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Member: quaintlittlehead

CollectionsYour library (327)

Reviews153 reviews

TagsChildren's Literature (70), Language (67), 20th Century (58), Religion (55), Christianity (50), Linguistics (45), Youth (41), America (41), Music (35), Sociolinguistics (31) — see all tags

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Groups1001 Books to read before you die, 18th-19th Century Britain, Album Listener's Club, Anglophiles, Canadian Literature, Fans of Russian authors, Reformed Theology, The Brontës, Vegetarians and vegans

Favorite authorsLouisa May Alcott, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, A. A. Milne, Leo Tolstoy, Laura Ingalls Wilder (Shared favorites)

About meI am a Christian, a teacher, a linguist, a music lover, an Anglophile, and a vegetarian. If you can't tell this from my library, I hope you will be able to someday.

I'm in transition between graduate school and starting a job, so most of my books are currently packed away and you won't see as much review activity from me for a while.

About my libraryMy library contains only books I currently own.

I rate my books according to their quality in terms of their genre. A five-star linguistics text is not equivalent to a five-star work of literature or a five-star children's book. In general my ratings could be summarised by the following opinions:

5 stars--A wonderful text that anyone interested in the subject should read, or in the case of literature, everyone should read

4 stars--A very good text with some minor drawbacks but a lot to offer readers interested in the subject or genre

3 stars--An average text with some points of merit that could be of use to some readers, but not one I would necessarily recommend

2 stars--A mediocre text that does not offer as much as similar books in the same genre and could be skipped without being missed

1 star--A poor text that I wish had not been written or that I had not wasted my time reading

I cull my library from time to time, though I do so less frequently than I used to, so I may not actually keep very many 1 or 2 star texts in my library.

In reviewing literature, I try not to divulge major details of the plot and focus more on the artistic questions raised by the work. To me a review should be an appraisal of the value of the text, not just a description of what happened in it.

I also review books as an extension of my Christian worldview, so I am apt to be critical of texts that contradict it (especially those dealing with evolution), though I try to point out the good and bad points of the way they argue.

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Member sinceJun 1, 2006