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A propos de ma bibliothèque

“Looks can be deceiving,” and “Don’t judge a book[-lover] by its cover[s].”

The catalog: Not one Member’s, but a family’s, including ancestors. Never disciplined or limited to specific topics, with some diversions. Hence, the amalgamated cookbooks, Batman comic collections, political theory, YA fantasy fiction, Western European languages and history, cozies, historic fiction, Gothic horrors, suspense / spy thrillers, and postmodern literature each have a place. In a sense, the books have gathered to collect themselves; we’re “just bookkeepers.” Many kids’ and YA titles are left from successive childhoods, or came (with renewed fascination) as kids respectively reached appropriate ages. It could get tricky if somebody moves out and wants to take “his” or “her” books with them.

The result? All over the place on breadth and depth, with widely variable results. Mostly looking for two things in any given book: (1) is it “really good” (a subjective standard, if there ever was one); or (2) does it look “interesting” (certainly no more precise). Often disappointed on the latter measure, but there are still plenty of “interesting” books we may never live to find out are also “really good.”

A propos de moi

Interests & priorities (alphabetically): architecture, art, communication, compassion, Faith, folklores, imagination, Justice, knowledge, languages, law, learning, literatures, mythologies, Truth, Wisdom, writing

Lieu (géographique)

Atlanta, GA

Adhésions

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

En cours de lecture

The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Authorized Version (The Scofield Reference Bible) par (none stated)

A Plan for Improving Female Education, and Mrs. Emma Willard's Life and Work in Middlebury par Emma Willard

The Wizard of Oz par L. Frank Baum

Set This House on Fire par William Styron

Peace of Mind par Joshua Loth Liebman

Centennial par James A. Michener

Continent par Jim Crace

Continent par Jim Crace

Atlanta Street Scenes: Best of 10,000! par Hugh Park

Will of God as a Way of Life: How to Make Every Decision with Peace and Confidence, The par Jerry Sittser

Allure of the Automobile: Driving in Style, 1930-1965, The par Ken Gross

Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir par Oscar Hijuelos

Captain’s Daughter and Other Stories (The Captain’s Daughter; The Tales of Belkin; The Queen of Spades; Kirdjali; The Negro of Peter the Great), The par Alexander Pushkin

Manhunt : the twelve-day chase for Lincoln's killer par James L. Swanson

What-the-Dickens : the story of a rogue tooth fairy par Gregory Maguire

Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker par Wolcott Gibbs

Here Is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics par Misha Angrist

The Lives of Norman Mailer: A Biography par Carl Rollyson

Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, The par Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Stories: Five Years of Original Fiction on tor.com, The par Editors of tor.com

Guy Noir and the straight skinny par Garrison Keillor

Nitt-Witt Ridge: A Big Sur Freak Fable par Derek Swannson

Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning par James W. Fowler

Fresh Air: The Holy Spirit for an Inspired Life par Jack Levison

The Phantom of the Opera par Gaston Leroux

Williwaw par Gore Vidal

The Blue Fairy Book par Andrew Lang

Big Dark Hole: and Other Stories par Jeffrey Ford

I Am Legend par Richard Matheson

Writing As the Sky Rains Death par John Twelve Hawks

Galileo's mistake : a new look at the epic confrontation between Galileo and the church par Wade Rowland

Auteurs favoris

Bruce Alexander, J. G. Ballard, Donald Barthelme, John Barth, Madison Smartt Bell, Heinrich Böll, T.C. Boyle, Larry Brown, Anthony Burgess, William S. Burroughs, Robert Olen Butler, Jonathan Carroll, Susanna Clarke, John Connolly, Jim Crace, John Crowley, John Fowles, Paul Fussell, William Gaddis, Neil Gaiman, John Gardner, William H. Gass, Edward Gorey, Günter Grass, Franz Kafka, Michiel Leezenberg, C. S. Lewis, John Marks, Peter Matthiessen, China Miéville, Barry Moser, Lawrence Norfolk, Mervyn Peake, Matthew Pearl, Padgett Powell, Reynolds Price, Thomas Pynchon, J. K. Rowling, Richard Russo, Derek Swannson, David A. Taylor, Alexander Theroux, J. R. R. Tolkien, John Kennedy Toole, John Updike, Andrew Vachss, William T. Vollmann, Kurt Vonnegut, David Foster Wallace, Robert Penn Warren, Elie Wiesel

Listes de favoris

Anthony Burgess 99 Post War Novels, David Bowie's List of Top 100 Books, David Bowie's Top 100, Things we wish were not catalog(u)ed on LT

Connexions des membres

Amis

BlancaOller, DubiousDisciple, edlynskey, matthewpearl, mikedraper, mrkurtz, Nicole_VanK, teepland

Bibliothèque intéressante

AaronCopland, ACDoyleLibrary, alaskabookworm, AlexanderPushkin, AlgonquinBooks, AMBFOlibrary, angelrose, AnnieMod, AnthonyBurgess, Astrid_Lindgren, BannedBooksLibrary, barleywine, BenjaminFranklin, brentatozzer, brightcopy, ButtonGwinnett, C.S._Lewis, CarlSandburgLibrary, carobrown, CarsonMcCullers, CollinKelley, ComtedeFortsas, Crypto-Willobie, Cyss, DanielWebster, Danilo_Kis, dataylor1, David.Bowie.Library, davidabrams, DavidFosterWallace, DavidWineberg, DCloyceSmith, DerekSwannson, DGRossetti, diana.gabaldon, Dorsett, dougcornelius, e.e.cummingslibrary, EmilyDickinson, ErnestHemingway, EvelynWaugh, EzraPoundsLibrary, fdholt, FlanneryOConnor, Franz_Kafka, FrederickDouglass, FScottFitzgerald, FyodorDostoevsky, GeorgeOrwellLibrary, GeorgeWashington, GrahamGreene, GustaveFlaubert, HannahArendtLibrary, Harry_Houdini, HarryTruman, Helene_Hanff_orders, hermanmelville, hildadoolittle, IntlSpaceStation, JackieGleason, JamesBoswell, JamesJoyceLibrary, jessamyn, joehill, JohnAdams, JohnFKennedy, JohnMuirLibrary, joiedelivre, JosephPriestley, KarenBlixenLibrary, KatharineHepburn, lawecon, LawrenceDurrell, lilithcat, lorax, machadodeassis, MarieAntoinette, marilynmonroelibrary, MarthaJeanne, nathanielcampbell, ngmoore, Nicole_VanK, OscarWildesLibrary, prosfilaes, r.orrison, RalphEllison, RobertGravesLibrary, SamuelJohnsonLibrary, shearon, SimoneA, skittles, SqueakyChu, staffordcastle, SusanSontag, SylviaPlathLibrary, teepland, TELawrence, theapparatus, theodoredreiser, ThomasJefferson, ThomasMann, Uk, w.h.auden, WalkerPercy, WalterScottLibrary, WHLibrary1963, WilliamButlerYeats, WilliamGaddis

Contacts

carobrown, theapparatus