Member: GYKM
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About meI work at the University of Toronto's Robarts Library, the largest academic library in Canada.
Sometimes, all you need is a book and a hot cup of coffee.
* I couldn't find "The Catcher in the Rye" in my teens, so I read "The Great Gatsby" instead.
* I've tried to read at the beach but the waves and the dogs kept licking me.
* Jobs that I have had: clerk, courier, paralegal, photographer, reporter, researcher, teacher, writer.
* I would like to own and operate an independent cinema.
* Authors who I have had the good fortune to meet: Margaret Atwood, Nino Ricci, Salman Rushdie, and Umberto Eco.
Status:
* Translating Yukio Mishima's [The Music] into English.
About my libraryHere be anything that perks my interest and can sustain it against twenty other books each month.
* Longest Novel I've Read: Yukio Mishima's "The Sea of Fertility," 1,418 pp. (longer than LOTR @ 1,008 pp).
* Book #1,000: Churchill's "Great Contemporaries" (2012.9.12).
* Books I Want to Read Before I Die: Proust's [In Search of Lost Time], [The Tale of Genji], [Dream of the Red Chamber].
GroupsAncient China, Ancient History, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, Canadian Bookworms, Comics, Geeks who love the Classics, Japanese Literature, Science Fiction Fans, The Globe: Shakespeare, his Contemporaries, and Context —show all groups, The Green Dragon, Writer-readers
Favorite authorsTetsu Kariya, Scott Adams, Anton Chekhov, Robertson Davies, Guy Delisle, Emily Dickinson, John English, Frantz Fanon, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Barbara Gowdy, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, Chalmers Johnson, Franz Kafka, Michiko Kakutani, John Maynard Keynes, Margaret Laurence, Jack London, Lawrence Martin, Yukio Mishima, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael Okuda, George Orwell, Plato, Mordecai Richler, Salman Rushdie, William Shakespeare, Osamu Tezuka, Miriam Toews, Voltaire, Oscar Wilde, Slavoj Žižek (Shared favorites)
VenuesFavorites | Visited
Favorite bookstoresBakka-Phoenix Science Fiction & Fantasy Bookstore, BMV (Edward Street), Book City (The Beach), Book Stage, Chapters - World's Biggest Book Store, China Book Store, Coles - Gerrard Square, Seekers Books, Sun Wa Bookstore
Favorite librariesArchivum Secretum Vaticanum | Vatican Secret Archives, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Bodleian Library, Great Library, Law Society of Upper Canada, Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation & Fantasy, Toronto Public Library, Toronto Public Library - Gerrard-Ashdale, Toronto Public Library - Northern Elms, Toronto Public Library - Toronto Reference Library, University of Toronto - Caven Library of Knox College, University of Toronto - Laidlaw Library of University College, University of Toronto - Victoria University Emmanuel College Library, York University - Leslie Frost Library (Glendon College), York University - Scott Library
Other favoritesArt Gallery of Ontario, The Central, Royal Ontario Museum
Real nameGord
LocationToronto
Account typepublic
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Member sinceJan 23, 2011
Currently readingLa Musique by Yukio Mishima
Origin: A Novel by Dan Brown
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House Paperback by Michael Wolff
Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Vol. 1: Dawn by Yoshiki Tanaka
