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Favorite authorsDouglas Adams, Roger Angell, Isaac Asimov, Carl Barks, Roger James Bender, David Boswell, Bob Burden, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Beverly Cleary, Bernard Cornwell, Robert W. Creamer, David Quammen, Jane Duncan, Willard R. Espy, John Feinstein, C. S. Forester, Paul Fussell, Craig Shaw Gardner, Stephen Jay Gould, Bill Griffith, David Halberstam, Sven Hassel, Robert L. Heilbroner, Stewart Holbrook, Molly Ivins, Lynn Franks Johnston, Franz Kafka, Walt Kelly, Richard Lederer, R. M. Lockley, French Maclean, Richard Mitchell, Robert Obojski, Patrick O'Brian, Dan Piraro, Terry Pluto, Terry Pratchett, Don Rosa, Oliver Sacks, Barry Sadler, Gitta Sereny, Thomas Burnett Swann, Tom Tomorrow, Barbara W. Tuchman, John R. Tunis, Richie Unterberger, Bill Watterson, Tom Weaver, Mark C. Yerger (Shared favorites)

About me Old, broken down and hurtin', with a house full of kids and grandkids- all of whom read, Read, READ! I am one of those poor poor wretches who can't eat without having a book in front of me (and this malady was passed on to the next generations). I also am one of those who has, in addition to a dining room book, the following: a bathroom book, a bedroom book, and two living room books, depending upon where I sit. 95% of my books are non-fiction, because a day in which something is not learned is a day wasted.

About my library People who come to our house frequently ask "Did you read all those books?", and I always think, "What an odd question"- why in the world else would we have 'em?
Our house has two rooms dedicated to books (my office and the family room) as well as book shelves in the hall, on one wall of our bedroom, on one wall of the "cousins room", one wall of the dining room, two walls of the living room, and as this is being written, my dad is building us a bookshelf to run along our entry-way stairs.

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Hi! I just bought and posted here The Roar of the Crowd by W.R. Burnett. Looks like you and I are the only two LTers with this book posted. Thought I'd let you know that I also uploaded a cover jpeg, in case you're interested in such things. It's a bit tattered, but clear. Cheers from San Francisco!

posted by rocketjk at 6:07 pm (EST) on Sep 13, 2008

I just purchased a copy of The Elderberry Tree by Irving Petite (for $1, what a bargain!) and discovered that your are the only other LibraryThinger with it. We live just outside Seattle, and I can't wait to read it. I love your description of your house--A room without books is like a body without a soul, says Cicero, and I agree! I love your response to the Have you read these question. :) Although I've got to say that lately I've hit lots of used book sales and my "to read" piles are getting higher than usual.

My daughter and I just finished reading the Penderwicks, twice in a row. I told her it was Daddy's turn to read it next! I just learned from comments below that there is a 2nd. Yea!

I see that 95% of your books are non-fiction, do you really believe you can only learn from non-fiction? I love history and memoirs, but I find I can learn about life and the human condition from fiction too. I would love to hear what you think.

Lisa.

posted by labfs39 at 7:45 pm (EST) on Sep 9, 2008

Thanks. When we went house hunting it was the library that really sold me on the place. Most of the books are gems from library sales. One of my summer projects is to log in more of our collection and have I got a long way to go! Looks like you've got gems too. Andrea (AndreaandSamantha)

posted by AndreaandSamantha at 4:01 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2008

sorry about the typos- I sent my reply on before rereading it- & I say the kids are sloppy.

posted by sdekorsi at 4:38 pm (EST) on Aug 7, 2008

I've read some reveiws on this 2cnd Pendewicks book. Many of which said it is better and more adventurous than the first. Makes me all the more excited to read it. With teaching minddle school students this past year, I've gotten sucked into the world of Twilight. I just got the fourth book and am reading that- Penderwicks, Life of Pi, and Kite Runner are all sitting on my bedside table- so many books, so little time.

posted by sdekorsi at 4:37 pm (EST) on Aug 7, 2008

I'm glad yo too enjoyed The Penderwicks. Another book that I'm just finishing up that is just as adventurous, just as innocent is Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters by Lesley M. M. Blume. THis is a quick read. It takes you all over the world into all sorts of wonderful stories. I find it hard to put down. I find myself saying...'just one more adventure...' And I look at the clock and it's 11:30 at night. I hope you get a chance to read this and share it with the ones you love.

posted by sdekorsi at 8:56 am (EST) on Jul 24, 2008

Mornin' Jamie. Glad to hear about Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway ~ I haven't seen it but it's on my wishlist now! Almost exactly 13 years ago, I mounted a major exhibit of Ray Troll's artwork at the California Academy of Sciences (I was Exhibit Developer there). It was called "Dancing to the Fossil Record" based on a book of the same name, a tie-in to a similar road trip Ray took with Brad Matsen, starting out in Canada's Burgess Shale. If I recall, Kirk Johnson was a friend of Ray's who lived in San Francisco. Such great memories ~ scrambling to find & borrow or else cast fossils of the earliest critters on land as exciting new discoveries were being made that changed everything, meeting his pteranodon hunting friends from Kansas, creating a giant fossil dance floor ... so much work but so much fun!

Rock on,
Joyce

posted by starcitywoman at 10:03 am (EST) on Jun 23, 2008

Hiya, Jamie. I like dinosaurs, too. What I like best is finding out that a chance mutation like a simple wrist joint extension could lead to pack-hunting raptors. And I wholeheartedly agree that birds *are* dinosaurs -- not descended or derived from them. while most dinosaurs went extinct at the Cretaceous-Tertiary border, the small and fast ones didn't: the chicken I cooked for dinner last night was a tasty roasted therapod.

And I like marine reptiles a lot, especially plesiosaurs. And I love the true story of the English girl who found the first complete ichthyosaur, Mary Can't-recall-her-last-name, and that she's immortalized in the children's poem/tonguetwister She Sells Seashells By the Seashore.

It's so cool that Dimetrodon, the sail-backed critter who everybody thinks was a dinosaur/reptile was actually a precursor to the mammalian line. And that you can tell by the number of holes in its head! Equally cool that whales evolved from dog-like land mammals, Pachyena, who decided to go back into the water!

Have you ever been to the American Museum of Natural History in New York to see the dinosaur murals painted by Roy Chapman Andrews?

Night,
Joyce

posted by starcitywoman at 3:38 am (EST) on Jun 21, 2008

Jamie, Glad you like LibraryThing, I told Nancy I thought you would! I hear you also like the living room branch of my personal library ;^).

Happy reading,
Helene

posted by Helene123 at 11:52 pm (EST) on Jun 19, 2008

Ah, Margaret Mee! Love her bromeliads. She died in a car crash in 1988, so sad. I met her widower, Greville, at an exhibit of her work in 2000. Amazing woman, amazing life.

Have you checked out BookMooch or one of the other book-swapping sites? It's not often an expensive art book on my wishlist becomes available, but it does happen!

Thanksd for braving an e-mail. I should leave you alone but now you've piqued my interest so I'll bug you with one more question: what is your particular paleontological interest/specialty?

Nosily,
Joyce

posted by starcitywoman at 1:01 pm (EST) on Jun 19, 2008

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