When I was of the middle school age, the one thing I hated most was contrivance - and I felt that way about The Westing Game. Might be different if I re-read it now, but who knows. Maybe I will!

Have fun with Tennessee Williams - and check out Gore Vidal's essay on Williams, it's in his new collected essays.

Lähettänyt: mtilleman07 11:38 pm (EST) Jul 6, 2008

Hi! Just saw your intro on Go Review That Book. Love your reviews and am in awe of you reading your books in alpha order. That is so kewl!!

Lähettänyt: ElizaJane 12:13 am (EST) Jun 23, 2008

I was involved in IVCF in college too, but my experience was very different. Our folks protested Davidson college because they had a policy stating they would only tenure Christian professors, we raised money for Big Brothers/Big Sisters and we went out of our way to include anyone who wanted to be involved...including gay people. I was chapter president one year, and I knew we had a positive impact when a visiting street preacher starting railing about the Mickey Mouse Christians on campus, and a large horde of non-Christian (and by non-Christian I mean the acid dropping, asian studies, tie-dyed crowd) students came to our defense.

Lähettänyt: Arctic-Stranger 7:43 pm (EST) Jun 2, 2008

Hi Emily,

The series order for the Grace Smith mystery series is...

Who Killed Marilyn Monroe
JFK is Missing
Don't Mess with Mrs. In-Between
Barking!
Sick as a Parrot
Cue the Easter Bunny

Danielle

Lähettänyt: dbolahood 8:44 am (EST) Jun 1, 2008

Thanks for pointing that out. I just recently learned how to use this site and I'm obviously not doing too well. I didn't even know I had posted a review...

Lähettänyt: jennu 4:33 pm (EST) May 29, 2008

thank you!

Lähettänyt: laini 3:22 pm (EST) May 28, 2008

In honour of spreading the book-love around, if you'd like to Mooch my copy of Autobiography of a Geisha, I'll list it on BookMooch for you. I'm UK based but have no problem sending abroad (if you don't mind using the extra points to get it). Leave me a comment if you're interested and I'll tell you when I've listed it.

Lähettänyt: klarusu 9:52 am (EST) May 28, 2008

I just mooched the David Sedaris book from you. Thanks so much for the heads up. I love bookmooch - and bookmoochers! Julie

Lähettänyt: jhedlund 4:09 pm (EST) May 27, 2008

I just wanted to say I absolutely love your profile picture.
Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries.
Alana

Lähettänyt: Caramellunacy 12:01 pm (EST) May 19, 2008

Do you have the ISBN for Tuck Everlasting with the study questions?

Laini

Lähettänyt: laini 10:53 am (EST) May 16, 2008

Thanks for stopping by. Herriot's books can be read out of order, as far as I remember, although the series (of 5) does tend to be somewhat chronological. I hope you enjoy them.

Lähettänyt: mebrock 3:56 pm (EST) May 15, 2008

Hey, that's okay... I'm the one that bought it at the library sale in the first place. Sounded like a good book by the description, but it said nothing of the pitiful writing inside. AND, it was on someone's BM wishlist and is going out in the mail in a few minutes. PLUS, it's now been reviewed and maybe no one else will have to suffer so. :-D

Lähettänyt: thekoolaidmom 3:02 pm (EST) May 7, 2008

Oh there were plenty of copies, the trick was in finding someone willing to send a book that large to Australia :)

Lähettänyt: melissasyd 7:25 pm (EST) Apr 18, 2008

I'll let you know after I've read ...And Ladies of the Club. Might be a while though - it looks like the book owner will be bringing it with him to Australia in June so I will have a bit of a wait.

Brave photo on your profile :)

Lähettänyt: melissasyd 8:20 pm (EST) Apr 17, 2008

Oh, just give up and join us in having Too Much To Read. It's so much nicer than discovering late on a rainy Sunday evening when you have a cold that the only reading options currently available are two dog-eared John Grisham novels and a stack of aging Reader's Digest...

It's like complaining that your wine cellar's full or your children and/or cats are too loved. Enjoy your embarrassment of riches!

RidgewayGirl

Lähettänyt: RidgewayGirl 3:41 pm (EST) Apr 16, 2008

Hi, I was on vacation last week and it has taken me a while to catch on things. I noticed you don't have any of your favorite authors listed on your profile...

Lähettänyt: readafew 4:44 pm (EST) Apr 15, 2008

grrrrrrrowll..... not that I bat for the other team.... Not that there's anything worng with that... But yes... the picture did turn out nicely... :-D

Lähettänyt: thekoolaidmom 12:53 pm (EST) Apr 15, 2008

Thanks! You are a gem... by the way... what book are you reading up there in the tub? shocking... :-p

Lähettänyt: thekoolaidmom 11:37 am (EST) Apr 15, 2008

[Everything is Illuminated] is a fantastic book. Alexander's voice was perfect. Since I loved the book so much and because I didn't see how it could be made into a film, I was prepared to hate the movie. I quite enjoyed it, much to my surprise. Have you read [Motherless Brooklyn]? Completely different, but in its own way just as well written.

Good luck on your reading project. BookMooch can't be very helpful. I had a similar situation but seven years in a non-english speaking country helped with that enormously! I even read some of my husband's before-he-met-me science fiction (still not a fan, but an informed one - makes it easier to make fun of).

RidgewayGirl
Bookmooch userid: kayhardtmann

Lähettänyt: RidgewayGirl 4:38 pm (EST) Apr 10, 2008

Hi - I'm helping add Sweet Valley books to the series, mostly working on SVH, since those are the ones I remember with the most fondness. I am wondering if books can be in multiple SV series or if there is an ISBN error somewhere - "Troublemaker" is book 47 in the main SVH series and then there is another book with the same name that is book 34 in the SV Senior Year series. I wonder if they are the same book or if they just used the name again and somehow these books have been combined. Any thoughts?

Lähettänyt: fannyprice 6:38 pm (EST) Apr 8, 2008

Hi, thanks for the "Interesting Library" link. (Love the picture, btw.)

- Bob

Lähettänyt: AsYouKnow_Bob 12:59 pm (EST) Apr 8, 2008

Thanks for the comment and the request - I am always amazed when people don't get the idea of the real-but-not-so-real e-mail. I didn't think I was being that crafty. ^^

Lähettänyt: stephmo 6:33 pm (EST) Apr 5, 2008

Yes. I named Tabitha Ruth (aka TR) for the main character of The Westing Game. She's a tortoise-shell tabby, so in a way it isn't too clever. I had wanted to use the name for years before she wandered into my life.

I'm going to have to start thinking about appropriate literary names for the next cats in my life (hopefully not for a few years) so that I'm not caught by surprise like I was last August. Stray Cat 1 and Stray Cat 2 got named Scooter and Bandit by the family. They weren't supposed to be keepers, but you know how kittens worm their way into your heart.

Lähettänyt: trollsdotter 3:36 pm (EST) Apr 5, 2008

Hi again, and thank you for adding me to your 'interesting libraries' reference. I'm flattered.

I don't think that LT will ever be providing physical book dimensions. Not even bibliographies do that. The best you'll find is that some catalogs (like Oak Knoll Books - provides format -- height nomenclature; or Wessel & Lieberman, who will provide the format, and sometimes height and spine-to-fore-edge dimensions, plus the number of pages in the book, but not the front-to-back dimension). I'm afraid it's going to be a matter of getting out a ruler and doing it by hand. You don't even have to take the book off the shelf -- just line up the nearest inch to one edge and read the mark at the other. I measure down to the sixteenth of an inch, but that's the OCD in me. I'm still maintaining the separate spreadsheet,

You can also download your LT catalog, you know. Then just delete the columns you don't want and add the front-to-back dimension column.

Regards,
Mike
WholeHouseLibrary

Lähettänyt: WholeHouseLibrary 3:26 pm (EST) Apr 4, 2008

Thanks for the friends invite. Gosh, I thought I had a lot of to-be-read books but 700+, yikes! I feel much better about my TBR pile right about now ... :) Of course, the L.A. Times Festival of Books is coming up so I might be gaining on you!

Lähettänyt: FionaCat 10:01 pm (EST) Apr 3, 2008

Hi,

I clicked on your 'calculate shelf space' topic in Site Talk, and found you deleted your own message.
Were you wanting someone else to get the ball rolling, or did you withdraw your question for other reasons?

Parallel to LT, I've got my books cataloged in a spreadsheet where I track (among 2 dozen other bits of information), the dimensions and weight of each book. Some would say I suffer from a bit of OCD. Fools, I say; I revel in it!

I'm able to tell how many feet/inches of specify-genre-here books I've got. Another spreadsheet contains the dimensions of all the book-bearing surfaces we've got in the house, and how many linear feet I have left. Is that what your question may have been about?

Regards,
Mike
WholeHouseLibrary

Lähettänyt: WholeHouseLibrary 5:39 pm (EST) Apr 3, 2008

Thanks for the invite. Where you the one who had a nasty reject on BookMooch?

Lähettänyt: oh2read 5:23 pm (EST) Mar 23, 2008

hi, you asked where I blogged, the url is http://dailybookbuddy.blogspot.com/, but I haven't kept it up. :(

Lähettänyt: shuttsie 9:21 pm (EST) Feb 21, 2008

Hi -- in answer to your question, I was not a major in religious studies, or comparative religions or so on. Actually, I majored in Journalism and Asian Studies. We did study religions, of course, in the Asian studies courses, but my (small-but-growing) collection of religious-themed tomes developed later, for the most part. It is a topic of great fascination for me, though, so who knows -- maybe someday I'll go study it "for real." :)

Lähettänyt: Essa 1:12 am (EST) Jan 29, 2008

Hi, I was just browsing through your wonderful library and wanted to say hello. I'm fairly new to LT and have very slowly been cataloging my books, but I'm no where near finished--but on the other hand, I suspect I never will be.

Anyway I have added you to my 'interesting libraries' list. I'm fascinated by all the young adult titles which resonated with me, not to mention the very many very OLD books you have (The Reincarnation of Peter Proud? Wow, I remember when they made that into a movie!), in addition to being the only other person I have encountered who has read Mandarin Orange Sunday. That made me laugh! I loved that book in the '80s but it's very dated now. Funny how our tastes change as we get older, isn't it!

So, just dropping by. Write if you would like!

Take care,
~~~Cyn (aka TheScrappyCat)

Lähettänyt: TheScrappyCat 7:49 pm (EST) Jan 25, 2008

Eeps! Should I be seeing that? (your pic) j/k :) Anyway, cool collection! We share about 141 books (as of today, anyway).

Lähettänyt: saraslibrary 2:25 pm (EST) Jan 14, 2008

Hi, looking at the books we share, I see that your entry for Escape On Venus is missing the author (ERB). I suppose that's just a mistake, not part of some cunning plan?

Lähettänyt: jimroberts 5:47 am (EST) Jan 3, 2008