Member: jlshall

CollectionsYour library (2,449), Favorites (84), E-Books (26), Read but unowned (160), Currently reading (4), To read (304), Wishlist (22), 12 in 12 (49), Early Reviewer Requests (66), Early Reviewer books (29), Read Between 2000 & 2005 (J) (10), Read in 2005 (J) (4), Read in 2006 (J) (8), Read in 2007 (J) (19), Read in 2008 (J) (40), Read in 2008 (M) (12), Read in 2009 (J) (49), Read in 2010 (J) (49), Read in 2010 (M) (14), Read in 2011 (J) (42), Read in 2011 (M) (2), Read in 2012 (J) (6), Childhood collection (10), Donated (30), DVD and Video (3), All collections (2,648)

Reviews73 reviews

Tagsfiction (1,597), American literature (980), British literature (866), non-fiction (390), mysteries (351), 20th Century (277), series books (256), illustrated (246), suspense (218), cultural history (201) — see all tags

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Groups(BOMBS) BOOKS OFF MY BOOK SHELVES 2012 Challenge, 1001 Books to read before you die, 50 Book Challenge, Anglophiles, ARC Junkies, Barbara Pym, Bibliomysteries, Blog the Book, Bloggers, Book Care and Repair —show all groups, Books on Books, Children's Fiction, Cozy Mysteries, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, friends of Maugham, Girlybooks, Non-Fiction Readers, Old Mystery & Detective Club, Persephone Readers, Readers Over Sixty, Reviews of Early Reviewers Books, Science Fiction Fans, The 12 in 12 Category Challenge, TuesdayThingers, What Are You Reading Now?

Favorite authorsEdward Albee, Woody Allen, Margery Allingham, Kingsley Amis, Aristophanes, Louis Auchincloss, Jane Austen, Alan Ayckbourn, John Barth, Ann Beattie, Robert Benchley, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Anita Brookner, Truman Capote, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Arthur C. Clarke, Noël Coward, Will Cuppy, Len Deighton, Peter De Vries, Colin Dexter, Emily Dickinson, Joan Didion, John Donne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lawrence Durrell, Edward Eager, Harlan Ellison, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Janet Flanner, E. M. Forster, John Fowles, John Gardner, Edward Gorey, Caroline Graham, Ann Granger, Graham Greene, Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Hardy, Moss Hart, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert A. Heinlein, Joseph Heller, Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Hazel Holt, A. E. Housman, Shirley Jackson, Henry James, M. R. James, P. D. James, George S. Kaufman, John Keats, Carolyn Keene, Garrison Keillor, Jean Kerr, Milan Kundera, Harper Lee, Doris Lessing, Ira Levin, Elinor Lipman, Penelope Lively, H. P. Lovecraft, Alison Lurie, Ngaio Marsh, W. Somerset Maugham, Daphne du Maurier, Larry McMurtry, James A. Michener, Arthur Miller, Steven Millhauser, A. A. Milne, Jan Morris, John Mortimer, Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Joyce Carol Oates, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Jean Plaidy, Edgar Allan Poe, Anthony Powell, Douglas Preston, Barbara Pym, Ruth Rendell, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Philip Roth, J. D. Salinger, Dorothy L. Sayers, Rod Serling, Dr. Seuss, William Shakespeare, Robert Silverberg, Clifford D. Simak, Neil Simon, C. P. Snow, Muriel Spark, Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Thirkell, Dylan Thomas, Hunter S. Thompson, James Thurber, Anthony Trollope, Mark Twain, Anne Tyler, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Irving Wallace, Evelyn Waugh, H. G. Wells, Eudora Welty, Patricia Wentworth, T. H. White, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Angus Wilson, P. G. Wodehouse, Larry Woiwode, Thomas Wolfe, Tom Wolfe, Virginia Woolf, John Wyndham, Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAlready Read Used Books, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Clarendon Market Commons, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Springfield, Book Rack, BookPeople, Chapters - Washington, DC, Daedalus Books & Music - Columbia, Goodwill Book Nook, Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe, National Gallery of Art - Concourse Bookstore, Recycled Reads, Second Story Books

Favorite librariesAlexandria Library - Charles E. Beatley, Jr. Central Library, Alexandria Library - Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library, Folger Shakespeare Library, Library of Congress, San Antonio Public Library - San Pedro Library

Other favoritesNational Book Festival, Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Museum Store - Washington National Cathedral

About meNot about me exactly - about my Favorite Authors list:
In general, for a writer to make my favorite authors list, I have to have read (and enjoyed) more than one of his/her works. (Except, of course, for Harper Lee.) So the authors of some of my favorite books may not have made my favorite authors list if I've only read one of their works.

For my list of all-time favorite books, see this post:
My Top Ten List of 59 Favorite Books

My 12 in 12 CATEGORY CHALLENGE thread is here:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/125884

My 2012 FIFTY BOOK CHALLENGE is here:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/129723

My 2011 FIFTY BOOK CHALLENGE is here:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/106746

My 2010 FIFTY BOOK CHALLENGE is here:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/81805

My 2009 FIFTY BOOK CHALLENGE is here:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/54847

My 2008 FIFTY BOOK CHALLENGE is here:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/44462#859437

My List of EARLY REVIEWER books read and reviewed is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er_winnings.php?program=earlyreview

My List of EARLY REVIEWER books requested is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er_requests.php?program=earlyreview

My PERSONAL WIKI PAGE is here, although at the moment it's empty:
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/User:Jlshall

MY PERSONAL RATING SYSTEM
Here at LibraryThing, I use the following:
✭✭✭✭✭ My "desert island" category - all-time favorites that I wouldn't want to be without; not many get this rating
✭✭✭✭ Loved it, would read it again
✭✭✭ An enjoyable read; most books will fall into this category
✭✭ It was OK, but I probably wouldn't recommend it to others
✭ Mediocre; disappointing; had trouble finishing
DNF (Did Not Finish) Books I started reading and then abandoned. This doesn't necessarily mean I didn't like a book, just that I wasn't able to finish it or didn't feel like continuing with it. Might or might not finish it later.

I think I've rated every book I've read since joining LibraryThing. I'm also in the process of rating all the books I've read in the past, but since I'm a VOB (very old broad), I've read a lot of books, and I'm really really slow, it's going to take me a while to complete that project. So just because a book in my library has no star rating doesn't necessarily mean I haven't read it or didn't like it. Also, since this is technically a joint account and my husband's books are listed too, a few of the books have been rated by him.



Currently Reading:

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MY READING IN 2012

I tried for 50 books in 2011, but only made it to 42. So once again, I'm going for 50 in 2012.
Here's what I've read so far:

1. Spiderweb, by Penelope Lively
2. The Players Come Again, by Amanda Cross
3. The Inn at Lake Devine, by Elinor Lipman
4. The Night Strangers, by Chris Bohjalian
5. The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios, by Eric Rasmussen
6. Liberty, by Garrison Keillor
7. A Fall of Moondust, by Arthur C. Clarke (reading now)
8. The House at Riverton, by Kate Morton (reading now)
9. Republic of Words: The Atlantic Monthly and Its Writers, 1857-1925, by Susan Goodman (reading now)
10. The Children's Book, by A.S. Byatt (reading now)

About my libraryThe books that I have cataloged here are mostly (with the exception of the "read but unowned" collection) books in our home library - some were acquired by my husband, some by me, some by the two of us together, and some were thrust upon us by friends or family. I have read many of the books, but there are also many I haven't read yet. If I live to be 600 years old, I may be able to get through most of them.

Homepagehttp://jlshall.blogspot.com/

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Real nameJoy

LocationAlexandria, VA

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Member sinceJan 23, 2008

Currently readingThe Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
The House at Riverton: A Novel by Kate Morton
Republic of Words: The Atlantic Monthly and Its Writers, 1857-1925 by Susan Goodman
A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke