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Favorite authorsVon Allan (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresLibrarie du Soleil, Perfect Books

Favorite librariesOttawa Public Library - Cumberland Branch, Ottawa Public Library - Main Library, Ottawa Public Library - Orléans Branch

About meI'm a systems librarian and, of course, a regular bibliophile.

Currently, I live in Ottawa, Canada and buy most of my books from a small independent bookstore called Perfect Books, and some French books from Librarie du Soleil.

About my libraryI'll read just about anything: sci-fi, poli. sci., historical fiction, social studies, fantasy, technical reference. My big three: Tolkien, Orwell and Jacobs. I have read everything ever published by these authors.

I have started to organize my books into LibraryThing collections. They should be pretty self-explanatory.

I have blatantly stolen my rating guidelines from aulsmith, which are as follows:

* - No one should have to read this book.
** - This book has minor redeeming features such as being an author's early work, having some useful information, or being funny.
*** - I enjoyed it while I was reading it, but it's not worth reading again (or I enjoyed it when I was twelve, but it didn't stand up to my adult expectations).
**** - It's good. Given world enough and time, I would probably read it again.
***** - It changed my life or it changed my thinking or I loved it so much I'll definitely try to read it again.

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Member sinceAug 28, 2006

Currently readingDoctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe