Membre : Pepys

CollectionsVotre bibliothèque (155), À lire (12), En cours de lecture (2), Favoris (18), Available for trade (6), Given (1), Liste de livres souhaités (3), Paperback (66), Hardback (22), Second-hand (12), Folio Society (62), Leatherbound (28), Facsimile (2), Limited edition (12), Dedicated (7), Signed (2), Toutes les collections (159)

Critiques59 critiques

Mots-clésEnglish literature (60), 20c. (44), Novel (39), 19c. (32), England (30), History (29), London (24), Reference (22), 17c. (20), France (19) — voir tous les mots-clés

NuagesNuage des mots-clés, nuage des auteurs

GroupesAnnus mirabilis, Folio Society devotees, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Language, Oulipo's Virtual Headquarters, Pedants' corner, The Turk's Head

Auteurs préférésJames Boswell, Italo Calvino, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Anatole France, Graham Greene, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Pierre Loti, W. Somerset Maugham, Guy de Maupassant, Samuel Pepys, Georges Perec, Jacques Roubaud, Stefan Zweig (Favoris partagés)

À mon sujetFrench, b. 1952. Geophysicist. I like l'humour anglais, especially the Monty Python's—sorry for those who hate them.
Picture credit: John Hayls painted my portrait in 1666, long before the computer era. I have allowed The National Portrait Gallery, London to display it in their room 7.

À propos de ma bibliothèqueThanks to my subscription to The Folio Society from 2003 onward, I discovered classics I had never heard of before: like Elizabeth in Alan Bennett's novella, I am an opsimath. I almost never read books twice. (So why do I keep them?) There are so many works to discover, & I am such a slow reader that I am doomed to die facing a mountain of books I would have liked to read. (This last sentence influenced by my reading of The Anatomy of Melancholy. ;-) However, I do not buy too many books in advance.
My main interest lies in diaries & biographies, sometimes—but not always—linked to scientific discoveries or explorations.
We (my wife & I) own an indeterminate number of books in French (she is a much quicker reader than I, but our books are two non-intersecting sets). I also own some books in German. Since most books I read now are in English, my LT catalogue includes mostly those books (and, however, a couple of books in French which I bought lately).

My rating
Some books are left unrated. The reason is that either I read them too many years ago, or I haven't read them yet. I don't see the point in rating all books with 4 or 5 stars. The following guidelines allow me to keep the average rating close to 2.75:

5    = I have re-read this book
4.5 = Sure, I will manage to re-read this book
4    = I'd like to re-read this book if I could find time
3.5 = I loved this book & could eventually re-read it
3    = I loved this book, but don't intend to re-read it
2.5 = I liked this book
2    = Some passages were interesting
1.5 = Some rare passages were interesting
1    = Boring
0.5 = On the fringe to give up
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For reference books:
5    = Daily use
4    = Once a week
3    = Once a month
2    = Once every 4 months
1    = Once a year

visits

Vrai nomFrançois

LieuGrenoble, France

Type de compteaccès public, abonnement à vie

Nouvelles des relationsNouvelles des relations

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/Pepys (profil)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Pepys (bibliothèque)

Membre depuisDec 5, 2006

En cours de lectureThe New Fowler's Modern English Usage par Robert W. Burchfield
Diary 1668–9 par Samuel Pepys