Member: whymaggiemay

CollectionsYour library (240), Available for the asking (5), Permanent Collection (25), YA, Children (29), Book Club Read (33), Gone, But Not Forgotten (65), Book Ring (12), Bookcrosser's Gift (8), Wishlist (1), Currently reading (2), To read (7), Read but unowned (48), Early Reviewers Edition (2), Favorites (56), All collections (243)

Reviews197 reviews

TagsFiction (139), Non-Fiction (98), Read 2008 (94), Read 2009 (81), Unowned (44), Memoir (33), Library Copy (30), War (27), Children (26), YA (25) — see all tags

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GroupsBookCrossers, Californians Who LT, Non-Fiction Readers, Reading Globally, San Diego Bibliophiles, What Are You Reading Now?

Favorite authorsChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Louisa May Alcott, Sherman Alexie, Monica Ali, Stephen E. Ambrose, Isaac Asimov, Jane Austen, A. Scott Berg, Rick Bragg, Charlotte Brontë, Geraldine Brooks, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Truman Capote, Robert A. Caro, John Le Carré, Raymond Carver, Bohjalian Christopher, James Clavell, J. M. Coetzee, Edwidge Danticat, Patrick Dennis, Joan Didion, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fannie Flagg, Pat Frank, Charles Frazier, Ernest J. Gaines, Paul Gallico, Kaye Gibbons, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Mark Haddon, Helene Hanff, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Herriot, Georgette Heyer, Carl Hiaasen, James Hilton, Sheri Holman, Paulette Jiles, Barbara Kingsolver, Jon Krakauer, Harper Lee, Andrea Levy, Cormac McCarthy, David McCullough, Ian McEwan, Larry McMurtry, Herman Melville, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, Tim O'Brien, Baroness Orczy, Ann Patchett, Alan Paton, Katherine Anne Porter, E. Annie Proulx, Anna Quindlen, Rick Riordan, J. K. Rowling, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Alice Sebold, Lisa See, Åsne Seierstad, Dr. Seuss, William Shakespeare, Randy Shilts, Nevil Shute, Betty Smith, Johanna Spyri, John Steinbeck, Jonathan Stroud, Jonathan Swift, Amy Tan, Anne Tyler, Leon Uris, Abraham Verghese, Kurt Vonnegut, E. B. White, August Wilson, Simon Winchester, Frank Yerby, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Markus Zusak (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Encinitas, Collected Works Bookstore, Farenheit 451 Booksellers, Moby Dickens Bookshop, The Book Works

Favorite librariesCarlsbad City Library (South)

Other favoritesLos Angeles Times Festival of Books

About meI'm the fourth of six children, most of whom are/were big readers. I grew up in a house surrounded by books and was always allowed to read whatever I pleased at any age. This has lead me to my having rather eclectic reading tastes. When I'm not reading, I'm an inveterate bookcrosser, working as a legal assistant for a San Diego law firm, going to the theater, traveling, or wandering the beautiful County of San Diego.

About my librarySince nearly my entire library is on bookcrossing, I don't feel the need to use that feature here. Instead, I use LT for books I am reading or have read since joining LT. Any book finished will contain a small "review" of my thoughts on the book. I don't generally write expansive reviews both because of lack of time and I fear spoiling the plot for others. My "reviews" are intended only to remind me in the future what I thought of the book.

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Real nameMaggie

LocationCarlsbad, CA

Account typepublic, lifetime

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Common KnowledgeSeries (31), Awards (279), Characters (1139), Places (333)

Member sinceOct 1, 2007

Currently readingA Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times by Ellen Goodman