Dear Candy,

Hope all is well! I've been traveling since the end of last year, but it's been absolutely amazing. I just got back a couple of days ago. Postcards on the way!

Anna

Lähettänyt: desideo 3:25 pm (EST) Jun 22, 2008

it isn't my library but it probally could be if i brought all my books together in one place :) looks like you have quite a few from your pic as well....let me know if you have read any great books lately or stumble across any in the future!

Lähettänyt: amanaceerdh 2:46 pm (EST) May 22, 2008

Ok, great - thanks! Hope the next book comes soon... And sorry about all the delays!

Abby

Lähettänyt: ablachly 4:02 pm (EST) May 20, 2008

Thanks for your review of Strange Ways. I'm glad you enjoyed it, and hopefully, thanks to your review, lots of others will too.

Lähettänyt: Gefen 2:58 am (EST) May 20, 2008

No worries - I know the Gefen books are taking a while!

Lähettänyt: ablachly 12:19 pm (EST) Apr 30, 2008

Hi Candy,

Just wanted to say thank you for your review of Franklin and Lucy. I wish more than ever that I had requested it in March! I will just have to add it to my wish list!

Lähettänyt: avisannschild 3:51 pm (EST) Apr 7, 2008

You're on top of things, as always! Thanks :) Glad you enjoyed the book!

Lähettänyt: ablachly 9:18 pm (EST) Apr 2, 2008

You read more when you were working full time? I've been getting swamped at work and haven't read much at all. Lately I've been doing crossword puzzles at night instead of reading, because they're easier to put down when I can't keep my eyes open.

Lähettänyt: findundercan 2:52 pm (EST) Jan 31, 2008

Just hang tight - there are still a lot of people waiting for their books from the December batch. Don't worry, it won't affect your chances of getting a book in future batches.

Lähettänyt: ablachly 11:29 am (EST) Jan 18, 2008

Not to worry. I have a fair number of books I've always meant to read that have been sitting on the shelves for years. The Feynmann memoirs (_Surely You're Joking..._, _What Do You care What Other People Think?_, _The Pleasure of Finding Things Out_, etc.) are pretty easy reads. The writing isn't great, but the anecdotes are wonderful, both from his personal and professional life. His lectures are probably a little more difficult if you don't have some background, but they're still a lot easier than your average physics tome. If you've made it through other (modern) physics books, you're probably fine. Even more than the raw physics, I think their value is in the way he evaluates and communicates what is (and isn't) meaningful, scientifically speaking. I personally think the current scientific community could stand to take a long at itself in that respect.

Lähettänyt: findundercan 2:41 pm (EST) Jan 11, 2008

Hi. Hope you had a good holiday. I couldn't help noticing a Richard Feynmann biography on your random book list. What did you think of it? I always found him to be a fascinating character, but haven't read anything from an outside perspective. Feynmann was actually the one that got me started reading agonizing congressional reports (he wrote a wonderful appendix to the Rogers Commission Report). I studied physics briefly before Purdue strongly recommended a career in anything else (my math skills had long since expired and modern physics was the only area where I was halfway competent).

Lähettänyt: findundercan 9:49 pm (EST) Jan 9, 2008

Hi! It is indeed a fun site. It looks like I have about 450 cookbooks... but I think I missed a few, so I'm not sure. (I'm so disorganized!) I just sort of started requesting review copies of cookbooks after I realized how many of them I'd been reviewing on my own. I seem to be one of the few cookbook reviewers I've come across who actually makes some of the recipes in the books before reviewing, so I'd guess that's why I manage to get so many review books.

Lähettänyt: errantdreams 12:46 pm (EST) Jan 9, 2008

Hi Candy,

Thank you for leaving me a message. As an online reviewer, you are sent books so that you can give your honest opinion. If you do not want to write a review because you don't want to write a negative review that is fine. However, it is okay if you want to write it and post it for the world to see. :)

If you decide not to write the review, let me know and I will email the publisher explaining your reason. If you decide to write the review, I will thank you for your honesty and continue to send you books in the future. You can email me at rsantana@resmarketingalliance.com with your decision.

Happy New Year!

Reina

Lähettänyt: reina10 7:58 pm (EST) Jan 7, 2008

I love the sport of baseball. I'm not thrilled with the way it is run and covered in the media (in North America, at least). Steroids are a problem, but for MLB, they're mostly a diversion from other more serious problems.

Changing the subject, I added some new culinary and related books to my list (early x-mas gifts). The Jennifer McLagan one in particular has been making me drool. I'm an unashamed bone-gnawer.

Lähettänyt: findundercan 3:17 pm (EST) Dec 17, 2007

Why read it? Partially, because I'm a masochist when it comes to reading reports (my favorite : the Rogers Commission Report). Partially, because I was a little curious if he turned up anything new or managed to get any significant evidence (not much). But mostly because I don't trust the media or mass interpretation of it and don't want to comment on the specifics and their validity and relevance without having read it like most of the mass media and analysts did, creating situations where they interviewed people based on a completely (and somewhat obviously) fictitious "leaked" list of player names connected with steroids and HGH.

Lähettänyt: findundercan 12:26 pm (EST) Dec 15, 2007

It's not directly related to federal investigations, though it draws a fair amount of material from them. It's a toothless investigation by (former senator) George Mitchell (on temporary leave from his job as Director of the Boston Red Sox) at the request of MLB's Commissioner Bud Selig. Selig makes Bush look like the model of propriety, wisdom, and eloquence.

Lähettänyt: findundercan 5:19 pm (EST) Dec 14, 2007

The Mitchell Report is alleged to be an investigation into illegal steroid and Human Growth Hormone use in Major League Baseball. If you're not heavily into baseball, hopelessly bad rhetoric from former senators, and pointless reports in general, there's no reason to pay any attention to it or the resulting fallout.

Lähettänyt: findundercan 4:53 pm (EST) Dec 14, 2007

Agee is temporarily on hold as I sift through the abomination that is the Mitchell Report. I wasn't altogether thrilled with Agee to start with, though. He has moments of brilliance, but it's hard not to when you cram that many words together. It's like he can't decide if he's writing prose or poetry or some kind of drug-induced stream of consciousness rambling. In his defense, the book probably wasn't in finished form when it was published and it does have enough good points that I'll continue with it.

Lähettänyt: findundercan 12:51 pm (EST) Dec 14, 2007

I don't recommend finishing it. There are a lot better books to spend your time on. I still have no idea why I finished it myself. I might read more of his (not because I saw anything special in _Snow_...more because I'm always afraid I'm missing something if I don't at least give things a look), but not in the near future. Next up : Agee's _A Death in the Family_.

Lähettänyt: findundercan 5:51 pm (EST) Dec 11, 2007

I finally finished _Snow_. You didn't miss much.

Lähettänyt: findundercan 9:45 am (EST) Dec 10, 2007

Hi Candy,

Thanks for posting the review. I completely understand about the holidays. Relax and enjoy we can wait until after the holidays.

My running is going well. Thanks for the tips!

Happy Holidays!

By the way, what is the url for your blog?

Reina

Lähettänyt: reina10 6:24 pm (EST) Dec 7, 2007

Regarding _Snow_, I'm glad it isn't just me (it usually is). I'll probably finish it and then trade it in, but I really have to force myself to keep reading it at this point. It reminds me a little of _Crime and Punishment_ in that the sequence of events is far too condensed. In C&P, the characters were strong enough to support the other flaws, though. Actually, I think the difference is that the characters in C&P drive the plot, whereas in Snow, they just kind of float along on top of the plot which itself seems forced. Maybe something is lost in translation, but at this point, I somewhat doubt it.

Unless his other works are vastly superior, I'm thinking the Nobel Prize was more for political reasons than literary ones. That seems to be the trend lately, at least.

Lähettänyt: findundercan 1:00 pm (EST) Dec 7, 2007

Here's a typical AZ water issue : http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/215023

There is a small contingency somewhere in Tucson that will protest any subject you can imagine. There is also another contingency waiting to protest the first one. And every once in a while, all the contingencies and anti-contingencies converge on one topic. That usually makes for a good time to change the channel.

Speaking of water, he smoothly segues, what did you think of Pamuk's _Snow_? I'm about two thirds of the way through.

Lähettänyt: findundercan 5:22 pm (EST) Dec 6, 2007