Member: lizvelrene

CollectionsYour library (596), Wishlist (5), Currently reading (3), To read (59), Favorites (32), All collections (602)

Reviews2 reviews

Tagsfiction (148), female author (131), comics (112), speculative/sci-fi (71), world literature (50), autobiography (43), religion (30), music (27), short stories (26), politics (26) — see all tags

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GroupsAwful Lit., Best of British, Bostonians, Canon, Collapse, Comics, Contemporary Fiction, Existentialism, Feminist Theory, Girlybooks —show all groups, Happy Heathens, I (Read About Indie) Rock! Do You?!?, Japanese Culture, Manga!, MyPeopleConnection Book Clubs, Name that Book, New Wave Science Fiction and Fantasy, Non-American Literature, Photography, Progressive & Liberal!, Queer and Trans Lit, Recommend Site Improvements, Science Fiction Fans, Skeptic's book club, The Prizes

Favorite authorsRoberto Bolaño, Italo Calvino, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ernest Hemingway, A. L. Kennedy, Kelly Link, Cormac McCarthy, David Mitchell, Alan Moore, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, Walker Percy, Tom Robbins, Philip Roth, José Saramago, Neal Stephenson, Kurt Vonnegut, David Foster Wallace, Jeanette Winterson (Shared favorites)

About meI should probably explain that my rating system corresponds to absolutely nothing on the earth and so if you followed one of my ratings links please take note:
***** = one of my favorite books
**** = I love this book
*** = I like this book
** = This book was ok
* = I disliked this book

I rated things according to their place in my collection instead of rating the overall quality of the book. This makes my ratings system slightly more positive than others because some pretty good books wind up with *** where most people would call that a "C" on the grading scale.. but I do it that way because I don't really have any * books, I have all my books because I think they're pretty good. I might change this around someday, who knows.. I find this useful for me.

I'm always looking for book recommendations!

About my libraryMy collection strongly favors fiction, with some side excursions into religion, politics, and music.

I also have a great many comics and graphic novels, which would take far too long to catalog. I have selected some of my favorites for inclusion. I'm only including one representative volume for any series collection I have, to keep my account from getting too cluttered.

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Membership LibraryThing Early Reviewers/Member Giveaway

LocationBoston

Account typepublic, paid

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/lizvelrene (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/lizvelrene (library)

Member sinceSep 20, 2005

Currently readingInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga by Stephen Davis