Member: Jannes

Collectionsgallras? (275), Your library (2,038), Currently reading (3), To read (120), Read but unowned (17), Favorites (22), Rebeckas (251), Musik (50), Tidskrifter (18), I källaren (34), Utlånade (7), All collections (2,158)

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Tagsnon-fiction (552), Rebeckas (248), horror (232), fantasy (213), anthologies (181), comics (174), poetry (172), short stories (168), children's books (140), science fiction (125) — see all tags

MediaNot set (160), Book (1,948), Paper Book (1,725), Audiobook (3), Ebook (13), Sound Recording (50), CD sound recording (50)

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About me30-ish librarian, bureaucrat roleplayer and nerd. Residing in Uppsala, Sweden.

Kind of a bastard, but only occasionally in a bad way.

Also kind of pretentious.

Undisputed lord and master of the broken English rambling review.

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About my libraryAn odd mix, but then again, I guess most personal libraries are. Some adolescent fantasy from my teenage days, some not-quite-so-adolescent fantasy, classics and textbooks from my lit-sci-days, books on folklore, myth and religion because I'm a nerd, books about LIS and libraries because, well, I'm a librarian. There's also a fair bunch of my S.O:s books in here - because leaving books in the apartment uncatalogued would be madness...

I like weird, magical, strange and unsettling books that leaves you wondering and scratching your head. I like big dictionary-style reference books on weird subjects. I like nice editions of classics, and I like much-read and beloved dog-eared paperbacks. I like out of print children's books that take forever to track down. I like comics. I like collected works of poetry. I like annotated editions, and I like different translations of classics so that I can compare and contrast.

GroupsAnd we Recommend..., Armchair Travellers, Bibliomysteries, Bohemia, Book Care and Repair, Book Collectors, Books on Books, Build the Open Shelves Classification, Cthulhu Mythos, Hard-Boiled Wonderland —show all groups, Steampunk, Swedish Thing, The Weird Tradition, Travel and Exploration literature, Uppsala LibraryThingers

Favorite authorsAaron Alexovich, Jorge Luis Borges, Neil Gaiman, Allen Ginsberg, Elizabeth Hand, Owen Hill, Shirley Jackson, Tove Jansson, H. P. Lovecraft, Haruki Murakami, Lina Neidestam, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Hugo Pratt, Philip Pullman, Irmelin Sandman Lilius, Edith Södergran, Catherynne M. Valente (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites | Visited

Favorite bookstoresAntikvariat & Bokhandel Röda Rummet AB, Antikvariat Thomas Andersson, Blackwell's Oxford, Drottninggatans bokhandel, Foyles (old Charing Cross branch), SF-bokhandeln Stockholm, Uppsala English Bookshop, Watkins Books

Favorite librariesBlåsenhusbiblioteket, Uppsala stadsbibliotek, Västmanlands-Dala nations bibliotek

Other favoritesBok & Bibliotek

Favorite listsHayao Miyazaki's 50 Recommended Children's Books

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LocationUppsala, Sweden

Account typepublic, lifetime

URLs /profile/Jannes (profile)
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Member sinceDec 18, 2006

Currently readingThe Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story by Horace Walpole
The historian : a novel by Elizabeth Kostova
High-Rise by J. G. Ballard