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About me Forty-eight. Male. Less fat than before, balding, happy like that. Presently unmarried, partnered for the nonce, and unbelievably busy since I have to relocate across the country in six weeks (eep!). Writer of novels, editor of whatever needs editing, reader and biblioholic since receiving my first very-own-and-no-one-else's book: The Bayeaux Tapestry, a birthday gift from my much, much, much older sister back in 1966.
I learned about LibraryThing from a note published in Poets & Writers magazine, and joined the next day. What a wonderful place this is, too! Thank you, Tim Spalding, for this great open agora of ideas, opinions, facts, and fallacies. This is what I hoped to find when I first got an ISP account back in 1995.
About my library Much shrunken in recent moves. Still a hair over 17,000 volumes, the enormous majority in boxes until 1) I convince my housemate to give up all personal space to book storage 2) I move into a very large house alone. Roughly equally likely, which is to say "not very", so I suppose further culling will occur. Of course, it won't do a hill o' beans of good, because I still buy more books...gotta have something to read, y'know.
ABOUT THE STARS: Anything I think is not up to a three-star standard...fine for those who like the kind of book it is, but no recommendation from me...simply gets purged. I don't retain, review, or rate books less than three stars.
Four stars are recommended to fans of the author or genre, and adventurous soulds in general.
Five stars are recommended, with a half-nelson on genre or author fans to go NOW and get, read, an love this book.
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By the way did I get it right that you're moving to Hempstead, NY? I've some good friends who live in West Hempstead, a science teacher (very very very very dry sense of humor) and his wife (very wacky sense of humor), a reference librarian over at the WH public library. Both avid readers and great conversationalists. if you get lonesome for interesting company while you're in NY, I'd be pleased to introduce you guys.
I volunteer to be on your LT party organzing committee. :-)
time for the Olympics and reading the new Crate & Barrel catalog...I need a trundle bed.
xoxo - caroline
posted by cameling at 9:30 pm (EST) on Aug 18, 2008
I realize that I neglected to note in my recommendation of THE GOLDEN OCEAN that I actually listened to the audiobook during a long drive. Sometimes that can affect my reactions; having someone else tell the story makes it both great company and less work. So there is my caveat.
Kirk
posted by CAGEYM at 4:43 pm (EST) on Aug 18, 2008
posted by cameling at 4:29 pm (EST) on Aug 18, 2008
Thank you for your condolences. It's such a shame that for all the grants and donations that go towards research, that there's such slow progress made towards finding the cure or prevention for such devastating diseases such as Parkinson's, leukemia, cancer and Alzheimers among others.
Hubs was such a sweetie and a great tissue dispenser during the funeral to all ..although at one point, he seemed to be hogging the box himself. ;-)
And now I'm home, I've got a couple of nice photo of my niece when she was healthy and happy to put up next to photos of my dad, who also made that journey to Eternal Freedom many moons ago. Makes me smile and eases my heart to see them both up on my shelf.
gratefully,
caroline
posted by cameling at 4:13 pm (EST) on Aug 18, 2008
Well, maybe a LITTLE guilty, but mostly I'm happy that you've discovered Jeb and Dash.
How is the move going?
posted by P_T_Mack at 9:01 am (EST) on Aug 18, 2008
As for Patrick O'Brian's books -- I'm not manic about them. Some I've enjoyed a lot and others were significantly less interesting. I got into then after a friend read them all one summer and was clearly obsessed. I've been moseying through the series for a few years now and am still not done.
If you want to get a taste for them, you might start with [The Golden Ocean]. That was an earlier novel where you can see some of the themes that would develop in the series. I think it remains my favorite of his books.
posted by CAGEYM at 11:11 pm (EST) on Aug 17, 2008
posted by thekoolaidmom at 2:43 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2008
beyond this i am stupid tired will write later Richard
Bless you and yours.....JUDE
posted by jdthloue at 6:14 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2008
posted by Snodgrass99 at 6:01 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2008
love your posts for who YOU are---life is hard for everyone..i just don't like..stupid..people..who don't THINK..am i going to HELL FOR BEING.....PICKY..... mea culpa, if so
best to you, and yours , Richard.,....
JUDE
posted by jdthloue at 5:44 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2008
oh can i make a suggestion..you need to get a better photo on your Profile Page..you are a lot smarter than that photo..in my opinion..you are smart..funny..and kind..the best..in my opinion..take this for what it is worth...my best to you and yours....JUDE
posted by jdthloue at 5:16 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2008
best wishes to you and yours
Read On!.....JUDE
posted by jdthloue at 3:49 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2008
Use this line of code: < a href= >< img style="height: 200px; margin-right:10px;" src="IMAGE LOCATION" >< /a >
I have put in spaces betweeen all the arrow brackets so that you can see the code, when you go to use it, you must take them out (I keep the line of code without the spaces in an email in my draft folder and on a post-it widget on my desktop, so I can just copy and paste it into a post or other field).
1. copy and paste the line of code without those spaces into the post or field you wish the cover to be in.
2. delete the words IMAGE LOCATION.
3. Find the cover you wish to post (I search LT most of the time); right click on the cover and choose "copy image location".
4. paste the image location between the double quotes where you removed the words
5. The 200px in the code line refers to the height of the picture. If you want it smaller, you can change it to 180 or 160...whatever. The other number 10px refers to the space between that object and the next and you can change that also, if you like. You can just leave it there even if you are only posting one picture. There you have it!!!! Note: a picture has to be on the web somewhere for you to bring it into your posts this way.
I used to do it a rather clunky way, uploading to photobucket and getting the code from them; but Christiguc showed me this EASIER & BETTER way (those young people, sooo clever!).
Lois
Good luck! I'm sure you will have fun with this.
posted by avaland at 8:13 am (EST) on Jul 15, 2008
posted by slothman at 10:09 pm (EST) on Sep 10, 2006
posted by slothman at 10:08 pm (EST) on Sep 10, 2006
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