Medlem: CarltonC
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Om mig“We read books to find out who we are.”
— Ursule Le Guin, The Language of the Night, 1979
"The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have! How many of these books have you read?” and the others — a very small minority — who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary."
Om mit bibliotekI have recorded the books that I have finished reading since September 1981 and listed them all in a, now fragile, black book. I have attempted to list some of the books I read prior to 1981, but there are a lot of unrecorded science fiction/fantasy titles from that period.
I still enjoy the occasional fantasy title, but read a mix of history, travel, "literary" fiction, historical fiction and what would appear to be an above average proportion of short story collections. I also like books-about-books (both the physical artefact and reading), having spent a lot of time mooching around bookshops.
I only started writing reviews of the books I have read a few years ago (about 2009).
GrupperAncient History, Anglophiles, Folio Society Devotees, Slightly Foxed - An appreciation, Travel and Exploration literature
YndlingsforfattereJorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Raymond Carver, Charles Dickens, Joan Didion, Lawrence Durrell, Penelope Fitzgerald, E. M. Forster, Ursula K. Le Guin, Rudyard Kipling, Alberto Manguel, Hilary Mantel, Armistead Maupin, Carson McCullers, Jan Morris, George Orwell, Terry Pratchett, Annie Proulx, Dorothy L. Sayers, W. G. Sebald, Ali Smith, J. R. R. Tolkien, P. G. Wodehouse (Fælles favoritter)
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FavoritboghandlereBorders - Oxford, Borzoi Bookshop, Jaffé & Neale, Oxfam Bookshop Oxford (St Giles), Waterstones Oxford
FavoritlisterThe Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read
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Medlem sidenJun 11, 2008
Læser for øjeblikketLolita (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) af Vladimir Nabokov
LONDON 1851: THE YEAR OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION. af Eric. De Mare
A House of Air af Penelope Fitzgerald
How to Be Alone af Jonathan Franzen
On the Natural History of Destruction af W.G. Sebald
Step Across This Line af Salman Rushdie
Caspar David Friedrich af Werner Hofmann
Jazz Age Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) af F.Scott Fitzgerald
Swann's Way af Marcel Proust
Mists of Avalon af Marion Zimmer Bradley
A Dance to the Music of Time: Spring af Anthony Powell
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time af Clive James
The Little Stranger af Sarah Waters
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays af Zadie Smith
Very Good Jeeves af P. G. Wodehouse
The Return of John Macnab af Andrew Greig
Complete Stories af Flannery O'Connor
The Jewel in the Crown af Paul Scott
Driving Home: An American Scrapbook af Jonathan Raban
Arabian Sands : af Wilfred Thesiger
The Earth - An Intimate History af Richard Fortey
A Moment of War af Laurie Lee
Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe af Norman Davies
The Day of the Triffids af John Wyndham
Mr Standfast af John Buchan
Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1: v. 1 af Ray Bradbury
Black Sea af Neal Ascherson
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush af Eric Newby
Bound to Please af Michael Dirda
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories af Herodotus
Religion and the Decline of Magic af Keith Thomas
Europe: A History af Norman Davies
The History of Central Asia: The Age of the Steppe Warriors af Christoph Baumer
Epitaph for a Spy af Eric Ambler
Naples '44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth af Norman Lewis
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells af Sebastian Faulks
Raven Black (Shetland) af Ann Cleeves
The Goldfinch af Donna Tartt
Miss Marple Novels Four volume boxed edition: The Murder at the Vicarage; The Body in the Library; A Pocket Full of Rye; Sleeping Murder af Agatha Christie
Swords in the Mist (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) af Fritz Leiber
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations af Mary Beard
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings af Jean Manco
The Complete Conan Saga af Robert E. Howard
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia af Rebecca West
Night Watch: (Discworld Novel 29) (Discworld Novels) af Sir Terry Pratchett
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 [2 Volume Set in a Slipcase] af Orlando Figes
Call for the Dead af John le Carre
The Balkan Trilogy: "Great Fortune", "Spoilt City" and "Friends and Heroes" af Olivia Manning
1215: The Year of Magna Carta af Danny Danziger
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization af Paul Kriwaczek
Egypt and Nubia af David Roberts
An Introduction to English Poetry af James Fenton
Concerning E.M. Forster: EM Forster and His Contemporaries af Frank Kermode
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters af Adam Nicolson
Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity af Prue Shaw
After Sebald: Essays and Illuminations af Jon Cook
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century af Barbara W. Tuchman
The Stories af Jane Gardam
Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition af Ernest Hemingway
The Great War and Modern Memory af Paul Fussell
Darwin and the 'Beagle' af Alan Moorehead
Alexandria: A History and Guide af E. M. Forster
Shackleton's Boat Journey af Worsley F.A.
Celts: Art and Identity af Julia Farley
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life af Jacques Barzun
SPQR: A history of Ancient Rome af Mary Beard
Into the Unknown: Tales from the Great Explorers af Alexander Maitland
Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 af Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno af Dante Alighieri
84 Charing Cross Road af Helen Hanff
Egypt: faith after the pharaohs af Cäcilia Fluck
Reformation : Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 af Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Prose Factory: Literary Life in Britain Since 1918 af D J Taylor
Humans: from the beginning: From the first apes to the first cities af Christopher Seddon
Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds af Franck Goddio
Thieves' World: Wings of Omen v. 6 af Robert Asprin
Sea Room af Adam Nicolson
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars af Adrian Tinniswood
My Name is Lucy Barton af Elizabeth Strout
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman (Penguin Classics) af A. E. Housman
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time af Clive James
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane af S Frederick Starr
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts af Christopher De Hamel
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee af Dee Brown
Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics) af Joyce James
Houses of Power: The Places that Shaped the Tudor World af Simon Thurley
Canaletto and the Art of Venice af Lucy Whitaker
Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914 af Frederic Morton
The Underground Railroad af Colson Whitehead
The Night Listener af Armistead Maupin
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense af Jenny Uglow
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium af Paul Kidby
Caesar: The Life Of A Colossus af Adrian Goldsworthy
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister (Everyman's Library CLASSICS) af Nicholas Shakespeare
Art as Therapy af Alain Botton
Gone with the Wind af Margaret Mitchell
The Dawn Watch af Maya Jasanoff
After the Party af Cressida Connolly
The Building of England: How the History of England Has Shaped Our Buildings af Simon Thurley
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading af Lucy Mangan
The Weimar Republic Through the Lens of the Press af Torsten Palmér
Ideas: A history from fire to Freud af Peter Watson
The Country House Library af Mark Purcell
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill af Candice Millard
Rebecca (Virago Modern Classics Book 300) af Daphne Du Maurier
The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life af Henry Hitchings
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind af Tom Holland
A Midsummer Night's Dream af William Shakespeare
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture af Orlando Figes
We British: The Poetry of a People af Andrew Marr
The Making of Poetry: Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2019 af Adam Nicolson
Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling af Philip Pullman
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire af Jason Goodwin
Hamnet af Maggie O'Farrell
The House of the Spirits af Isabel Allende
Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting af Christopher Neve
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time af Craig Brown
Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting af Christopher Neve
Wings of Omen (Thieves' World® Book 6) af Robert Lynn Asprin
Main Street (Dover Thrift Editions) af Sinclair Lewis
Miami af Joan Didion
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