Member: LarsonLewisProject

Hi where are you from?

posted by kyle123 at 4:47 am (EST) on Apr 27, 2009

Do you still have a spare copy of "From Strudels to Noodles?"

best,
Noel

posted by Noel249 at 11:11 am (EST) on Feb 12, 2009

Hi! I was intrigued to find someone in the US Midwest with a Swedish book on mushrooms ("Svampar i färg" by Bengt Cortin). Well I guess the planet aint that big!

Perhaps I could have written this in Swedish but I wasn´t sure... Just in case:

Vänliga hälsningar!

posted by pierrot at 5:15 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2008

Hi! I recognize your name because I keep seeing we have books and booklets in common.

I could only get a microscopic version of the cover, but that did look familiar, so I will tentatively say it is the same.

BTW, have you come up with a good scheme for organizing the booklets? My collection is, for the most part, unorganized. I started putting them in archival-quality sleeves in notebooks, but then the all slither down to the bottom--and the notebooks take up A LOT of space. My best current thought is that I will sort them into boxes--possibly by company and then type of product, but then that would break down if the entity produced more than one type of product....

Some of my really old booklets are with my books, for handy reference.

posted by ErstwhileEditor at 6:30 am (EST) on Oct 11, 2007

Hi back - my family actually lived in Germany from 1946-49 but I was pretty young so don't have clear memories. This book definitely made it more real to me too. Glad it is a treat for you.

posted by maggie1944 at 9:28 am (EST) on Aug 21, 2007

Hi - LarsonLewisProject: I apologize for the delay but I have finally "Operation Vittles" copied and I can now send it to you. I am sorry but I have lost your name and address which I think you sent me via email. So, can we do it again? Please email me at maggie1944@comcast.net and I will send you the copy of the book. I even made a simple fish dish out of it for dinner tonite and I liked it. Hope you will like it, too. Hope to hear from you.

posted by maggie1944 at 12:13 am (EST) on Aug 7, 2007

>The contents and organization of the reviewer's LibraryThing account -?!?

We want to find people likely to enjoy the book. Among the strongest factors are overlap with similar books. Random House supplies a list of books they think match their new book in content, style or tone. We then sort a large portion of LT's two-million books into their degree of "connectedness" to those books. For example, if they were to suggest a book was very much like Macbeth, members who had Macbeth would get points, but also members with Hamlet. The sorting goes very deep, leveraging the literarlly tens of millions of connections between works that LT has.

The idea is to favor people more likely to enjoy the books. For example, there were members signing up for the first batch with 2,000-book libraries and not a single instance of modern literary fiction. "Hey, free book" people say. This is a problem that has plagued all such programs. LibraryThing offers a partial solution.

That said, I have no idea where you came out on that factor. And it wasn't the only one. Chance was a big one. Better luck next time!

posted by timspalding at 12:14 am (EST) on Jul 22, 2007

Yes, my copy of the Centennial cookbook is spiral bound, at the top, as a steno notebook would be- I purchased it new while we were on the North Shore. I see you also have an etiquette collection - I don't have a 'collection', but I have a 1920's copy of Emily Post Etiquette, and her Personality of a House. That's very interesting that your mentor drove for Nabokov, -what was his/her impression, I wonder. I also had a friend who had done babysitting for John Gardner. Interesting

posted by smc1 at 12:01 am (EST) on Jul 22, 2007

glad you enjoyed the jam

posted by nittygritty at 11:28 am (EST) on May 9, 2007

Hi -I can't remember how many bottles but im sure a couple or so-its tasty!!

posted by nittygritty at 5:10 pm (EST) on Apr 28, 2007

Hi. Buddy here. Where are you? Really miss your posts in groups CB and JC&C and FH. :(

posted by buddy at 12:39 pm (EST) on Apr 15, 2007

Thank you for the leek recipe- my family and friends loved it! and it does look good in a clear dish.

Cyrel

posted by torontoc at 10:59 am (EST) on Apr 7, 2007

Well, I should have guessed! :) I only know the books.

I don't recall such a television show, but I must admit I don't watch television very much. Could it possibly have been Ruben Stiller? He has had several radio and televison shows. Quite a special character him too, even if not an author (as far as I know).

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruben_Still...
http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Katz

posted by qu1d at 3:46 pm (EST) on Mar 29, 2007

Thanks for looking up the leek recipe-hope that you are feeling better- I am just making up my Passover shopping list now and looking through cookbooks for ideas.

posted by torontoc at 11:07 pm (EST) on Mar 19, 2007

If you change your tag "Carl XII" to "Karl XII", you will find more friends...

posted by LA2 at 12:43 pm (EST) on Mar 15, 2007

I just noticed your e-mail. Sorry for the delay.

I’m planning on fixing something for dinner tonight with red bean, brown rice, tofu and fresh asparagus… perhaps you have some suggestions from your collection? Recipes need to be low salt and vegan.

The Balzac set was beautiful and I miss it. My wife has sorted out most of my “old” books with beautiful bindings for the living room. I must admit it that they look very impressive. I still have the complete original Cambridge Modern History (I’m almost finished collecting the “New” Cambridge Modern History) as well as Morley’s English Writers and other lovely sets.

Thanks for the tip on the library at the University Club in New York. If I’m ever out that way I’ll be sure to look it up! I remember the first time I was in the main library at the University of Michigan… I was VERY impressed to notice that the stacks were separate from the floors. The stacks went all the way down to some unseen anchors in the ground while the floors for humans to walk on were suspended separately with about, if I recall correct, an inch of space between the floor and the stack. Not just some books on shelves!

posted by Hoagy27 at 12:15 pm (EST) on Mar 14, 2007

Susan,

Will do, and thanks again!

Stu

posted by Hoagy27 at 11:52 am (EST) on Mar 14, 2007

Susan,

Tom's offer of "the complete Gormenghast trilogy in paperback - massmarket, early 1970's" is VERY tempting but I will resist temptation (this time at least). I need to create more shelf space before I bring in any more new books. They are already overflowing from the existing shelves and stacked two rows deep on the floor in the library. The Living Room is also full. I'm thinking of removing the music CDs which cover one entire wall in the library. I've migrated all my CDs (and many vinyl albums) to digital anyway and no longer need direct access to the actual CDs. Moving them to a deeper level will free up a whole wall, but it will take time.

Thanks,

Stu

posted by Hoagy27 at 11:07 am (EST) on Mar 13, 2007

Thank you for the invitation! Looking forwards new books and new knowledge :)

posted by mummimamma at 2:41 am (EST) on Mar 9, 2007

Thanks for the comment. :-D

posted by kcasada at 8:12 pm (EST) on Mar 5, 2007

Although I made a very delicious root vegetable stew the other day it was the exception rather than the rule. I’m not really a very good cook and lately nearly everything turns out bad so I will respectfully decline your invitation to join the group. I appreciate the invite though.

It was a dark day indeed when I drove around town with a pickup truck loaded with books that I needed to sell. After taking them to three places and not being happy with the proffered prices I ended up selling the entire lot to the next place I took them. A few years later I discovered a wonderful bookstore that respects collectors and buys books for what I think they are worth. When I bought the Balzac set cost me at least a week’s wages. One of my favorite old bookstores had a whole room of one-dollar books. Many times I would spend my last dollar there saying: “I’d rather have a book than a dollar!”

The World Book was, I think, blue… shades of blue. What’s the attraction of the D volume? I was particularly fond of the volume (I think it was a year book) with the clear plastic overlays of the human body. Some of the year books may have been maroon…. Or was that the Britannica?

Last night my wife and I watched “My Fair Lady” on TV. I said, “I wouldn’t mind having a library like Professor Henry Higgins’.” Of course, I say that every time there’s a lovely old library in a movie.

posted by Hoagy27 at 5:13 pm (EST) on Mar 5, 2007

Hi - I've uploaded a cover image for Social Etiquette by Maud Cooke - FYI

posted by marydell at 6:03 pm (EST) on Jan 14, 2007

Hello and thank you for you comments! I've sent you an email, and now I'm going to swoon around in your library a while.

posted by mummimamma at 12:26 pm (EST) on Apr 12, 2006

Tove Jansson är en av mina favoritförfattare- jag läser om Muminböckerna åtminstone en gåmg om året. :-)

posted by isiswardrobe at 11:05 am (EST) on Apr 6, 2006

I bought in in Urbana, at the yearly YMCA Dump-And-Run sale, where people take all the stuff they don't wan't anymore, usually stuff that won't even sell at garage sales, and leave it at the Y. This year there were so many things dropped off that the Y had to get a few semi trailers rented on charity to hold all the stuff until the sale.

Alas, if you look in my collection, you'll find that it has other books to keep it company in my "Books That Suck" section: a Phylis Schlafly book, a 1920 book called "Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics; a Guide to Purity...", and "The Modern Conservative and the Liberal Image," which has a fabulously awful cover that i haven't scanned in yet.

posted by benchilada at 4:19 pm (EST) on Mar 29, 2006

I was hoping I was the only person who owned a copy of THE HOAX OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. I must admit, half of the reason I bought it for about a dollar at a sale was so nobody else could buy and read it.

posted by benchilada at 11:05 am (EST) on Mar 28, 2006

Amazed at the Jewish cookbook collection.
I would be curious to see how many recipes are "shared" between the various Diaspora traditions.

posted by stephen18 at 10:16 pm (EST) on Jan 10, 2006

Hej, tack för meddelandet. Jag är full av beundran inför ditt bibliotek – du har en imponerande kollektion. Så många fascinerande böcker om Finland och Sverige! Jag gillar framför allt kommentaren till boken Helsingfors à la carte.

Har du förresten svårigheter med skandinaviska bokstäver i LT? Om jag söker till böcker i mitt bibliotek med å, ä eller ö i titeln så kommer svaret: inga resultat. Jag märkte att några titlar i din katalog ser konstiga ut, till exempel Rootsi-eesti sõnaraamat.

posted by katariina at 9:22 am (EST) on Dec 14, 2005

Sex to saltines, huh? That's quite the spectrum. :-) Thanks for giving me my morning smile!

posted by anndouglas at 1:48 pm (EST) on Nov 17, 2005

I agree with your point about etiquette books sometimes covering childrearing, too. It's funny how some of those traditional "experts" liked to be experts on everything -- marriage, housekeeping, sex, having great kids, cooking -- you name it!

posted by anndouglas at 9:53 am (EST) on Nov 3, 2005

I collect old etiquette books, too. I also collect old childrearing manuals. I haven't entered this part of my collection yet, but I will soon.

posted by anndouglas at 1:21 pm (EST) on Oct 29, 2005

And I thought that I was the only one who collected old etiquette books... Thanks for the peek into a fabulous library!

posted by maven at 5:22 pm (EST) on Sep 26, 2005

I love your cookbook collection! I've just begun to catalog here...

Love your antique postie-card from Albert Lea! I know folks from there, and grew up in the Twin Cities, MN, myself.

posted by RuTemple at 1:37 am (EST) on Sep 22, 2005

I know that books are food for knowledge, nevertheless, your books on the knowledge of food make me so very very hungry...... :*)

posted by Quotato at 7:10 pm (EST) on Sep 21, 2005

No kidding!

posted by languagehat at 9:34 pm (EST) on Sep 19, 2005