Member: SimonW11

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"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without
it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"A friend is someone who sings your heart's song
back to you when you have forgotten the words."
~ David Coppola, Ph.D.

posted by theoldman at 7:25 am (EST) on Aug 30, 2009

Hi Simon, I've just seen your comment from over a month ago, I'm still around, but reading less, as I've swapped my train commute for a road commute.

posted by Greatrakes at 3:59 pm (EST) on Aug 10, 2009

hehehe ok. I'm trying. I wish I could import all my add-ins from goodreads.

posted by emzbox at 4:22 am (EST) on Aug 1, 2009

I have a friend!!

posted by emzbox at 1:57 pm (EST) on Jul 5, 2009

Hey, just wanted to let you know that you have a review for Paladin of Souls accidentally posted for Curse of Chalion instead. Thanks!

posted by ninjapenguin at 1:14 am (EST) on Aug 23, 2008

THANK YOU! for catching the error on the review of Road from Coorain. Problem is now I can't remember my original review of it. Sigh... ;-).

Thanks,

Mary

posted by reannon at 11:53 am (EST) on May 27, 2008

I hadn't quite made that deduction, and I don't think the author had either. The implication I took was rather that, since Maborian time is circular and all the Maborians ride round on it like a merry-go-round, the children could step off the next time round, having simply failed to age (or having aged extremely slowly, and possibly got younger again from the midway point onwards). Incoherent, perhaps, to a logical time-travelling physicist, but not dissimilar to the curious chronological arrangements of Narnia, where you can spend several years and still get back in time for tea.

posted by MyopicBookworm at 12:11 pm (EST) on Oct 26, 2007

Hi! I see you are one of the very few others to have one of the favourite fantasies of my childhood: The Tree Wakers.

posted by MyopicBookworm at 5:14 pm (EST) on Oct 25, 2007

That video you posted on the Singles' group board was HI-larious! I sent it immediately to my single sister.

posted by ggchickapee at 5:59 pm (EST) on Jun 15, 2007

Wychwood?

posted by MyopicBookworm at 9:21 am (EST) on Jun 3, 2007

The Thing in the Library needs input! Hope you can spare a minute from your other lives.

posted by MyopicBookworm at 11:58 am (EST) on May 30, 2007

Nice to have met you in SecondLife. See you around (don't hit me with the cane!) Lludmila

posted by marfita at 2:50 pm (EST) on Apr 1, 2007

Simon,
You know quite a bit about martial arts...are you by chance a member on Martialartsplanet?? if not I would check it out, you would like it.

posted by Taoquan at 8:36 am (EST) on Mar 28, 2007

Of course not! I'm up to my knees in alligators and romances. That trend is changing, soon, though. Like you, I think I've reached critical mass. What I need is a good children's book. :D

posted by lorsomething at 8:16 pm (EST) on Mar 5, 2007

Simon, you asked about my CDs. They have been self-produced by the 3 groups I've been in:

Fortune My Foe by The Waites of Saint Mark, 5 member instrumental group
Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music on recorders (7 sizes), krummhorns, bowed psalteries, guitar, etc.

Viva la Musica! by Pacific Camerata, 15 member a cappella ensemble
Renaissance and Medieval music, some sacred (motets, chants), some secular (madrigals, chansons)

Christmas through the Ages by Windsong, 7 member vocal and instrumental
Medieval and Ren carols from many countries, some a cappella, some instrumental, some mixed on harps, recorders, handbells, guitar, dulcimers, etc. Some familiar, some obscure, no Frosty the Snowman stuff here!

I think Viva la Musica! is on CD Baby. We're talking about getting the other two up. Now that I've discovered LibraryThing, my attention is somewhat diverted from my other interests!!

Thanks you for asking, and if you're interested in samples, I'll tear myself from LT to make some mp3 versions! I'm not an expert in that field, and I SHOULD have done the mp3 thing a long time ago...

MG

posted by maisry at 3:51 am (EST) on Jan 20, 2007

Hmmm... No, I don't believe you mentioned anything about it always being strange to see yourself through the the eyes of others. However, you are correct! :-) I know I mentioned you by name in my post on Combiners! and I hope that wasn't a problem. I usually try to avoid specific references such as this, but I didn't think I said anything bad or misleading and thought there would be no harm in this case.

And did I mention before how funny your initial response to me was? It was helpful, but chock full of typos. At first I thought you were just typing fast and didn't bother to proof read. Then, in your last line, you stated something like "I am more than a little drunk". Then I went back and re-read it and got a laugh out of picturing you typing the message in that condition. And I was on my second glass of wine at the time. ;-)

I still have a lot of work to do with my LT entries (both past and present) and am beginning to have a better understanding of the problems inherent with book listings. So, thanks for suggesting the combiners group. It's been very helpful.

chris

posted by msodalis at 12:33 am (EST) on Jan 17, 2007

I wish I'd seen your message before work this morning.. imagine my horror when I spied those two little words: to me.Where's my editor!?

My apologies...

posted by jjlong at 5:44 pm (EST) on Jan 16, 2007

It's not always easy to see the wood for the trees, is it?! Your sentence, with the subordinate clauses removed, currently reads:

These marginalia were first remarked upon [in] "Marginalia and bookmarks" but this had become little perused, since subsequent printings had omitted most of the brief summary, the marginalia had finally sunk back into obscurity.

Thus shorn, we can see that the "since" clause is trying to do two jobs: either it is "little perused, since subsequent printings had omitted the summary" or else "since subsequent printings had omitted the summary, the marginalia had sunk back into obscurity". If the "since" explains "little perused", then the final clause needs "and the marginalia"; if the "since" explains the "sunk into obscurity", then the earlier clause needs "and since subsequent". (And there should be a comma after thankfully.)

I hope you don't mind my pedantic advice, but I have been something of a connoisseur of long sentences for some years now!

posted by MyopicBookworm at 12:27 pm (EST) on Jan 16, 2007

Thanks: glad you liked it.

(Is there a word missing in your #10? (Perhaps "and" before the last "had"?)

posted by MyopicBookworm at 6:17 pm (EST) on Jan 15, 2007

Hi. Thanks for your suggestion to me on the FAQ group regarding learning more about combining since I have edited a number of titles and authors' names in my listing. I've been reading some of the posts in the Combiners! group and have also read LT's general FAQ and Concepts entries regarding the reasons/merits for combining. My main question at this point is how does one actually combine and/or separate works? I haven't found the process described in the FAQs that I've read yet. Can you either point me to where I can learn how to do this on my own, or explain the process to me yourself if it's not too much trouble?

posted by msodalis at 3:08 am (EST) on Jan 15, 2007

If it's the port, I lift my glass to you! :)

posted by lorsomething at 12:02 pm (EST) on Jan 14, 2007

Hey Simon, I wanted to thank you specially for suggesting Hobberdy Dick. I have read, re-read, made notes, searched poems, and loved his character and all the rest of it. It is one of the new loves of my life. I have already recommended it to several friends. And my copy is on-order! The other one (Mouse and His Child) is coming up and I will get to it shortly, but I want to bask in the light of HD until it starts to fade. :) Thanks!!

posted by lorsomething at 6:13 pm (EST) on Jan 13, 2007

I've not heard of Alan Garner before but his books look interesting. I'll have to check them out. I think I need to start making a list of books to read when I'm done with my library books and current TBR pile so I remember all the good ones I've heard about!

posted by Jenson_AKA_DL at 9:20 am (EST) on Jan 13, 2007

They approach stations all the time.

posted by bookishbunny at 3:14 pm (EST) on Jan 12, 2007

I actually did post a picture on there. They must have taken it off. Maybe I didn't put in the right information about where the image came from. It's not a professional image and I wasn't exactly sure what information they were looking for. I just said it was from my website, but that might not have been enough. Any suggestions?

posted by Jenson_AKA_DL at 10:15 pm (EST) on Jan 4, 2007

It was you! The book is Dead Until Dark (I just spent about 15 minutes trying to track it down), but it's not showing up on your reviews list. Weird, huh?

posted by Jenson_AKA_DL at 4:22 pm (EST) on Jan 4, 2007

I saw a review of a book you did (at least I'm 99.9% sure it was you) the other day. It was a one word review, "plodding", which cracked me up. I just skimmed your reviews because now I can't remember which book it was but couldn't find it. Do you remember what book it was?

posted by Jenson_AKA_DL at 2:50 pm (EST) on Jan 4, 2007

I would (re BookDB) but the only thing LT seems to import is lists of ISBNs - and you can get those from my prog easily enough.

It's the opposite I want to do - export from LT, import into BookDB.

posted by SimonHaynes at 5:15 am (EST) on Dec 31, 2006

Haha, what about copy 'n' paste? ;)
Sure, I'll keep it, let me know how it turned out :)

posted by elenasimona at 2:52 pm (EST) on Dec 26, 2006

All for a kinder, gentler LT! :D

posted by radiantarchangelus at 5:08 pm (EST) on Dec 16, 2006

Nice to see a guy who is not afraid to read romance (read your review on Undead and Unwed) :-)

posted by Jenson_AKA_DL at 10:35 am (EST) on Dec 14, 2006

I've seen ocelotfactory, and even sent an item (bragging about my longago phone conversation with Hoban), but thank you for mentioning it. . .if I hadn't known I'd have been delighted to find it! Esta 1923

posted by Esta1923 at 10:29 pm (EST) on Dec 1, 2006

Noticed your reference to The Mouse and His Child" somewhere and posted an endorsement of it ("For children and intelligent adults.") . . . everybody who does not have it can get it for Xmas!!! Esta 1923

posted by Esta1923 at 6:36 pm (EST) on Nov 28, 2006

Looks like my kind of book, Simon. Thanks!

posted by lorsomething at 7:49 pm (EST) on Nov 26, 2006

Ha! That article looks great! I skimmed the first few paragraphs and now have printed it out to read when I have a sufficient chunk of time. I have to say that it is writing like this that makes me really yearn to love Godel, Escher, Bach, and that's why I haven't discarded it yet. Thanks much!

posted by janey47 at 12:18 pm (EST) on Nov 17, 2006

LOL, I really appreciate your comments in that thread on Dawkins. You're clearly sane and smart, and you agree with me, so what more could I ask?

I don't know whether you've read the fairly recent book Murder In Amsterdam, by Ian Baruma, but I recommend it heartily. It looks at the complexity of the issues, which is a much braver standpoint than trying to turn the matter into right/wrong, black/white, good/bad.

Best,

Janey

posted by janey47 at 7:52 pm (EST) on Nov 14, 2006

Thanks...I've replaced that review!

posted by jlcampbell05 at 8:25 am (EST) on Nov 11, 2006

Glad to see you in the Short Story group as well.

Happy cataloging.

posted by coffeezombie at 10:39 am (EST) on Oct 26, 2006

Hi,

I've just set up a new forum, Children's Fiction, for readers and writers and I thought you might be interested in joining. There are several boards, including general fiction, Sci-Fi and fantasy, flash fiction and a board for chatting about anything and everything.

Please check out the forum:

Children's Fiction

Thanks,

Shelagh

posted by shelagh at 12:12 pm (EST) on Oct 19, 2006