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Trefwoordenreference (221), history (170), historical fiction (144), museology (143), medieval history (122), historical adventure (106), fiction (95), travel (79), science fiction (50), art (47) — alle trefwoorden
Wolkentrefwoordenwolk, schrijverswolk
Groepen100 Books in 2010 Challenge, 1001 Books to read before you die, 20-Something LibraryThingers, 50 Book Challenge, 75 Books Challenge for 2009, Amateur Historians, Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts, Build the Open Shelves Classification, Byzantinistik, Church History —toon alle groepen, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Fiber Arts, Gamers, Google Wavers, Historical Fiction, Historical Mysteries, History Fans, Hugotontheonbiquiffinarians, Librarians who LibraryThing, LTers with dogs, Mac Users at LibraryThing, Medieval Europe, Museum!, Museums of the World!, Nederlandstalige lezers, Needlearts, Non-Fiction Readers, Read YA Lit, Readers Under 30, Science Fiction Fans, Science!, The Green Dragon, What Are You Reading Now?, World History
Favoriete schrijversIain M. Banks, Greg Bear, Steve Berry, Max Brooks, Dan Brown, David Eddings, Neil Gaiman, Tom Holland, Bette Midler, Rita Monaldi en Francesco P. Sorti, Philipp Vandenberg (Gemeenschappelijke favorieten)
LievelingsboekhandelsAthenaeum Boekhandel, Boekhandel Verwijs, De Slegte Amsterdam, De Slegte Den Haag, Foyles, Selexyz Scheltema - Koningsplein, Selexyz van Piere (Nieuwe Emmasingel), Strand Bookstore, The American Book Center, Van Stockum Boekverkopers, Van Stockum Boekverkopers, Waterstone's Amsterdam
LievelingsbibliothekenKoninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands
Andere favorietenMuseum Meermanno|Huis van het boek
Over mijzelfI studied Cultural Heritage and work at the National Library in the Netherlands at Digital Preservation. I'm a huge fan of Bette Midler (that explains my four copies of A view from a broad). I love history, especially the middle ages (preferably early middle ages). I also cross stitch (working on a replica of The Lady and The Unicorn: A Mon Seul Desir now), crochet amigurumi and game (Nintendo DS and Wii).
Over mijn boeken
Our library (bookshelves wall)
What kind of books do I like?
Ever since I started to really frequent LibraryThing I have started to read more and more. Slowly I see that my taste in books is changing. I used to love (and still like) my historical adventures (when they keep their facts at least a bit straight). I still like historical fiction (but it must keep it's facts a bit straight), especially about the middle ages, usually in the form of a good mystery. I also like fantasy and a bit of science fiction, although lately I am moving more and more towards SF, away from fantasy. I am now trying to read more "regular" novels and classics, to broaden my horizons. That way I found out that I love Jane Austen and Charlotte Brönte, and I cannot wait to try more of their works. I also found out that nineteenth century novels are quite readable, so I will enjoy more of them in the coming years.
I also read a lot of non-fiction, mostly about medieval history, but also about popular science.
I almost exclusively read books I own, I almost never borrow. I am always "a bit" behind in reading, although recently I have been trying to at least read what I have last bought first, before buying more.
Anything I read before I started keeping lists of dates read I give the read dates of 2003-01-01/2003-01-02, even if the book is published after that time. I just have no clue when I read them. I need to work on tagging. I'll at least keep genre tags (my own genres :D) and am working on subject tags, at least for time, location and historical personalities.
My Challenges
100 books in 2010
1010 Category Challenge
50 books in 2009 - Completed September 8, 2009
75 books in 2009 - Completed November 19, 2009
Books from the 1001 Books you Must Read Before You Die list
My Reading Lists
My 2009 reading
2009 stats: 86 books, 36271 pages. 3 books in Dutch, 83 in English. 30 non-fiction, 56 fiction.
bkkeepr link
For the most update listing of what I am reading now, see my bkkeepr!
Now reading
37. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror - Robert Louis Stevenson
2010 reading list
1. Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris
2. Nebra - Thomas Thiemeyer
3. Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
4. Blood Music - Greg Bear
5. Het ei van Salaì - Monaldi & Sorti
6. De grote wereld - Arthur Japin
7. Wicked Lovely - Melissa Marr
8. Excession - Iain M. Banks
9. Eleanor of Aquitaine - Alison Weir
10. The Complete Fables - Aesop
11. The Lost World - Arthur Conan Doyle
12. Sovereign - C.J. Sansom
13. Revelation - C.J. Sansom
14. Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
15. I wish I'd been there - Byron Hollinshead (ed.)
16. The Great Mortality - John Kelly
17. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
18. Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
19. Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
20. King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
21. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
22. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
23. The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks
24. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
25. Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks
26. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
27. The Complete Maus - Art Spiegelman
28. Stardust - Neil Gaiman
29. Handling the Undead - John Ajvide Lindqvist
30. Persepolis - Marjane Sartrapi
31. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
32. People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
33. Inversions - Iain M. Banks
34. Dracula - Bram Stoker
35. Duel - Joost Zwagerman
36. Nothing (VSI) - Frank Close
Series I follow (read/own/series)
These are series I consciously follow. I define follow as: I would buy the next book in the series, before even knowing the subject, just because it is part of this series. I have more series in my collection, but I wouldn't buy new books from these series. Anyway, these are my series:
Iain M. Banks - The Culture (5/7/8)
Steve Berry - Cotton Malone (2/3/5)
Dan Brown - Robert Langdon (3/3/3)
Paul Doherty - Mathilde of Westminster (1/2/3)
Jasper Fforde - Thursday Next (1/2/5)
Charlaine Harris - Southern Vampire Mysteries (Sookie Stackhouse) (2/8/10)
Paul Jecks - Medieval West Country Mystery (5/8/27)
Melissa Marr - Wicked Lovely (1/1/3)
The Medieval Murderers (1/1/5)
Monaldi & Sorti - Salaì (2/2/2)
Monaldi & Sorti - Abbé Atto Melani (3/3/3)
Katherine Neville - The Montglane Service (2/2/2)
C.J Sansom - Matthew Shardlake (4/4/4)
- Dormant/complete/finished series (for me or for the author) -
Piers Anthony - Xanth (2/6/33)
Greg Bear - Eon (3/3/3)
Paul Doherty - Alexander Mysteries (0/3/3)
David Eddings - The Belgariad (5/5/5)
David Eddings - The Malloreon (1/1/5)
Susanna Gregory - Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles (2/4/15)
Stephenie Meyer - The Twilight Saga (4/4/4)
Anne Rice - The Vampire Chronicles (8/10/10)
Anne Rice - Lives of the Mayfair Witches (3/6/6)
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter (7/7/7)
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Lidmaatschap
LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten/Leden Weggegevers
Werkelijke naamSara van Bussel
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Lid sindsJul 22, 2006
Aan het lezenThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror door Robert Louis Stevenson
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door lilmanmom op 3:27 pm (EST) om Feb 18, 2010
I love your book-shelves!
Mark
door msf59 op 8:00 pm (EST) om Feb 17, 2010
How are you liking "Soveriegn?"
Good reading!
Mary
door Storeetllr op 1:39 am (EST) om Jan 27, 2010
Heb jij Karen Maitland - Het gezelschap van leugenaars gelezen? 1348, pestilentie, engeland.
door DebbievdZande op 8:52 am (EST) om Nov 2, 2009
Re your query regarding 'Jaguars & Electric Eels'. No,this is merely an abridgment (as are all of this excellent series) If you do a search of Googlebooks,they have a fuller (I'm not sure if they give the complete book - doubtful -but certainly a fuller account at any rate. You could also try Project Gutenburgh who may have the fuller text.
Hope this is of help.
Peter (devenish)
door devenish op 7:53 am (EST) om Oct 1, 2009
I've just been having a wee look in your library and see that the Name of the Rose is in your next 5 to read. I finally read it last year - it'd been on the shelf for over 10 years - and really, really loved it. I haven't managed to read anything else by Eco yet though.
Also just went to a map of the Netherlands to see where Hoorn is... I've been to Amsterdam a couple of times because good friends were living there - a lovely city. Last time, in 2002, they drove us over the dyke between Lelystad and Enkhuizen, which looks pretty close to you!
Right, better go and read a book or something. Hope you like the 75 BC group - there are tons of nice people in it.
door cmt op 4:31 am (EST) om Sep 12, 2009
door callmejacx op 10:30 am (EST) om Aug 11, 2009
No problemo! One of the dubious advantages of being a South African of "a certain age" is that we all had to learn Afrikaans at school, and I don't find the conversion to reading Dutch all that difficult. In fact, two years ago when I had the pleasure of visiting your country (Wageningen, Harderwijk, Schovenhorst, Hoge Veluwe, Baarn, Utrecht) I even found I could converse with some of the locals in a strange hybrid Afrikaans/Dutch/accent-without-a-trace-of-either! So bigh thankyous for those sites, which I shall certainly pass on to the others on the committee.
Would you accept a virtual long-distance hug an an expression of gratitude? If so, ((((hugs))))
All best
Hugh
door hfglen op 11:07 am (EST) om Aug 4, 2009
Thanks a million
Hugh
door hfglen op 3:54 am (EST) om Aug 4, 2009
You are an angel straight from heaven, and I shall call on your help in as much detail and at as great a length as you let me! Yes I do need all the help I can get. The score at the moment is that Busifer needs to locate a friend who's away on holiday right now, so things are stalled for a couple of weeks there. But I mentioned it to the others (International Code for Botanical Nomenclature, Special Committee on Electronic Publication if you want to know) and they want a document to refer to in the discussions we'll be having over the next 2 years. So I'm now thinking I should come to you cap-in-hand when I have something, and ask for your take on it before posting idiocy and nonsense.
The basic problem is that on the one hand, the cost of academic publication as ink-on-paper is astronomical, so more and more journals are going electronic. On the other, the old-men-in-suits (of both genders and all ages, actually) who vote on changes to the code have not as yet had the courage to face up to the problem, and hide behind the mantra that e-publication is ephemeral, and will be unreadable in decades when original descriptions of new species (etc.) need to be readable for ever. Which is not totally untrue, but omits to note the number of cases where all copies of a paper publication have been destroyed over the last 250 years.
Thank you, thank you and thank you again a million times over for your kind offer, which is much appreciated.
All best
Hugh
door hfglen op 3:27 am (EST) om Aug 4, 2009
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