Member: baswood

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About meBorn and bred in London, lived in a village in Derbyshire for 15 years and I am now retired and living in South West France in an even smaller village.

I Find myself becoming increasingly apalled by the consumer society that I am of course part of, however I do feel I have escaped some of this living in France.

About my libraryMy actual library is well over 1000 books, but I have decided to enter onto Librarything those books that I have read recently or that I can remember well enough to be able to rate/review.

Over the last 18 months I have read a fair amount of medieval literature, but this year 2012 I will start to make my way into renaissance literature

I like to be reading a few books at the same time and so I will be delving into 20th century literature as well as recent crime/detective novels and science fiction and fantasy stuff. Most of these I read from my wife's recommendations. She reads faster than me.

I have an extensive music library which covers most musical genres: classical, rock, blues, jazz and world music. I try and find time to read and to listen to music, but not both at the same time.

Groups2018 Category Challenge, Bully's Tavern, Club Read 2011, Club Read 2012, Club Read 2013, Club Read 2014, Club Read 2015, Club Read 2016, Club Read 2017, Club Read 2018 —show all groups, Fans of Russian authors, I became a fabulous opera, Infinite Jesters, Le Groupe des Mignon Photos, Literary Centennials, Medieval Europe, Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge, Readers of the London Review of Books, Science Fiction Fans, Thank you for the music, Tropic of Ideas

LocationGers, France

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Member sinceSep 29, 2010

Currently readingCollected Poems 1931-1974 by Lawrence Durrell
Collected Poems of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction by Derek Attridge
The Age of Chaucer Volume I of the Pelican Guide to English Literature by Boris Ford
English Poetry, 1400-1580 by William (editor) Tydeman
The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie and Their Contemporaries by Zachary Leader
Concise Cambridge History of English Literature, Second Edition with a Chapter on the Age of Eliot by George Sampson; And R.C. Churchill
Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt
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