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Groups1010 Category Challenge, 20-Something LibraryThingers, 50 Book Challenge, 75 Books Challenge for 2010, Alphabet Challenges, Book Addicts Anonymous, Group Reads - Literature, TBR Challenge, What Are You Reading Now?
Favorite authorsEmily Brontë, Bill Bryson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Joanne Harris, Alice Hoffman, Deric Longden, Stephenie Meyer, Christina Rossetti, J. K. Rowling, Nicholas Sparks, Oscar Wilde, Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresBook End, Borders - York, Minster Gate Bookshop, Oxfam Bookshop - Low Petergate, York, Scarthin Books
Favorite librariesBakewell Library, Chesterfield Library, University of York - JB Morrell Library (JBM)
About meI am a twenty-two year-old Derbyshire lass, a Gemini through and through! My mum ('goosegirl') and I have just opened our dream second-hand bookshop, 'Book End', which so far seems to have been well received - we're already collecting funny stories and regular customers... On top of the whole 'opening a bookshop' thing, I have other random 'things to do before I die', including seeing the Northern Lights, going to Kyoto for the cherry blossom season, visiting Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and flying a kestrel. In the meantime, I'm still battling agoraphobia and various other interlinking problems that are making life less than peachy, but hey, c'est la vie...
The photo is my lovely cat Marmalade, who had to be put down very recently. The 'dramatic lighting' makes her look even more regal, and the royal bottom is firmly perched upon her favourite newspaper-on-table seat... :-)
FAVOURITE BOOK 2006: 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
FAVOURITE BOOK 2007: 'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier
FAVOURITE BOOK 2008: 'The Ice Queen' by Alice Hoffman
FAVOURITE BOOK 2009 (so far): 'Like Water for Chocolate' by Laura Esquivel
Most recent acquisition: Anne Rice's 'The Vampire Lestat' and 'Queen of the Damned'
My Threads
50-Book Challenge 2009, thread 1:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/53768
50-Book Challenge 2009, thread 2:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/73065
My Alphabet Challenge:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/72998
My 1010 Challenge (a work in progress!):
http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...
My 75-Book Challenge 2010 (ready to go!):
http://www.librarything.com/topic/79224
Books Read - 2009
1) On Reading - Andre Kertesz (3*)
2) New Moon - Stephenie Meyer (4*)
3) The Pleasure of Reading - ed. Antonia Fraser (4*)
4) Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs: The Left Bank World of Shakespeare & Co. - Jeremy Mercer (5*)
5) Remotely Controlled: How television is damaging our lives and what we can do about it - Dr. Aric Sigman (4*)
6) The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby (5*)
7) Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges - Guy Browning (4*)
8) Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife - Sam Savage (4*)
9) Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer (4*)
10) Egypt's Golden Empire: The Age of the New Kingdom - Joyce Tyldesley (4*)
11) Addition - Toni Jordan (3*)
12) My Autobiography - Charles Chaplin (5*)
13) Moan About Men: A joyful guide to the things men do that drive women mad - Juliana Foster (3*)
14) Skylight Confessions - Alice Hoffman (3*)
15) Passing for Normal: Tourettes, OCD and growing up crazy - Amy Wilensky (2*)
16) The Madness of Modern Families - Annie Ashworth and Meg Sanders (3*)
17) Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey - The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World - Holley Bishop (4*)
18) The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole - Sue Townsend (3*)
19) Under the Paw: Confessions of a Cat Man - Tom Cox (3*)
20) The Year of Pleasures - Elizabeth Berg (3*)
21) Gold - Dan Rhodes (5*)
22) Bookworm Droppings: An Anthology of Absurd Remarks Made by Customers in Secondhand Bookshops - Sean Tyas (3*)
23) The Big Over Easy - by Jasper Fforde (4*)
24) Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine (2*)
25) Angels and Demons - Dan Brown (3*)
26) Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer (5*)
27) Life on the Refrigerator Door - Alice Kuipers (4*)
28) Growing Up at War - Maureen Hill (4*)
29) Minus Nine to One: The Diary of an Honest Mum - Jools Oliver (3*)
30) Housewife Down - Alison Penton Harper (2*)
31) The Hades Factor - Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds (4*)
32) The World According to Mimi Smartypants - 'Mimi Smartypants' (4*)
33) Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier (4*)
34) Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction - Tom Raabe (5*)
35) Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis (4*)
36) How I Lived a Year on Just a Pound a Day - Kath Kelly (3*)
37) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (4*)
38) Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs (4*)
39) The Virgin Blue - Tracy Chevalier (4*)
40) The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (4*)
41) Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel (5*)
42) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (4*)
43) Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder - Joanne Fluke (3*)
44) What It Feels Like - ed. A.J. Jacobs (2*)
45) Marley & Me - John Grogan (4*)
46) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon (3*)
47) People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks (4*)
48) Cinnamon City: Falling for the Magical City of Marrakech - Miranda Innes (4*)
49) Quirkology: The Curious Science of Everyday Lives - Richard Wiseman (4*)
50) Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor - Max Pemberton (4*)
51) Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome (3*)
52) Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella (3*)
53) Enough to Make a Cat Laugh - Deric Longden (4*)
54) The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne (4*)
55) The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling (3*)
About my libraryI've been obsessively cataloguing every detail of every book in my possession for years! My personal library is eclectic, and it inspires me every time I look at it - I want to expand and refine it over the years until I have something to truly be proud of and to pass down the generations. My current goal is to try and make the number of books I buy tally with the number of books I read - I'm a compulsive book buyer so I'm waaaaaay behind!
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Currently readingThe Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
The Anthology of Popular Verse by Christopher Hurford
Too Much Anger, Too Many Tears: A Personal Triumph Over Psychiatry by Janet Gotkin
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Mark
posted by msf59 at 8:50 am (EST) on Dec 25, 2009
Michaela
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posted by Fluffyblue at 5:16 am (EST) on Dec 25, 2009
Just wanted to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a simply wonderful 2010! Happy Holidays!
xoxo - caroline
posted by cameling at 7:41 am (EST) on Dec 24, 2009
Just to let you know that there is a group read for Moby Dick set up in the 75 Book Challenge for 2010 group. I think that it starts January 15th. Hope to see you there. I am so excited. I have been wanting to read this for 20 years, but just too scared. My daughter beat me to it! Take care.
--BJ
posted by billiejean at 1:02 am (EST) on Dec 15, 2009
P.S. You made me laugh when you told "haters" to look away while you "emoticonned." It's funny, I've always hated smiley faces and such, but since joining LT, I can't seem to communicate without them. Lack of ability to express myself clearly I guess. I use way too many exclamation points too. Working on reducing those is going to be my New Year's Resolution.
posted by bonniebooks at 11:01 pm (EST) on Dec 6, 2009
Aoife
posted by Bookbugg at 3:31 pm (EST) on Dec 6, 2009
Denise
posted by bookaholicgirl at 11:19 am (EST) on Nov 30, 2009
Yes Nicholas Sparks has a special place in my heart for being the only author who can guarantee to have me in floods of tears by the end of his books, I've read four of his books so far and every time i've cried - that man has a gift for making romantic females goo all over the place ;)
Haha the seagulls around here are so massive I flinch every time one flies overhead in fear of what they might do although luckily I've managed to escape being pooped on so far *knocks on wood* but yes seagulls and pigeons should both be designated to the lowest circles of hell for being such horrid creatures :P
posted by LadyViolet at 10:26 am (EST) on Nov 7, 2009
Thank you for your message and for putting me on your list. Looking at your list of books read in 2009, I see quite a few authors who are favorites of mine.
I'm fairly new around here and haven't really explored as much as I'd like, but yours is a name a was already familiar with -- a name I've come to look for, in fact, so I was very pleased to see a message from you. Thanks so much.
mollygrace
posted by mollygrace at 4:48 pm (EST) on Oct 25, 2009
I confess, when I jumped over to your profile, I was surprised to find you are so young! You have a wisdom beyond your years. :-)
Marie
posted by HeathMochaFrost at 11:27 am (EST) on Sep 22, 2009
Cheers,
Rena
posted by ChocolateMuse at 9:24 pm (EST) on Sep 2, 2009
xoxo
RMD
posted by richardderus at 11:53 am (EST) on Aug 23, 2009
I've been meaning to read Nathaniel's Nutmeg for years now - never quite got round to buying it until I spotted a 2nd hand copy in good condition in a charity shop the other day so I couldn't resist. Although I'm mostly a novel reader, I do love the occasional quirly kind of n/f. One of my favourites is one called A Fish Caught in Time, all about the search for the coelocanth (I think that's how it's spelled) the ancient fish known as the 'living fossil'. Little passions from enthusiastic oddballs just grab me that way. Nutmeg looks very readable and I do hope to get round to it fairly soon, though I mean to do that with the other 260 books on my TBR pile and look where that's got me! I'll be sure to let you know if I get there before you do.
posted by Booksloth at 4:18 am (EST) on Jul 27, 2009
posted by Booksloth at 8:01 am (EST) on Jul 25, 2009
*nyah*
posted by richardderus at 11:47 am (EST) on Jul 9, 2009
Quote for today (from my current read A City of Bells):
'A bookseller . . . is the link between mind and mind, the feeder of the hungry, very often the binder up of wounds. There he sits, your bookseller, surrounded by a thousand minds all done up neatly in cardboard cases; beautiful minds, courageous minds, strong minds, wise minds, all sorts and conditions. And there come into him other minds, hungry for beauty, for knowledge, for truth, for love, and to the best of his ability he satisfies them all.'
Makes me want to run out and open my own bookstore!!
There. Do you feel like you have superpowers now?
RMD
posted by richardderus at 12:05 pm (EST) on May 26, 2009
If you bought all those books in January you must have a sugar daddy you are hiding from the world. That is a lot of books!~! I am once again pea green with envy.
Have heard nothing but great things about "The Complete Polysyllabic Spree" by Nick Hornby and of course "The
Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank speaks volumes for itself. I have been wanting to read "Death in Venice" for years. Perhaps the next time I hit my second hand bookstore I will try to find a copy.
Are you sure you are only twenty one? Your life experiences speak ages for you. I think you would be one fascinating young lady to meet in real life.
Good luck to you in whatever you endeavor.
belva
posted by nannybebette at 6:25 pm (EST) on Mar 27, 2009
posted by bonniebooks at 7:24 pm (EST) on Mar 9, 2009
Thanks for the comment on my recent purchases on the What Are You Reading Now Thread. I've just spent some time going through your library and it is very interesting indeed. I envy you that you are starting at such an early age with your library, I love it when I see young people reading, I am adding your library to my interesting libraries. Also I love your name.
posted by lenereadsnok at 9:55 am (EST) on Feb 23, 2009
best wishes
jude
posted by jdthloue at 1:37 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2009
posted by Booksloth at 1:06 pm (EST) on Jan 27, 2009