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Tar Baby - tekijä: Morrison Toni

Modern Haiku : Autumn 1983 - tekijä: Robert Spiess (editor)

Days Into Flatspin: Poems - tekijä: Ken Babstock

Black and Blue: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) - tekijä: Anna Quindlen

States of Grace: A Novel of the Count Saint-Germain (St. Germain) - tekijä: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Whiteout - tekijä: James Houston

The Life Of John Bunyan Written By Himself - tekijä: John Bunyan

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ystävät: Clanky, joannasephine, obsessedbybooks, tobiejonzarelli

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Avainsanatliterature (893), translation (536), American lit (507), non-fiction (484), English lit (377), Bookmooched (362), historical fiction (330), poetry (326), Book Lust (305), Canadian lit (293) — kaikki avainsanat

Ryhmät1001 Books to read before you die, Australian LibraryThingers, BookMooching, What Are You Reading Now?

LempikirjailijatPeter Ackroyd, Alexander Solzenitzen, Aharon Appelfeld, Paul Auster, James Baldwin, Walter Benjamin, John Berger, Chris Bohjalian, Albert Camus, Hart Crane, Robertson Davies, Joan Didion, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Umberto Eco, Nawal El-Saadawi, Romain Gary, Kaye Gibbons, Kate Grenville, Torey Hayden, Susan Hill, Marshall Hryciuk, Zora Neale Hurston, Kazuo Ishiguro, Nikos Kazantzakis, Jonathan Kozol, Dennis Lehane, Doris Lessing, Primo Levi, Sinclair Lewis, Malcolm Lowry, Thomas Mann, Rollo May, Ian McEwan, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Toni Morrison, Iris Murdoch, Jo Nesbo, Hakan Nesser, Amélie Nothomb, Kenzaburo Oe, Maggie O'Farrell, Liam O'Flaherty, Tillie Olsen, Amos Oz, Cynthia Ozick, Orhan Pamuk, Ann Patchett, Alan Paton, Iain Pears, Chaim Potok, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Robotham, Joseph Roth, Oliver Sacks, William Shakespeare, Alan Sillitoe, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Aleksander Solzenitsyn, Susan Sontag, John Steinbeck, William Styron, Jacobo Timerman, Arthur W. Upfield, Jane Urquhart, Salley Vickers, Alice Walker, Elie Wiesel, Tim Winton, Thomas Wolfe, Richard Wright (Yhteiset suosikit)

Tietoja minusta 57, Canada, disabled by poor health and confined to home, I read a great deal and need recommendations.
Much of my reading now is borrowed from the public library, but since joining Bookmooch I am acquiring many that way.

My HOMEPAGE is a modest LIT BLOG and I love to have visitors who leave notes and recommendations.

Tietoja kirjastostani Good literary fiction ONLY is what interests me now. I've read all the non-fiction I'm interested in. My listed library includes read, owned, wanted, willing to swap, to be read etc.
I welcome recommendations BUT science fiction, fantasy, Western, genre romance, supernatural, or horror are not wanted, thank you.
I do enjoy original and well-written mystery/suspense/crime
from anywhere, Scandinavian mystery writers are particularly interesting at the moment.

Australian literature interests me very much too.

Kotisivuhttp://www.opendiary.com/entrylist.asp?authorcode=D711518

Mukana myösBookMooch

Jäsenyys LibraryThing Early Reviewers ("varhaiset kirja-arvostelijat")

Oikea nimiSandy

SijaintiCanada

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URL:t http://www.librarything.com/profile/posthumose (profiili)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/posthumose (kirjasto)

RekisteröitymispäiväMay 29, 2007

Kommentteja muilta librarythingaajilta

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Hello! I went favorites only on my diary. If you'd like to still be included there, please let me know! Take care!

Lähettänyt: Clanky 10:40 pm (EST) Jul 18, 2008

Hi-I've enjoyed browsing some of your library, and noticed that you have not read (or, at least, listed) Stegner's Crossing to Safety, which I highly recommend. I am drawn to your library because I also have an aversion to those you have listed: sci-fi, fantasy, romance. I hope we can exchange recommendations from time to time. This is a wonderful site for exploring books and authors and so very addictive.
Pat

Lähettänyt: pdebolt 5:16 pm (EST) Jul 11, 2008

Hi Sandy,

Thanks for your kind comments re. my library! Do know I've enjoyed perusing your massive encyclopedic selections of fiction. My knowledge of Australian Lit is fairly limited, but there's three others writers out there I'm aware of worth mentioning: First, Nevil Shute. He's most famous for his post-apocalyptic novel, "On The Beach" (great movie too btw), but I've read that most of his novels are excellent as well. Secondly, Elliot Perlman, whose novel "Seven Types of Ambiguity" is a long, more contemporary, psychologically-based tour de force. And thirdly, there's J.M. Coetze, whose nationality is listed both as South African & Australian. I read his prize-winning novel, "Waiting For The Barbarians," for a college class way back when, and recall it being one of those few have-to-read-books I actually enjoyed.

Warm regards,

"Lola"

Lähettänyt: EnriqueFreeque 3:08 pm (EST) Jul 6, 2008

Hi Sandy, just passing by to see how you are doing?

I have the Christina Stead mentioned below in one of my piles, perhaps I will bring it up a bit!

Caroline

Lähettänyt: Caroline_McElwee 1:30 pm (EST) Jul 6, 2008

Hello there,

You mentioned in your profile being interested in Australian Lit. Have you "discovered" Christina Stead yet? Her novel "The Man Who Loved Children" is one of the great underappreciated novels of the 20th century.

Happy reading,

"Lola"

Lähettänyt: EnriqueFreeque 2:21 am (EST) Jul 6, 2008

Thanks! I love your choices too!

I try to predict the Booker every year, and do a "Wisdom of Crowds" group every year to help predict the shortlist. If you would ever like to be a part of this, please let me know!

I like reading books that are difficult, that challenge me, and prize winners can usually fall into this category. Not always, though.

What did you think of The Bone People by Keri Hulme? I know a lot of people hated it, but I thought the writing was beautiful and different.

Lähettänyt: TurboBookSnob 4:57 pm (EST) Jun 17, 2008

Hi there, and greetings from Salt Lake City! I love your library, and we share a ton of books, too! I love Canada and hope to retire to Victoria BC someday if possible. I love McEwan too, and am currently doing a continuing ed class at Oxford that focuses on Atonement, Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, and White Teeth by Zadie Smith. It's an amazing course, and a great way to connect with book lovers around the world.

Take care,
Wendy
www.turbobooksnob.com

Lähettänyt: TurboBookSnob 4:54 pm (EST) Jun 17, 2008

Sorry, of course I wrote before I looked; you have a couple of Reginald Hill in your collection.

Lähettänyt: weheckman 7:01 pm (EST) May 12, 2008

If you like mysteries, you might try Reginald Hill. He is quite articulate and most of the time you do not figure out “who done it” in the first few chapters. He spins a good yarn. I have bought most of mine through Amazon.co.uk but living in Canada, you might be able to get them more easily. Jasper Fforde is sort of fantasy but more alternate reality and if you enjoy literature you might enjoy his books. Start with “The Eyre Affair”.

Lähettänyt: weheckman 6:59 pm (EST) May 12, 2008

Oh -- you do have Atonement! (What did you think of it...?)

Lähettänyt: Fullmoonblue 4:22 pm (EST) Mar 27, 2008

Novels we don't have in common, but which you might find interesting based on your bio info:

"Ragtime" by E.L. Doctorow... "Atonement" by Ian McEwan (I haven't seen the movie yet, but the novel was excellent)... Nabokov's "Lolita"... "Shame" by Salman Rushdie... Jeanette Winterson's "Written on the Body," and "By The Sea" by Abdulrazak Gurnah.

I'll definitely seek out a few of your titles.

A fellow BookMoocher,

Elizabeth ("fullmoonblue")

Lähettänyt: Fullmoonblue 4:19 pm (EST) Mar 27, 2008

Hi there, and greetings from Washington, DC! I took a look at your library and it's great! We seem to have much in common, and I noticed you even listed Amos Oz among your favorite authors... Have you ever read Meir Shalev? His book THE BLUE MOUNTAIN is incredible, and so is ESAU.

If you're looking to read a good mystery/detective novel, I recommend IN THE WOODS by the Irish Tana French. I loved this book, it was a breath of fresh air!

Anyway - I added your library to my interesting libraries list - I guess I will be "seeing" you around then.

Gisela

Lähettänyt: carioca 12:52 am (EST) Mar 13, 2008

Hello there!

we do share similar reading tastes in reading don't we! When I popped over to have a lookie at your library thing, I noticed that you also have a lot of books I've not got around to adding to my library yet, so I suspect that the figure would in fact be much higher than 19/60 when i eventually get around to updating!

Absolutely add me to your interesting libraries, I'd be quite chuffed in fact! As for Australian lit recommendations, let me head back to my lair and peruse my shelves and get back to you! I do love a good challenge :D

Lähettänyt: antipodeanowl 12:59 am (EST) Feb 14, 2008

Hey! I just joined and you appear to top my "shared favourites." I have to say I admire your disposition (not interested in fluffy reading material, just good literature) and your overall outlook on literature in general. A few names on your list are reminding me of things I forgot to list when I signed up, even.

Anyways, since you say you're interested in suggestions, I'll say you ought to read "Descent into Hell" by Charles Williams. That's all.

Lähettänyt: brian_james 5:13 pm (EST) Jan 29, 2008

Thanks for marking my books interesting too - I had just discovered the Favorite Writers thing - and you came out at the top of the shared list, with 5 in common.

Lähettänyt: panopoly 10:22 pm (EST) Jan 15, 2008

Oh, dear! You poor thing! I was wondering why you weren't posting so often, but then sometimes people disappear for a while when life gets hectic! Sorry to hear you were in the hospital, but happy that you are back out again!

Lähettänyt: Clanky 5:10 pm (EST) Dec 15, 2007

Thank you for putting me on your interesting library list- I do like Boris Akunin and am waiting for his latest novel to be published in Canada- I think in Jan.( I checked on Amazon UK. )

Lähettänyt: torontoc 10:03 pm (EST) Dec 9, 2007

Nice to meet you, Sandy, and to connect with a fellow Canuck.

I will return to your profile in the future and take a look at your reviews. They look interesting.

Cheers,

Karen

Lähettänyt: kiwidoc 11:20 am (EST) Dec 8, 2007

Nice to hear from you Sandy. Isn't LibraryThing a joy for all the connections it permits. I'm currently enjoying a book by an Australian writer called "True Pleasures: a memoir of women in Paris" - I picked it up in Shakespeare and Company when I was working there earlier this week - some fascinating historic/literary women are included.

Kind regards
Caroline

Lähettänyt: Caroline_McElwee 9:05 am (EST) Dec 7, 2007

Good to hear from you, glad you like the blog!

Lähettänyt: scottpack 2:50 pm (EST) Nov 27, 2007

For an Australian writer with a Canadian connection, inasmuch as she lived many years in Kingston, Ontario, and parts of some of her books are set in Canada, you might try Janette Turner Hospital, say, BORDERLINE or CHARADES.

Lähettänyt: TePuruBeach 9:50 am (EST) Nov 26, 2007

Hi Sandy, Your library looks much more interesting than mine!
Amanda

Lähettänyt: amandameale 7:24 pm (EST) Nov 21, 2007

We may actually have more than 5 in common - I've only put a few on so far.

I think if you were going to like The Unconsoled you would have done so already! Its not to everybody's taste - far from it. I think I'm one of the few who rate it hightly.

Ella Minnow Pea is unusual but so clever - far from conventional literature!

I am sure you'd like the Stefan Zweig (he said rather arrogantly!).

all the best Tom

Lähettänyt: homefield 2:19 pm (EST) Nov 14, 2007

I note you didn't give a star rating to Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled. Did you read it? If not, its worth a try - going by which other books you've read.

Also, a mustread - Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig. A deeply engrossing novel.

For light relief, English writers James Hamilton-Paterson is good, also John Lanchester.

Lähettänyt: homefield 8:19 am (EST) Nov 13, 2007

G'day,

Thanks for your message. I notice you are interested in Australian Literature. You might enjoy a book called The Running Man by Michael Gerard Bauer. This was his first book and it won the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year: Older Readers Award for 2005.

This is a well-written and moving book. It is one I would like to have in my permanent collection. I highly recommend it.

fairy-whispers

Lähettänyt: fairy-whispers 6:36 pm (EST) Sep 24, 2007

Hi Sandy
If you're looking for Australian literature go to What Are You Reading Now and look for "A Year of Australian Literature". Also Reading Globally- Fiction group.
Amanda

Lähettänyt: amandameale 8:56 am (EST) Sep 7, 2007

Sandy - thanks for adding me to your library watch list. I have just read through your profile and the books we share, and you ask for recommendations, well of those we don't share some of the best I have read over the past year include:

PURPLE HIBISCUS Chimamanda Ngosi Adiche
HALF THE YELLOW SUN "
THE KITE RUNNER Khaled Hosseini
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS "
DAVID COPPERFIELD Charles Dickens

Anything by Pat Barker - especially her WW1 trilogy REGENERATION/THE EYE IN THE DOOR/GHOST ROAD - they are not so much trench detail, as the psychological impact of war. The first fictionalises the war experiences of the war poets and their psychologist, and the remaining two novels continue with the psychologist but with fictional characters. Her other early novels are also worth a read, gritty northern English for the early ones, and the other latter ones often have some them that relates to psychology, including other war experiences, as with her latest LIFE CLASS

Among those we do share (in case you haven't read them):

SUITE FRANCAISE Irene Nemerovski
THE THIRTEENTH TALE Diane Setterfield
THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING Joan Didion
THE POISONWOOD BIBLE Barbara Kingsolver

Hope there is something of interest to you there.
Take care
Kind regards
Caroline

Lähettänyt: Caroline_McElwee 10:51 am (EST) Aug 27, 2007

Oh, look! We're up to 27!

Lähettänyt: Clanky 9:11 pm (EST) Aug 23, 2007

Yes, I am. Are you one as well?

Lähettänyt: evangeline83 7:21 am (EST) Aug 6, 2007

Well, 12 is better than none! *smiles*

Lähettänyt: Clanky 10:38 pm (EST) Jul 24, 2007

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