Member: bohemima

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About meAt last, a life-time goal is close to accomplishment: I want to run out of life before I run out of books.

Weaknesses:

1. Mysteries, but only certain types. I particularly appreciate mysteries with a good bit of humor.

2. Personal essays, particularly those about books and reading.

3. Acquiring books: more than a weakness; it's an obsession. I've slowed down in buying a tiny bit by using Bookmooch.

About ratings: Every author deserves an even chance at the first page, so I mentally rate all books at 2.5 stars, or dead average, before I read them.

I choose books fairly carefully (stop the unseemly laughter in the back, please), so many books get bumped up to a three; quite a few get to four stars, and a five star rating means I buttonhole strangers and say, "You must read this book!"

About my libraryI've more books than I have room to store adequately.
Large collection of Victorian classics and related nonfiction;
Good-sized collection of mysteries.

I'm trying, almost always in vain, to get the TBR section smaller than the I Just Bought This on Impulse section. I like things that are new, different, or oddball.

Lots and lots of e-books,which have nearly taken over my life;fortunately I still am trying to get through the Byzantine collection of books made of paper.

I usually avoid romances, dystopian novels, or thrillers, but am open to persuasion.

75 Book Challenge 2012, first part: http://www.librarything.com/topic/129509

75 Book Challenge 2011, part 3:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/120974

Bookmooch: http://bookmooch.com/m

Groups2013 Category Challenge, 50-Something Library Thingers, 75 Books Challenge for 2009, 75 Books Challenge for 2011, 75 Books Challenge for 2012, 75 Books Challenge for 2013, A Pearl of Wisdom and Enlightenment, A Quieter LibraryThing, Agatha Christie, All Things New England —show all groups, Ancient History, BBC Radio 3 Listeners, Books off the Shelf Challenge, Books on Books, Fifty States Fiction (or Nonfiction) Challenge, Group Reads - Literature, Literary Snobs, Monthly Author Reads, Mythology, Old Mystery & Detective Club, Pedants' corner, The 11 in 11 Category Challenge, The 12 in 12 Category Challenge, The Highly-Rated Book Group, Trollope lovers unite or fight, Virago Modern Classics

Favorite authorsLouisa May Alcott, Lewis Carroll, Agatha Christie, R. F. Delderfield, Peter Dickinson, Michael Dirda, Arthur Conan Doyle, Anne Fadiman, Shelby Foote, P.D. James, Peter Lovesey, Arona McHugh, Larry McMurtry, A. A. Milne, Louise Penny, Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey, Anthony Trollope, Barbara W. Tuchman, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)

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Real namegail

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Member sinceDec 28, 2008

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The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost by Harold Bloom