Member lorsomething

About My Library

My favorites are poetry, art, music, children's, history (esp. medieval), humor, travel, science, etc. I rarely buy fiction anymore, unless it is something I have already read and loved or maybe something I ran across at a used book store that looked interesting. (I still love the occasional wonderful fiction book, though, but the wonderful ones seem very widely spaced these days.) I'm often drawn to a book by the cover art. I make long to-read lists and then ignore them and read the next thing that crosses my path. My collecting is usually done in a similar manner. I find it almost impossible to read business and/or computer manuals, so I don't have any. (About 10 years ago I began to eliminate books, as they had taken over my life. I now have less than half the original number and I feel much lighter.)

About Me

If it has one star I didn't care for it
If it has two stars I didn't care for it, but it had at least some merit
If it has three stars it was OK, but I won't read it again
If it has four stars it was well worth the read
If it has five stars I was completely taken with it

Location

Southeast US

Favorite Authors

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, W. H. Auden, Loretta Chase, Ken Follett, Diana Gabaldon, Julie Garwood, Hermann Hesse, Alice Hoffman, Madeline Hunter, Patricia A. McKillip, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Richard Morris, Naomi Shihab Nye, Mary Oliver, Bai Juyi, Cathie Pelletier, Rainer Maria Rilke, Cynthia Rylant, William Stafford, Connie Willis, William Butler Yeats

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Interesting Library

Helene_Hanff_orders, kropferama, Morphidae