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Member: riverwillow

CollectionsYour library (1,458), To read (524), Currently reading (5), Course (88), Borrowed (27), Owned but given away (114), Read but unowned (27), On Loan (30), Bookcrossing (81), Favorites (21), All collections (1,624)

Reviews455 reviews

TagsFiction (1,021), Non-Fiction (353), Crime (259), Reference (131), Biography/Memoir (118), Children's Fiction (87), BX (76), History (72), Mystery (62), Literary Theory/Criticism (61) — see all tags

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GroupsBBC Radio 4 Listeners, BookCrossers, Brits, E. F. Benson, Graduate Students, Happy Heathens, Helene Hanff, I Love Jane Austen, Literary Snobs, Open University

Favorite authorsKate Atkinson, Jane Austen, E. F. Benson, Christopher Brookmyre, Agatha Christie, Colette, Wilkie Collins, Jasper Fforde, Antonia Fraser, Neil Gaiman, Helene Hanff, Thomas Hardy, Hergé, James Joyce, Frank O'Hara, Terry Pratchett, Ian Rankin, Phil Rickman, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Trollope, Richard Zimler (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBookseller Crow on the Hill, Borders - Charing Cross Road, Foyles at Southbank Centre, Murder One, Primrose Hill Books, South Bank Book Market, The Beckenham Bookshop, Watkins Books

About meI grew up surrounded by readers so it was inevitable that I would learn to read at a young age - my primary school teacher was not impressed and told my mother that she had 'impinged on my creativity'!

I read across the genres, some might say indiscriminately but have a particular love for the novels of the nineteenth century, especially Wilkie Collins, Trollope and Thackerary and nothing can beat a good twentieth century murder mystery.

I am a bookcrosser, so if you see a BX tag this means that the book is registered on bookcrossing and may be waiting for release, although I haven't quite synched the two libararies up just yet.

Oh yes and I've signed up for an English MA, madness I know.

About my libraryGrowing....

Now that Collections have arrived, yipeee, its means that I can finally track which books I've read and which books I haven't so here is a quick clarification of how some of my Collections are comprised.

"Your Library" means all books owned by me and physically in my home or on loan to friends and family

"On Loan" refers to books owned by me, in my library, and loaned out to friends and family.

"Borrowed" refers to books I've borrowed which are still with me.

"Bookcrossing" relates to books registered on Bookcrossing.com, some of which may have been released.

All other collections should do what they say on the tin!

Books Read Since 1st January 2009:

Conjugal Rites by Paul Magrs
I Will Repay by Baroness Orczy
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket
Eldorado by Baroness Orczy
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket
The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss
A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Pencil by Christopher Brookmyre
The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
Cutting Blades by Victoria Blake
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
The Tiger in the Well by Philip Pullman
The Comfort of Saturdays by Alexander McCall Smith
Rogue by Rachel Vincent
The Devil in Amber by Mark Gatiss
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lillian Jackson Braun
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy by James Anderson
The Act of Roger Mugatroyd by Gilbert Adair
The Flying Troutmans by Mirian Toews
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
A Rare Interests in Corpses by Ann Granger
Skin and Blister by Victoria Blake
The Affair of the Mutilated Mink by James Anderson
The Mysterious Affair of Style by Gilbert Adair
Pride by Rachel Vincent
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The End by Lemony Snicket
Silent on the Moor by Deanna Raybourn
A Mortal Curiosity by Ann Granger
Jumping The Cracks by Victoria Blake
The Affair of the 39 Cufflinks by James Anderson
Cotillion by Georgette Heyer
The Bolter by Frances Osbourne
Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
And Then There Was No One by Gilbert Adair
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
Black Butterfly by Mark Gatiss
Because It's There by Dudley Green
Have His Carcass by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Mao Case by Qiu Xiaolong
Neverwhere - The Author's Preferred Text by Neil Gaiman
In the Teeth of the Evidence by Dorothy L. Sayers
An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah
Turn Coat by Jim Butcher
The Death Zone by Matt Dickinson
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
Whose Body by Dorothy L. Sayers
Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt
Drop Shot by Harlan Coben
Fade Away by Harlan Coben
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Suffer the Children by Adam Creed
Back Spin by Harlan Coben
One False Move by Harlan Coben
The Final Detail by Harlan Coben
Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre
When Will There Be Good News by Kate Atkinson
Facing Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mount Everest by Bear Grylls
Darkest Fear by Harlan Coben
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Promise Me by Harlan Coben
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
A Snowball in Hell by Christopher Brookmyre
The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer
Storyteller by G R Grove
Long Lost by Harlan Coben
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest by Beck Weathers
The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson
Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
The Curious Sofa: A Pornographic Work by Ogdred Weary by Edmund Gorey
The Prince in Waiting by John Christopher
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton
Beyond the Burning Lands by John Christopher
The Sword of the Spirits by John Christopher
Dead Lucky by Lincoln Hall
Dark Summit by Nick Heil
The Bone Collector by Jeffrey Deaver
The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lillian Jackson Braun
The Cat Who Turned On and Off by Lillian Jackson Braun
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
One Upon A Time in England by Helen Walsh
Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
Prey by Rachel Vincent
High Exposure by David Breashears
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
The Flirt by Kathleen Tessaro
Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
The Stone Monkey by Jeffrey Deaver
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith
The Coffin Dancer by Jeffrey Deaver
Innocence by Kathleen Tessaro
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Empty Chair by Jeffrey Deaver
War Paint by Lindy Woodhead
The Vanished Man by Jeffrey Deaver
Unnatural Death by Dorothy L Sayers
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L Sayers
Pandaemonium by Christopher Brookmyre
Savage Summit: The True Stories of the 5 Women Who Climbed K2 by Jennifer Jordan
The Twelfth Card by Jeffrey Deaver
The Baader Meinhof Complex by Stefan Aust
Wasp Waisted by David Barrie
206 Bones by Kathy Reichs
Cold Moon by Jeffrey Deaver
The Broken Window by Jeffrey Deaver
Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson
Real Murders by Charlaine Harris
A Bone to Pick by Charlaine Harris
The Julius House by Charlaine Harris
A Fool and His Honey by Charlaine Harris
Frances Partridge: The Biography by Anne Chisholm
Venetia by Georgette Heyer
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L Sayers
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson
The Herring Seller's Apprentice by LC Tyler
Southern Fried by Cathy Pickens
Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
My Father's Places by Aeronwy Thomas
I is for Innocent by Sue Grafton
The Messenger of Athens by Anne Zouroudi
The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
J is for Judgement by Sue Grafton
The Taint of Midas by Anne Zouroudi
The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

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Member sinceDec 2, 2007

Currently readingA Companion to the History of the Book (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) by Simon Eliot
The New Critical Idiom : Intertextuality by Graham Allen
The Handbook to Literary Research by Delia da Sousa Correa
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens