Member: jlshall

CollectionsYour library (2,134), Early Reviewer books (9), Childhood collection (4), Read but unowned (41), DVD and Video (4), To read (1), Wishlist (6), All collections (2,154)

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Groups1001 Books to read before you die, 50 Book Challenge, ARC Junkies, Barbara Pym Fan Club, Blog the Book, Bloggers, Book Care and Repair, Children's Fiction, Cozy Mysteries, Crime, Thriller & Mystery — show all groups , Persephone Readers, Readers Over Sixty, 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, Sir 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 Pérez-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, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, 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 (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

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#...

My List of EARLY REVIEWER books read and reviewed is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er_winnings....

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Currently reading:

HOMER & LANGLEY by E.L. Doctorow


THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE by Agatha Christie


STARDUST by Joseph Kanon


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Didn't quite make it to 50 books in 2008, so I'm trying again this year. So far in 2009, I've read:

1. Drawers & Booths, by Ara 13
2. Cover Her Face, by P.D. James
3. The Master, by Colm Toibin
4. Rest in Pieces, by Rita Mae Brown
5. Hotel Du Lac, by Anita Brookner
6. Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem
7. Index to Murder, by Jo Dereske
8. Land of Marvels, by Barry Unsworth
9. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
10. The Great Victorian Collection, by Brian Moore
11. Blasphemy, by Douglas Preston
12. Angels & Insects: Two Novellas, by A.S. Byatt
13. The Private Patient, by P.D. James
14. Angels & Demons, by Dan Brown
15. The Way Through the Woods, by Colin Dexter
16. The Book of God and Physics, by Enrique Joven
17. The Old Man and Me, by Elaine Dundy
18. Brimstone, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
19. The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty
20. Ellen Foster, by Kaye Gibbons
21. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O'Brien
22. To Dance with the White Dog, by Terry Kay
23. The Unit, by Ninni Holmqvist
24. Moon Tiger, by Penelope Lively
25. The Longshot, by Katie Kitamura
26. The Valley of Fear, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
27. The Angel's Game, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
28. Sacred Hearts, by Sarah Dunant
29. The Fire, by Katherine Neville
30. Grave Goods, by Ariana Franklin
31. Fear the Worst, by Linwood Barclay
32. Rabbit Is Rich, by John Updike
33. Victory Over Japan, by Ellen Gilchrist
34. Dance of Death, by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
35. The Man in the Picture, by Susan Hill
36. The Woman in Black, by Susan Hill
37. New Year's Eve, by Lisa Grunwald
38. From Doon with Death, by Ruth Rendell
39. The Friend of Madame Maigret, by Georges Simenon
40. The Lair of the White Worm, by Bram Stoker
41. Homer & Langley, by E.L. Doctorow (reading now)
42. The Murder at the Vicarage, by Agatha Christie (reading now)
43. Stardust, by Joseph Kanon (reading now)

Also: begun in 2009, but put aside:
1. The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
2. Stone's Fall, by Iain Pears
3. Mortal Love, by Elizabeth Hand
4. Vanessa and Virginia, by Susan Sellers
5. The Horned Man, by James Lasdun

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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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