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Collections: Toutes les collections (1,550), Pre-LibraryThing (69), Votre bibliothèque (1,481), Liste de livres désirés (4), Favoris (149)
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Groupes: Medieval Europe, Travel and Exploration literature
Inscrit depuis: Sep 14, 2005

Nom réel: Stephen Balbach
A propos de ma bibliothèque: I was an early LibraryThing signup (2005), which also coincided with when I started reading more. In 2004, I went from reading 1-5 books a year to over 50. Thus the books listed in "Your library" were read 2004-present and is the majority of my reading life. Prior to 2004, books are listed in "pre-LibraryThing", though not complete it's not far off.

Some favorite books. They left a strong and lasting impression - other books I respect, admire and learned from, these are the books I loved. Roughly the top 10%. I read fiction and non-fiction but am an aficionado of narrative aka creative non-fiction.

Vital Stats Tree Rings, yearly snapshot showing annual growth rings.

New Books Watch Program, a computer program I wrote for myself. You might also find it useful. It monitors a watchlist of authors and emails whenever a new book is published by them.

How do you rate this book? Thoughts on scoring books.

Did you know.. More English-language novel titles were published in 2010 than during the entire Victorian era (1837-1901)? Were the stories published in 2010 comparable in quality and originality to Dickens, Brontë, Thackeray, Eliot, Hardy, Trollope, Carrol, Stevenson? Will a graduate student enter the ocean of "2010 literature", comb the depths and report back after decades of study? Then, over again for 2011.. we live in age of hyper-fragmentation, unknowability. But also the pleasure of discovery.
A propos de moi: Stbalbach - not to be confused with St. Balbach or Balbach St.

My book homepage, CoolRead.

A Year In Reading 2010, of singular instance.

WikiThing page for Stbalbach, notes in the sand.
Page d'accueil: http://bachlab.balbach.net/coolread.html
Adhésions: LibraryThing Early Reviewers
Auteurs favoris: Ivo Andrić, Boethius, Lawrence Anthony, Philipp Blom, Rich Cohen, Gregory Crouch, Roger Crowley, William Dalrymple, Alphonse Daudet, Charles Dickens, Robert Gaudi, David Grann, Tim Jeal, Brendan I. Koerner, Buddy Levy, Pierre Loti, Joseph Mitchell, Ben Montgomery, Carl Safina, Hampton Sides, Robert Louis Stevenson, Émile Zola