Medlemthe_red_shoes

Real Name

Moira Russell

About My Library

My library cataloguing used to be split between paper books I own (LibraryThing) and ebooks I have/paper or ebooks on my wishlist (GoodReads). I got good and sick of GoodReads, which privately I call BadReads, for numerous reasons, and I've started cataloguing some of my ebooks here, but I'm not at all systematic about it (not that I was at GoodReads, either, but I think at least I had most of my Kindle books accounted for....)

I am really sort of at a loss about cataloguing ebooks. But all my hard copy books are listed here.

I'm on Litsy! It seems to have imported most of my Goodreads library ("Skipped 7,198"??).

About Me

"....one of those long, romantic novels, six hundred and fifty pages of small print, translated from French or German or Hungarian or something -- because few of the English ones have the exact feeling I mean. And you read one page of it or even one phrase of it, and then you gobble up all the rest and go about in a dream for weeks afterwards, for months afterwards -- perhaps all your life, who knows? -- surrounded by those six hundred and fifty pages, the houses, the streets, the snow, the river, the roses, the girls, the sun, the ladies' dresses and the gentlemen's voices, the old, wicked, hard-hearted women and the old, sad women, the waltz music -- everything. What is not there you put in afterwards, for it is alive, this book, and it grows in your head. 'The house I was living in when I read that book,' you think, or 'This colour reminds me of that book.'"

-- Jean Rhys, "Til September Petronella"

Sted

Seattle, WA

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http://redredshoes.blogspot.com

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Yndlingsforfattere

Aeschylus, James Agee, Anna Ahkmatova, Louisa May Alcott, Dante Alighieri, Hans Christian Andersen, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Guillaume Apollinaire, Apuleius, Ludovico Ariosto, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Margaret Atwood, W. H. Auden, Saint Augustine, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, James Baldwin, Djuna Barnes, Charles Baudelaire, Peter S. Beagle, Mary Beard, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, Aphra Behn, Ambrose Bierce, Hildegard von Bingen, Elizabeth Bishop, Algernon Blackwood, William Blake, Alexander Blok, Giovanni Boccaccio, Louise Bogan, Jorge Luis Borges, Elizabeth Bowen, Ray Bradbury, Joseph Brodsky, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Mikhail Bulgakov, Octavia E. Butler, A.S. Byatt, Lord Byron, Italo Calvino, Albert Camus, John le Carré, Leonora Carrington, Lewis Carroll, Anne Carson, Angela Carter, Willa Cather, Catullus, Constantine Petrou Cavafy, Paul Celan, Raymond Chandler, Geoffrey Chaucer, Anton Chekhov, C. J. Cherryh, Kate Chopin, Agatha Christie, Margaret St. Clair, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Colette, Wilkie Collins, Barbara Comyns, Cyril Connolly, Noël Coward, Hart Crane, Amanda Cross, Robertson Davies, Pamela Dean, E.M. Delafield, Samuel R. Delany, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Philip K. Dick, Joan Didion, Isak Dinesen, Thomas M. Disch, John Donne, H.D., Fyodor Dostoevsky, Frederick Douglass, John Dowland, Arthur Conan Doyle, Margaret Drabble, John Dryden, Andre Dubus, Marguerite Duras, Gerald Durrell, Lawrence Durrell, Umberto Eco, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, Euripides, Elena Ferrante, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Penelope Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, Louise Fitzhugh, E. M. Forster, Janet Frame, Tana French, Margaret Fuller, John Gardner, Elizabeth Gaskell, Théophile Gautier, Martha Gellhorn, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Louise Glück, Nikolai Vassilievitx Gogol, Edward Gorey, Robert Graves, Graham Greene, Ursula K. Le Guin, Thom Gunn, Marilyn Hacker, L. A. Hall, Barbara Hambly, Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Hardy, Joy Harjo, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, Heraclitus, Hesiod, Patricia Highsmith, Russell Hoban, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Homer, bell hooks, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Horace, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Aldous Huxley, Henrik Ibsen, William Inge, Eugène Ionesco, Shirley Jackson, Alice James, M. R. James, P. D. James, William James, Randall Jarrell, Diana Wynne Jones, Ben Jonson, James Joyce, C. G. Jung, Juvenal, Pauline Kael, Franz Kafka, Anna Kavan, John Keats, Jane Kenyon, Imre Kertész, Søren Kierkegaard, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Lang, Ring Lardner, Philip Larkin, Margaret Laurence, D. H. Lawrence, Stephen Leacock, Hermione Lee, Tom Lehrer, Fritz Leiber, Madeleine L'Engle, Doris Lessing, Denise Levertov, Primo Levi, C. S. Lewis, Matthew Lewis, Abraham Lincoln, Clarice Lispector, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jack London, Federico García Lorca, Audre Lorde, Amy Lowell, Robert Lowell, Mina Loy, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Thomas Malory, Osip Mandelstam, Olivia Manning, Katherine Mansfield, Christopher Marlowe, Martial, Andrew Marvell, W. Somerset Maugham, Daphne du Maurier, Mary McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Robin McKinley, James Merrill, W. S. Merwin, Charlotte Mew, Diane Middlebrook, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Henry Miller, Kate Millett, Czesław Miłosz, Yukio Mishima, Michel de Montaigne, L. M. Montgomery, Jan Morris, Toni Morrison, William Morris, Alice Munro, H. H. Munro, Iris Murdoch, Pablo Neruda, Lorine Niedecker, Friedrich Nietzsche, Anaïs Nin, Flann O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Sharon Olds, Tillie Olsen, Eugene O'Neill, George Orwell, Ovid, Wilfred Owen, Dorothy Parker, Blaise Pascal, Boris Pasternak, Cesare Pavese, Mervyn Peake, Michael Pennington, S. J. Perelman, Fernando Pessoa, Christine de Pizan, Sylvia Plath, Plato, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pope, Cole Porter, Katherine Anne Porter, Terry Pratchett, Manuel Puig, Alexander Pushkin, Barbara Pym, Thomas de Quincey, Lou Reed, Mary Renault, Jean Rhys, Adrienne Rich, Laura Riding, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Theodore Roethke, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Bertrand Russell, Joanna Russ, Miguel de Cervantes, J. D. Salinger, George Sand, Sappho, May Sarton, Siegfried Sassoon, Dorothy L. Sayers, Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Paul Scott, Sei Shōnagon, Anne Sexton, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Murasaki Shikibu, Edith Sitwell, Elizabeth Smart, Patti Smith, Stevie Smith, Tobias Smollett, Rebecca Solnit, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Susan Sontag, Sophocles, Muriel Spark, Edmund Spenser, Baruch Spinoza, Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Freya Stark, Edward St. Aubyn, John Steinbeck, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Tom Stoppard, August Strindberg, Theodore Sturgeon, Jonathan Swift, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Millington Synge, Sara Teasdale, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Josephine Tey, Dylan Thomas, Henry David Thoreau, Thucydides, James Thurber, James Tiptree Jr., Leo Tolstoy, Rosemary Tonks, Marina Tsvetaeva, Ivan Turgenev, Mark Twain, Lao Tzu, Félix Lope de Vega Carpio, Paul Verlaine, François Villon, Virgil, Derek Walcott, David Foster Wallace, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Evelyn Waugh, John Webster, Eudora Welty, Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, Antonia White, Elie Wiesel, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Ellen Willis, Jeanette Winterson, Ludwig Wittgenstein, P. G. Wodehouse, Thomas Wolfe, Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Wyatt, William Butler Yeats, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Roger Zelazny

Favorite Lists

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read, LibraryThingers' 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

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