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Nuvens: Nuvem de Etiquetas, Nuvem de Autores, Espelho de Etiquetas
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Grupos: BBC Radio 3 Listeners, BBC Radio 4 Listeners, Change Ringing, Cryptic Crosswords, Folio Society Devotees, Pedants' corner
Aderiu: Dec 2, 2010

Real Name: Alan Richardson
Sobre Minha Biblioteca: An odd collection of books acquired over the past forty years or so. Despite occasional culls they still number more than 1,800 excluding all the books my wife has collected.

I don't know if it is statistically true but the book which most often crops up as shared in others' libraries is Mark Haddon's [The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.] Or perhaps I'm just looking for it and notice.

A note on Interesting Libraries: whilst it is comforting to find libraries comprising a list of very similar authors and works as one's own, I'm looking for libraries with not one similarity. I exclude all the fantasy/sci-fi and similar libraries of narrow interest acknowledging that my own small collection is full of blind spots, lacuna, silent holes a bit like Gruyere cheese.

A note on Granta: the fortunes of Granta, a student run magazine, were revived when Bill Buford, an American, became editor in 1979. The first six numbers of the journal appeared between 1979 and 1983 and were reprinted as a boxed set in September 1989. Penguin distributed the quarterly journal beginning with Granta 7 (1983). In 1985 Granta began distribution in the USA with Granta 15: The Fall of Saigon. Penguin Books relationship with Granta ceased with issue 65, Spring 1999.
About Me: Brief whys and wherefores of the favourite writers starred in the cloud: the first poem of William Barnes I ever read struck such an emotional chord I cried: The Voices That Be Gone.
My mother was from Gloucestershire and a near contemporary of Laurie Lee whose As I Walked Out I read as an impressionable teen-ager.
Alan Bennett, mmm, must be his Yorkshire accent.
Localização: Eagar, AZ
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Currently Reading: Baudolino de Umberto Eco
Granta 132: Possession (The Magazine of New Writing) de Sigrid Rausing
Autores Favoritos: William Barnes, Alan Bennett, Laurie Lee