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About My Library

Almost all of the books I own are more than 3-stars, because I only keep the books I expect to want to re-read. My "read but don't own" collection includes my last few years of reading, a number of which have lower rankings. (The ones I start and quickly abandon are only here if they really offended me in some way, so 2 stars or less are under-represented.)

My rating system:
5: excellent
4.5: very good
4: good
3.5: pretty good
3: okay
2.5: meh
2: boring or off-putting
1.5: bad
1: terrible
0.5: unreadable
unrated: haven't read it (yet)

About Me

I'm a librarian, a quilter, a teddy-bear maker, and an avid reader, mostly of genre fiction. I read about 350 books a year, counting the repeats.

Favorite Authors

Douglas Adams, Donna Andrews, Mary Balogh, Mary Bishop, L. M. Boston, Sandra Boynton, Richard Bradford, Peter O'Donnell, Walter R. Brooks, Lois McMaster Bujold, Carolyn Clowes, Marian Cockrell, Manning Coles, Susan Cooper, Jennifer Crusie, Jane Louise Curry, Pamela Dean, Peter Dickinson, Debra Doyle, Kathryn M. Drennan, Diane Duane, Jane Duncan, Carola Dunn, Edward Eager, Charles A. Goodrum, Jane Haddam, Barbara Hazard, Zenna Henderson, Dorothy J. Heydt, Georgette Heyer, Jane Aiken Hodge, Susan Holtzer, Kay Hooper, Linda Howard, Tanya Huff, Eva Ibbotson, Diana Wynne Jones, Janet Kagan, Guy Gavriel Kay, Susanna Kearsley, Rosemary Kirstein, Robert W. Krepps, Michael Kurland, Ellen Kushner, Elsie Lee, Sharon Lee, Tom Lehrer, Madeleine L'Engle, R. A. MacAvoy, Margaret Maron, Lee Martin, Sharyn McCrumb, Robin McKinley, A. A. Milne, Elizabeth Moon, Pat Murphy, Sterling North, Naomi Novik, Richard Peck, Elizabeth Peters, Tamora Pierce, H. Beam Piper, Elizabeth Marie Pope, Mary Jo Putney, Julia Quinn, Terese Ramin, Ellen Raskin, Nora Roberts, Keith Robertson, Willo Davis Roberts, Madeleine E. Robins, Barbara Robinson, Dorothy L. Sayers, James H. Schmitz, William Shakespeare, Margery Sharp, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Wen Spencer, Dana Stabenow, Mira Stables, D. E. Stevenson, Caroline Stevermer, Mary Stewart, Noel Streatfeild, Judith Tarr, James Thurber, Cynthia Voigt, Bill Watterson, David Weber, Ellen Emerson White, Leonard Wibberley, Connie Willis, P. G. Wodehouse, Joan Wolf, Patricia C. Wrede, Thelma Hatch Wyss

Member Connections

Friends

2chances, allysonrabbott, dwinston, joanwolf, Smethers, timepiece

Interesting Library

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