I would love the book! I already smooched you a point with a note. Thanks again, Elise

Lähettänyt: LeesyLou 2:08 pm (EST) Jun 26, 2008

Hi Maggie,

I liked I Shall Not Want, but I am so frustrated by the end of it! And, in reading what Julia Spencer-Fleming is reading, she said readers can tell where the next book is heading. I had that feeling from reading her comments in an interview.

I tried SO hard not to give away spoilers, particularly for those readers who haven't read All Mortal Flesh yet. So, thank you for saying I did a good job with that.

Lähettänyt: LesaHolstine 11:19 am (EST) Jun 11, 2008

The fiber arts books arrived today. Thank you so much! I've added them to my library very happily.

Lähettänyt: LeesyLou 3:41 pm (EST) May 19, 2008

Hi,

Just thought I`d drop by and say `hello` as our paths don`t seem to have crossed for a while.

I had been meaning to get in touch for a while but we`ve had a lot on our minds, what with running a business from home, bringing up young Adam and also some time ago the death of my father after a long illness.

On a brighter note, we`re gradually getting to where we wanted to be in life - we have Adam, we have easy access to the Derbyshire countryside, we have enough books and music to last a lifetime (several lifetimes). Somehow, I must admit, LT doesn`t seem a big priority !

Adam`s book box is gardually growing, and he`s recently discovered his dad`s collection of old-fashioned vinyl records, which fascinate him. He`s also discovered tearing up large amounts of kitchen roll and shoving them in his mouth, an interest that`s never really entered my life ! We`ve learnt to be vigilant about his endless desire to taste things.

That`s enough about us - how are you ? And Bob of course.

Nick & Ann-Marie & Adam

Lähettänyt: nickhoonaloon 4:48 am (EST) May 11, 2008

Maggie, that was an absolutely splendid review of the latest Julia Spencer-Fleming book. I was already having a hard time waiting for this one to come out but now you've got me just frothing at the bit for it. Very well written and very delicately done, with no spoilers! Thank you!
Tiffin

Lähettänyt: tiffin 5:51 pm (EST) May 6, 2008

Yes, I know what you mean about so many ideas bouncing around in one's head!!! Anytime you would like to do Lowell, I'll be happy to go along. Have you ever been? I really had hoped to get into the Textile Museum again, but it has been closed for renovations. However, the Boott Mill museum, the Mill Girl boarding house exhibition, and the NE Quilt Museum are still a good afternoon's events. I'd also like to bring you up to Fruitlands sometime (if you feel the need to run away some day).

I still plan to come out that way eventually. XXXXLois

Lähettänyt: avaland 4:25 pm (EST) Mar 11, 2008

The painting is by Bouguereau and is titled The Story Book. Thanks again!

Lähettänyt: marise 11:14 am (EST) Dec 27, 2007

Thank you both very much for your good wishes. Our stately home is Nick & Ann-Marie Osmond, 57 Gladstone Street, Heanor, DE75 7PW, UK.

Don`t go to too much trouble on our account, though.

`Scuse this brief note, but as you can imagine, we`re a bit busy at present !

N & A-M

Lähettänyt: nickhoonaloon 2:11 pm (EST) Nov 7, 2007

It's Lisa actually; just use that as a log in for different things by habit. Hadn't really thought about the fact that it's a bit unwieldy for something like this! Nice that we have the London social history interest in common - have you got any things of that sort that you'd recommend yourself? I've just picked up something interesting looking that I'd not seen around before, and it deals with an area quite close to where I live in north
east London, which is alwyas nice. I can't remember what it's called but it deals with all the changes that have taken place since the end of the war, from one man's personal point of view. (Parts of London are unrecognisable to what they would have been before the Blitz - 60s development was not kind!) Haven't read it yet (am too busy trying to get as many Viragos in as I can; they're my current mania) but if you like I can let you know if it's any good (and what it's called) when I get around to reading it.

Lähettänyt: lclairecarter 4:10 am (EST) Aug 14, 2007

The book is

The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry
edited by Steve Rasnic Tem

ISBN 0943422000 UmBral Press (1982)

http://www.librarything.com/work-info.ph...

It was small-press, a print run of something trivial (500? 1000?)
but it got a nomination for the Philip K. Dick Award.
It took me a year to track down a copy.
Mine seems to be the sole copy on LT.

Try these:

Mike Ford's "110 stories", hosted at Making Light:

http://nielsenhayden.com/110.html

and two of his sonnets:

IMMORTALITY

You do not want to live and never die
Till reason rots and humor disappears;
You'll have to wave the ones you love good-bye,
Or worse, endure them all those endless years.
You will be sorry that you soldiered on
When others chose as blissful dust to dwell;
When all your stock of anecdotes is gone,
All space and time look like a cheap motel.
You will not like the world your children build:
It will be strange and dull and bleak and mad;
You'll leave what span you're given unfulfilled
The same damn ways you wasted what you had.
To use Her basely Time will not forgive:
You do not want to live, who do not live.

and one of the few poems that moves me to tears:

Against Entropy

The worm drives helically through the wood
And does not know the dust left in the bore
Once made the table integral and good;
And suddenly the crystal hits the floor.
Electrons find their paths in subtle ways,
A massless eddy in a trail of smoke;
The names of lovers, light of other days—
Perhaps you will not miss them. That’s the joke.
The universe winds down. That’s how it’s made.
But memory is everything to lose;
Although some of the colors have to fade,
Do not believe you’ll get the chance to choose.
Regret, by definition, comes too late;
Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.

—John M. Ford

Last but not least, the Shakespeare/West Side Story pastiche that he tossed off in a few minutes one night:

Ro-Mo. Your windows are still mirrored; taunt me not,
But show your colors, dare to challenge me,
These lips are two shaped charges, primed and hot,
That wait the go-code for delivery.

J-Cap. The flag is to the deadly, not the loud,
Yet aim as well as posing shows in this;
The worthy throwdown’s always to the proud,
And hammer down is how the hard girls kiss.

Ro-Mo. My draft is stopped; I struggle toward the clutch.

J-Cap. And would a charge of nitrous make thee run?

Ro-Mo. Too much; but what else is there but too much?
Let me take arms, and elevate the gun.

J-Cap. Small arms but hint what demolitions say.

Ro-Mo. Then, gunner, gimme one round.

J-Cap. On the way.

[From Verona Total Breakdown (Liebestod), a forgotten
early work by Bill “Hoist This Petard” Shakespeare …]
- John M. Ford

Sheer genius. I was lurking in that conversation when he posted it.
"And hammer down is how the hard girls kiss."

That one line is his ticket to immortality, right there.

Lähettänyt: AsYouKnow_Bob 9:16 pm (EST) Dec 17, 2006