20 years of LibraryThing
A very Happy 20th Birthday to LibraryThing and congratulations to everyone who has made this happen - Tim, the team, and all of the readers and users who have been part of the community for the last 20 years.
I joined LibraryThing in April 2006, and in my first month I added 423 books (mostly history books). I’ve now catalogued 2681 books (1259 of which are tagged ‘history’), so my tastes have broadened!
You can access my personal Library here: https://www.librarycat.org/lib/jeremybakernz
Thank you LibraryThing, for everything. You are a key tool in enabling my obsession!
Finished reading: Deep House by Jeremy Atherton Lin 📚
Sexy and intellectually challenging. What a love story!
New coat Love this new coat from Mandatory.
Rising up
Majoribanks Street, Mt Victoria, Pōneke.
(Street is pronounced “Marsh-banks” and was named after Stewart Marjoribanks (1774 – 1863), a wealthy wine merchant and ‘Whig’ M.P in the British House of Commons; who never visited New Zealand).
Finished reading: Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance by Bronwen Everill 📚
Good overview of the misunderstandings and incorrect assumptions that have blighted Western economic interventions in Africa.
Finished reading: The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong 📚
Heartbreaking yet strangely comforting. Connection and community across age, gender, race and surrounded by addiction and poverty.
Finished reading: Our New Gods by Thomas Vowles 📚
Well that was nasty. But excellently written.
