Member: Fullmoonblue

Yes, I am a lit major who tried to focus on gender studies and took a few gender studies courses. Are you a lit major??

posted by ejd0626 at 3:12 pm (EST) on Sep 4, 2009

Hi,

If the person who expressed interest in the books hasn't picked up her reservations within the next seven days, you'll definitely be the next person I contact about the Anne of Green Gables books. :)

Kat

posted by MsCellophane at 3:47 pm (EST) on Jun 26, 2009

Hi Fullmoonblue,

I just bought a copy of 'your madness, not mine' by Makuchi. I see you have a copy. When you get a chance, could you look at the copyright page & tell me if your copy has 5 4 3 2 1 to the right of the print year? I like your taste in books. Quite impressive & scholarly! Thanks

Michelle (bookhouseshell)

posted by bookhouseshell at 4:37 pm (EST) on Jun 4, 2009

Thanks for considering mine an interesting library - yours is, too!

posted by TTAISI-Editor at 9:47 pm (EST) on May 19, 2009

Aw, thanks! [Blushing]

posted by anna_in_pdx at 12:00 am (EST) on Apr 11, 2009

Hi,

I see you have added them. Now we "share" them. Fear of Freedom was a duplicate copy, and the book by Crystal was purpose-bought. I still have copies in my own library.

Greetings

posted by edwinbcn at 1:55 am (EST) on Apr 2, 2009

Thanks for the welcome! Library Thing is fun, and it's interesting to see libraries of people with similar tastes. I, too, was a comp lit gal--until the lure of comp politics caught me. Your profile of library interests reads a lot like mine, so I look forward to gleaning some great reading ideas from your library. Best, Diana

posted by DianaNowling at 9:59 pm (EST) on Apr 1, 2009

Thank you for the coming to welcome me that was very nice of you!

Laurie

posted by she_climber at 3:43 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2009

I too have been starting seeds (something I mostly fail at) and planning a big veggie garden. Last year I rented a big, flat black dirt plot (instead of struggling with my hilly, shady, clay) and grew some fabulous tomatoes and peppers. This year I planning on planting peas and a variety of lettuces and koles that I started a few weeks ago. I am staring a few additional things now. My biggest goal is to grow melons and pumpkins. Last year my pumpkins (Triple Treat) were wonderful even though I had to harvest them quite small because some kind of borer got into the stems. I harvested about 2 pounds of pepitas (the hull-less Mexican type pumpkin seeds) but they didn't last more than about 2 weeks.

I just got Continental Drift off Paperbackswap and was so surprised that it is a traditional, small paperback. I haven't read anything in that size in years and it will be perfect for my ill-timed (from a gardening perspective) trip to the Texas pine woods (for birdwatching and canoeing) in late April.

I was sorry to read you found the later Puig to be dud. Based on that, my experience with Heartbreak Tango, and the review of the Rita Heyworth book, I think I'll cross him off my list as a one-hit wonder. I am about 2/3 of the way through Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez and loving it. I am also about halfway through Borges' Personal Anthology but it is more uneven. Twenty years ago I read the Book of Sand, Labyrinths and The Aleph and Other Stories from old, well-read copies at the Peoria Public Library and was amazed ... wondering why these books did not have a long, long waiting list and had to be ferried up from the stacks. Maybe Personal Anthology has a little too much gaucho-esque poetry or one too many metaphysical essays, but only the interspersed longer stories are striking any kind of chord with me.

I am probably going to fall way behind next month since there's so much I want to read for the slavery topic. I picked out two Polish books (Death in Danzig by Stefan Chwin and A Minor Apocalypse by Tadeusz Konwicki) mainly because they were the only ones available on paperbackswap. I should probably spring for House of Day, House of Night since it involves mushroom hunting in some way and spring is the morel season ... but I'll leave off now.

posted by tracyfox at 10:35 am (EST) on Mar 27, 2009

if you enjoyed the Difference Engine, you might well appreciate Gibson's Pattern Recognition. Lots of detail and quite a fascinating puzzle (albeit set in the present). Gibson has become a better stylist over the years.

posted by bobmcconnaughey at 6:45 pm (EST) on Mar 15, 2009

I don't know how to rid the author's page of authors that don't exist. I think that's something that the Combiner's group would be more likely to know how to do. It may be that there is no way to fix that presently. Sorry 'bout that. It's just not my field of expertise! :)

I love Amelie Nothomb's writings and am always happy to find another fan of hers.

posted by SqueakyChu at 1:50 pm (EST) on Mar 15, 2009

Hi Fullmoonblue -

Yes, I agree - the social aspect of LT has been very enjoyable. At first, I didn't pay much attention to the groups and discussions, but now they are probably the number one way that I find recommendations. The Reading Globally group is great for this - interacting with people whose opinions I trust and using the theme read threads as a reference have increased my wishlist exponentially. I used to visit Amazon for books for the list, but I've heard quite a few bad things about them and the way that users review on that site.

Thanks for the recommendations. It looks like 'The Lemon' might be out of print, but there are a number of good used bookstore around the area. I'm not sure if your library is all the books you've read or just the ones you own - I think most people catalog only the latter but mine has everything that I remember reading. I didn't see Danilo Kis or W.G. Sebald in your library. If you haven't read anything by them, I can highly recommend both. Both authors have the kind of prose that makes you stop and think, 'Wow, that's a great sentence/paragraph/description' and Sebald writes convincingly about the disorientation and depression that goes along with relocation - a bit like Kundera.

Are you reading anything for the Argentina group read this month? I have some short stories by Cortazar that I'm reading right now, but I really want to get How I Became a Nun after seeing depressaholic's comments.

posted by DieFledermaus at 11:35 pm (EST) on Mar 12, 2009

Elizabeth -- thanks for information about the BBC Othello -- I hadn't heard about this one, must check it out. I've shown the Laurence Fishburne film to my students; it's pretty powerful and they seem to enjoy it, but it's always good to have alternatives! -- Jane

posted by janeajones at 2:49 pm (EST) on Mar 7, 2009

Elizabeth,

I enjoyed your library too - lots there that I know of, but haven't read, like Kathy Acker. Will have to get there... Yes, I'm writing. I have had no time for LT lately between teaching, marking and dissertation corrections. I am eagerly awaiting summer... FYI, though I teach CompLit, my degree is in English Lit. I hope your work is going well too!

Solidarity!

Nikki

posted by cocoafiend at 10:51 pm (EST) on Mar 6, 2009

Thanks for your kind comments about my review of Disgrace. I can certainly see the link to Camus ... although it's been many years since I read any of the existentialists.

I found another intersection in our reading via your recommendation on Russell Banks' Continental Drift. It sounnds like another to add to my wish list. I am planning on reading Cloudsplitter (from my tbr pile) and Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner for the April global read. I have the new Toni Morrison on reserve at the library, but was advised that I am 22nd on the list for five copies so doubt I have the book in hand by April at all.

This is probably overly ambitious with the onset of gardening mania in mid-April ... but fun to contemplate.

posted by tracyfox at 12:34 pm (EST) on Mar 5, 2009

Hi Fullmoonblue,

Glad my review was helpful - I've always found LT one of the best places for not only reviews, but recommendations in general, either from the groups or just browsing other people's libraries. I've been poking around in your library and found some for the TBR pile. This year I'm trying to read more non-European/American books and was wondering who you would recommend for Moroccan authors. Also - I like your profile picture.

posted by DieFledermaus at 9:41 pm (EST) on Mar 4, 2009

I think you must be right about Coetzee intentionally making the dogs the most sympathetic characters in Disgrace. I just cannot get the ending out of my mind. The description of the room in the surgery, Lurie's decision to give up the banjo-loving dog, I can find a million tidy explanations but nothing that comes close to capturing my feelings about it. It's a remarkable bit of writing but so emotionally wrenching I find it hard to really examine.

Per Wikipedia, JMC is a recluse, but has recently made public remarks on several occasions about animal issues including factory farming. This to me confirms you suspicions about his intent and makes me even keener to read more of his work.

posted by tracyfox at 10:05 am (EST) on Feb 27, 2009

Many thanks!

Had to mark your library as interesting; I'm taken by the ways in which we have overlapping and separate interests. As soon as I read the "about me" on your profile, I thought "Camus!" It's been a long time since I read him but North African and Francophone says Camus to me.

Elizabeth

posted by ejj1955 at 1:13 am (EST) on Feb 27, 2009

Oh FullMoon,

wonderful to meet you. I sometimes wonder if I should have persevered and gotten that Comparative Lit PhD. after all. But usually I don't wonder at all :-) and know what happened was right. Your list of faves is wonderful. We must talk Kundera and Josef Skvorecky and other Czech authors sometime. (I have written about Polacek recently on my own ClubRead thread and about Hasek on charbutton's if that would interest you.) I have also been a Francophile most of my life and spent last summer in France, among other things going on a Balzac pilgrimage. So I will look forward to your input about French culture and literature.

Well, just a hello and welcome!

Andrew

posted by polutropos at 4:06 pm (EST) on Feb 24, 2009

Hello yourself-

Not only is it Arizona, but it is a portion of the Ma'kifat estate, captured at winter sunset with palms and denuded grapefruit tree. It is my sad little effort to convey a dream of Morocco, a dream that for some lucky souls is a reality....

Thank you for the compliment!

posted by Makifat at 4:04 pm (EST) on Feb 24, 2009

Hi! -- I finished it (Cutting for Stone) last night. Very, very good, 4 or 5 stars, rich in emotion and the practice of medicine/surgery but I wanted a deeper sense of Ethiopia and history and thought it needed one more pass, editorially (substance, not copyediting). But it's made me want to read everything else by Verghese, so that says a lot! I'll be posting comments in the Reading Globally/Africa thread in a couple days.

posted by DetailMuse at 7:39 am (EST) on Feb 23, 2009

Lol, you read my mind totally!
Great! can't wait to read them!

posted by tomcatMurr at 1:58 am (EST) on Feb 23, 2009

oh finish it finish it finish it, then send it to me so I can read it! :P

posted by tomcatMurr at 4:13 am (EST) on Feb 22, 2009

Thanks for the tips on the "Big Sort" review. I'll fix those typos. I agree they look slovenly. I do recommend the book, so I hope you enjoy it.

posted by jmcgarve at 2:03 pm (EST) on Feb 20, 2009

OK I'll add it to my BM inventory and reserve it for you. Or at least, I'll give it a go. I haven't tried this before!

posted by robinia99 at 5:38 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2009

Hi there fullmoonblue, thanks for your message. The book is set in Persia. It's a pretty old book. The inscription is 'To Marjorie, from Daddy and Mother, Christmas 1932.' Isn't that cute? And the inscription would indicate that it's a children's book but, having glanced through it, it is for older children. It's a proper story book, with illustrations, rather than a picture book. It's by Betty Marchant.

I love old children's books, and I can't even explain why. Daft isn't it! Anyway if you are interested I'd be happy to mooch it to you. The condition is structurally good, although there is some marking, I think they call it blooming or foxing (not sure) on the cover and page edges.

posted by robinia99 at 1:07 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2009

Hi fullbluemoon I'm visiting your site after reading your comment on Reading Globally. You seem to have a very interesting library, so if it's ok with you, I'm adding it to my interesting libraries list. I think I'm going to find a lot of books I will want to read.

Are you from/do you live in Morocco?

Deborah

posted by arubabookwoman at 9:11 pm (EST) on Feb 17, 2009

Hi fullmoonblue, thanks for your kind comments! I'll definitely look at your library, as well, for the same reason you mentioned. I'm definitely interested in northern African literature; I'm currently reading "Travelling with Djinns" by Jamal Mahjoub, which was recommended to me by akeela. I'd love to know what you're reading, and what books are amongst your favorites; please keep me posted!

Best wishes,

Darryl

posted by kidzdoc at 2:53 pm (EST) on Feb 15, 2009

Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries! Yes, it was a wrench to leave all those books in Egypt. However, we have a great library system here in PDX so I will survive...

posted by anna_in_pdx at 4:12 pm (EST) on Feb 11, 2009

Thanks for your note. We didn't even know about BookMooch. If only we could agree about what to give away!

It's fun to see the random books on your profile. You have so many items that look interesting but that we've never heard of before.

We have a little fun with our tags, though the basic approach was intended to be practical. The original idea for us was to have an orthogonal set of categories so that they could be used in searches to create manageable sets. I don't think we've ever used them that way, though.

posted by bibliophiles at 11:37 am (EST) on Feb 7, 2009

Hi there,
I just finished [Honeymoon in Tehran] and will post my review. I also want to go back and look at what you have read about the mid-eastern culture. Hope you enjoyed this.

posted by LivelyLady at 10:26 pm (EST) on Dec 27, 2008

Hi FullMoonBlue,
How nice to meet someone on here! I, too, went to your bio and was interested in the groups to which you belong. How interesting! I will read some of the posts there.
I got up this AM at 6 AM and began [HONEYMOON]. It caught my interest immediately. I will have to sneak time in to read as this month is a very busy one. We will have to compare notes!!!
Hope to chat again!
Happy reading!

posted by LivelyLady at 8:47 am (EST) on Dec 9, 2008

Andrew Rippin! He was my prof for History 417, "Foundations of Islamic Civilization," at UVic way back in 2002. The paper is all done, thanks for asking, and all I have to do before the holidays is invigilate one more exam, so I'm looking forward to getting into the Christmas spirit, possibly by writing an essay about it. Thanks again for your help!

posted by booksfallapart at 1:14 am (EST) on Dec 8, 2008

That helps greatly, thank you! The information about the Qur'an is great context (I'm trying to understand "awesomeness" as a property of speech - like, the reason the Qur'an and sunnah can be used as "functioning" legal documents as opposed to literature is the fact that they come from God - but the only access we have to God's original utterance (if I can call it that) is through the reporting speaker, Muhammad. So the Qur'an HAS to be perfect and unalterable - it's what makes Islam an "improvement" and "perfection" of the earlier, less systematized traditions.

But then, of course,interpretation of what the Qur'an MEANS still does happen. So it raises the question, what is the difference between Qur'anic scholarship that tries to guess at what a particular verse means to the faithful, and ijtihad, which provides a wider field for interpretation of the hadith and sunnah? If the Qur'an is considered to be verbatim perfect, does that have something to do with the awesomeness of the source, as opposed to the sayings of the Prophet, which have to be attested and so on? Or is it just that the Prophet didn't write the hadith down himself, so they are always to some degree suspect? because he's a holy/awesome source himself, of course - but not an inaccessible one, since the justification for the hadith goes back to anyone who heard him speak.

I wonder if there's relatively more weight put on the hadith by Muslim traditions with a strong elemnt of ijtihad (which I take to be somewhat analogous to Bakhtin's dialogism, or the presence of more than one consciouness in an utterance - an interpretive role for the listener, as opposed to the monologic Qur'an)? Like, does it open up new possibilities for reform if you have the option of going back and reinterpreting traditions that have some "awesome" weight but are not sacrosanct like the Qur'an? I wonder if this is characteristic of Shi'a traditions relative to Sunni, for example, as the Shi'a (as I understand it) have additional hadith going back to the Twelve Imams as well as to the Prophet - perhaps those carry a smaller burden of "awesomeness", and so it's less potetially threatening when interpretations differ?

I know this is really nebulous - thanks a lot for your help so far, and let me know if you have any more thoughts!

Best,

M.

posted by booksfallapart at 7:57 pm (EST) on Nov 29, 2008

Thanks. Always glad to hear from a fan, this review seems to have garnering a couple of them.

posted by TrebleClef at 5:19 pm (EST) on Nov 23, 2008

Dear FMB! How's things? I'm here to solicit your thoughts/suggestions on materials of possible use for a term paper I'm writing - it's for a seminar on reported speech study, and one of the major things we've been discussing has been the impossibility of verbatim speech report and how the concept nevertheless persists as this sort of funny pseudo-shibboleth metaphor for broader notions of "faithfulness" to the authority of an original utterance that are never quite pinned down. And so I've been thinking of writing about the Islamic hadiths, which have to be the most significant body of reported speech ever in the history of the world, I would think, and looking at the current move in Turkey to reinterpret them in a way that's less problematic in the context of a modern secular democracy as bringing a dialogic, intersubjective (as opposed to monologic, "verbatim-privileging" - these are Bakhtin's terms) approach to understanding the way the hadiths use reported speech.

I apologize for that paragraph! But hopefully you get the idea. Anyway, I thought you might be a person who would have some thoughts on useful resources (whether on the way the hadiths were set down originally or on historic or modern interpretations, or whatever really), so I thought I'd take a shot in the dark!

All the best! Is it American Thanksgiving shortly? If so, Happy American Thanksgiving!

posted by booksfallapart at 3:04 am (EST) on Nov 12, 2008

Thank you so much for your support of TFC! And for your kind comments re. my site! I wonder if those who flagged FW as not a review bothered looking at the garbledness closely for the secret hidden messages (the real review). Oh well. I'd be shocked, at this point, if LT did in fact get rid of TFC, since so many now with substantial libraries/influence are chiming in their support, though I do hope if they did axe it (fate forbid!) that you'd reconsider leaving since your contributions here are significant and appreciated I know by many more than simply moi.

Warm regards,

EF

posted by EnriqueFreeque at 10:14 pm (EST) on Oct 25, 2008

Nice library. Just thought I'd drop by and say howdy.

posted by EnriqueFreeque at 10:49 pm (EST) on Oct 24, 2008

Yep, I understand perfectly. If it helps (or not) my J. Peterman catalog prices will begin at $10 each.

Cheers-
Vintage_books

posted by vintage_books at 7:53 pm (EST) on Oct 22, 2008

I've posted the majority of my collection, so if you do acquire a J. Peterman catalog, you might want to check my library and simply see if you'd like to add a copy to your library.

That being said, I have some duplicates that I'd be willing to sell. I do not intend to BookMooch any, because they cost me quite a bit. Drop me a line if interested.

Cheers-

vintage_books

posted by vintage_books at 1:54 pm (EST) on Oct 22, 2008

I was inspired by your plea and uploaded my entire collection of J. Peterman Company Catalogs to my library tonight. I scanned in the covers, but haven't uploaded any covers yet to LibraryThing.

So, as you add to your collection, you can just look in my collection and hit the add button instead of doing all the hard work adding a catalog in manually.

Do you currently own any of the catalogs?

vintage_books

posted by vintage_books at 4:33 am (EST) on Oct 18, 2008

I'm happy to accept! And thanks for the appreciation, I'm glad my posts are more hits than misses (for you). I find a number of posters on Pro/Con to be interesting, insightful, and witty concerning the election. Hopefully, you'll join in :)

posted by theoria at 9:43 am (EST) on Oct 17, 2008

Thank you for the kind message :) The confluence of a presidential election and financial meltdown make for good times on pro-con.

posted by theoria at 10:33 am (EST) on Sep 30, 2008

Mrabet is an old favorite. As is Pamuk. Ever read Kadare
or Hedayat?

posted by tros at 10:01 pm (EST) on Sep 20, 2008

Thanks, and right back atcha. What are you up to?

posted by booksfallapart at 2:35 pm (EST) on Sep 10, 2008

Hello! How nice to meet a fellow admirer of Amelie Nothomb!

I shall 'interesting list' you back in turn - the other authors on your favourites list in particular intrigue me!

posted by shearrob at 11:48 pm (EST) on Sep 9, 2008

It's good to hear from you again! Thanks for the kind words about my reviews. I've certainly worked hard on them. I've really enjoyed yours as well, so keep writing (and reading fun romances, of course)!

Alana

posted by Caramellunacy at 8:27 am (EST) on Jul 10, 2008

Hello Fullmoonblue
i wish you could read my reviews as well, all my reviews are written in Thai.
Thanks for your friendly words :)

posted by natbeourfriend at 12:23 am (EST) on Jun 13, 2008

I definitely do enjoy creative writing (intermittently), and I definitely will check out the site! Sounds intriguing, thanks!

posted by booksfallapart at 10:10 am (EST) on Jun 8, 2008

Thanks, and please allow me to reciprocate! I'm sunning myself on Santorini and getting psyched up to (finally) start grad school. (What a weird conventional phrase that is. Master's, not PhD, which is really the more salient point of differentiation.) Soon I will be in Romania meeting up with my favourite cousin for vampiric tymez. Life is more than satisfactory. How are things with you?

posted by booksfallapart at 3:17 am (EST) on Jun 7, 2008

So, the Beach. I don't disagree with much of what you say, except: "well crafted." Yes, up to a point. But he loses it at the end. It's all nicely held together within the Aristotelian unities like a good play (by, say, Durrenmatt, or more recently 'Copenhagen') until the post-decision point, when it all gushes forth rather hurriedly, much like the offending liquid at the story's midpoint. Perhaps he was going for a climax on the beach and the rest as detumescence, but it didn't work for me. The account of 'here's what happened for the rest of his life' (with hers offstage left, after we spent so much time inside her head up to the beach confrontation) seemed hurried and unsatisfying, but not crafted to be so. It was the "my publisher wants me to stretch this short story into a novella" segment. Perhaps I am being unkind, but as his editor I would have sent that part back to him. But the art of editing seems to be dying these days, at least when it comes to the writerly rockstars. J.K. Rowling has needed an editor to stand up to her since book 3, if not book 2, to cut out the excess verbiage. Here an editor needed to say, "come on, old chap, work a little harder, would you, pay attention to satisfying the reader as well as the writer."

posted by edwebb at 1:01 am (EST) on May 31, 2008

First degree was back in what you call (in your Chesil Beach review - we should discuss that some time) Merrie England, in what is quaintly still called Oriental Studies. Middle East and North African languages, literatures, and history would be a better description. Then some time out in the 'real world.' More recently acquired MA and PhD are in political science. And it all comes together in me teaching various topics in Middle East politics alongside broader classes in international and comparative politics.

posted by edwebb at 12:13 am (EST) on May 31, 2008

Seems we have some interests in common beyond the adventures of Yan in limerick form!

Ed/Funkypants

posted by edwebb at 11:51 pm (EST) on May 30, 2008

Wheee! Thanks for that. My embrace of the genre fiction lately haasn't extended beyond some crumbling `Marshal Guarnaccia` mysteries about some carabinieri detective dude in Florence that I pulled off the bookshelf at my hotel. But that can all change in an instant.

I hope whatever you do eventually do with your arabesques, it is seductive/sultry/spectacular.

posted by booksfallapart at 12:42 pm (EST) on Apr 27, 2008

Thank you for the message and adding me to your interesting libraries list. I took a quick glance at your library and find it impressive indeed. As to your question, yes, the picture is from Istanbul. It is a picture of Ortakoy, one of my favorite places to visit when I am there.

posted by Muge at 4:15 pm (EST) on Apr 22, 2008

actually my favorite is "The Books in My Life". it is absolutely amazing. of course i also like "Cancer", "Capricorn", and "Black Spring". "Sexus" is okay, but then again anything "okay" by Henry Miller is miles better than most writers. "Air-Conditioned Nightmare" is okay too. it is interesting to get his perceptive on american things.

posted by jodavid at 1:38 pm (EST) on Apr 20, 2008

Totally. Although I can't shake the feelıng that that much enhancın' wıll ınevıtably end ın tears.

Re: locales - I've only yet been to Istanbul and Ankara, myself, and the latter was to vısıt frıends and on ıts own ıt's kınd of modern and not super excıtıng. But! we are goıng all around ın May and I am especıally excıted about Pamukkale/Hıerapolıs and Efes and Olympos. And Troy, natch.

Lıterature? You're the expert when ıt comes to the Mıddle Eastern folks, I suspect, although for contect next tıme you're ın Turkey I can recommend Pamuk's Istanbul book and http://www.librarything.com/work/919925, a super-good general hıstory that Turkısh frıends kept recommendıng and recommendıng. As for the French, there ıs a trılogy of books about Quebecoıs farmers by thıs dude Roch Carrıer that gave me much joy earlıer thıs year. Could be that they're a bıt "quırky Quebec pour les Anglaıs", but hell, they're good readıng.

Hıt me back!

posted by booksfallapart at 4:23 am (EST) on Apr 20, 2008

Hi buddy! It was succulent and . . . callypigian. I was ready for the weird consistency because my friend's dad used to bring it home from his NATO job there, but not for the SHOCKING RIOT OF COLOURS AND FLAVOURS!!!!

Thanks for the kind words and I hope you continue to enjoy our shared favourites in good health. I'm gonna pals you up, if you don't mind - I'm not sure what that means yet in a Librarything context, but I may as well start to learn!

posted by booksfallapart at 4:23 am (EST) on Apr 19, 2008

Sorry so long to reply. Perhaps I should live further away from Hyde :), as I frequently leave with piles of books and an empty wallet. There is another Hyde Brother bookstore called Every other Book it is only 10 or 15 minutes away from the one you've been to. I've never been there, but hope to go soon.

posted by Book_Shelter at 9:26 pm (EST) on Apr 17, 2008

Thank you so much for your reading suggestions,and your interest in my library.I've enjoyed every Ian McEwan I've read ,including Atonement.

posted by posthumose at 6:10 pm (EST) on Apr 4, 2008

Hi, I'm honored that you have listed my library as an interesting one. We share a wonderful collection of books! I love looking at the lists of books I share with another (it so great to know there are others with such great taste:-) Again, thanks...be seeing you on the groups we both hang in also. Best, Lois

posted by avaland at 9:38 am (EST) on Mar 30, 2008

As far as I know, there's not a group for pirate romances in particular. But I'm the cofounder of Aboard the Jolly Roger, a group about pirates and general swashbuckling, and I (for one) would welcome a thread on the subject.
Discussion is a little sparse, sadly, so I'd welcome any contributions you might have. Thanks for the heads up on the sheikh/pirate connection. I'll definitely keep my eyes peeled. Glad you were amused by me :-).

Alana

posted by Caramellunacy at 8:47 pm (EST) on Mar 21, 2008

We do share a lot of books! I'm enjoying taking a look at your collections ... b

posted by biloquist at 7:35 am (EST) on Mar 5, 2008

Hey you - what was the name of the Shakespeare/post colonial book you mentioned to me? Let me know....~M

posted by grimoire at 8:56 am (EST) on Feb 8, 2008

Hi, thanks for adding me to you list of interesting libraries. I have not been on the site for a while because work has occupied almost all of my time. I noticed that there are quite a few books that we both own and we also seem to have some similar interests :)

posted by individuality1977 at 11:21 pm (EST) on Dec 24, 2007

Thank you for adding me to your interesting libraries list. It cheers me up to think someone is casting their eye over my library. Then again, I fear doing the same thing myself in case I end up spending my whole life on LibraryThing instead of just half of it! I notice you recommended Gurnah to someone, which I´m glad to see, as he's one of my favourite writers as well. He might even be the only author whose books I all have in hardback.

posted by TePuruBeach at 5:56 am (EST) on Nov 26, 2007

Hello! I avoided knitting for years(!) because of the casting on. I finally bought a leaflet at Wal-Mart called "Teach Yourself to Knit"...somehow I was finally able to follow the instructions. I've mastered scarves and purses, so it's time for me to move on to socks and sweaters! Take care! Jillian

posted by lawgrrl07 at 12:00 pm (EST) on Nov 16, 2007

Thanks for the Gurnah recomendation. I am keeping an eye out for more of his books, as I have heard very good things about at least two others.

As for mooching transatlantically, I love the idea of sending books across the world. I am actually fonder of the idea of sending my reads elsewhere than i am of getting books free from bookmooch (though I intend to do plenty of both). I will get them sent when I return home to Bristol, hopefully at the end of this week.
Cheers,
Andy

posted by depressaholic at 2:56 pm (EST) on Nov 12, 2007

lol. I'm glad you liked the user name. Good luck with your classes. I'm looking forward to wandering through your books -- I could use a few good suggestions on pirate stories.

posted by lumpenprofessoriat at 9:21 am (EST) on Apr 13, 2007

Hi Elizabeth, Yep, some of my books are from my coursework and research; others I've acquired for teaching and research since I completed my Ph.D. a few years back. I see you're on the verge of finishing your own coursework--best of luck to you on your exams.

posted by passionflower at 11:19 am (EST) on Feb 23, 2007

Hi there, thanks for the message - it's most friendly and kind of you. I've been a hibernating somewhat in the past few days but there are worse things to do I suppose. How are you finding doing postgrad? I'm in the process of applying at the moment. In fact I need to ensure that those forms are in quite soon... I hope you're well. Have you just done a phD?

I think I will end up paying for an account here, as I'm itching to add more titles - it seems as though it could be a good way for me to keep track of what I've read / own. Do you find that?

Caroline x

posted by CarolineWalters at 6:52 am (EST) on Feb 17, 2007

Nice of you to stop by Fullmoon.

I love her writing style. And this trilogy is the best in arabic fiction I think :)

posted by kinan_issa at 5:13 am (EST) on Feb 14, 2007

Hello Elizabeth :) Thanks for browsing my library and for your kind words. About the Marilyn pic, that's just a bit of Photoshopping on my part, not real at all :)

posted by hisham at 4:59 am (EST) on Jan 19, 2007