To read a hundred books this year
To have some specific interests: the long 19th century; the realist european novelists; Racine; Shelley; linguistics; Thomas Mann; middle eastern history.
To read more Marx.
To buy some decent, keepable books, and only get trash and contemporary novels from the library.
To not run up library fines.
To avoid rereading childrens' books and trash, and read new worthwhile things instead.
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swords and dreams
All books are either dreams or swords/You can cut, or you can drug, with words - Amy Lowell
Me and mine on the internet
Currently reading
- A century of women: the history of women in Britain and the United States in the twentieth century - Sheila Rowbotham
- A history of 20th century fashion - Elizabeth Ewing
- Au bonheur des dames - Émile Zola
- La Princesse de Clèves - Madame de la Fayette
- The aesthetics of resistance - Peter Weiss
- The secret agent - Joseph Conrad
- The women's room - Marilyn French
Already read this year - 2009
- 1 - The foundling - Georgette Heyer
- 2 - Philby: the spy who betrayed a generation - Knightley, Page and Leitch
- 3 - Fathers and sons - Ivan Turgenev
- 4 - Tarabas - Joseph Roth
- 5 - The virgin in the garden - A.S. Byatt
- 6 - Streetfighting years - Tariq Ali
- 7 - Shadows of the pomegranate tree - Tariq Ali
- 8 - Women and children first - Cadogan and Craig
- 9 - The tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
- 10 - Jo Shapcott: her book - Jo Shapcott
- 11 - The book of blood - Vicki Feaver
- 12 - The Thursday kidnapping - Antonia Forest
- 13 - The thuggery affair - Antonia Forest
- 14 - We are now beginning our descent - James Meek
- 15 - The myth of Mars and Venus - Deborah Cameron
- 16 - Still Life - A.S. Byatt
- 17 - L'argent - Émile Zola
- 18 - Russia's path from Gorbachev to Putin - David Kotz
- 19 - Hardcore from the heart - Annie Sprinkle
- 20 - See we have coming to Dover! - Daljit Nagra
The rest of the internet
- Abebooks
- Ben Goldacre's Bad science
- Bibliophil
- Cabbages and Pumpkins
- Camberwell online - blog
- Daniel Barenboim
- Derelict London
- Doonesbury
- Doris Lessing
- Edward Said archive
- Found magazine
- Girl in the green dress
- Good reads
- Guernica magazine
- Gutenberg project
- Jewish Music Institute
- Last.fm
- Leonard Cohen
- Library thing
- London's Royal parks
- Marxists internet archive
- Mslexia magazine
- New Left Review
- Poetry Archive
- Poetry at plagiarist.com
- Poetry Foundation
- Poets.org
- Post Secret - blog
- Poésie française
- So many books
- Stephen Jay Gould archive
- Susan Sontag
- Tariq Ali
- The Camelot project
- Things magazine
- Think denk blog
- Tools are refundable
- Waylaid poetry blog
- Women writers - a zine
- Workspaces - blog
- Znet
4 comments:
library fines should not exist at all ever. last week i paid £39.95 to The Gate. this is an insult to my entire existence.
i blame the librarians.
You're on dangerous ground there Gwen, in fact you may even be out-numbered. And personally I never charge anyone who appears very poor, very nice, very polite or very very good-looking anything.
Although sometimes I won't waive the fine because I consider the borrower irresponsible and I think they need a short sharp shock. This may be what keeps happening to you.
Or else it's just those fucks at the Gate who you should blame. After all, they deleted my entire records for no reason...
Yes, I only fine the arrogant, rich, sexist or personally unpleasant.
American students who put it on their parents' credit card used to pay, pay, pay.
We get people trying to put fines on other people's credit cards, but they're not usually their parents. That's how inclusive the Idea Store concept is; even criminals now pay their library fines
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