Member: CyanDag

Cyandag-ji, I recommend to you Marilynne Robinson's Gilead - I think you would love it. Star and I did. It is one of the best books I've read in a very long time. I just finished it last night and I am still siting in the ambiance.

posted by kokipy at 5:32 pm (EST) on Jul 2, 2008

it's nice to see someone who keeps poetry books. sigh. I don't think I have any of mine anymore, or any of the religious texts either. I should remedy that.

do you know I am a big fan of art nouveau architecture? if I ever win the lottery, I have a great art nouveau house in mind (mine will have to have secret passages, of course, but they'll fit right in).

posted by moiraji at 11:22 pm (EST) on Apr 23, 2008

Hi Suzdal thanks for accepting my invite. Please disreguard the aelithtourblanc account. I thought I had to start over but I got back into the first account. See ya.

posted by Aelith at 3:53 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2008

Heh, if I lived close by I'd surely come over to borrow some books. :) You got a lot about Jugendstil, I see.

posted by Vetch at 4:41 pm (EST) on Mar 10, 2008

Thanks for accepting. :D My library is far from complete, of course.
Reading through the comments here... Hey, I have read Lilith! Can't remember anything about it, though. Er, I probably should post that over at kokipy's. Srry, m'tried 'n ramblin.

posted by Vetch at 4:25 pm (EST) on Mar 10, 2008

hi suzdal! thanks for the invite :)

I am on again off again (on the internet in general and esp LibraryThing), so I dipe you didn't have to wait too long. real life tends to intervene

posted by moiraji at 10:29 pm (EST) on Feb 22, 2008

Hi Suzdal! I have 7 old paperback copies of Smiths books including Genius Loci, Lost Worlds, Out of Space and Time, The Abominations of Yondo etc.. I'm very pleased to see what Night Shade Books is doing to bring this material back into print and in HB too (ditto their efforts with Drake's Hammer's Slammers series).

posted by Surtac at 7:25 pm (EST) on Feb 21, 2008

I have updated my pocedures based on your inquiry. Expect service to be slow until all books are in. See note in "about my library".

posted by stellarexplorer at 12:58 am (EST) on Jan 31, 2008

However, to echo Stellar-ji, where is the opportunity to rate it provided?

posted by kokipy at 6:43 pm (EST) on Jan 30, 2008

Yes, no rating from me, yet. My goal is to GET THEM ALL IN ASAP. Then, when I have some time, I'll go through and think about rating. If I stopped to think about how I would rate them or review them I would have gotten about 10 entered so far. But then, what would the scale be? Generally, it is fair to say that if I like them I keep them so they'll be on my shelf. Some I do like better than others, but for a wide variety of reasons. It must be like grading essays - you can't really grade the first one you see, you have to read them all first to see what's there, then go back and look again.

posted by kokipy at 6:34 pm (EST) on Jan 30, 2008

WHere is this rating field of which you speak?

**looks around in puzzlement, as he is apparently the last to know**

posted by stellarexplorer at 5:39 pm (EST) on Jan 30, 2008

what a lovely offer re Miss Bianca in the Orient. It would have been an honor to have had one of your books, but I just last night ordered it from Paperbackswap.
I also have MacDonald's Phantases - that is one of the ones I started but never finished. It sounds more like Lilith than the children's books - it is exactly as you describe. I have extremely vivid memories of the Princess and the Goblins from my childhood.I started reading it again a few months ago, wondering if my short people would like it, and while I did not remember the story, the visual images immediately sprang into my mind - the rose in the fire and the old/young grandmother, and the birds. I believe that CS Lewis wrote the forward to one or the other of my MacDonald volumes, and indicated that Macdonald was a profound influence on him. I think the Narnia books reflect that, at least in the imagery.

posted by kokipy at 1:30 pm (EST) on Jan 25, 2008

Here's another question: have you actually READ Lilith? I have had it for decades and I don't think I've managed to get through it ever. gosh, reading other people's book shelves is so INTERESTING!

posted by kokipy at 8:14 pm (EST) on Jan 24, 2008

Cyandag, I just saw you have Miss Bianca in your library. I had completely forgotten about Miss Bianca! thank you thank you for putting her back in my mind. I am going to have to track her down for my short people.

posted by kokipy at 7:34 pm (EST) on Jan 24, 2008

Thanks a lot! I will read The City Not...

I do love art, but my collection is going in slooooowly, so what is listed now is not yet reliable as an overall picture of what's there. I love entering the books.

posted by stellarexplorer at 10:00 pm (EST) on Jan 18, 2008

Can you tell me about The City, Not Long After
by Pat Murphy? I like postapocalyptic fiction. Is this well done? Do you recommend it?

posted by stellarexplorer at 12:22 pm (EST) on Jan 18, 2008

I was an archivist in a previous life!

Seriously, I have a deep love of organizing knowledge (not necessarily everything else) as well as an utterly untreatable book fetish.

posted by stellarexplorer at 1:00 am (EST) on Jan 18, 2008

Welcome!

No CJC catalogged yet?!

posted by reading_fox at 5:43 am (EST) on Jan 16, 2008

You must really love mckillip. I only read that one that I didn't care for -- the musical SF one.

posted by stellarexplorer at 10:03 pm (EST) on Jan 15, 2008

Hey my paper-and-scissors-maven friend! Good to see you away from the usual haunts! I look forward to viewing our respective libraries as we slowly catalog. Or as I slowly do; yoiu may be fast. I love this for some reason. I admit to a serious book fetish.

posted by stellarexplorer at 10:01 pm (EST) on Jan 15, 2008

Listen, I'm past apologizing for some of my books. However, there may be some that dont find their way into the library catalogue. [we need some smilies here - an atevi wink would be handy about now.] I like the long series too, where the characters just keep on living their lives. I have a lot of those in wide variety of genres.

posted by kokipy at 8:18 pm (EST) on Jan 15, 2008

then it may be a good time to catalogue instead. The big problem with librarything is that eats up reading time!
but you are good at figuring out what is lurking in the dark underbelly, I bet. It is generally something very creative and constructive, waiting to come to light at the right moment.

posted by kokipy at 3:07 pm (EST) on Jan 15, 2008

Given what we already knew about our similar reading tastes, I have been paying close attention to your recommendations at Shejidan. This will be an even more direct method of learning of new books to read.

posted by kokipy at 2:08 pm (EST) on Jan 15, 2008

Dear Suzdal/bluedog: Ishould have known the other suzdal wasn't you, we had no books in common! so, welcome!

posted by kokipy at 12:31 pm (EST) on Jan 15, 2008