JäsenCarltonC
- Kokoelmat
- Kaikki kokoelmat (4,093), Did not finish (7), Oma kirjasto (3,231), Aion lukea (1,449), Kindle (1,010), Parhaillaan lukemassa (150), Folio Society (400), 1000 Books to read before you die (178), Suosikit (47), Luettu, ei oma (188), Slightly Foxed (26), A's (110), Reference (45), Given away (677)
- Avainsanoja
- Fiction (2,027), British (1,991), American (754), History (544), Folio Society (314), Art (292), Short stories (282), Crime (248), Fantasy (245), Essays (232), 1001 (221), Autobiography (187), SF (185), Literary (161), Biography (157), Travel (150), Historical (131), Humour (118), French (107), Poetry (106), Irish (87), Italian (83), Discworld (81), German (80), Russian (76), European (71), books about books (66), Nature (62), Criticism (47), Archaeology (46), Pulitzer (33), Childrens (32), Canadian (32), Cover (31), Icelandic (30), Ancient Greece (29), Venice (27), Greek (25), Ancient history (24), Austrian (23), Journalism (21), Philosophy (20), Australian (20), Science (19), Architecture (18), Dutch (18), Play (17), Thriller (16), Middle East (16), Czech (15), Spanish (14), Natural History (13), Epic (13), Africa (11), Roman (11), Myth (10), Indian (10), Manx (10), Danish (10), Argentinian (9), Cultural (9), Egypt (8), Alexandria (8), Turkish (8), Japanese (8), Politics (7), Religion (7), Music (7), India (7), Geography (7), South African (7), Polish (6), Geology (6), Iceland (6), Finnish (6), Reference (5), Bulgarian (5), America (4), Norse (4), Latin (4), Asia (4), Booker (4), Colombian (4), Egyptian (4), Medieval (4), Byzantine (3), Entertainment (3), China (3), Swedish (3), Fairy tales (3), Magazine (2), Mexican (2), Catalogue (2), Maths (2), Norwegian (2), Reportage (2), Bosnian (2), Libyan (2), Business (2), New Zealand (2), Arabia (2), Chilean (2), Croatia (2), Flemish (2), Collection (1), Palestinian (1), Psychology (1), Latin America (1), Romanian (1), Ghanaian (1), Hungarian (1), Photography (1), Horror (1), Albanian (1), Anthology (1), Encyclopedia (1), Belgian (1), Zimbabwe (1), Spain (1), Vietnam (1), Balkans (1), Afghanistan (1), Pakistan (1), Berlin (1), Lebanese (1)
- Pilvet
- Avainsanapilvi, Tekijäpilvi, Avainsanapeili
- Väline
- Ryhmät
- Liittynyt
- Jun 11, 2008
- Oikea nimi
- Carlton
- About My Library
- I have recorded the books that I have finished reading since September 1981 and listed them all in a, now fragile, black book. I have attempted to list some of the books I read prior to 1981, but there are a lot of unrecorded science fiction/fantasy titles from that period.
I still enjoy the occasional fantasy title, but read a mix of history, travel, "literary" fiction, historical fiction and what would appear to be an above average proportion of short story collections. I also like books-about-books (both the physical artefact and reading), having spent a lot of time mooching around bookshops.
I only started writing reviews of the books I have read a few years ago (about 2009). - About Me
“We read books to find out who we are.”
— Ursule Le Guin, The Language of the Night, 1979"The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have! How many of these books have you read?” and the others — a very small minority — who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary."
From Helen Gordon’s Notes from Deep Time:
There’s a pleasure in knowing the names of things. It’s not about a need to categorise the world, sectioning it into little boxes. And clearly you don’t have to know the names of rocks – or trees or plants or birds – in order to enjoy a landscape. But if you do have this information, something changes about the way you exist in that space. A named landscape thickens. It’s to do with history and context but also, I think, with the quality of attention. To assign something its name, you need to take the time to pick out identifying features. You look for longer. And the more you know, the more things stop being a backdrop – blurred, indistinguishable, hurried over – and become somehow more present in the view, more insistently themselves, the way a familiar face stands out in a crowd.
From Colm Toíbín’s A Guest at the Feast
All of us have a landscape of the soul, places whose contours and resonances are etched into us and haunt us. If we ever became ghosts, these are the places to which we would return.
- Sijainti
- Cotswolds
- Memberships
- Also On
- Parhaillaan lukemassa
- A House of Air (tekijä: Penelope Fitzgerald)Pleasure of Ruins (tekijä: Rose Macaulay)How to Be Alone (tekijä: Jonathan Franzen)Step Across This Line (tekijä: Salman Rushdie)Caspar David Friedrich (tekijä: Werner Hofmann)Swann's Way (tekijä: Marcel Proust)Mists of Avalon (tekijä: Marion Zimmer Bradley)The Magic Mountain (tekijä: Thomas Mann)The Stones of Venice (tekijä: John Ruskin)The Little Stranger (tekijä: Sarah Waters)Very Good Jeeves (tekijä: P. G. Wodehouse)The Return of John Macnab (tekijä: Andrew Greig)Complete Stories (tekijä: Flannery O'Connor)The Jewel in the Crown (tekijä: Paul Scott)Arabian Sands : (tekijä: Wilfred Thesiger)A Moment of War (tekijä: Laurie Lee)The Day of the Triffids (tekijä: John Wyndham)Mr Standfast (tekijä: John Buchan)Black Sea (tekijä: Neal Ascherson)A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (tekijä: Eric Newby)Dracula (tekijä: Bram Stoker)Bound to Please (tekijä: Michael Dirda)Europe: A History (tekijä: Norman Davies)Epitaph for a Spy (tekijä: Eric Ambler)Jeeves and the Wedding Bells (tekijä: Sebastian Faulks)Raven Black (Shetland) (tekijä: Ann Cleeves)The Goldfinch (tekijä: Donna Tartt)Miss Marple Novels Four volume boxed edition: The Murder at the Vicarage; The Body in the Library; A Pocket Full of Rye; Sleeping Murder (tekijä: Agatha Christie)The Tomb of Tutankhamun (tekijä: Howard Carter)Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (tekijä: Jean Manco)The Complete Conan Saga (tekijä: Robert E. Howard)A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 [2 Volume Set in a Slipcase] (tekijä: Orlando Figes)Call for the Dead (tekijä: John le Carre)The Balkan Trilogy: "Great Fortune", "Spoilt City" and "Friends and Heroes" (tekijä: Olivia Manning)1215: The Year of Magna Carta (tekijä: Danny Danziger)Egypt and Nubia (tekijä: David Roberts)The Great War and Modern Memory (tekijä: Paul Fussell)Darwin and the 'Beagle' (tekijä: Alan Moorehead)Alexandria: A History and Guide (tekijä: E. M. Forster)Shackleton's Boat Journey (tekijä: Worsley F.A.)Celts: Art and Identity (tekijä: Julia Farley)SPQR: A history of Ancient Rome (tekijä: Mary Beard)84 Charing Cross Road (tekijä: Helen Hanff)Egypt: faith after the pharaohs (tekijä: Cäcilia Fluck)Sea Room (tekijä: Adam Nicolson)My Name is Lucy Barton (tekijä: Elizabeth Strout)A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman (Penguin Classics) (tekijä: A. E. Housman)Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane (tekijä: S Frederick Starr)The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (tekijä: Mark Twain)Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (tekijä: Dee Brown)Moonglow (tekijä: Michael Chabon)Canaletto and the Art of Venice (tekijä: Lucy Whitaker)The Underground Railroad (tekijä: Colson Whitehead)The Night Listener (tekijä: Armistead Maupin)Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister (Everyman's Library CLASSICS) (tekijä: Nicholas Shakespeare)Art as Therapy (tekijä: Alain Botton)Gone with the Wind (tekijä: Margaret Mitchell)The Dawn Watch (tekijä: Maya Jasanoff)After the Party (tekijä: Cressida Connolly)The Building of England: How the History of England Has Shaped Our Buildings (tekijä: Simon Thurley)The Country House Library (tekijä: Mark Purcell)Life And Fate (tekijä: Vasily Grossman)A Midsummer Night's Dream (tekijä: William Shakespeare)On the Ocean: The Mediterranean and the Atlantic from prehistory to AD 1500 (tekijä: Sir Barry Cunliffe)Hamnet (tekijä: Maggie O'Farrell)The House of the Spirits (tekijä: Isabel Allende)Coronation Everest (tekijä: Jan Morris)Lot (tekijä: Bryan Washington)Faber & Faber: The Untold Story (tekijä: Toby Faber)The Last Picture Show (tekijä: Larry McMurtry)The Song of Achilles (tekijä: Madeline Miller)Novel On Yellow Paper (tekijä: Stevie Smith)The Books of Jacob (tekijä: Olga Tokarczuk)Film in Five Seconds (tekijä: Matteo Civaschi)Selected Poems (tekijä: John Betjeman)The Spider's Web (tekijä: Joseph Roth)The Books of Jacob (tekijä: Olga Tokarczuk)Gates Of Fire (tekijä: Steven Pressfield)A Book of Days: Patti Smith (tekijä: Patti Smith)Magpie Murders (tekijä: Anthony Horowitz)
- Lempikirjailijat
- Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Raymond Carver, Charles Dickens, Joan Didion, Lawrence Durrell, Penelope Fitzgerald, E. M. Forster, Ursula K. Le Guin, Rudyard Kipling, Alberto Manguel, Hilary Mantel, Armistead Maupin, Carson McCullers, Jan Morris, George Orwell, Terry Pratchett, Annie Proulx, Dorothy L. Sayers, W. G. Sebald, Ali Smith, J. R. R. Tolkien, P. G. Wodehouse
- Favorite Lists
- Local Favorites
Kirjakauppoja: Blackwell's Oxford, Borders - Oxford, Borzoi Bookshop, Jaffé & Neale, Oxfam Bookshop - Witney, Oxfam Bookshop Oxford (St Giles), Waterstones Oxford
Viimeaikaiset tapahtumat
Yhteyksiä muihin jäseniin
- Kiinnostavat kirjastot