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Taggarpoetry (181), Detective fiction (107), African American literature (60), British fiction (58), American fiction (53), Signed by author (38), Literary criticism (34), Teaching (32), Christianity (32), Philosophy (28) — se alla taggar

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Grupper18th Century British Literature, Baker Street and Beyond, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, BBC Radio 4 Listeners, Bloggers, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Early Reviewers, EmilyDickinson, Favorite Bookstores, Felony & Mayhem Press — visa alla grupper , Hardboiled / Noir Crime Fiction, Harlem Renaissance, Karl Shapiro and Company, Langston Hughes, Librarians who LibraryThing, List Five Books Parlour Game, Maigret Fans, Pacific Northwest, Readers Who Write, Reading Globally, Robinson Jeffers, Scandinavian detectives and thrillers, Swedish Thing, The Black Orchid (A Nero Wolfe Group), Underappreciated Books and Authors, university of puget sound, Working Class, Writer-readers

FavoritförfattareW. H. Auden, James Baldwin, Matsuo Bashō, Wendy Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Italo Calvino, Albert Camus, John Le Carré, Constantine Cavafy, John Cheever, Anton Chekhov, Edmund Crispin, Countee Cullen, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Rudolph Fisher, Graham Greene, Dag Hammarskjöld, Dashiell Hammett, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A. E. Housman, Langston Hughes, Mowlana Jalaladdun Rumi, P. D. James, Randall Jarrell, Robinson Jeffers, Pär Lagerkvist, Jay Macpherson, Henning Mankell, Claude McKay, Josephine Miles, Fae M. Ng, Henri J. M. Nouwen, Jack Olsen, Hans Ostrom, Blaise Pascal, V. S. Pritchett, Arnold Rampersad, Thomas Sanchez, Dorothy L. Sayers, Karl Shapiro, Georges Simenon, Stevie Smith, Stephen Spender, Benedictus de Spinoza, Rex Stout, Leo Tolstoy, Gore Vidal, Eudora Welty, Alan Williamson, Garry Wills (Gemensamma favoriter)

Om mighttp://poetsmusings-muser.blogspot.com/

I write poetry, novels, screenplays, and a blog.

Om mitt bibliotekIt's an eclectic assembly of books, authors, and topics, even as tags and clouds show preferences, obsessions, and distractions. Poetry comes first, but beyond that, I like books: detective fiction, African American literature, canonical fiction, obscure fiction, essays, languages, philosophy, theology, Swedish literature, religions, gardening, et alia. I'm an English professor, scholar, fiction-writer, and poet, so these vocations inform my library. Quirky books on arcane subjects are most welcome, as are arcane books on quirky subjects. I'm drawn to old paperbacks of almost any kind--the pulpier, the better. Can Library Thing bring order to the vortex of books that has accompanied my life? That is the question. As Al Davis (an English major) of the Oakland Raiders is alleged to have said once, "Just read, baby." Most of my books were recently paroled from storage; slowly they're finding their way to the LT catalogue.

My ratings of books are high for two main reasons: I tend not to hang on to books that I dislike intensely, and I know how hard it is to write a book--any book. If I give a book three stars, then I probably won't be in a hurry to read it again. Four stars mean the book is at least very good; sometimes they mean that I recognize the book is great but that it may simply not be the kind of book I treasure. For example, Alexander Pope was a great poet, a superb verse-technician, but I truly enjoy very little of his work. Five stars mean I think the book is excellent, and I usually have great affection (if for varying reasons) for most (but not all) of the five-star books.

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Medlem sedanNov 19, 2007