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Member: madA63

CollectionsYour library (3,829), Currently reading (16), To read (193), Antiquity (103), Middle Ages (75), Renaissance (85), Fiction (2,219), 19th Century Fiction (297), 20th Century Fiction (1,648), 21st Century Fiction (65), Poetry (227), Theatre (129), History (220), Art (348), Art - Studio Shelf (51), Cookbooks (76), Reference Shelf (154), Bandes dessinées, Comics, Graphic Novels (182), All collections (3,829)

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TagsFiction (3,628), 20th Century (3,067), Non-Fiction (1,349), UK literature (633), US literature (509), 19th Century (376), Art (368), French literature (314), Shelves marked XIX (297), Poetry (249) — see all tags

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GroupsAncient China, Anglophiles, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Bookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill, Books on Books, Comics, Deep South, DimSum Thing, Fine Press Forum, Folio Society devotees — show all groups , French Connection, Japanese Culture, Literary Snobs, New York Review Books

Favorite authorsPeter Ackroyd, Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Bowles, Mikhail Bulgakov, Dino Buzzati, Italo Calvino, Albert Camus, Elias Canetti, Michael Dibdin, Lawrence Durrell, William Faulkner, Gustave Flaubert, Edward Gorey, Herman Melville, Haruki Murakami, Georges Perec, Leo Perutz, Frederic Prokosch, Stendhal, Tom Stoppard, Boris Vian, Marguerite Yourcemar (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAkateeminen kirjakauppa - Helsinki, Antikvariaatti Syvä uni, Arkadia Oy International Bookshop, Ateneumin taidekirjakauppa (Ateneum Bookshop), C. Hagelstamin Antikvaarinen Kirjakauppa, David Mirvish Books, Galignani, Laterna Magica, Librairie La Hune, Powell's City of Books, Shakespeare & Company, Village Voice Bookshop, Waterstone's Oxford

Favorite librariesHelsingin kaupunginkirjasto - Rikhardinkadun kirjasto (public library), Kansalliskirjasto (The National Library of Finland)

Other favoritesMarché du livre Parc Brassens

About meI come from a family of writers, teachers and philosophers - bookworms all. All of them have their own ever-expanding collections, but I seem to be the most afflicted.

Luckily my wife loves books as much as I do, reads twice as much as me, but only rarely buys any. In the rare cases that she reproaches me for extravagant purchases, I can always point out that they are for 'us'.

About my libraryIt has taken over our apartment. Despite Regular culling (and two major reductions made necessary by trans-Atlantic moves) it has grown to over 3000 volumes.
It is housed in 11 Billy bookcases, stacked on tables and on the floor (Therefore the sometimes strange tags, an attempt to control the chaos).

The books in in LT are all currently in our possession. I have not entered the hundreds of books read on loan from libraries, friends or photocopied from teachers' rare copies. Neither are included the books read and then given away to friends, family or charity shops (or in the case of my childhood books, simply read to pieces).

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Member sinceApr 5, 2009

Currently readingOriori no Uta, Poems For All Seasons (An Anthology of Japanese Poetry from Ancient Times to the Present) by Ooka Makoto
The Bone Man of Benares by Terry Tarnoff
The Paris Review Book: of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, ... and Everything Else in the World Since 1953 by The Paris Review
Les Essais (mis en français moderne par Claude Pinganaud) by Michel de Montaigne
The Anatomy of Melancholy (New York Review Books Classics) by Robert Burton
A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
A Book of Days for the Literary Year by Neal T. Jones
Red Gold by Alan Furst
The Polyglots, The (Prion Lost Treasures) by William Gerhardie
The Folio Book of Days by Roger Hudson
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes
The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse (New York Review Books) by D.B. Wyndham Lewis
The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 by Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Folio Golden Treasury - The Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by James (Ed) Various - Michie
Bone in the Throat by Anthony Bourdain
A Book of Travellers Tales by Eric Newby
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