Member: Prop2gether

Laurie
I read on your thread that you are having health issues, and your cats are as well.

Hugs

posted by Whisper1 at 4:52 pm (EST) on Nov 3, 2009

Laurie

I'm simply checking in to see how you are.

posted by Whisper1 at 2:05 pm (EST) on Oct 14, 2009

Well, perhaps I'll do the same, then and give the series a try. Though, heaven knows, I have no shortage of mystery series to read. I don't do 400+ books a year like you're doing. I was actually hoping to cut back to about 150, but it looks like it will probably be a little higher.

Thanks.

--T

posted by TadAD at 5:45 pm (EST) on Sep 22, 2009

Hi Laurie,

I noticed the recent rating of Grifter's Game, but I didn't see notes about it in your thread. I've only read his humorous stuff (Bernie Rhodenbarr stories), which I love. How do these more serious ones stack up? Actually, I'm assuming their more serious given the subtitle of "Hard Case Crime".

--Tad

posted by TadAD at 1:00 pm (EST) on Sep 22, 2009

I believe that it ended up that "People of the Book" had way more votes than "The Thirteenth Tale". So we will be going with that on beginning November 1st. Mark your calendar but you will be hearing more as the time draws near.
Thank you for your response. We appreciate it.
good reads to ya,
belva

posted by nannybebette at 3:11 pm (EST) on Sep 14, 2009

Hi;
Mark and I have been discussing the possibility of another group read in November and want your input. We have narrowed it down to two books at this point. "The People of the Book" by Geraldine Brooks and "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield. So chat it up with friends or us and let us know if you are up for it and what you think. Probably the same plan as with "Pillars of the Earth" which seemed to work out perfectly for almost all of us.
Think it over and give one of us a shout.
hugs and looking forward to hearing from you,
belva

posted by nannybebette at 9:56 pm (EST) on Sep 8, 2009

With a few spare minutes today, I was catching up on threads, and I was overjoyed to see you enjoyed "Die Nacht von Lissabon" by Erich Maria Remarque. I'm planning on tackling his "Arch of Triumph" soon, but, such is life, I have little time for reading or reviewing recently. :(

Regards
Peter

posted by petermc at 6:14 pm (EST) on Aug 17, 2009

I read your February post in one of the talk groups, recommending The Elements of Style. I thought you might enjoy viewing My Elements of Style Collection.

posted by moibibliomaniac at 12:13 pm (EST) on May 26, 2009

Noticed you liked The Bluest Eye, 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 southern and 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 10:41 pm (EST) on Apr 22, 2009

Laurie,

...do we need nearly every Philip Roth or Charles Dickens on this list?...

Well, for me the answer would be a resounding "no!" for those particular authors. ;-D

Some personality quirk has me attracted to lists. I don't really need them because my TBR pile is heading in the positive direction simply from recommendations here. Yet, it tugs at me and I want to start checking them off. It's what's got me checking off countries on my quest for 195 books from around the world. Odd, I know.

I even find myself wanting to create my version of 660 Books You Should At Least Try At Some Point...though I recognize this for a Stupidly Indulgent Idea (capitalizing these things makes me feel like one of the authors of 1066 and All That).

Thanks again. Good luck with Cryptonomicon. I've already read it, so there's 1000+ pages I wouldn't have to do if I started this quest.

--Tad

posted by TadAD at 6:42 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2009

Thanks, Laurie,

I've waffled on that list because I hear so many comments about, "XXXX is missing!" Couple that with the fact that, from my glances, it appears that some authors are on there quite a bit, I wondered how flawed the list is. I.e., does it just represent a couple people's favorite, Western, mainstream authors, or is it really a good stab at a global list?

--Tad

posted by TadAD at 1:07 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2009

Is the 1001 BTRBYD listed in rank order (or any kind of order) or are the books all conceptually "equal" in merit?

--Tad

posted by TadAD at 2:54 pm (EST) on Apr 6, 2009

Hi LaurieB

Just read your name explanation, and thought I'd stop by and say I did the same thing with my email address--included my birth year--we have the same birth year, 1950, and I seem to add 50 to all codes, user names etc. Also used the 1st 2 letters of my first and last names de and ja and q because I'm a quilter so I was dejaq50.

Deborah

posted by arubabookwoman at 2:47 pm (EST) on Feb 5, 2009

Ok, let's try clearing your cookies.
Go here:
http://www.librarything.com/test_cookies...

Then click "delete all cookies" at the bottom. That'll log you out of LibraryThing, so then log in again and see if you can fix the sorting...

Abby

posted by ablachly at 5:30 pm (EST) on Feb 3, 2009

Love this site, I really do. But somehow, about three weeks ago, all my group listings started showing up in total number of unread messages order instead of the nicely settled order by day of the week
(starting today and working backwards). How can I get my groups back to what was the default listing? Help!

Hi Laurie,
Tim passed your comment on to me. That should be easy to fix! Basically, you changed the sort on Talk. In the header for the list of talk topics (where it says "topics unread/messages Last message") click "last message". That'll switch back to sorting them by date for you.

Best,
Abby

posted by ablachly at 3:01 pm (EST) on Feb 3, 2009

Hey lady -- I'm with you on typos just about ruining the book! Dropped by to say that Alaska just reviewed a Gaiman book -- seem to remember you were interested in that. (If I made that up, pls disregard!!)

Ciao

posted by suslyn at 12:22 pm (EST) on Jan 21, 2009

Hi
No need to return the favor. I'll get the book out to you tomorrow.

posted by Whisper1 at 3:46 pm (EST) on Jan 20, 2009

Laurie,
Don't forget to take credit for that Wilson Bio on the Presidents Ticker thread!

posted by cyderry at 6:05 pm (EST) on Jan 18, 2009

Thanks for the great piece on Presidential kids. Having lived in the DC area for over 14 years, I don't envy them the fishbowl. Sure hope the press will leave them alone.

posted by tututhefirst at 3:03 pm (EST) on Jan 7, 2009

I have not had a chance to try them yet--last week of school here finishing up reports and meetings, plus last class of the semester for the university class I teach plus leaving for the midwest on Sunday and haven't started packing yet. I 'm taking your recipe to my sister's and expect to have some baking time there. I'll let you know when I do.

posted by ronincats at 10:45 pm (EST) on Dec 17, 2008

oh the reason I wanted to know about Old English is because I'm trying to find out if the term for cumtoms officer 'Customer' was ever spelled 'Customar' -- and ideas?

Blessings,
xoxox

posted by suslyn at 3:01 pm (EST) on Dec 16, 2008

oh we'll be in Missouri at the same time! I wish I were closer to St Louie. Enjoy. Hope it's a super trip.

posted by suslyn at 3:00 pm (EST) on Dec 16, 2008

Hey Laurie -- I can't remember. Are you the gal with a background in old English? If not do you know someone here who is?

posted by suslyn at 10:43 am (EST) on Dec 16, 2008

Not understanding how the Santathing worked, I signed up so I could be your secret Santa LOL

You would have received books unread by me with the choice driven by our love of movies.
The Winter People by John Ehle (http://www.librarything.com/work/edit/39...)
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
http://www.librarything.com/work/edit/39...

And for your non-standard romance Inglis Fletcher's Raleigh's Eden (http://www.librarything.com/work/292791/...)

No doubt your own Santa will do better, but I still wanted to share these with you. If you haven't seen those movies, I consider them some of the best I've seen (even if everyone doesn't agree). Another in that category would be Paradise Road -- so good.
my+brilliant+career http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079596/
winter people http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098659/
paradise road http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119859/

posted by suslyn at 10:20 am (EST) on Dec 16, 2008

Hi Laurie, I'm the other half of the sister act in the President's Challenge. There's actually a third sister we hope to get in here shortly. I'm married to a native Californian (Modesto boy) and together we always have books all over the house==even with a dedicated library, we can't fit them all in. He's a retired history teacher, so I think he'll be reading some of these with us. We share many books, including several of my all time favorites: Confederacy of Dunces, Clan of the Cave Bear, Thomas Cahill's Hinges of History series, and several others. Eerie sometimes to see others with reading tastes so similar. Anyway, look forward to seeing you in the 999 and the president's challenge.

posted by tututhefirst at 12:20 am (EST) on Dec 11, 2008

Hi Laurie!

Welcome to the US Presidents Challenge group!
My sister and I started this and I am so excited that other people are interested in it too.
I think that we are a lot alike. I always have a book on my nighttable, one on the end table in the family room, 1 in my purse, an audio book on my computer in my office and an audiobook on my laptop. I love Shakespeare and I never go anywhere without a pad of paper and pen o if I need to, I can make a list. Where would the word be without list makers?!

Again, welcome, I look forwardto get to know you as we go along.
Cheli

posted by cyderry at 11:52 pm (EST) on Dec 10, 2008

Thanks! I'll give them a try this weekend and let you know how they turned out.

posted by ronincats at 6:13 pm (EST) on Dec 9, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving to you & yours.

posted by suslyn at 9:12 am (EST) on Nov 26, 2008

Earlier I posted the wrong link. This one is correct, and the previous msg was referencing your movielist.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=1753...

Hmmm IMdB shows I have almost 1000 titles... what's up with that. I'm going to have to investigate this. :)

posted by suslyn at 7:14 pm (EST) on Nov 25, 2008

We don't have tv and haven't since we married in 2001, so we just watch movies too :) Yes IMdB is free too which is nice, and easy to use.

Here's our mostly up to date list. http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list

posted by suslyn at 2:52 pm (EST) on Nov 25, 2008

So how do you like your movie site? I've got all my stuff loaded already on IMdB -- can't imagine reinputting it. Don't know why though since I've done it with my books x number of times. So glad to have LT -- unless the web crashes I should be in pretty good shape :)

posted by suslyn at 10:23 pm (EST) on Nov 22, 2008

Hey lady,

I see I already mentioned my tastebook -- I'm looking for a proofreader. 20 recipes or so. Would you be she? I worked as an editor for a bit, but proofing your own stuff is hard as you know what it's supposed to say! "not for me" is a perfectly acceptable answer :)

posted by suslyn at 4:29 am (EST) on Nov 21, 2008

I got started on your 75 book count -- were you trying to cut back this year or did you just foresee that with your new responsibilities it would get cut back naturally? I'm interested because, as you know, I would like to cut back a bit, but don't have those externals to help me, except the ironing and kitchen :)

I craft too! Actually of late it's been more like I collect craft stuff including books. But at one point I did a mess of it, mostly in the crosstitch vein but my own charts. fun stuff.

Right now I'm putting together a Tastebook (tastebook.com) cookbook as a Christmas gift. Working on getting photos for all the recipes I've input and finishing it up so I can get it printed in time for Christmas. After going whole hog as the chef for the last 9 Thanksgivings I decided to take this year off. And I need that time if I'm going to meet my deadlines!

Anyway, didn't comment on your list because I didn't want to lose my place as sometimes happens if you scroll down. And still I wanted you to know I appreciated what you wrote there. I haven't read Marston but I think I'll see if some of his stuff came over in this shipment of books -- still have several boxes unpacked.

'Nite.

posted by suslyn at 6:54 pm (EST) on Nov 18, 2008

Thanks for the note on my list -- here's the reply I posted, just in case you miss it:

LOL -- we don't have a dryer!! And, the dryer we do have in storage in France sucks the water out. In the US they usually blow hot air through. The sucking water out version doesn't leave them wrinkle-free. The good thing is that your clothes wear out much more slowly because drying them removes the fibers (hence the full lint filter). Given the choice, I might choose buying clothes more often than ironing.

posted by suslyn at 2:29 pm (EST) on Nov 13, 2008

Thanks for the suggestions!

posted by suslyn at 12:09 pm (EST) on Nov 11, 2008

Thx for the visit -- where in CA? Three of us were born in Oakland and my mom was born at Shasta Lake -- her dad was building the dam. Til the generation of my folks our family was in Iowa (where most still are) since the 1830s.

posted by suslyn at 3:07 pm (EST) on Nov 10, 2008

Thanks so much for the kind comments. I do enjoy teaching. Unfortunately it keeps me so busy August-June that I don't have as much time as I would like to read or write for pleasure! What a blessing this site is for me! When so many don't grasp how powerful reading can be, I can come here and be amongst book lovers and have hope.
Clea

posted by Dawnrookey at 9:02 pm (EST) on Oct 31, 2008

ooh, this is starting to get fun. i found some emergency management readers on here. going to see if i can get some recommendations on "fun" reading for the subject. need to study for my midterm and write a paper... bah... school!

posted by kbergfeld at 10:30 pm (EST) on Oct 19, 2008

A very interesting library. I'm particularly pleased that it's books you read, since that is the way I use LT and even more pleased that it has as little homogeneity as mine. Though we often don't agree on a particular book, that's perfectly fine—I still enjoy looking through the books.

posted by TadAD at 8:37 pm (EST) on Sep 26, 2008

Hi, Prop2gether!

Thanks for visiting my 75 book challenge list. And thanks for the welcome to California--except this isn't my first time here. (First time living in the Central Valley, though--I used to consider a place to fly over to go from college to visit my folks in Vallejo. My husband, however, was raised in the S.J. Valley so He's "come home.")

I was actually born in San Francisco, my Dad was fourth generation Californian, left when I was 5, game back for a few years 4th -8th grade, came back for college in Los Angeles (Occidental College--between Glendale and Pasadena), first teaching job in Tujunga, then Riverside while my husband went to grad school at UCR--we were there for 6 years, the longest I had ever lived in one place. Then we moved to Savannah, Georgia and lived there nearly 25 years! I raised my children there -- I thought I had finally found a permanent home. But, like a bad penny I keep coming back! And this time it probably is for good.

I enjoyed my vist to your book challenge thread--I see that you also read widely. We share quite a number of books in our libraries, but it is surprising that we bothe like mysteries but only a handful of books we share are mysteries. I guess I'd better get cracking on Marston--my son is nagging me about it.

I saw that you were reading from the 1001 Boos list. I'm going to check that out and maybe pick a few to tackle for next year. I'm definitely doing the challenge again because it is fun and keeps me up to date with writing my comments since I now have a place for people to read them!

I'll keep checking in with your list--I'm getting good suggestion from what you read!

posted by MusicMom41 at 4:29 pm (EST) on Sep 25, 2008

Thanks, Laurie! It's a great collection of books, and I'm going to use it as a way to inspire me to fill gaps in my own! (I've read quite a few posts from you on the 1001 Books thread, so I know you've got good taste!)

All the best

Rob

posted by shearrob at 7:18 am (EST) on Sep 19, 2008

I added Jack the Giant-Killer to the Fairy Tale Series page. Enjoy the series! :)

posted by topaz at 9:01 pm (EST) on Sep 18, 2008

Quite an honor to be added to your interesting library lists. Thanks a bunch. Looks like we actually share quite a few books!!!

posted by blackdogbooks at 9:37 pm (EST) on Sep 11, 2008