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Tietoja minustaBook hoarder, lapsed historian, frustrated bureaucrat, assistant beekeeper, budding genealogist. Hopefully cured of a tendency to make ridiculously bad life choices, the kind that create execrable, tortured poetry. Recently retired and considering peddling used books and gourmet coffee. Maybe some wine, cheese and chocolate too. Writing a novel and shopping for an agent.

I have a tiny, neglected blog about bees, books and gardens. Please visit the Bee's Book Garden. www.beesbookgarden.wordpress.com

The Annual Varielle Awards for Literature for 2020 are announced!
Book of the Year goes to The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating. I was recovering from back surgery when I read this. If you have a pal that's down and out give them this book.
Most likely to convince you that monster live among us award goes to The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break. Always be nice to your service people because you never know who they really are and they might just eat you.
Most likely to make you go for a long walk award goes to Wanderlust: A History of Walking.
Most Reflective Award goes to The White Book.
Most likely to make you book a trip to China award as soon as the pandemic is over award goes to Lost in Translation which is not the basis for the Scarlett Johansson Bill Murray movie.
Most Disturbing Award goes to The Blind Owl. I'm still disturbed about it.
Most needs to be made into a Merchant Ivory movie award goes to Burmese Days staring a younger Ralph Fiennes.
Most upsetting award goes to The Border and the Buffalo where you will find out things about American History you never wanted to know.

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Books read 2021


According to www.mymentalage.com I'm really only 34. We'll just leave it at that.

moon cycle

Tietoja kirjastostaniIt's a foundling home for books. We are trying to be more selective, but they keep following me home. Now that the cabin in the sky is finally completed, my book collection is split between the cabin in the sky which holds mostly read books and the future retirement home along the Matanzas River which holds the unread books. Stuffed to the gills, I don’t have room to properly display any of them.

I've despaired of digital books. So don't go there.

Ryhmät10,000 Page Club, All Writers Considered, Alphabet Challenges, American History, Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts, Ancient History, Antiquarian Books, Antiquarian Travel Memoirs, Antique and vintage books, Appalachian State —näytä kaikki ryhmät, Armchair Travellers, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Banned Books, Beekeepers & Books, Bestsellers over the Years, Biographies, Memoirs and Autobiographies, Bloggers, Book Arts, Book Care and Repair, Book Collectors, Book Lovers Who Love Fountain Pens, Book Organizers, Book Sales, Bookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill, Bookends, Bookmarks, Books & Letters & Newspapers, Books by Taschen, Books in Books, Books on Books, Bookspotting, Bookstore Tourism, Booze!, Broke!, Centipede Press, Charity/Thrift Shop & Library Purchases, Cheese!, Commodity Histories & Micro-Histories, DAR Members who LibraryThing, Dewey Decimal Challenge, Dictionaries & other reference books, Diplomatic History, Disaster Buffs, Ernest Hemingway, Erotica, Etiquette and Manners, Eureka! finds, Famous voluminous novels, Favorite Bookstores, Fine Press Forum, Flashman and Fraser, Franklin Library Collectors, Fur Trade History (US), Genealogy@LT, George Macy devotees, Golden Age Illustrators, Grolier Club Admirers, Happy Heathens, Historical Fiction, Historical Mysteries, History Readers: Clio's (Pleasure?) Palace, HMS Surprise, Hogwarts Express, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, In Translation, Lakeside Classics Collectors, Language, LC Classification Challenge, Le Salon des Amateurs de la Langue, Legacy Libraries, Lenoir Rhyne University, Letters & diaries, Librarians who LibraryThing, Library History, Lingua Latina, Literary Centennials, Literary Snobs, Lost Generation, Mac Users at LibraryThing, Magazines!!!!! New Yorker, Science, Atlantic, Mad......, Maps and Atlases, Medieval Europe, Medieval manuscripts, Medieval Warfare, Meet the Author, Military Fiction, Military History, Mini-Challenge: 6 Degrees of Separation, Modern Library Collectors, Modern Signed First Editions, Monks, Monasteries and Monasticism, Must read classics, Mystical & Spiritual, Mythology, Naval History and Fiction, New York Review Books, Non-Fiction Readers, North Carolina LT Group, NPR Listeners, Numismatics, Other People's Libraries, Oxford English Dictionary - OED, Paris of the Piedmont Readers, Pedants' corner, Philosophy and Theory, Proust, Publisher and Printer Challenge, Rare, Old or Offbeat, ravelry, Readers Without Borders, READING & "OLD TIMEY" CORRESPONDENCE, Reading Globally, Reading Globally II, Reading the States, Reading the World, Real Ale (& Other Beers), Richard III, Rock 'n' Roll, Records and Record Collections, Roman and Dark Ages Britain, RYM/Rate Your Music, Scottie Dog book collectors, Seasonal Books, Second World War History, Secondhand/Used Bookshop/store Addicts, Shot and Sail, Skeptics and Rationalists, Small or Miniature Books, Small Press, Snooping through Shelves of Fictional Characters, Song of Ice and Fire, Spies & Spy Fiction, Stamp Collecting and Philately, Stoicism, Supporters of Local & Independent Bookstores, Talking Piffle, Tar Heels, Tea!, THE ANYTHING CULINARY BOOK GROUP, The Chapel of the Abyss, The Dice & Table, The Drones Club (all things P.G. Wodehouse), The Europe Endless Challenge, The Global Challenge, The Hellfire Club, The Literary Lens, The Prizes, The Recipe Group, Things found in books, This Is Halloween..., Travel and Exploration literature, Unitarian Universalist Readers, Unread Support Group, Used Books, Victoriana, Westeros, What did YOU buy today?, What's in your suitcase, bricks?, William Faulkner and his Literary Kin, Wine, World Music, Written in Stone - The Literary Cemetery, Yard Sales and Remaindered

LempikirjailijatAmbrose Bierce, John Biggins, James M. Cain, Laurie Colwin, Bernard Cornwell, Harry Crews, Lindsey Davis, Margaret Drabble, M. F. K. Fisher, George MacDonald Fraser, Charles Frazier, Carlos Fuentes, Robert Graves, Barry Hannah, Katherine Howe, A. J. Liebling, Rose Macaulay, Patrick O'Brian, Leo Perutz, Mary Renault, Sir Walter Scott, J. R. R. Tolkien, Barbara W. Tuchman, Esther Tusquets, Marianne Wiggins, P. G. Wodehouse, Arnold Wolfendale, Marguerite Yourcenar (Yhteiset suosikit)

TapahtumapaikatSuosikit | Vieraillut

SuosikkikirjakaupatAppalachian State University Book Store, Atlantis Books, Battery Park Book Exchange and Champagne Bar, Bauman Rare Books, Beach Video & Used Bookstore, Black Mountain Books, Blackberry Books Ltd., boekhandel Raaklijn, Book Buyers, Book Exchange, Books 'N Friends Used Bookstore, Books and Beans, Casa del Llibre Barcelona, Come In (llibreria anglesa), De Reyghere Boekhandel, Diana's Bookstore, Edward McKay Used Books & More Winston-Salem, Elliott Bay Book Company (Seattle), Foggy Pine Books, Foyles, Foyles Bookshop Royal Festival Hall, John Sandoe Books, Key West Island Bookstore, Lenny's Rare Books, Lenoir-Rhyne University Book Store, Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe, Manteo Booksellers, Mediterraneo Bookstore, Muses, Next Door Used Books, North State Books, Second Read Books, Sherman's Books and Stationery, Bar Harbor, South Kensington Books, Standaard Boekhandel Brugge-Steenstraat, Strand Bookstore, Taschen Store London, The Captain's Bookshelf, Walls of Books, Cornelius, Waterstones London (Piccadilly)

SuosikkikirjastotAppalachian Regional Library - Wilkes County Public Library, Appalachian State University - Belk Library and Information Commons, Blowing Rock Community Library, Carl A. Rudisill Library - Lenoir-Rhyne University, Catawba County Library System - Conover Branch Library, Gaston County Public Library, Hickory Public Library - Patrick Beaver Memorial Library, Lincoln County Library - Florence Soule Shanklin Branch Library, The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County - Mountain Island

SuosikkilistatTop Five Books of 2020

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Oikea nimiPhyllis, aka the delightful Ms. P.

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RekisteröitymispäiväApr 4, 2007

Parhaillaan lukemassaFounding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation – tekijä: Cokie Roberts
From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life – tekijä: Jacques Barzun
The Drunken Botanist – tekijä: Amy Stewart
Egon Schiele: The Leopold Collection, Vienna – tekijä: Rudolf Leopold
The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig – tekijä: Stefan Zweig