Member AurelArkad

About My Library

Haere mai. Welcome to my small book collection.

Mostly, I read History, Mysteries, Science Fiction and a little Fantasy.

If you like books from or about the 19th Century, and/or the early 20th Century, you might enjoy browsing my library shelves and meeting up with old friends.

# Some of these books date back to my childhood days, all those long years ago, way back in the middle of last century.
# Two books even come from my parents' 1920s childhood collections.
# The rest have been added over the decades, many bought second-hand.
# All have (somehow) survived occasional fairly ruthless weeding bouts, triggered both by space constraints and by the removal of seldom-read works.

Tags:
'Guidebook' is used in the widest possible sense.
'Mystery' includes Detective tales.
'Children's Book' includes some books written for teenagers.
'UK' & 'USA' have both been used before either of those political entities came into being.
'Americana' & 'Picture Book' have been overused.

About Me

‘Aurélien Arkadiusz’ claims, I r e a d, therefore I am.

Location

New Zealand

Favorite Authors

Bess Streeter Aldrich, Jane Austen, Donald J. Berg, Enid Blyton, L. P. Davies, A. J. Downing, Robert Farrington, Jack Finney, John Galt, Robert van Gulik, Gerald Hammond, Georgette Heyer, J. B. Jackson, L. E. Modesitt Jr., Margaret H. Judd, Joseph Crosby Lincoln, H. P. Lovecraft, Laurence Meynell, Elizabeth Moon, Andre Norton, Lenore Glen Offord, Miss Read, Eric Frank Russell, Dorothy L. Sayers, James H. Schmitz, Will Scott, Clifford D. Simak, John R. Stilgoe, J. R. R. Tolkien, Geoffrey Trease, Edwin Tunis, David Weber, Vaughan Wilkins, Mrs. Henry Wood

Member Connections

Friends

Essexman, lizandkats

Interesting Library

bookstopshere, Essexman, Keeline, lizandkats, LouBriccant, LydiaHD