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Tietoja minusta“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."
Tietoja kirjastostaniI 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).
RyhmätAncient History, Anglophiles, Folio Society Devotees, Slightly Foxed - An appreciation, Travel and Exploration literature
LempikirjailijatJorge 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 (Yhteiset suosikit)
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SuosikkikirjakaupatBorders - Oxford, Borzoi Bookshop, Jaffé & Neale, Oxfam Bookshop Oxford (St Giles), Waterstones Oxford
SuosikkilistatThe Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read
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RekisteröitymispäiväJun 11, 2008
Parhaillaan lukemassaLolita (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) – tekijä: Vladimir Nabokov
LONDON 1851: THE YEAR OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION. – tekijä: Eric. De Mare
A House of Air – tekijä: Penelope Fitzgerald
How to Be Alone – tekijä: Jonathan Franzen
On the Natural History of Destruction – tekijä: W.G. Sebald
Step Across This Line – tekijä: Salman Rushdie
Caspar David Friedrich – tekijä: Werner Hofmann
Jazz Age Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) – tekijä: F.Scott Fitzgerald
Swann's Way – tekijä: Marcel Proust
Mists of Avalon – tekijä: Marion Zimmer Bradley
A Dance to the Music of Time: Spring – tekijä: Anthony Powell
The Stones of Venice – tekijä: John Ruskin
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time – tekijä: Clive James
The Little Stranger – tekijä: Sarah Waters
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays – tekijä: Zadie Smith
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
Driving Home: An American Scrapbook – tekijä: Jonathan Raban
Arabian Sands : – tekijä: Wilfred Thesiger
The Earth - An Intimate History – tekijä: Richard Fortey
A Moment of War – tekijä: Laurie Lee
Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe – tekijä: Norman Davies
The Day of the Triffids – tekijä: John Wyndham
Mr Standfast – tekijä: John Buchan
Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1: v. 1 – tekijä: Ray Bradbury
Black Sea – tekijä: Neal Ascherson
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush – tekijä: Eric Newby
Bound to Please – tekijä: Michael Dirda
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories – tekijä: Herodotus
Religion and the Decline of Magic – tekijä: Keith Thomas
Europe: A History – tekijä: Norman Davies
The History of Central Asia: The Age of the Steppe Warriors – tekijä: Christoph Baumer
Epitaph for a Spy – tekijä: Eric Ambler
Naples '44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth – tekijä: Norman Lewis
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
Swords in the Mist (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) – tekijä: Fritz Leiber
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations – tekijä: Mary Beard
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings – tekijä: Jean Manco
The Complete Conan Saga – tekijä: Robert E. Howard
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia – tekijä: Rebecca West
Night Watch: (Discworld Novel 29) (Discworld Novels) – tekijä: Sir Terry Pratchett
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
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization – tekijä: Paul Kriwaczek
Egypt and Nubia – tekijä: David Roberts
An Introduction to English Poetry – tekijä: James Fenton
Concerning E.M. Forster: EM Forster and His Contemporaries – tekijä: Frank Kermode
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters – tekijä: Adam Nicolson
Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity – tekijä: Prue Shaw
After Sebald: Essays and Illuminations – tekijä: Jon Cook
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century – tekijä: Barbara W. Tuchman
The Stories – tekijä: Jane Gardam
Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition – tekijä: Ernest Hemingway
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
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life – tekijä: Jacques Barzun
SPQR: A history of Ancient Rome – tekijä: Mary Beard
Into the Unknown: Tales from the Great Explorers – tekijä: Alexander Maitland
Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 – tekijä: Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno – tekijä: Dante Alighieri
84 Charing Cross Road – tekijä: Helen Hanff
Egypt: faith after the pharaohs – tekijä: Cäcilia Fluck
Reformation : Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 – tekijä: Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Prose Factory: Literary Life in Britain Since 1918 – tekijä: D J Taylor
Humans: from the beginning: From the first apes to the first cities – tekijä: Christopher Seddon
Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds – tekijä: Franck Goddio
Thieves' World: Wings of Omen v. 6 – tekijä: Robert Asprin
Sea Room – tekijä: Adam Nicolson
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars – tekijä: Adrian Tinniswood
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
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time – tekijä: Clive James
The Rise and Fall of the Medieval Monastery – tekijä: Christopher Brooke
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane – tekijä: S Frederick Starr
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts – tekijä: Christopher De Hamel
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee – tekijä: Dee Brown
Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics) – tekijä: Joyce James
Houses of Power: The Places that Shaped the Tudor World – tekijä: Simon Thurley
Canaletto and the Art of Venice – tekijä: Lucy Whitaker
Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914 – tekijä: Frederic Morton
The Underground Railroad – tekijä: Colson Whitehead
The Night Listener – tekijä: Armistead Maupin
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense – tekijä: Jenny Uglow
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium – tekijä: Paul Kidby
Caesar: The Life Of A Colossus – tekijä: Adrian Goldsworthy
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
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading – tekijä: Lucy Mangan
The Weimar Republic Through the Lens of the Press – tekijä: Torsten Palmér
Ideas: A history from fire to Freud – tekijä: Peter Watson
The Country House Library – tekijä: Mark Purcell
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill – tekijä: Candice Millard
Rebecca (Virago Modern Classics Book 300) – tekijä: Daphne Du Maurier
The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life – tekijä: Henry Hitchings
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind – tekijä: Tom Holland
A Midsummer Night's Dream – tekijä: William Shakespeare
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture – tekijä: Orlando Figes
We British: The Poetry of a People – tekijä: Andrew Marr
The Making of Poetry: Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2019 – tekijä: Adam Nicolson
Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling – tekijä: Philip Pullman
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire – tekijä: Jason Goodwin
Hamnet – tekijä: Maggie O'Farrell
The House of the Spirits – tekijä: Isabel Allende
Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting – tekijä: Christopher Neve
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time – tekijä: Craig Brown
Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting – tekijä: Christopher Neve
Wings of Omen (Thieves' World® Book 6) – tekijä: Robert Lynn Asprin
Main Street (Dover Thrift Editions) – tekijä: Sinclair Lewis
Outline: A Novel – tekijä: Rachel Cusk
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