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Bibliotek1,033 böcker — se bibliotek

Recensioner36 recensioner — se recensioner

Molntaggmoln, författarmoln

TaggarLibrary-Main (556), Fiction (355), Read (268), First Edition (258), American Literature (190), Paperback (161), Leather Bound (150), Folio Society (147), Easton Press (146), Library-LR (117) — se alla taggar

GrupperBook Care and Repair, Early Reviewers, Fine Press Forum, Folio Society devotees, George Macy devotees, Proust, ReJoyce, Sitting on a pumpkin..., South American Fiction-Argentine Writers

FavoritförfattareRoberto Bolaño, Joseph Conrad, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Joyce, Morgan Llywelyn, Gabriel García Márquez, Patricia A. McKillip, Michael Moorcock, Pablo Neruda, Marcel Proust, Hyemeyohsts Storm, Henry David Thoreau, J. R. R. Tolkien, Howard Zinn (Delade favoriter)

FavoritbokhandelThe Bookman

Om mig Now reading:

New Penguin Parallel Text: Short Stories in Spanish

History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

'The problem of finding a collection of 'wise' men and leaving the government to them is thus an insoluble one. That is the ultimate reason for democracy' -p106

'Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater or less degree, the state of mind in which, after long labour, truth or beauty appears, or seems to appear, in a sudden glory--it may be only about some small matter, or it may be about the universe. The experience is, at that moment, very convincing; doubt may come later, but at the time there is utter certainty. I think most of the best creative work, in art, in science, in literature, and in philosophy, has been the result of such a moment. ' p. 120

'People should not marry too young, because, if they do, the children will be weak and female, the wives will become wanton, and the husbands stunted in their growth. The right age for marriage is thirty-seven in men, eighteen in women.' -p. 178 (from Aristotle's Politics)

'War, however, is just when waged against men who, though intended by nature to be governed, will not submit; and in this case, it is implied, it would be right to make slaves of the conquered. This would seem enough to justify any conqueror who ever lived; for no nation will admit that it is intended by nature to be governed and the only evidence as to nature's intentions must be derived from the outcome of war. In every war, therefore, the victors are in the right and vanquished in the wrong. Very Satisfactory! -p. 180

'The most hated sort [of wealth], and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest...Of all modes of getting wealth this is teh most unnatural'. -p. 180 (from Aristotle's Politics)

Although, as a Stoic, Seneca officially despised riches, he amassed a huge fortune, amounting, it is said, to 300 million sesterces. Much of this he acquired by lending money in Britain; according to Dio, the excessive rates of interest that he exacted were among the causes of revolt in that country. The heroic queen Boadicea, if this is true, was heading a rebellion against capitalism as represented by the philosophic apostle of austerity. -p. 250
and also...

And for poetry:
Window Poems by Wendell Berry

And, of course, some drama:
Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare

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Just read:

Il Bosco di Tamarindi by Carlo Toselli

Sampler by Emily Dickenson

Unto my books, so good to turn,
Far ends of tired days,
It half endears the abstinence,
And pain is missed in praise.

As flavors cheer retarded guests
With banquetings to be,
So spices stimulate the time
Till my small library.

It may be wilderness without,
Far feet of failing men,
But holiday excludes the night,
And it is bells within.

I thank these kinsmen of the shelf,
Their countenances kid,
Enamor, in prospective,
And satisfy, obtained.

The War of the Saints by Jorge Amado

...He'd come at her call to pluck the petals of the roses of the night with her. --p. 225

21 Songs by Jan Zwicky

Journey Round My Room by Xavier de Maistre

Twelfth Night by the Bard

Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin


Poetry as Insurgent Art by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

Labyrinths by Jorges Luis Borges

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel


James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake by Joseph Campbell & Henry Morton Robinson.

And for The Early Reviewers program:
Spanish: Live it and Learn it! The Complete Guide to Language Immersion Schools in Mexico by Martha Racine Taylor

...and also In Search of Lost Time by Proust:
Vol. 1: Swann's Way....check!
Vol. 2: Within a Budding Grove...check!!
Vol. 3: The Guermantes Way...check!!!
Vol. 4: Sodom and Gomorrah...check!!!!
Vol. 5: The Captive...check!!!!!
Vol. 6: The Fugitive / Time Regained
I've reached la fin de siècle!

Om mitt bibliotek My library is an eclectic mix of books and topics but the one common thread is that I almost always want readable books. Meaning I seldom buy a book that I don't intend to read or that is physically not readable. There are (of course!) some exceptions. I may have several editions of favorite books or authors, especially if there are several different illustrators or other unique features of an edition.

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Medlem sedanJul 7, 2006