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Over mijn bibliotheek

“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.”

Over mij

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

Woonplaats

Atlanta, GA

Lidmaatschappen

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Momenteel aan het lezen

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

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

The Wizard of Oz door L. Frank Baum

Set This House on Fire door William Styron

Peace of Mind door Joshua Loth Liebman

Centennial door James A. Michener

Continent door Jim Crace

Continent door Jim Crace

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

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

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

Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir door Oscar Hijuelos

Bluebeard’s Chamber: Guilt and Confession in Thomas Mann door Michael Maar

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 door Alexander Pushkin

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

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

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

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

The Lives of Norman Mailer: A Biography door Carl Rollyson

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

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

Guy Noir and the straight skinny door Garrison Keillor

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

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

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

The Phantom of the Opera door Gaston Leroux

Williwaw door Gore Vidal

The Blue Fairy Book door Andrew Lang

Big Dark Hole: and Other Stories door Jeffrey Ford

I Am Legend door Richard Matheson

Writing As the Sky Rains Death door John Twelve Hawks

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

Favoriete auteurs

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

Favoriete lijsten

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

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Vrienden

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

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