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Nom réel

Catherine Stead

A propos de ma bibliothèque

Golden age crime, general fiction and some fantasy. A bit of popular science. Some politics and social issues. A hefty pile of romance and chick lit. Some serious literature that I will probably never actually read.

A lot of old history and religion books. I have BA and MTh degrees in history so old they're practically part of history themselves, but I'm keeping my old history books. I'm torn between weeding the religion ones out because they're not relevant to me now (especially where the actual book is long gone) and keeping them because they were relevant and made me who I am today. They're staying for now.

Anything to do with property, construction, law or tax is related to the day job.

The majority of my books are still the old-fashioned kind, made out of bits of dead tree, and ink, and glue - but new acquisitions and actual reading are as likely to be Kindle as paper books, and I generally read equal numbers of each. (I'm trying to get back to reading more paper books and less ebooks, but it doesn't seem to be working.)

I have separate collections for paper books and ebooks, mostly because it's the the only way I'll avoid wasting hours hunting through the shelves for something that only exists on the kindle. There's an audiobook collection too, but I very rarely listen to audiobooks. (And I never look at the media field on books - it's safe to assume that's wrong and the collection is right.)

Once upon a time, when dinosaurs roamed the earth (okay, some time around 2014), my tags and collections were beautifully organised. Now? Yeah, not so much.

A propos de moi

Cooking, knitting, books, gaming. Weakness for books (obviously), yarn and chocolate biscuits.

Lieu (géographique)

UK

En cours de lecture

Parliament: The Biography (Volume I - Ancestral Voices) par Chris Bryant

Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain par Sathnam Sanghera

The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos) par Samantha Shannon

The Night Circus par Erin Morgenstern

Daisy Jones and The Six: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of CARRIE SOTO IS BACK par Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida par Shehan Karunatilaka

Auteurs favoris

Ben Aaronovitch, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Margery Allingham, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, John Bude, Agatha Christie, Ann Cleeves, Edmund Crispin, Freeman Wills Crofts, Jennifer Crusie, Charles Dickens, John Donne, Carola Dunn, Jasper Fforde, J. S. Fletcher, Richard Fortey, Neil Gaiman, Matt Haig, Helene Hanff, Georgette Heyer, Milly Johnson, E.C.R. Lorac, Jill Mansell, Ngaio Marsh, Edward Marston, Daphne du Maurier, Mhairi McFarlane, A. A. Milne, Iain Pears, Terry Pratchett, Barbara Pym, Dorothy L. Sayers, D. E. Stevenson, John R. W. Stott, Josephine Tey, Angela Thirkell, Anthony Trollope, Victor L. Whitechurch, Connie Willis, P. G. Wodehouse

Listes de favoris

Best Fantasy Novels, Books Read in 2023, Favorite Romance Fiction, The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read

Connexions des membres

Amis

-Cee-, alcottacre, AllieW, amsparky, BookAngel_a, Bookseller82, cameling, DollyBantry, Donna828, gennyt, girlfromshangrila, klpm, knittingmomof3, marnanel, sally906, suslyn, tututhefirst, Whisper1, womansheart, Yells

Bibliothèque intéressante

_Zoe_, alaskabookworm, alcottacre, AllieW, aluvalibri, atimco, AuntieCatherine, BeeHoney, BookAngel_a, bostonbibliophile, C.S._Lewis, calm, cameling, cbl_tn, Chatterbox, ChocolateMuse, christina_reads, citygirl, DanMat, David_Beard, devenish, digifish_books, dihiba, dk_phoenix, dorisdayrules, elkiedee, elliepotten, FlossieT, Fluffyblue, gaskella, gennyt, girlunderglass, JaneAustenNut, jfetting, jillmwo, JohnCernes, karenmarie, kateleversuch, klarusu, lit_chick, literarysarah, lunacat, Matke, Michael_Godfrey, mlfhlibrarian, MusicMom41, Nymeth, otterlake, OwenGriffiths, Pencils, pokarekareana, QueenOfDenmark, rainpebble, ReneeMarie, rosylibrarian, souloftherose, sqdancer, suslyn, tardis, tiffin, Trifolia, tuppy_glossop, u2bbubbles, VeraMarie, weakwearymom, Whisper1, womansheart