Member: Scorbet

CollectionsYour library (4,825), Ebooks (4,720), Verified (1,179), To read (1,926), Currently reading (12), Read but unowned (41), Not epubbed (61), Treeware (2,000), Wrong edition (17), All collections (6,726)

Reviews20 reviews

Tagscalibre (1,121), ebook (788), tbr (618), import 2 (578), read2008 (266), fiction (121), epub (93), mystery (89), vfd (73), 888 (63) — see all tags

MediaNot set (101), (1), Book (6,622), Paper Book (3,382), Audiobook (22), Ebook (1,058), Sound Recording (2), CD sound recording (2)

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Recommendations7 recommendations

About meI'm a (chemical) engineer currently living in Shanghai, previously in Frankfurt, but originally from Ireland. I'm interested in history, particularly medieval history, and have started trying to learn more about Chinese history.

About my libraryI appear to have begun recording reading dates and writing reviews of books, as I read or re-read them. (All dates mentioned are for the latest read, which is not automatically the first time.)

My catalog here is still in a bit of a mess, but I'm trying to slowly fix it, one book at a time.

Most of my paper books are a couple of thousand miles away, so I can only really access the ebooks.

Books in the "To read" collection are in some state of not read - I may be part way through, half-abandoned them several years ago or not started at all!

Groups15th Century Europe, 18th-19th Century Britain, 888 Challenge, Almack's, Amateur Historians, Ask LibraryThing, British & Irish Crime Fiction, Bug Collectors, Combiners!, Crime, Thriller & Mystery —show all groups, Go Review That Book!, Historical Fiction, Historical Mysteries, History Fans, Irish Librarythingers, Legacy Libraries, LibraryThing goes to the Chalet School, Medieval Europe, Mistress of the Art of Death ~ Early Summer 2009 Reading Group, More Power to the Date Fields!, Name that Book, Ngaio Marsh Appreciation Society, One LibraryThing, One Book, Read YA Lit, Readers Under 30, Richard III, Roman and Dark Ages Britain, Science Fiction Fans, Spam Fighters!, Tattered but still lovely, The Europe Endless Challenge, The Scepter'd Isle, medieval history of England, 500 to 1500 AD, The SF&F Book Chat, Tortall Universe Fans

Favorite authorsJane Austen, Steven Brust, Lois McMaster Bujold, Jennifer Crusie, Diane Duane, Dorothy Dunnett, Patricia Finney, Georgette Heyer, Guy Gavriel Kay, Sharon Lee, Scott Lynch, Ngaio Marsh, George R. R. Martin, J. K. Rowling, Dorothy L. Sayers, Charles Stross, Patricia C. Wrede (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites | Visited

Favorite bookstoresBorders - Blanchardstown, Brentano's, British Bookshop Frankfurt, Chapters Bookstore, Forbidden Planet - London, Hodges Figgis, Hugendubel - Frankfurt, Oxfam Bücher - Frankfurt, Readers Corner, Shanghai Foreign Language Bookstore 上海外文图书公司, Thalia - Nordwest-Zentrum Frankfurt, The Munich Readery, Waterstones London (Piccadilly), WHSmith Paris

Favorite librariesDun Laoghaire-Rathdown Public Libraries - Dún Laoghaire Library, Stadtbücherei Frankfurt am Main - Zentralbibliothek mit Musikbibliothek, Trinity College Library Dublin

Favorite publishersAngry Robot, Orbit Books

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LocationFrankfurt, Germany

Account typepublic, lifetime

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TinyCathttps://www.librarycat.org/lib/Scorbet

Member sinceSep 5, 2006

Currently readingDie Hüter der Rose : historischer Roman by Rebecca Gablé
An autumn war by Daniel Abraham
Intrusion by Ken MacLeod
Daughter of Xanadu by Dori Jones Yang
Red Star Over China by Edgar Snow
Flora Segunda by Ysabeau S. Wilce
Lord Valentine’s Castle by Robert Silverberg
Possession by A. S. Byatt
Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton
Sold for Endless Rue by Madeleine E. Robins
The Game Beyond by Melissa Scott
Amy Snow by Tracy Rees
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