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Member: hornakfinn

CollectionsBorrowed (461), Personal Collection (184), Your library (633), Library of the Unread (1), Library of the Unfinished (13), All collections (649)

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Tagsread (634), novel (157), 2006 (141), 2005 (138), 2008 (99), poetry (82), 2007 (73), 2009 (66), science fiction (29), essays (28) — see all tags

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Favorite authorsMaeve Brennan, Bill Bryson, Italo Calvino, Albert Camus, Anne Carson, Noam Chomsky, Paul Collins, Kenneth Goldsmith, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse, Jane Hirshfield, Christopher Hitchens, Yoel Hoffmann, Zora Neale Hurston, Shirley Jackson, U. G. Krishnamurti, Lewis H. Lapham, Natsume Sōseki, Michael Ondaatje, Michael Pollan, Francis Ponge, Neil Postman, Oliver Sacks, James Salter, George Saunders, Shunryu Suzuki, Kurt Vonnegut, Jeanette Winterson, Virginia Woolf, John Wyndham (Shared favorites)

Favorite librariesFairview Park Branch - Cuyahoga County Public Library, Lakewood Public Library, Rocky River Public Library

About my libraryA catalogue of books I have read, beginning especially in 2005. Borrowed almost always means the book is from a public or academic library. Owned means it’s on my shelf at home. Star rating system to reflect personal value of book. Would confidently recommend anything with four or five stars. Books ranked meet one or, rarely, all criteria as follows (though this is a mostly whimsical account):

***** Immensely gratifying to read. A singular, well-wrought expression. Irreversible personal significance. Mighty. A revelation. Indispensable.

**** Considerable. Not to be slighted. Illuminating or enlightening. Resonant. Honest and worthy.

*** Casual or indulgent, but not unpalatable. Of scant and/or piecemeal interest. Enjoyable, but conventional. Nonessential.

** Second-rate or plodding. Irksome. A huge disappointment.

* Inconsequential. Rotten. Petty or impenetrable.

LocationLakewood, OH

Account typepublic, lifetime

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Member sinceMar 21, 2007