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vänner: Alldone, BHenricksen, BookLover07, CalicoGal, callmejacx, carterchristian1, clik4, cornpuff12, destinyhascheatedme, drneutron, flowerbee, GeorgiaDawn, hiphopthelastreligio, JeremyCShipp, JoannaON, katylit, maberry, MaryNovik, mrgrooism, MrsLee, mstrust, nitnat, OldSarge, pee-wee, RobertKoger123, TheFlamingoReads, TheoClarke, theoldman, virgingloves, Zentralbibliothek_ZH

intressanta bibliotek: 1001Fantasy, Arctic-Stranger, Busifer, catalog_theLTcat, clamairy, GreenDragon, hobbitprincess, Jakeofalltrades, littlegeek, Morphidae, MrsLee, nannybebette, OldSarge, PandorasRequiem, pollysmith, timspalding, WholeHouseLibrary

LibraryThing-författare: Amy Stewart (AmyStewart), Brandon Sanderson (BrandonSanderson), Carolyn Haines (CarolynHaines), Eric John Abrahamson (EricAbrahamson), Hannah Tinti (HannahTinti), Jean Marzollo (JeanMarzollo), Sarah Addison Allen (SarahAddisonAllen), Allison Hoover Bartlett (ahbartlett), Charles Mathes (charlesmathes), Jim Razzi (jrazzi), Joanna Sandsmark (jsandsmark), Marie Bostwick (mariebostwick), Meg Waite Clayton (megwaiteclayton), Melissa Wiley (melissawiley), Michelle Knudsen (michelleknudsen), John Green (sparksflyup), Susan Wittig Albert (susanalbert)

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SamlingarDitt bibliotek (2,592), Lästa men inte ägda (245), I Jus' Can't Do It, Cap'n (1), 2009 Reads (110), Awards (16), Family Books (45), Green Dragon Meetups (16), Läser just nu (2), Ska läsas (327), Lee's (42), Loaned to Mom (1), Star Trek (113), Önskelista (37), Favoriter (13), Alla samlingar (2,847)

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TaggarYA (320), humor (287), nonfiction (284), children's lit (274), mystery (263), vintage (248), science fiction (228), romance (223), fantasy (189), historical fiction (123) — se alla taggar

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Grupper50-Something Library Thingers, Arr, me hearties!, Ask LibraryThing, Banned Books, Best in Children's Books Collectors' Group, Board for Extreme Thing Advances, Book Listers UNITE!, Books off the Shelf Challenge, Cats, books, life is good., Cemeteries & Gravestones — visa alla grupper

FavoritförfattareSarah Addison Allen, Bruce Catton, Thomas B. Costain, A. C. Crispin, Diane Duane, John Dunning, Rumer Godden, James Herriot, Tony Hillerman, Louis L'Amour, Harper Lee, Madeleine L'Engle, Lois Lowry, Sandoz Mari, Robin McKinley, Mary Pipher, Jean Plaidy, Ellery Queen, J. K. Rowling, John Steinbeck, Mary Stewart, Roger L. Welsch, Laura Ingalls Wilder (Gemensamma favoriter)

FavoritbokhandelElliott Bay Book Company, Loganberry Books

Om migI've been a bibliophile since the womb. My mama was a school librarian/media specialist when I was a kid, and I followed in her footsteps for over 35 years. I just retired in the spring of 2008.

My husband Lee and I were both teachers. We came to the Sandhills of Nebraska in 1983. It's a great place to teach, a great place to raise kids and cattle. (Our area has far more of the latter than the former.) Lee and I raised a terrific daughter, Mary Leigh, who turned into a great advertisement for growing up in the 'Hills. She in turn found a 6'5" football player at college, married him, and presented us with THE 2 most beautiful, most intelligent grandchildren on the planet. Hannah is 5 and loves books. She especially likes princesses and books Gramma had as a kid. Christian is 3, and loves short books that don't require sitting still too long - especially if they have the Wiggles in them!

I lost my Lee to cancer 4 years ago. Some days are good, some not so good. Books and grandchildren are my delight and my salvation.

Om mitt bibliotekMy Library (Your Library in Collections) is still the record of what I own. Since the advent of Collections, I do have some WishList and some Read But Not Owned on board, but I opted not to count them them in YL. I LOVE Collections, and I'm still dinking with them.

I love reconnecting with books I read as a kid, and I'm always watching for old familiar titles. I can recommend Loganberry Books as a great source for out of print children's and YA books. They are really helpful and available online.

I also have a lot of "vintage" books because I inherit them. I couldn't bear to see my grandmother's teaching materials and novels go to the trash so I rescued them. Some of them are really great reads!! I also have lots of school books and novels that belonged to my parents and grandparents. I love the smell and feel of them.

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Medlem sedanFeb 12, 2007

Läser just nuThursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel (Thursday Next Novels (Penguin Books)) av Jasper Fforde
A Christmas Miscellany: A Victorian Holiday Treasury av Ian Jackman

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I'm glad you liked my SantaThing choices for you. I am the Cheese is my most favorite book ever, and when I saw you had a Cormier book in your library already, I thought I'd better get it for you.

inlägg gjort av meggyweg vid 8:12 am (EST) Dec 23, 2009

Hello, many thanks for your message. Sorry to bother you but can you tell me what 'Add to Private Watch' means and also what happens when you add a friend / interesting library? Sorry so many questions, happy reading!

inlägg gjort av sevenwillows vid 4:45 pm (EST) Dec 20, 2009

I saw in one of your reviews that you were slowly attempting to collect books by Victoria Holt. I am too! My grandmother turned me on to her books when I was about 12! Luckily for me, my reading was never censored as a child because I found some great stuff back then.

I currently have all but 4 Victoria Holt books, all but 5 Philippa Carr books and I only have 2 Jean Plaidy books so I have a long way to go. I am doing Hardbacks in the first two and I am looking for the pretty Three Rivers and Arrow reprints of the Jean Plaidy books.

I am glad I found a fellow "Plaidian" :) I even have a category dedicated to her in my 1010 challenge.

Jenn

inlägg gjort av Belladonna1975 vid 3:18 pm (EST) Dec 10, 2009

*snicker* Yup, I knew there was a reason we got along.

inlägg gjort av jillmwo vid 8:10 pm (EST) Dec 6, 2009

Really interesting review, Mary Lou. And I so agree with "(English really needs more gender-neutral nouns"! I'm still reading.

inlägg gjort av megwaiteclayton vid 5:55 pm (EST) Dec 3, 2009

I'm waiting for my first batch of pineapple coconut loives to come out of the oven. I'll let you know how they turned out tomorrow.

inlägg gjort av OldSarge vid 6:56 pm (EST) Nov 24, 2009

Thank you so much! I'm so happy to be able to participate and so thrilled that I will have some new books for my girls under the tree! Bless you!

Jen

inlägg gjort av jenex vid 12:51 pm (EST) Nov 23, 2009

What?! You do have a very interesting library. Anyone who has both "The Trolley Car Family" and "The Phantom Tollbooth" listed is automatically interesting. Those were two of my favorite books when I was growing up. We also share many other books and genre's. I look forward to taking a closer look at your books. Thanks for accepting my friend and interesting library requests!

inlägg gjort av TheFlamingoReads vid 3:55 pm (EST) Nov 21, 2009

Mathematicians are very special people, I've found. Being loved by one is a divine gift that is quite unlike anything I've known/read about/experienced. It's a very good thing. I hope I get to keep him for a long time.

I'm one of those 'burn on a rainy day' redheads, so the sun and I have have a love(vitamin d)-hate(skin cancer) relationship... I wear spf100+ here even on winter days. :)

I've recently had to give up sugar, wheat, and other ingredients that I just can't be too cautious about, so I've been looking at adapting all my old favourite recipes into this new, ever-more restrictive plan. I'm also in school, so I have to follow the times of year when I'm 'slightly' less busy than other times in order to spend time on LT. No more cheese either for me, I'm afraid. That one was pretty harsh, I must admit, since I adore cheese. But of course, my health and wellbeing are more important than haloumi...mostly. :)

I have, however, discovered all the wonderful things that coconuts, cocoa butter and agave syrup can do. :)

Thank you for the wishes of fog and low-hanging clouds... I could really use those this week (99 and 100 here... whew! It's only spring!)

I wish you more good days than bad, oh, and my serendipity book collection. They are some of those 'simply wonderful' children's booklets (tiny little things) that I still treasure.

Kass :)

inlägg gjort av kassetra vid 1:47 am (EST) Nov 21, 2009

You're welcome Mary Lou! Nice to see you coming by.
Greetings from Paris!
JW

inlägg gjort av JanWillemNoldus vid 8:20 pm (EST) Nov 20, 2009

Hi Mary,
Thanks so much for the friend invite-I'm happy to accept!
Jennifer

inlägg gjort av mstrust vid 11:55 pm (EST) Nov 16, 2009

Hello Mary;
Don't know what brought me by today, but I wanted to pop over and say "Hi" and that I hope things are going well for you.
I hope you don't mind me peeking at your library.
have a good one,
belva

inlägg gjort av nannybebette vid 2:18 pm (EST) Nov 14, 2009

Bwa haa haa! I'll have to check it out...
:oD
Thank you for telling me.
*hugs*
Clare

inlägg gjort av clamairy vid 7:11 pm (EST) Nov 11, 2009

:) It is also very kind of you.

inlägg gjort av Eurydice vid 7:17 pm (EST) Nov 1, 2009

Thank you! In addition to the congratulations, it's a lovely wish; and one I hope will come true.

inlägg gjort av Eurydice vid 7:16 pm (EST) Nov 1, 2009

Merry Mary,

I haven't got any more hidden classics to recommend but I did enjoy "The Drowned Maiden's Hair" by Laura Amy Schlitz. She won the Newbery a couple of years ago with "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!" (which I loved).
"Drowned Maiden...." is the story of young Maud who is plucked from an orphanage by a trio of elderly sisters, one of whom showers her with affection. Scrappy Maud, who is hungry for love, is immediately taken in until she discovers that the sisters plan to use her during their fake seances. Schlitz brings us back to the early 20th century when spiritualism was popular and charlatans were everywhere. I really enjoyed this one and hope you do too.
AnneH

inlägg gjort av AnneH vid 1:22 am (EST) Nov 1, 2009

Thanks, I appreciate that very much!

inlägg gjort av oakesspalding vid 1:29 am (EST) Oct 31, 2009

Hi,MerryMary Thanks for dropping by my profile.

Hope you don't mind but can I ask - "Why is it that nearly everyone wants to rename my cat?"

You want to call her Tagmash and one of the other suggestions was Smudge, she does have her nicknames (including Fuzzy britches!) but what is wrong with Circe - a perfectly good witchy name for a cat! Not only is she a character in one of the great epic poems of all times she also turns up in the lyrics of a King Crimson track! She is my little dark enchantress. Just curious, see you in the GD!

calm

inlägg gjort av calm vid 6:45 pm (EST) Oct 28, 2009

Hi Mary Lou,
Just wanted you to know that I was thinking of you when I was in Ontario with Mark. The geese were migrating and we saw many flocks in the days I was there. They don't migrate here, too warm I guess, they tend to stick around all winter. So when I saw them with Mark I couldn't help but think of you and feel how lucky we both are. You for having had such a wonderful man as Lee in your life for so long, and me for having Mark.

I love watching the geese too, brings back good memories of fall days up at our cottage when I was little, gorgeous autumn colours, calm lake waters, silence and honking geese. I'm glad you shared your experience and memory with us.

hugs my friend,
Katherine

inlägg gjort av katylit vid 4:05 pm (EST) Oct 23, 2009

Mary Lou,
I am such a pathological bibliophile that I have to smuggle new books into the house so that my husband doesn't see them! I just can not say no to books. I also love Star Trek. Many of my Star Trek books are paperbacks and I have not catalogued those yet. Thanks for dropping by.

Barbara

inlägg gjort av barbharris1 vid 6:04 am (EST) Oct 22, 2009

Hi MerryMary, thanks for befriending me!

inlägg gjort av JoannaON vid 11:14 am (EST) Oct 21, 2009

Mary, I'm so glad you enjoyed "Dear Enemy". I don't know why it's such a secret. A dear friend who had also loved "Daddy Longlegs" had never heard of it either and was just as delighted to find it. Both books are published in one volume that's available through Amazon. Guess what I'm giving my grown up daughters in their Christmas stockings?

Anne

inlägg gjort av AnneH vid 12:16 am (EST) Oct 12, 2009

Sorry you feel spammed but I don't know how to enter my library. I will when I can figure it out. Maybe you can help me with this. Linda

inlägg gjort av LindaMeckler vid 1:29 am (EST) Oct 7, 2009

Hi Mary, hope you are okay. I just read your post about the geese. I love to see that when they fly over my mum's house. I've been known to abandon dinner and race outside shouting "The geese are here, the geese are here!" when we here them flying over. And what a special place for you to see them.

I just last week had a similar experience but on a much smaller scale. I was taking flowers to Ally and Elisabeth's grave and when I got there I saw two magpies on the grass right by their memorial vase.

Most people here don't like magpies as they are unlucky, but I love to see them and don't find them unlucky at all and often when I am thinking about my babies I see a pair together, so they are a bit of a comfort to me. It was lovely to see two right there in the baby garden.

I'm glad the geese made you happy, seeing a big flock like that, it's always an amazing sight.

inlägg gjort av Jodyreadseverything vid 3:28 pm (EST) Oct 5, 2009

(from the pirates thread)

there are two more pictures in the series: http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/10...

best wishes

sunny

inlägg gjort av sunny vid 4:04 pm (EST) Sep 22, 2009

Hi MerryMary:

You gave it away, 60 tomorrow (5 books thread), so here I am to wish you an early Happy Birthday! Have a lovely day tomorrow.

karenmarie

inlägg gjort av karenmarie vid 8:34 pm (EST) Sep 17, 2009

THANK YOU SO MUCH for helping me find Mousekin's Golden house!!!! I am so excited!!! Much appreciated!!!

inlägg gjort av AuntieCol vid 2:13 am (EST) Aug 23, 2009

Noticed you liked I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also about a disturbed young girl's mental illness and also a bit dark. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

inlägg gjort av cmtusa vid 1:15 pm (EST) Aug 13, 2009

Just dropping by to wish you a good day!

inlägg gjort av drneutron vid 5:19 pm (EST) Aug 12, 2009

Sorry to have been extremely scarce, just re-adjusting and spending a lot of time by the ocean. Gonna take time to sort things out.

inlägg gjort av OldSarge vid 11:41 am (EST) Jul 16, 2009

So, Stitchers and Bitchers?

I am intrigued. More so because you are the only onen who owns it.
Is there a story here? :)

I must know!

kath

inlägg gjort av mckait vid 6:50 am (EST) Jun 30, 2009

I saw your post about the role of a librarian...I'm thinking about going back to school to be an elementary school librarian. What degree did you have for it? I've heard conflicting responses - some people say I will need a degree in library science, while some say I'll need an education degree. My BA is in English and French.

~Jenny

inlägg gjort av goddessladyj vid 1:06 pm (EST) Jun 26, 2009

Thanks for what you said about me in the discussion about flags and reviews and whatnot. I'm not trying to supress a discussion, I just don't think it's going anywhere now so what's the point in carrying it on, especially when feelings have been hurt? Perhaps I should take a deep breath in and keep my nose out from now on :-)

But it's always nice to have nice things said, thanks again.

And - oops - I just misread your profile info and thought you said your daughter turned into a 6'5 football player, gave me quite a surprise :-D

inlägg gjort av Jodyreadseverything vid 3:54 am (EST) Jun 16, 2009

As far as I know they were written in Swedish :D

inlägg gjort av Busifer vid 1:03 pm (EST) Jun 9, 2009

Hehe, I'm glad you're amused. Sadly it's true - I'm probably more concerned about having the right covers than I am about any other catalogue details! Oh well...

inlägg gjort av ladycassilis vid 3:22 pm (EST) Jun 6, 2009

Oh it won't be long before I get there! : ) Thanks for noticing my nerdy milestone.

Kris

inlägg gjort av Bookmarque vid 6:26 am (EST) Jun 5, 2009

Thanks Mary Lou, I’m glad to be here. Yeah, I did seem to bring a box of spiders to the old lady convention, but this ain’t nuthin’. I used to be an editor at an on-line political satire site, back before site owners were held liable for posted comments. THOSE guys were contentious.

We have almost no books in common. I think that is very cool, I don’t have much interest in people whose reading tastes are similar to mine so I hope you don’t mind but I’ve added you to my interesting libraries.

I also couldn’t let my grandmother’s books go either so have them in storage. I remember one where she had written on the inside cover- ‘read by moonlight’ and gave the date. And, another thing we both like is that I love the smell of a book. On rainy weekends I love to read for a few hours and then doze with an open book resting on the bridge of my nose. Simple joys.

inlägg gjort av SomeGuyInVirginia vid 10:16 pm (EST) Jun 4, 2009

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