During my many years of reading, I have seen lots of books come and go, but the ones I am cataloguing here are the ones that mean something to me in some way. I have read nearly all of them at least once, many of them twice, and some multiple times, such as
To Kill a Mockingbird which I've read more than fifty times.
About my...
more »During my many years of reading, I have seen lots of books come and go, but the ones I am cataloguing here are the ones that mean something to me in some way. I have read nearly all of them at least once, many of them twice, and some multiple times, such as
To Kill a Mockingbird which I've read more than fifty times.
About my ratings: With only a few exceptions, I will give three, four, or five stars. Most of those that I judged to be one or two stars have long since hit the trade-in or recycle bins.
Update: I am going to start adding books--as I remember them--that I've tossed for various reasons, mostly because I was profoundly disappointed or I just didn't like them. These I will rate with one star, not necessarily because I think they are despicable books but because they were so painful for me to read that I wanted to get rid of them.
Because some of my Shelfari friends have requested more info about me:
I am a woman of a certain age -- heck, there's no need to be coy: I am in my mid-fifties. I've been married to the same man for thirty-plus years. We have two sons, ages 24 and 21, that I think are estimable young men -- one of them likes to read as much as I do; the other does not, but he does other things very well indeed.
I am a former journalist. I've traveled on six continents; but I still haven't seen or experienced enough to feel well-traveled, so I guess that's why travelogues are one of my favorite reading genres. In fact, nonfiction writing will always be what fascinates me most. That said, though, novels figure prominently in my lists of all-time favorite books because good fiction is timeless.
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