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ColecçõesA sua biblioteca (1,760), Fiction (1,170), Non-fiction (98), Para ler (286), Em leitura (2), Books about books (79), Short stories (30), Poetry (45), Drama (22), Art (39), Cookery (28), Lidos mas não possuídos (324), Favoritos (172), Todas as colecções (2,092)

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Etiquetas (354), 1001 Books (287), Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide (234), Beautiful writing (191), Greece (167), Book Lust (153), America (149), The Little Black Book (147), classic (143), Historical (110) — ver todas as etiquetas

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Grupos1001 Books to read before you die, 18th-19th Century Britain, 50-Something Library Thingers, Ancient History, Anglophiles, Arthurian Legends, Bits for Brits, Book Nudgers, Book of the month club, Canadian Literature — mostrar todos os grupos , Cover Art, Genealogy@LT, Girlybooks, Happy Heathens, Historical Fiction, King's Dear Constant Readers, Literary Fiction, Literary Snobs, LOST, LTers with dogs, Madeleine McCann, Name that Book, Open University, Pedants' corner, Reading Globally, Social history, Stephen King Fans, The City and the Book, The Green Dragon, Undiscovered Gems, Vegetarians and vegans, Victoriana, What If ...

Autores favoritosIsabel Allende, Elizabeth von Arnim, Jane Austen, J. M. Barrie, Louis de Bernières, Lord Byron, Constantine Cavafy, Wilkie Collins, Robertson Davies, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Jeffrey Eugenides, Michael Faber, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Jasper Fforde, E. M. Forster, John Fowles, Jostein Gaarder, Margaret George, Patrick Hamilton, Helene Hanff, Thomas Hardy, Khaled Hosseini, John Irving, Kazuo Ishiguro, Panos Karnezis, Barbara Kingsolver, Stephen King, Choderlos de Laclos, Harper Lee, Primo Levi, Joan Lindsay, Yann Martel, Daphne Du Maurier, Haruki Murakami, Iris Murdoch, Joseph O'Connor, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Robert Shearman, Steven Sherrill, Lionel Shriver, José Carlos Somoza, John Steinbeck, John Sutherland, Donna Tartt, Alice Walker, Sarah Waters, Oscar Wilde (Favoritos partilhados)

Sobre mimI'm female, a year or two older than Madonna, and retired from work on health grounds so have lots and lots of time for reading. Up until my 30s I simply read everything I could get my hands on but eventually found I had exhausted the shelves of both my local libraries and wasted a lot of time reading a lot of dross. My Damascene moment (or six years' of them) came when I took my BA(Hons) in English Language and Literature with the Open University and, not only was introduced to many authors who were new to me, but also learned more about my own tastes and developed an ability to find the kind of books I love without having to trudge through a load of rubbish to get there. I have a husband and two grown up children and am full-time slave to the world's most adorable black labrador and have just adopted my daughter's two cats. Currently in the process of trying to establish some kind of relationship between them and the dog!

I'm very grateful to the people who have chosen and continue to choose to tag my library as 'interesting' but don't always have time to reply to everyone who does so. Personal messages, on the other hand, will always receive an answer.







What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm You're probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people's grammatical mistakes make you insane.Dedicated Reader Literate Good Citizen Book Snob Non-Reader Fad Reader What Kind of Reader Are You?Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

What's your hidden ability? Your Result: Shape shifting You are a shape shifter. This means you have the ability to manipulate your body to any size or form you wish. This is a great power, and requires a massive amount of physical control and mental stability. Telekinesis Flight Immortal&nb... reading You can see dead people What's your hidden ability?Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

Sobre a minha bibliotecaAfter all those years of trying anything on paper I now head for the Literary Fiction shelves, though I also enjoy literary criticism and any interesting non-fiction. I've got a bit of a weakness for historical novels especially any set in Victorian times. Favourite authors have to include Michel Faber (The Crimson Petal is among my all time favourite books), John Irving, Robert Shearman, George Eliot, Robertson Davies, Louis de Bernieres, Steinbeck - I could go on and on.

My library only includes books that I own or have owned since I started LT-ing. If I sell or give away a book I tag it as such but it remains in my LT library to remind me that I've read it once and shouldn't go out and buy it again!

My rating system:
Any number of stars at all means the book is well worth a read.
* Above average
** A good, satisfying read
*** Book has something special about it
**** Very nearly as good as it gets
***** A perfect book. Cannot fault it in any way.
No stars - could mean I found it boring, pointless and not worth the effort of entering a rating. Could also mean I haven't read it yet or just that I haven't got round to rating it yet.

Oh, and to be honest (because I wouldn't really want to mislead anyone)books by authors I know usually get a five star rating - a) for being wonderful people and b) because nobody I know would write a bad book and c) because their books are fine examples of the literary art (think I've covered all bases there).

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Membro desdeJan 10, 2008

Em leituraThe Thing Around Your Neck por Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Love Songs For the Shy and Cynical por Robert Shearman