Emily's booklist

A partial list of Berkeley's Book-Stores

Moe's Books

This place is a friend to people who discover only at 10pm, when all the other bookstores close, that they need more to read. They also have floors and floors of used books, and some new ones.

The Other Change of Hobbit

They have a very good selection of science fiction and fantasy books, and they have readings every so often. One of my favorite things to do when I'm coming down with a cold is to go in there and say "give me things to read" to the helpful staff, and by the time I've read through all the books they gave me, I'm not sick anymore.

Cody's Books

They now have two stores, both in Berkeley, and they've got a good general selection.

Some of my Favorite Authors on the Web

Patrick O'Brian

He wrote one of the longest series I've ever come across (alas, he has died and stopped writing the books), but the quality of his writing didn't diminish in the five books I've read so far. If you like nautical fiction, or stories about the Napoleonic era, and you're prepared to devote a good chunk of your life to finding and reading good books, this is the series for you. Another Patrick O'Brian page

Octavia E. Butler

writes some compelling fiction about people who don't give up easily. She's very articulate and writes the kind of books I like, and has some of the same tastes in books I do.

C.J. Cherryh

has written some wonderful books exploring interpersonal relationships, some of which happen to be about people of the future, and some of which aren't about "people". Cyteen is a must-read. There's also another site with more information about such things as the Cherryh mailing list.

Connie Willis

She's written lots of things that made me cry because the characters are so real. I only discovered her a few months ago, but she's already one of my all-time favorite authors.

Dorothy Dunnett

If you're a fan of historical fiction you will probably have heard of Ms. Dunnett, and if you haven't heard of her you should have. I sometimes describe her "Lymond" series as "the chaos that results from taking Lord Peter Wimsey in his twenties and making him better looking, giving him a more troubled childhood and plunking him down in Scotland in the 1500s." I don't mean that in a bad way at all. I love her books, and am forever searching for used copies of her novels, so I can give them to friends.

Jane Austen

is one of my all-time favorites. I periodically re-read all of her works (I might skip Northanger Abbey or Mansfield Park, however).

Emma Bull

has written some lovely fiction/science fiction/fantasy about people whom I would really want to meet and hang out with, if only I could.

Pamela Dean

This is another author who creates such wonderful people in her books that I want to hunt her down and make her write more about the characters, so I can find out what happens next in their lives.

The CMU archive

is one of the first I found, and I like it a lot.

On-line Literary Research Tools

I haven't had a chance to explore this one much, but I like what I've seen so far.

The WorldWideWeb Virtual Library: Literature

It's big. Really big. Dive in.

Yahoo's Poetry list

I'm putting this in because I think I ought to read more poetry.

The Shuttle

Here's a page with more links to on-line book resources.

The Berkeley Public Library

This is a good library, I think. It has certainly been one of my favorite haunts whenever I was poor enough to want to give Berkeley's used bookstores a miss.

John Donne's Poetry

This is an archive with most of John Donne's poetry in it.

Richard Darsie's Poetry page

This is someone who has some Donne poems on-line. I think there may be some that aren't at the previous archive.

Montaigne's Essays

These are the same essays that appeared on Virginia Tech's gopher server, converted into html by yours truly (remember gopher?).