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Groups: Brits, Readers Over Sixty, Written in Stone - The Literary Cemetery
Joined: Aug 4, 2006

Real Name: Margaret
About My Library: For many years I kept a record of my reading in a collection of exercise books, which I began when I was 14. My LT library is an attempt to list all the books I've ever read in the past 60 plus years.

My reading is eclectic, I will give most things a go, but I rarely read recently published stuff until I think they are worth reading…which is often decades after publication!

Ratings:
½ or 1 mean I absolutely hated it
1½ or 2 mean I didn't enjoy it although others might
2½ or 3 mean it was ok but I won't re-read
3½ or 4 mean I really enjoyed it, might re-read it
4½ or 5 mean it was brilliant, it's on my favourites list and I've probably re-read it several times
Best Books of 2022
The Untouchable - Banville
Murder before Evensong - Coles
Crooked Heart - Evans
Old Baggage - Evans
Jim Chee Mysteries - Hillerman
China - Rutherford
Conspiracy - Parris
Crowded Grave - Walker
Mist over Pendle - Neill (RR)
One two three four - Brown (NF)
Ancestors - Roberts (NF)
Best books of 2023
Alphabet series - Sue Grafton
Book of English Magic - R Heygate
Agatha Christie - L Worsley
This much is true - M Margolies

Best books of 2024
Dead of winter by SJParris
Silverview by J LeCarre
Steeplechasing by P Ross
Politics on the edge by R Stewart
Madly deeply by A Rickman
My name escapes me by A Guinness
To serve them all my days by RFDelderfield (re-read)
Mirror and the light by H Mantel (re-read)

2025

Best Books of the Year

Badmin and the English landscape - C Beetles (NFic)

Rowland Hilder’s England - R Hilder (NFic)

The Haunted Wood - S Leith

Karla’s choice - N Harkaway

Harrys Game - G Seymour
About Me: Retired chartered librarian. I worked in university, FHE college and secondary education. Married, mother of two children and granny to one grandson.
Location: Croydon, UK
Also On: Bluesky
Currently Reading: The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Traitor's Purse (Penguin Classic Crime) by Margery Allingham
Akenfield (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ronald Blythe
Wandering Gods: Exploring Norse, Celtic, and Greek Mythology, Roman Gods, Pagan Spirituality, and Indo-European Origins by Ben Rowland
The English House: A History in Eight Buildings by Dan Cruickshank
Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff
Favorite Authors: Geoffrey Ashe, William Blake, Emily Brontë, Marion Campbell, John le Carré, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Helen Clare, Wilkie Collins, Susan Mary Cooper, Mike Fletcher, Alan Garner, Roger Lancelyn Green, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ronald Hutton, M. R. James, Olivia Manning, Ngaio Marsh, Daphne du Maurier, James Mitchell, E. Nesbit, Andre Norton, Elsie Jeanette Oxenham, Malcolm Saville, Dorothy L. Sayers, Posy Simmonds, Mary Stewart, Rosemary Sutcliff
Favorite Lists: Best Arthurian Fiction, Best of British Literature, Books We Resisted Reading, Childhood Favorites, Favorite Childhood Books, Modern Arthurian Fiction, School Made Us Read It, Summer Reads 2014