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Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction by Harlan Ellison

It's Not the End of the Earth, but You Can See It from Here: Tales of the Great Plains by Roger L. Welsch

Somebody Else's Kids by Torey L. Hayden

Lark's Castle by Susannah York

How to speak in public, by C. W Wright

Hardy's The return of the native (Bar notes literature study and examination guides) by Maria M Gillan

'Twas The Night Before Christmas (Coca-Cola Santa Tribute) by Clement Moore

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Favorite authorsSarah Addison Allen, Bruce Catton, Thomas B. Costain, A. C. Crispin, Diane Duane, John Dunning, Rumer Godden, James Herriot, Tony Hillerman, Louis L'Amour, Harper Lee, Madeleine L'Engle, Lois Lowry, Sandoz Mari, Robin McKinley, Mary Pipher, Jean Plaidy, Ellery Queen, J. K. Rowling, John Steinbeck, Mary Stewart, Roger L. Welsch, Laura Ingalls Wilder (Shared favorites)

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About meI've been a bibliophile since the womb. My mama was a school librarian/media specialist when I was a kid, and I followed in her footsteps for over 35 years. I just retired in the spring of 2008.

My husband Lee and I were both teachers. We came to the Sandhills of Nebraska in 1983. It's a great place to teach, a great place to raise kids and cattle. (Our area has far more of the latter than the former.) Lee and I raised a terrific daughter, Mary Leigh, who turned into a great advertisement for growing up in the 'Hills. She in turn found a 6'5" football player at college, married him, and presented us with THE 2 most beautiful, most intelligent grandchildren on the planet. Hannah is 5 and loves books. She especially likes princesses and books Gramma had as a kid. Christian is 3, and loves short books that don't require sitting still too long - especially if they have the Wiggles in them!

I lost my Lee to cancer 4 years ago. Some days are good, some not so good. Books and grandchildren are my delight and my salvation.

About my libraryMy Library (Your Library in Collections) is still the record of what I own. Since the advent of Collections, I do have some WishList and some Read But Not Owned on board, but I opted not to count them them in YL. I LOVE Collections, and I'm still dinking with them.

I love reconnecting with books I read as a kid, and I'm always watching for old familiar titles. I can recommend Loganberry Books as a great source for out of print children's and YA books. They are really helpful and available online.

I also have a lot of "vintage" books because I inherit them. I couldn't bear to see my grandmother's teaching materials and novels go to the trash so I rescued them. Some of them are really great reads!! I also have lots of school books and novels that belonged to my parents and grandparents. I love the smell and feel of them.

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Currently readingThe Lace Reader: A Novel by Brunonia Barry
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel (Thursday Next Novels (Penguin Books)) by Jasper Fforde
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett

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What?! You do have a very interesting library. Anyone who has both "The Trolley Car Family" and "The Phantom Tollbooth" listed is automatically interesting. Those were two of my favorite books when I was growing up. We also share many other books and genre's. I look forward to taking a closer look at your books. Thanks for accepting my friend and interesting library requests!

posted by TheFlamingoReads at 3:55 pm (EST) on Nov 21, 2009

Mathematicians are very special people, I've found. Being loved by one is a divine gift that is quite unlike anything I've known/read about/experienced. It's a very good thing. I hope I get to keep him for a long time.

I'm one of those 'burn on a rainy day' redheads, so the sun and I have have a love(vitamin d)-hate(skin cancer) relationship... I wear spf100+ here even on winter days. :)

I've recently had to give up sugar, wheat, and other ingredients that I just can't be too cautious about, so I've been looking at adapting all my old favourite recipes into this new, ever-more restrictive plan. I'm also in school, so I have to follow the times of year when I'm 'slightly' less busy than other times in order to spend time on LT. No more cheese either for me, I'm afraid. That one was pretty harsh, I must admit, since I adore cheese. But of course, my health and wellbeing are more important than haloumi...mostly. :)

I have, however, discovered all the wonderful things that coconuts, cocoa butter and agave syrup can do. :)

Thank you for the wishes of fog and low-hanging clouds... I could really use those this week (99 and 100 here... whew! It's only spring!)

I wish you more good days than bad, oh, and my serendipity book collection. They are some of those 'simply wonderful' children's booklets (tiny little things) that I still treasure.

Kass :)

posted by kassetra at 1:47 am (EST) on Nov 21, 2009

You're welcome Mary Lou! Nice to see you coming by.
Greetings from Paris!
JW

posted by JanWillemNoldus at 8:20 pm (EST) on Nov 20, 2009

Hi Mary,
Thanks so much for the friend invite-I'm happy to accept!
Jennifer

posted by mstrust at 11:55 pm (EST) on Nov 16, 2009

Hello Mary;
Don't know what brought me by today, but I wanted to pop over and say "Hi" and that I hope things are going well for you.
I hope you don't mind me peeking at your library.
have a good one,
belva

posted by nannybebette at 2:18 pm (EST) on Nov 14, 2009

Bwa haa haa! I'll have to check it out...
:oD
Thank you for telling me.
*hugs*
Clare

posted by clamairy at 7:11 pm (EST) on Nov 11, 2009

:) It is also very kind of you.

posted by Eurydice at 7:17 pm (EST) on Nov 1, 2009

Thank you! In addition to the congratulations, it's a lovely wish; and one I hope will come true.

posted by Eurydice at 7:16 pm (EST) on Nov 1, 2009

Merry Mary,

I haven't got any more hidden classics to recommend but I did enjoy "The Drowned Maiden's Hair" by Laura Amy Schlitz. She won the Newbery a couple of years ago with "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!" (which I loved).
"Drowned Maiden...." is the story of young Maud who is plucked from an orphanage by a trio of elderly sisters, one of whom showers her with affection. Scrappy Maud, who is hungry for love, is immediately taken in until she discovers that the sisters plan to use her during their fake seances. Schlitz brings us back to the early 20th century when spiritualism was popular and charlatans were everywhere. I really enjoyed this one and hope you do too.
AnneH

posted by AnneH at 1:22 am (EST) on Nov 1, 2009

Thanks, I appreciate that very much!

posted by oakesspalding at 1:29 am (EST) on Oct 31, 2009

Hi,MerryMary Thanks for dropping by my profile.

Hope you don't mind but can I ask - "Why is it that nearly everyone wants to rename my cat?"

You want to call her Tagmash and one of the other suggestions was Smudge, she does have her nicknames (including Fuzzy britches!) but what is wrong with Circe - a perfectly good witchy name for a cat! Not only is she a character in one of the great epic poems of all times she also turns up in the lyrics of a King Crimson track! She is my little dark enchantress. Just curious, see you in the GD!

calm

posted by calm at 6:45 pm (EST) on Oct 28, 2009

Hi Mary Lou,
Just wanted you to know that I was thinking of you when I was in Ontario with Mark. The geese were migrating and we saw many flocks in the days I was there. They don't migrate here, too warm I guess, they tend to stick around all winter. So when I saw them with Mark I couldn't help but think of you and feel how lucky we both are. You for having had such a wonderful man as Lee in your life for so long, and me for having Mark.

I love watching the geese too, brings back good memories of fall days up at our cottage when I was little, gorgeous autumn colours, calm lake waters, silence and honking geese. I'm glad you shared your experience and memory with us.

hugs my friend,
Katherine

posted by katylit at 4:05 pm (EST) on Oct 23, 2009

Mary Lou,
I am such a pathological bibliophile that I have to smuggle new books into the house so that my husband doesn't see them! I just can not say no to books. I also love Star Trek. Many of my Star Trek books are paperbacks and I have not catalogued those yet. Thanks for dropping by.

Barbara

posted by barbharris1 at 6:04 am (EST) on Oct 22, 2009

Hi MerryMary, thanks for befriending me!

posted by JoannaON at 11:14 am (EST) on Oct 21, 2009

Mary, I'm so glad you enjoyed "Dear Enemy". I don't know why it's such a secret. A dear friend who had also loved "Daddy Longlegs" had never heard of it either and was just as delighted to find it. Both books are published in one volume that's available through Amazon. Guess what I'm giving my grown up daughters in their Christmas stockings?

Anne

posted by AnneH at 12:16 am (EST) on Oct 12, 2009

Sorry you feel spammed but I don't know how to enter my library. I will when I can figure it out. Maybe you can help me with this. Linda

posted by LindaMeckler at 1:29 am (EST) on Oct 7, 2009

Hi Mary, hope you are okay. I just read your post about the geese. I love to see that when they fly over my mum's house. I've been known to abandon dinner and race outside shouting "The geese are here, the geese are here!" when we here them flying over. And what a special place for you to see them.

I just last week had a similar experience but on a much smaller scale. I was taking flowers to Ally and Elisabeth's grave and when I got there I saw two magpies on the grass right by their memorial vase.

Most people here don't like magpies as they are unlucky, but I love to see them and don't find them unlucky at all and often when I am thinking about my babies I see a pair together, so they are a bit of a comfort to me. It was lovely to see two right there in the baby garden.

I'm glad the geese made you happy, seeing a big flock like that, it's always an amazing sight.

posted by Jodyreadseverything at 3:28 pm (EST) on Oct 5, 2009

(from the pirates thread)

there are two more pictures in the series: http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/10...

best wishes

sunny

posted by sunny at 4:04 pm (EST) on Sep 22, 2009

Hi MerryMary:

You gave it away, 60 tomorrow (5 books thread), so here I am to wish you an early Happy Birthday! Have a lovely day tomorrow.

karenmarie

posted by karenmarie at 8:34 pm (EST) on Sep 17, 2009

THANK YOU SO MUCH for helping me find Mousekin's Golden house!!!! I am so excited!!! Much appreciated!!!

posted by AuntieCol at 2:13 am (EST) on Aug 23, 2009

Noticed you liked I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, 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's also about a disturbed young girl's mental illness and also a bit dark. 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). Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 1:15 pm (EST) on Aug 13, 2009

Just dropping by to wish you a good day!

posted by drneutron at 5:19 pm (EST) on Aug 12, 2009

Sorry to have been extremely scarce, just re-adjusting and spending a lot of time by the ocean. Gonna take time to sort things out.

posted by OldSarge at 11:41 am (EST) on Jul 16, 2009

So, Stitchers and Bitchers?

I am intrigued. More so because you are the only onen who owns it.
Is there a story here? :)

I must know!

kath

posted by mckait at 6:50 am (EST) on Jun 30, 2009

I saw your post about the role of a librarian...I'm thinking about going back to school to be an elementary school librarian. What degree did you have for it? I've heard conflicting responses - some people say I will need a degree in library science, while some say I'll need an education degree. My BA is in English and French.

~Jenny

posted by goddessladyj at 1:06 pm (EST) on Jun 26, 2009

Thanks for what you said about me in the discussion about flags and reviews and whatnot. I'm not trying to supress a discussion, I just don't think it's going anywhere now so what's the point in carrying it on, especially when feelings have been hurt? Perhaps I should take a deep breath in and keep my nose out from now on :-)

But it's always nice to have nice things said, thanks again.

And - oops - I just misread your profile info and thought you said your daughter turned into a 6'5 football player, gave me quite a surprise :-D

posted by Jodyreadseverything at 3:54 am (EST) on Jun 16, 2009

As far as I know they were written in Swedish :D

posted by Busifer at 1:03 pm (EST) on Jun 9, 2009

Hehe, I'm glad you're amused. Sadly it's true - I'm probably more concerned about having the right covers than I am about any other catalogue details! Oh well...

posted by ladycassilis at 3:22 pm (EST) on Jun 6, 2009

Oh it won't be long before I get there! : ) Thanks for noticing my nerdy milestone.

Kris

posted by Bookmarque at 6:26 am (EST) on Jun 5, 2009

Thanks Mary Lou, I’m glad to be here. Yeah, I did seem to bring a box of spiders to the old lady convention, but this ain’t nuthin’. I used to be an editor at an on-line political satire site, back before site owners were held liable for posted comments. THOSE guys were contentious.

We have almost no books in common. I think that is very cool, I don’t have much interest in people whose reading tastes are similar to mine so I hope you don’t mind but I’ve added you to my interesting libraries.

I also couldn’t let my grandmother’s books go either so have them in storage. I remember one where she had written on the inside cover- ‘read by moonlight’ and gave the date. And, another thing we both like is that I love the smell of a book. On rainy weekends I love to read for a few hours and then doze with an open book resting on the bridge of my nose. Simple joys.

posted by SomeGuyInVirginia at 10:16 pm (EST) on Jun 4, 2009

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