MedlemMatke

About My Library

I'm trying to get the TBR section smaller than the I Just Bought This on Impulse section. I like things that are new, different, or oddball. My collection is both eclectic and Byzantine.

I usually avoid romances, dystopian novels, or thrillers, but am open to persuasion.

About Me

Retired teacher; widow; mother of two sons; compulsive reader; beach person

Special Joys

1. Mysteries

I prefer certain types of mysteries: Golden Age; locked room; Country House types with limited suspect list; detectives, whether amateur or professional, who are smart; humor
I don’t like a lot of gore

2. Biographies; memoirs; personal essays

3. Victorian novels and Victorian-era nonfiction

4. Natural History

Ratings:

A moderately enjoyable book gets three stars. Most of my books are chosen carefully (appearances to the contrary), so fewer of my ratings fall below three stars. I’ve finally realized that I can guiltlessly abandon books I don’t like.

Sted

Near the water

Memberships

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Er ved at læse

The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost af Harold Bloom

Yndlingsforfattere

Louis Auchincloss, E. F. Benson, Michael Chabon, Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens, Peter Dickinson, Michael Dirda, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Frost, Kazuo Ishiguro, Peter Lovesey, Alberto Manguel, Arona McHugh, John O'Hara, Chaim Potok, Dorothy L. Sayers, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anthony Trollope, Barbara W. Tuchman, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Favorite Lists

Favorite Animal Fiction

Member Connections

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Kontakter

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