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Break no bones by Kathy Reichs
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Snow falling on cedars by David. Guterson
Constitutional law 1993 supplement by Geoffrey R. Stone
The rage by Richard Lee Byers
On liberty by John Stuart Mill
brief history of time, A by Stephen Hawking
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Favorite authorsLloyd Alexander, Geoffrey Chaucer, Michael Crichton, Ken Follett, Stephen King, Michael Moorcock, R. A. Salvatore, William Shakespeare, Daniel Silva, J. R. R. Tolkien (Shared favorites)
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About meI am an aspiring writer of fantasy and sci-fi. In school I studied Psychology and English Literature (I mainly specialized in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance lit.), but I love literature (and books!) of all kinds. I've been an avid reader since I was a little one, as evidenced by my profile photo. I'm not sure what that magazine is that I'm "reading" in the photo, but I sure seem content with it!
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I spent the last couple of years cataloging each volume by 3-digit DDC numbers. (I have since decided to expand to full Dewey numbers, so the cataloging process has completely started over.)
I've got an old five-drawer card catalog from e-bay, as I have always wanted an old-fashioned library card system. Just nostalgia, I guess. Part of my love for my library is in the diligent research for info on each book I add to my collection, so I tend to go about obtaining catalog information the hard way. I search WorldCat, Library of Congress, the British Integrated Catalogues and the Z39.50 Gateway sites to compile all of the necessary info. However, I see, as in so many fields, that computer technology is the way of the future for libraries, and that my card catalog is obsolete in all but its nostalgia. So I have also cataloged my collection on computer data base. LibraryThing is, for me, both a way to connect with others to see what they are reading/collecting, and a third version of my collection. Still, laborously handwriting the Title, Author and Subject cards for each book in my collection for my old-style card catalog is where I get most of my library enjoyment.
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Just read your comment on my blog, and thought I'd drop by with a note of thanks. I'm pleased you liked my debut podcast - I was a bit nervous about it: one rarely likes ones own voice, you know, and not being a trained vocal performer I felt a little dodgy about the whole affair. Words on the page are hard enough, but vocalizing them is frankly terrifying. If you do decide to purchase a copy of the book, Amazon is the best place for it, as they offer a 10% discount (and free shipping if you get another as a gift!). If you do read it, please let me know what you think, both as a reader and a fan of Beowulf. I've gone to great lengths to make it as accurate as possible within the limits of the different medium. Have you read Christopher Webber's "Beyond Beowulf"? It's a sequel to the original, and written in alliterative iambic pentameter. I just finished it yesterday and enjoyed it very much, even though I don't tend to like poetry as much as prose.
R. Scot Johns
Author of "The Saga of Beowulf"
http://www.fantasycastlebooks.com
http://authoradventures.blogspot.com
posted by RScotJohns at 10:34 pm (EST) on Dec 14, 2008
As for fiction, I read a good bit of historical fiction and fantasy, mostly. Bernard Cornwell is my favorite historical fiction author and George R.R. Martin is my favorite in fantasy. I've read a lot of Crichton's books as well. I really enjoyed Timeline (one of my favorite novles of all time) and Prey. I read his last book, Next, but it jumped around too much for me. Could never get a good feel of the characters. As for Follett, Pillars of the Earth is also one of my favorites of all time. The story and the characters were simply captivating.
Nice chatting with you.
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posted by StevenTill at 12:46 pm (EST) on Sep 18, 2008
The instructions for book spine conditioning are a bit long, so I put them here instead of potentially derailing the thread. I took a video the last time I conditioned a book to put on my blog, but I haven't gotten around to editing it. Let's see if I can give instructions:
(This takes 5-20 minutes depending on how thick the book is, so I usually do it while watching TV)
1. Find a flat surface to put your book on (table top is good unless you like sitting on the floor).
2. Take your new softcover and put it down so that the spine is sitting on the hard surface (you'll have to hold it to keep it from falling over).
3. Take the cover and the first one or two pages (these are usually glued funny so you have to do them with the cover) and push them down so that the covers are laying on the table, but the rest of the pages are still sticking up. (This is a bit awkward, but gets easier as you go on).
4. Run your fingers along the binding a few times on inside of the pages that you've pushed down(do this on both sides). Make sure you keep the spine laying flat on the table.
5. Take a single page from the front and one from the back and push them down so they are flat on the table. Run your finger along the binding a few times until these pages lay flat.
6. Repeat #5 until you get to the middle of the book and run out of pages.
That's pretty much it. It doesn't work if you only work from one side of the book. It also doesn't work if you start doing multiple pages at once. I use the time I'm wasting anyway watching TV to do this.
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