Member: Lodhi

I didn't know, but I googled, and it sounds fabulous! I don't really get a lot of the vitriol often loaded onto Christie's works - yes, they're dated, of course, but I think they're a lot better written than a lot of modern detective novels, and they do have their own particular charm.

posted by scarletslippers at 6:03 am (EST) on Mar 6, 2009

Thanks for your kind words. As a matter of interest, in which bookshop did you find TF-LE? I didn't know any shops had taken copies, apart from Waterstone's in Birmingham.

- Charles

posted by tiredman at 5:03 pm (EST) on Oct 11, 2008

Dear Lodhi,
Mny thanks for your message. I am humbled - you are the only person (apart from my daughter) that I know to have paid good money for my book.

Please do let me know what you think of the poems.

Best wishes,
Charles

posted by tiredman at 7:57 am (EST) on Oct 11, 2008

Hi - you got me! Re the Autograph Man - like a large portion of my library, I haven't read it yet. Sorry to disappoint. Have you read it? Should I promote it up my TBR mountain? I had a quick glance at the posted reviews and it seems be loved and loathed in equal quantities.

posted by gaskella at 11:38 am (EST) on Aug 6, 2008

Thank you! It doesn't always feel that way!

posted by Booksloth at 5:17 am (EST) on Jun 9, 2008

I just spotted you new group for Cornwall & Devon book-lovers. I didn't know whether it was for people who love books about the area or for people who love books and live in that area. Anyway - I live in Devon so I thought I'd say Hi and see how things develop in the group. I have 'met' lots of wonderful people on LT from all over the world (though mainly America) but, lovely though they are, I sometimes feel a bit isolated and in a bit of a minority here. Apart from anything else, I am usually asleep while all the big discussions are going on!

PS I just read your personal details. How can you be a 'wannabe' bibliophile? Surely either you love 'em or you don't?

Best wishes

posted by Booksloth at 8:36 am (EST) on Jun 7, 2008

I found Engineering Architecture to be an interesting read since I had lived in Chicago and passed the buildings he designed every day for 5 years. I think his daughter did a great job of relating his life and work in a readable and understandable way.

posted by scp1010 at 9:30 pm (EST) on Feb 2, 2008

Hallo and thanks for your message re "Q&A" - I shall be candid and confess that I haven't yet read it, but your question has prompted me to move it closer to the top of my pile, so thanks for that! What did you think of it?
All the best, Carolyn

posted by citizenkelly at 4:53 am (EST) on Jan 7, 2008

Thanks for the compliment on my children's books! These are actually only about 1/3 of the books I have, they are in my classroom library at my school. I am still working on entering all of my school library which I'm hoping to do this next week before I start back to work after summer break. I do have quite a range due to the fact I got many during my internship in teaching fifth grade, then I got a job teaching first grade and had to really diversify! Now I'm in fourth grade and slowly accumulating even more to be appropriate for my students.

As to being available in the UK, I don't see why many of these wouldn't be, there are many books that have won several awards and should be fairly popular across the pond as well. When my daughter gets out of the board book stage, I will probably enter her bookshelf full of books as well :).

Thanks again! Cara

posted by hearts3134 at 11:11 pm (EST) on Jul 22, 2007

I purchased and read that as part of the research for my MA thesis. It's an interesting book, though much of her discussion seems at first glance to be very limited to the UK. I'd call it definitely worth a read, though one of my examiners suggested that I ought to have spent my time with Nature, Reality and the Sacred instead-- can't comment on that, as it's been sitting on the Shelf of Shame (unread books) for almost two years now.

posted by a.vincent at 5:15 am (EST) on Jul 16, 2007

Thank you for adding me to your interesting libraries list. I only have catalogued about half of my books, and most of those were catalogued from memory, using the amazon lists, so the editions might be incorrect. I am attempting to catch up and correct them now that I am back in New York where my main library is. I have quite a few duplicates in Florida, but nothing important, I hope. I did not catalog Florida books separately.

posted by almigwin at 9:02 pm (EST) on Jul 15, 2007

As I catologue more books it appears we do have a few in common. I guess that wouldn't be hard considering the size of your library. Before I joined this website I thought I had too many books. I felt guilty every time I bought new ones - but now I feel much happier embracing my love for collecting books and adding to a slowly expanding collection, knowing there are like-minded individuals out there! It has been 6 years since I finished my BA in literature. I read a bit of Simone de Beauvoir and did a mini-thesis on French feminist philosophy. I love the dramaticism of her writing like in 'She Came to Stay' (so obviously biographical) and the brilliant argument outlined in 'The Second Sex'. I also find her relationship with Satre intriguing.

I agree - I loved the narrative style Midnight's children, and the circular story-telling method. I haven't read Shame - is it good? Kate

posted by poeticmedic at 11:26 pm (EST) on Jul 1, 2007

I truth I haven't read Satanic Verses in ages.. I was much younger and think a lot of it was lost on me. Have been meaning to pick it up again. I loved Midnight's Children though and have re-read it.

posted by poeticmedic at 11:39 pm (EST) on Jun 30, 2007

你好！

posted by flexnib at 3:50 pm (EST) on Jun 24, 2007

I'm sorry it has taken me so long to respond to your query about "The Lunar Visitatons." Yes, I have read this collection and thanks to you, recently read it again. I think that Mr. Sen must spend many nights awake observing the world. These poems are made very beautiful by the poet's ability to invoke extraodinary imagery and emotion through observations of the everyday. His keen ability to see the details and translate those experiences take the reader to the places visited in these poems and makes us look closer at things we might take for granted. I also find the cyclical organization of this work brilliantly evocative of the cycles of the moon--which is obviously what he intended.

I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Sen in 1995 and hear him read many of the poems from this collection--putting the poet's literal voice with the words from these pages was a special treat. Now I'm curious to know what you think of "The Lunar Visitations"?

posted by rubyteapot at 2:59 pm (EST) on Jun 9, 2007

Re your concerns about the 200 threshold. I will exceed 200 by several times. The thing is that this thing has finally forced me to organise my shelves. I have found things I have accused others of taking(!) and more importantly, and this is the time consuming bit, I am re-reading bits and pieces and/or reading things or flicking through things I have purchased but not read. My pile of unread and unflicked through books is getting to be embarassing. So this morning, I finished a thoroughly entertaining biography (Luis Bunuel's) and have flicked through some other important books. So the danger presently is not appearing to be nerdy but a bit poseurish. LOL ...cos the pile of unfinished stuff is very postcolonial theory...yikes.

posted by shafiur at 1:34 pm (EST) on Jun 3, 2007

I remember visiting a french academic and looking at his reading list for their Development Economics course. The colour left my face. We shared virtually nothing. All that time, I thought the books and papers that I had read were THE texts. Of course they weren't....and I suppose i am glad of it despite the initial shock. However I am sure as I input more you and I will have more in common. I am thinking of being really nerdy and getting a barcode scanner?? Nah maybe not - this is fun as it is. Shafiur

posted by shafiur at 1:23 am (EST) on Jun 1, 2007