Member: dajashby

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Tagsfiction (284), non-fiction (197), science fiction (160), historical fiction (142), cookery (138), fantasy fiction (137), gastronomy (120), english fiction (89), cricket (82), culinary history (63) — see all tags

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About meEx librarian, ex computer programmer & support person, ex science fiction fan, Currently working at home as the office manager of a small legal costing practice. Owner of cavalier king charles spaniels.

About my libraryHave been accumulating books for over 40 years - science fiction & fantasy, computing, history, historical fiction ... I'm also cataloguing my wife's books, because after 30 years it's kind of hard to work out whose is whose - except for the cookery books, that is.

"Your Library" contains books that we own. Since we live in a fairly small house I've had a fairly rigorous weeding policy over the years, so books get thrown out in numbers that fairly closely match those that are acquired. I have a "Withdrawn" collection for the ones discarded.

17th January, 2010: We've made it into the top 5,000 libraries club! (1,414 books - 12 shelves worth to go).

Groups75 Books Challenge for 2016, 75 Books Challenge for 2017, Australian LibraryThingers, Cookbookers, Current Events, Genealogy@LT, Historical Fiction, History: On learning from and writing history, Legacy Libraries, Science Fiction Fans —show all groups, Serial Indexers, THE ANYTHING CULINARY BOOK GROUP, TinyCat

Favorite authorsSamuel R. Delany, Dorothy Dunnett, Jasper Fforde, Shelby Foote, Alan Garner, Stephen Jay Gould, Ursula K. Le Guin, Cecelia Holland, R. A. Lafferty, Fritz Leiber, Shane Maloney, Patrick O'Brian, Mervyn Peake, Ellis Peters, Terry Pratchett, Mary Renault, Dorothy L. Sayers, Cordwainer Smith, Thomas Burnett Swann, J.R.R. Tolkien (Shared favorites)

VenuesFavorites

Favorite bookstoresCoventry Bookstore

Favorite listsHugo Award Winning Novels, Read in 2016

Homepagehttp://www.dajashby.id.au

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Real nameDerrick Ashby

LocationMelbourne

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Member sinceSep 25, 2009

Currently readingThe Book of Books by Melvyn Bragg
Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A Taste of Empire (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) by Cecilia Leong-Salobir
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Jane Austen and Food by Maggie Lane
George Gently Omnibus (Books 1-4) by Alan Hunter
In The Shadow Of The Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World by Tom Holland
The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Reading the OED : one man, one year, 21,730 pages by Ammon Shea
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois
The Art of Discworld (GOLLANCZ S.F.) by Terry Pratchett
Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History (California Studies in Food & Culture) (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Rachel Laudan
His Bloody Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae (Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2016 by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Track Changes by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Why the future is workless by Tim Dunlop
Game of Queens by Sarah Gristwood
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March-April 2012 (Vol. 122, No. 3 & 4) by Gordon Van Gelder
Privilege and pleasure by P. G. F. Henderson
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
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