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Member: Severn

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TagsSpeculative Fiction (349), Fantasy (334), To-Read (254), Literary Fiction (229), High Fantasy (134), Non-Fiction (126), Lit Fic To-Read (115), Fantasy To-Read (111), Classic (99), Historical Fiction (86) — see all tags

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Groups75 Books Challenge for 2009, Cats, books, life is good., Christianity, Early Reviewers, His Wondrous Works to Behold, Historical Fiction, New Zealand Thingamabrarians, Reading Globally, SFFWorld, The Fake Language Book Jam — show all groups , The Green Dragon

Favorite authorsH.C. Andersen, Jane Austen, Carol Berg, Carrie Brown, Lois McMaster Bujold, Octavia E. Butler, Jacqueline Carey, Storm Constantine, Jim Crace, Steven Erikson, Lynn Flewelling, Mary Gentle, Camilla Gibb, Donna Gillespie, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jane Hamilton, Joanne Harris, Robin Hobb, Guy Gavriel Kay, Barbara Kingsolver, Tanith Lee, Scott Lynch, Juliet E. McKenna, Patricia A. McKillip, Sue Miller, Ben Okri, Sylvia Plath, Anna Quindlen, Jo-Anne Richards, Patrick Rothfuss, Brian Ruckley, Anne Tyler, Catherynne M. Valente, Oscar Wilde, Alan Williamson, Sarah Zettel (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBorders - Auckland, Jason Books

About meReading. Lots of it. That's a big part of what makes me, me.

I have two cats and a husband.

Charley is very naughty, kittenish and is constantly losing his collar and name tag. I think we're on number 6. We've discovered he's part Bengal (he's an SPCA kitty, like his big adopted sister) so this accounts for the strange and wonderful things he likes to do: Sitting in toilet bowls, eating fluff, refusing to drink out of bowls and only from a running tap and so on. He talks as well, a lot. Chirps, and howls, and squeaks, and long wails.

Ginny startles easily, and likes to hide. She has several spots around the place. She's abandoned her box with the special hole cut for her in it, and has moved to the open closet - her blanket is now on some cartons, and she is fenced off from the world by a strategically placed dressing gown...or in her kitty house. She hisses, growls and spits a lot, but it's all noise. The blunt truth is that Ginny is often a grizzly, whiny, grumpy cat. I think that's why I love her. She has permanent PMS. We relate well.

Leif (the husband) is attached to his computer and I feed him with a spoon and straw so that he doesn't have to step away from the keyboard. Unless he's napping on the couch...with kitties. He doesn't read as much as me, but he does appreciate my books and is slowly reading some of them...

In regards to this place I belong to Early Reviewers while waiting fruitlessly for Random or such to open up the programme here. ~taps foot~ I've also discovered the joys of the Green Dragon

Oh, and I've decided to pull my weight and actually write some reviews on all these damned books I read...slowly.

Current Picture: Charley, rolling about and looking gorgeous in the grass...

This year's reading - this year is focused on two things: NOT buying many new books at all, and rereading many of my favourites, despite the existence of my huge to-read list. Midway through the year and I'm not reading much, so this will, if it continues this way, be a very slow year for books...

About my libraryI only list books that I own. Currently, I'm being ruthless and sorting out books that I'm going to trade. I've resisted this for quite some time. But, my collection is growing, and I have no room, nor time, for books I loathe, or ones that I won't consider reading again, or reading at all. So, I have a To-Sell tag that is slowly growing, and a box by my desk. Make that two boxes.

This is a Big Step.

I have three shelves: the speculative fiction shelf; a smaller one for lit. fiction; and the other miscellany (and yet more fantasy) is on a third shelf in the office. Fragile things, and children's picture books, are in a box. Our house is very small - crowded with cats and books.

Tags:

I love tags.

If the start of a series has made it into my Top 40 tag group (somewhat obviously it refers to my Favourite Books of All Time), it means I've counted the whole series as one book - given that one series tells one story after all.

And if a book (particularly a literary fiction or fantasy one) doesn't seem very detailed in terms of tags, it's likely because I haven't read it yet, or it's one that I read long ago and can't remember very well. Curses!

I also have rambly little comments next to many of my books, which compensates for all those unwritten reviews...or so I tell myself.

Now, if you've actually read all this come over to the Green Dragon and have a pint or two. Just watch out for the roombas...they're kind of manic.

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Real nameKamla

LocationAuckland, New Zealand

Emailwordgirl3nzyahoo.co.nz

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Member sinceMay 5, 2007