Member: jlshall

CollectionsYour library (2,014), Early Reviewer books (8), Childhood collection (4), Read but unowned (35), DVD and Video (4), All collections (2,029)

Reviews42 reviews — see reviews

Tagsfiction (1,240), American literature (726), British literature (651), non-fiction (347), mysteries (235), 20th Century (218), series books (207), Library of America (163), slipcased (160), theater (156) — see all tags

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Groups1001 Books to read before you die, 50 Book Challenge, ARC Junkies, Blog the Book, Bloggers, Book Care and Repair, Children's Fiction, Cozy Mysteries, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Persephone Readers — show all groups , Science Fiction Fans, TuesdayThingers, Virago Modern Classics, 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, Alice Hoffman, 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, Daphne Du Maurier, Larry McMurtry, James A. Michener, Arthur Miller, Steven Millhauser, A. A. Milne, Jan Morris, John Mortimer, Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Jean Plaidy, Edgar Allan Poe, Anthony Powell, Barbara Pym, Ruth Rendell, Philip Roth, J.D. Salinger, Dorothy L. Sayers, Edward Rodman 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, Kurt Vonnegut, Evelyn Waugh, H. G. Wells, Eudora Welty, Patricia Wentworth, Terence H. White, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Angus Wilson, P. G. Wodehouse, Larry Woiwode, Thomas Wolfe, Tom Wolfe, Virginia Woolf, John Wyndham (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAlready Read Used Books, Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Clarendon Market Commons, Book Rack, Borders - Baileys Crossroads, Chapters - Washington, DC, Daedalus Books & Music - Columbia, Goodwill Book Nook, Kramerbooks, Second Story Books - Washington, DC

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

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. George Orwell, for instance - I loved "1984," but have never been able to get through any of his other books, so he's not on the list.

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

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#...

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Currently reading:

THE ANGEL'S GAME by Carlos Ruiz Zafon


FER-DE-LANCE by Rex Stout


MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA by Agatha Christie


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About my libraryThe books that I have catalogued here are (with a few exceptions) 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.

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Member sinceJan 23, 2008