Membernwhyte

Real Name

Nicholas Whyte

About My Library

languages, politics, history, science fiction

(most religion books belong to my wife)

What I am reading/listening to at present
What I might read / listen to next

I am experimenting with running various reading lists, each tagged with a single letter:
a: non-fiction, in order of entry onto my LibraryThing catalogue.
b: non-fiction, in order of popularity on LibraryThing as a whole.
d: fiction other than sf, in order of entry onto my LibraryThing catalogue.
e: fiction other than sf, in order of popularity on LibraryThing as a whole.
g: sf in order of entry onto my LibraryThing catalogue.
h: sf, in order of popularity on LibraryThing as a whole.
k: winners of the Tiptree, BSFA and Arthur C Clarke Awards which I haven't reviewed in the last ten years or so, in order of winning the award.
p: unread English language comics, in rough order of acquisition.
q: unread non-English language comics, in order of popularity on LibraryThing as a whole.
s: books by writers of colour, in rough order of acquisition.
u♀: books by non-male writers, in order of popularity on LibraryThing as a whole.
v: books I have already read but haven't reviewed on-line, ranked by LT popularity.
y: books acquired in 2012, in reverse order of length.

b13: books acquired in 2013, in order of popularity on LibraryThing as a whole.
b14: books acquired in 2014, in order of popularity on LibraryThing as a whole.
b15: books acquired in 2015, in order of popularity on LibraryThing as a whole.
b16: books acquired in 2016, in order of popularity on LibraryThing as a whole.
b17: books acquired in 2017, in order of popularity on LibraryThing as a whole.
b18: books acquired in 2018, in order of popularity on LibraryThing as a whole.
b19: books acquired in 2019, in order of popularity on LibraryThing as a whole.

hnjointwinners: joint winners of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

About Me

Husband, father of three, Irish, European, UK citizen, liberal, political analyst, science fiction fan, psephologist, lapsed medievalist, aspiring polyglot.

Location

Leuven, Belgium

Homepage

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com

Also On

("nwhyte"), Dopplr, Facebook, LiveJournal, Skype, Twitter

Favorite Authors

Brian W. Aldiss, Iain Banks, Alan Barnes, Nicholas Briggs, Lois McMaster Bujold, Jacqueline Carey, Arthur C. Clarke, Daniel Clowes, Paul Cornell, Roald Dahl, Robertson Davies, Philip K. Dick, Neil Gaiman, Misha Glenny, Graham Greene, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Ursula K. Le Guin, Carl Hiaasen, Zoran Živković, Ismaîl Kadaré, Guy Gavriel Kay, David Langford, Fritz Leiber, Barry Letts, Rebecca Levene, H. P. Lovecraft, Ken MacLeod, Ian Marter, Mark Mazower, Ian McDonald, Juliet E. McKenna, C. E. Murphy, Flann O'Brien, Terry Pratchett, Christopher Priest, Marcel Proust, Kurban Said, Saki, Bob Shaw, Neal Stephenson, Charles Stross, Sheri S. Tepper, Eric Thompson, Hunter S. Thompson, J. R. R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Jo Walton, John Wyndham, Roger Zelazny

Local Favorites

Bookstores: FNAC Brussel, Het Besloten Land, Sterling Books, Strand Bookstore, Treasure Trove, Waterstone's Brussels

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Interesting Library

DisassemblyOfReason, Dureo, emmaliminal, EmScape, freelunch, iainbham, iansales, jmkeep, johnnyninefingers, JonArnold, josiasporter, jwhyte, kalanadi, KarenRendall, knepveu, LSDWho, mvuijlst, ochre24, PaulHassett, paulhurtley, rowens, shearrob, Stevil2001, tangerinealert, the_red_shoes, tonnvane, Vierran