MemberJakujin

Real Name

Bryn Hammond

About My Library

I began on Goodreads and my library remains more organised there.

I own a physical research library on the Mongols and other steppe peoples, which I've tried to put in virtual format here, with reviews. Failed to import my reviews from Goodreads so they are intermittent. This research is for my novels on the Mongols, under the name Amgalant.

Aside from that my loves are medieval (romances of chivalry) and what I call imagined fiction. In my past I've liked science fiction & fantasy and historical fiction, and there's an imaginative element that I find they have in common. Or, I just like elsewhere and otherwhen. I don't often visit my own century.

My dearest books are the Old English Beowulf and the works of Dostoyevsky. Random others: Don Quixote, Moby Dick, Pope's Iliad and Chapman's, Malory, The Once and Future King, The Faerie Queene, M. John Harrison's Viriconium, James Tiptree Jr, early Swinburne.

Location

Australia

Homepage

http://amgalant.com/

Memberships

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Also On

Goodreads, Twitter

Currently Reading

Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors: Culture, Power, and Connections, 580-800 (Oxford Studies in Early Empires) by Jonathan Karam Skaff

Morgante: The Epic Adventures of Orlando and His Giant Friend Morgante (Indiana Masterpiece Editions) by Luigi Pulci

Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia by Manduhai Buyandelger

The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel by Nikos Kazantzakis

Sanctioned Violence in Early China (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) by Mark Edward Lewis

The Oblate's Confession by William Peak

Fear of Mirrors by Tariq Ali

Favorite Authors

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Member Connections

Friends

bslavin, GideonEWood, JulieBozza, Laura_Rahme, RonFritsch, tom_hillman

Interesting Library

antiquary, eol, Fledgist, hollowman, JBMvR, Ka-Khan, liao, Macbeth, Nic_C, webadr31, yangshu