Elizabeth,

Thanks so much for offering up your electric typewriter. It sounds darling, and I would have taken it, but this past weekend I came across one in a thirft store and snatched it up! So, I finally have a typewriter to use when feeling nostalgic, or when I need something authentically vintage in craft projects.

Hopefully you'll find a home for it soon, or decide to put it to good use on your own!

Thanks again,
Audrey

escrito por Audacity às 10:06 am (EST) em Aug 28, 2008

First, my apologies. I have a feeling that I never saw your note and must therefore seem very rude indeed. I tend just to look to the top of the list and if there's nothing (or one thing) there, assume that is all there is. Mea culpa.

Yes, there are a number of reference books. And the shelves groan ever louder. I collect slang dicts - though those I don't now have are far far beyond even the deepest recesses of my pockets. And just buy reference books. I have a couple coming out myelf in October, and then my 3-vol. 'life's work/mag.op' in about 15 months. What to do after that...

Best,

JG

escrito por abecedary às 9:06 am (EST) em Aug 28, 2008

I know how you feel! I seem to have lost the knack lately.

escrito por Booksloth às 6:36 am (EST) em Aug 18, 2008

Did you lose 20 Questions too? I did - and I haven't seen your name anywhere on the latest thread so I thought I'd try and send you the link. I'm not very good at links, so I hope this one works. Don't ask me why the game has jumped around so much lately.

This should be it:

http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...

escrito por Booksloth às 10:58 am (EST) em Aug 16, 2008

Hey Elizabeth:

I want one of those steamer gizmos! My 15 year old has decided that corn's fattening, so won't eat it so two ears in a steamer would work perfectly for my husband and me.

Karen

escrito por karenmarie às 9:46 pm (EST) em Aug 14, 2008

Thanks for your review on "Trixie Belden". I loved those books as a kid!

escrito por tjsjohanna às 7:17 pm (EST) em Aug 10, 2008

I loved your post on the authors rights over characters thread..
just wanted to say kudos!
kath

escrito por mckait às 2:23 pm (EST) em Aug 8, 2008

No, I certainly don't mind at all. And if you don't mind, I will now go and return the compliment......

escrito por Fourpawz2 às 2:15 pm (EST) em Aug 7, 2008

If you are a big Cherryh fan, have you been to her fansite at Shejidan.com ? CJC doesn't post there but some personal friends of hers do, and there's a lot of in depth discussion of her works. Quite a few of the members are on LT too.

escrito por reading_fox às 4:41 am (EST) em Aug 7, 2008

Hi Elizabeth,

What did you think about the last few Battlestar G episodes? Did you like the way they resolved things? Did you find it hard to believe that some of the people they chose as Cylons were not more upset by the realization? That was my first thought. But I guess it is true that as a species humans do tend to adjust to survive, but therein lies the problem, since they are not really human can I expect them to think in human terms at all? Quite a confusing blend of characters on the show, thus making each situation equally clever and mysterious. I simply love SciFi and the way it allows writers and others-(screenwriters, etc) to venture anywhere to fulfill their story lines. I'm listening to the Mists of Avalon right now, read by Davina Porter, one of my favorite readers, it's quite lovely in the way that it shows powerful yet vulnerable women and has a believable dose of magic, blending in the fairy folk to make it both charming and suspenseful because of the mix of the more mischievous magic and the more predictable human behavior. MB

escrito por mmignano11 às 12:18 pm (EST) em Jul 7, 2008

Thanks alot, I´ll definitely check that out!!

escrito por MSKi23 às 12:39 pm (EST) em Jun 30, 2008

Thanks for the info! Have you read the book before? Do you recommend making the effort to get a hold of it?

escrito por aarti às 12:41 pm (EST) em Jun 29, 2008

Thank you for thinking so!

escrito por Busifer às 5:22 pm (EST) em Jun 24, 2008

If you haven't seen the movie, Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man, get comfortable first; it's 52 minutes long:

http://tinyurl.com/4y4qds

escrito por moibibliomaniac às 12:06 pm (EST) em Jun 23, 2008

Hope you like it. We have frozen pitted cherries, but sometimes only in the upper end supermarkets. I pitted mine with a little knife and my fingernails. Very tedious. I like your method, pop them in the mouth... ;)

escrito por MrsLee às 2:54 pm (EST) em Jun 13, 2008

Cherry BBQ Sauce on Pork Tenderloin

4-5 lb. Pork loin roast
Fresh ground pepper, Kosher salt (to taste)

Marinade:
1 can cola (Coke, RC, Pepsi, etc.)
1 T. dried sage
1 T. ground pepper
1 T. chili powder
1 t. comino
6 T. lime juice
1 T. lime zest
1 onion, minced
2 T. peanut oil

Sauce:
leftover marinade
2 c. cherries, no pits
½ c. brown sugar
¼ c. balsamic vinegar
¼ t. cayenne
1/3 tablet Mexican chocolate
Pinch of nutmeg
Salt, to taste

Put roast in plastic zip bag with all marinade ingredients, mix, set in refrigerator for 3-6 hours, turning several times.
About 1 ½ hours before dinner, place roast on a rack in a shallow pan (reserve marinade), fat side up, sprinkle with fresh ground pepper and kosher salt. Preheat oven to 500 degrees. Put roast in oven, reduce heat to 325 degrees and roast until meat is 140 degrees, basting with sauce every 10 minutes after the first 45 minutes. Turn roast and baste the bottom at least once. Takes approximately 1-1 ½ hours.

Sauce:
Put marinade into saucepan, bring to a boil and simmer 5 minutes. Add cherries and all other ingredients, simmer about 15 minutes. I used a hand held blender to puree all ingredients. If you don’t have one, carefully blend in a glass blender, or just mash with a masher. It will be a bit lumpy, but that’s O.K. When roast has been in oven ½ hour, begin basting with the sauce. You may need to adjust the sweet to sour ratio of your sauce to your taste.

The most tedious part for me was pitting the cherries, but I think frozen or possibly even canned cherries would work.

escrito por MrsLee às 10:13 am (EST) em Jun 13, 2008

Oh, thank you! I personally find them quite exciting, too, and luckily I have been pretty good at languages, so I shouldn't have a problem there, but I've been warned that I need to know a lot, so I understand your hesitation! I originally thought that continuing education in English was what I'd want to do, but something changed in college and here I am. I have yet to visit Oxford, though I know a few people who studied abroad there last year. Have you ever been to York? That's where my (future) university is and for me is without question the most exciting medieval city I've been to!

I'm glad you find my library interesting. You seem to have lots of history and speculative fiction in yours, so I'm adding you to mine as well, I could always use the recommendations!

- Meghan

escrito por littlebookworm às 12:55 pm (EST) em Jun 2, 2008

Here's the user account with the list of books in, all of which need summaries writing - make them a seperate post in the 1001group like the others, and then someone with the account password (Morph or ?) will add them to the comments.

There's plenty still to do, and probably other jobs if you wish to procrastinate some more!

escrito por reading_fox às 4:27 pm (EST) em May 28, 2008

Oh, boy, environmental compliance--my last in-house job was proofreading for a company that produces environmental compliance, human resources, and safety materials. Reading wastewater disposal regs for 49 states (all but the one we lived in, oddly enough) was not my favorite task of all time!

Thankfully, the only wastewater disposal regulations I have to know about are Colorado's. Which are bad enough.

But very little of my leisure reading has anything to do with the type of thing I do for work, which is mostly reference publishing--although I might argue that everything has to do with reference and many factoids come in handy sooner or later!

You know, if I had to read professionally it would probably cut back quite a bit on my reading for pleasure. Perhaps not; I suppose it would depend on what it was. I do have to read work-related stuff; most recently The Environmental Chemistry of Molybdenum and Chemical Deicers and the Environment and it was rather tough slogging.

I adore Lindsey Davis, though--I'd have more of her works listed, but lost the bottom shelf's worth of books, including a bunch of hers, from all my bookcases in a flood two summers ago. Irritatingly enough, most of what I lost were the ones I collected but hadn't yet read. On the other hand, through this site I've discovered BookMooch, so I'm repopulating my library at a great rate! (And so cheaply.)

I haven't read the Marcus Didius Falco books in order, unfortunately. I just picked up The Accusers on sale at B&N a couple of days ago but haven't read it yet. Usually I get mysterys and suchlike from the library rather than buying them, but I've kept all of hers. I have yet to try BookMooch; I must investigate it.

I'm grieved by your flood; I hate to see books damaged. OTOH Colorado - at least outside the river valleys - is fairly immune to flooding. I have had a couple of books eaten by the cat, though - if I leave them on the floor he'll devour the covers of paperbacks. Must like coated paper, I suppose.

escrito por setnahkt às 1:46 am (EST) em May 26, 2008

Okay, I sort of take it back--I like history, but so far (as I've cataloged, I mean) that's not where our libraries overlap--more Lindsey Davis and Barbara Michaels and a few cookbooks. Sometimes LT is so random!

Not to worry; I mean, aren't Lindsay Davis and MPM just as much history as most non-fiction? I had read lots of Roman history but it wasn't until I read the Gordianus the Finder series by Steven Saylor that I realized the same person could live through the Dictatorship of Sulla, the Servile Rebellion, and the Civil War.

My particular history interests tend to vary. I went through an American Civil War period and a Tudor period and a WWI period. I seem to be doing Tsarist Russia right now. It's generally just a coincidence - pick up one book, then happen to see another on more or less the same era, and so on. It has absolutely nothing to do with my work - environmental compliance - it's just relaxing and interesting.

escrito por setnahkt às 1:09 am (EST) em May 26, 2008

Used to live in Ithaca; I sympathize with your endurance of the weather. However, for one or two weeks a year it really is beautiful.

-setnahkt

escrito por setnahkt às 10:41 pm (EST) em May 18, 2008

Hi
I am new to this so bare with me...I saw where you were looking for new authors to replace Agatha Christie. Have you read anything by Margaret Yorke? She is a British author. I have read almost everything she has written, and every one has an unexpected twist for an ending! They are fairly short, quick reads. I have purchased mine first thru used books sales and then from Amazon. I think there are four I haven't been able to get and last I checked they were selling for around $200.00 on Amazon. Don't quite know why so much, but I won't be purchasing them. Most of the ones I have gotten are paperbacks, some hardbacks, a lot of copies pulled from libraries. Most around $10.00 or less. Hope this interests you.

Leah

escrito por leahboyer às 8:27 pm (EST) em May 14, 2008

Hi Elizabeth. I am honored to be included in your list of interesting libraries. I went through your Reference Books, and you have a number of Philology books that I don't have. I, too, like to read the titles that are posted on the Silly Game, and frequently check out the poster's library. I see you're a sci-fi fan. That's one area I never got into. I do share your interests in mysteries, although I just read them; I don't collect them: Robert Parker, Dick Francis, Stuart Woods, and yes, John D. MacDonald. Cheers!

escrito por moibibliomaniac às 7:01 am (EST) em May 3, 2008

No, I'm a social worker. I always wanted to be a librarian or editor or something to do with books, but my (extremely pushy) mother convinced me there was no money in it. So, I got a degree in psychology! I do sell books online that I pick up from garage sales, and I have a deal with the owner of a local used book store that I get to buy the place from him when he's ready to retire. I'm not sure whether he's kidding about that, but I'm certainly not!

escrito por lilyfyrestorm às 2:54 pm (EST) em May 1, 2008

How, how, how do you get a job proofreading fiction? I am ridiculously jealous.
~Emily

escrito por lilyfyrestorm às 2:29 pm (EST) em May 1, 2008

Ah, yes, the BiblioBarn. Love it. I spent a weekend last fall in Wyndham, and a good bit of the time I was browsing either there or the shops in Hobart. I have life-long friends who live in Stamford, and the existence of this "book village" never came to my attention before. I live outside of Scranton. I assume that is the Nittany Lion on your profile page? I'm heading for your catalog now to browse through your cookbooks--see what we have in common or what new ones I might discover!

escrito por laytonwoman3rd às 11:29 am (EST) em Apr 30, 2008

Do you know about the "Book Village of the Catskills" in Hobart? Worth a drive from anywhere!

escrito por laytonwoman3rd às 7:43 am (EST) em Apr 30, 2008

Hi its L J fellow dog lover and TV junkie. Thanks for updating me on Hotel Babylon. I have only seen Torchwood a couple of times, but will tune in now to watch it again. We don't get Last Restaurant Standing. Sounds good, I love cooking shows. Just love that crazy Gordon Ramsey. I'm all wrapped up in watching The Tudors now, something about that Jonathan Rhys-Meyer just fascinates me. LOL.

escrito por ljreader às 2:34 am (EST) em Apr 22, 2008

Yeah Library Thing is soooo cool! I have always been interested in American History so a few years ago I decided to go back to the beginning and work my way forward chronologically. I started with the so-called "big history" of Flannery's The Eternal Frontier, which took the Michener approach and began 65 million years ago! I followed with Facing East From Indian Country by Richter, then American Colonies by Taylor (outstanding book!). Then I just went off in a dozen tangents, but kept coming back to the early American period. Despite several attempts, I still haven't made it past the American Revolution!

escrito por Garp83 às 9:20 pm (EST) em Apr 15, 2008

Hello Elizabeth,
I have some second hand experience with the flooding problem. My mother went through Hurricane Andrew in Miami. She had her books in sheds and they leaked. She told me she threw away at least 1,000 to 1,500 books. She lives by herself and has at least made up by now for her losses. I am fairly attached to my library and would be badly hurt if it were destroyed.
Bill Rucker

escrito por wildbill às 8:13 am (EST) em Apr 15, 2008

Welcome Elizabeth,
I want to give you my thanks and appreciation for the nice comment you left for me. I have been at LT a little longer than you and I am sure you will find more of the same "ah-ha" moments and fun and pleasant surprises of all kinds here. I signed up for the Early Reviewers and have received two books with another on the way since last December.

I've been an avid reader since the single digits and that energy has blossomed nicely on LT. Not just pollyanna moments either. I was discussing the fact that I had stolen two books from a library and was confronted in a post with the not so cute consequences that act had for others.

I've always wanted to write, but I never finish anything. History is my fave and now I'm focusing on essays. I trust we will cross paths again.
Bill Rucker (wildbill)

escrito por wildbill às 8:23 pm (EST) em Apr 13, 2008

*sigh* I should be so lucky as to have "the rest of my library" to catalog... Alas, they're all present and accounted for, but the number is ever growing :)

I moved to SF in January of '07 from Maine - I love it so very much, I just wish I had more time to explore it! Ah well, some day...

And I have no idea how it got to be 4am, but it happens *a lot* when playing on LT... Time Warp? :)

escrito por aglaia531 às 4:14 am (EST) em Apr 10, 2008

Ciao Elizabeth. I read in English and Italian. I have also some book in Spanish, but only cause they are from a friend of mine, but I don't know Spanish :-). Then I have some books from a French author, but they are Italian translation. And then I have a bit of japanese manga, but all English translation. Elisa

escrito por elisa.rolle às 2:03 pm (EST) em Mar 31, 2008

Thanks for the information on my profile page! That was very kind of you!

escrito por alaskabookworm às 10:13 pm (EST) em Mar 29, 2008

Now that's a thread I haven't found yet! I had no idea you were so new - your posts sounds like an old pro (I am aware of the many ways in which that could be taken but I swear I meant it in the nice one!) Off to take a look at these mature men (promise me it's not the LT version of Readers' Wives?)

escrito por Booksloth às 12:55 pm (EST) em Mar 29, 2008

Thank you for thinking my library is interesting - I always feel quite honoured when somebody does that (even when I suspect it's just so they can search it more easily in 20 Questions)!

escrito por Booksloth às 7:52 am (EST) em Mar 29, 2008

Honored you find my library interesting. I have read every book listed on it, and have 'reviewed' (really, commented on) over 1700 of them, and expect to comment on hundreds more as I get around to doing so.

escrito por Schmerguls às 7:27 am (EST) em Mar 27, 2008

Sorcerer's legacy is a standalone and (one of?) the first books Janny ever had published. I quite enjoyed it.

escrito por reading_fox às 5:03 am (EST) em Mar 17, 2008

Thanks for the tip on A Flash of Green. I haven't seen the movie, so will have to read the book first. I very often try to see a movie after reading the book because it fascinates me to see what screenwriters find important and unimportant.

My plan is to complete the John MacDonald collection. Being a parrothead, it's hard to avoid the Travis McGee series, given that Jimmy Buffett sings of him in "Incommunicado." That song was the main reason I bought my first McGee book. A Flash of Green isn't a McGee book, but if it's as good as anything else Mr. MacDonald wrote during his life, it will be well worth the time.

escrito por phinz às 8:00 am (EST) em Mar 14, 2008

Avatar - no they aren't mine. It's a dog and a fox cub, from a BBC news story. I was just looking for cute pics of a fox to use as an avatar, and came across it.

Which of Janny's books are you mooching?

escrito por reading_fox às 7:14 am (EST) em Mar 14, 2008

I'm sorry! I didn't mean to talk down. It's just that I have to have things explained to me as if I were six. :)

escrito por frogbelly às 12:39 am (EST) em Mar 14, 2008

Sure. Go to www.photobucket.com and create an account there. It's free. Then you upload pictures that you have saved on your computer to your account there. Then wherever you want to post one of those pictures, use the code
7img src="x"7
where the x is the direct link to where it is saved on photobucket. Also, in the above code use an opening and closing < and > in place of the 7s. It wouldnt have shown up on this message if I'd put it in the correct way.
I know this sounds weird but it will make more sense when you play around on photobucket a bit.
good luck.

escrito por frogbelly às 11:18 pm (EST) em Mar 13, 2008

Always good to hear from another Cherryh fan, and I see you've also been in touch with Janny who's books I'd also reccomened, if you've not managed to read any yet.

escrito por reading_fox às 5:15 am (EST) em Mar 13, 2008

Elizabeth - by no means do I feel my college experience was a waste...I think it's noteworthy, though, that at no point in my career as writer and illustrator have I EVER been asked for my educational resume by a publisher. Perhaps that's what Holly Lisle means. I didn't know she had a downloadable advice book - perhaps I might look into that for a link off the tips site.

Mysteries - I think I have about nearly everything written by Dick Francis, and I also like Ngaio Marsh, and for the very strange, the series of mysteries written by Dorothy Dunnett.

The closest thing to a mystery I wrote (fantasy of course) was To Ride Hell's Chasm, but it morphed into intrigue then action/adventure by the ending.

Other writers here on LT that I like to read are Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (their Liaden universe is quite splendid) and Kristine Smith. Both of these write SF.

escrito por JannyWurts às 7:09 pm (EST) em Feb 28, 2008

Elizabeth - wet books! How dismal!

I dropped a library book in a mud puddle as a kid, and had to buy it....my father had a book press, and it survived, if the cover boards wound up a bit warped. I cannot Imagine losing whole shelves (my books are kept in the loft!)

I do wish you the very best with your writing endeavors - you may wish to look at the Tips for Writers on my site, and also, check out the same on some of the linked authors.

If you do not have these two books, by all means, do get them:
Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain
Story by Robert Mckee

One details how fiction prose is constructed, the other, what makes a story a story. Both are topnotch references, at least in my opinion.

escrito por JannyWurts às 8:50 pm (EST) em Feb 27, 2008

Hi ejj1955 - cool, I'm quite flattered.

I see you have the Mordant's Need duology by Stephen Donaldson - my very favorite work of his, hands down, although I may not have catalogued it.

You have me quite curious - feel free to strike up a conversation if you like.

escrito por JannyWurts às 4:34 pm (EST) em Feb 26, 2008