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The Arabian Nights por Kate Douglas Wiggin
Still Life (Three Pines Mysteries) por Louise Penny
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Cordelia Gray Mysteries, No. 1) por P.D. James
Suffer the Little Children: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery por Donna Leon
Fever Season (Benjamin January, Book 2) por Barbara Hambly
Treatise on Law por Aquinas Thomas, Saint
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Autores favoritosEric Ambler, Taylor Branch, Willa Cather, Winston S. Churchill, Tomie dePaola, Charles Dickens, Alice Thomas Ellis, E. M. Forster, Elizabeth George, Amitav Ghosh, Dorothy Gilman, Victor Hugo, Roy Jenkins, Guy Gavriel Kay, Laurie R. King, Alex Kotlowitz, Madeleine L'Engle, Donna Leon, Naguib Mahfouz, William Manchester, David McCullough, John Mortimer, Eric Newby, Iris Origo, Elizabeth Peters, Tamora Pierce, Dorothy L. Sayers, Paul Scott, Georges Simenon, Wallace Stegner, John Steinbeck, Josephine Tey, J. R. R. Tolkien (Favoritos partilhados)
Sobre mimI know I am very unusual in this community, but I must confess that I have loved books as long as I can remember. My most vivid memory of grammar school (other than each and every one of the nuns) is the tiny library and the beautiful books. Of course, I quickly outgrew the Catholic school library and graduated to weekly trips to the local branch library to take out as many as they would let me. LibraryThing has contributed to the delinquency of this "major". It has added to my TBR and wishlist many wonderful books I knew about but have not read and many books I did not know about and now must read. Surely this must violate some law?
My star ratings should only be taken as a gauge of how well I liked the book. Three stars means I liked it. Four stars means I really liked it. Five stars means it is a fantastic, marvelous wonderful book. Ratings of non-fiction are a bit more complicated. A work of non-fiction is likely to get a high rating if I am interested in the topic, I believe the book was well-researched and coherently written and I finish the book wanting to read more about the person/place/thing. I post reviews when I think there is something particularly interesting or particularly bad about a book, whether it is fiction or non-fiction.
I have a career involving law, which I love, but it does get in the way of reading and other hobbies. I look forward to the day when my husband and I will be boating full time and I can be reading a whole lot more. Our dogs are looking forward to it to. You can see them watching over a sailing race in their official "Race Committee" jackets. What you cannot see is the pile of books in the salon and in our bedroom. I tell my husband he should think of the books as extra ballast.
I love languages and can almost communicate in French. I try to read in French to keep up my vocabulary. Those books take me a while since I must keep the dictionary handy to get through anything but "Asterix et Obelix".
What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm What Kind of Reader Are You?Quiz Created on GoToQuiz
Sobre a minha bibliotecaI use LT as a place to keep track of my reading--books that I have read and plan to read. I want to keep a list of books that I actually own, to try to list books I have given away (so I don't buy the darn things again!)and even keep a list of books I have borrowed and read so I can buy the ones I want to own and not buy the ones I have no interest in seeing again.
The list is, and probably always will be, a work in progress. I add books as I acquire them or read them, but I would rather read or do other things when I am not working than take the time to reconstruct a list of what I no longer have. The books in stacks around the house--I will get to them someday.
" . . .the books are advancing silently, innocently through my house. There is no way I can stop them." The House of Paper by Carlos Maria Domingues
Best of 2009
Brat Farrar, Josephine Tey
The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh
Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
Christ Stopped at Eboli, Carlo Levi
Burnt Shadows, Kamila Shamsie
Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh
A Darker Place, Laurie King
The Given Day, Dennis Lehane
Resistance: A Frenchwoman's Journal of the War, Agnes Humbert
A Thread of Grace, Mary Doria Russell
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Membro desdeJan 29, 2008
Em leituraBattle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) por James M. McPherson
The Leopard por Giuseppe di Lampedusa
The Discovery of India por Jawaharlal Nehru
Les Miserables (Modern Library) por Victor Hugo
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Mark
publicado por msf59 às 10:07 pm (EST) em Dec 7, 2009
Mark
publicado por msf59 às 9:05 pm (EST) em Dec 3, 2009
Are you keeping a reading thread? I know you had a couple going earlier this year, but they seem to be defunct. If you are, I'd be interested in seeing your thoughts on Middlemarch; if you're not and you're inclined to share anything, drop by my profile or my reading thread anytime.
I saw that you joined the Books Off the Shelf Challenge--I have followed suit. Maybe it'll help offset the other thing that LibraryThing does for me: make me buy massive stacks of books.
publicado por Medellia às 2:14 pm (EST) em Dec 2, 2009
for the compliment re my Belletrista review. The frustrating part of writing reviews is not knowing if anyone ever reads them. So I am glad to know at least one person did :-)
As far as Pamuk is concerned, I saw him doing a reading last month and was not necessarily impressed. But as someone commented to me recently about books and authors, "You don't complain about the goose liver pate based on the personality of the goose." I am not that eager to get Pamuk's most recent book, and my Mount TBR is teetering with no doubt 1,000 books on it. As far as I know the order in which you read his books is not all that important. One of the threads, Salon I think, is doing My Name Is Red in February, so perhaps we will discuss him then.
Take care,
Andrew
publicado por polutropos às 11:20 am (EST) em Nov 22, 2009
I enjoyed "Sea of Poppies", and am eagerly awaiting the next volume; if I remember correctly, Ghosh is planning a trilogy, of which "Sea of Poppies" is the first book. I'm eager to get your thoughts on "Discovery of India"; it's a book I've had my eye on for awhile, but haven't seen in any of the bookstores.
"Christ Stopped at Eboli" sounds interesting. I have a couple of books by or about Sartre, Camus and de Beauvoir about their writings and experiences during the French Resistance that I hope to get to later this year or sometime next year.
If I haven't said so already, I'll probably read "The Good Doctors" during my Thanksgiving break, assuming that I finish the Thelonious Monk biography by that time.
Have a great weekend, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Best wishes,
Darryl
publicado por kidzdoc às 12:31 pm (EST) em Oct 24, 2009
I kindly invite you to:
http://www.librarything.com/groups/colla...
http://www.librarything.com/topic/75008
Best regards Reinhardt [[user:Gangleri]]
publicado por gangleri às 1:53 pm (EST) em Oct 14, 2009
Sorry for not answering very quickly but I've just seen your message today. I think Julin Blanc is a french writer (not one of the most famous...) who died in 1951. He has been a soldier in the 1st World War and participated to the Spanish Civil War. There's something on the "french Wikipedia" about his autobiographical novel "Seule la vie,..."
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seule,_la_v......
I hope this could be a bit useful
Your sincerely
jean paul
publicado por Arvoitus às 10:46 am (EST) em Oct 3, 2009
publicado por callmejacx às 1:26 pm (EST) em Oct 1, 2009
I forgot to mention the best buys on Daniel V. Gallery's books (or any for that matter)
are ex-library books. They are usually not in to bad condition but colletors don,t relish them. Two of mine are library copies.
publicado por usnmm2 às 7:31 pm (EST) em Sep 24, 2009
Glad to make you a convert to the exploits of Boatswains Mate First Class "Fatso" Gioninni.
Your not giong to like this info, but there is a book two called "Capt'n Fatso" which is just as funny as the first. As far as getting them it's hard. They haven't be re-printed in thirty years. I lucked out and got them on E-bay for about $10 to $20 dollars each ( got "Stand By-y-y to Start Engines" that way also).
I wish someone would reprint them. I'm surprised that the Naval Institute Press doen't
re-print them.
Anyway glad you are enjoying it. Hope you can find a copy.
publicado por usnmm2 às 4:16 pm (EST) em Sep 24, 2009
Joyce
publicado por Joycepa às 3:12 pm (EST) em Sep 11, 2009
Joyce
publicado por Joycepa às 3:11 pm (EST) em Sep 11, 2009
publicado por Joycepa às 8:18 am (EST) em Sep 10, 2009
Joyce
publicado por Joycepa às 7:42 am (EST) em Aug 20, 2009
But the Raj Quartet is high on my list to read soon, and I'll probably get to it next month.
Joyce
publicado por Joycepa às 7:05 am (EST) em Aug 20, 2009
What I really liked about the Lehane book was the labor and anarchist history. My father talked a lot about the Sacco-Vanzetti case, which occurred much later in time, and I've been meaning to look it up, but this was an interesting background.
Christ Stopped At Eboli arrived here the other day.
Joyce
publicado por Joycepa às 2:15 am (EST) em Aug 19, 2009
Thanks again,
Darryl
publicado por kidzdoc às 5:05 pm (EST) em Jun 17, 2009
Thanks for the compliment about the photo. I still have to figure out how to post the others online, maybe in the next day or two.
I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed "Burnt Shadows"; I'm hoping that it makes the Booker Prize longlist. I haven't finalized the itinerary for my trip yet, but I should be in London on July 28, when the longlist will be announced. I'll probably pick up most of the longlisted books that I haven't already read (and are not available in the US) while I'm there, and it would be nice if the Shamsie and "Brooklyn" made the list, so that I can stuff my bags with one or two other books!
Black Oak Books is/was very good, with a nice selection of "serious" literature and literature in translation. Oh, another good used bookstore I went to a few years ago, when I visited a good friend, is Myopic Books in Chicago, which I'd assume you're familiar with.
Best wishes,
Darryl
publicado por kidzdoc às 4:46 pm (EST) em Jun 17, 2009
Thanks; I'll probably read "Seven Ages of Paris" and "Evening Is the Whole Day" later this month. I'll let my parents read "Levittown" first, and I'll probably read it later this summer. They have lived in Levittown, PA since 1976, and we are African-American, so the story holds a special interest for all of us. Current day Levittown is quite different from 1957, as we have never had any racial problems living in essentially an all white neighborhood, and our neighbors are quite friendly and inviting.
Are there any upcoming literary events in Chicago that you're aware of? A good friend of mine lives there, and will be resigning from her job shortly, and I hope to visit her there later this summer.
Have a good weekend!
Darryl
publicado por kidzdoc às 12:42 pm (EST) em Jun 5, 2009
Foner has a superb section on the failure of Presidential Reconstruction--I've jumped ahead in the book because of where I am with Welles. It's superb. Next section is Radical Reconstruction. After reading Welles, when you read Foner about the same people--Wade, Butler, Sumner, Stevens and others--you wonder if they're the same people.
I consider reading the 3rd volume valuable because it does show you what a majority of the US thought about civil rights at the time. Welles is an extremist, but he also raises constitutional questions. As someone who has already looked into that with Lincoln's Constitution, you, I think, will appreciate his States Rights position and arguments better than I. We're too used to a powerful central government, and that was just starting with the Civil War.
Glad you like my fiction reviews! I'm bogged down at present in a bunch of books, although some are picking up in interest. Foner, Welles--these are my mainstays every night. Reading Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger, and am not quite sure what to make of it yet. Loved her other books. Clockers is getting much more interesting. Got an early reviewer book--into the Beautiful North--yesterday that I'm dying to read, but have to finish something here before I start yet one more book!
Joyce
publicado por Joycepa às 5:21 pm (EST) em Jun 2, 2009
I hope Foner's book is on your TBR list, because it's your kind of book, believe me.
Well, well-just happened to read the comment previous. A judge, hm? Terrific! I love it--"a career involving the law"--nicely put! *BIG grin* You go to it, woman!
Joyce
publicado por Joycepa às 6:58 am (EST) em Jun 2, 2009
If you would like a look I will ask her to send you a copy. She's desperately keen for someone au fait with the Federal Rules of Evidence and Civil Procedure to take a look at it and make sure she has not overlooked anything obvious. She has had some feedback from Gary Edles, a former U.S. Administrative Judge who teaches at Hull University here and at American University in Washington, but he says his experience is not sufficently recent and was limited to sitting on the Nuclear Regulatory Court.
publicado por appaloosaman às 1:19 pm (EST) em May 18, 2009
Joyce
publicado por Joycepa às 12:30 pm (EST) em May 17, 2009
I'm probably going to veer off into more "serious" literature for a while, although I'll continue with lighter stuff as a sideline.
Another of your additions that has pricked my interest in Christ Stopped at Eboli. Let me know about that one, too!
Joyce
publicado por Joycepa às 6:27 am (EST) em May 17, 2009
Given your interest in French literature, you might like to have a crack at J-K Huysmans' A Rebours - one of my very favorite French reads. The language is tough - and the syntax even tougher - but it can be read with profit and pleasure. Léon Bloy wrote that Huysmans was "continually dragging Mother Image by the hair or the feet down the worm-eaten staircase of terrified Syntax." I dearly love that book.
publicado por appaloosaman às 8:35 am (EST) em May 16, 2009
You know I have not read 'The Glass Palace' as yet (I have read several other Burma based books)but I'm fairly sure I will sooner than later as I really want to try some Amitav Gosh. Before coming to Burma I was told not to pack 'Burmese Days' as the authorities would confiscate it when I arrived if they searched through my luggage but as it turns out things appear pretty casual; when I am downtown I see copies of 'Burmese Days' openly for sale on street side stalls, clearly the locals know that the police and MI are not prioritizing that kind of repression!
Sean
publicado por BeesleSR às 11:56 pm (EST) em May 12, 2009
I love old animals. They're a lot of work and worry, but they are always sweet. "Sweet" is not an adjective I would have used for Ethel in her salad years, but she is now and is the darling of our "neighborhood", such as it is.
Joyce
publicado por Joycepa às 3:34 pm (EST) em May 5, 2009
Ethel is doing well. She's an old dog, so she isn't healing as fast as a young dog would from what is a huge hole, really, under her skin. We just returned from the vet this morning, who is very satisfied with her progress. Still continuing my vet tech duties, but at a much reduced level! I have offered my services to our vet, given his superb técnico is out, recovering from an operation! (I actually helped out, in another way, this morning, translating for a 20-something idiot American male who clearly did not believe that any vet who could not speak English was much good).
Joyce
publicado por Joycepa às 4:40 pm (EST) em May 4, 2009
publicado por tututhefirst às 10:26 am (EST) em May 2, 2009
Thanks for putting my books on your interesting library list. I'm honored.
Feel free to ask questions on anything I have.
I see that you have read a few Emile Zola books. I just got around to him a few months ago with "La Curee" ("The Kill") really enjoyed it. Just got "L'Assommoir" and going to try and read his entire 'Les Rougon-Macquart'
Or as many of them that are in english (I failed french)
publicado por usnmm2 às 3:22 pm (EST) em Apr 30, 2009
publicado por tututhefirst às 6:51 pm (EST) em Apr 14, 2009
:-))
publicado por aluvalibri às 5:44 pm (EST) em Mar 30, 2009
My boat (a canoe) doesn't allow me to even dream about trips of that scale!
See you on the Dante discussion and looking forward to your insights on Florentine history. I plan to continue through the whole thing ... I am really most interested in the Purgatorio (probably that old Protestant fascination with something so "Catholic").
publicado por tracyfox às 10:12 am (EST) em Mar 27, 2009
publicado por lunacat às 3:32 pm (EST) em Mar 18, 2009
I've just discovered that, contrary to what I had assumed, the books that I want, particularly "Meade's Army", are rather easily available! Evidently, with the increased interest in the Civil War, there's been an upswing in publication of things like diaries and memoirs. Since the authors of the books I read are top-flight scholars, they use original sources--papers in libraries, historical societies, etc--and I know that Rhea used collections of Lyman's original papers for his research. BUT now these are available in books!
It turns out I can buy easily from a number of sources; what remains is to figure out the cheapest overall way to get them to me.
Thanks for your offer, Lisa! And have a great time browsing when you do go. Let me know how you liked the library.
Joyce
publicado por Joycepa às 5:35 am (EST) em Mar 16, 2009
Don't put yourself out in the slightest, but if you do go, could you inquire about "Meade's Army: The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman"? That's a title I've been given.
I like political history and social, too, depending on how it's handled. I read military history to convince myself (easily) of one thing--just how stupid and wasteful war is.
Joyce
publicado por Joycepa às 4:48 pm (EST) em Mar 15, 2009
Whenever you get to the Lincoln book store, if you can ask them about anything they have from Theodore Lyman, who was one of Meade's aides. Or A.A. Humphreys. both of those men did diaries or memoirs after the war and they are quoted extensively by Rhea, especially Lyman.
Thanks muchly and enjoy your borswe!
Joyce
publicado por Joycepa às 11:04 am (EST) em Mar 13, 2009
I'll check out the bibliography in the current Rhea book I'm reading on Spotsylvania Court House, because there are some fascinating-sounding memoirs/diaries there. And then again, they may only be in university or historical society collections. But I'll give you a list of at least three.
I'm actually rather wistful of your upcoming browsing trip through the store! It's probably just fantasy, but I imagine and old building with somewhat limited space, books piled to the ceiling in old-fashioned wooden bookcases. Powell's book store in Portland, OR used to be like that and maybe still is, and there was a wonderful used book store in Anacortes, WA that was just like that. I spent hours and hours in the latter--buying books, yes, but mainly talking with the owner, Kevin Gray, who was a classic bibliophile.
So, happy browsing!
Joyce
publicado por Joycepa às 10:09 am (EST) em Mar 11, 2009
publicado por nohrt4me às 5:11 pm (EST) em Mar 9, 2009
Machiavelli would be a great idea, and Francesco Guicciardini as well (if you can find a translation in English).
In reading Dante, you always have to remember that he talked about his contemporaries according to his likes and dislikes. For example, Farinata degli Uberti belonged to the Ghibellinis, enemies of the Guelfis, to whom Dante belonged. As a consequence of that, he was placed in the Inferno.
The Commedia can be very entertaining and amusing (especially the Inferno), but it is extremely complex, both because of the language and the subtext.
Let me know what you find.
Paola
publicado por aluvalibri às 11:46 am (EST) em Mar 5, 2009
I had an interlibrary loan through the local university and it's been a while. But it's a worthwhile book.
publicado por dianaleez às 4:18 pm (EST) em Mar 4, 2009
I just had a great time reading your entire 75 Challenge thread in one gulp. I also now notice that I am on your "Members with LisaCurcio's books" list. That hardly ever happens to me!
And then I find you live in Chicago--my older son and his family (with my only 2 grandchildren, so far) live in Buffalo Grove. So we really do have several "connections!" What's your favorite book store in the Chicago area? It will give me a place to visit the next time we go there.
You are going to be dangerous for me--I already added books from your thread to my TBR.
Thanks for giving me an interesting evening before I have to get back to work tomorrow!
Carolyn
publicado por MusicMom41 às 11:58 pm (EST) em Feb 16, 2009
Thanks for stopping by my library. I've been browsing through yours and we have some of my favorite books in common. You've also read a lot of books that I've been thinking of adding to my TBR pile, particulary somthing by Guy Gavriel Kay. Maybe Tigana? I've also had my eye on The Hiding Place.
I visited Chicago about a year ago on business. I thought it was beautiful but windy!
Happy Reading!
publicado por loriephillips às 10:22 pm (EST) em Feb 14, 2009
publicado por suslyn às 3:41 pm (EST) em Jan 30, 2009
Thank you for your comment. Since I posted my message about accents, I've received several reactions from people having the same disagreeable experience. I regret however that no member of the LT board has giving notice that they perceived the problem and are going to do something about it. We'll have to wait - this is not the only bug, I know. But I still hope some kind of solution will be found. Then you will be able again to communicate in normal French...
Tant que la situation dure, j'omets les accents en francais (oui, la cedille aussi!). Ce n'est pas ideal, mais pour le moment c'est mieux que ces signes bizarres qui rendent le texte illisible!
All my best wishes to you. I hope your boat will continue to make you both happy.
Greetings from Paris!
Jan Willem
publicado por JanWillemNoldus às 5:31 pm (EST) em Jan 14, 2009
Don't worry about writing French. Yours is actually good and I must admit (confess ? :-) ) that I'm really pleased to find somebody interested in books I can write in English with. I hope you enjoyed Christmas and the end of 2008. I wish you a lot of entertaining readings for 2009.
I'm reading Ian MacLeod's "House of Storms" (sequel of "The Light Ages"). This is Science Fiction but much more than that, a really interesting "alternative history".
publicado por Arvoitus às 7:51 am (EST) em Jan 4, 2009
Happy New Year,
Nancy / alphaorder
publicado por alphaorder às 10:24 pm (EST) em Dec 30, 2008