Member: Humla

Noticed you liked Lovely Bones, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here, as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it also contains a young female narrator struggling with a series of tragic circumstances. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Here's a link to a summary (and a sample chapter) in case you'd like to read more about the book before you commit:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 10:12 am (EST) on Sep 16, 2009

Congratulations to Jody thread started here - http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=61694. Please come and join us.

posted by Booksloth at 12:13 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2009

Congratulations to Jody thread started here - http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=61694. Please come and join us.

posted by Booksloth at 12:13 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2009

Just realised it has been awhile since I popped by to say hello. Hope you are well and finding time to read and enjoy your beautiful Orust.

I have been enjoying an owl that lives somewhere in the fields being my house. He is white and ghostly and facinating to watch, although I am hoping my neighbours are not too startled to see me and my binoculars at the window each night.

Take care, hope to chat soon. Jody

posted by Jodyreadseverything at 3:48 pm (EST) on Apr 13, 2008

I have also deleted a long reply by accident more than once and it is very annoying to have to start again.

I suppose like all places Orust has good and bad points. I used to live in a village and made a friend who had lived there for fifteen years but her family were still known as the new people. I don't know what that made us since we were only there for a year and a half - visitors I suppose ;-)

I can see how elk would be graceful in a strange way, being so big and gangly. But how wonderful to see them strolling past your kitchen window. When we lived in Yeovil we were living at the Navy base and I just used to see Sea King Helicoptors flying past my kitchen. I would have rather had the elk but the helicoptors were quite exciting. My husband had spent all day fixing them so he didn't find them as exciting as I did. Now we live with our house backing onto a big hill and we see owls flying past, squirrels occasionally, once a fox and sometimes bats. We get a lot of red, blue and green dragonflies too. But I'd like an elk to walk past, just once.

We do shorten Doncaster to Donny sometimes, especially when we talk about going into the centre of town. Everyone from here understands that in Doncaster Donny means the town centre but outside in a neighbouring town it means the whole place, not just the centre. It can be confusing for people who aren't local. I think the river Don was named after a celtic goddess Danu but originally Doncaster was called Danum by the Romans who made the settlement here, so the word Danu for the river would also suit that name.

I had forgotten King Arthur and I have been to Glastonbury Tor, which is rumoured to be the Isle of Avalon where King Arthur is buried. It is said that the Tor was once surrounded by water, which is now gone, but made it impossible to reach except by boat in King Arthur's time. I have been to North and South Cadbury, where one of his homes was said to be. Glastonbury is a very beautiful place in parts and you can see the Tor from several miles around. It's a beautiful sight to see from a helicopter too. My one and only flight in one took us over it and it was beautiful.

I was surprised by the roads around Stonehenge too because they take the pictures from a very clever angle. Other landmarks are the Cerne Giant, a big fertility symbol carved into a hillside between Yeovil and Dorchester in Cerne Abbas. You have to view him from a distance but he is something of a local star.

We are far away from these landmarks now and I miss them but here we have Conisburgh castle which is featured in the Ivanhoe book and some very lovely places to visit and walk. If you ever come to England I would be pleased to meet up and explore with you.

Emil sounds a little like one of my English favourites, Just William from the Richmal Crompton books. William Brown is a very loveable rogue and always manages to be the hero, even when he has caused the trouble. He's very funny.

For the moment I am only four hours ahead of library thing time, they have put the clock forward. It's the time that appears every time you post something and it is the local time for where LT is based. We don't put our clocks forward in England until the end of March.

I hope to talk again soon, I'm glad you liked the pictures of my town. I'm going to go and look it up myself now. Take care, talk soon. Bye Jody x

posted by Jodyreadseverything at 7:13 pm (EST) on Mar 12, 2008

Hi Ankie

I've just been on google looking at something called The First English Orust Site on the Internet and it has some beautiful photographs. Your island is lovely. As well as views of some beautiful countryside and buildings there were pictures of winter birds and elks. It must be such a wonderful place to live. I have seen several wild deer in England but the elks in the picture were amazing, I'd love to see them roaming wild.

I tried to find some pictures the other day but kept getting maps instead but those were also interesting. I think I found better pictures of Orust that you will find of Doncaster.

I have been to stonehenge and the stones themselves are lovely but there are busy roads around it that spoil the atmosphere a little bit. But early in the morning it is a beautiful place. We used to live not too far away from there in Yeovil and visited Salisbury a few times. In Doncaster we are near Sherwood Forest where Robin Hood was an outlaw and so have seen the famous tree, but I don't think we have any stone circles. We've taken our dog Scottie for a few walks there and she always enjoys it.

I'm new to the Astrid Lindgren books but would love to read more now I have discovered Pippi Longstocking. I will have to look for those other books you mentioned on the internet (which gives me another excuse to shop)

What is the time difference between us do you know? I am five hours ahead of the time here on Library thing, so if it is 12 noon on LT it is really 5pm for me.

Take care, hope to talk soon, Jody

posted by Jodyreadseverything at 1:17 pm (EST) on Mar 4, 2008

Yep... love Serenity

Nice to meet ya lady on an island far far away and living with 3 kids...

glad you like my starcat :)

do you practice energy healing too?

posted by mckait at 6:36 pm (EST) on Mar 3, 2008

Sorry, I missed the metalhead thing. A metalhead is a fan of heavy metal music.

posted by voracious_bibliovore at 1:35 pm (EST) on Mar 3, 2008

Today is now tomorrow, and that is the reason
I leave this place for now, after such a short visit *sigh*.
I love it here. (And will not be able to stay away long!) :)

/A

Idag är nu imorgon, och det är anledningen till att jag
nu lämnar den här platsen, efter ett sånt kort besök. *suck*
Jag gillar det här stället. (Och kommer inte att kunna
hålla mig borta länge!) :)

/A

posted by Humla at 6:08 pm (EST) on Mar 2, 2008

btw, here's a Firefly link that you may want to check out ;-D

http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=90564

posted by MrAndrew at 10:09 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008

Thanks for the links :) Orust does look lovely. I enjoyed reading about the herring periods.

Oz is local slang for Australia (or orstraya, as it's often pronounced here). There was a "hunk" in Oz? I've never read the Frank Baum books... might have to add that to my TBR.

posted by MrAndrew at 10:08 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008

Thank you for your lovely comment, I'm very pleased to meet you. One of the nicest things about Library Thing is that meeting one person leads you to another and I'm glad that Bibliophool led you to me.

My school experiences were not the best but I don't think I would have changed them, not if it meant being the same as all the others. Just because there were more of them than us so-called geeks it doesn't make them right. I didn't quite fit in with the geeks either, I was just me and I liked reading and different music and my clothes and being allowed to talk to the people I wanted to talk to without worrying about how cool they were and how cool they would make me look.

I bought Chocky because I remembered the '80s TV series but was expecting the book to be different and it was. I also love Day of the Triffids so John Wyndham can do no wrong in my eyes. And I do love Terry Pratchett and am sorry to have heard about his Altzhiemers diagnosis (and not just because of the books). His way of looking at our world through the eyes of the people of the discworld have made him, in my opinion, a kind and thoughtful person who would like the world to be a better and more tolerant place.

The Waterstones site has had quite an impact on my bank account. It started with just the one order to use some money I had been given for my birthday, then just one more order because the books were a bargain, then just one more because there was this other book that was cheaper on the internet and now I'm ordering a gift but since I'm buying one I might as well add another to the order...I don't know where this will end. It can only go downhill from here.

Now I'm going to google Orust to find out where you are. I was picturing a very cold island off the coast of Scotland but judging by what looks like a comment in Swedish I expect that I am wrong. Living on an island far, far away sounds really lovely and I am very envious. Since reading Tove Jansson's A Summer Book I have had a hankering to live on the island she describes (gulf of Finland, could that be where you are?)

I hope to talk to you again soon, take care. Jody :-)

posted by Jodyreadseverything at 1:11 pm (EST) on Feb 27, 2008

Hey there, thanks for stopping by to say hello! Always nice to hear about more aspies, geeks and dorks in the world.

posted by voracious_bibliovore at 8:12 am (EST) on Feb 27, 2008

hiya, sorry took me a while to see your comment. I think that there are one or two more firefly fans lurking out there, you'd be surprised ;-D

I had to lookup Orust, it sounds cool. Is that the island, or the municipality?

posted by MrAndrew at 12:49 am (EST) on Feb 27, 2008

...och - någon mer från Sverige som upptäckt LT och Pratchett! Hurra!
Lycka till med katalogiserandet. Jag tyckte det var jätteroligt att gå igenom alla bokhyllorna.
Vi kanske ses på Gröna Draken?!
Tonen kan vara lite fånig ibland men speciellt bokdiskussionerna brukar vara intressanta :-)

posted by Busifer at 5:11 am (EST) on Feb 25, 2008