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Girl Walking Backwards av Bett Williams

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Medlem: veritas

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Taggarliterary fiction (88), 20th century (75), translation (60), YA (55), lesbian (48), feminism (38), japanese (36), art (35), philosophy (21) — se alla taggar

GrupperAsian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Australian LibraryThingers, Banned Books, Buddhism, Build the Open Shelves Classification, Children's Literature, Feminist Theory, Japanese Literature, Knitters Inc., Librarians who LibraryThingvisa alla grupper

FavoritförfattareGaston Bachelard, Jean Baudrillard, Enid Blyton, Jorge Luis Borges, George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron, Osamu Dazai, Alasdair Duncan, Nancy Garden, Thich Nhat Hanh, Yasunari Kawabata, Halldór Laxness, Haruki Murakami, Anaïs Nin, Aleksandr Puškin, Salman Rushdie, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Jeanette Winterson (Delade favoriter)

FavoritbokhandelArgosy Book Store, Asia Bookroom, Avid Reader, Bent Books, Clousten and Hall Booksellers (Civic), Coaldrakes Bookstore, Emporium, Electric Shadows Bookshop, Folio Books, Paperchain Bookstore, Smiths Alternative Bookshop, Strand Bookstore, The Oscar Wilde Bookshop, Three Lives & Company

FavoritbibliotekNational Library of Australia, State Library of Queensland

Om mig i enjoy

ripping the plastic of new books
small format hardcovers
antiquarian small format hardcovers
the smell of old books
the way sometimes, the type on really old books makes an imprint on the next page, so the surface is dappled.

books too old to have ISBN's.

stuck in canberra, but working in my dream job. thus why i am in canberra.

Om mitt bibliotek about 40% catalogued - ongoing process of relocating collection

varied and adored.

Book Interests:
Art. (artist specific...)
japanese mid-century and prior lit, as well as some contemporary writers.
chinese lit, SE asian lit.
icelandic and northern european lit.
digging up contemporary translations.
reading all 101 nobel prize winners, and making stuffed animal representations of all of the writers.
buddhism, esp. shambhala publications.
children's literature.
YA literature.
YA lit containing representations of YA lesbian/bisexual relationships.
feminism - books about all forms, historical, etc.
queer theory, gay and lesbian theory, bisexual theory.
sociology and subcultures.
colette, winterson, et al queer woman writers throughout history.
knitting.
religion in general.
natural history.
poetry.
romantic era poetry - esp. byron & shelley
symbolist poetry - esp verlaine baudelaire and rimbaud
antiquarian/first editions of any of the above.

beautiful editions and covers of any sort seduce me also.

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Medlem sedanAug 24, 2006

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thanks! you have a great library as well. i also enjoy the smell of old books.
Thanks for your comment :). It's nice to see Canberra so well represented in LT local :D.
Canty's is a great place to find second-hand books. They're one of my favourite bookshops in Canberra (behind Electric Shadows of course). The Lifeline Bookfairs are also fantastic. I just got back from there with over 20 books. I have no money now, but I'm very happy!
Thanks for the lovely comments about my library! Welcome to the neighbourhood. I hope you have some fun exploring all the local bookshops. I'm so jealous that you work at the NLA. What a fantastic place to be! I have a couple of friends who have worked there, including one who was fairly high up so I got to wander round the stacks in the basement once. It was fascinating.
One day I will set to uploading covers as well. People have spent their time doing that, like you, and that has given me pleasure, so I should reciprocate. I will, once my daughter shows me how to do it.
My appreciation of JTH is not so international, given that most of my family is Australian, and when I am in Australia I mostly stay with my sister, who lives in Byron Bay, not too far away from the SE Queensland that JTH writes about so eloquently and lovingly. Nevertheless, she is widely appreciated in some European countries, amidst a certain type of reader. Not Portugal though, where she hasn't been translated or heard of, except by my students.
Thanks for clearing that up. Ah, those covers! That's a whole new way to lose time. What will those fiends at LibraryThing think up next?
You list something called "Seven Short Stories" by Janette Turner Hospital. I don't know this, although I am writing a book about her work. What has slipped past me, I wonder? You're not referring to the stories in Collected Short Stories that were added to those published in her two earlier volumes, are you?
Wassup ... so apparently we only share two books, but what we lack in library compatability, we make up for in sheer awesomeness.
Hi--You're probably familiar, if only by reputation, with [The Child Manuela] because it's the book that the German film *Maedchen in Uniform* was based on. I've never seen the film but if the book is anything to go by, it must be very very strange. Even though I'm pretty familiar (I think) with 1920s and 30s attitudes, I kept having these moments where I'd be thinking "are we supposed to agree with this judgement?" and "how are we supposed to understand her feelings?" Worth reading, though, in a highly depressing way.
Thanks for your comment on my YA lesbian collection. I am attempting to write a tween/YA book with a lesbian subplot myself (actually a series of historicals set around 1939) and I thought I should read up on how this was being treated now by other writers. There are a few books that I've read and deacquisitioned because I truly disliked them ([Sugar Rush] being the main one). I've also beeing reading books like the *Chinese Garden* and *The Child Manuela* which give fascinating (if depressing) insights on how this would have been seen back then. Both of those are very strange books, the former quite brilliant.
Feel free to wander through. Anything you want to discuss, just let me know.
I'm glad there were a couple of books on my list you didn't know about! Please let me know about any that aren't on my list.

I write a lot of stuff, and have self-published three books on Lulu.com (I'm lisalees there, too). Two of them are YA novels. The first, Fool for Love, I wrote specifically to include an intersex character. So far as I know, Jami is the only fully developed intersex character in any YA novel. I'm going to do the third novel in the series as kind of an illustrated serial on a new website, wizzywig.net, that I'm opening later this month in conjunction with participating in the Transgender Day of Remembrance webcomic project.
I maintain a list of YA LBGTQQI books which is pretty much everything I know about. But I admit I've been way too busy the past six months or so. Sara Ryan's sequel to Empress of the World is coming out early in 2007, called The Rules for Hearts.
Sounds good I must admit. By the way, I could relate to your comment about a daily struggle against letting book collection grow. My wife and I buy and sell rare/out of print books for a living. It`s very easy to go "Oh, and I`ll just take those ones for myself" when you`re out buying ! Maybe the `no furniture` idea is good. Could go for `no TV` pretty happily.
hi hi! it's veritas from knitty! two books shared, that's not too bad :) this is all too much fun.
posted by veritas at 2:26 am (EST) on Aug 30, 2006

No kidding! Maybe we'll have more when I get the knitting books in - I just bought E. Zimmerman's knitting guide :) Susan aka sgleason aka Mittenfarce's friend
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