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The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke
Songmaster by Orson Scott Card
The Garden of Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Storming Heaven by Kyle Mills
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Favorite authorsUrsula K. Le Guin, John Irving, Kazuo Ishiguro, Steven Millhauser, David Mitchell, Haruki Murakami, Neal Stephenson, Kurt Vonnegut, Gene Wolfe (Shared favorites)
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Favorite librariesArlington Public Library - Woodland West Branch, Mountain View Public Library
About my library
I catalog every book I have ever read, or that I can remember reading with a few exceptions. I do not catalog children's books that I read to my kids. I have left off some from many years ago because my memory is just not that good. I started making a list in 1998, so from there on, my list is very good. I use the "Date Read" field religiously.
I physically own many of the books in my library, but not all. I consider reading a book to be mental ownership, and would like them included in my recommendations.
I have only rated the books that I have read since 1998. I had my own website which cataloged the books very similarly to LT. When I entered a book I tried to get the book a rating based on other books that I read. Basically, my books are sorted from my favorite to my least favorite book that I actually finished. If I don't/won't/can't finish the book, it does not get a rating and I remove it from my catalog. So in my old system, the best book I had read since 1998, "A Prayer for Owen Meany", got assigned a 10, the worst book since 1998 ( I won't list the name here ), gets a 1. All my other books are evenly spaced between 1 and 10. When I joined LT, I converted that scale to the 5 star ratings. When I finish a book, I just have to find out where in my list it should fall, and give it that number of stars. I confess, it is not always easy, and more importantly, my feelings about a book change over time. At one time in my life, I was a big Tom Clancy fan, now, not so much. I try to leave the ratings alone and let them reflect how I felt about the book when I finished it and it was fresh in my mind.
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Currently readingAn Echo in the Bone: A Novel by Diana Gabaldon
Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel by John Irving










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Thanks,
Chris
posted by cmtusa at 9:27 pm (EST) on Sep 19, 2009
posted by ggchickapee at 3:51 pm (EST) on Aug 12, 2007
Like you, I include in my LT library books that I have read but don't own (or have loaned out and can't find). I consider books I've read to be in my mental library, even if they are not sitting on a shelf in my house. And there are practical considerations too -- I sometimes like to write reviews for books even if I do not have them anymore, and, more importantly, I use LT to check before I buy a book to make sure I don't have it. Especially with mysteries that often have such innocuous and redundant titles, it is hard to keep track without a list.
Where did you move to in the Bay Area? Does you wife practice at a firm?
posted by ggchickapee at 4:21 pm (EST) on Aug 2, 2007
posted by ggchickapee at 11:16 am (EST) on Aug 2, 2007
posted by Jim53 at 7:28 pm (EST) on May 18, 2007
Uh... yeah, nevermind. I think that's probably the definition of obsessive. :)
-Your OK-Maybe-SLIGHTLY-Obsessive-Pal from The Green Dragon Group
posted by WestWind at 10:19 pm (EST) on Sep 13, 2006