Member LizzieD

Real Name

Peggy

About My Library

I'm mostly through cataloguing my downstairs library at this point, but occasionally a book pops up that I missed. Almost everything I own is old, was bought used or with a bookstore employee discount or through our Native American offering of Penguin remainders.

Here's my 75 Book Challenge Thread: 2026*3

Books COMPLETED IN 2026

1. The Burning Stone (816)
2. Feonie and the Islander Regalia (33)
3. Yellowface (332)
4. Tigana (reread) (673)
5. In the Morning I'll Be Gone (337)
6. Portrait in Death (447)
7. First Sign of Danger (344)
8.Wellington: The Years of the Sword (491)
9. Good Company (235)
10. The Night Window (552)
11. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and his Mother) (282)
12. Courtlight (436)
13. How To Read a Book (281)
14. The Mars House (476)
15. A Brazen Curiosity (230)
16. The Pines (307)
17. Cold Earth (396)
18. The Light Between Oceans (352)
19. A Deadly Education (314)
20. A Scandalous Deception (262)
21. Maisie Dobbs (321)
22. Remarkably Bright Creatures (362)
23. Child of Flame (913)
24. O Come Ye Back to Ireland (232)
25. The Beheading Game (307)
26. The Dickens Boy (403)
27. Foreigner (428) (reread)
28. Stone Yard Devotional (302)

About Me

I'm a retired high school English and Latin teacher enjoying a seventeenth (I can't believe it!) year of reading. Unfortunately, I can't read just one book at a time, so it's a day for rejoicing when I actually finish something. Otherwise, I'm adjusting to being at home after years of caring for my mother, walking twice a day with husband, petting said husband and cats, and eventually, maybe becoming a practicing pianist once more.

Relatively New Passion: IN DEATH that I Own
1-45 + 48 YIPPEEE! I've read 1-16. yippeee

Location

Southeastern North Carolina (right on I-95)

Memberships

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Currently Reading

Don Juan by George Lord Byron Gordon

Life: A User's Manual (English and French Edition) by Georges Perec

The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family by Ron Chernow

The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan Book 1) by Robert Jackson Bennett

Butter: The Cult Japanese Bestseller about a Serial Killer Cook (Food and Murder) by Asako Yuzuki

Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler

Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070 by Robin Fleming

Favorite Authors

Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Iain M. Banks, Elizabeth Bowen, Lois McMaster Bujold, P. M. Carlson, Robert A. Caro, Catullus, C. J. Cherryh, Agatha Christie, Deborah Crombie, E. E. Cummings, Charles Dickens, John Donne, Margaret Drabble, Dorothy Dunnett, William Faulkner, Victoria Goddard, Elly Griffiths, Georgette Heyer, Reginald Hill, Mary Hocking, Horace, Henry James, P. D. James, Guy Gavriel Kay, Thomas Keneally, Barbara Kingsolver, Dean Koontz, Margaret Laurence, Hilary Mantel, Margaret Maron, Ngaio Marsh, Peter May, Jack McDevitt, China Miéville, Elizabeth Moon, Haruki Murakami, Anthony Powell, Richard Powers, Tim Powers, Barbara Pym, Alastair Reynolds, Kim Stanley Robinson, Theodore Roethke, S. J. Rozan, Salman Rushdie, Mary Doria Russell, Dorothy L. Sayers, Paul Scott, William Shakespeare, Jane Smiley, Ali Smith, Neal Stephenson, Wallace Stevens, Rex Stout, Elizabeth Taylor, Sheri S. Tepper, Josephine Tey, Claire Tomalin, Rose Tremain, Vernor Vinge, Virgil, David Foster Wallace, David Weber, Patrick White, Richard Wilbur, Niall Williams, William Carlos Williams, Connie Willis, P. G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf

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Friends

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