Utente: bell7

CollezioniLa tua biblioteca (404), In lettura (4), Early Reviewers (32), E-Books (14), Preferiti (97), Graphic Novels and Manga (261), Previously owned (99), Letti ma non posseduti (870), School Books (67), Da leggere (149), Lista dei desideri (47), Tutte le collezioni (1,592)

Recensioni650 recensioni

Etichetteadult (791), teen (624), fantasy (522), fiction (317), nonfiction (293), manga (218), children's (194), historical fiction (189), humor (180), romance (154) — guarda tutte le etichette

Nuvolenuvola dei tag, nuvola degli autori, specchio dei tag

Consigli37 consigli

Informazioni su di meI am old enough not to admit my age, but look younger.

I have always loved reading, which is what I do with most of my free time. Now I'm a librarian, so I can count it as "professional development," pretty much no matter what. I'm always looking for more books to add to my toppling TBR pile and expanding my reading more.

When I'm not reading, I enjoy watching sports (football, baseball, and tennis) and knitting. I have a habit of coming up with odd bits of trivia that no one cares about and obscure words make me ridiculously happy.

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Dati bibliotecaI read and own a lot of young adult and fantasy books. I'm a fairly eclectic reader, however, with a fair amount of contemporary fiction, mysteries, and classics thrown into the mix.

About my collections:
Your library includes books I actually own.
To Read is, with few exceptions, books that I own and have not read.
Previously owned includes read books that once were part of my personal library, or books that I started and reviewed. If a book passed through my hands entirely unread, I simply delete it.
Wishlist is books that I want to own; usually they are also in my "Read but Unowned" collection.
School Books are books that are in my mental library but not necessarily representative my tastes, since I read them for college English classes.

About my ratings:
I rate based on how well I liked a book; I refuse to make a judgment about a story's innate worth because I recognize the variety of taste in readers, and even how my own mood can affect what I think when I'm reading. That being said, here's what I mean when I say -
1 star - Forced myself to finish it
2 stars - Dislike
2.5 stars - I really don't know if I liked it or not
3 stars - Sort of liked it; or didn't, but admired something about it despite not liking it
4 stars - I liked it, but probably wouldn't reread unless it's part of a series
4.5 stars - Excellent, ultimately a satisfying read, a title I would consider rereading
5 stars - A book that I absolutely loved, would absolutely reread, and just all-around floored me

I very rarely finish a book I would rate lower than a 3, so my ratings are skewed positively. I can generally scale how much I liked a book, but I'm less consistent about how much I didn't like it.

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Autori preferitiJane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Diana Wynne Jones, C. S. Lewis, Naomi Novik, J. K. Rowling, William Shakespeare, J. R. R. Tolkien (Preferiti in comune con altri utenti)

Pagina principalehttp://bornreader.blogspot.com

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Nome veroMary

LuogoMassachusetts

Tipo di sottoscrizionepubblico, a vita

URL http://www.librarything.com/profile/bell7 (profilo)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/bell7 (biblioteca)

Utente dalNov 16, 2007

In letturaReading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books di Azar Nafisi
The Paris Review Interviews, IV di Philip Gourevitch
Selected stories di Nadine Gordimer
And the mountains echoed di Khaled Hosseini