Member: dajashby

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About meEx librarian, ex computer programmer & support person, ex science fiction fan, Currently working at home as the office manager of a small legal costing practice. Owner of cavalier king charles spaniels.

About my libraryHave been accumulating books for over 40 years - science fiction & fantasy, computing, history, historical fiction ... I'm also cataloguing my wife's books, because after 30 years it's kind of hard to work out whose is whose - except for the cookery books, that is.

"Your Library" contains books that we own. Since we live in a fairly small house I've had a fairly rigorous weeding policy over the years, so books get thrown out in numbers that fairly closely match those that are acquired. I have a "Withdrawn" collection for the ones discarded.

17th January, 2010: We've made it into the top 5,000 libraries club! (1,414 books - 12 shelves worth to go).

Groups75 Books Challenge for 2016, 75 Books Challenge for 2017, 75 Books Challenge for 2018, Australian LibraryThingers, Cookbookers, Current Events, Genealogy@LT, Historical Fiction, History: On learning from and writing history, Legacy Libraries —show all groups, Science Fiction Fans, Serial Indexers, THE ANYTHING CULINARY BOOK GROUP, TinyCat

Favorite authorsSamuel R. Delany, Dorothy Dunnett, Jasper Fforde, Shelby Foote, Alan Garner, Stephen Jay Gould, Ursula K. Le Guin, Cecelia Holland, R. A. Lafferty, Fritz Leiber, Shane Maloney, Patrick O'Brian, Mervyn Peake, Ellis Peters, Terry Pratchett, Mary Renault, Dorothy L. Sayers, Cordwainer Smith, Thomas Burnett Swann, J. R. R. Tolkien (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresCoventry Bookstore

Favorite listsHugo Award Winning Novels, Read in 2016

Homepagehttp://www.dajashby.id.au

MembershipTinyCat. https://www.librarycat.org/lib/dajashby

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Member sinceSep 25, 2009

Currently readingFrom Woman to Woman by Lucienne Lanson
The Book of Books by Melvyn Bragg
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Jane Austen and Food by Maggie Lane
The Iron Hand Of Mars: (Falco 4) by Lindsey Davis
In The Shadow Of The Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World by Tom Holland
Reading the OED : one man, one year, 21,730 pages by Ammon Shea
What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Fantasy and SF by Jo Walton
The Art of Discworld (GOLLANCZ S.F.) by Terry Pratchett
Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History (California Studies in Food & Culture) (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Rachel Laudan
His Bloody Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae (Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2016 by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Game of Queens by Sarah Gristwood
Privilege and pleasure by P. G. F. Henderson
Betting systems analysed : an impartial, critical and constructive analysis of betting systems and racecourse operations in Australia by Raymond Spargo
Appetite: So What Do You Want to Eat Today? by Nigel Slater
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