Member: heidilach

CollectionsYour library (639), Wishlist (53), Currently reading (3), To read (99), My wayward youth (189), Cookery...or cooking (8), Crafts (19), Historian alert (113), Piano performance (28), Po-russki (31), Reference (25), Read but unowned (40), All collections (809)

Reviews9 reviews

Tagsusa (183), fiction (140), 1001 books (121), mystery (119), youth fiction (102), england (84), russian history (60), courses (60), rory's reading list (41), bookclub (37) — see all tags

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Groups1001 Books to read before you die, 75 Books Challenge for 2009, Agatha Christie, Chicagoans, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Fans of Russian authors, Graduate Students, Historical Fiction, Hogwarts Express, Knitters Inc. — show all groups , Librarians who LibraryThing

Favorite authorsKingsley Amis, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Nikolai Gogol, David Lodge, John McPhee, Vladimir Nabokov, Alexander Pushkin, J. K. Rowling, Neal Stephenson, Kurt Vonnegut, Evelyn Waugh (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstores57th Street Books, Faulkner House Books, Moskovskii Dom Knigi (Московский Дом Книги), Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Strand Bookstore

Favorite librariesPenn State University Libraries, The Russian State Library (Российская государственная библиотека), University of Chicago - Joseph Regenstein Library

About mefuture librarian to the stars. current phd candidate in russian/soviet history and mlis grad student

About my librarybooks that are loved

library - includes all books i currently own
wishlist - books i want to read but don't own yet
currently reading
to read - books i own but have not read
my wayward youth - books read through 12th grade
cookery...or cooking
crafts
historian alert - history and related books
piano performance
po-russki - books in the russian language
reference - traditional reference works + travel reference
read but unowned

any star ratings are based on my opinion and my opinion alone. that means some critically acclaimed things may be slammed, and some universally panned things may be praised. so be it

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Locationchicago, il

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Member sinceSep 26, 2009

Currently readingThe Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri