This week’s question: Legacy libraries. With which legacy libraries do you share books? Tell us a little about a couple of them and what you share.
I had no idea that this group I See Dead People’s Books existed! It is mind-boggling. People have entered the personal libraries of a number of famous people into LibraryThing and collectively they are called Legacy Libraries.
I share books with quite a few of them. Ernest Hemingway and I share 71 books, but he did own 7,411 books. One of those 71 books is Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland, which we both share with Marilyn Monroe!
I share 4 books with Marilyn Monroe, out of the 261 books of hers that were sold at auction after she died. The four books we have in common are:
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking glass and The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Ulysses by James Joyce
James Joyce and I share three books:
- The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
- The Iliad of Homer by Homer
- The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
I’m thrilled that Leonardo Da Vinci and I share Dante’s Divine Comedy – I did start reading it, I must finish it one day! Oh, and Ernest Hemingway shares it too.
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I share 22 with Hemingway, but I don’t have all my books entered, so there could be many more.
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I have 47 books books I share with Hemmingway and 5 books of Marilyn Monroe. Interesting list of books for Marilyn Monroe.
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Madame Bovary is in my library, but I must not have added it to LT because I didn’t show up any books in common with Marilyn Monroe.
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Wow – I’ve just started entering my books as I just learned about this part of the site this morning! I’ve got 2 with Marilyn Monroe and 6 with Ernest Hemingway!
This was fun – to see the rest of my list: http://wendisbookcorner.blogspot.com/2008/10/tuesday-thingers_28.html
:) Wendi
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I was aware of Legacy Libraries but hadn’t checked into the feature at all. It wasn’t until someone posted exactly how to get to it that I could check it out. (I can be a bit…slow…sometimes.) Now I can write my own post!
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You have quite a bit of overlap! I didn’t have any really. It’s fun to think about based on our reading choices. Might have to read some more classics to get a match (okay, probably not. LOL).
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I’m quite familiar with Carl Sandburg because we both lived in the same state (Illinois). Since he was a famous poet and writer, we had to learn some of his poems in school. You can read more about Sandburg here.
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I share quite a lot with Margaret.
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It’s fascinating once you start looking at the details. This is my first TT post and it was a lot of fun.
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