keigu

Thanks for responding to my posts. I work on an on-call/summer-time basis at an indi bookstore called Malaprops. It's a wonderful bookstore that attracts quality authors for book signings and has an amazing book buyer who knows how to stock a store. We get a lot of authors who seem to eventually hit it big on the NYT bestseller list (I know, not an indicator of a great read but a popular one). I wish I could work their more often because I've made some great contacts, but I am mother, teacher, free-lance writer, and only an occasional book seller, so I have to balance my time.

Lähettänyt: Clea 7:06 pm (EST) Feb 8, 2008

Hey thanks for the comment. Normally I hate the self-promoting sorts of comments, but since I have an interest in society, culture, linguistics, and the Japanese language, I might actually enjoy your book. I'll see if my library can get it in. Arigato.

Lähettänyt: differentbeat 5:23 pm (EST) Jan 23, 2008

Hey there--

Just sent you off an email, but leaving a post here in case my hotmail account goes wonky again. Let me know if it doesn't show up.

Lähettänyt: Trismegistus 12:01 am (EST) Dec 21, 2007

Thanks for the recommendation. I have read his Orthodoxy, many years ago. I loved the part about Angels being able to fly because they took themselves lightly.

Lähettänyt: Arctic-Stranger 5:39 pm (EST) Dec 20, 2007

Keigu,

saw your posting about your book "The Woman Without a Hole" and would like to take a look at it. Do you know if it is carried in any bookstores in Central Florida?? Otherwise, it will have to be the internet ordering I imagine. I think it sounds fascinating from many perspectives... I'm a writer who is struggling to create a sensitive mix of mystical, erotic and real in my novels/fiction. Right now, I'm searching for good examples to feed the muse and from the description, I figure your book would be different from much of what I've seen so far.

Iris

Lähettänyt: villandry 2:21 pm (EST) Dec 14, 2007

Keigu-san,

Domo for your comment. Yes, I can read Japanese when I have a few hours and a kanji dictionary at hand. :-)

---Wendy

Lähettänyt: WendyTokunaga 10:17 am (EST) Dec 10, 2007

Dear Robin,
by all means go ahead and copy. I will be honored if you do!
I am sorry nobody else wanted/could participate with anecdotes, it would have been interesting indeed.
Let me know how the book is coming along, I will be interested in reading it. So, count me among the very first buyers, but I warn you, I will ask you to sign and dedicate it!!!!

Paola :-))

Lähettänyt: aluvalibri 10:18 pm (EST) Nov 30, 2007

hi Keigu
It's easier posting here concerning your questions about my reactions to Annie Dillard on the "Books you love/hate PATC thread.
I bought PATC because it's a book I want at my fingertips, whenever I feeling like indulging. It was a paperback, cheap ($$ were more important in those days, we had 6 kids)
OK, there are some books, some authors that can stab me in the heart, make me gasp for air & want to shout & cry. Authors that I would give anything to write like they do. Of course, not everything they write has this reaction. But I will read anything of theirs that I can get my hands on to find it. Annie Dillard. Loren Eisely. Mary Oliver. Random poets & essayist. Usually about nature.
Now, the kids are grown. I'm a widow living alone. I've moved from our "farmhouse" to a small apt. behind the house of my 2nd. son. Still in the country surounded by 3rd. growth woods. No I have my own library. Mostly 2nd hand, lot of trade paperbacks, remainders. I'm retired from the library --it's 18 miles away. Next to me is a copy of "The Annie Dillard Reader." it is one of the books I keep in my bedroom. I have a bookcase close to the bed for very special books -- Prayer cards, holy pictures, Bible, grief books, religious, Saints, Kristin Lavransdatter, Inland Island, Loren Eisely, collected Mary Oliver , Kenneth Rexroth, Ted Kooser, & chapbooks given to me by friends who have published.
One thing about Annie Dillard - she tells it all. "Nature, red in tooth & claw", you see even what you'd prefer not to. I think she started a trend in the 1970's that other writers about the natural world have followed. I'm glad she did.

Lähettänyt: MarianV 10:55 am (EST) Nov 8, 2007

I don't know why I don't like Annie Dillard that much; there's just something about her writing style that doesn't do it for me. Maybe it's that she's interested in different things than myself? Hard to say...

I'm just a baby as a Japanese speaker/reader... still trying to get the basics into my head! But I wish I were able to read more than baby books - there's some fascinating stuff there, I'm sure.

Lähettänyt: ranaverde 4:37 pm (EST) Oct 31, 2007

I have not YET read your books but your library shows a real heart of courage. I must thank you for delightful reviews. You seem to make life interesting and lovely and curious, and you bring specifics and truth. Did I mention courage? How can you face indecisiveness with wine? I mean does it ruin the wine? (!)

Lähettänyt: keylawk 2:21 pm (EST) Oct 28, 2007

I'm cheap, so just ordering a copy from a library. I only found 1 (Rise ye, Sea Slugs) and that was from a huge network of libraries - Link+. I've never read Japanese lit before (though I do have a few antholigies of it lying around).

Thank you! And honestly, I'm through with Ayn Rand. I doubt her stuff would pleasure my mind at this age.

How are you like Wilde?

Lähettänyt: lilbrattyteen 1:54 pm (EST) Oct 27, 2007

Hello,

I do not know off hand if Library Journal accepts such things, but you might find this page helpful:

http://libraryjournal.com/info/CA6415258...

I wish you the best of luck with your books! =o)

Lähettänyt: libraryfairy 4:18 pm (EST) Oct 23, 2007

Welcome to Books Compared! I'm so glad you joined - your posts are already giving us a new angle on things.

Lähettänyt: margad 2:39 pm (EST) Oct 23, 2007

keigu,

Actually, I learned about the book from one of your posts on Japanese Culture (I don't recall which one), put it on my Amazon.com wishlist, and received it as a gift. I'm not sure I know the bill in question. In any case, I've only dipped into it a bit so far, but I've enjoyed that light sample. I'm actually in the midst of brushing up on my kanji right now, so I should probably get back to it, as a little kanji mixed into my English reading would no doubt help the process along. Your other books seem interesting as well, and in due time, I'd like to get around to them.

As to the "Law" of the Excluded Middle, I evinced scepticism the first time I encountered it as a formal rule of logic, and indeed it turns out that there is a whole school of logic, often called Intuitionism, that does without it. This produces some interesting results, the foremost example of which is probably that proving a thing exists becomes equivalent to constructing an example of that thing. In classical logic it is possible to prove someting exists without ever "seeing" it, so to speak.

Lähettänyt: includedmiddle 2:22 pm (EST) Oct 19, 2007

keigu
nothing would delight me more (well, few things) than reading something "soon to be." I suspect sympathy. scott

Lähettänyt: bookstopshere 12:27 pm (EST) May 6, 2007