Membreaulsmith

A propos de ma bibliothèque

Billie Aul & Tim Smith's books. Originally this was just our science fiction, but we've added everything, because, in the end, all our books are related to each other. We're still working on adding some of the oddball collections. Billie is also trying to track her lifelong reading by entering the contents of various older systems.

Collections:

Your library: The physical books in our house
GLBT: Books of GLBT interest that are physically in the house
Linguistics: The books Tim considers part of his linguistic hobby collection. The books are physically in the house.
Analytics: short stories, essays, plays etc inside anthologies, collections and magazines so they can be reviewed, rated and tracked separately. Not necessarily in the house (though most of the sf magazines are neatly arranged in chronological order behind the fiction books -- and we wonder why the house has structural problems)
All the others: Various obsessive attempts by Billie to keep track of EVERYTHING.

Our rating system: (Most of the ratings are Billie's) The half stars are when we disagree.

* - no one should have to read this book
** - this book has minor redeeming features such as being an author's early work, having some useful information, or being funny
*** - we enjoyed it while we were reading it, but we're not planning to read it again (or we enjoyed it when we were twelve, but it didn't stand up to our adult expectations)
**** - it's good. Given world enough and time, we would probably read it again
***** - it changed our life or it changed our thinking or we loved it so much we'll definitely try to read it again

We often use "publication date" for the date the work was originally published, not for the date the volume we own was published.

Lieu (géographique)

Upstate New York

Listes de favoris

1960s, 2016 Hugo Eligible Novelettes, 2016 Hugo Eligible Novellas, 2016 Hugo Eligible Novels, 2016 Hugo Eligible Short Stories, Aeneas, All Things Oz, Alternative Alices, Amusing Book Titles, Attaining Belief, Best Arthurian Fiction, Best Books About Plagues and Epidemics, Best Books Set in Boarding Schools, Best Books With Aliens, Best Family Stories, Best Feminist Science Fiction, Best Fiction Set in China, Best Friendship Stories, Best History Books about Disasters, Best History Books about Epidemics, Best Nonfiction about Tudor England, BingoDOG - Animals in Adult Fiction, BingoDOG - Books With Natural Disasters: Fiction, BingoDOG - Prophecy, Signs, or Portents are part of the plot, BingoDOG - Scientists in Fiction, Boarding House and Hotel Fiction, Books featuring monks and/or nuns, Books I've Read More Than Once, Books Set on Extraterrestrial Planets, Books Set on Islands, Books that changed the world, Books whose title names an object usually found in the kitchen, Books With Nursery Rhyme Titles, Books You Couldn't Finish, Climate Change, Contemporary Fiction, Converting to Atheism (memoir/biography), Counterculture History, Elephants in Books, Faerie Mythology, Favorite Books Based on Sherlock Holmes Stories, Favourite Medieval Books, Favourite Short Stories, Fiction about missionaries, Fiction Featuring Cranky, Eccentric Old Folks, Fiction Set During a Revolution, Fiction Set Primarily in a Prison, Future Visions, Geology - Disaster/Epic Change, Geology - Poetry, Gimmicks, Great Books About Language, Human Evolution in Science Fiction, Indo-European Studies, Lesser known books of well known authors, Life on the Prison Planet, Makes Me Want to Eat (or Drink), Meditations on Death, Murder Mysteries, Nonhuman Protagonists, Novels featuring language professionals, Novels featuring Orphans, One Book, Many Authors, the play's the thing... (novels themed around the theatre + acting), Poetry Corner, Political Science Fiction, Put a Bird On It, Reading Globally, real people in fiction circumstances, Recommended Speculative Fiction by Women and People of Color, Religious Fiction, Self Published Books I Highly Recommend, Sense of place, Short Story Collections and Anthologies, Speculative Fiction: Slipstream Literature, Stories About Other Worlds, stories at work, Stories Featuring Passages, Gateways and Doors, Stories Featuring Reptiles, Stories Inspired by Other Fiction, Story Within a Story, Things we wish were not catalog(u)ed on LT, To Read List, Unexplained!, University literature, Urban Fiction, Utopian Anarchist Novels, Worst religious books, Writers as Characters in Fiction

Connexions des membres

Ami(e)s

astherest, AsYouKnow_Bob, bookdads, CorinneT, JenAndJon, langsmith, MaggieO, moonshineandrosefire, steveberman, tryslora, UGRRHistoryProject

Bibliothèque intéressante

ABVR, ACRLWGSS, aethercowboy, AlanPoulter, alibrarian, amysisson, andyl, apleasuretoburn, astherest, AsYouKnow_Bob, bertilak, Bev_n_Dave, bluetyson, chrisjones, clarkpoetry, clong, curtwalt, dajashby, douggeo, flabuckeye, flyingcamel, fredheid, freilert, GardnerDozois, gaymystery, HartHouseLibrary, ibonewits, idiosyncratic, Iktomi, jpsorrow, jymkata, kathi, kevbell, larrybob, littleturtle82, lycanthropist, markmarz, massimoterrile, mattgalletta, mysticjoe, pennipenny, rachelkramerbussel, ringman, shikari