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The books catalogued here are only those that I own and do not include books borrowed from the library. I use LibraryThing to catalogue my personal library, not to track what I have read.

When it comes to reading, I enjoy just about anything: sci-fi, poli. sci., historical fiction, social studies, fantasy, technical reference, classic cookbooks, and so on. My big three are Tolkien, Orwell and Jacobs. I have read everything ever published by these authors. I also enjoy CBC's Massey Lectures and hope to collect each volume in the series.

I have blatantly stolen my rating guidelines from aulsmith, which are as follows:

* - 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.
*** - I enjoyed it while I was reading it, but it's not worth reading again (or I enjoyed it when I was twelve, but it didn't stand up to my adult expectations).
**** - It's good. Given world enough and time, I would probably read it again.
***** - It changed my life or it changed my thinking or I loved it so much I'll definitely try to read it again.

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