Member: CurrerBell

CollectionsYour library (3,765), Currently reading (5), Read (1,467), Boxed (3,270), Kindle (378), Wishlist (669), Computers (77), Reread (16), Trash (1), Ordered (3), BFB (23), To read (13), To Be Sold (1), Reading Copy (2), Given away (65), Read but unowned (82), Shelved (56), Incompletely read (9), Google Books (2), All collections (4,941)

Reviews403 reviews

TagsVirago (165), dup (146), LoA (138), language (107), Maine (93), computer (89), Brontëana (50), 48 (35), autographed (33), 50 (32) — see all tags

MediaNot set (30), Book (4,884), Paper Book (4,386), Audiobook (19), Ebook (418), Sound Recording (3), Streaming audio (3), Video Recording (15), DVD (1), VHS (5), Blu-ray (2), Streaming video (7), Other (9)

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud

Recommendations123 recommendations

About me2019 CHALLENGES
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100 Books | CurrerBell's One Hundred


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Big Fat Books | CurrerBell's Doorstoppers


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Reading Through Time (RTT) | CurrerBell's Time Currents
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ROOT (Read Our Own Tomes) | CurrerBell Thirsts for ROOTS


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VMC: CurrerBell's "Read the 1940s"
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About my libraryMy library's in no way fully catalogued, and I'm continuing to work on it from time to time. The books "Read" category is grossly understated because I've only included books that I've read since I actually began intensive seek-for-completeness LT cataloging, which was only a few years ago. My big ambition is to get everything boxed and indexed, then start moving out of boxes and back onto shelves. Wishful thinking???

And I've actually got close to a thousand books in my Kindle cloud, but much of that is freebies or very inexpensive public domain editions. OCD downloading, would you say? My Kindle collection only indexes books actually read.

Oh, yeah, and I've still got to catalog an entire bookcase or more of Brontëana!
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Oh my, oh SIGH. I wrote this I don't know how many years ago and it's all still true.

Groups100 books in 2018 challenge, 100 Books in 2019 Challenge, 18th-19th Century Britain, 2018 BIG FAT BOOKS CHALLENGE, 2018 ROOT (READ OUR OWN TOMES), 2019 BIG FAT BOOKS, 2019 ROOT (READ OUR OWN TOMES), 2020 BIG FAT BOOK CHALLENGE, 2020 ROOT CHALLENGE, African/African American Literature —show all groups, Amazon's Kindle, Anglophiles, Barbara Pym, Bug Collectors, Children's Fiction, Children's Literature, Combiners!, Common Knowledge, WikiThing, HelpThing, Dystopian novels, Ebook, Everyman's Library, Fairy Tales Retold, Fans of Joyce Carol Oates, Fantasy Forum, FantasyFans, Feminist SF, Girlybooks, Kindley Book Club, Library of America Subscribers, LibraryThing Gatherings and Meetups, Literary Centennials, Litsy, Loitering with Intent, Mainers, Name that Book, Orange January/July, Persephone Readers, Philadelphians, Pro and Con, Rare, Old or Offbeat, Read YA Lit, Readers Over Sixty, Reading Through Time, Science Fiction Fans, Tattered but still lovely, The Brontës, The Literary Lens, The Prizes, TinyCat, Trollope lovers unite or fight, Vampire Fiction, Victoriana, Virago Modern Classics

Favorite authorsRichard Adams, Juliet R.V. Barker, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Mikhail Bulgakov, Mary Ellen Chase, Geoffrey Chaucer, Emily Dickinson, Rachel Ferguson, Marion Garthwaite, Elizabeth Gaskell, Kim Harrison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Henryson, Zora Neale Hurston, Janis Ian, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Nella Larsen, John Milton, Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Pullman, Jean Racine, William Shakespeare, Muriel Spark, Elizabeth Strout, Antonia White, Rita Williams-Garcia (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites | Visited

Favorite bookstoresA. David Paulhus - Rare Books, Act 2 Books, Baldwin's Book Barn, Bay View Company, Big Chicken Barn Books, Book Trader, Bookhaven, BookMarcs Bookstore & Cafe, Brickbat Books, Bucks County Bookshop, Carlson & Turner Books, Central Books, G. S. MacManus Company, George P. Sutton Rare Books, Gulf of Maine Books, Harding's Books, Harvest Book Company Outlet, Head House Books, Hobart International Bookport, House of Our Own, Last Word Bookshop, Main Point Books, Maine Historical Society (Bookshop), Merrill's Bookshop, Mystery Cove Book Shop, Old Book Shop, Old Book Shop of Bordentown, Open Door Books, Penn Book Center, The Cranbury Bookworm, The Green Hand Bookshop, The Maine Bookhouse (formerly Shoestring Rare Books), The Title Page, Whodunit?, Wm. H. Adams' Antiquarian Books, Wooden Shoe Books

Favorite librariesGreat Cranberry Library, The Library Company of Philadelphia

Favorite listsDystopian and Apocalyptic Literature

MembershipER. LibraryThing Early Reviewers/Member Giveaway

Real nameMike

LocationDrexel Hill, PA

Account typepublic

URLs /profile/CurrerBell (profile)
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Member sinceOct 17, 2007

Currently readingThe Silk Roads: A New History of the World – Illustrated Edition by Peter Frankopan
The Upanishads (Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality) by Eknath Easwaran
Upanisads (Oxford World's Classics) by Patrick Olivelle
The Bear by Andrew Krivak
Understanding Imperial China: Dynasties, Life, and Culture by