Search Mercury57's books

Random books from Mercury57's library

Old Goriot (Classics) by Honore Balzac

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1) by J.K. Rowling

Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin

Down and Out in Paris and London (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

How Novels Work by John Mullan

Members with Mercury57's books

Member connections

Friends: buriedinprint, JoboyGamotia, Lucy_Rock

Contacts: booktruffler, calm, gennyt, maggie1944

Porua: Porua

RSS feeds

Recently-added books

Mercury57's reviews

Reviews of Mercury57's books, not including Mercury57's

Site design selection

Use the new design

Use the old design

The old design is no longer fully supported nor does it get full attention when we roll out new features. We strongly recommend using the new design.

 

Member: Mercury57

CollectionsItalian authors (1), crime fiction (1), Historical fiction (2), American authors (4), Arabic authors (1), Canadian authors (2), Irish authors (5), French authors (2), Review copies (1), Non fiction (3), British writers (7), American writers (4), Latin American writers (1), Literary criticism (4), Untitled collection (1), African writers (3), Twenty-first century (26), Twentieth century (37), Eighteeenth century (1), Biographies (3), Booker prize (17), Classics (40), Nineteenth century (24), Started but not finished (1), Read (125), Under consideration (1), Your library (121), Wishlist (11), Currently reading (5), To read (25), Read but unowned (4), Favorites (5), All collections (193)

Reviews65 reviews

TagsClassics (31), British authors (31), Twentieth century (19), Nineteenth century (17), Booker prize winner (16), India (11), Realism (9), Children's literature (8), Gothic (5), American authors (5) — see all tags

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud, tag mirror

About meI was a journalist for 9years or so before moving into the world of corporate communications. My love of reading helps keep me sane on long international flights - I usually have more than one novel with me because I can't bear the thought of nine hours or so with nothing good to read. At the moment I'm trying to finish a Literature degree But in my spare time I've also embarked on a challenge to read all the Booker prize winning books and to track my progress in a blog - http://allthingsbooker.wordpress.com/

About my librarymy library is a mixed bag. There are the classics that I love to return to now and again (George. Eliot is a particular favourite) and the ones I know I should read and will do someday but just haven't got around to yet. Virginia Woolf beckons from time to time. Then there are the Booker prize winners that I am working through - I have read 10 of them so far. I have a pile of books bought for work that somehow I can't find time to read. So In total probably something in the order of 70 titles just waiting for a rainy month or two so I can enjoy them. But I still can't keep myself from buying yet more.

My Wiki page is here

Groups18th Century British Literature, 75 Books Challenge for 2012, 75 Books Challenge for 2013, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Booker Prize, Commonwealth Challenge, Geeks who love the Classics, Group Reads - Literature, Monthly Author Reads, Penguin Classicsshow all groups

Homepagehttp://allthingsbooker.wordpress.com

Also onTwitter

Membership LibraryThing Early Reviewers/Member Giveaway

Real nameKaren

LocationWales uk

Favorite authorsNot set

Account typepublic, free

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/Mercury57 (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Mercury57 (library)

Member sinceApr 30, 2012

Currently readingMedea and Other Plays : Medea; Hecabe; Electra; Heracles (Penguin Classics) by Euripides
The Blogger's Survival Guide: Tips and Tricks for Parent Bloggers, Wordsmiths and Enthusiasts by Lexie Lane
The Country Girls (Country Girls Trilogy 1) by Edna O'Brien
Memory In The Flesh by Ahlam Mosteghanemi
New Finnish Grammar (Dedalus Europe 2011) by Diego Marani

Leave a comment

Comments

You are very welcome. I find that sometimes I need those one step at a time instructions, too. I'm glad you've got it, now. Once you do it, it is easy to do it again.
No worries.

1. Go to your picture's main page on Flickr and first make sure you have set the Owner's Setting so Everyone can see your photo. 2. Then at the top of your photograph's main page you should see (left to right) Actions (with a small triangle pointing down); an envelope; a box with a "f" (facebook, I presume); a box with a bird (Twitter I presume); and Share with another triangle. Click on Share and it should open up with a triangle "Share this via..."; a triangle "Grab a link"; a triangle "Grab the HTML/BB Code. 3. Click on this last triangel (Grab a code). At the bottom of this stuff you'll see a way to set the size of the photograph, I use the Medium size. Also, you want to select HTML Code. Then there will be a box with a great long code and you click on the end of it, it will high light and you need to copy that. This code should begin with

Then you go back to your posting in LibrayThing. And you paste your copied code into the middle of your message and the picture should show up.

Give it a try. And if that does not work. We'll find another way. Good luck.
Hi Karen,

Sorry it's taken me a few days to reply. I'm doing Nineteenth Century Novels at the moment. Last time I did Children's Literature, before that AA100 and before that A210. ( I know that's the wrong way around but I did A210 as a standalone course and liked it so much I decided to do the whole degree. Next course I want to do Twentieth Century Literature and then I 'm still debating for my last course.
Hi Karen,

In response to your query about posting in a single thread in the 75 Book group, did you ever create a thread of your own? I've seen you post comments in other threads, but in the meet your fellow readers thread you never actually offered up the link to your thread. So, I'll assume for the moment that you haven't created a thread of your own and start there.

At the top of the main page for the 75 book challenge you'll find these instructions: "Anyone can join. Just start a thread and begin listing the books you have read in 2012... Note: Please put your username in your thread title. This makes it much easier for folks to find you. Thanks!"

In order to start a thread, on that same main page of the 75 book challenge just above the top of the threads themselves, find the link "Post a new topic". Click that--a "topic" in this case just is a "thread" (I think that is where the confusion lies). Be sure to give your topic/thread a sensible name like "Mercury57 (Karen) reads 75 in 2012". And that's about it. You will be the "owner" of your own thread. Start by posting an introductory message in the thread. And then just keep posting. Others will spot your topic/thread and start posting comments in your thread or star it so that they can get an easy reminder when you post something new.

As for posting reviews in your thread, what I do is simply paste the text of my review in the next message I post into my thread (after having added it to the book's page). And that's it.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Randy
"You make an interesting point about the invasion novel. One article I read suggested this novel was an articulation of the fear of invasion from Ireland that would contaminate English blood."

And the sad thing is views about foreigners haven't changed that much over the past 100 or so years. Mixing your blood with a foreigner or a person from another race or religion is still a big 'No-No' in many areas of the world. Irrational fear and suspicion of anything that is deemed 'different' is what causes most of the troubles in the world.
Hello again Karen,

I thought of another group you might enjoy. Here's one dedicated to reading Booker Prize winners & nominees:
http://www.librarything.com/groups/bookerprize2008

Bye for now
Laura
Hi Karen!

Glad you found the "75 group". Since you're interested in Tutored Reads, let me help you find them.
On the 75 Group's main page is a link to the Group Wiki: http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Groups:75booksin2012

If you go there, and scroll down the page quite a bit, you'll find a short section about tutored reads, basically links to threads on how to get started and how to "hook up," and a wiki devoted entirely to this purpose listing volunteer tutors and a directory of existing tutored reads.

Hope that helps!!
Laura
Help/FAQs | About | Privacy/Terms | Blog | Contact | APIs | WikiThing | Common Knowledge | Legacy Libraries | Early Reviewers | 88,644,046 books! | Top bar: Always visible
http://www.librarything.com/profile/Mercury57
www.librarything.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2014-10
33498
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:TQYT6AGFZNTCABODBJPUBV7ANPWOK7DS
<urn:uuid:f7b0db0b-e4da-4dc3-859a-2e0d80149012>
2014-03-11T00:39:42Z
74.201.105.31
sha1:XM6JWUGIIAUXBA3W3JSV4BE36NXTEG63
<urn:uuid:7eb1cf4b-7860-4ede-9b7b-f38889e5f046>
http://www.librarything.com/profile/Mercury57
length
response
<urn:uuid:0fc448f4-8b1f-470e-86fe-2e2944db61d4>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-10
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for March 2014
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf