MemberLizzieD

Real Name

Peggy

About My Library

I'm mostly through cataloguing my downstairs library at this point, but occasionally a book pops up that I missed. Almost everything I own is old, was bought used or with a bookstore employee discount or through our Native American offering of Penguin remainders.

Here's my 75 Book Challenge Thread: 2024*5

BOOKS ACTUALLY READ IN 2024

1. Bookshops and Bonedust (336)
2. Legends and Lattes (reread) (295)
3. The Marriage Portrait (356)
4. The Man Who Died Twice (365)
5. The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England (265)
6. The Deepest of Secrets (439)
7. The Unknown Ajax (much reread) (386)
8. Murder at Haven's Rock (366)
9. Anxious People (349)
10. Resurgence (352)
11. The Boy Who Cried Bear (352)
12. The Wizard's Butler (342) (third time)
13. The Covenant of Water (775)
14. Starhawk (389)
15. Whiskeyjack (403)
16. Betrayal in Death (368)
17. Common People (260)
18. Rotherweird (492)
19. Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens (243)
20. Like the Appearance of Horses (286)
21. Damaged Like Us (400)
22. The PostScript Murders (335)
23. Saint Elspeth (372)
24. The Nonesuch (338)
25. - 27. The Lois McKendrick Omnibus:Quarter Share Half Share Whole Share (736)
28. Britain BC (465)
29. Double Share (316)
30. Captain's Share (411)
31. Babel (557)
32. Owner's Share (457) (Again!)
33. In Enemy Hands (530) (And Again)
34. Echoes of Honor (718) (And Again)
35. House of Doors (320)
36. Arabella (322)
37. Lullaby Road (306)
38. Ashes of Victory (647) (reread)
39. Slippery Creatures (264)
40. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store (385)
41. Seduction in Death (354)
42. The Hands of the Emperor (969) (4th reading)
43. Petty Treasons (110) (3rd reading)
44. The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul (403)
45. Blackcurrant Fool (298)
46. Virginia Woolf in Manhattan (471)
47. Christ Stopped at Eboli (274)
48. At the Feet of the Sun (reread) (792)
49. Milk Run Reread) (337)
50. The Half-Drowned King (443)
51. The Marylebone Drop (112)
52.53.54. The Lois McKendrick Omnibus:Quarter Share (so sue me) (246) Half Share (235) Full Share (302)
55. City of Djinns (343)
56. Double Share (318) (I guess I could go back and count how many times I've read this; I don't really care.)
57. Captain's Share (411)
58. Owner's Share (566)
59. A Decline in Prophets (333)
60. A Novel Bookstore (416)
61. Love-in-a-Mist (282)
62. Sacred Trash:The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (243)
63. A Haunting on the Hill (337)
64. Heartbreak Hotel (404)
65. Reunion in Death (371)
66. Trespasses (311)
67. Make Way for Lucia: Queen Lucia (227)
68. The Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles: The Eagle of the Ninth (214)
69. Memories (238)
70. A Desolation Called Peace (490)
71. The Last Devil to Die (362)
72. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory (452)
73. Plum Duff (290)
74. A Pacifist's War (215)
75! Eliza's Galiardo (180)
76. Clary Sage (71)
77. The Saint of the Bookstore (33)

About Me

I'm a retired high school English and Latin teacher enjoying a seventeenth (I can't believe it!) year of reading. Unfortunately, I can't read just one book at a time, so it's a day for rejoicing when I actually finish something. Otherwise, I'm adjusting to being at home after years of caring for my mother, walking twice a day with husband, petting said husband and cats, and eventually, maybe becoming a practicing pianist once more.

Relatively New Passion: IN DEATH that I Own
1-43 YIPPEEE! I've read 1-14. yippeee

Location

Southeastern North Carolina (right on I-95)

Memberships

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Currently Reading

The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939 by Adrian Tinniswood

Life: A User's Manual (English and French Edition) by Georges Perec

The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family by Ron Chernow

Favorite Authors

Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Iain M. Banks, Elizabeth Bowen, Lois McMaster Bujold, P. M. Carlson, Robert A. Caro, Catullus, C. J. Cherryh, Agatha Christie, Deborah Crombie, E. E. Cummings, Charles Dickens, John Donne, Margaret Drabble, Dorothy Dunnett, William Faulkner, Victoria Goddard, Elly Griffiths, Georgette Heyer, Reginald Hill, Mary Hocking, Horace, Henry James, P. D. James, Guy Gavriel Kay, Barbara Kingsolver, Dean Koontz, Margaret Laurence, Hilary Mantel, Margaret Maron, Ngaio Marsh, Peter May, Jack McDevitt, China Miéville, Elizabeth Moon, Haruki Murakami, Anthony Powell, Richard Powers, Tim Powers, Barbara Pym, Alastair Reynolds, Kim Stanley Robinson, Theodore Roethke, S. J. Rozan, Salman Rushdie, Mary Doria Russell, Dorothy L. Sayers, Paul Scott, William Shakespeare, Jane Smiley, Ali Smith, Neal Stephenson, Wallace Stevens, Rex Stout, Elizabeth Taylor, Sheri S. Tepper, Josephine Tey, Claire Tomalin, Rose Tremain, Vernor Vinge, Virgil, David Foster Wallace, David Weber, Patrick White, Richard Wilbur, William Carlos Williams, Connie Willis, P. G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf

Member Connections

Friends

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Interesting Library

Aelith, agmlll, alcottacre, almigwin, aluvalibri, AsYouKnow_Bob, AuntieCatherine, baoyu, bhowell, bleuroses, bobmcconnaughey, Bookbets50, bookstopshere, bozbuff, Cariola, Caroline_McElwee, Chatterbox, Cynara, DeadFred, devenish, digifish_books, elkiedee, emily_morine, europhile, featherbear, hasprintwillread, iansales, jimroberts, kokipy, LiliPond, Liz1564, LolaWalser, lriley, Matke, meadcl, meburste, MtnSk8tr, MyopicBookworm, nbmars, Nulla, PaulCranswick, pdebolt, petie1974, PrueGallagher, psybre, ringman, romain, Romanus, ryn_books, scaifea, scififan42, scribulous, setnahkt, sibylline, stellarexplorer, StormRaven, the_red_shoes, ThePam, thewordygecko, thorold, TomKitten, wandering_star