Member: flissp

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About me3 obsessions:

TRAVEL: Here's a map of where I've been. Doesn't even begin to cover where I want to go...:


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MUSIC: All shapes and sizes. I try to be open minded, but I don't think I'm ever going to get the Bob Dylan thing. Or Coldplay (*shudder*). I did try to keep track of my gig going on lastfm, but it petered out. One day I'll start commenting on that too. Maybe.

BOOKS: See below!

About my libraryStill not finished uploading all my books (not aided by the fact that I seem incapable of reducing my book buying habits, despite the massive unread pile I own), but getting there (very) slowly...

I'm mostly dormant on LibraryThing these days (keeping up in the 75 challenge group started to stress me out - and after all, this is supposed to be for fun!), but I do still drop by every now and then.

I have an account for my kindle books, to keep things separate and as there'll probably be a fair bit of overlap (particularly of the free classics!) - it's actually more up to date library-wise than this.

Here's my 75 books for 2014 ticker:



I was a member of the 75 challenge group for quite a while (and still check in every now and then) - my threads are here:

Thread for 2016
Thread for 2015
Thread for 2014
Thread for 2013
Thread for 2012
May - Dec 2011
Jan - Apr 2011
Final quarter of 2010
Third quarter of 2010.
Second quarter of 2010.
First quarter of 2010.
Second half of 2009.
First half of 2009.
Thread for 2008.

Diana Wynne Jones, my favourite childhood author (and still in my top five) sadly died in early 2011. In her honour (and because I wanted to anyway), I re-read all her fiction in publication order. I have a thread for this here. I stopped updating part way through, but I intend to come back to finish up one day (honest!)

I'm keeping track of my niece's library (principally so I don't give her the same books twice), here: http://www.librarything.com/profile/librapea

In 2009, I also took part in the 999 challenge (although I shamefully didn't finish it).

Favourite new reads of 2012:
The Song of Achilles - Madeleine Miller
Everything Begins & Ends at The Kentucky Club - Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Under the Frog - Tibor Fischer
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka

Favourite new reads of 2011:
Jane Austen Selected Letters
A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
Case Histories - Kate Atkinson tied with The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

Favourite new reads of 2010:
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Maus - Art Spiegelman
Room - Emma Donoghue
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter

Favourite new reads of 2009:
Candide or Optimism - Voltaire
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Laclos
The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness
On the Beach - Nevil Shute

Favourite new reads of 2008:
Don't Tell Alfred - Nancy Mitford
The Thirteen Clocks - James Thurber
Basil Howe - G. K. Chesterton
After Dark - Haruki Murakami
The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens
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Favorite authorsDouglas Adams, Jane Austen, E. M. Forster, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Gaskell, Diana Wynne Jones, Hanif Kureishi, Andrey Kurkov, W. Somerset Maugham, Evelyn Waugh, John Wyndham (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites

Favorite bookstoresG. David, Heffers Bookshop, The Haunted Bookshop (Sarah Key Books), Waterstone's Cambridge

Favorite librariesRock Road Library, Saffron Walden Town Library

MembershipER. LibraryThing Early Reviewers

LocationCambridge, UK

Account typepublic

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Member sinceDec 19, 2006

Currently readingWuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Diaries: Volume 1, 1939-1960 (Diaries) by Christopher Isherwood
The stranger by Albert Camus
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
The Outsider by Albert Camus
Grow Your Own Veg (Rhs) by Carol Klein
Travel Through Cambridge: City of Beauty, Reformation and Pioneering Research (Day One Travel Guides) by David Berkley
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Must Love Hellhounds: Four Tales of Devilish Dogs by Charlaine Harris
Kean by Jean-Paul Sartre
Necropsy In E Minor: A Novel by Alan Ramón Clinton
Jeremy Deller: Life is to Blame for Everything by Jeremy Deller
What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan
Popular Music by Mikael Niemi
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