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Member: lizvelrene

CollectionsYour library (515)

Reviews4 reviews

Tagsfiction (113), comics (110), female author (96), speculative/sci-fi (54), world literature (43), autobiography (32), fantasy (29), weird (25), short stories (24), nobel prize (18) — 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 authorsMargaret Atwood, Alfred Bester, Italo Calvino, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro, A. L. Kennedy, Kelly Link, David Mitchell, Alan Moore, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, José Saramago, Neal Stephenson, Kurt Vonnegut, 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 and politics.

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.

I used to spend a lot of time on Amazon back when we still had profile pages that you could actually find... Anyway, here are a few of my Listmania lists there pertaining to books:
A Girl's Guide to Graphic Novels, Part 1
A Girl's Guide to Graphic Novels, Part 2
Favorite Female Fiction
Good Long Reads
Sci-Fi Primer for Paul

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

Common KnowledgeSeries (127), Awards (296), Characters (3066), Places (849)

Member sinceSep 20, 2005