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Favorite bookstoresAthenaeum Boekhandel, Boekhandel Verwijs, De Slegte Amsterdam, De Slegte Den Haag, Selexyz Scheltema - Koningsplein, Selexyz van Piere (Nieuwe Emmasingel), The American Book Center, Van Stockum Boekverkopers, Van Stockum Boekverkopers, Waterstone's Amsterdam
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About meI studied Cultural Heritage and work at the National Library in the Netherlands at Digital Preservation. I'm a huge fan of Bette Midler (that explains my four copies of A view from a broad). I love history, especially the middle ages (preferably early middle ages). I also cross stitch (working on a replica of The Lady and The Unicorn: A Mon Seul Desir now) and gaming (Nintendo DS and Wii).
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What kind of books do I like?
I like historical fiction (but it must keep it's facts a bit straight), especially about the middle ages. I also love historical adventures (books like The Da Vinci Code), you can find tons of them nowadays. I also like fantasy and a bit of science fiction. I also read a lot of non-fiction, mostly about medieval history.
I almost exclusively read books I own, I almost never borrow. I am always "a bit" behind in reading, although recently I have been trying to at least read what I have last bought first, before buying more.
Anything I read before I started keeping lists of dates read I give the read dates of 2003-01-01/2003-01-02, even if the book is published after that time. I just have no clue when I read them. I need to work on tagging. I'll at least keep genre tags (my own genres :D) and subject tags.
My Challenges
50 books in 2009 - Completed September 8, 2009
75 books in 2009
Books from the 1001 Books you Must Read Before You Die list
1010 Category Challenge
Woohoo! I read my 50 for 2009, on to 75!
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73. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2009 reading list
1. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
2. World without end - Ken Follett
3. Mysteries of the Middle Ages - Thomas Cahill
4. The Time-traveller's Guide to Medieval England - Ian Mortimer
5. A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
6. I'm A Stranger Here Myself - Bill Bryson
7. Anathem - Neal Stephenson
8. Notes from a small island - Bill Bryson
9. The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
10. The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
11. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America - Bill Bryson
12. The Inheritance of Rome - Chris Wickham
13. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
14. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
15. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
16. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
17. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
18. Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom - Tom Holland
19. In Search of the Dark Ages - Michael Wood
20. A Brief History of the Vikings - Jonathan Clements
21. A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons - Geoffrey Hindley
22. Eon - Greg Bear
23. Legacy - Greg Bear
24. Eternity - Greg Bear
25. Freakonomics - Simon Levitt & Stephen Dubbner
26. The Domesday Quest: In Search of the Roots of England - Michael Wood
27. The Venetian Betrayal - Steve Berry
28. Harlequin - Bernard Cornwell
29. The Host - Stephenie Meyer
30. Sword of Shame - The Medieval Murderers
31. Company of Liars - Karen Maitland
32. Framing the Middle Ages - Chris Wickham
33. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
34. Your Inner Fish - Neil Shubin
35. Genghis Khan - John Man
36. The Drunkard's Walk - Leonard Mlodinow
37. A Canticle For Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr.
38. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House - Kate Summerscale
39. Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks
40. Bonk: The Curious Coupling Of Sex and Science - Mary Roach
41. The Fire - Katherine Neville
42. The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
43. What on Earth Happened? - Christopher Lloyd
44. Coraline - Neil Gaiman
45. Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
46. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
47. Attila the Hun - John Man
48. Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
49. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
50. The Lost City of Z - David Grann
51. State of the Art - Iain M. Banks
52. World War Z - Max Brooks
53. The Romanov Prophecy - Steve Berry
54. The Name of The Rose - Umberto Eco
55. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
56. Use of Weapons - Iain M. Banks
57. The Library at Night - Alberto Manguel
58. 13 things that don't make sense - Michael Brooks
59. The Rise of Western Christendom - Peter Brown
60. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
61. A History of Histories - John Burrow
62. The Templar Legacy - Steve Berry
63. Azincourt - Bernard Cornwell
64. In Alle Staten - Max Westerman
65. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
66. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
67. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
68. Philip Hoare - Leviathan
69. Geert Mak - De Brug
70. Preston & Child - Dodenboek
71. Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
72. Fergus Kerr - Thomas Aquinas (Very Short Introductions)
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Heb jij Karen Maitland - Het gezelschap van leugenaars gelezen? 1348, pestilentie, engeland.
posted by DebbievdZande at 8:52 am (EST) on Nov 2, 2009
Re your query regarding 'Jaguars & Electric Eels'. No,this is merely an abridgment (as are all of this excellent series) If you do a search of Googlebooks,they have a fuller (I'm not sure if they give the complete book - doubtful -but certainly a fuller account at any rate. You could also try Project Gutenburgh who may have the fuller text.
Hope this is of help.
Peter (devenish)
posted by devenish at 7:53 am (EST) on Oct 1, 2009
I've just been having a wee look in your library and see that the Name of the Rose is in your next 5 to read. I finally read it last year - it'd been on the shelf for over 10 years - and really, really loved it. I haven't managed to read anything else by Eco yet though.
Also just went to a map of the Netherlands to see where Hoorn is... I've been to Amsterdam a couple of times because good friends were living there - a lovely city. Last time, in 2002, they drove us over the dyke between Lelystad and Enkhuizen, which looks pretty close to you!
Right, better go and read a book or something. Hope you like the 75 BC group - there are tons of nice people in it.
posted by cmt at 4:31 am (EST) on Sep 12, 2009
posted by callmejacx at 10:30 am (EST) on Aug 11, 2009
No problemo! One of the dubious advantages of being a South African of "a certain age" is that we all had to learn Afrikaans at school, and I don't find the conversion to reading Dutch all that difficult. In fact, two years ago when I had the pleasure of visiting your country (Wageningen, Harderwijk, Schovenhorst, Hoge Veluwe, Baarn, Utrecht) I even found I could converse with some of the locals in a strange hybrid Afrikaans/Dutch/accent-without-a-trace-o... So bigh thankyous for those sites, which I shall certainly pass on to the others on the committee.
Would you accept a virtual long-distance hug an an expression of gratitude? If so, ((((hugs))))
All best
Hugh
posted by hfglen at 11:07 am (EST) on Aug 4, 2009
Thanks a million
Hugh
posted by hfglen at 3:54 am (EST) on Aug 4, 2009
You are an angel straight from heaven, and I shall call on your help in as much detail and at as great a length as you let me! Yes I do need all the help I can get. The score at the moment is that Busifer needs to locate a friend who's away on holiday right now, so things are stalled for a couple of weeks there. But I mentioned it to the others (International Code for Botanical Nomenclature, Special Committee on Electronic Publication if you want to know) and they want a document to refer to in the discussions we'll be having over the next 2 years. So I'm now thinking I should come to you cap-in-hand when I have something, and ask for your take on it before posting idiocy and nonsense.
The basic problem is that on the one hand, the cost of academic publication as ink-on-paper is astronomical, so more and more journals are going electronic. On the other, the old-men-in-suits (of both genders and all ages, actually) who vote on changes to the code have not as yet had the courage to face up to the problem, and hide behind the mantra that e-publication is ephemeral, and will be unreadable in decades when original descriptions of new species (etc.) need to be readable for ever. Which is not totally untrue, but omits to note the number of cases where all copies of a paper publication have been destroyed over the last 250 years.
Thank you, thank you and thank you again a million times over for your kind offer, which is much appreciated.
All best
Hugh
posted by hfglen at 3:27 am (EST) on Aug 4, 2009
posted by callmejacx at 4:42 pm (EST) on Jul 28, 2009
posted by MrsLee at 11:17 am (EST) on Mar 25, 2009