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Lucy, the books arrived today--VERY quick! Thanks again.

Deborah

door Cariola op 7:59 pm (EST) om Mar 17, 2010

And I ordered *The Hills* from pbs. Thanks for the tip!

door LizzieD op 11:35 am (EST) om Mar 17, 2010

Thanks again.

Deborah

door Cariola op 4:48 pm (EST) om Mar 15, 2010

Look at you - TWO hot reviews!!!!!
Congratulations, my friend!

door LizzieD op 6:31 pm (EST) om Mar 12, 2010

Elizabeth arrived today, Lucy. What a nice copy! Thank you so much.

door laytonwoman3rd op 6:38 pm (EST) om Mar 10, 2010

Off to visit my mama, and then I'll have LOTS to say!!

door LizzieD op 9:02 pm (EST) om Mar 7, 2010

Thanks, Lucy. You're the best!

door laytonwoman3rd op 2:52 pm (EST) om Mar 6, 2010

The link worked. Thank you! What a site!!!!! (I also want to learn Old English ---- all of which means that I probably won't learn anything.)
(Did I ever mention that part of the reason that I wanted Latin was because I wouldn't disgrace myself with my drawl? The professor wouldn't even listen to me in conversational French.)
Glad you're all well.
P the L

door LizzieD op 1:47 pm (EST) om Mar 4, 2010

Dear Lucy,
I've lost the handle since I know nothing about SL. What is the R.J. novel?
I just wanted to speak......I need to do my outside chores before the rain gets worse.
Later!
Peggy

door LizzieD op 11:00 am (EST) om Mar 2, 2010

And I forgot to mention: alas, The Big Jar Bookstore at 55 N. 2nd is no more :(

door lindsacl op 5:09 pm (EST) om Feb 27, 2010

Thank you so much for recommending The Book Trader. My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves there this morning. I posted about it in the VMC group, here.

What an excellent shop!

door lindsacl op 4:42 pm (EST) om Feb 27, 2010

Love the pictures!
(My best friend for my whole life is in the Philly area. Or rather, she isn't right now, having set out for a month on the west coast. I wish they would move south as they keep promising.)
I'm delighted to see that you read so many things Indian. Me too. Life, calm down. I have so much that I need to read.

door LizzieD op 10:33 am (EST) om Feb 23, 2010

Lucy, I haven't sent you $ yet! Things have been a little out of control around here - or at least out of my control. I'll do it. I'll do it!! I'll do it with pleasure!!!

door LizzieD op 10:30 am (EST) om Feb 23, 2010

Thank you so much for the bookstore info! I can't wait to check 'em out!

door lindsacl op 7:52 pm (EST) om Feb 20, 2010

I am so very glad that you are delighted with your flowers.
I will be every bit as delighted with my books when they arrive.
You were a darling to shop them for us so consider the flowers
from all of us.
Thank you for the kindness you showed us. This was just a small
way I could show my appreciation.
big thankful hug,
belva

door rainpebble op 2:18 pm (EST) om Feb 20, 2010

Too late, my dear.
I have already been there and done that; your blog thing.
I liked it; very interesting.
So you don't breed the corgis, just love them. Is that right?
belva

door rainpebble op 7:57 pm (EST) om Feb 19, 2010

Lucy;
Do you perchance raise Corgis?
belva

door rainpebble op 7:13 pm (EST) om Feb 19, 2010

Well ----- it's really my pleasure! You're going to a lot of trouble for us, and I'm very grateful.
Beaming and Blessing you,
Peggy

door LizzieD op 11:30 pm (EST) om Feb 18, 2010

Dear Lucy,
What a dear you are!!!!
If you will send me your address in a private message, I'll send you $6 plus postage post haste. (ha ha) I'm excited!!!!
Many thanks for your shopping expertise!
Peggy

door LizzieD op 7:53 pm (EST) om Feb 18, 2010

Hello, Lucy! Sorry it's taken me so long to reply to you. I find I don't spend as much time on LibraryThing these days as I used to. I was actually slightly disappointed in Juliet, Naked. I'm not sure why, as Hornby's writing was good, as it almost always is. I think I just didn't feel much compassion for any of the characters. So maybe the writing wasn't that good, come to think of it. There didn't seem enough development of the characters to me, and I didn't really warm to them. Still it was quite good, but not as good as I'd hoped. I think I might give it 2 1/2 or 3 stars. I know. I'm mean. ;)

- Helen xx

door miss_read op 8:34 am (EST) om Feb 18, 2010

Hi friend! I'm distracted, and so will return later to answer your questions and ask some of my own.
Peace,
Peggy

door LizzieD op 10:50 am (EST) om Feb 12, 2010

"Nobody I know reads like I do." This is the MOST blessed place!!!!!
You at least are somewhere, but I am stuck (for life - beginning to end with only a few years away for college and a couple of early jobs) in the boonies of southeastern N.C. I've practically lived here at LT for the past year. That really cuts into the reading time, but I'm beginning to achieve some balance maybe.....
Arthur Waley rings a faint bell. I took a course on Japanese culture in college too, but my concentration was on Kabuki......can't explain the reason now. I will move Lady M. higher on Mt. Bookpile.
Oh! Look!!! You read science fiction too. I'll look at our books in common, but I see the total has risen by 15 or so. (You've been a busy woman.)
I'm looking forward to more mutual exploration.
Peggy

door LizzieD op 11:09 pm (EST) om Feb 11, 2010

Hello, Lucy, and welcome! When Barbara says I should go somewhere, I go. I'm very glad that she sent me to you - and yep --- there I am, #4 on your list of "members with." And does the corgi picture come from cute overload? It's mighty cute!
AND ---- since you're gainfully writing, have you given thought to becoming a(n) LT author and setting up your own author page? Couldn't hurt.
You have read Tale of Genji! Wow! Maybe before I die if I live a good long time and remain compos mentis.....I have a very old translation which is probably pretty bad.
Hope that we re-inspire you to read your Viragos. The women in this group are the best.
Peggy the Liz

door LizzieD op 6:09 pm (EST) om Feb 11, 2010

Lucy - when I back packed from Turkey to London my friend and I deliberately chose books we would find challenging. The idea was to read very slowly rather than to get through a romance a day. It worked, but there were times when one realized it was a huge mistake. Sitting on a Greek beach with Steppenwolf etc. Even then we read them all in two weeks but fortunately found a market in Istanbul with Jane Austen, Anita Brookner etc. 4 months in we were reduced to whatever we could find - including a movie tie-in book of The Omen.

door romain op 4:28 pm (EST) om Feb 11, 2010

Hey - I have posted your book rating system to the Virago group because it made me laugh. I just finished the Nick Hornby and have to admit that I found it very painful because I have a little of Duncan in me too.

Barbara

door romain op 11:28 am (EST) om Feb 11, 2010

Hi there, I'm glad you were able to stop by to have a peek at my blog. I did enjoy the Group. It amazes me how much it is still relevant and to hear stories that are similiar among the people that we know. And it looks like we share a few books too!
Danielle

door noodlejet22 op 9:45 am (EST) om Feb 10, 2010

I live in the Easton/Bethlehem area. I believe Phila. rec'd. more snow than we did.

I'll be sure to check your thread to see what you are reading.

door Whisper1 op 8:34 pm (EST) om Feb 6, 2010

Hi
I note you are new to LT and to our 75 challenge group. Welcome!

Linda

door Whisper1 op 6:30 pm (EST) om Feb 6, 2010

I LOVE weather. I love huge snow storms that shut everything down. People who won't talk to each other at any other time will get outside and help each other--like your husband and his snow blower. I miss the snow we had in Colorado so much. Sometimes I can't believe I'm living here--what the heck are we doing here. Don & I talk about where we might live someday. Who knows. I love northeast Tennessee/North Carolina. I miss the mountains terribly.

The trip when I cut off my finger was our first trip back to Colorado (where we weren't just visiting relatives) in years. We had such a good time. Yes, we were very remote. It's almost hard to find a place like that in Colorado these days, but it's remote because you can't get there from the main highways, and people won't bother. Not to many native Coloradans living there anymore, I guess. They all want to jump on I-70 and get to the mountains by the most obvious route. That's a soapbox for another day.

We were in Gould, at a very rustic fishing camp at the end of the season, so we were the only people there. I had my computer and my dogs, so I was having a great time working on my book and Don, of course, was fishing. I was cutting kindling for the stove. It was so dumb. Fortunately the owner was in the camp office when I did it. The place was a little tiny town, but you probably know how it is in towns like that. He called 911 and 8 people showed up, including the mayor and 3 people who were EMT's. They got me patched up and Don drove me to the nearest hospital--2.5 hours away, although it took him only 67 minutes to drive down that canyon. The guy sewed it back on only to make a patch--I knew the finger was gone, because he sure wasn't doing microsurgery. Ha.

We finished the last 2 days of our vacation, and when I got home I found a hand plastic surgeon. That man was an angel. The first thing he asked me was, "Do you play the violin?" I guess it's a good thing I don't--heh. Anyway, he did surgery on it and gave me sort of a pad so that I could type with it, but I ended up teaching myself to type without it--I type just as fast now without that finger as I did with it. It was a long, distracting few months which included a lot of pain and rehab. It was just getting better when I broke my wrist--same hand. I was outside taking pictures, it was muddy, I twisted my ankle and went down. I think I was protecting my camera and also trying not to fall on my shoulder because of the frozen shoulder thing I'd had in the past. Stuck my hand out and broke my wrist. Drove myself to the hospital. More pain, more rehab, more distractions.

Now things are very good. I started spinning last July and love it. I used to run; I don't do that anymore, but spinning is pretty close, at least it's a good workout. I'm pretty sure now that if I had the same mud/camera scenario that I did when I broke my wrist, today I wouldn't fall in the first place because I'm stronger and have better balance. So, the physical stuff--very up and down.

I like your title. Midwifery is part of it? Cool. I know your novel is contemporary, but there's a book that I really love--maybe you know it (oh heck, I guess I haven't put it into LT yet, so I have to find it on my shelf): A Midwife's Tale, The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. It's one of my favorite books.

Yes, I know what you mean--you wake up one day and you say, "It's time. Do it." I visualize myself doing that--I know it's going to happen and probably just like that. I'll get up one morning and say, "This is it." I picture myself sitting at my computer typing pages and pages, putting each chapter into a separate manila envelope, the envelopes piling up at my feet. I'm pretty sure that's the way it's going to go. Lucy, I swear, sometimes I feel like it's already happened; I'm just waiting for that loop of time to come around again, like some kind of merry-go-round, and when it does I'll hop on and write this thing.

Anywho, enough dreaming. Gotta work. Don works every Saturday on a status report, so Saturdays are good working days. Stay warm and enjoy the snow!

door labwriter op 9:48 am (EST) om Feb 6, 2010

"writing unfriendly things" going on. Boy, you nailed it.

Well, it's actually snowing something that looks like snow outside and I put off going to the store for dinner. Dumb. So, I'd better blast off. I'm probably making something "inspired" like spaghetti & MB. Well, it's Friday and snowing, so nobody is going to mind too much.

door labwriter op 6:09 pm (EST) om Feb 5, 2010

Margaret Mead? Yeah--you got it.

door labwriter op 6:07 pm (EST) om Feb 5, 2010

Absolutely re: the fat-fingered typing.

What kind of bread are you baking?

Sorry you're not feeling well. I go back and forth with the physical stuff. Sometimes I feel like I'm breaking down; other times I'm good. This is a good time. My issues in the past 5 years or so have mainly been accidents or strange stuff. I had two frozen shoulders, I cut off my finger on a fishing trip, cutting kindling, and then I broke my wrist. For awhile now, though, things have been stable.

But you met your work goals--that's huge, so give yourself a pat on the back for that. I've had trouble focusing on the writing this week--don't know why. It seems like I can choose either the reading or the writing, but not both at the same time.

I'm doing something now with my book that I'm having a good time with--maybe too good a time, but it's fun. I'm creating Word documents for each character, writing down everything I know about each one of them. As you can see, I'm not even close to being finished with my first draft. I've written pieces and parts of it, and having these character documents is a big help to me.

Gonna go put some books into LT for awhile. That's my newest favorite brain dead thing to do (or I guess "brainless" thing). I can't work in the garden, so the LT book thing is a good winter substitute.

Bye for now. (and I didn't even proofread--ha!)

door labwriter op 5:34 pm (EST) om Feb 5, 2010

That should read, "even the hint"--so much for not proofreading.

door labwriter op 2:19 pm (EST) om Feb 5, 2010

Hi Lucy. I know exactly what you mean about a city not "doing" snow well, although you are so kind to call their silly ways "endearing." St. Louis FREAKS OUT at enven the hit of a snowstorm. They have snowplows that start plowing about 10 minutes after the first flake hits, yet even so, bread and milk FLY off the shelves six hours before there's any hint of the snow starting. I don't get it--never have. Denver gets lots of snow yet had no snow plows when I lived there, I guess on the theory that the high altitude sun melts it away pretty fast. That's mostly true, but when it didn't happen, we would park our cars on the nearest main streat and hike to and from the car to our house. One year an enterprising mayor had the trash trucks go out and try to smash down the snow in the streets. That didn't turn out too well. Ha. I was an R.N. for 20 years, working in Labor & Delivery, so I had no choice--I HAD to go to work regardless of the weather. So glad those days are over.

I know what you mean by the groups--they can take up a lot of time. I'm gonna go read. Storm is coming, and I'm just going to hunker down with my dogs and be glad that I can stay warm inside. Have a great afternoon!

door labwriter op 2:08 pm (EST) om Feb 5, 2010

Hi Lucy. Boy, where did today go? I usually get good work done on Thursday. Not today. Oh well.

I'll let Don know about "the Big Squeeze." Sounds like fun. Probably though if he can get away he'll choose fly fishing.

Have a good day tomorrow. Bye for now.

door labwriter op 11:15 pm (EST) om Feb 4, 2010

I like the description of your novel--it sounds like one I would like to read. I love multiple POV characters. It's interesting to think about what kindles the creative spark. I think it's usually not what most people think--like your guy running across the bridge.

Don will be so happy to have the tips about playing the concertina. I will look up some clips on YouTube and see what I can find.

Anywho, gotta go make dinner. It was a so-so day for La Booke, but I got some stuff done that's been hanging over my head, so that's a good thing. I hope to start the Steinbeck biog tonight.

door labwriter op 5:58 pm (EST) om Feb 3, 2010

I have lived in the same house for over 30 years, and I will never move! I'm always amazed at the things I find on the rare occasions that I attempt to just de-clutter. And I know there are things in my attic that were put up there the day we moved in (maybe some of those mismatched sheets?). Well, consider this a virtual cold compress, and I'll try to channel Erma for you! Good luck!
Terri

door tloeffler op 4:47 pm (EST) om Feb 3, 2010

Hey, Lucy! I have read some Bill Bryson, and enjoy him for a chuckle. But Dave Barry never fails me for a belly laugh. Have you ever read his "Book of Bad Songs"? Falling on the floor hilarious!

I've been enjoying your posts around the threads. Hope to hear more from you!

Terri

door tloeffler op 2:31 pm (EST) om Feb 3, 2010

Thanks for the compliment! I'm finding giving up book buying a lot easier than I thought I would...I often used to buy books to cheer me up, but chocolate is cheaper and does the job just as well! x

door bigpinkmarshmallow op 11:16 am (EST) om Feb 3, 2010

Heh. I had to look up your acronym FoMO. Friends of Mulanje Orphans? Former Morman? Oh, Fear of Missing Out.

door labwriter op 10:50 am (EST) om Feb 3, 2010

Wow, so glad I don't have to feel badly about not learning the dulcimer. You don't pick up a difficult instrument with no musical background at the age of 57--unless maybe you want to make it a full-time job. Nope.

Ogburn is Charlton Ogburn who wrote *The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth and the Reality*. I wrote some thoughts about it here (not really a review): http://www.librarything.com/work/book/55011498

Don's concertina is, according to a little card I found in the case, an Anglo Stagi, 30-button. It was made in Italy. He remembers his uncles playing the concertina a generation ago in his hometown of Pueblo, Colorado. They would play at family gatherings, picnics, weddings, or just any old time. I think booze was probably involved. Ha. They were from Austria and Slovenia (his surname is "Mihelich"); the other half of the town at that time was from Italy. Also, some of his cousins played in a tamburitza band, which is the sort of small musical group you write about, only from a different culture.

Thanks for the tip about the Tascam--I will definitely tell him about it. He's a guy who works 24/7 at his job at an international software company. He needs some balance in his life. Ha--as if I know anything about balance.

Where are your Campbells from? Mine are from Carter County, TN.

And me too, back to work.

door labwriter op 10:22 am (EST) om Feb 3, 2010

Wow, fascinating stuff about your harp experience--very interesting how you came to that through a dream at a time when your mother was evidently in a liminal state. Where does creativity come from--it comes from places and experiences like that.

Honestly, I wouldn't have put the harp together with Irish music, but it makes perfect sense. My husband Don and I spent a First Night in Burlington, VT one year, and the music was grand--the small groups playing whatever instruments they were playing. There was a dulcimer, I think--would that be right? Also some small flutes, but I don't know what they were called. The experience inspired Don to buy a concertina--he found an old used one that was in perfect shape at a funky little music shop down the way. He plays around with it but hasn't really learned to play it. Unfortunately he's like me--no musical background to speak of, and where I can at least sing, he can't carry a tune.

My mother's family, from way, way back (like, Revolutionary War, way back) includes a clan of Campbells from northeastern Tennessee. Don and I have spent some time there, with him fly fishing and me doing cemetery hunting. We've heard some great music in that area. I think it would be a kick to learn to play the dulcimer, but so far it's only been a thought in my head.

One thing I picked up from Tennessee was shape note singing. I found a group here in St. Louis that's been singing together for a long time, and I joined them for a couple of years. The best place to do shape note singing is in a small old wooden church. It's as if the building becomes the music box. The sound of those voices singing in the shape note style in one of those old churches is otherworldly.

Thanks for sharing about your harp and your music how that all came to be for you. What a nice story.

door labwriter op 9:17 am (EST) om Feb 3, 2010

I understand. I hate it when I lose posts for some reason. I can't ever recreate them. That's OK.

door labwriter op 11:12 pm (EST) om Feb 2, 2010

Hi Lucy, So tell me about the practicing. Harp, obviously. How long have you played? I'm musically illiterate. I wanted to play the piano in the fourth grade when everyone else was signing up for lessons at our (public) school. No money for pianos. I wanted to play the flute in the school band. No money for flutes. So I ended up playing the violin because it was an instrument that could be rented from the school. That went nowhere, because the violin just wasn't my thing. Oh well, maybe in another life. I now have a piano that sits in my dining room, but honestly, I do not have the time at this point in my life for one more thing.

Yes, it was a good day, except that I'm behind in the reading for my Missouri reading group--The Moonflower Vine. It was supposed to be read by Feb 1. Where the heck did January go? I want to start the John Steinbeck biog asap, but. . .

I'd love to know more about your what you're writing if/when you feel like sharing.

door labwriter op 7:40 pm (EST) om Feb 2, 2010

Hi, Lucy. It is so much fun to find someone that reads the same things I do. Especially when the books in common are not that common

Hi Lucy. It is so much fun to find someone who reads the same things I do - especially when the books in common are not that common! I have reread "China Court" several times. I can't help it - I find something new every time. Thanks for the note.

door MerryMary op 9:50 am (EST) om Feb 2, 2010

"the next novel" --Yes. I have an idea that I'd love to work on for #2. It's a 1950s novel. So yes, I understand that push. But I'm still at the point where I love, love, love my characters. They're still telling me what they know. I've had a lot of "detours" in those six years that have taken me down strange roads, so they don't count as six full-time years. But still. . . sigh. It's a big time commmitment.

door labwriter op 5:27 pm (EST) om Feb 1, 2010

I've always wanted to write fiction (a novel because "short" isn't my style) but was never sure that I could. I was taking a class about the writer and his or her "intent"--it was part of my Master's lit degree, a crossover class in the MFA program that I was allowed to take because there was an available seat. That class got me to thinking. Then one day when I was fixing dinner--browning some hamburger in a skillet--the whole story sort of came to me. It wasn't until about 5 years later that I actually started writing. And now I've been at it for about 6 years.

door labwriter op 3:11 pm (EST) om Feb 1, 2010

Yes, droopy turtleneck and my Carhart overalls which I wear every day. Pockets, you know, like a portable office.

door labwriter op 12:59 pm (EST) om Feb 1, 2010

I guess I forgot to answer your question about what I'm writing. Yeah, it's a novel. The two main "girl" characters were both born around 1900. Yes, it's set in Manhattan, but with a twist. I've been working on it, off and on, for about 6 or 7 years. I use something called OneNote for all of my notes--all on my computer--so I have them backed up about 17 ways. It's mostly "about" communities of women. The whole project has become huge and overwhelming. Quote from my husband: "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time."

Becky

door labwriter op 12:55 pm (EST) om Feb 1, 2010

Lucy, I like your pic with the harp. I was messing around with Photoshop last night and came up with the "artsy" rendering of my photo. I took the photo using my computer. I guess you would call me camera shy. I tend to tuck my chin in on every single shot: "Oh, it's Great-Aunt Em, with her deep double chins!" Heh.

door labwriter op 12:48 pm (EST) om Feb 1, 2010

S, I haven't finished that one yet. I had to put it down to follow through with some other books and never got back to it although I was enjoying it. I will finish it though because that is just my nature, I'll also finish "Beatrix Potter" and "The Tenderness of Wolves" and "Little Women" and "Traveling with Pomegrantes" Seriously, I did have reasons for putting each one of them down and as I was enjoying each one of them I will surely finish them. Right now I am reading "Little Women" as it is from the library and has to be returned. It is already late. When the review for that one is on my review page, I will be reading "...Pomegranates" another library book.Not sure where I will hop off to then but my reviews will reflect my progress. Did you like "John Adams?" I gather you must have since you finished it. MB

door mmignano11 op 11:04 pm (EST) om Jan 31, 2010

Mary Wesley! Lucy, are you for real? I found a couple of Wesley's novels in my sunroom on Saturday when I was reorganizing my books--now why did I get those, I thought? Oh yes, because she published her first novel when she was 70 or something. Heh.

My food timer is going off--will do more later. No, my book is a novel. LaBooke.

door labwriter op 7:01 pm (EST) om Jan 31, 2010

Lucy, thanks so much for your note. Were we separated at birth? Heh. Bless you, I kinda figured you were writing a novel (I thought it was a novel, even though "writing" could be lots of things, like a memoir). I'm writing one too. I quit teaching writing about six years ago because I couldn't get anything done on my own stuff--I kept spending all my time on my students' papers. I loved teaching, but I had to decide: teach or write. Fortunately, my dear husband is super-supportive, and he said: "Write."

It's great to have a deadline, but as long as you're making progress on it--I mean, you wouldn't really quit just because you're not done in three years, right? A few months ago, I told my husband: Don't ask me to quit working on my book, because if you do I'll move into a one-room apartment if I have to (and take the dogs). I meant it--he knows that--so I continue working on LaBooke.

The FB thing is sort of hilarious. It reminds me of high school when I was kicked out of a carpool for being "too quiet." Seriously--the girls I rode with said I didn't speak enough on the ride to school in the morning, so they kicked me out. I was devastated at the time, mainly because my mother was so pissed at me: "Now how are you going to get to school?" Oh, she was so mad.

Yes, I think LT is a miracle. I'm so happy to have found you. Are you seriously moving to Vermont? Whereabouts? We used to drive through VT when we drove from MO to Maine to pick up our son from summer camp. We spent a little time there. It's so beautiful. I'd like to do "Bike Vermont" if I can get my husband to do it with me. He likes to fish, so we go on fishing vacations and he fishes while I work on my book. It's fine, but I'd like to do the bike thing in Vermont.

door labwriter op 6:07 pm (EST) om Jan 31, 2010

Thanks for popping by my page. I don't remember any elevator in that building, but I do remember the drive up the mountainside very vividly. The road was very narrow and bendy indeed. The Amalfi Coast is divine.

Glad to meet a new face on LT. Hope to see you around.

Cheers,

Karen

door kiwidoc op 7:16 am (EST) om Jan 31, 2010

Lucy, I love your rating system. Mine is mostly in my head and is soooo boring. Something like:

** Finished it, but only because I felt I had to...probably an ER book or something a friend foisted on me.

**1/2 Finished it, but not sure why.

*** Average. Some may love it, but it didn't exactly float my boat.

***1/2 Above Average. Getting close to the "Good" category, but I had some reservations about it.

**** Good but not Great. I recommend anything with a 4+ star rating.

****1/2 Excellent book, but not in the heartwrenching, life-changing category.

***** Best of the best. An absolute keeper, a rescue-it-from-the-burning-house type book.

Welcome to LibraryThing. I have a thread on the 75-Book Challenge. I'd love to have you visit!

door Donna828 op 11:19 am (EST) om Jan 29, 2010

Hello Lucy! I am very glad to see you are a new member and getting right into the swing of things around the Thing. It's a wonderful place full of friendly people, in my experience, and I hope you'll find it so as well.

Gosh...using "Aspects of the Novel" as your cicerone through this strange life, in blog form...I think I need to be scared of how smart you are...

I look forward to running into you round the Thing! Visit me any time, I've got three threads to choose from.

Cheers

door richardderus op 6:03 pm (EST) om Jan 27, 2010

Hi Lucy.

My first profile picture on LT was a pic of Lucille Van Pelt--my alter ego. My husband has called me "Lucy" for about 35 years--I'm crabby like she is, I guess (well, no "guessing about it--I am).

Do you have a thread started under "Sibyx" on the 75 books group? I looked, but didn't see you. Anywho, I'll watch for your comments.

All the best,
Becky

door labwriter op 5:58 pm (EST) om Jan 27, 2010

This is so great! Thanks for leaving a comment. I will happily follow you and see how your reading goes this year. So far, in January, I've made some pretty bad choices--books off the shelf. But that's OK, they're books I wanted to read and now they're done. My husband and I spent a New Year's Eve in Vermont in 2000--such fun! What a beautiful place. Good luck with your move.

All the best,
Becky (labwriter)

door labwriter op 5:23 pm (EST) om Jan 27, 2010

Sibyx,

Thanks a lot for your advice I'll look for the books next time I go to our local
uaed Book Store in Frederick, MD. I haven't read a lot of Lois McMaster Bujold
books in the past however I still plan to also read Ethan of Athos too and while
I'm at it I think I also look into her Vorkosigan Saga as well. What do you think
of her Vorkosigan Saga?

Beatles1964

door beatles1964 op 10:10 am (EST) om Jan 27, 2010

Sibyx,

No, I haven't read any of the Eragon books yet however I have seen the first movie
on the Sy Fy formerly Sci Fi Channel in the past.Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
sounds like it's gonna be a great trilogy.I recently just started getting into reading some Dystopian & Utopian societies fantasy books so Hunger Games sounds
like it will be right up my alley. I haven't read anything by Lois McMaster
Bujold yet either however I doown a copy of her book Ethan Of Athos which I plan
to read in one of my other LT 2010 Challenges. I'll have to for Suzanne Collins Hunger Games Trilogy and any other Lois McMaster Bujold books the next time I go to a local used book store.

I was even able to find some Utopian & Dystopian books at home recently and plan
to add them to my list in one of my other 2010 Challenges. Right now I'm reading
Children of Men by P.D. James and Lord of the Flies by William Golding as part of
my Dystopian Challenge.

Beatles1964

door beatles1964 op 1:32 pm (EST) om Jan 25, 2010

Hi Lucy - glad you are enjoying perusing my library. I'll take a look at yours when I get a moment. Always nice to see what others are reading and rating. Impressed 'Silas Marner' got such a good rating from you, I read it last year and was disappointed. Though do love 'Middlemarch', and 'Mill on the Floss' despite the ending!

Best

Caroline

door Caroline_McElwee op 10:36 am (EST) om Jan 25, 2010

No, I missed it. I wasn't aware it was going to be on last night. I might hae to
look out for it to be repeated on PBS later on. When I was growing up I was hooked
on the children's books by Dr. Seuss then when I got older I started reading a lot
of Alfred Hitchcock books even though he didn't write the stories I always enjoyed
reading them. I still own the Dr. Seuss and Alfred Hitchcock books today. And I always enjoyed reading other Mystery novels too. Then I got into Horror novels from
Stephen King, Anne Rice and Clive Barker. Now I'm into a little bit of everything
from Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction inlcuding Feminist Science Fiction,Chick Lit,
Mysteries,Romance,History including British history which has always been my favourite including anything about the Royal Family, the Twilight Saga, and Harry
Potter as well. I didn't like it when Anne Rice first came out and said that she
had found Religion again and wouldn't be wriitng her Horror Stories that made her
famous and a house hold name in the beginning. She only plans on writing books on
her fictional life Of Christ series. She lost me as a fan when she did this even
though I still own The Vampire Chronicles series, The Mayfair Witches Trilogy and her other Vampire series too. I'm starting to go back and re-read The Vampire Chronicles again especially since I've never read all them before. The last one I
had read was Tale of the Body Thief and never got around to reading any of the
other ones that came later on.

Beatles1964

door beatles1964 op 10:32 am (EST) om Jan 25, 2010

Hi Sibyx,

Thank You for saying you liked my poem The Twelve Days of Middle Earth Christmas.
I appreciate it. Like a lot of my poems I used to post in Poetry Fool at the time
I was a member it just came to me. I thought about combining The Twelve Days of
Christmas with Middle-Earth references and that was the result.

I have always liked to go back and re-read The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings
Trilogy. I've read them several times and never get tired of re-reading them again.
I also have the Peter Jackson movies on DVD and can hardly wait until The Hobbit version comes out to the Movie Theatres and then eventually to DVD. I do own the
Rakin-Bass animated versions of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings Trilogy, however
I don't think they ever made an animated version of The Return of The King. Anyway,
a lot of times whenever I post in any of LT groups I'll usually just write the
first thing that pops into my head at the time and if I think of something better
I'll go back and change it later on. I have always loved to read so LT is a perfect
fit for me. Some of the books I love to go back and re-read again and again is like
visiting old friends you haven't seen or heard from in awhile so it's always nice
to be able to go back and read them again especially if it's been a real long time
since I haad re-read the book. I also love to watch the same movies over and over
as well like the old Godzilla movies, the Peter Cushing-Christopher Lee Hammer
films of Dracula, the old Horror and Science Fiction films, The Harry Potter films,
all four JAWS movies,some of the Clint Eastwood films like Kelly's Heroes, The
Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, the Dirty Harry films, For A Few Dollars More, A
Fistful of Dollars and other great Eastwoods too. I love to buy and collect movies.
And of course The Beatles A Hard Days Night and HELP!

Beatles1964

door beatles1964 op 7:37 am (EST) om Jan 25, 2010

Hey, Sibyx, that would be The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge, my very favorite book in 6th grade, and still well-beloved. I have several copies in my library.

Ooh, you have the Megan Lindholm books too. They are not very common. I really like them. I have never liked anything she writes as Robin Hobb as much.

Welcome to LT--it is really a lovely community!

door ronincats op 11:58 pm (EST) om Jan 21, 2010

You're welcome! (for the welcome, that is.)

Your post reminded me of me last summer when I joined LT and started posting and didn't know anything about how to post links and all that stuff. You'll catch on, and don't be afraid to ask questions. Usually someone comes through with an answer.

I love your favorite library -- I do so miss the Free Library of Philadelphia's central library since we moved across the state. I almost had a cow when I heard that the Mayor of Phila. was threatening to close down the whole system during the state budget crisis!

Cute profile picture! And I really like your rating system!

door tymfos op 9:13 pm (EST) om Jan 21, 2010

I hadn't thought of that. That would be just the sort of thing that Willie WOULD do. I hereby rescind the invite to have your kitty play with/teach my kitty.
I thought that Helen Humphries book I read last year was awesomely good - a little bit of a downer for some perhaps, but I enjoyed it.

door Fourpawz2 op 3:11 pm (EST) om Jan 21, 2010

Mine, on the other hand, prefers throwing up on them. Maybe your guy could give my guy lessons in getting UNDER them rather than doing disgraceful things TO them.

door Fourpawz2 op 2:36 pm (EST) om Jan 21, 2010

I love your profile pic. My cat does the same thing. He loves to hide under rugs.

Carrie

door cal8769 op 12:08 pm (EST) om Jan 21, 2010