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Tietoja minusta Born in the sixties (too late or too early). M.D. (pediatrician). Misanthrope (somewhat). Anglophile (somehow). Bookworm (sometimes). Politically extremist (some think) - Traditionalist/Paleoconservative (could be, I love dinosaurs). Romantic hero (bad luck) - looking for love in all the wrong places - male chauvinist (perhaps that is why - but really just pretending). Overweight. Underpaid. Longing for the Sea - living on a hill. A Myers-Briggs INTJ(if that really means anything at all). Walking alone in the Dark, seeking enlightenment. Heart of Gold, Brain the size of a planet (this is a literary quotation - guess where from :-). What else would you want to know?

As for "also on", in IRC you find me as Marchal, _Marchal, _Marchal_ or Marchal_ (IRCNet, Undernet, freenode, EFNet, DALnet. You might try out the channel #librarything on freenode.net.
AIM: ChRenner, YahooIM: cnrenner, ICQ: Marchal or UIN# 23991828

My own writings: :-) No, I have only been publishing minor scientific medical articles and done some incoherent and erratic blogging and that does not really count, does it? Although (like everybody else?) I do have one or two plots in my mind that I would like to write into one or two novels one day.... hmmmm...I used to want to become a space astronaut, I hope these two ideas are not on the same level of probability... :-)

My New Year´s resolves for 2008 (bookreading list see below)
My reading list for 2008 (tagged "tbr2008") - those actually read will be tagged r2008 .

[Some links I like to have handy at the moment (just for my own use :-):
corectme.com
How to learn any language ]

I like what szarka says about his motivation to join LibraryThing: "I joined LibraryThing for the chicks." Ah well, love of books only goes so far...

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Tietoja kirjastostani "Let books be your dining table,
And you shall be full of delights
Let them be your mattress
And you shall sleep restful nights."
— St. EPHREM the Syrian (303-373)

My LT-catalog is a work-in-progress - like my book collection a bit ecclectic and always incomplete ("The whole reflects all kinds of passing interests, and testifies to a lack of focus on anything in particular." as Savages put it). And growing (even if a bit slowlier these days).

All books listed are physically mine (living here with me) - with the exception of those tagged "nyr" or "nry", which are books I have ordered, but "not yet received" or "not received yet".

As for the "fiction" part of my "private" library there are "must-haves", "classics", a few science fiction or fantasy works and always groups of books clustering around authors I like (like Paul Auster) or topics I was, have been or am interested in. Quite a mix.

Quite a portion of my "private" books are "non-fiction": politics, history, philosopy, spirituality ("forbidden section"), science, travel guides, how-tos, religion.

I love reading in English, so many of my books are in that language (about 40% by the latest count) - and my German is quite good :-), so quite a lot of books I own are in German.

Additionally my catalogue comprises (not yet all of) my "professional" books (medicine and many of psychology - most of them in German), as well as my "computer and tech books" (some of them outdated, but dear, and many of them in German, as well) and my "language" books (books for learning foreign languages, and no, I do not speak all those, and yes, I did make several attempts to learn at least one or two, fruitlessly so far).

I have found out that I love to have "old books" - used books with a history, as old as possible, with a smell of their own and those beautiful hard covers of ages gone by. I own only two or three books as old as the 19th century, but they make a wonderful part of my collection (tagged oldbooks or veryoldbooks). Wish I could afford more of these...

All in all the list should be very well 3700+ books long (including my books at my parents`). And although space is running short I hope my book collection will still grow a bit. Oh - and I envy those here with 10000+-book libraries - although I really would not have space enough for so many books.


Here is my amazon.de-wishlist - if you are at a loss what present to choose for me :-)

I opened a second LT account to collect all the books I do not yet have, but would like to own into a kind of immaterial part of my library .

As for getting books and letting the tbr-pile grow I found this insightful quotation in myshelves` profile:

"Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance."
-- A. E. Newton

or the quote by Anthony Burgess: "The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it." (New York Times Book Review)

To the above quotations I have nothing to add :-), but that this attitude has proved to be a major strain on the banking account, which is why I have imposed a book-buying moratorium until 12/31/2008 upon myself...we`ll see...might be very good for my read/tbr-ratio, as well :-)

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Annotation: How I rate my books (if at all):
1 star out of 5: read it and did not like it too much
2 stars: slightly less-than-average quality in most respects, but might be read if you have a special interest in the topic
3 stars: a reasonably acceptable book in my view
4 stars: stands above the fray, a worthwhile read, perhaps even a must (if the topic intersts you)
5 stars: one of my favorites - get it and read it.

1/2 stars are in between :-)
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Links where I have started to look for used (rarer) books:
Vialibri.net
Bookfinder.com
Addall.com
Abebooks.de
ZVAB.com

----- CHARTING MY LIBRARY -----
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I. LANGUAGE-WISE
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language German
- language German - fiction
- language German - non-fiction

language English
- language English - fiction
- language English - non-fiction

II. FICTION - NON-FICTION - MYTHOLOGY - OTHER
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fiction

- fiction - non-poetry
- fiction - non-poetry - fiction general - Japanese authors
- fiction - non-poetry - fiction general - Irish authors
- fiction - non-poetry - fiction general - modern
- fiction - non-poetry - fiction general modern - language German
- fiction - non-poetry - fiction general modern - language English
- fiction - non-poetry - fiction general pre-20thcentury
- fiction - non-poetry - fiction general pre-20thcentury - language German
- fiction - non-poetry - fiction general pre-20th century - language English
- fiction - non-poetry - historical fiction modern
- fiction - non-poetry - historical fiction modern - language German
- fiction - non-poetry - historical fiction modern - language English
- fiction - non-poetry - historical fiction pre-20thcentury
- fiction - non-poetry - historical fiction pre-20th century - language German
- fiction - non-poetry - historical fiction pre-20th century - language English
- fiction - non-poetry - science fiction and fantasy
- fiction - non-poetry - science fiction and fantasy - language German
- fiction - non-poetry - science fiction and fantasy - language English
- fiction - non-poetry - science fiction and fantasy - Douglas Adams
- fiction - non-poetry - fairy tales
- fiction/non-fiction - non-poetry - dragonlore

- fiction - poetry
- fiction - poetry - language German
- fiction - poetry - language English
- fiction - poetry - Shakespeare

- fiction - drama-plays
- fiction - drama-plays - language German
- fiction - drama-plays - language English
- fiction - drama-plays - language English - Christopher Marlowe
- fiction - drama-plays - Shakespeare
- fiction - drama-plays - Shakespeare - audio-CD

non-fiction

- non-fiction - medicine
- non-fiction - medicine - pediatrics
- non-fiction - medicine - alternative
- non-fiction - medicine - alternative - homoeopathy
- non-fiction - medicine - alternative - traditional chinese medicine
- non-fiction - medicine - alternative - other
- non-fiction - psychiatry/psychology/psychotherapy
- non-fiction - psychiatry/psychology/psychotherapy - hypnosis

- non-fiction - computer science and information technology
- non-fiction - computer science and IT - Linux/Unix
- non-fiction - computer science and IT - Microsoft
- non-fiction - computer science and IT - security
- non-fiction - computer science and IT - programming
- non-fiction - computer science and IT - networking
- non-fiction - computer science and IT - encryption/code/cryptography
- non-fiction - computer science and IT - other

- non-fiction - language learning
- non-fiction - languages - Spanish
- non-fiction - languages - French
- non-fiction - languages - Italian
- non-fiction - languages - Latin
- non-fiction - languages - other

- non-fiction - spirituality and religion
- non-fiction - spirituality - Christian
- non-fiction - spirituality - buddhism
- non-fiction - spirituality - shamanism
- non-fiction - spirituality - meditation
- non-fiction - spirituality - other

- non-fiction - history
- non-fiction - history - ancient history
- non-fiction - history - ancient history - Greek
- non-fiction - history - ancient history - Roman
- non-fiction - history - ancient history - other
- non-fiction - history - German history
- non-fiction - history - UK history
- non-fiction - history - American history
- non-fiction - history - French history
- non-fiction - history - Africa
- non-fiction - history - Africa - historical fiction
- non-fiction - history - biographies/autobiographies
- non-fiction - history - general
- non-fiction - history - other

- non-fiction - games and gambling
- non-fiction - games - chess
- non-fiction - games - go
- non-fiction - games - draughts/checkers
- non-fiction - games - poker
- non-fiction - games - other

- non-fiction - geography and travel
- non-fiction - geography and travel - Germany
- non-fiction - geography and travel - Spain
- non-fiction - geography and travel - UK
- non-fiction - geography and travel - Ireland
- non-fiction - geography and travel - general
- non-fiction - geography and travel - other

- non-fiction - books on books
- non-fiction - books on books - book collecting
- non-fiction - books on books - companion books
- non-fiction - books on books - companion books - biographies/autobiographies

- non-fiction - photography

- non-fiction - manners

- non-fiction - political theory
- non-fiction - political theory - conservatism
- non-fiction - political theory - conservative - paleoconservative
- non-fiction - political theory - libertarian
- non-fiction - political theory - ancient authors
- non-fiction - political theory - other

- non-fiction - philosophy
- non-fiction - philosophy - ancient
- non-fiction - philosophy - ancient - stoa
- non-fiction - philosophy - ancient - epicur
- non-fiction - philosophy - ancient - other
- non-fiction - philosophy - German
- non-fiction - philosophy - general
- non-fiction - philosophy - other

- non-fiction - food/drink/cooking/eating

- non-fiction - writing
- non-fiction - writing - poetry

- non-fiction - nature
- non-fiction - nature - plants
- non-fiction - nature - animals
- non-fiction - nature - stars and astronomy
- non-fiction - nature - other

- non-fiction - other

mythology and folklore
- mythology and folklore - German and nordic
- mythology and folklore - Greek and Roman
- mythology and folklore - Irish
- mythology and folklore - King Arthur
- mythology and folklore - other

Ireland

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