Member: jlshall

Library1,438 books — see library

Reviews18 reviews — see reviews

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud

Tagsfiction (794), American literature (475), British literature (443), non-fiction (249), Library of America (156), literary criticism (133), 20th Century (110), mysteries (93), theater (91), drama (88) — see all tags

GroupsBloggers, Book Care and Repair, Children's Fiction, Cozy Mysteries, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Science Fiction Fans, TuesdayThingers, Virago Modern Classics

Favorite authorsEdward Albee, Woody Allen, Margery Allingham, Kingsley Amis, Aristophanes, Louis Auchincloss, Jane Austen, Ann Beattie, Robert Benchley, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Anita Brookner, Truman Capote, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Arthur C. Clarke, Noel Coward, Len Deighton, Peter DeVries, Colin Dexter, Emily Dickinson, Joan Didion, John Donne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edward Eager, Harlan Ellison, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.M. Forster, John Fowles, John Gardner, Caroline Graham, Ann Granger, Graham Greene, Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Hardy, Moss Hart, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joseph Heller, Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Alice Hoffman, Hazel Holt, A. E. Housman, Shirley Jackson, Henry James, M. R. James, P.D. James, George S. Kaufman, Jean Kerr, Milan Kundera, Harper Lee, 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, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Edgar Allan POE, Anthony Powell, Barbara Pym, Ruth Rendell, J.D. Salinger, Dorothy L. Sayers, Rod Serling, Dr. Seuss, William Shakespeare, 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, T. H. White, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Angus Wilson, P.G. Wodehouse, Larry Woiwode, Virginia Woolf, John Wyndham (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Clarendon Market Commons, Borders - Baileys Crossroads, Chapters - Washington, DC, Kramerbooks, Lambda Rising Bookstore - Washington, DC, Olsson's - Old Town Alexandria, 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 favoritesBethesda Literary Festival, National Book Festival, Fall for the Book, Malice Domestic Conference, Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Museum Store - Washington National Cathedral

About me Not 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

About my library The books that I have catalogued here are 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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LocationAlexandria, Virginia

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Member sinceJan 23, 2008