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LeCinquieme Fils by Elie Wiesel

In Babylon by Marcel Moring

La Ley de Los Santos by Ruben E. Reina

'Come, Take This Lute' A Quest for Identities in Italian Renaissance Portraiture by E.H. Ramsden

The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop by Saul Williams

K'Tia, a Savior of the Jewish People by Roberta Kalechofsky

A History of the Jews in the Modern World by Howard M. Sachar

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Favorite authorsHalldór Laxness, Michel de Montaigne (Shared favorites)

About meI have finished my doctoral dissertation from a research university in the US and am bound to graduate in Spring 2010. Meanwhile, I am working as an innkeeper in a historic center in Central America and doing historic research. I also write newsy articles and book & music reviews (just a hobby) for several publications; some of these are on my website.

I am interested in art and design, as well as traveling & reading (and sleeping!) as much as possible. Though my reading preferences are everywhere, I read mostly political theory & philosophy, history, sociology, media and arts, religion and philosophy, historical fiction, and issues related to music, popular culture, hip hop culture, race and gender. And other stuff...

About my libraryIt is a hodgepodge of everything, a map of my life and scatterbrained interests. Lately I have been reading a lot of Latin American history and sociology.

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The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and plants grow automatically and along fixed lines; man can grow as he will. Trees and plants can only develop certain possibilities and characteristics; man can develop any power which is or has been shown by any person anywhere. Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.

~ Wallace D. Wattles
Quote from The Science of Being Great

posted by theoldman at 12:05 pm (EST) on May 10, 2009

Hi Trudy, no new writing as of late. I have some other stuff going on outside of work, and most of the writing I have time to get in are the articles I post to my blog.

I have a few people reviewing and editing my novel right now, and I hope to have all their feedback by the first of June, so I can start revising again. Hopefully, I can get a semblance of a first chapter out on my site sometime late this summer, though even that will not likely be in finished form 100%. Thanks for asking!

How are things with you?

Steven
http://steventill.com

posted by StevenTill at 6:20 pm (EST) on Apr 20, 2009

I am on Facebook. You should be able to search Steven Till and it should be the first one that comes up. If that doesn't work, try "Steven Till Alabama," and that should find it. And yet still if that doesn't work, try the link below. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profi.... Hopefully, one of those will yield success.

Thanks for the extra suggestion!

Steven
http://steventill.com

posted by StevenTill at 10:07 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2009

I'm glad you enjoyed the short story. If you happen to read any of my other ones, I'd be interested to know what you think. Hopefully, I'll have a draft of the first chapter of my novel up by the end of the summer. The novel is in heavy revision process right now.

I am on Facebook, so if you know of any good groups out there, please let me know. Thanks!

Steven
http://steventill.com

posted by StevenTill at 12:23 pm (EST) on Feb 10, 2009

Always nice to find others interested in medieval history. I found your profile through the Medieval Europe group. Any particular book you would recommend? What's your favorite non-fiction book on medieval history? I'm always looking for new books to add to my library. Thanks.

Steven
http://steventill.com

posted by StevenTill at 10:11 pm (EST) on Feb 8, 2009

Trudy it's good to see you back. I used moral turpentine because I enjoy playing with words and throwing interesting combinations in just for fun. You were right to pick up on turpitude, so it couldn't have been too confusing. It was just a one person joke. Pretty pathetic, huh?

posted by geneg at 10:49 pm (EST) on May 25, 2008

Hi Trudy,

Check out the Early Reviewers FAQ - there's a section on how to post a review.

Abby

posted by ablachly at 11:40 pm (EST) on Feb 8, 2008

OK, you review is loaded and I went and gave it a thumbs up. don't cha just love LT? see you around. Come visit us in Green Dragon, its a fun group of people.

Maggie

posted by maggie1944 at 10:48 pm (EST) on Feb 8, 2008

Hi, I just read your review of the book about Che and wanted to give you a thumbs up but I don't think you have posted the review in your profile, just in the Early Reviewers thread. So if you'd like some feedback you can put your review on the page for the book in your library. Thanks for nice writing. - Maggie

posted by maggie1944 at 8:59 pm (EST) on Feb 8, 2008

There's no set *due date* - just as soon as you finish reading it? :)

posted by ablachly at 11:52 am (EST) on Oct 29, 2007

Yup, that's me. How have you been?

posted by CarlosMcRey at 7:20 pm (EST) on Sep 19, 2007

Hi Trudy, Thanks! Gay marriage rights are something that i and the leaders in my church, Presbyterian, just don't agree on at this point. The tide seems to be shifting ever so slowly.

posted by NativeRoses at 1:56 pm (EST) on Sep 19, 2007

To put images of book covers in your profile, first you must decide where to put them. I chose the area for "about my library". The html for the Bourdieu book is this:

(a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/107132&...")(img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/067451..." align=middle alt="Language & Symbolic Power by Pierre Bourdieu")(/img)Language & Symbolic Power by Pierre Bourdieu(/a)

Replace the ( with < and the ) with >.

The first url points to the entry for the book in librarything so if you click on the book it takes you to the entry for it. The second url is the address of the image. I get my covers from amazon.com. To get the cover left click on its image in amazon and select copy image location, then paste it after the src= parm. The term following the /img is the text placed next to the book. Good luck.

posted by geneg at 5:19 pm (EST) on Jul 16, 2007

You asked me to let you know how I found Natasha's Dance. Actually I found it on Librarything by following people's recommendations. This is how I've found several good books so far.

Now, if what you were really asking is what did I think of it? (Yes, I'm a smarty-pants.) I must say that I loved it. I've never read a cultural history before and I found it quite interesting. It gave a good picture of how the upper classes lived as well as the culture they created in their quest to westernize/modernize Russia. It's a shame the revolution came along and wiped all that out. Maybe Russia would have settled into a liberal/socialist democracy under the Kadets or another moderate party. Fie on the Bolshevik's.

I will take away from having read this book a better understanding of what I am hearing when I listen to the Russians and what I am reading as I read them. I might even use it as a reference from time to time. All-in-all I found this book quite informative, well written and thorough.

I wrote a review, although I must say I am not a review writer. My reviews tend to be recaps of the book, and, alas, this is not different. You can find my review by clicking on the book, then reviews, then follow the link.

posted by geneg at 12:47 pm (EST) on Jul 16, 2007

Hey, Trudy! Thanks for the note! Yes, I find your library very interesting. I just signed up for LibraryThing today, so I'm having fun playing. It will be a while before I can get my collection entered, but I'm also looking for inspiration and ideas here. Stop by again some time!

Sarah

posted by greyduck at 8:42 pm (EST) on Jul 15, 2007

Thank you for finding my library interesting. Yours especially interested me for the modern philosophy- Habermas, Deleuze, Foucault, Kristeva, etc. They all became important after I left college (in 1952) and I haven't kept up with them, or the Frankfurt school. I am also interested in Judaism and feminism but have very little of those subjects in my library.

Please feel free to send me a comment or two whenever something in my library or in your reading strikes your fancy. I live in Clearwater in the winter, so perhaps we could meet somewhere in between.

Miriam

posted by almigwin at 10:48 am (EST) on Jul 13, 2007

I'll pretty much check any of it out. Thanks for the recommendations. And it's all for personal consumption.

posted by Jesse_wiedinmyer at 12:41 am (EST) on Jul 13, 2007

Oh, shit. What did I say now?

posted by Jesse_wiedinmyer at 10:17 pm (EST) on Jul 12, 2007

Thank you for your posts in the Political Conservative group. Your voice is truly needed in that group. Your life experience adds a dose of specificity to a field of ideological generalities and theory. Thanks for being there.

posted by geneg at 12:56 pm (EST) on Jul 12, 2007

Howdy -- hope you keep posting in PCs. Every so often they need a dose of reality.

posted by NativeRoses at 12:10 am (EST) on Jul 12, 2007

Hi Trudy,

Yes, the only thing we share in our libraries is that misstated author's name! ;o)

G

posted by EsotericLore at 4:13 am (EST) on Jul 8, 2007

Hi MissTrudy,
Your book "The Passion for Fashion" by Adrian Bailey is currently listed under Alice A. Bailey.
Thanks for correcting!
EsotericLore

posted by EsotericLore at 8:54 am (EST) on Jun 24, 2007

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