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About My Library

star ratings (work compared to its own kind):

0.5 hated it
1.0 didn't like it
2.0 average/ok
3.0 liked it
4.0 loved it/great
4.5 nearly perfect
5.0 perfect/masterpiece

I can't be bothered with 1/2 stars except for 0.5 and 4.5.

About Me

I work at the BEST (and biggest) independent bookstore in the world!

Powell's recently asked its employees and customers for their three best books of the DECADE. Here are the results:

http://www.powells.com/puddly2010?margin=Puddly%20Winners%20Announced

Mine were:

1. Iodine by Haven Kimmel
2. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
3. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Memberships

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Currently Reading

This Body of Death by Elizabeth George

Favorite Authors

Aeschylus, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Alan Bradley, Geraldine Brooks, Bill Bryson, Willa Cather, Agatha Christie, Colin Dexter, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodore Dreiser, Heidi W. Durrow, Hope Edelman, George Eliot, Jeffrey Eugenides, Euripides, Fannie Flagg, E. M. Forster, Tana French, Elizabeth George, Carol Goodman, Tammy Greenwood, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Khaled Hosseini, Kazuo Ishiguro, Haven Kimmel, Katrina Kittle, Yann Martel, W. Somerset Maugham, Guy de Maupassant, Daphne du Maurier, Frank McCourt, Ian McEwan, Larry McMurtry, Audrey Niffenegger, Edgar Allan Poe, Francine Prose, Anna Quindlen, Ruth Rendell, Marilynne Robinson, J. K. Rowling, Oliver Sacks, Carol Shields, Alexander McCall Smith, Anne Tyler, Fay Weldon, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, Simon Winchester

Local Favorites

Bookstores: Multnomah County Library - Title Wave Used Books, Murder by the Book - Portland, OR, Periodicals Paradise, Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, Powell's Books at PDX, Powell's Books on Hawthorne, Powell's City of Books (Portland), Robert's Bookshop

Member Connections

Friends

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