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Member: varielle

Library1,697 books — see library

Reviews34 reviews — see reviews

Cloudstag cloud, author cloud

TagsFiction (446), Cooking (123), Travel (98), Biography (75), Poetry (74), History (68), Autobiography (46), Philosophy (41), Mystery (36) — see all tags

GroupsAmateur Historians, American History, Ancient History, Appalachian State, Bestsellers over the Years, Biographies, Memoirs and Autobiographies, Bookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill, BookMooching, Bookspotting, Booze! — show all groups , Commodity Histories & Micro-Histories, Dewey Decimal Challenge, Disaster Buffs, Folio Society devotees, History Readers: Clio's (Pleasure?) Palace, Late Roman, LC Classification Challenge, Literary Almanac on Library Thing, Medieval Europe, Military History, Monks, Monasteries and Monasticism, Non-Fiction Readers, North Carolina LT Group, Reading Globally, The Chapel of the Abyss, Travel and Exploration literature, Unitarian Universalist Readers, What's in your suitcase, bricks?, Written in Stone - The Literary Cemetery

Favorite authorsJames M. Cain, Laurie Colwin, Harry Crews, Lindsey Davis, Margaret Drabble, M. F. K. Fisher, Charles Frazier, Carlos Fuentes, Robert Graves, Barry Hannah, A. J. Liebling, Barbara W. Tuchman, Marianne Wiggins, P.G. Wodehouse, Marguerite Yourcenar (Shared favorites)

About me With two degrees in history I've made a career in human resources. Go figure, one has to eat and buy more books.

I've decided to assault my TBR pile in a more methodical fashion, so I will post the ones I knock off in 2008 here.

Jan 5 - How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci
Jan 15 - The Stories of Eva Luna
Jan 19 - The Gangs of New York
Jan 25 - Learn to Read Music
Jan 28 - Daughter of Destiny
Feb 2 - 911 Beauty (OK, I was having a mental lapse)
Feb 7 - Sexual Lives: A Reader on the Theories and Realities of Human Sexuality (Had to read this one for a psych class I'm taking)
Feb 14 - The Misalliance
Feb 22 - I Ching
Feb 24 - Conversation: A History of a Declining Art
Mar 9 - The Spiritual Tourist: A Personal Odyssey through the Outer Reaches of Belief
Mar 25 - Seven Days to Sex Appeal (Early Reviewer)
Mar 29 - In a Sunburned Country
Apr 6 - Franklin and Lucy (Early Reviewer)
Apr 18 - Ella Minnow Pea
Apr 25 - March
Apr 30 - My Losing Season
May 4 - Riding the Hulahula to the Arctic (Early Reviewer)

I took a quiz an LT thread referred me to and this was my result
What Kind of Reader Are You?
Your Result: Book Snob. You like to think you're one of the literati, but actually you're just a snob who can read. You read mostly for the social credit you can get out of it. Ouch.

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About my library

Payment is in books read this year, 18 down, 82 to go. It appears we are swimming backwards upstream.

I actually do own all of these. Unfortunately, I've just moved and have had to box up most of my books causing more distress than I would have anticipated. They are slowly escaping from confinement, but I've lost most of my self space so they are accumulating everywhere. If they have a rating I've read them. I only acquire what I'm actually interested in reading for when I someday have the leisure to do it. It's a pretty eclectic mix, largely from trolling library and yard sales. I do seem to be attracted to topics in phases. I must be having some sort of existential, mid-life crisis because lately I've been reading a lot of philosophy.

I applied the Netflix star rating. Five is fabulous, one is hated it while every thing else falls in between. Looks like a nice little bell curve skewed to the right.

I was trying to stop at 1,500 books because that's physically more than the space I have can handle, but it seems to keep creeping upward.

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Real nameThe Delightful Ms. P.

LocationPumpkin Center, North Carolina, USA

Account typepublic, lifetime

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Member sinceApr 4, 2007