Member: plaugher

CollectionsYour library (2,976)

Reviews16 reviews

Tags2014 census (2,313), fiction (986), united kingdom (602), united states (479), books on books (441), travel (393), literature (373), history (295), canada (288), penguin (272) — see all tags

MediaNot set (80), Book (2,894), Paper Book (2,731), Ebook (29), Other (2)

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About me38-year-old academic library technician/archival assistant with a penchant for books on books, European fiction, travel narratives, and book-as-object.

About my libraryIn catch-up mode after 11.5 years of neglect. For real, this time.

GroupsAntiquarian Books, Awful Lit., Banned Books, Bikes and Bicycles, Cycles, Cyclists and Bikers, Booker Prize, Books Compared, Books on Books, Booksellers, Booksellers who LibraryThing, Canadian Bookworms —show all groups, Fine Press Forum, Legacy Libraries, Librarians who LibraryThing, LibraryThing Coffeehouse, Literary Snobs, Medieval Europe, New York Review Books, Penguin Classics, Rare, Old or Offbeat, Reading Globally, Travel and Exploration literature, Used Books

Favorite authorsRenata Adler, Geoffrey Chaucer, J. P. Donleavy, Alexandre Dumas, Geoff Dyer, Esi Edugyan, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Tibor Fischer, Penelope Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, Lawrence Hill, Bohumil Hrabal, Jerome K. Jerome, László Krasznahorkai, Czesław Miłosz, Flann O'Brien, James Salter, Freya Stark, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Robert Walser (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresBookmark II, Brattle Book Shop, Carlson & Turner Books, Commonwealth Books, Crescent City Books, Dauphine Street Books, Raven Used Books, Schooner Books, Shakespeare and Company (Paris), The Harvard Coop, The Odd Book, The Word Bookstore, Titcombs Book Shop, Tombland Bookshop, Yes Books

Favorite librariesAnchor Archive Zine Library, Dalhousie University - Killam Memorial Library, Dalhousie University - W. K. Kellogg Health Sciences Library, Halifax Central Library, Mount Saint Vincent University Library, New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Nova Scotia Archives Library, Saint Mary's University - Patrick Power Library, Sexton Design & Technology Library, University of King's College Library

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

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Real namePhil Laugher

LocationHalifax, NS

Account typepublic

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Member sinceDec 4, 2005