Member: aluvalibri
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Reviews17 reviews
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About meI am a booklover, as simple as that. It is a "disease" I caught since I learnt to read (actually even before) and I see no sign of recovery, nor do I wish to. To my great satisfaction, my book collection is constantly increasing.....one of these days, I am afraid, we will have to vacate the premises to make room for all the books! Not that the thought prevents me from buying more, of course.
Other than this, what else could I say about myself? I am an Italian transplanted in the US. My significant other is another bookworm, member of Librarything as well, and so are two of my children.
About my libraryMostly literature and fiction, but also art, history and, of course, books in Italian.
I am presently working on increasing my collection of Virago Modern Classics, and I am also interested in Australian authors, particularly women.
I also have a good collection of illustrated books.
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Groups18th-19th Century Britain, Algonquin Readers Round Table, All the World's a Stage, Almack's, Anglophiles, Antiquarian Books, Antiquarian Travel Memoirs, Art Books, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Australian LibraryThingers —show all groups, Author Theme Reads, Baker Street and Beyond, Barbara Pym, Bas Bleu, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, BEA 2008, Best of British, Board Room, Book Care and Repair, Book Liberation Project, Book Lovers for Obama, Book Lovers Who Love Fountain Pens, Book Nudgers, Book talk, Books Compared, Books in Books, Books on Books, British & Irish Crime Fiction, Broke!, Cemeteries & Gravestones, Children's Fiction, Children's Literature, Chocolate!, Club Read 2009, Cookbookers, Covers, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Dantisti, E. F. Benson, Eureka! finds, Fairy Tale Readers, Famous voluminous novels, Fans of Russian authors, Favorite Bookstores, Felony & Mayhem Press, Fforde Ffans, Food History, FYI, Girlybooks, Group Reads - Literature, I prefer men to cauliflowers, Illustrated Books, Illustrators - non Anime, IRATE, It's a LondonThing, Italians - Italiani, Jewish Cookbooks and Cookery, Language, Le Salon des Amateurs de la Langue, LibraryThing Community Outreach, LibraryThing in Italian, LibraryThing-ers Anonymous, Loitering with Intent, London in Fiction, Lost Generation, Lost In A Good Book, Lovers of NZ Literature, Middle Eastern Literature, Modern Collector, Monthly Author Reads, Music to read by, MyPeopleConnection Book Clubs, Naval History and Fiction, Needlearts, New authors first editions, New York Review Books, New Yorkers City, Nobel Laureates in Literature, Non-American Literature, One Down, Four Pending, Parents, children or siblings of the mentally ill, Persephone Readers, Project 1929, Rare, Old or Offbeat, Reading Globally, Richard III, Richard Wagner-Yes-Wagner, Secondhand/Used Bookshop/store Addicts, Story-writing Co-Op, Taggers!, Tea!, Tennis, THE ANYTHING CULINARY BOOK GROUP, The Chapel of the Abyss, The Drones Club (all things P.G. Wodehouse), The Haunted Soda: A Yarn in 3 Parts by the Literati of LT, The Red Room, Themes in Literature, Things found in books, Trading Post, Translating LibraryThing? (General Talk), translators read too, Trollope lovers unite or fight, two inches of ivory, Underappreciated Books and Authors, Upstate New Yorkers, Used Books, Victoriana, Virago Modern Classics, ViragoDiva Working Committee, What did YOU buy today?, What the Dickens...?, Wish List, Wishlist of Authors, Women of Mystery, Workspace B, Written in Stone - The Literary Cemetery, Yard Sales and Remaindered
Favorite authorsPeter Ackroyd, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Bill Bryson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, A. S. Byatt, Italo Calvino, Andrea Camilleri, Angela Carter, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, Agatha Christie, Susanna Clarke, Eleanor Dark, Jean Devanny, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Umberto Eco, Anne Fadiman, Henry Fielding, Miles Franklin, John Galsworthy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Carlo Goldoni, Molly Keane, Selma Lagerlöf, D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Sándor Márai, Gabriel García Márquez, W. Somerset Maugham, Guy de Maupassant, Nancy Mitford, Elsa Morante, Orhan Pamuk, Dorothy Parker, Daniel Pennac, Francesco Petrarca, Luigi Pirandello, Edgar Allan Poe, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Vita Sackville-West, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Steinbeck, Angela Thirkell, Leo Tolstoy, Sigrid Undset, Giovanni Verga, Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, P. G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)
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Favorite bookstoresPersephone Books, Strand Bookstore
Favorite librariesThe Warner Library
MembershipER. LibraryThing Early Reviewers/Member Giveaway
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Real namePaola
LocationNew York
Account typepublic, lifetime
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Member sinceMay 26, 2006
