Member: armaduras

Library755 books — see library

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TagsLives in Bangor (427), Lives in London (296), Read (282), Not Read (210), Children's (112), Poetry (78), Gift (67), Doctor Who (62), Treasure (33), Fiction (31) — see all tags

GroupsBookMooching, Livejournalers

Favorite authorsJohn Anthony Bellairs, Elizabeth Bowen, Richard Brautigan, Roger Lancelyn Green, Russell Hoban, Gary Indiana, Montague Rhodes James, Derek Jarman, Terry Jones, Paul Magrs, Alberto Manguel, Grace Paley, Ali Smith, Denton Welch, T. H. White, Jeanette Winterson, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresTlon Books [closed]

Favorite librariesBangor Library - Llyfrgell Bangor, Dulwich Library, Newington Library, Peckham Library

About me Currently reading:
The Library At Night
The History of Sexuality
Lytton Strachey
Fair Play

About my library Alright. Here goes.

Anglo-Saxon riddles. Arthur and the Arthurian. Baum and the Oz books. Big, lonely houses. Carroll and the Alice books. Communes and farms, and cities esp. London, esp. South and Outer London, and New York or San Francisco, and anywhere Scandinavian but especially Finland. Cookbooks. Doctor Who, esp. not the New Series (in book terms alone). Elizabeth I, Elizabethan intrigue, and Doctor Dee (as well as other magicians). General children's fiction, particularly pre-1950s to 1970s and either eerie (Diana Wynne-Jones, John Bellairs) or North American mundane (E.L. Konigsburg, Louise Fitzhugh). Folk Tales and Fairy Tales. Literature of Genius Loci, the NeoRomantics, Psychogeography. London, esp. South and Outer London. Magic Realism, esp. writers uncomfortable with the term. M.R. James and ghost stories in his tradition. The mystic novel (Gustav Meyrink, Sylvie Germain). Old-school Russian novelists, and massive German novels. Oulipo and playful people (Georges Perec, Italo calvino). Poetry, esp. not verse unless Elizabethan. Pretentious ambition. Savants. The Sublime, and the Uncanny, as subjects and as themes. Surrealists and Nonsense. Theory, Philosophy, Social Sciences. Wales, esp. North Wales and writers in Welsh. Walkers and wanderers and travellers. Woolf and Bloomsbury, and any other great English eccentrics of difficult sexuality (Denton Welch, T.H. White).

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LocationGerlan, Bethesda

Emailnicholas.m.campbellgmail.com

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Member sinceFeb 2, 2006