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Billy Budd and Other Tales - tekijä: Herman Melville
Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia - tekijä: Michael A. Dirr
The Bonesetter's Daughter - tekijä: Amy Tan
Middlemarch - tekijä: George Eliot
Jane Eyre - tekijä: Charlotte Bronte
Marxism and Literature - tekijä: Raymond Williams
Garden Color Book - tekijä: Paul Williams
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Tietoja minusta I live and work in the the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota. My hobbies are gardening, reading, music and cooking. I own a business but rarely read business books. I have a wonderful husband who reads but doesn't "get" LT. Huh?
That cute mutt in my profile picture is Brix. He would rather lounge in the sun than read a book, but I love him anyway.
My gardening blog is listed below.
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Most of the books in my library are 20th and 21st century fiction along with a good selection of American and English poetry and fiction from earlier days. I have a more-sizable-than-expected gardening/environmental collection as well. I will also admit to reading a lot of popular mysteries and potboilers, but as these are mostly "throw-away" books (actually, donated to a local library's book sale), I won't be cataloging those here. I also own all of the Harry Potter books, but have not cataloged those because they throw off most of the suggestions and "members with your books" listings too much.
My LT library consists primarily of books that I own. Most of them have been read, but some have not. Once the wish list and collection features have been added to LT, I will branch out into other areas.
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This afternoon for lunch we had our first mixed salad, with Italiensicher lettuce leaves that we harvested for the first time. It was wonderful to have lettuce again. The taste is not so good as it was in WA, but the texture was crisp and it was such a treat. I put the inferior taste down to inferior soil. I'm improving it all the time, but there's such a long, long way to go. Just ordered a roll of cyclone fencing to make compost bins. Once I get those going, I should see a distinct improvement in everything.
I really should be posting this to your garden blog!
Lähettänyt: Joycepa 3:01 pm (EST) May 15, 2008
I'm moving Water For Elephants up so that I'll probably start it some time this weekend. I'm STILL working my way through the Richard Sharpe books--in the middle of one and have one more to go (that I possess). They're just too good to stop now and read something else.
Hugs for that cutie, Brix!
Joyce
Oh by the way, I think that your "borders" on your veggie beds are just beautiful. What are they made of? Mine are stone.
Lähettänyt: Joycepa 1:28 pm (EST) May 15, 2008
I'm going to read Water for Elephants soon, after I finish off one or two books that have been hanging fire for entirely too long.
As for blogging: who has time? I've managed two back-to-back posts but only because they were all texts and I was fired up at the time to write about inflation here and a great many idiot Americans who come here. I sweaqr some of them need a 10 page booklet and a set of detailed maps just to cross the street! I'd much rather write about bougainvillea, gardens of two Panamanian friends--and write a lot about one, which is just spectacular--Ricardo and Maritza have done a stunning interplanting that I'm dying to document. I also want to get more of my videos up--but who has time?
Oh well. When the rains really start, it'll be somewhat easier, although I'll be weed eating at least 4 days a week and it would be better if it were more. You simply can not imagine how fast things grow here. But other things such as planting and some projects that I've started will go on hold.
I want to read your other gardening posts. I just loved that picture of the willows--so beautiful, so peaceful.
If you start Water for Elephants before I do, please let me know what Brix thinks of it. :-)
Joyce
Lähettänyt: Joycepa 4:13 pm (EST) May 6, 2008
Joyce
Lähettänyt: Joycepa 3:03 pm (EST) May 6, 2008
I'm absolutely fascinated by the way he has set up Danaerys. And I'm sure we both think that Cercei's Maggy the Frog prophecy is not about Margaery but Danaerys. And how about Cercei's little predicament? As usual, Martin has left us hanging-- what Jaime is really going to do?
Really, it's a high-class soap opera! ;-)
Joyce
Lähettänyt: Joycepa 3:01 pm (EST) May 6, 2008
Your comment reached me about 10 minutes before I was going to send you one, telling you that I had just finished A Feast For Crows! How's that for serendipity!? :-)
Again, I agree with you, totally. A journey book is a great way to describe it. The twists and turns continue, but clearly he's setting up for the Big Confrontation. I, too, wasn't quite so taken with it, and I thought his longer chapters didn't move the story in quite such an interesting way, but it was still excellent. I deiced to concentrate on it and finish it so that I could get back to "real life" reading!
Terrific series, though. A Dance of Dragons is coming out at the end of this year, right? I'll have to check with Amazon and see if I can pre-order.
Hugs to Brix.
Joyce
Lähettänyt: Joycepa 1:48 pm (EST) May 6, 2008
Joyce
Lähettänyt: Joycepa 12:50 pm (EST) May 1, 2008
I'm about half-way through Book 3, A Storm of Swords, and all I can say is ditto to every comment or observation you've made so far. the books are obsessive, no question, but certainly Book 3 could have been shaped up a little better. At one point it dawned on me that the whole thing was like a very high-class literary soap opera! I couldn't agree more about too many cliff-hanger chapters.
The writing, though, continues to be excellent, and although I'n starting to have a few quibbles about how the story is going, fact is, given the length, I can't remember when I've been this interested in a series since the Harry Potter books.
I've slowed down, too, although with me it's a lack of time to read. I have been frantically busy for about 10 days, and that will just continue for at least a few weeks longer. Means that I'm reading mostly at night. I'm doing a lot of heavy physical labor and I'm really wiped out at night, and this series is just too good--deserves more--than to have me fall asleep and not remember what I read during the last half hour! Plus I have other books I'd like to finish; then I won't start anymore until I'm done with a Feast of Crows.
I'd love to hear whatever further thoughts you have about A Feast of Crows as you work your way through it.
Joyce
Lähettänyt: Joycepa 12:30 pm (EST) May 1, 2008
I've said it on the thread and then remembered that you don't automatically read it, so I'll say it again--this series is terrific. and I agree with you totally in the sense that it's just "tinged' with fantasy--i like that description--and more Arthurian--but with the difference that there is a reality to the brutality of war that the Arthurian legends never addressed. I also red, before I bought the books, that [A Feast of Crows] is not as good as the first three, but as I remarked on the thread, I think that happens frequently when the author is writing an installment that is meant to be a transition to the end. I really feel that way about JK Rowling and HP6--loved the book but it was clear what she was doing and there really wasn't the intensity of the others until the end. I know that there's at least one more book in the Song of Fire and Ice series, to be published in December, if I remember correctly.
Meantime, I'm totally caught up in the story line.
Joyce
Lähettänyt: Joycepa 7:42 am (EST) Apr 27, 2008
Joyce
Lähettänyt: Joycepa 10:20 am (EST) Apr 24, 2008
I received the Song of Fire and Ice series yesterday, and absolutely couldn't wait--I started A Game of Thrones immediately, last night. I used to be a big fantasy reader many, many years ago and then just drifted off. I've read a few recently, and have LeGuin's latest on my TBR, but these books looked so enticing...! I also was startled by the size of them--you just don't see that in fantasy, usually.
As for LOTR--I call down curses on my grey head when I remark to Tolkien fanatics that I think the movies overall were better than the books at least because peter jackson and his co-script writers have a sense of humor and it's clear Tolkien did not! And parts of that series are just plain boring, period. Interestingly, jackson and company thought so, too, because they got cut or abbreviated in the movies.
Enough about LOTR which I still like.
I'm only about 50 pages, if that, into the Game of Thrones, and it's clear Martin is setting the stage. The writing is very, very good, and I'm enjoying the book very much so far.
Joyce
Lähettänyt: Joycepa 10:18 am (EST) Apr 24, 2008
Lähettänyt: christiguc 3:41 pm (EST) Feb 28, 2008
Just stumbled upon your library and you have a nice selection! I love that you have your recently read book covers on your profile page. Did you use LT's widget for that or another way? I know I could add them to a site like Flickr and grab the html code for here, but I like that yours link to the LT page, not Flickr or photobucket.
Happy Reading! Annie
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