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Member: brewergirl

CollectionsYour library (2,282), Currently reading (6), To read (97), Read but unowned (172), Sounds interesting (33), Personal collection (1,914), House collection (173), All collections (2,313)

Reviews53 reviews

Tagsfiction (1,000), childrens (351), loc:guest room (274), history (248), made into movie (244), FSD (236), house collection (184), humor (148), uk (147), cookbook (140) — see all tags

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GroupsAudiobooks, Biographies, Memoirs and Autobiographies, Fforde Ffans, Flashman and Fraser, Historical Fiction, King's Dear Constant Readers, Lost In A Good Book, Made into a Movie, Mainers, Name that Book — show all groups , National Book Festival, Non-Fiction Readers, Reading the States, Recommend Site Improvements, The City and the Book, Time Travel, Alternate Histories and Parallel Worlds

Favorite authorsE. F. Benson, Christopher Buckley, Jill Ker Conway, Charles Dickens, Jasper Fforde, Antonia Fraser, George MacDonald Fraser, Tess Gerritsen, Peter J. Gomes, Mary C. Jane, Stephen King, Robert McCloskey, David McCullough, Sharon Kay Penman, Van Reid, Julia Spencer-Fleming, Alison Weir, Laura Ingalls Wilder (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBooks Etc. (Falmouth), Books Etc. (Portland), Borders - South Portland, Longfellow Books, Nonesuch Books & Cards, Nonesuch Books & Cards

Favorite librariesBonney Memorial Library, Dyer Library, McArthur Public Library, Portland Public Library, Walker Memorial Library, Warren Memorial Library

Other favoritesMaine Festival of the Book

About my libraryA guide to some of my tags:

"borrowed" = books I don't own but have read
"borrowed audiobook" = same thing but in audio format

"tbr" = books I actually own and intend to read

"read20xx" = shows what year I read the book

"currently reading" = shows, um, books I'm currently reading

"house collection" = I live in my childhood home with my Aged Parent. Many of the books in the house have (from my perspective) just always been there or have appeared over the years. I don't consider them "mine" in that I have collected them but they are "mine" in that they inhabit the same space as me.

"loc:xxxx" = shows the physical location of the book (although they keep moving!)

Books I want to read or own

See my other LT account (brewergirl-wishlist) for books that:
* I want to read but don't own (yet!)
* I think sound interesting
* I want to get at the library rather than buy

I don't have any qualms about listing library books and other non-owned books that I've read in my LT library, but I drew the line at listing books that I haven't read AND don't own. Having those books somewhere on LT lets me access the list on my cell phone when I'm at the bookstore or library.

Wiki Page

I'm also trying to find a good way to use my WikiThing page. Keeping my wishlist there wasn't a rousing success (too difficult to keep updated), so right now I'm using it to make lists of my favorite books and series, what my book group has read, etc.

Reading Timeline

I am experimenting with a reading timeline. Not a timeline of when I read something - rather, a timeline of events about which I have read. Sometimes when I read a history or historical fiction, I lose track of what else was happening in the world at that time - or how it overlaps with something else that I have read. So I'm trying to plot events from my reading on a timeline. Check it out: Events From My Reading timeline

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Membership LibraryThing Early Reviewers/Member Giveaway

Real nameMartha Day

LocationWestbrook, Maine

Emailday.marthagmail.com

Account typepublic, lifetime

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URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/brewergirl (profile)
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Common KnowledgeSeries (294), Awards (468), Characters (6055), Places (1148)

Member sinceSep 8, 2005

Currently reading1984 by George Orwell
Same-sex Marriage?: A Christian Ethical Analysis by Marvin Mahan Ellison
On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry into Some Strangely Related Families by Jeremy Paxman
The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia by Laura Miller
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage) by Stieg Larsson
The Klezmer Bunch by Amalia Hoffman
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