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“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."
From Helen Gordon’s Notes from Deep Time:
There’s a pleasure in knowing the names of things. It’s not about a need to categorise the world, sectioning it into little boxes. And clearly you don’t have to know the names of rocks – or trees or plants or birds – in order to enjoy a landscape. But if you do have this information, something changes about the way you exist in that space. A named landscape thickens. It’s to do with history and context but also, I think, with the quality of attention. To assign something its name, you need to take the time to pick out identifying features. You look for longer. And the more you know, the more things stop being a backdrop – blurred, indistinguishable, hurried over – and become somehow more present in the view, more insistently themselves, the way a familiar face stands out in a crowd.
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la meva bibliotecaI 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).
GrupsAll Things Discworldian - The Guild of Pratchett Fans, Ancient History, Anglophiles, Folio Society Devotees, Slightly Foxed - An appreciation, Travel and Exploration literature
Autors preferitsJorge 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 (Preferits compartits)
LlocsPreferits | Visitat
Llibreries preferidesBlackwell's Oxford, Borders - Oxford, Borzoi Bookshop, Jaffé & Neale, Oxfam Bookshop - Witney, Oxfam Bookshop Oxford (St Giles), Waterstones Oxford
Llistes de preferitsFavorite Short Fiction, The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read
MembresiaER. LibraryThing Early Reviewers
També aGoodreads
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UbicacióCotswolds
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Membre des deJun 11, 2008
Llegint actualmentLolita (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) de Vladimir Nabokov
LONDON 1851: THE YEAR OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION. de Eric. De Mare
A House of Air de Penelope Fitzgerald
Pleasure of Ruins de Rose Macaulay
How to Be Alone de Jonathan Franzen
On the Natural History of Destruction de W.G. Sebald
Step Across This Line de Salman Rushdie
Caspar David Friedrich de Werner Hofmann
Jazz Age Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) de F.Scott Fitzgerald
Swann's Way de Marcel Proust
The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain Vol 8 the Edwardian Age and the Inter-War Years de Ford Boris
Mists of Avalon de Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Magic Mountain de Thomas Mann
A Dance to the Music of Time: Spring de Anthony Powell
The Stones of Venice de John Ruskin
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time de Clive James
The Little Stranger de Sarah Waters
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays de Zadie Smith
Very Good Jeeves de P. G. Wodehouse
The Return of John Macnab de Andrew Greig
Complete Stories de Flannery O'Connor
The Jewel in the Crown de Paul Scott
Driving Home: An American Scrapbook de Jonathan Raban
Arabian Sands : de Wilfred Thesiger
The Earth - An Intimate History de Richard Fortey
A Moment of War de Laurie Lee
Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe de Norman Davies
The Day of the Triffids de John Wyndham
Mr Standfast de John Buchan
Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1: v. 1 de Ray Bradbury
Black Sea de Neal Ascherson
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush de Eric Newby
Dracula de Bram Stoker
Bound to Please de Michael Dirda
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories de Herodotus
Religion and the Decline of Magic de Keith Thomas
Europe: A History de Norman Davies
The History of Central Asia: The Age of the Steppe Warriors de Christoph Baumer
Epitaph for a Spy de Eric Ambler
Naples '44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth de Norman Lewis
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells de Sebastian Faulks
Raven Black (Shetland) de Ann Cleeves
The Goldfinch de 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 de Agatha Christie
Swords in the Mist (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) de Fritz Leiber
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations de Mary Beard
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings de Jean Manco
The Complete Conan Saga de Robert E. Howard
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia de Rebecca West
Night Watch: (Discworld Novel 29) (Discworld Novels) de Sir Terry Pratchett
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 [2 Volume Set in a Slipcase] de Orlando Figes
Call for the Dead de John le Carre
The Balkan Trilogy: "Great Fortune", "Spoilt City" and "Friends and Heroes" de Olivia Manning
1215: The Year of Magna Carta de Danny Danziger
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization de Paul Kriwaczek
Egypt and Nubia de David Roberts
An Introduction to English Poetry de James Fenton
Concerning E.M. Forster: EM Forster and His Contemporaries de Frank Kermode
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters de Adam Nicolson
Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity de Prue Shaw
After Sebald: Essays and Illuminations de Jon Cook
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century de Barbara W. Tuchman
Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition de Ernest Hemingway
The Great War and Modern Memory de Paul Fussell
Darwin and the 'Beagle' de Alan Moorehead
Alexandria: A History and Guide de E. M. Forster
Shackleton's Boat Journey de Worsley F.A.
Celts: Art and Identity de Julia Farley
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life de Jacques Barzun
SPQR: A history of Ancient Rome de Mary Beard
Into the Unknown: Tales from the Great Explorers de Alexander Maitland
Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 de Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno de Dante Alighieri
84 Charing Cross Road de Helen Hanff
Egypt: faith after the pharaohs de Cäcilia Fluck
Reformation : Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 de Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Prose Factory: Literary Life in Britain Since 1918 de D J Taylor
Humans: from the beginning: From the first apes to the first cities de Christopher Seddon
Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds de Franck Goddio
Sea Room de Adam Nicolson
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars de Adrian Tinniswood
My Name is Lucy Barton de Elizabeth Strout
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman (Penguin Classics) de A. E. Housman
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time de Clive James
The Rise and Fall of the Medieval Monastery de Christopher Brooke
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane de S Frederick Starr
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts de Christopher De Hamel
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee de Dee Brown
Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics) de Joyce James
Moonglow de Michael Chabon
Houses of Power: The Places that Shaped the Tudor World de Simon Thurley
Canaletto and the Art of Venice de Lucy Whitaker
Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914 de Frederic Morton
The Underground Railroad de Colson Whitehead
The Night Listener de Armistead Maupin
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE – 1492) de Simon Schama
The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 de Eamon Duffy
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense de Jenny Uglow
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium de Paul Kidby
Caesar: The Life Of A Colossus de Adrian Goldsworthy
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister (Everyman's Library CLASSICS) de Nicholas Shakespeare
Art as Therapy de Alain Botton
Gone with the Wind de Margaret Mitchell
The Dawn Watch de Maya Jasanoff
After the Party de Cressida Connolly
The Building of England: How the History of England Has Shaped Our Buildings de Simon Thurley
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading de Lucy Mangan
The Weimar Republic Through the Lens of the Press de Torsten Palmér
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War de Claire Breay and Joanna Story
Ideas: A history from fire to Freud de Peter Watson
The Country House Library de Mark Purcell
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill de Candice Millard
Life And Fate de Vasily Grossman
Rebecca (Virago Modern Classics Book 300) de Daphne Du Maurier
The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life de Henry Hitchings
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind de Tom Holland
Destinations: Essays from "Rolling Stone" de Jan Morris
A Midsummer Night's Dream de William Shakespeare
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture de Orlando Figes
We British: The Poetry of a People de Andrew Marr
The Making of Poetry: Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2019 de Adam Nicolson
Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling de Philip Pullman
Hamnet de Maggie O'Farrell
The House of the Spirits de Isabel Allende
Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting de Christopher Neve
Main Street (Dover Thrift Editions) de Sinclair Lewis
Sienese Painting: The Art of a City-Republic (World of Art) de Timothy Hyman
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections de Walter Benjamin
The New York Stories (Vintage Classics) de John O'Hara
Going to Church in Medieval England de Nicholas Orme
The Last Picture Show de Larry McMurtry
Novel On Yellow Paper de Stevie Smith
The Books of Jacob de Olga Tokarczuk
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe de Mark Mazower
Film in Five Seconds de Matteo Civaschi
Selected Poems de John Betjeman
Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994 de David Hepworth
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