I can't remember the Orientalizing Revolution well enough, but, when I read it, it was an eye-opener. I'm also a fan of his Creation of the Sacred.

Lähettänyt: timspalding 12:48 am (EST) Jun 12, 2008

Whoops. Hit that too quick. I was pasting in "Have you read it yet?"

Lähettänyt: timspalding 1:39 am (EST) Jun 9, 2008

Just finished Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis while waiting for a script to run. Left a review. Burkert persuades, but it still left me feeling empty.

Lähettänyt: timspalding 1:38 am (EST) Jun 9, 2008

I think it was due to those two party poopers who invaded the group. I really told the one member off and he has now dissapeared :)

But, so did everyone else

I am going to send messages to the other members and try and revise the interest in the list.

Lähettänyt: keren7 11:51 am (EST) Apr 11, 2008

Hi Zoe

Are you coming back to Lt's list of interesting reads? Everyone seems to have abandoned the group and I thought we were having fun.

Lähettänyt: keren7 6:39 pm (EST) Apr 10, 2008

The grey stars were done per request from Tim. Just following orders.

Lähettänyt: conceptDawg 5:31 pm (EST) Apr 8, 2008

Hi;

We're up and rolling on the GEB read at http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...
Looking forward to your comments. Jim

Lähettänyt: torus34 7:33 am (EST) Apr 1, 2008

_Zoe_, thank you very much for your advise about how to enter acquired dates faster. That will same me a considerable amount of time!

Lähettänyt: EvilPlatypus 5:46 pm (EST) Mar 28, 2008

Oooh, thanks for letting me know about Dewey Decimal Challenge. I joined and am looking into it. I need to read more NF anyway. It isn't that I don't like it, but that I largely gravitate towards novels. This will be a good way to expand my horizons, I think.

Lähettänyt: SunnyLea 8:25 pm (EST) Mar 25, 2008

Zoe

Thank you so much for the kind words on my profile page. It's hard not to give up, I requested over tweleve books...sad. But, true....

I'm happy that you got your book. Again, thank you for being so sweet.

xoxo
Star*

Lähettänyt: AStarIsBorn 4:42 pm (EST) Mar 18, 2008

Thanks for the invite, Zoe, but I am going to decline for now. We are in the middle of house hunting and I am looking for a job, so I am a bit overwhelmed at the moment. I will probably take up the invitation at a later date, though. ~Stasia

Lähettänyt: alcottacre 7:37 pm (EST) Mar 10, 2008

Most LT data isn't really deleted when it's deleted. "Deleting" data piecemeal from a database is a bad idea usually—it leaves holes in the files that get filled up, leaving the data fragmented. Instead, you set a "delete flag." When the delete flag is set, you don't show it. And then every once in a while (every couple months for books, for example) you delete everything with the flag and pack the data back together to fill in the holes.

So, if you went deleting like mad, we could restore.

Lähettänyt: timspalding 10:05 am (EST) Mar 5, 2008

Incidentally, I absolutely reject the idea that Latin or any other language gives someone the right to pontificate on good or bad grammar. Latin is a language, no better or worse than Abkhazi or Cree. Latin has no special relationship with English not shared by, say, Albanian. And while Latin borrowing—much of it through French—is one of the things that makes English English, excessively Latinate English is more often a sign of bad writing than good.

Anyway, as a serious scholar of languages I hope you agree that there is no such thing as "bad" grammar anyway.

Lähettänyt: timspalding 7:22 pm (EST) Mar 1, 2008

I am not saying et cetera but the English word etcetera, which, while derived from the Latin, is not the same thing. (Etymology is not meaning!) When used as a noun, etcetera means "A number of unspecified persons or things." English even uses the plural "etceteras," which is bad Latin, but good English. Anyway, etcetera is bad *PIE.

But then, the hoi poloi irks me. We are all irked by what irks us.

T

Lähettänyt: timspalding 7:10 pm (EST) Mar 1, 2008

Thanks for the link!

Lähettänyt: elvisettey 10:18 pm (EST) Feb 4, 2008

thanks for givibg me the title for the books i couldn't remember, you're a star

Lähettänyt: starrylady 4:58 am (EST) Jan 12, 2008

Victoria is very cool and her classes are always great - enjoy!

Lähettänyt: scaifea 8:30 pm (EST) Jan 11, 2008

Thanks for taking care of things this month for February's book. I don't know what happened I guess I got busy over the holidays and now that I am not working with YAs I have to make an extra effort to keep up on YA stuff. So, thanks again!!

Lähettänyt: SheReads 10:42 pm (EST) Jan 8, 2008

Hi Zoe, Yikes! I have just realised that I never responded to your very kind invitation. My sincere apologies. I will be happy to join the group. I have promised myself to not spend so much time at work this year and to spend more time reading and on LT! All the best.

Lähettänyt: XenaBallerina 12:33 pm (EST) Jan 4, 2008

_Zoe_,

I just read your post on the Reading Goals thread, and had to come check out your profile, since I'm a Classicist and had my suspicions that you might be too. And now I see that you're at Toronto - my dissertation adviser and one of my secondary readers just moved to your department in the last year (Erik Gunderson and Victoria Wohl, respectively)! Also, one of my advisees from Kenyon College (where I teach) is currently in the MA program in the Medieval Studies program there (Kelly Henry). Small ol' world, innit?

Lähettänyt: scaifea 7:23 am (EST) Dec 29, 2007

I just opened a new thread on the “New Features” group to highlight the loss of tag vs. book searching. Feel free to respond. Hopefully if enough people jump on board we can get the functionality returned to how it was before.

Lähettänyt: gregfromgilbert 4:21 pm (EST) Dec 10, 2007

I've been following the bug you have been discussing in the groups (no longer have the ability to search by tag vs. title). I was wondering if you have started another thread on this as I would like to speak up about it. I think the loss of search ability is a major pain.

Lähettänyt: gregfromgilbert 1:33 am (EST) Dec 10, 2007

Hello,

Today I received this very new The Blackwell history of the latin language. So far, I have only glanced in it, but it looks great. It's a more modern version of the classical The Latin language by Leonard Robert Palmer. A description of the book can be found here:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book....

Higly recommended for those interested in the history of the latin language.

Best regards
Hans

Lähettänyt: hnn 11:55 am (EST) Nov 8, 2007

Editing can be lots of different things, depending. I've mainly done specialized nonfiction book editing for small publishers (medical, computer programming, and numismatic books) - this is probably very different from, say, magazine work, or corporate communications. Much of it consists of making the commas and hyphens conform to some rulebook of choice, but if one is any good at it (and is good at picking up knowledge quickly) there can also be a fair amount of involvement in developing content - I'm in effect writing a book for a client at present. At big companies it can be a lot more rigid and controlled, though - it really varies a lot.

I don't find that editing gets in the way of reading all that much - like any job that uses the brain it eats time and saps the will to do anything that involves thought, but after a day of reading a dull, badly written manuscript it's a relief to relax with something interesting and well written. I think teaching has somewhat the same effect only more so - it's a very tiring and time-consuming job, but something intellectually engaging can be a good escape from it by contrast.

Depending on research topic, a PhD can be death on free choice of reading, but OTOH it's a great way to avoid the real world!

Lähettänyt: dressel26 5:31 pm (EST) Nov 4, 2007

Are you just doing a masters or also a PhD? If you find yourself trying to become employed with an MA in classics, you'll find that you're as suited to various forms of professional dilettantism as anything. At least that's how I think of editing, for example. People pay me to read stuff. Some of it is even interesting.

Lähettänyt: dressel26 3:36 pm (EST) Nov 3, 2007

Thanks for the invite, it looks fun! I love obsessing over lists... I'm currently doing this but I'm already about halfway through so I'll need new ones ;)

prezzey.

Lähettänyt: prezzey 3:03 pm (EST) Nov 3, 2007

I think we wouldn't want it any other way!

Lähettänyt: DoctorRobert 1:01 pm (EST) Nov 2, 2007

Thanks for the invitation to the Dewey Decimal group. It's a great idea for a group! But my reading list is already hopelessly (or hopefully?) long. I'll peek at the group posts now and then, however, to see what people have been reading. I'm sure many people will uncover great finds that they wouldn't otherwise have sought out.

DoctorRobert

Lähettänyt: DoctorRobert 11:41 am (EST) Nov 2, 2007

I guess doing a degree in classics you end up reading the same sorts of things in large quantities; one can read only so many citations of the Aeneid before footnote fatigue sets in. Being kind of a professional dilettante, I spend more time reading about stuff I don't really know all that much about, so there's usually an element of exploration for me in the citations of what I read. Often they sound a lot more interesting than whatever it is that I'm actually reading :)

Lähettänyt: dressel26 11:23 pm (EST) Oct 29, 2007

I have joined rather a lot of groups - fortunetly (or not) most of them are rather quiet. I'm aware of DD challenge, but I don't feel it's really for me. I don't read much non-fiction, and there is more than sufficient fiction available to sate even the fastest 24/7 reader, which I'm not. It is a worthy goal to broaden one's reading horizens and attempt genres that don't intrinsically appeal, but not today.

Lähettänyt: reading_fox 11:01 am (EST) Oct 26, 2007

Continuing from the TBR list thread, but moved here since this part has become personal chatter that no longer relates much to the idea of a DDC challenge TBR list....

I like reading the citations - I find all sorts of interesting stuff in them :) I find it irksome when they're put in the back, because I have to keep the book open two places at once to follow along the endnotes. I'll confess that I don't read the critical apparatus on editions of ancient texts, though, unless I really need to be picky about the wording of a particular passage.

Regarding the Annals, it's that indeterminacy of translation thing. The translator made an analogy on one point, which is the number of soldiers - a legion of 5000 soldiers is reasonably close to the size of a British WW2 brigade, for example - the problem is that the system worked differently enough that using some other point for the analogy would give a different equivalent. For example, the legion was the largest permanent focus of identity as a unit, so the British WW2 analogy there would be a regiment rather than a brigade. But it was a self-contained combined-arms force, so the best British WW2 analogy for that would be a division. And so on. It's an interesting problem really, because the same problem occurs even with less technical terms that people normally do translate, but it is a lot worse when it's a technical term like "legio" or "primipilaris" or whatever.

Lähettänyt: dressel26 6:56 am (EST) Oct 26, 2007

Zoe

Thanks for inviting me to the Dewey Decimal Group - what a great idea! I won't be joining it (I have enough problem reading the books I've got, and controlling my growing wishlist, without trying to complete a challenge like this) but I'll definitely watch some of the threads (and I've added Dewey categories to my library...)

Lähettänyt: wandering_star 6:48 pm (EST) Oct 24, 2007

Zoe, thanks so much for inviting me to the Dewey Decimal group - this should really help me to branch out and read a little outside of my comfort zone.

Lähettänyt: aemilys 4:16 am (EST) Oct 24, 2007

Hi, Zoe ~ Thanks for the invite to take the Dewey Challenge. It looks like a lot of fun. I've joined the group and will be checking out the posts periodically, but, until December 1, I'm going to be pulling way back on my reading and LT participation to do the NaNoWriMo challenge. Until then ~ happy reading!

Lähettänyt: Storeetllr 11:27 am (EST) Oct 20, 2007

Hi Zoe, and thanks for the invitation to the Dewey Decimal Challenge - might keep an eye on that group and perhaps pick up this challenge in the new year - it sounds like a lot of fun. :)

Lähettänyt: Kell_Smurthwaite 5:32 pm (EST) Oct 13, 2007

Thank you, Zoe. It's not as wide a variety as I'd like - so this should be perfect! (And what a neat way to structure it!)

Lähettänyt: Eurydice 12:45 am (EST) Oct 13, 2007

Thanks, Zoe, for recommending the YA Reading Group. I have joined. I am also hoping to bring together educators who read, teach, discuss, booktalk, recommend, etc. YA books, that's why I created YA Fans in Education. I plan to present LibraryThing as a tool and groups as strategy for connecting and creating community at the North Carolina School Library Media Association conference next month. Love it!

Lähettänyt: mthibault 9:46 am (EST) Oct 12, 2007

Thanks for your help with the poll on Read YA lit. Thanks too for all the posts. It seems lately, I can't keep up with anything and I am lucky if I get to spend time reading posts on LT.

Lähettänyt: SheReads 12:20 am (EST) Oct 11, 2007

Funny you should mention that, I just mooched 4 Sweet Valley books from BookMooch today!

Lähettänyt: Heather19 9:03 pm (EST) Sep 11, 2007

That is so awesome! Where do you get Harry Potter in Latin and Greek?! I would love a copy!

Lähettänyt: shewhowearsred 7:37 pm (EST) Aug 23, 2007

I can't believe you also have Regulus and Le Petit Prince. I thought I was the only one crazy enough to have one book in more than one language! Of course, I am worse-- I've got it in German and Filipino too!

Lähettänyt: shewhowearsred 10:18 am (EST) Aug 23, 2007

I haven't looked at them at all yet, *goes to look*.

Lähettänyt: Kira 5:41 pm (EST) Jul 11, 2007

Sorry about that. Not anymore it isn't. I was looking at the code and was amazed by that. I think it was just me--that it wasn't happening before--since the code was broken. When I un-broke it, it revealed the fact that--although working--it did completely the wrong thing...

Lähettänyt: timspalding 10:58 am (EST) Jul 6, 2007

Thanks for joining the group! Feel free to invite your friends, start topics, and generally be as involved as you're interested in being.

Lähettänyt: sapiens 3:46 am (EST) Apr 7, 2007

Random Comment - from someone passing by in Talk. Finding you have a new comment always brings some fun back into LT for me!

We seem to share a fairly eclectic mix of books - a bit of fantasy a bit of classics and a bit of "others"!

Lähettänyt: reading_fox 5:34 am (EST) Mar 15, 2007

changed your mind about me zoe or just worried that anything that is said on that thread will just dig a deeper hole.

Lähettänyt: SimonW11 11:05 pm (EST) Mar 3, 2007

Thanks for the invitation to the group.

How is your 50 book challenge coming?

I'm on my 17th and 18th books....both non-fiction and am anxious to get back to some fiction, but can't see starting a third at this time!

Lähettänyt: LynnB 12:46 pm (EST) Feb 14, 2007

Hi Zoe!! I had no idea about "Dark Visions!" Thanks so much!! I'm a huge LJ Smith fan as well! :O)

Lähettänyt: punkypower 1:16 pm (EST) Feb 4, 2007

Oh, wow, I would say that some more people need to read Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures and get some better suggestions! Those are not really related at all! haha I am about to browse your books. :)

Lähettänyt: Kailana 5:53 pm (EST) Jan 4, 2007

I finally catalogued all the books in my room, including all the books from this year's booksales. Since it was inevitable that I'd go past 200, I decided I'd might as well plunk down the $25 US. Today, I felt the need to get out of the house and see for myself that BMV store on Bloor. I also stopped by Annex Books, which is probably closing around mid-January. You can see the results of my shopping binge for yourself.

Lähettänyt: Branimir 4:22 pm (EST) Dec 27, 2006

Thanks! I'll let you know if I do read it. :o)

Lähettänyt: Eilonwy 7:35 pm (EST) Dec 22, 2006

I saw your post in a group somewhere and thought you can possibly help me. I've just finished 'A Great and Terrible Beauty' and I am not really sure if I liked it or not...it seems incomplete, and I can't really decide yet. I'm trying to decide whether or not to read the sequel. What didn't you like about Rebel Angels?

Thanks!
Eilonwy

Lähettänyt: Eilonwy 3:25 am (EST) Dec 22, 2006

Thank you for the suggestion _Zoe_!! Uglies is a wonderful option. We read it for our YA book club last spring and the students loved it! I would love to do it again.

Lähettänyt: SheReads 2:22 pm (EST) Oct 9, 2006

Zoe!! This is unbelievably awesome! I didn't think anyone else would use this library thing, I thought I was such a dork! Wow, looking at yours, you're completely dominating my library, I'm so jealous! My dream is to have the library from Beauty and the Beast, haha, but for now I guess I'll just have to keep accumulating. I don't work at Second Cup anymore which makes me sad because honestly, it was like the best job I've ever had. I don't care about the minimum wage! Do you know if you or anyone else will be going to any part of the International Film Festival? I'd love to join you if you are!

Lähettänyt: Herzophia 9:15 pm (EST) Sep 6, 2006