Member: LizzieD

CollectionsYour library (7,475), Kindle (514), Read, Reviewed, Given Away (48), Significant in 2011 (19), Significant in 2010 (20), Significant in 2009 (23), Significant in 2015 (14), Currently reading (8), Significant in 2014 (14), Significant in 2013 (20), All collections (7,566)

Reviews180 reviews

Tagsread (2,436), mystery (1,739), Kindle (510), scifi (507), lib (439), history (388), Virago (314), fantasy (284), biography (225), reread (175) — see all tags

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About me

I'm a retired high school English and Latin teacher just beginning a fourteenth (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 stay in and look after my mother who turned 100 in November (complete vaccination in county is at 38% in early November), do Italian with DuoLingo, mess a bit with a cello, walk twice a day with husband, pet that husband and cats, and will eventually, maybe become a practicing pianist once more.

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: 2022 *2

BOOKS ACTUALLY READ IN 2022
1. Double Share (reread #2) (332)
2. Pleasure of Ruins (456)
3. Damnificados (272)
4. Towers of Midnight (861)
5. Warlight (305)
6. The Locked Room (372)
7. A Fountain Filled with Blood (352)
8. The Belgariad: Pawn of Prophecy (192); Queen of Sorcery (235)
9. Whisper of the River (528) (re-re-read at least with Mama)
10. Empires of the Plain (373)
11. [The Lincoln Highway] (576)
13. The Wizard's Butler (re-reread) (341)
14. Death's Half Acre (reread) (294)
15. Elysium Fire (415)
16. The Quiet Gentleman (370)

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Groups75 Books Challenge for 2010, 75 Books Challenge for 2011, 75 Books Challenge for 2012, 75 Books Challenge for 2013, 75 Books Challenge for 2014, 75 Books Challenge for 2015, 75 Books Challenge for 2016, 75 Books Challenge for 2017, 75 Books Challenge for 2018, 75 Books Challenge for 2019 —show all groups, 75 Books Challenge for 2020, 75 Books Challenge for 2021, 75 Books Challenge for 2022, A Group Thank You, Almack's, Barbara Pym, Booker Prize, Eureka! finds, Famous voluminous novels, Feminist SF, Hebzibah's reading adventures, His Wondrous Works to Behold, History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Infinite Jesters, Iris Murdoch readers, Isaiah, Language, Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple, Lingua Latina, Monthly Author Reads, One LibraryThing, One Book, Orange January/July, Pedants' corner, ravelry, Readers Over Sixty, Science Fiction Fans, Sidebar, Tar Heels, Virago Modern Classics, What the Dickens...?, William Faulkner and his Literary Kin, ZB's Literary Adventure

Favorite authorsMargaret 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, Georgette Heyer, Reginald Hill, Mary Hocking, Horace, Henry James, P. D. James, Guy Gavriel Kay, 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, William Carlos Williams, Connie Willis, P. G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)

MembershipER. LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Real namePeggy

LocationSoutheastern North Carolina (right on I-95)

Account typepublic

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Member sinceJan 5, 2009

Currently readingLife: A User's Manual (English and French Edition) by Georges Perec
In Love with George Eliot by Kathy O’Shaughnessy
The Belgariad, Vol. 1 (Books 1-3): Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, Magician's Gambit by David Eddings
Her Here by Amanda Dennis
Berlin Noir: March Violets, The Pale Criminal, A German Requiem by Philip Kerr
Star of the Morning: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Hester Stanhope by Kirsten Ellis
City of Incurable Women by Maud Casey
Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
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