Membreiphigenie

Nom réel

Joelle Nebbe-Mornod

A propos de ma bibliothèque

I read a lot of fiction - modern and contemporary fiction mostly. I have a large number of science fiction and fantasy, and a lot of magical realism/modern myth. I also am reading quite a lot of african fiction. But I would say speculative/anticipation fiction is my predilection - i.e. scifi

On the non fiction the topics would be community, science, media and internet, linguistics, feminism, development, ecology, and quite an interest in books about myth.

I have far less non fiction than fiction as I used to get them from the library whereas I would buy fiction to read it in the original language. For the same reason I own very few books in french even though it is my first language.

I find it very hard not to buy books. There is no better place to whittle away a spare hour than a bookstore or library. I had to give myself a rule that I cannot buy more than 3 books in any bookshop visit, and I am sticking to it. Although make an exception for second hand/charity shops, i.e. if the books are cheap.

I have also given myself the rule to not buy new books unless I have read at least one book on my TBR pile (my 888 challenge is almost entirely from my tbr pile) or reread 2 books I have already read.

Books snatched on bookmooch and similar places are not limited in the same way, so I acquired 159 in the past year and gave away about the same number.

A propos de moi

I love books. Seems obvious since I'm here and this is the first site where I have bothered to spend time actually building something.

Lets get the key hobbies out of the way... When not at the computer or reading a book or laughing with friends... I am a film buff, an amateur photographer, a mountain climber and hiker (with the camera!). This year is the year where I rediscover hobbies I have left behind in the past few years.

I'm endlessly curious. I like exploring, from little known places to independent music, alternative films, small publishers... This carries over to the computer where I have a keen interest in independent shareware, independent games, alternative websites and communities.

Lieu (géographique)

Bradford, UK

Page d'accueil

http://www.iphi.net

Adhésions

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Aussi sur

("iphigenie"), BookMooch, Diigo, Flickr, Last.fm, LiveJournal, Twitter

En cours de lecture

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good par William Russell Easterly

Freedom Evolves par Daniel C. Dennett

Sixty Women Poets par Linda France

Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System par Raj Patel

From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice par Anne Firth Murray

Le pari de la décroissance par Serge Latouche

"Il y aura une fois" : Une anthologie du surréalisme par Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron

Auteurs favoris

Chinua Achebe, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Iain Banks, Pat Barker, David Brin, Lois McMaster Bujold, John le Carré, C. J. Cherryh, Anne Cuneo, Aliette de Bodard, Fannie Flagg, C. S. Friedman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Alice Hoffman, Barbara Kingsolver, Nancy Kress, Ken MacLeod, Lisel Mueller, Sara Paretsky, Terri Windling, Janny Wurts, Marguerite Yourcenar

Favoris locaux

Librairies: Salts Mill, The Thumbed Page

Bibliothèques: Idle Library

Connexions des membres

Amis

ablueidol, ajkohn2001, alix.may, AMZoltai, andrewbadera, bart154ce, charlenemartel, danielebneter, eggwhite, FarmerF, GuitarBuster, JannyWurts, JeremyCShipp, john257hopper, koltregaskes, kurvanas, lisaunger, mene, Richard_Ramsden, Rominita26, sfaddict, silas216, silpol, Smethers, Sophie236, splitten, theoldman, virgingloves, warriormare

Bibliothèque intéressante

ablachly, afurst, alix.may, Ammonite, AnamCara1965, astark, author-izer, battlinjack, benfulton, BrandonSanderson, bsag, CarolynJean, charlenemartel, chrisharpe, clamairy, clockerb, daniellebarlow, DanielleFong, davidbrin, dchaikin, deliriumslibrarian, devilwrites, diana.gabaldon, DJMurphy, dkennedy, dmstraker, dweinberger, erikvanlaere, euan.semple, faithx5, Grammath, Griliopoulos, GuitarBuster, idanush, iftyzaidi, IsaacRichards, JannyWurts, jessamyn, Kristine_Smith, Larou, lcutlip, libraryofus, librarythingtim2109, linus., matociquala, mbg0312, MRN, naominovik, nealasher, paulhurtley, reading_fox, remlub, ringman, Robin_Hill, rowens, sararyan, scottpack, seanmcbride, sfaddict, silas216, slothman, splitbrain, SqueakyChu, surreality, suwca, timspalding, truepenny, turtleswim, veejane, Wattsian, wdpgaara