SantaThingSantaThing Entry #206
LibraryThing member library_mistress
Book tastes
I love language dictionaries, books with librarian/bookseller/bookbinder/archivist characters, books with LGTBQ* characters, science fiction, forest-related books, and cozy mysteries - especially in combinations such as in "Queer lumberjack-turned-librarian goes to space and solves a crime by learning alien languages" ;-)
Don't get this!
Fantasy is not very high on my list, but if it has one of the aspects I mentioned above it's fine :-)
Other notes
If it's hard to find something: I like to expand my horizon, so I am also happy if you surprise me! Is there a book among your favourites you think I must read?
As I chose an Irish bookshop, maybe you find some contemporary Irish literature or Irish dictionary for me! A special interest this year is history of physics (think for example Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project).
Secret Santa
library_mistress's Secret Santa was PersephonesLibrary!
Purchasing Details
Store: Kenny's Bookshop (https://www.kennys.ie)
Gift Amount: $50 (USD)
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Comments/suggestions
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"The Book of the Most Precious Substance " -- Sara Gran (rare book dealer turns detective searching for an old book of magic);
"Babel-17"-- Samuel R. Delany (Linguist in space and the effects the form of a language has in shaping the world);
"Embassytown" -- China Mielville (about language in space, translators and alien contact).
"Embassytown" (
(nov 30, 2023, 3:26am)
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang is a collection of science fiction short stories, and the title story plays with the idea of language (and was made into the movie The Arrival) (nov 20, 2023, 6:54pm)