One more note. I noticed you have several books by Georgette Heyer, whom I recently discovered. I am currently reading Friday's Child and enjoying it a lot, and I recommend it heartily!
:-))

inlägg gjort av aluvalibri vid 1:07 pm (EST) Aug 28, 2008

Hello back to you, dear Liz!
I am glad the book arrived safely. Since you are interested in Australian women writers, you should (if you have not done it already) check out Katherine Susannah Prichard, Eleanor Dark, Miles Franklin (I am sure you know her), Dorothy Hewett, Marjorie Barnard. These are those that come to mind right off the bat, but if you take a look at my catalogue you will find much more.
For the Italian fairy tales, take a look at www.Hoepli.it
They have a large selection and ship abroad. Also, do not forget to look for "Fiabe Italiane" collected by Italo Calvino, a real gem, or "Novelle della Nonna" by Emma Perodi.
Let me know if I can be of further help.

Paola :-))

inlägg gjort av aluvalibri vid 1:05 pm (EST) Aug 28, 2008

Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries. I notice we have a lot of interests in common and read very widely. You are the first library I've visited that had any classical music books. I also didn't realize there a classical music group. I plan to check that out. I may meet you there!

inlägg gjort av MusicMom41 vid 11:17 pm (EST) Aug 24, 2008

Because you own this vintage cookbook set, I invite you and the 38 other owners of this cookbook to a group talk in COOKBOOKERS, on META GIVEN'S MODERN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COOKING. I'm curious about how you came to own this cookbook and what is your favorite part about the set. Thank you! See http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...

inlägg gjort av sungene vid 9:04 pm (EST) Aug 21, 2008

I just want to let you know that I have scanned and uploaded my cover for The Constant Nymph, and since you have the same edition (same ISBN) as mine, I thought you might want to know that a correct cover for the Dial Press edition is now available.

Enjoy
Laura

inlägg gjort av lindsacl vid 2:58 pm (EST) Aug 14, 2008

Have sent 'Elizabeth and Her German Garden' today by airmail.
I hope you enjoy it.
Regards
Valerie

inlägg gjort av englishrose60 vid 8:02 am (EST) Jul 30, 2008

Hi! I assume you live in SF. . . If all the GreenDragons come to Santa Cruz can you take me with you? (I'd come to SF on BART from Walnut Creek).

inlägg gjort av Esta1923 vid 7:36 pm (EST) Jul 19, 2008

I received 'Love' today! I love the reassuring thump a book makes when it falls through my letter slot! Looks fantastic! Can't wait to start reading!!!
Thanks so much for sending it all the way to London!
heather

inlägg gjort av hjelliot vid 8:18 am (EST) Jul 15, 2008

Excellent! Thanks Liz, I'll let you know when it arrives! I can't wait!
heather

inlägg gjort av hjelliot vid 5:11 am (EST) Jul 12, 2008

Thanks for your comments about my folklore collection1 I have had an absolute passion for folklore and myth since I first learned to read, so I have been building my library for decades now, but I am really going a bit nuts lately since discovering how easy it is to find out of print titles online. There have been a few titles recently that I have had an incredible time finding, but I've found that with time and ingenuity, you can really find almost anything. If I have any titles you are searching for, and you want to know where I got them, please just let me know. I have discovered some sources that are really off the map.

Cindy

inlägg gjort av malinablue vid 11:52 am (EST) Jul 11, 2008

Good point! I've just put a notice on the Lionel Davidson author page, but the children's books were published as David Line. I'd been thinking I might look up some of Davidson's crime books given how much I love Under Plum Lake so I might just have to look into it :-)

inlägg gjort av LizT vid 9:25 am (EST) Jul 6, 2008

Well caught! thanks very much for that. I did, of course, mean southern america. Please do let me know of any other mistakes you find. I'm just glad to know that there are people out there reading my reviews. That you mostly enjoy them is an added bonus!

inlägg gjort av reading_fox vid 4:22 am (EST) Jun 4, 2008

Will do! Hope you had a great day!
:o)
Clare

inlägg gjort av clamairy vid 11:50 am (EST) May 22, 2008

Aviddiva thank you for adding me to your interesting libraries. I am happy to return the compliment because we seem to have a shared interest in Children's literature and Virago Modern Classics.

inlägg gjort av Marensr vid 5:09 pm (EST) May 15, 2008

You were the first to request On the Side of the Angels, so it's all yours. Just leave your address on my profile page and I'll get it on its way in a day or two. Enjoy!

inlägg gjort av Cariola vid 9:33 pm (EST) May 13, 2008

You're welcome.

I do hope it came across as a polite FYI, as Tim doesn't want us asking people to change their data, but I knew I would want to know,and your profile looked like you were as interested in the connections as much as the cataloging on LT.

Happy reading.

inlägg gjort av moekane vid 9:09 pm (EST) May 9, 2008

I saw your posts on the Complete Sentence Parlour Games discussion and just had to say that I love Mo Willems. He's come to Austin, Texas for book signings twice now and is so great to see in person.

inlägg gjort av ShannonMDE vid 2:12 pm (EST) Apr 13, 2008

Thanks! I think both have been on my unofficial, in-my-head TBR list for a while. I'll have to bump them up to higher priority! ;-)

~fd

inlägg gjort av foggidawn vid 2:42 pm (EST) Mar 3, 2008

Hi. Thanks to your recommendation, I just ordered A Man Lay Dead. I'll let you know how I like it.

inlägg gjort av citygirl vid 8:46 pm (EST) Feb 2, 2008

We are almost neighbors (I'm in Walnut Creek) and we share Theodore Bonnet's "Mudlark," one of the most charming books I own. (When I wrote my review I grouped it with 2 others. . . think I'll go back and give it a solo as it deserves. . . or do you want to do that? Esta1923

inlägg gjort av Esta1923 vid 12:07 pm (EST) Jan 9, 2008

Just wanted to thank you for being LT Secret Santa for my brother. I spoke with him last night and solved his latest mystery: he found an Amazon box at home Friday with the two books and was mystified as to why he should have received them. He even went so far as to think that maybe Amazon was sending bonus gifts to people who ordered from them - ha! ;-) I finally explained what I had done with LT and he was very impressed. He thinks the two choices look interesting and has moved them to the top of his TBR pile.

Thanks again!

inlägg gjort av heyjude vid 9:36 am (EST) Dec 25, 2007

Thanks for the tip on Amahl. Happy Holidays to you and yours. - Karen, aka Maggie1944

inlägg gjort av maggie1944 vid 8:17 pm (EST) Dec 16, 2007

Nice idea on the 12 Days of Christmas, Diva! I'm enjoying it!

-Danny

inlägg gjort av buchleser vid 8:21 am (EST) Dec 8, 2007

Thanks for noting me in the "Interesting Libraries" box! I've looked at your page and see we do share several intersts. It would be interesting, to look at our libraries and see the ways we divetge. As a first step I enjoyed looking at your tqg and author clouds. Good reading to you! -- JLH

inlägg gjort av janehyde vid 10:26 pm (EST) Oct 29, 2007

Inexplicably, I assumed our Richard wrote "Scarey" stories for young children, and having a nervous disposition I wasn't sure I could cope with them. The excellent "A tiger came to dinner" for example, gave me nightmares for a month, and whenever I read it, to the little ones, I have to take a tranquiliser first. Am I a spineless nincompoop or what?

I was mildly intrigued that the one and only book we SEEM to share, according to LT, is a title I don't possess, let alone list.
Spooky, I reckon.

It was good of you to acknowledge my response, and to qualify your aversion to writers I like. I am touched (but you can tell that already).

One of the things I take to, in "Wuthering Heights", say, is the strangeness of it, the wuthering involved (what a word!) The very fact that Cathy and Heathcliff are NOT easily identifiable with, or comforting exactly. I'm not sure that's what YOU look for in a book (frankly I doubt it) but it isn't what interests me (I prefer a sloppy joe to a close-knitted number, if I can put it like that.)
The moors seem to 'work' for the Brontes (esp Emily), much like the sea works for me; seen in a certain light (or night) the one thing they're NOT is predictable, or re-assuring.
I daresay this is a clumsy and jejune answer to your question; I'll try to give it deeper thought (I am always trying)

R.

inlägg gjort av reuchlin vid 9:04 am (EST) Oct 5, 2007

Quel malheur!

I love "Wuthering Heights", and "Emma" has to be my favorite Austen.
Now I feel vaguely suicidal. Not your fault of course; I shouldn't be so sensitive or paranoid, but critics are always plotting against me and mine. undermining our judgement.

ps. I have never read (or seen) Richard Scarry's Best Storybook Ever (though it sounds as if I should've). According to the "Books You Share" feature, on the right, it is the one title we have in common. In fact, I have approx thirty from your (interesting) list - not counting all the Harry Potters - and particularly like Susan Cooper, Peter Beagle, and Madeleine L'Engle. So there!

pps. you have a neat name.

R.

inlägg gjort av reuchlin vid 8:00 am (EST) Oct 2, 2007