Livros aleatórios da biblioteca de MaggieO
Growing Up Female in America por Eve Merriam
London at War (The Hulton-Deutsch Collection) por Clive Hardy
Divine Comedies: Omnibus 3: "Here Comes the Sun", "Odd and Gods!" por Tom Holt
Giants and Ogres (Enchanted World)
The Cutoff por Jay Rogoff
Nathaniel Hawthorne in his times por James R Mellow
I'd Like por Amanda Michalopoulou
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ColecçõesA sua biblioteca (4,380), Em leitura (5), Todas as colecções (4,380)
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Etiquetaspoetry (663), mystery (631), literature (455), fiction (419), crafts (405), WWI (201), biography (185), social history (180), needlework (158), Victorians (154) — ver todas as etiquetas
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GruposAnglophiles, Autism Awareness, Baker Street and Beyond, Barbara Pym Fan Club, Blitz Books: the WWII British Home Front, 1938 to 1945, Board Room, Book Care and Repair, BookMooching, Books on Books, Felony & Mayhem Press — mostrar todos os grupos
Autores favoritosMargery Allingham, Jim Butcher, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wilkie Collins, Deborah Crombie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Janet Evanovich, Katie Fforde, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth George, Marilyn Hacker, Thomas Hardy, Susan Hill, John Keats, Jane Kenyon, Ogden Nash, Wilfred Owen, Van Reid, Dorothy L. Sayers, Georges Simenon, Julia Spencer-Fleming, Charles Todd, Fred Vargas, Mary Wesley, P.G. Wodehouse, William Wordsworth (Favoritos partilhados)
Sobre mim"It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others--even my nearest and dearest--there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book." --Maureen Corrigan
I've been collecting/accumulating books for over 30 years. My library is a physical representation of all the things I'm interested in, and I enjoy being surrounded by books. Which is a good thing, since my husband (AsYouKnow_Bob), our 3 kids, and I have filled the house with them.
I always have bookmarks in several books at a time, and my TBR stack is way out of control. It would help a lot if I were a faster reader.
Sobre a minha bibliotecaMysteries, weaving, embroidery, WWI books, and poetry form a major part of my library. I am very interested in fiber arts and visual arts, and have many books on knitting, painting, illustration, photography, and design. Other interests reflected in my library include William Morris, historical photography, social history, and children's books, especially those with beautiful illustrations. I have an unusual collection of old elementary school music textbooks (tag: old school music books). I also have a collection of Night Before Christmas books (tag: ttnbc); thank you to _Celeste_ for inspiring me to enter them on LT :)
One of my favorite places to buy books is at library book sales. I also have a great time hunting for and buying books at used book stores, book barns, charity shops, at the Strand, by mail order, or Internet. We buy our fair share of new books (and probably plenty of other people's fair shares, as well). Bob knows which books are his, and I know which are mine. Usually.
Também emBookMooch
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Conhecimento ComumSéries (371), Prémios (307), Personagens (5078), Lugares (857)
Membro desdeAug 18, 2006
Em leituraDear America: Letters Home from Vietnam por Bernard Edelman
Ghosts and Things por Hal Cantor
The Embroiderer's Story: Needlework from the Renaissance to the Present Day por Thomasina Beck
Going After Cacciato por Tim O'Brien
Flaw por Magdalena Tulli
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publicado por laytonwoman3rd às 6:28 pm (EST) em Dec 22, 2009
publicado por Thespian às 8:30 am (EST) em Dec 8, 2009
hugz & kissez a-plenty!
publicado por LolaWalser às 3:03 pm (EST) em Nov 29, 2009
You might be interested to know that young Adam - now aged 2 ! - is still a big book afficionado, though his tastes can be a little unorthodox - at present his favourites are Tesco supermarket Xmas catalogue and The Collins Photoguide to British Wildlife (he likes to point at the animals and for us to tell him their names - `dormouse` is a big favourite).
Other than that, his big interests are what you might expect - nature and music.
Anyway, I`m having to watch howmuch time the computer eats up, but just thought I`d say hello and Happy Xmas to youself, Bob and family.
Best,
Nick
P.S. Despite my self-professed Luddite tendencies, I have taken to this blogging lark. We have a business blog - http://honaloon.blogspot.com, which Ann-Marie mostly looks after, then I have three others for my various eccentric obsessions - http://bookshelvesandbrownale.blogspot.c... , masses2mainstream.blogspot.com and webdub.blogspot.com. I suspect I won`t easily find time to do them all justice, but we`ll see how it goes.
publicado por nickhoonaloon às 12:10 pm (EST) em Nov 25, 2009
publicado por Nikkles às 9:12 pm (EST) em Nov 13, 2009
Lois pointed me towards your review of "I'd Like" - I'm glad you enjoyed it. I like your take on it, being left with the details that you would have been left with having read a longer novel. I hadn't thought of it like that but actually that's exactly how I felt (still do, in fact).
Am off for a virtual mooch around your fabulous library now!
Rachel
publicado por rachbxl às 12:31 pm (EST) em Oct 7, 2009
Regards Karen C
publicado por austcrimefiction às 7:02 pm (EST) em Aug 30, 2009
publicado por marise às 4:36 pm (EST) em May 21, 2009
Lindapanzo recommends "Scuse me while I kiss this guy," which looks like a good source of musical mondegreens.
publicado por pamelad às 12:32 am (EST) em Apr 23, 2009
Thank you for your generous offer. I'm looking for The Patient in Room 18 for Project 1929, but perhaps you found it in a library? Also Poison in a Garden Suburb by G. D. H. Cole, Nemesis at Raynham Parva by J. J. Connington and Corpse Guards Parade by Milward Kennedy. Probably you're looking for the same books? If I find any of them, I'll send them your way.
Slogging away on The Roman Hat Mystery; nearly gave up, but have persuaded myself to return because it is an artifact of 1929 and has some bizarre features.
Glad you liked The Death of My aunt.
Pam
publicado por pamelad às 10:18 pm (EST) em Apr 6, 2009
Tiffin
publicado por tiffin às 5:51 pm (EST) em May 6, 2008
The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry
edited by Steve Rasnic Tem
ISBN 0943422000 UmBral Press (1982)
http://www.librarything.com/work-info.ph...
It was small-press, a print run of something trivial (500? 1000?)
but it got a nomination for the Philip K. Dick Award.
It took me a year to track down a copy.
Mine seems to be the sole copy on LT.
Try these:
Mike Ford's "110 stories", hosted at Making Light:
http://nielsenhayden.com/110.html
and two of his sonnets:
IMMORTALITY
You do not want to live and never die
Till reason rots and humor disappears;
You'll have to wave the ones you love good-bye,
Or worse, endure them all those endless years.
You will be sorry that you soldiered on
When others chose as blissful dust to dwell;
When all your stock of anecdotes is gone,
All space and time look like a cheap motel.
You will not like the world your children build:
It will be strange and dull and bleak and mad;
You'll leave what span you're given unfulfilled
The same damn ways you wasted what you had.
To use Her basely Time will not forgive:
You do not want to live, who do not live.
and one of the few poems that moves me to tears:
Against Entropy
The worm drives helically through the wood
And does not know the dust left in the bore
Once made the table integral and good;
And suddenly the crystal hits the floor.
Electrons find their paths in subtle ways,
A massless eddy in a trail of smoke;
The names of lovers, light of other days—
Perhaps you will not miss them. That’s the joke.
The universe winds down. That’s how it’s made.
But memory is everything to lose;
Although some of the colors have to fade,
Do not believe you’ll get the chance to choose.
Regret, by definition, comes too late;
Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.
—John M. Ford
Last but not least, the Shakespeare/West Side Story pastiche that he tossed off in a few minutes one night:
Ro-Mo. Your windows are still mirrored; taunt me not,
But show your colors, dare to challenge me,
These lips are two shaped charges, primed and hot,
That wait the go-code for delivery.
J-Cap. The flag is to the deadly, not the loud,
Yet aim as well as posing shows in this;
The worthy throwdown’s always to the proud,
And hammer down is how the hard girls kiss.
Ro-Mo. My draft is stopped; I struggle toward the clutch.
J-Cap. And would a charge of nitrous make thee run?
Ro-Mo. Too much; but what else is there but too much?
Let me take arms, and elevate the gun.
J-Cap. Small arms but hint what demolitions say.
Ro-Mo. Then, gunner, gimme one round.
J-Cap. On the way.
[From Verona Total Breakdown (Liebestod), a forgotten
early work by Bill “Hoist This Petard” Shakespeare …]
- John M. Ford
Sheer genius. I was lurking in that conversation when he posted it.
"And hammer down is how the hard girls kiss."
That one line is his ticket to immortality, right there.
publicado por AsYouKnow_Bob às 9:16 pm (EST) em Dec 17, 2006