the front cover. I'd rather have those that have seen a century and are now faling apart than the ones straight from the publisher. The only problem I've run into is that really old books don't have ISBNs or even LC #s, making it rather tedious to catalog them here.
You've probably noticed that I haven't reviewed or put stars by a lot of the books in my library. To be honest, I have A LOT of books I haven't read yet (but I'm steadily making progress on them), and a lot more than I read years & years ago. While I may have loved them long ago, I don't really want to add ratings & reviews until I've had a chance to refamiliarize myself with them.
I'm afraid my personal reviews of books are also lacking in true literary critique, but I'm not trying to sell these stories to anyone. At most, I'm simply stating my opinion because I can.
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Currently readingJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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by John Keats
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--
No--yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever--or else swoon to death
posted by theoldman at 12:19 pm (EST) on May 11, 2009
posted by benuathanasia at 12:37 pm (EST) on Nov 14, 2008
How do you keep all those books in such a small cage?
posted by Novak at 7:22 pm (EST) on Sep 14, 2007
posted by kernunrex at 3:31 am (EST) on Jun 30, 2007
Welcome to LT. :)
Sarah
posted by literarysarah at 10:37 am (EST) on May 8, 2007