Membro: A_musing

ColecçõesA sua biblioteca (2,167), Em leitura (4), Todas as colecções (2,167)

Críticas57 críticas

Etiquetas20th Century (1,139), American (924), Novels (668), History (392), 19th Century (378), Poetry (339), First Edition (259), English (220), Medieval (175), 17th & 18th Centuries (173) — ver todas as etiquetas

MédiaPor atribuir (45), Livro (2,122), Livro de Papel (1,620), Audiolivro (6), E-livro (3)

Nuvensnuvem de etiquetas, nuvem de autores

Sobre mimA touch of gray and a garden that needs weeding. And an LT library that needs updating - I'm a few dozen books behind!

My rating system, used in several threads:
1 - The author ought to be ashamed of him(her)self(C.S. Lewis' The Last Battle)
2 - A bad book that can and should be ignored (Atwood's The Edible Woman)
3 - Written well enough, but why? (Dan Brown's DaVinci Code - and, yes, we all know why $$$)
4 - Neither memorable nor a waste of time (Murakami's After Dark)
5 - Well written, fun, not very filling and easily forgotten (Gabriel Garcia Marquez's My Melancholy Whore)
6 - A solid, good book, worth reading (most of Hemingway or Atwood falls here)
7 - A book that reaches deep inside you and twists something (average Faulkner)
8 - Memorable and moving with a lasting impact on my life (Mahfouz, Katherine Anne Porter, Joyce). Everyone around me knows I like these books.
9 - Wow! Books I feel compelled to force on other people. (Thomas Mann's Transposed Heads - which you really, really need to read!! Now! Go, order it!)
10 - Moby Dick

Sobre a minha bibliotecaMany of our books are old, interesting editions. We hope the children catch the contagion.

A few underappreciated little gems are identified as, well, "underappreciated little gems". If you must peak at one thing in my library, there it is.

I once opened a newly purchased, dusty, 100-year old history book to find a well-preserved four leaf clover pressed inside. I've had better luck on opening other books.

Below is map showing countries from which I have read at least some literature. You can see other people's maps on a thread in the "Reading Globally - Fiction" group. I need to find some good books to read from Africa, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and the southern Slavic countries.

Suggestions are always welcome.


create your own visited country map
or write about it on the open travel guide

GruposAudiobooks, Bully's Tavern, Club Read 2009, Early Reviewers, History Readers: Clio's (Pleasure?) Palace, I became a fabulous opera, Infinite Jesters, Le Salon des Amateurs de la Langue, Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple, Mahābhārata Anyone? —mostrar todos os grupos, Middle Eastern Literature, Rare, Old or Offbeat, Reading Globally, The Clocks Have All Stopped, The Federalist Papers, Tropic of Ideas, William Faulkner and his Literary Kin

Autores favoritosAnonymous, Anonymous, Geoffrey Barraclough, Heinrich Böll, Marc Bloch, Zong-qi Cai, Lewis Carroll, Natalie Zemon Davis, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Umberto Eco, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Firdausi,, Jean de La Fontaine, Luo Guanzhong, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henri Freeqy IV (founder); everyone in their heart of hearts, Henrik Ibsen, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Ismail Kadare, Kalidasa, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Charles Lamb, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, James Laughlin, Halldór Laxness, Clarice Lispector, Naguib Mahfouz, Thomas Mann, Yo-Yo Ma, Herman Melville, María Rosa Menocal, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Nizan, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Marcel Proust, Thomas Pynchon, Sima Qian, Dylan Thomas, Barbara W. Tuchman, Vyasa, Tennessee Williams, Wu Cheng'en, Wai-lim Yip (Favoritos partilhados)

Locais de eventosFavoritos

Livrarias favoritasBarefoot Books, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Prudential Center, Book Ends, Boston Book Annex, Brattle Book Shop, Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Harvard Book Store, Montague Bookmill

Bibliotecas favoritasAmherst College Frost Library, Boston Public Library, Phillips Library - Peabody Essex Museum, Winchester Public Library

Outros favoritosMuseum of Fine Arts (museum and shop), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (museum and shop)

Editoras favoritasNYRB Classics

Página inicialhttp://thetreadleoftheloom.blogspot.com/

AdesãoER. Primeiros Críticos LibraryThing/Ofertas de Membros

Também emLast.fm, Lists of Bests

Nome realCall me Sam

LocalizaçãoBoston

Tipo de contapública

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Membro desdeFeb 27, 2006

Em leituraNine Medieval Latin Plays (Cambridge Medieval Classics) por Peter Dronke
Porius por John Cowper Powys
Los Angeles County Museum of Art,Edwin Arnold'sThe Song of Krishna: The Illustrated Bhagavad Gita [Hardcover](2010) por Edwin Arnold (Translator) Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Illustrator)
The Recognition of 'Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts (Oxford World's Classics) por Kalidasa