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J.

A propos de ma bibliothèque

My library is an eclectic mix of books and topics but the one common thread is that I almost always want readable books. Meaning I seldom buy a book that I don't intend to read or that is physically not readable. There are (of course!) some exceptions. I may have several editions of favorite books or authors, especially if there are several different illustrators or other unique features of an edition.

A propos de moi

A yogi & Tea Monger trying to fund my love of books through yoga and tea (www.leavesofcha.com).

"If you are not reading and writing poetry, you are suffering from linguistic malnutrition."
—Philip Howard

"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go into the library and read a good book." --Groucho Marx

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges

"Salgo, saciado de puertas y calles,
A buscar algo que allí no perdí."
I set out, fed up with doorways and streets,
to search for something I never lost there.
-- Pablo Neruda, from The Separate Rose

"Translations, apparently, are either beautiful or faithful, but never both. A translation is the original text’s wife. If too pretty, the translation must be cheating on her husband, the text. If faithful, the translation must not be very pretty."--Harvard University Press General Editor for the Humanities Sharmila Sen

Now reading:

Fatal Revenant by Stephen R. Donaldson

The Best of McSweeney's

The Tea Dictionary by James Norwood Pratt

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

The Classic of Tea by Lu Yü

Como Agua Para Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

And for poetry:

The Blue Roofs of Japan by Robert Bringhurst

And, of course, some drama:

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

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Just read:

The Runes of the Earth by Stephen R. Donaldson

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Albertine Workout by Anne Carson

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

John Shade's Pale Fire by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Lieu (géographique)

California, U.S.A.

Page d'accueil

http://www.thewholebookexperience.com/

Adhésions

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En cours de lecture

Arabian Nights: The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night par Powys Mathers

Poetry as Spiritual Practice: Reading, Writing, and Using Poetry in Your Daily Rituals, Aspirations, and Intentions par Robert McDowell

The Hands of Day par Pablo Neruda

Walden par Henry David Thoreau

Como agua para chocolate par Laura Esquivel

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation I-II par Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn

The Best of McSweeney's par Dave Eggers

Finnegans Wake par James Joyce

The Red and the Black par Stendhal

The Beautiful Contradictions (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets) par Nathaniel Tarn

The Complete Stories par Clarice Lispector

Light on Yoga: Yoga Dipika par B.K.S. Iyengar

The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice par T. K. V. Desikachar

The secret power of yoga : a woman's guide to the heart and spirit of the yoga sutras par Nischala Joy Devi

Yoga 365: Daily Wisdom for Life, On and Off the Mat par Susanna Harwood Rubin

Fanny Hill par John Cleland

A Short History of the Present par Erik Reece

Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World par Ella Frances Sanders

Yoga and the Quest for the True Self par Stephen Cope

Roots of Yoga par Sir James Mallinson

The Rolling Stones par Reuel Golden

Tea: A User's Guide par Tony Gebely

The Story of an African Farm par Olive Schreiner

Tea Nation par Rong Xinyu

Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan par Howard Sounes

The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood par Elspeth Huxley

An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The Lamar Series in Western History) par Benjamin Madley

Something Else: Deluxe Edition par Kinks

The In-Between World Of Vikram Lall par Moyez Vassanji

Auteurs favoris

Roberto Bolaño, Joseph Conrad, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Joyce, Morgan Llywelyn, Gabriel García Márquez, Patricia A. McKillip, Michael Moorcock, Pablo Neruda, Marcel Proust, Hyemeyohsts Storm, Henry David Thoreau, J. R. R. Tolkien, Howard Zinn

Favoris locaux

Librairies: Alias Books East, Iliad Bookshop, Sam: Johnson’s Bookshop, Smith Family Bookstore - Downtown, The Book Den, The Bookman, The Last Bookstore

Connexions des membres

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