Membre: Pepys

Col·leccionsSold (1), La teva biblioteca (342), Per llegir (23), Llegint actualment (5), Llegit, però no el tinc (5), Preferits (27), Second-hand (72), Leatherbound (44), Folio Society (139), Facsimile (5), Limited edition (22), Dedicated (11), Signed (11), Loaned (2), Available for trade (6), Given (4), Neufchâteau (6), Praz-de-Lys (35), Liliane (8), Totes les col·leccions (398)

Ressenyes66 ressenyes

Etiquetes20c. (165), In French (142), Novel (134), English literature (128), History (114), England (85), French literature (75), France (70), 19c. (68), 21c. (60) — mostra totes les etiquetes

SuportLlibre (398), Llibre en paper (398), Rústica (187), Cartoné (211)

Núvolsnúvol d'etiquetes, núvol d'autors, mirall d'etiquetes

Quant a miFrench, b.1952. Retired seismologist & occasional translator. I appreciate l'humour anglais, especially the Monty Python's—sorry for those who hate them.
Picture credit: John Hayls painted my portrait in 1666, long before the computer era. I have allowed The National Portrait Gallery, London to display it in their room 7.
My first post on LT, dated December 8, 2006: As a brand new member of the group [the Folio Society Devotees], I'm wondering if many of you have already read Life, a User's Manual by Georges Perec. Perhaps as some of you did with your most-beloved book, I'm trying to convince the FS [the Folio Society] that 'this is a book they should absolutely publish'.

Pense-bête

Quant a
la meva bibliotecaThanks to my subscription to The Folio Society from 2003 onward, I discovered classics I had never heard of before: like Elizabeth in Alan Bennett's novella, I am an opsimath. I almost never read books twice. (So why do I keep them?) There are so many works to discover, & I am such a slow reader that I am doomed to die facing a mountain of books I would have liked to read. (This last sentence influenced by my reading of The Anatomy of Melancholy. ;-) However, I do not buy too many books in advance.
My main interest lies in diaries & biographies, sometimes linked to scientific discoveries or explorations.
We (my wife & I) own an indeterminate number of books in French (she is a much quicker reader than me, but our books are two disjoint sets, if I may use this terminology used in set theory). I also own some books in German.

My rating
Some books are left unrated. The reason is that either I read them too many years ago, or I haven't read them yet. I don't see the point in rating all books with 4 or 5 stars. The following guidelines allow me to keep the average rating close to 2.75:

= I have re-read this book
= I must re-read this book
= You must read this book
= I recommend this book
= It has been rewarding to read this book
= Some rare passages were uninteresting
= Some passages were interesting
= Some rare passages were interesting
= Boring
= I couldn't finish this book
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For reference books:
= Daily use
= Once a week
= Once a month
= Once every 4 months
= Once a year
Note: use can vary a lot over months or years. I decided to rate it here when it reached its maximum.

visits

GrupsAnnus mirabilis, Folio Society Devotees, Language, Oulipo's Virtual Headquarters, Pedants' corner, The Turk's Head

Autors preferitsJames Boswell, Italo Calvino, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Anatole France, Edward Gibbon, Graham Greene, François Guizot, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Pierre Loti, W. Somerset Maugham, Guy de Maupassant, Samuel Pepys, Georges Perec, Robert Pinget, Jules Romains, Jacques Roubaud, Stefan Zweig (Preferits compartits)

Pàgina d'inicihttp://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php

Nom realFrançois

UbicacióGrenoble, France

Tipus de comptepúblic

URL /profile/Pepys (perfil)
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Membre des deDec 5, 2006

Llegint actualmentLatin Crosswords de Peter Jones
The Canterbury Tales de Geoffrey Chaucer
Le Bouquin des mots savoureux, cocasses et polissons de Daniel Lacotte
Mémoires 1691-1701 de Louis de Rouvroy de Saint-Simon
De viris illustribus urbis Romae / Les grands hommes de Rome de Charles François Lhomond