Member: izzybee

CollectionsPersephone (6), Orange Prize (81), Booker Prize (84), Virago Modern Classics (70), Read in 2009 (43), Read in 2010 (16), Your library (4,660), Currently reading (7), To read (200), Favorites (50), All collections (4,794)

Reviews23 reviews

Tagsfiction (816), non-fiction (205), film (120), memoir (100), classic (98), crime (97), thriller (97), classics (92), favourite authors (91), fantasy (77) — see all tags

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GroupsAnglophiles, Clarissa's Cottage, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Girlybooks, Historical Fiction, Monthly Author Reads, Newbery Challenge, Non-Fiction Readers, Persephone Readers, Reading Globally —show all groups, Tea!, The Prizes, The Random Group for Fogies and Curmudgeons of All Ages, The Story Sisters, Virago Modern Classics, What Are You Reading Now?, Women of Mystery

Favorite authorsLouisa May Alcott, Isabel Allende, Jeffrey Archer, Jane Austen, Louis de Bernières, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Geraldine Brooks, Bill Bryson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, A.S. Byatt, Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens, Sebastian C. Faulks, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, Kate Grenville, Joanne Harris, Khaled Hosseini, Barbara Kingsolver, Jhumpa Lahiri, Harper Lee, Gabriel García Márquez, W. Somerset Maugham, Daphne du Maurier, Ian McEwan, Larry McMurtry, Anne Michaels, Margaret Mitchell, L. M. Montgomery, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Ondaatje, Mary Doria Russell, Erich Segal, Anita Shreve, Wilbur A. Smith, John Steinbeck, Rose Tremain, Anne Tyler, Sarah Waters (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresEstoril Books - Fourways, Exclusive Books - Cresta, Exclusive Books - Hyde Park

Favorite librariesBlackheath Library

About me"Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety." Jorge Luis Borges

"Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head." From "The Brooklyn Follies" by Paul Auster

Voracious reader, music lover, movie watcher, daydreamer!

About my librarySome of My Favourite Books

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Possession by AS Byatt
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

My Rating System:

***** excellent, highly recommended, run out and get it
**** very good, recommended
*** enjoyed it, worth reading
** didn't like it, disappointing
* hated it, didn't finish it, don't waste your time

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Real nameIsabel

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Member sinceNov 14, 2005

Currently readingKisses on a Postcard: A Tale of Wartime Childhood by Terence Frisby
A Year in the World by Frances Mayes
The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O'Connor McNees
Rasputin's Daughter by Robert Alexander
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen
Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places by Bill Streever
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