Memberlabfs39

Real Name

Lisa

About My Library

I love the feel of books in my hands, sleuthing out a desired copy, and seeing them on my shelves brings me joy. All my old friends are there, and some new ones as well. But I recently acquired an e-reader, something I wasn't sure I would ever do. But as my eyes grow older, I like the idea of being able to increase the font size, and being able to read in the dark has already proved useful when we lost power. Also, I now live far from university libraries where I am used to borrowing hard to find titles. Being able to access books digitally means my poor local librarian can stop interlibrary loaning books for me from all over the country.

About Me

I read mostly international literature, World War II history and memoirs, and a smattering of graphic novels. In 2022 I changed up my usual free-range reading style and joined several reading groups: the Asian Book Challenge, the Graphic Stories thread, the Reading Globally theme reads, Remembering Rebeccanyc, and the Holocaust Literature group. I enjoyed it so much, I will continue them in 2023, swapping out Asia for Africa. Club Read is my home base.

JustJoey posted this on her thread, and I like the idea that every reader brings something different to the table, and what I bring today may be different that what I brought last time. Each reading is a new discovery.

You and I know too many different things, entertain too many different thoughts, hold too many different beliefs to see Pip—or any other character—in quite the same way. Same words, same pages. Different us. Sometimes different me. I find that my Pip today is not my Pip of yesterday. As I've changed over the years, I find that my thinking about characters has changed as well... —Thomas C. Foster

Location

Maine

Memberships

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Currently Reading

Anxious People: A Novel by Fredrik Backman

The best American short stories, 2009 by Alice Sebold

The cultural revolution : a people's history, 1962-1976 by Frank Dikötter

Strangers in their own land : anger and mourning on the American right by Arlie Russell Hochschild

Remarkably bright creatures: A novel by Shelby Van Pelt

Favorite Authors

Jane Austen, Fredrik Backman, Philippe Claudel, Robert Frost, Diana Gabaldon, Vasily Grossman, Olga Grushin, Eowyn Ivey, Arnošt Lustig, Ben Macintyre, Hilary Mantel, Czesław Miłosz, Jacques Poulin, Mary Doria Russell, Neal Stephenson, Kim Thúy, Sigrid Undset, Andy Weir, Elie Wiesel, Connie Willis, Jacqueline Winspear

Favorite Lists

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up, Best Israeli Reading, Best Stand-Alone Graphic Novels, Club Read's Graphic Stories Recommendations, Drawn Out: The 50 Best Non-Superhero Graphic Novels, The Emergence of the Modern Middle East, Graphic Novels, The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read, Middle East and Maghreb Graphic Novels, Middle East Fiction, Native American / Indigenous Literature, Recommended Comics / Graphic Novels, A Ukraine Reading List, THE WAR ROOM

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