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Member: almigwin

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GroupsBBC Radio 3 Listeners, In Translation, Lists, navigating the complete new yorker on dvd-roms, Opera, or Nobody Knows the Traubel I've Seen, Parents, children or siblings of the mentally ill, Poetry Fool, poetry in translation, Pro and Con, Progressive & Liberal! — show all groups , Reading Globally, The Prizes, The Red Room, theory

Favorite authorsAeschylus, Anna Akhmatova, Guillaume Apollinaire, Hannah Arendt, Aristoteles, Louis Armstrong, art tatum and ben webster, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Jane Austen, Isaac Babel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ingeborg Bachmann, Honoré de Balzac, Bela Bartok, Cecilia Bartoli, Charles Baudelaire, John Bayley, Samuel Beckett, Max Beckmann, Ludwig van Beethoven, Louis Begley, Saul Bellow, Vanessa Bell, Walter Benjamin, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Nina Berberova, Isaiah Berlin, Thomas Bernhard, Mark Bittman, Harold Bloom, Heinrich Böll, Elizabeth Bowen, Georges Braque, Bertolt Brecht, Hermann Broch, Anita Brookner, Fanny Burney, John Le Carré, Elliott Carter, Paul Celan, Geoffrey Chaucer, Anton Checkov, Julia Child, J. M. Coetzee, Ivy Compton-Burnett, William Congreve, E. E. Cummings, Elizabeth David, Miles Davis, Anna Del Conte, Robert Desnos, Emily Dickinson, Margaret Anne Doody, Maria Edgeworth, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Paul Eluard, Euripides, Bill Evans, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carol Field, Ida Fink, Penelope Fitzgerald, E. M. Forster, Max Frisch, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Gaskell, William H. Gass, Edward Giobbi, Nikolai Gogol, Joyce Esersky Goldstein, Glenn Gould, Graham Greene, Juan Gris, Vasili Grossman, Georg Friedrich Händel, Coleman Hawkins, Marcella Hazan, Maida Heatter, Zbigniew Herbert, billie holliday, Homer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, David Hume, Henry James, James Joyce, Frida Kahlo, Immanuel Kant, Lynne Rossetto Kasper, Hugh Kenner, Vladislav Khodasevich, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, John Locke, Robert Lowell, Sheila Lukins, Stéphane Mallarmé, Olivia Manning, Henri Matisse, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Stuart Mill, Czesław Miłosz, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Amedeo Modigliani, Thelonious Monk, Eugenio Montale, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vladimir Nabokov, Pablo Neruda, Jessye Norman, Sean O'Casey, Flannery O'Connor, Clifford Odets, Eugene O'Neill, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Nicanor Parra, Cesare Pavese, Fernando Pessoa, Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound, Sergei Rachmaninov, John Rawls, Terry Riley, Arthur Rimbaud, Claudia Roden, Sonny Rollins, Julee Rosso, Joseph Roth, Philip Roth, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Israel Joshua Singer, Tobias Smollett, Sophocles, Muriel Spark, Gertrude Stein, Stendahl, Laurence Sterne, wyslawa symborska, J. M. Synge, Toru Takemitsu, Elizabeth Taylor, William Makepeace Thackeray, Colm Tóibín, Leo Tolstoy, Honor Tracy, Anthony Trollope, Barbara Tropp, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Cesar Vallejo, Giovanni Verga, Paul Verlaine, Giambattista Vico, Antonio Vivaldi, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Paula Wolfert, James Wood, Frank Lloyd Wright, William Wycherley, Lester Young (Shared favorites)

About me78, married. Picture shows (clockwise) me with husband at his 80th birthday in 2003, him with newest grandchild in 2005, 5 of his 7 children 15-20 years ago, me with eldest son at his wedding 1998, and husband with his twin in 2003. (I couldn't figure out how to show just one picture). I am a retired systems analyst and mainframe programmer. (Cobol, IMS, DB2, CICS). Have moved permanently to St. Petersburg, Florida from Poughkeepsie, Ny. Amateur oratorio singer and painter. Taught fine art before computer systems. Product of Hutchins college at the U of Chicago in the 40's. In love with literature, classical music, jazz and expressionist and abstract art. Liberal humanist, feminist. Mother, stepmother and grandmother. My wish list of books I haven't acquired or borrowed yet is on 'almigwinwishlist' in LT.

About my libraryMostly english 19th and 20th century fiction, literary criticsm and literary biography. Poetry in french, german, spanish, italian, portugese, hebrew, yiddish and russian. I read them all except russian, yiddish and portugese. I can speak and understand yiddish but my reading is halting. My hebrew is very primitive,(reading only from biblical studies), my russian is minimal and my portugese is nonexistant. It would be worth mastering for Pessoa. I love the modern Polish poets but do not read Polish, so depend on translation. I try to get the complete works of the poets and novelists that are important, or that I love, or both. I have a lot of dual language poetry books and anthologies of poetry and short stories. I have a few hundred art books, some history and philosophy. some science especially physics, lots of cookbooks-french, italian, chinese, mediteranean.
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I have attempted to get all of the works of these authors: Anthony Trollope, Wm Shakespeare, Tobias Smollett, DeFoe, Stendahl, Fielding, Dickens, Fanny Burney, Sterne, the Brontes, Austen, Maria Edgeworth, George Eliot, Wm. Makepeace Thackeray, Honore de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, marcel Proust, Henry James, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Willliam Gass, Joseph Roth, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Checkov, Nikolai Gogol, Vladimir Nabokov, Ivan Goncharov, Vasily Grossman, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Anita Brookner, Louis Begley, Emerson, Thoreau, Plato, Hume, Locke, Mill, Homer, and recordings of all the works of Bach and Mozart (In complete boxed sets from Daedelus books recorded in Europe on cd). Also have All of Zola in translation and the New Yorker on 8 cd roms.

The list of my reading in 2008 continued from the 50 book challenge is on the 250 book challenge (a new group).

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Real namemyrna gwin called miriam (hebrew name)

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Currently readingThe Genizah At The House Of Shepher by Tamar Yellin
Endless River: Li Po and Tu Fu : A Friendship in Poetry by Sam Hamill