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Little House on the Freeway: Help for the Hurried Home by Tim Kimmel

I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

Little Kingdoms by Steven Millhauser

In the Beginning...was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling

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CollectionsYour library (553), Wishlist (35), Currently reading (4), Fiction (2), Textbooks (19), Books read as a child (93), Non-fiction (38), All collections (705)

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Tagsmovie (133), adapted (129), made into movie (129), audiobook (69), read in 2012 (53), science fiction (51), read in 2007 (48), read in 2001 (40), read in 2013 (40), read in 2010 (38) — see all tags

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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.

GroupsAmerican Postmodernism, Birds, Birding & Books, DFW LibraryThingers, Hatrack, I use LibraryThing as a book journal., Literary Snobs, Made into a Movie, Name that Book, Orson Scott Card, Photographyshow all groups

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 bookstoresBookBuyers - Mountain View, Books Inc. in Mountain View, Borders - Sunnyvale, Half Price Books - Ridgmar Mall Area

Favorite librariesArlington Public Library - Woodland West Branch, Mountain View Public Library

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LocationHurst, Texas

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Member sinceJun 29, 2006

Currently readingThe Holy Bible by
The Love Dare by Stephen Kendrick
The Resolution for Men by Stephen Kendrick
How to Memorize Bible Verses: The Fast and Easy Way to Memorizing Scripture by Kyle Buchanan

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there should be one of harry potter there
Noticed you liked Lovely Bones, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here, as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it also contains a young female narrator struggling with a series of tragic circumstances. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Here's a link to a summary (and a sample chapter) in case you'd like to read more about the book before you commit:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris
Glad you enjoyed the Milk Pail!
Oh, very good. The Booze! group does seem to draw people together, appropriately enough. :)

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?
How flattering to be on your interesting libraries list! How do you decide?
Hi limerts, thanks for your comment. I've found very few folks that share my love for GW's work. I think he requires more collaboration on the reader's part than most, and I suspect he intimidates a lot of folks. Ah well, we can take turns singing his praises ;-)}
Hey! I am so NOT obsessive! Just because I jot a few lines in a little black notebook to track what books I've read, and where I read it, and whether I bought, borrowed or purchased it, and the position of the moon in relation to the tilt of the earth...

Uh... yeah, nevermind. I think that's probably the definition of obsessive. :)

-Your OK-Maybe-SLIGHTLY-Obsessive-Pal from The Green Dragon Group
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