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Nerilkas Story And The Coelura by Anne Mccaffrey
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
The Battle of Corrin by Brian Herbert
The Last Great Sea: A Voyage Through the Human and Natural History of the North Pacific Ocean by Terry Glavin
The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath
The Chronicles of Narnia Box Set by C. S. Lewis
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Library1,100 books — see library
Reviews47 reviews — see reviews
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TagsStatus: To Be Reviewed (979), Subject: # (883), Collection: Fiction (794), Country (Author): # (792), Country (Book): # (767), Status: Unread (593), Status: Read (367), Collection: Non-Fiction (196), 1001 Books List (189), Fiction: Modern (187) — see all tags
Groups1001 Books to read before you die, 50 Book Challenge, 888 Challenge, Blog the Book, Bloggers, Book Listers UNITE!, BookCrossers, BookMooching, Build the Open Shelves Classification, Folio Society devotees — show all groups
Favorite authorsRobert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Gabriel García Márquez, Cormac McCarthy, Haruki Murakami, Hunter S. Thompson, Émile Zola (Shared favorites)
Favorite librariesOpen University Library (Betty Boothroyd Library)
About me Progress With The Dreaded Thesis
This is to remind me what I should be doing everytime I procrastinate by fiddling with my library! The quicker the bronze bar moves along, the sooner I'll have a proper job and be able to spend more money on books ....GET BACK TO WORK!
6,638 / 100,000(6.6%)
Bibliophile - like to organise things. Tags are good! Love fountain pens with purple ink and moleskine notebooks. Think LT is the cyber version of my Moleskines. I'm a PhD student in Molecular Genetics which sounds really complicated but I really spend my day's fiddling with fruitflies and sploshing liquids in tubes. I would have finished by now if it wasn't for LibraryThing taking over my life! I did two years of an English degree before the science bit but found it took the joy out of reading (and that was just unacceptable!)
About my library Really eclectic - I read what I like, not what looks cool. Most books (with a few really bad notable exceptions) I can't bear to part with once I'm done, although I'm having to limit myself to keeping ones I'll read again due to space (as you can see, that's working well ....). I have Guilty Pleasures and Shelves of Shame and I'm proud of them! Books have to be enjoyable - well written, good story, significant, make you think, help you switch off ... one or all of the above! I give most things a chance, always finish books and then get really cross about the time spent on the bad ones. There's little excuse in life for bad writing! I'm still cataloguing my books here but pretty much everything here I own (unless I've tagged it as 'No Longer in Library' or 'Library Book'). I haven't catalogued any of my books that are in Polish ... I might eventually but right now I'm working on the English ones. I haven't included any of my husband's books. If I read any of them, I will put them on but tag them as 'Marek' - I don't want him messing up my online library as well as the real one! I'm desperately trying to review as many of these as possible and carry a big pile of Moleskine notebooks in my overworked bag so I can write reviews whenever I finish something. Not quite keeping up, but getting better.
A Note on Tags
I'm in the process of more systematically tagging my library. Anything with a # in it means there's information to be added. Hopefully, once 'Collections' comes online, the tags will be a bit less chunky as I'll be able to lose the collection element of the hierarchy.
Currently Reading
The Double Helix by James Watson for Go Review That Book!
46 / 175(26.3%)
Bleak House by Charles Dickens for Group Reads - Literature
84 / 935(9.0%)
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie for Group Reads - Literature
0 / 463(0.0%)
The Little Grey Men by B.B.
6 / 198(3.0%)
Trying to restrict myself to 1 book per reading group plus 1 fiction and 1 non-fiction so my In Progress tag isn't too long.
Challenges for 2008
50 Book Challenge
33 / 50(66.0%)
888 Challenge
1. Fantasy/Sci-Fi
8 / 8(100.0%)
2. Young Adult/Children's
6 / 8(75.0%)
3. Non-Fiction
4 / 8(50.0%)
4. Modern Classics
3 / 8(37.5%)
5. Japan 4 / 8(50.0%)
6. Cyberpunk/Industrial/Dystopia/Steampunk
4 / 8(50.0%)
7. 1001 Books List
3 / 8(37.5%)
8. Classic Literature
2 / 8(25.0%)
1001 Books List
93 / 1,001(9.3%)
Quotes
"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." - Mark Twain
"A man's mind - what there is of it - has always the advantage of being masculine - as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm - and even his ignorance is of sounder quality" - George Eliot
Homepagehttp://50book2007.blogspot.com/
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Real nameClaire
LocationMilton Keynes,England
Account typepublic, lifetime
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http://www.librarything.com/catalog/klarusu (library)
Member sinceFeb 21, 2007
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posted by Nymeth at 12:13 pm (EST) on Sep 3, 2008
posted by Nymeth at 3:19 pm (EST) on Sep 2, 2008
Thanks much!! :)
posted by wisewoman at 7:50 am (EST) on Aug 30, 2008
Thank you yet again, for being my UK angel!
posted by ealaindraoi at 5:30 pm (EST) on Aug 29, 2008
My maximum number of words for my thesis is 60,000. I know I have no chance of getting anywhere near that though! And they do make the point of saying that some of the best are less than half that length. So obviously if I make mine less than half that length then it will be one of the best... Well, good enough to pass anyway, which is what I'm aiming for. Which is good because it's meant to be done in about five weeks. Eeeeeek! When's yours due? (Or am I not supposed to ask such questions?!) And anyway, didn't you just write about 4000 words in the past two days?!
Anyway, you have the perfect excuse, you have a small person to distract you! Hmm. I probably shouldn't be adding to the excuses, right? Sorry. Anyway, thank you very much for sending the book, I am deeply appreciative and it is very lovely :-)
posted by LizT at 5:10 pm (EST) on Aug 20, 2008
My girls could tell you that I love bad puns, so please keep me posted! Lol!
Brenda
posted by ealaindraoi at 5:32 pm (EST) on Aug 18, 2008
posted by wisewoman at 5:02 pm (EST) on Aug 18, 2008
I really appreciate it. I'm not listed as an angel but if I can ever return the favor, I'd be happy to.
(Also, I've never used an angel before... I think I understand how it works, but let me know if I say or do something that shows I DON'T :P)
~ww
posted by wisewoman at 2:26 pm (EST) on Aug 18, 2008
posted by DevourerOfBooks at 5:30 pm (EST) on Aug 2, 2008