Medlem: muumi

Hello,
I wonder if LT will figure out a way around that "feature", of deleting reviews if the owner deletes the book. That's simply ridiculous! They want the LT name to be Out There, don't they? Especially, the ER books - I mean for goodness sake, some of those books really are NOT keepers.

And now, to look up the interesting phrase, "more of a palimpsest", which I've never come across before...

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 5:00 pm (EST) Sep 7, 2009

I'm reading How the Scots Invented the Modern World. Certainly there's a lot of detail about how Scotland became such a literate nation - ahead of any other country in fact, because of funding village schools early on. And the ins and outs of the government, wars, Covenanters, and such. It's too dry for me, but I'll try and keep at it. Also, the author says pointedly biased things which annoy me.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 5:07 pm (EST) Aug 15, 2009

I hope you manage to track down copies of Besty stanley and G Bramwell Evens books. I had to go through the Romany & Traveller Family History Society to get hold of Stanley's book. They directed me to a bookseller who specialises in Romany publications. Sadly, I've lost her details for the moment but will let you know when I find them. The Bramwell Evens books are fairly easy to find but I borrowed the copies I have from my library. Hope you enjoy any that you get hold of. :-)

inlägg gjort av kehs vid 6:28 am (EST) Aug 4, 2009

That is no problem muumi, after your description I had to try and find a picture or something as I just could not picture it at all. Now after seeing it I want to try and find a copy of the book!
Try and read the book before they make the film of it :)

inlägg gjort av yosarian vid 4:21 pm (EST) Aug 3, 2009

I've lost the note from you on how to find my books which need covers. I thought it was via Tools, but can't find anything helpful there. Thanks.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 5:27 pm (EST) Jul 26, 2009

Hello!

I just read about this book on GoodReads (are you on there too, btw?) and of course thought of you: How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It. Have you read it but don't think enough of it to have in your library?

I'm part Scots-Irish -- maybe I'll borrow it from the public library and learn more about my ancestors.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 10:56 pm (EST) Jul 18, 2009

Oh, oh, oh, what a great idea to have a Gone Collection. I'm going to start that one, for sure. Re Collections, when it first started I read the many glowing posts of gratefulness (on the LT blog), and felt completely clueless. Guess I still feel that way, and it's too much bother to find out any more about it.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 5:41 pm (EST) Jun 29, 2009

Fabby! I love Knitting Without Tears, too. One of these days I'm going to get round to making a Baby Surprise Jacket. At the moment it's too hot & sticky to knit, though, so I'm just reading instead.

inlägg gjort av AllieW vid 1:49 pm (EST) Jun 29, 2009

I see you mention knitting & reading at the same time. From this I can only conclude that you must be an Elizabeth Zimmermann fan (me too!). Looking forward to nosing through your library further, if you'll pardon me doing so! Allie

inlägg gjort av AllieW vid 5:42 am (EST) Jun 29, 2009

Acquisition facts about the latest books in my library: three are freebies from one book exchanger, two are from another, and the last (Bhombal Dass, a folk tale of Pakistan) is from my brother. What about yours? Is The Elegance of the Hedgehog an Early Reviewers book? I recently read Escape by Carolyn Jessop -- it's a very compelling story along the same lines as Stolen Innocence.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 3:18 pm (EST) Jun 24, 2009

I'm also making a Norway collection. And I'll probably do Austria, too. But I don't really get why tags weren't sufficient...maybe this is more for people who have multiple, gigantic collections.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 11:27 pm (EST) Jun 21, 2009

Hello,
Have you your collections in order? I'm not sure what is so amazing about this feature -- a lot of hype imo -- but maybe you can explain to me why LT thinks it's done well. I have started putting books in collections (dh, dd, etc.) What else?

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 11:00 pm (EST) Jun 17, 2009

Exactly.

And John Ruskin's only children's book, The King of the Golden River, is, I believe, a re-telling of an Austrian (and Styrian) folk-tale.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 12:16 pm (EST) Jun 3, 2009

I have found out a bit about Paula Grogger - she lived in Austria her whole life, she taught at a university, and her subject was literature & folk tales (based on the few books by her on LT). I think she just loved her part of the world (Styria province of Austra) and so wanted to write a book about it. I got the feeling reading The Door in the Grimming that she put lots of things in the novel that she, perhaps, had overheard as a child (for example), without understanding. Things that made the world an enchanting, mysterious, scary place.

That's my take on it, fwiw.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 1:09 am (EST) Jun 3, 2009

Far Pavilions is a romance set in India in the second half of the 19th century. Some of it is implausible in the extreme. Not really a bodice-ripper but there is some of that. Poisoning one's rivals seems to be a common pastime, based on how often it's happened in the first third of the book! As MMKaye is a contemporary of Rumer Godden, and with a lot of the same India/English background, I decided to read this book...thinking I may like Kaye as well as I like Godden. Kaye is way more secular...Godden might present baffling conundrums (I'm thinking of Greengage Summer, for example) but somehow, the underlying sense of what really is RigHT, comes through. Kaye is less sure of that, imo.

re The Door...I really am not on sure ground to be able to explain WHY I love it so much.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 3:02 pm (EST) Jun 1, 2009

re The Door in the Grimming. Well, I think the oldest son IS legitimate. Its vagueness is perhaps to show how vicious "village life" can be. I'm trying to remember about the witch and the priest. Although I've read the book twice it's been a couple of years, and I can't remember that part.

Right now I'm in the middle of a huge book - The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye - I've got to finish it before I look at The Door again!

Say hello to Italy for me.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 11:15 pm (EST) May 31, 2009

What does your [grr] tag mean?

inlägg gjort av misericordia vid 6:17 pm (EST) May 29, 2009

Hello,
I noticed today that you have a copy of The Door in the Grimming. Have you had a chance to read it? I would LOVE to "talk" about the book sometime.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 1:42 am (EST) May 29, 2009

I for one appreciate well-reasoned prose. There are too many "reviews" on LT which are abbreviated scribbles or tags. So - thanks for all your good work!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 5:29 pm (EST) May 24, 2009

Hi Catherine,

Thank you very much for 'My Heart Lies South' which arrived today. I'm sure I'll enjoy it when it reaches the top of my tbr pile!

inlägg gjort av Teazle vid 1:04 pm (EST) May 20, 2009

That was so thoughtful of you to send me the message about Mommy Grace. I just got my copy today, actually. Thanks again!

inlägg gjort av jhedlund vid 5:35 pm (EST) May 19, 2009

I just realized how many many reviews you've done! And then started reading them - recently I also read Growing Up Tough (Caldwell). I concur with your view, completely. TC would probably not have had much patience with me, however...I've gone through many of the "stages" she abhored!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 9:21 am (EST) May 19, 2009

The chapter headings in my Leekley (King and the Merman) are identical to the book you have, it must be a differently titled re-issue. My copy is 1972, but was first released (doesn't say under what title) in 1956.

inlägg gjort av nessreader vid 3:50 pm (EST) May 18, 2009

no apologies necessary - I'll have to dig it out of the groaning piles when I get home, so it might be a couple of days, okay?

inlägg gjort av nessreader vid 9:27 am (EST) May 16, 2009

Hi,
This movie sounds good. Maybe it'll play near you. On an LT Opera group I read about a new movie, Auditions. Here's what the post said:

I saw the movie Audition yesterday. It is a high definition documentary of the 2007 young artists' competition at the Met.

I love rightful triumph, and these young singers were triumphant. One triumph is bittersweet, and all of the triumphs are well-deserved. There is plenty of music and plenty of pathos befitting a movie about opera.

The movie plays twice in Canada in June, and I recommend it to people who are in Canada then.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 12:58 am (EST) May 2, 2009

I'm sure you'll enjoy them. I keep meaning to visit 'Green Knowe' otherwise known as The Manor, Hemingford Grey, as it's only about an hour's drive from here. I've peered into the garden before, when it wasn't open to the public, but the garden is now open every day, and you can book to have a tour of the house.

inlägg gjort av Teazle vid 5:17 pm (EST) Apr 25, 2009

Gosh, Mummi...I'm just now reading this! How are you doing on the list for Adriano?

You know now how much I love doll books, evil and sweet, both...but evil most. If you don't have cats, I'd love to spend a week reading YOUR books, too!

inlägg gjort av Sasha_Doll vid 5:42 pm (EST) Apr 19, 2009

Thank you for your comment!

I'm learning to knit just now, having toyed with it as a teenager and again about 15 years ago. I've fallen in love with lace weight yarn, which is a bad thing now that I'm at that age where my eye sight is going. I see lots of scarves in my future! The sock book is an ... aspirational goal.

I was a engineering major, so I don't recall much of the Chinese I took way back in college. Studying Classical Chinese is my retirement goal. If I can get into classes at the Uni, I want to work my way up to their class in Chinese opera Chinese. Until then, it's all children's books, subtitled movies, and a dictionary in my spare time. (Mandarin)

Between work and teenagers, I couldn't even keep up with the 3 Kingdoms read-a-long in the Ancient China group here.

I know what you mean about learning other things! I still have days when wonder if I shouldn't have attempted to mix work and kids.

inlägg gjort av mvrdrk vid 2:11 pm (EST) Apr 10, 2009

Hello!
I've been working like crazy on my Ladybird Books. Now they're all Seried, if that's a word:
http://www.librarything.com/series/Ladyb...
if you'd like to take a look. Someone else is also working on it, it's not just me, but I've done my 48.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 6:14 pm (EST) Apr 5, 2009

Thanks! Perhaps I'll work on your library when the feature comes back ;)

inlägg gjort av infiniteletters vid 9:48 pm (EST) Apr 4, 2009

I have nearly everything catalogued (phew!). I just recently decided to archive my comics digests, and I might add some magazines which I'd like to keep track of. It's the scans that are lagging behind and proving to be somewhat monotonous (I wanted to have my scans finished two years ago!) Oh, and the tagging...

inlägg gjort av Harry_Vincent vid 10:01 pm (EST) Apr 2, 2009

Actually, that's OK about the Moomintroll books, but I may request one from the library just to see what it's like...and why you identify with the Troll mother!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 12:55 pm (EST) Mar 12, 2009

And moomins means...? All I know is the Moomintroll books, which I don't have.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 8:05 pm (EST) Mar 11, 2009

And here I've thought muumi was Finnish.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 3:01 pm (EST) Mar 11, 2009

I just noticed I spelled dunno, duuno. I shouldn't use slang! Can't spell it!
We have a really good county library; I borrowed the movie there. Someday I'll get a copy of my own. Oh, and I sent you a book today, to your ON address.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 11:24 pm (EST) Mar 10, 2009

Ninotchka is one of my ten favorite movies. Have you actually seen it too?

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 11:43 am (EST) Mar 10, 2009

I duuno. "Confession: it's good for the soul" (Greta Garbo in Ninotchka), maybe?

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 9:44 pm (EST) Mar 9, 2009

I did read Caldwell's Growing Up Tough, and appreciated her un-PC views, but frankly don't like ranting, even by TC. Given her age when she wrote the book, and my background, she could've been ranting at ME, as I was a directionless person at 18, and never did quite get a "direction" until I got married 10 years later.

The stories she told of her upbringing, though, are priceless, imo.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 5:26 pm (EST) Mar 9, 2009

Lucky! Paperback, I assume? I think I've only seen pb copies.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 6:38 pm (EST) Mar 7, 2009

Tor (Torminster) wouldn't have to do with the burial place of King ARthur, would it? Isn't that Westchester -- vague memories of YA historical fiction are just out of reach...anyway, I haven't read the books except for TitM, and it Seems Like there is a walk on for QEi -- and maybe Edmund Campion as well.

Someone on LT has the tag Ely for the mash-up of one of the trilogies. Is Ely in the fens? That's where the book DW takes place "according to my friend".

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 1:38 pm (EST) Mar 4, 2009

Towers in the Mist is Elizabethan, I'm pretty sure. Thank you very much for all the info about her books! I'm going to copy it for my friend, if you don't mind. I can't remember the characters' names in Towers - I don't own the book. Did I borrow it from my mom I wonder?

My friend is SO taken with Dean's Watch that she wants, badly, to visit Ely Cathedral.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 1:01 am (EST) Mar 4, 2009

A friend and I were talking about Elizabeth Goudge - she's reading, and loving, The Dean's Watch. And I had read and loved Towers in the Mist several years ago and only NOW do I realize they're part of a trilogy! My friend was wishing very much that EG had seen fit to put dates in her book -- have you ever seen anything which puts her work in a specific historical perspective, if there was one?

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 11:34 pm (EST) Mar 3, 2009

Since you're still up (!!!) what do you think of Anatole France's Penguin Island? I've not read it. In fact, I only heard of it today, because it's mentioned in another book I'm reading, Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers. It's his autobiography and really pretty good: he read a lot of really difficult imo books when he was in high school - one of which is Penguin Island. He's a YA author. I think his most famous book is Monster, about a black kid who gets caught up in a crime accidentally. I am NOT impressed with that book, btw.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 12:49 am (EST) Mar 1, 2009

Hi!
I left a comment on the Collector's Manias thread, when I saw your post from last year there. Have you found anything good recently, Hebrides-wise? I see you have The Brendan Voyage, and I was just going to suggest you might like it, esp. the part about the Faroes.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 10:39 pm (EST) Feb 28, 2009

Lol! Her last name intrigued me too, and this is what I discovered about her.

Biography
Tracy Tolkien is an American international dealer and author living in the UK. A vintage clothing and accessories expert, Tracy owns a shop, Steinberg & Tolkien, in the King's Road, London. A graduate of the Courtauld Institute, Tracy combines her talent as a writer/consultant with her passion for her subject. Special consultant for Miller's Costume Jewellery: A Collector's Guide she has also written Vintage: The Art of Dressing Up and A Collector's Guide to Costume Jewellery.

I've become strangely drawn to vintage jewellery and am trying to gather a collection of books in that theme.

inlägg gjort av kehs vid 12:44 pm (EST) Feb 26, 2009

Speaking of Danielle Steele, the only book I've read of hers is His Bright Light, about her son who was manic-depressive and eventually took his own life...how HARD she tried to save him, but couldn't. Very very sad.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 10:13 am (EST) Feb 23, 2009

So, for us anyway, with our amazing collections which no one else has, almost a tenth of our books are ultb's. That's a lotta books! So out of the millions of books on LT, about 1/11 of that number could possibly be ultb's then?

Hey, I'm going to try and get Mathographics from the library.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 8:15 pm (EST) Feb 22, 2009

Hello,
Yes, the lovely ultb, whereby we show off our uniqueness to the world! How many do you have at present? Currently I have 311 ultb's.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 7:35 pm (EST) Feb 20, 2009

Hello,
The Combiners! are really into it, aren't they. I am happy to let them do their magic - I don't want to know how to do it! Therefore I can't figure it out, either.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 9:33 pm (EST) Feb 10, 2009

I just noticed something new to me on LT: the author page for Elizabeth Coatsworth is now divided because there are apparently two (or more) Elizabeth Coatsworth's.

I have no idea how The Divider did it, of course!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 11:54 am (EST) Feb 10, 2009

I started The Tall Books. http://www.librarything.com/series/The+T...

Pheeww. There are six of the old ones (Christmas, Bible Stories, Make-Believe, Nursery Tales, Mother Goose, and Fairy Tales). And a couple of new ones, some with the same title but probably a new illustrator (who I probably don't care for). I've got Combiners! working on the jumble of titles so hopefully it'll look a bit tidier soon.

And, I was thinking, I could arbitrarily assign number 1 - 6 for the old Talls...and put high numbers on the more recent versions, which have quite different cover designs, and I'm guessing here, illustrators.

Of course they could all end up combined somehow or other, but as it is now, one can see all the different covers, and I like that a lot.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 9:41 pm (EST) Feb 6, 2009

Shall we call the series The Tall Books, then?

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 3:54 pm (EST) Feb 6, 2009

I just saw your Combiners request for a Tall Book. Aren't those Tall Books nicely done, and should there be a series, do you think? I have The Tall Book of Fairy Tales, illustrated by Garth Williams, and I have the Tall Book of Bible Stories - a really beautifully done book.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 9:53 pm (EST) Feb 5, 2009

I've started Boy in a Barn. Just finished (did I already tell you this?) Jeremy Pepper by Frances Rogers. It's about a bound boy - at a glass works - in pre-revolution America. The copy I read is borrowed from a library in Oklahoma - nary a copy available in Colorado, apparently.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 10:56 pm (EST) Feb 3, 2009

I have Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball, which I bought after a visit to Charleston, South Carolina, where Ball's family history is centered. While I was there I endeavored to learn more or see Something related to Robert Smalls, a slave cum boat captain who was the first black man commissioned in the US Navy in the Civil War...but the "knowledgeable" guide of our group in the mule- drawn carriage, simply ignored my questions entirely, as he went through his spiel about the colorful houses, etc...

Dorothy Sterling wrote Captain of the Planter: the Story of Robert Smalls, a very well-written YA which is one of the treasures of my library...a book which I enjoyed AND gained understanding from.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 10:32 am (EST) Jan 31, 2009

Thanks for the postcard. I see you've added a Beautiful Mind. I read that book to gain understanding...but can't say I "liked" it. What do you think of it?

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 6:18 pm (EST) Jan 30, 2009

I wonder if you've heard of Eilis Dillon. I have a three books by her, and really like them. They're vintage YA, with settings on the Irish coast and islands, and a dangerous mystery to solve.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 9:40 pm (EST) Jan 27, 2009

It IS hard to sell a scarce book - especially when its "worth" is almost, and unfortunately, nothing! I have a mini-collection of books with Austria in them somewhere. (No, I've never been there, but I'd like to someday) Boy in a Barn sounds SO good!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 11:19 pm (EST) Jan 16, 2009

Hello,
Someone started the Childhood of Famous Americans series, and I've begun adding to it, too, in case you want to take a look: http://www.librarything.com/series/Child...

There are about a hundred books on there so far, in beautiful, tidy, alphabetical order, since the series isn't numbered.

I see you've added a book - and it's a ultb! - by Ursula Moray Williams. She is a very good writer, isn't she. One of my favorite ultb's is by her, Peter and the Wanderlust. I like her YA books much better than the ones she wrote for young(er) children.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 9:49 pm (EST) Jan 16, 2009

I've actually already bought Dreams From My Father, although I haven't added it to my Library yet. The predictor doesn't think I'll like it, either.

I didn't pay full price for it - it was part of a 3 for 2 deal, plus I used Christmas gift tokens to pay for it, so I didn't actually pay anything for it myself.

inlägg gjort av Teazle vid 3:13 pm (EST) Jan 14, 2009

I can't remember now just where I found it The Curve of Time, as I've bought lots of books in both charity shops and second hand bookshops over the last 3-4 months. It's a Canadian publication, though.

We get quite a lot of books from other parts of the world around here - we're close to Cambridge, and to several US airforce bases, and of course East Anglia is a very 'touristy' area!

I've finished reading it now, and loved it.

inlägg gjort av Teazle vid 3:02 pm (EST) Jan 14, 2009

Re the Guide to the Vision Books. On the one hand, its usefulness to people who collect and use Vision Books in homeschooling social studies is obvious, and it goes *with* the series in that sense. On the other hand, it isn't a Vision Book itself, and that's why I wouldn't put it in there with the series.

Certainly, if I had the whole slew of VBs, and the Guide, I'd keep them all together on the same shelf (probably), and that's why you want the Guide listed there. It really makes sense either way.

I'm not going to remove the Guide, though - I never remove things on LT, fwiw.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 1:29 pm (EST) Jan 13, 2009

Good morning!

It's snowy and gorgeously sunny here right now. Personally, I wouldn't add the Ignatius Vision study guide to the Vision books series.

How thrilling to find so many good books at one sale! I'm really impressed!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 5:44 pm (EST) Jan 12, 2009

Meant to add, thank you for thinking of sending me your copy :-)

inlägg gjort av Teazle vid 4:44 am (EST) Jan 11, 2009

I just had a rather surreal moment! I came downstairs this morning, took my copy of 'The Curve of Time' off the shelves to read next, then turned on my computer to find your comment about it!!

I was pleased when I found a copy, and have been looking forward to reading it.

inlägg gjort av Teazle vid 4:39 am (EST) Jan 11, 2009

Hello,
Have you read this exchange and including links, about how the new lead testing requirements could impact the buying, selling, trading of used (and new) children's books?

http://www.librarything.com/topic/54249#

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 11:07 am (EST) Jan 10, 2009

And in case you're wondering, the book is The Vinlanders' Saga by Barbara Schiller. (I meant to put that in the message, but forgot. It is late and I should just Go To Bed, already!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 1:08 am (EST) Jan 10, 2009

0718207920 is the isbn for an old (1966) library discard I just added today - I had no idea that some of these old books would be retrofitted with isbn's. The book hasn't been reprinted, and there isn't an isbn in the book itself. I found out via another LTer's entry.

I'm not sure why, but I don't necessarily appreciate this. Have you come across similar?

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 1:07 am (EST) Jan 10, 2009

Oh, the Council is THE 2nd one, of course.

Thanks for the review of the How to Live on Nothing book :)

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 12:53 am (EST) Jan 10, 2009

re the MLK Landmark, do you have an opinion about the what-I-thought-was-a-Vision Book, Assignment to the Council? I'm the only LTer with it, unfortunately.

How to Live on Nothing popped up on your Random Book list. I love the*idea* of it, but love the comforts of our home, too. Is it a good sample of its genre?

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 11:17 am (EST) Jan 9, 2009

Could the MLK Landmark be, perhaps, the very LAST Landmark, and so it's not included on the lists inside some of the jackets? However, I don't really know - just guessing.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 8:27 pm (EST) Jan 2, 2009

The Landmarks http://www.librarything.com/series/Landm... are all done, at least the preliminary work is done. One could endlessly tinker with any of these series.

Is there really a CK badge? I gather you're close to getting one, then?

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 5:34 pm (EST) Jan 2, 2009

Something funny happened. I have a book that looks like a Vision Book, and is by the same publisher, and I've had it for years...and just today I found out(!) that it's NOT a Vision after all, Assignment to the Council by Milton Lomask. I couldn't figure out why I hadn't put a series number on it, since I have the dust jacket. (There IS no number, duh.)

Getting tired. Must..go..to bed.

Oh wait, I found a list of American Background Books in the same book of lists I told you about. So now, I only have seven more of them to add to the series, out of 3o total. I just had to tell you.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 1:05 am (EST) Dec 31, 2008

It might take a few days, but I'll send you a picture by email of my African nativity. I did find this out - the organization, Lalmba,
http://www.lalmba.org/modules/wfsection/...
has aid stations in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Kenya -- so the nativity is from one of those countries.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 11:52 pm (EST) Dec 30, 2008

Do you know about this, http://www.librarything.com/work/1403697, The History of the Church (the Didache series)? Someone was saying their 16yo was reading it, and liking it...

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 10:33 pm (EST) Dec 30, 2008

And the third solution it is.

Hey, I did the American Background Books series today, but I had to leave a lot of them numberless. Check it out - maybe you have some of the ones which are missing their numbers.
http://www.librarything.com/series/Ameri...

Congrats on your on-sale Fontanini's...they are so beautiful. It sounds like your dd will have a lovely, large assortment to arrange.

My mil gave me a truly darling African Nativity this year, from a mission they support. It's small,made of grasses and wire and bits of wood. There are two lambs and the shepherd is holding a third across his shoulders. Two wise men have woven baskets to hold their gifts, the third's gift is in a sack (the gold?) . I love it.

I barely got my Advent calendar out this year...my husband's work schedule, two of my kids' work schedule. yadayada

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 10:21 pm (EST) Dec 30, 2008

In the series description for the Credo Books, I note that Hawthorn Junior Biographies is another name for the same series. Is there a place for a disambiguation notice for something of that nature?

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 7:00 pm (EST) Dec 30, 2008

I just finished entering the Credo books up to number 25. There may be more than that, however I don't have that information.

And now, hopefully I can stay away from LT - my awfully consuming little hobby! - for the rest of the day!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 1:07 pm (EST) Dec 29, 2008

I have at least 10 Credo books, and studying the lists in them I conclude there are 25 or more titles. And, as luck has it, "19" is stated plainly on the spine of the one Credo I have with a jacket, and it matches up with the lists as well.
I'll see about adding that one Credo to the series you've started.

I may have to hold off on working on it though. Seriously, my shoulder & forearm are hurting.

Is there a way to create the list without going to each book's individual page?
That's what I did with the Visions, even adding a couple of non-existant books to my library in order to add them to the series. (I tagged them as wish list, and fully intend to delete them, as soon as I'm sure they won't disappear from LT -- they were ultb's, after all!)

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 10:35 pm (EST) Dec 28, 2008

Seeing how many you'd done already, it was short work to finish the Vision Books!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 2:49 pm (EST) Dec 28, 2008

My right (mouse) arm is killing me, but I just thought of looking in Who Should We Then Read? http://www.librarything.com/work/117329 and on p.326 is an awe-inspiring list of the Vision books, in numerical order. For another day, of course!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 10:12 pm (EST) Dec 27, 2008

I just started working on the Real Books series...
http://www.librarything.com/series/Real%...

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 9:24 pm (EST) Dec 27, 2008

waaa. There's hardly any World Landmarks left for me to do! You said you were taking a break...

How lovely to see the entire (or almost) series all together!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 8:49 pm (EST) Dec 27, 2008

Hello!
I just did two World Landmark Books (I started the series for them!)
http://www.librarything.com/series/World...
, but had to leave the number off one of them, since I don't have the dust jacket for it (which has the number on it). It's for The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler, in case you do have it.

Are the one who just created the 100+ Landmark series then? Wow!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 8:05 pm (EST) Dec 27, 2008

http://www.librarything.com/series/Histo...
is where I just started a Series, my second one. No pictures have shown up yet - is that just a matter of time?

I also started this Series
http://www.librarything.com/series/Readi...

Easy enough since it's only for 9 books total!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 7:41 pm (EST) Dec 27, 2008

I'm changing my mind about tackling the BiCB series -- there's simply too many of them. What about Vision Books - they're numbered...or the Landmarks? Do you think anyone's working on them? To answer my own question I looked at one of my Visions, by August William Derleth. He sure wrote a variety of stuff - several Vision books, and many many ghost stories/sci-fi/fantasy besides. I had no idea. And no, no one has started compiling a Vision Book series.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 5:20 pm (EST) Dec 27, 2008

It's so satisfying seeing the Illustrated History of the Church all together. I don't suppose anyone's tackled the Best in Children's Books yet...if I started it, would I just put the main title ie Best in children's Books, and then book 1, book 2, etc.? And then LT would set it up? And I could copy & paste covers to it?

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 4:47 pm (EST) Dec 27, 2008

Send me the URL for the series page of the work, so I can see what you're talking about.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 12:48 pm (EST) Dec 27, 2008

You don't waste any time, do you! I haven't tried to do anything with the Series feature, but based on what I've read in Combiners!, it sounds complicated.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 11:36 am (EST) Dec 27, 2008

I used to see many more of TC's books than I do now. Maybe up your way she's easier to find, if so, I wish you luck! I bought my copy of GatP online, as it wasn't easy to find a copy even in a library here...and my book club had decided we'd read it last spring.

Merry Christmas, in case I don't back on LT before then!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 12:33 pm (EST) Dec 23, 2008

Taylor Caldwell was a prolific writer of the 1950s-early 1980s. While not all of her books have a Catholic theme, many do. I've also read Great Lion of God: a biography of St. Paul, and her autobiography. GatP is my favorite so far, though, in strict terms of readability and enjoyment.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 11:06 am (EST) Dec 22, 2008

Have you read Grandmother and the Priests, then? By Taylor Caldwell, who was born in Scotland, but mostly grew up in America...there's quite a few stories in it which happen in Scotland. Or Ireland. Or the outer islands. The first and last time I was in Scotland, I was 17. I wouldn't mind going again!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 11:40 pm (EST) Dec 21, 2008

Hi,
Have you heard of Saints of Scotland by Eileen Dunlop? I happen to have two books by her (Edinburgh, Fox Farm). (Isn't Scotland another of your interests?)

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 11:23 pm (EST) Dec 21, 2008

I really would, and will.
Merry Christmas!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 9:46 pm (EST) Dec 15, 2008

Hmmm, now I've got to back and peruse your ultb's again, to note the Catholic history series I'd not heard of...Builders and Destroyers: God's Hand in History, Book 4. Yes, that's the one.

It sort of sounds like a series I have some of the books for, An Illustrated History of the Church. One volume, The End of the Ancient World an Illustrated History of the Church 381 - 680, has a cartoony (but serious)cover picture of presumably Vandals attacking Rome.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 12:32 am (EST) Dec 15, 2008

I just hate it when I make silly typos, like, I've NEVEr hear of when of course I meant heard of.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 8:07 pm (EST) Dec 14, 2008

Hello!
Can you believe it's the 3rd Sunday of Advent already! I just was browsing through your ultb books. Wow. So many. And so interesting. Do you know Chinese? All those unusual Canadian fiction ones. A Catholic history from a series that I've NEVEr hear of. It's just so fun to see what you have! Speaking of Canadian fiction, have you read River and Empty Sea by Louis Vaczek?

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 8:05 pm (EST) Dec 14, 2008

Hello,
I just added your cover to my Margaret book - it's the same as the one I have. I had never heard of the series before. Do you have others?

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 12:26 am (EST) Dec 11, 2008

Catherine,
Were you really up at 2a.m. tagging your singleton books ultb? Ha! Caught you. Isn't it a great idea, though!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 9:51 pm (EST) Dec 10, 2008

Sorry, Unthinkable is already taken.

inlägg gjort av frisbeesage vid 8:45 pm (EST) Oct 27, 2008

I also found Fairy Tales by Alexander Pushkin illustrated by Ivan Bilibin. It's a 1997 edition printed in Moscow. Is that the one you have? I hope to get my covers up soon, in case you're wondering.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 11:37 pm (EST) Oct 25, 2008

Mystery at Boulder Point - yes, I just got mine at the county library sale, too! It's an ex-library book, and has a quite rubbed pictorial cover. No jacket, big sigh. Anyway, I'm almost done reading it (I adore good juvie/YA mysteries), and I love it.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 10:15 pm (EST) Oct 25, 2008

Aha, it was you who asked about the Nargun and the Stars - yes, it's a good read, an Australian children's classic. It's been a while since I read it, but I have a feeling it was quite spooky!

Must look up Teazle now. :)

inlägg gjort av Hobbitlass vid 5:10 am (EST) Oct 9, 2008

Hi Muumi,
Wow, I thought 2MB had an impressive library, but you beat her by about 200 books! Nice to see more Abe-rs here - like Kehs said, we're taking over the net, one web site at the time. ;-)
Most of my books are still boxed up from the move, so I am just adding a few books at a time, from memory. Not sure what I've got, only that it's not enough! :)

inlägg gjort av Hobbitlass vid 3:20 am (EST) Oct 8, 2008

Hello Muumi,
Nice to hear from you and thanks for the message.I'm glad you find my Library of interest as it has taken many years to put together,and what with reading,collecting,cataloguing and just fitting the ever increasing numbers of books in continues to be my foremost interest.
John Buchan has been a favourite of mine for quite a while and I read and re-read 'The Thirty-Nine Steps nearly every year.It is however some of the other stories that are perhaps even more to my taste,as also are the poems and the autobiography.I think some of the short ghost stories are great as well. Although,needless to say I do not know any of your Canadian Governors (sorry)apart from Buchan I agree that he was a man of great stature.
When I have a little spare time I will have to look through your large number of books too.
With best wishes from the UK.

inlägg gjort av devenish vid 2:10 pm (EST) Oct 5, 2008

Thanks so much for listing my book on Mormonism. You may be interested to know that Zondervan will release in April an updated version of the The Mormon Mirage, with an additional section of all-new materials. Also in April Moody Publishers will release my first novel, about Mormonism, a literary suspense entitled "The Latter-day Cipher.

I'd be pleased if you chose to visit my Web site: www.latayne.com

Thanks again.
Latayne C. Scott

inlägg gjort av latayne vid 11:41 am (EST) Sep 2, 2008

'The Curve of Time' does look interesting - I'll have to look out for it.

inlägg gjort av Teazle vid 9:34 am (EST) Aug 25, 2008

Thanks for the positive feedback. I sent the ARC yesterday via media mail, so it will take a week or so I'm sure, but it is on its way.

Thanks

inlägg gjort av sdshspress vid 9:04 am (EST) Aug 22, 2008

Muumi,

Just read your comment about not being able to get an SDSHS Press book to Canada this month. Apologies. A mistake at this end not adding the right flag. Please note, I shall send you an ARC of the Prairie-Dog Prince right away.

Apologies again.

Martyn

inlägg gjort av sdshspress vid 3:53 pm (EST) Aug 21, 2008

Ann Bridge - yes, I like her writing very much. My first book by her was Singing Waters (and it's my favorite), where she waxes enthusiastic about Albania -- a country I'd never given any thought to before. Of course this was all before the terrible dictatorships ruined so much of the country and peasantry. On the back cover it says of her early life, " she spent much of her girlhood visiting relatives in northern Italy, was educated at home..." Another homeschooler...or did they have a hired teacher for her.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 7:23 pm (EST) Aug 11, 2008

Canadian History for Canadian Kids is a new group I just noticed. I noted a few books for their consideration, but I'm sure you'd know a lot more.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 12:48 pm (EST) Aug 8, 2008

Nin hao ma?

Since we seem to be the only two with the Pinyin Chinese-English Dictionary, I thought I'd let you know that I just scanned and uploaded the cover of one of my copies (don't ask why I have a hard- and a soft-covered copy - I'm not sure myself).

Others may have this book but without the Hanzi in the title.

Jim
(甘)

inlägg gjort av justjim vid 1:37 am (EST) Aug 1, 2008

How neat that Victorine & Julia arrived in their new homes almost simultaneously!

inlägg gjort av Bicyclette vid 3:30 am (EST) Jul 9, 2008

Still no other requests for "Home Girl" so it's probably yours to keep. Enjoy

Beth

inlägg gjort av mcna217 vid 10:23 pm (EST) Jul 3, 2008

Hello Muumi,
I have added dozens and dozens of covers...but still hundreds and hundreds to go. Something to keep me busy and away from my other projects and keeping the house. I tried to join bookmooch (I see you have a little exchange going on in these comments) but I was thwarted... I wonder if anyone there would want my offerings of ex-lib children's books anyway.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 12:43 am (EST) Jun 10, 2008

Hi

Nobody else has requested "Home Girl" yet except you. I'll send you a message if anyone else is interested. Enjoy your trip.

Beth

inlägg gjort av mcna217 vid 12:56 am (EST) Jun 4, 2008

hi

"Home Girl" was mailed today, enjoy.

Beth

inlägg gjort av mcna217 vid 8:08 pm (EST) Jun 3, 2008

I certainly do - I'd love to be able to travel more.

inlägg gjort av Teazle vid 10:01 am (EST) Jun 1, 2008

I've tagged all my memoirs now, and the ones I particularly enjoyed I've given 4 or 5 stars. My absolute favourites are 'Married to a Bedouin' by Marguerite van Geldermalsen,
'Gweilo' by Martin Booth, and 'On Hitler's Mountain' by Irmgard Hunt.
The last one is a slightly uncomfortable read, but absolutely absorbing as well. My copy will shortly be going on holiday to Australia with my mum's wonderful lady minister, who's borrowed it from Mum, who had borrowed it from me!

inlägg gjort av Teazle vid 3:06 am (EST) Jun 1, 2008

Congratulations on the new baby.

Send me a private message with your address and I'll mail "Home Girl". I'll be going to the post office early next week.

Thanks for the trade offer. I've already read "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" and the other one doesn't really sound like my cup of tea. I'd love if you would keep me in mind for future book swaps and I'll do the same.

Beth

inlägg gjort av mcna217 vid 10:36 am (EST) May 31, 2008

Hi

Mailing to Canada is not much more than mailing to the U.S. if you'd prefer I send "Home Girl" there. So far you're the only person who has requested it.

Beth

inlägg gjort av mcna217 vid 8:34 am (EST) May 31, 2008

Yes, I find I usually prefer memoirs to a lot of fiction, although I do read fiction as well. That's interesting about your family history - nothing like that in my family, although we used to love to hear Grannie's tales of her childhood in a log cabin in Alberta. I have swarms of Canadian relatives I don't know!

inlägg gjort av Teazle vid 12:59 pm (EST) May 30, 2008

Hi muumi/shannon. I love The River Road too - if you haven't got it yet, you'll have to hunt for Vail D'Alvery now. The Chess Players is very different, but I enjoyed it and learned a lot of trivia from it. It didn't improve my chess, though!

inlägg gjort av Bicyclette vid 4:09 am (EST) May 28, 2008

Thanks for Totor et Tristan!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 12:17 am (EST) May 23, 2008

hi mummi, glad you enjoyed my book list --- thought yours was interesting too.
neldred

inlägg gjort av neldred vid 2:09 am (EST) May 10, 2008

Hi Muumi,
Sorry I´m so late in replying. I´ve added more books to my library, so have a peep.

ADB42

inlägg gjort av adb42 vid 3:24 pm (EST) May 9, 2008

Hi Muumi,

The Lay of Czar Ivan illustrated by Ivan Bilibin... is on ABE for $11.50 and that includes shipping - and it has a dust jacket. I did a little search for Bilibin to see what would come up, as I was moseying around on ebay and ABE, looking for a book I just heard about, "A Little History of the World" by E. H. Gombrich: aimed at children, but not as Protestant-biased as Hillyer's Child's History of the World.

So do you have all your covers on now? if so, I am suitably impressed! I have over 900 to go!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 2:58 pm (EST) May 2, 2008

Thanks for your comments, and for adding me to your "Interesting Libraries" list - I'm only about 2/5 of the way through my embroidery books, so watch my space! It's taking a while, though; I thought of leaving the covers and tagging till later, but realised that I'd probably never get back round to it.

It's worth keeping an eye out for the Elsa Gudjonsson book - I've seen it on Abebooks a couple of times. Meanwhile, if there are any patterns you're particularly interested in, let me know the page numbers in the Nye books and I should be able to let you have the DMC key.

inlägg gjort av Sovay vid 6:14 am (EST) Apr 29, 2008

Hi - I'm busy adding my craft books, and noticed that you have Thelma Nye's cross stitch pattern book and have commented on the lack of colour photos/key for the Icelandic designs. You might like to know that most of the patterns are charted with key and photos in a book by Elsa E. Gudjonsson (Traditional Icelandic Embroidery) which also has interesting notes on history and techniques, and is well worth getting hold of if you can.

inlägg gjort av Sovay vid 7:39 pm (EST) Apr 28, 2008

My nine Dandelion books have their covers now, in case you want to change any of your.:)

I had to tell my kids tonight, LT is a *hobby* It's *not* my life, and I could drop it if I wanted to...trying to get the more avid computer gamer of my kids to see the difference. However, if I did drop it, for whatever reason, it would be *so* painful! I just love organizing my books on here, what can I say.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 12:47 am (EST) Apr 28, 2008

What an excellent idea, to prop Heidi/Babar open for the cover picture, thus showing both covers (albeit one would be upside-down). When I get through my current project (all my books about Indians), I'll tackle my Dandelions.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 5:55 pm (EST) Apr 25, 2008

The scanner worked for one scan and then quit. Back to the camera method.

I'm afraid I don't know how to retrieve images - from ABE or anywhere else for that matter. Even if you tell me, I probably won't be able to follow your directions. (Although your instructions for finding one's coverless books was easy enough even for me). Re combining titles, like for the Dandelion books, I've wondered how to go about it. My preference for one story over the other, however, means I will put a cover of Babar, and not Heidi, for example.

Another set of books I have, Best in Children's Books, defies listing in any fashion that makes sense. (Not that I've ever asked anyone here - or even looked to see how they list them...)Maybe I should list the authors as tags -- I really want to note the authors, especially my favorites.

Rambling.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 1:31 am (EST) Apr 25, 2008

Sigh, I have over a thousand books without covers. A good many are unique to my library, and another large number have unique covers. Happily, I now have a working scanner. My pictures should be clearer than what I could achieve with a digital camera, as soon as I get the hang of it, that is.

That said, it's nifty indeed to be able to see them, the coverless ones.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 12:12 am (EST) Apr 24, 2008

By the way, I just started a thread on Book Talk (I *meant* to start it on the Fans of Russian Authors group - don't know what happened), Children's Books with Russian authors and illustrators. And yes, I misspelled *illustrators*, the shame of it.
Maybe you can get the word out about Ivan Bilibin...I wonder if any of these book artists knew each other?

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 12:18 pm (EST) Apr 22, 2008

My profile picture of the moon lady is from The Little Humpbacked Horse by Peter Yershov, illustrated by N. M. Kocherin. The story is in rhyme; the illustrations are amazing.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 1:54 pm (EST) Apr 21, 2008

I just put a different picture on my profile page, from one of my Russian folk tales.
Please take a look!
Amy

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 9:58 pm (EST) Apr 17, 2008

Thanks for letting me know about your covers! I tried to make pictures of some of mine the other day, but couldn't get them to upload on LT. Someday I'll get my husband to loan me his scanner and get this thing figured out. In the meantime, between you and Amy I'll get a lot of my books covered. (And I totally agree with you about knitting and reading!)

inlägg gjort av LauraLLD vid 8:45 pm (EST) Apr 7, 2008

Hi,
I've added some covers -- like Bzzz: A Primer for Beekeeper's, and a number of titles by de Angeli and van Stockum. Others, too, but I can't remember them all.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 12:03 am (EST) Apr 4, 2008

Here I am, in the mood and with the time to add more covers for the books we share, and wouldn't you know it, the Change Cover feature isn't working. I noticed it wasn't working last night, either.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 7:58 pm (EST) Mar 30, 2008

Hmmm. I never thought of that - color copying a jacket to put on my jacketless book. I don't see anything wrong with that, especially for personal libraries.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 11:33 pm (EST) Mar 29, 2008

Thanks, Muumi, for telling me about all the covers you've just added, that we share. Surely some must be the same ones as I have. A lot of my books are vintage, though, hence their covers are not the more recent editions. Or else mine don't have a dust jacket.

I've been busy elsewhere - haven't done as much of my LT thing lately.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 9:56 pm (EST) Mar 29, 2008

What a friend! Thanks very much for telling me about the covers. I have dozens, hundreds, without covers...just haven't had time to go through them all yet, with my digital camera in hand -- currently loaned out to son #4 who took it on a trip. I completely agree, the illustrations make the book...funny you should mention Alice. I got rid of my copy because the illustrations weirded me out more than the story. I have such a visual memory it truly jars if I put the wrong cover up, just for the sake of having a cover...so there are some books, owned by 1000s here, that I haven't put a cover on, because none of the LT ones match what I have. Gradually working through it all.

Happy Easter!

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 7:51 pm (EST) Mar 22, 2008

Mary Reed Newland also wrote "The Year and Our Children" about living the liturgical year at home. It is back in print, from Sophia Institute Press. I recently got a used copy but haven't gotten into it yet.

I think you are right about needing good Catholic friends. We have found ours through homeschool support groups. It does make such a difference when you can see other people living out the faith in their homes and lives. It gives a good example to follow.

inlägg gjort av maryanntherese vid 10:39 pm (EST) Mar 16, 2008

Gould's "The Catholic Home" was okay. It would be most useful for someone new to the faith, or new to creating a Catholic culture at home. There was really very little new there for me. But, I read the Catholic Culture website, and some Catholic homeschooling blogs, so I have some good ideas already!

inlägg gjort av maryanntherese vid 10:16 am (EST) Mar 16, 2008

Thanks for your comment. The Enid Blyton thing seems to be happening so widely and to so many people it has to be a bug. I can't believe even Amazon's data is THAT bad. Very weird.

inlägg gjort av tardis vid 11:36 am (EST) Mar 4, 2008

Pictish history is fascinating, not in some small part because there is so little really known about it, but more becomes available every year. If you are ever headed back to Scotlans and touls like some recommendations of sites to see, please feel free to ping me!

inlägg gjort av eithni vid 3:48 am (EST) Mar 4, 2008

Hullo, muumi! Thanks for the comment you left for me. Your library is one I would love to browse through, and I love the story of how you became a bookseller: "Like many addicts, I eventually took up dealing to support my addiction." Ha. Excellent!

inlägg gjort av growlery vid 12:31 am (EST) Mar 3, 2008

I just got the Coatsworth book about Greenland, Door to the North, and another by her, The Golden Horseshoe.
:)

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 12:43 am (EST) Feb 29, 2008

Thanks for letting me know about the cover for the miniature book, Scriptural Rosary.
While searching for the right book I saw you have a copy of Michael Buccino's Rosary Album. I too have that book, but when I tried to combine your single copy (on the author's page) with the other seven copies on LT it wouldn't combine. I'm sure they're the same book -- I knew the artist's niece in fact, and asked if I could meet her uncle, but he was too frail. Her uncle died only a few years ago. Maybe you'll have better luck combining (or else tinkering with your title so it matches exactly), because then I'll be add the cover for it.

Wow - two more rooms to go...I am so relieved to have all my books listed, because I am trying to cull them to under 3000, a rather painful task.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 6:29 pm (EST) Feb 27, 2008

Hello!
Thanks for letting me know about the cover for Jon the Unlucky: I put it on my catalog immediately...I just love seeing the covers. About Door to the North, well I just haven't come across a copy yet. I am enamored of Greenland for some reason -- have you read Jane Smiley's The Greenlanders? I really liked it. And Nevil Shute has written a few about Greenland, too.
Amy

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 7:38 pm (EST) Feb 14, 2008

Hi,
I was drawn to the sheer depth and breadth of your collection - particularly the children's books, which my budget won't let me indulge myself in (as I don't have kids to justify it - dammit). I was surprised to discover, not how many books we have in common, but their eclectic nature... I could spend hours browsing your 'shelves'.
One children's book I don't see, and would utterly recommend you get your hands on, is The Arrival, by Shaun Tan. It doesn't have any text, just pictures, and is all the more beautiful for it - it still manages to tell quite a complex, moving tale. I love it, and will be getting more of Tan's work when I've run out of books on my to-own list that I can actually justify buying ;)

inlägg gjort av trishtrash vid 5:59 am (EST) Jan 29, 2008

Hi - Thanks for the comment on my library. John Goodall and Elizabeth Goudge in common must be pretty unusual. I do have Lavinia's Cottage but it seems not to have made it into the list, will have to find it and add it! I'm just getting used to using this space so stay tuned we may have more in common to come. All best wishes, MissHavisham

inlägg gjort av MissHavisham vid 4:09 pm (EST) Jan 24, 2008

Thanks for the comments on my library. I study Pictish history rather seriously and have a better library on the subject than many Universities. :) The asterisks denote the subject heading the book is shelved under. A book may have multiple tags (ie: Pictish, costuming, shoes, medievalbritain, for example. If it is more about shoes than anything else, the list will also include *shoes. If the book is just on the general topic of the Picts and discusses clothing and shoes in passing, it will include *pictish.) This is also helpful because some books have *lenttoX as their location, so I can remember who has things checked out. :)

inlägg gjort av eithni vid 2:52 am (EST) Jan 22, 2008

Thank you very much for the in depth (for me at any rate!) look at Charles Williams. Have you read Marion Lochhead's Renaissance of Wonder, which is an analysis of the work of some of the Inkling crowd and other authors? I've not read anything else by her, or anything quite like her book for that matter. (I see quite a few titles by her owned by other LTers) That one book is wonderful. Pun intended, I guess.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 11:31 pm (EST) Jan 18, 2008

Charles Williams? He's new to me as well. What would you suggest by him?

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 10:15 am (EST) Jan 16, 2008

I've read The Emperor's Winding Sheet and I've tried to read Parcel of Patterns. For some reason I couldn't get into the story. And I read an adult novel by her, but I've forgotten its name...about three Catholics, one a priest who falls in love with one and she with him. (Looking at her books on LT I wonder if it was Lapsing) It was Not what I was hoping for, after reading TEWS. Have you read everything by her, then?

New to me is Muriel Spark, and I see you have The Comforters, which I'm reading right now. I laughed a lot at the beginning of it, but it's getting kind of creepy imo.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 9:46 pm (EST) Jan 15, 2008

I just noticed we share The Emperor's Winding Sheet by Jill Paton Walsh. That is one of my favorite historical fiction books. Favorite books, period. If you've read it, what do you think of it?

And, thanks for the chuckle...I reread your profile..."like many addicts I eventually took up dealing." Hah! I used to think I could support my insatiable appetite for more books by selling. It's a lie. I need a 12-step program.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 10:14 am (EST) Jan 8, 2008

I just noticed that you've included Berthe Amoss's Advent Calendar -- so I'm going to add mine as well. I wish she'd get back to designing them again -- they're the most beautiful ones out there, imo.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 10:19 am (EST) Dec 6, 2007

I have no magic algorithm for "least interesting libraries". I just worked my way down the list, calculating percentages as I went: which is why the list doesn't get updated!

inlägg gjort av MyopicBookworm vid 6:04 am (EST) Oct 8, 2007

My interest was aroused by the more unusual books we share, such as the ones on St Frideswide and Skye. I may add Tove Jansson to my favourite authors when I've had a chance to re-read her stories. (I once visited the Moomin museum in Tampere, Finland.)

inlägg gjort av MyopicBookworm vid 5:43 am (EST) Oct 5, 2007

Can it be that you and I have the only books on Assisi embroidery? It appears so! And thank you for adding the covers -- I've picked them up, now. From your library, it looks like you're a quilter. I love to look at them, but never had the patience to make more than one, and it was small.

Yeah, I think the stats are kinda fun -- useless, but fun. I specifically avoided HP and LotR at first, to see how small I could get the obscurity ratings. I'm now at 4,370 books, with obscurity of 18/268. I see you are at 13/238 with just over 1,000 books. Still a pretty unique library. My numbers went up a lot when I added my science fiction/fantasy books.

I've enjoyed browsing your library, too!

inlägg gjort av EowynA vid 2:07 am (EST) Aug 24, 2007

Thanks for your kind comments about my library. Out of curiosity, how'd you stumble across it?

EowynA

inlägg gjort av EowynA vid 12:39 am (EST) Aug 24, 2007

What a happy childhood memory to have: being able & allowed to walk to the library by oneself at the age of seven. Amazing. When I was seven, we would go every two weeks - a big family expedition, requiring a whole morning, as it was quite a drive to get there.

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 12:42 pm (EST) Aug 12, 2007

I think your library is interesting, too. I like your "double e's" tag -- I have a lot of books by those authors...they're not pseudonyms for a single author, are they?
Isn't Brink's Winter Cottage a great little story? Amy

inlägg gjort av SaintSunniva vid 1:52 pm (EST) Aug 11, 2007

Hello there....

Hmmm, I think I know you from ABE---heh, heh, heh! I'll have to check out your reviews; you have a nice way of summing up a book. Perhaps I should write a few myself, but at this point I've still got tons of material to enter; suppose I should do that first before the reviews...

Cheers!
octobercountry

inlägg gjort av octobercountry vid 1:19 am (EST) Aug 8, 2007