I was watching author chat and had a good laugh on talking with R. Dahl.

posted by yareader2 at 10:59 pm (EST) on Jul 7, 2008

Hey! I just noticed you're tagging the books you've included on your blog, good idea, I think I might do the same (that's my blog not yours). Thanks for giving me an idea I can steal much better than thinking it up myself :)

posted by TheBookImp at 8:55 am (EST) on Jun 23, 2008

Hi TeacherDad, nope, not a Charger fan.. something much more mundane. I sell nuts and bolts for a living. (And using "The Bolt Chick" moniker kept people from referring to me as "The Screw Lady"!)
I love your posts and your blog. You keep me laughing!

posted by TheBoltChick at 7:34 pm (EST) on May 23, 2008

I just had to check out your blog and comment on practically everything! (it's a slow day at my house) And I love your profile pic.

posted by cmbohn at 2:01 am (EST) on May 14, 2008

No, I'm sorry to say TD, that it does not get better. I'm up to page 130 and it is still just wretched.
Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries. I'm reciprocating.

posted by Fourpawz2 at 10:24 am (EST) on Apr 23, 2008

Hello TeacherDad. I, too, have gotten Two Brothers. I was wondering - are you finding it as unremittingly hideous as I am?

posted by Fourpawz2 at 1:36 pm (EST) on Apr 22, 2008

When did Two Brothers arrive? I didn't know anyone had gotten it yet.

posted by DevourerOfBooks at 10:18 am (EST) on Apr 19, 2008

Aha - another adult who reads children's/YA books. When I check out at the library with those, I sometimes wonder if they think I'm getting them for a teenager at home (I don't have one). ;)

posted by chanale at 9:45 am (EST) on Apr 19, 2008

I noticed you have The Hound of the Baskervilles According to Spike Milligan on your wish list, have you read any of his other books? His autiobiographical books are pretty good, Hitler, my part in his downfall for one. And then there are his childrens books. My favourite being Bad Jelly the Witch.

posted by TheBookImp at 5:06 am (EST) on Apr 7, 2008

Thanks for the welcome TD! The well-read compliment. I guess grad school was good for something.

posted by BigJoel55 at 1:04 am (EST) on Mar 30, 2008

Thanks for visiting - we homeschool and don't have much of any library access out here so we have to make our own! Thanks goodness for grandparents who have airline flight benefits and don't mind the 20+ hour plane trip to bring us more books (okay, they like to visit us too). The biggest reason I joined library thing is to keep her from bringing duplicates...

posted by tebowfamily at 5:20 am (EST) on Mar 25, 2008

I really enjoy your children's book blog, so thought I'd check you out on LibraryThing ;)

posted by aannttiiiittnnaa at 7:43 pm (EST) on Mar 24, 2008

Maybe I did - have this quote from Francis Bacon

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion"

posted by TheBookImp at 10:28 am (EST) on Mar 7, 2008

I'll let you off double posting, even though I'm sure it would make my profile page appear as if I was really popular. I noticed you visited my blog too, Whoop! First visitor and comment, thank you. I get excited about the strangest things >:)

posted by TheBookImp at 9:00 am (EST) on Mar 7, 2008

Thanks for adding me as an interesting library, just wondered though, you added me twice, does that make me doubly interesting? or did you just think I needed all the help I could get.

>:)

Thanks again.

Jacquie

posted by TheBookImp at 7:04 pm (EST) on Mar 6, 2008

Thanks for putting my library on your "interesting" list - I have reciprocated.

posted by Florinda at 4:58 pm (EST) on Feb 27, 2008

I haven't really thought to have a written down list of recommendations - at least not beyond my 50 challenge thread. Though now that you mention it, I think it's a great idea! I do work in a bookstore, so I basically recommend books to people for a living - if I didn't read it, I probably know someone who did...

I do think I want to be an English teacher. Which is funny, because for many years people sort of recommended it to me and I was really against the idea. But one day (in the bookstore) a woman was talking about how much her daughter hated this really huge boring classic - I don't even remember which one - that she had to read for school, and the idea just hit me that I could do such a better job teaching kids to love books. I would give them excerpts from dozens of different books in various genres and let them pick a style that suited them, instead of making them read the same stuffy classics that have driven kids to hate reading forever. (Wow, did I just get on a soapbox or what!)

Anyway, but now that I have this great idea to be a teacher, I'm trying to figure out how to go about it. I think I would really love to just get a teaching certificate and work on my master's degree while teaching...but I've yet to really figure out how you go about it. Any good suggestions?

P.S. Thanks for taking an interest...and I've been reading your thread. Quite some interesting discussions going on there ;-p

posted by Ilithyia at 4:43 pm (EST) on Feb 26, 2008

Glad you found my library intriguing :) , and I don't blame you for monitoring the myspace! I keep my myspace profile private now that I'm applying for PhD programs, and I still get some awful strange messages. I probably will keep dropping in--the conversation on your fifty challenge was about as vibrant as most any other of the discussions I've seen on threads lately! Good luck with everything, and let me know what you think if you ever end up looking into Englander...

posted by whitewavedarling at 12:52 pm (EST) on Jan 30, 2008

TeacherDad, I love your profile picture! Do you still know where it is from? I would really like to get it Poster Sized for my book-room!

posted by J_ipsen at 12:00 am (EST) on Jan 29, 2008

Thanks for the "add" to your interesting libraries! I'm enjoying your 50 book challenge thread and your comments in other groups as well.

posted by lindsacl at 7:04 am (EST) on Jan 19, 2008

LOL! Glad you enjoyed the photo, it's one of my prouder moments.

posted by teelgee at 2:51 am (EST) on Dec 31, 2007

Hello TeacherDad,
I am a bit surprised that you tag my library as interesting. I don't share that many books with the other librarys (unless they have way more than me already listed, and even than it never goes higher than about 15)
But I guess it is a compliment Thank you:) I haven't had the pleasure of "running" into you on this side yet. Except I think for that comment you made on the "Avid Reader" topic. I see that we have NO books in common, well, maybe we get ideas from eachothers books.
I wish you a happy and well read 2008, (after all you still want to be an Avid Reader in the new year....right? ;)
Oh, and yes I like your profile picture too. I guess I was boring posting myself.....=)

posted by PandoraLuvsBooks at 4:09 pm (EST) on Dec 30, 2007

Hi TeacherDad -- thanks for the interesting libraries add! I've been circling around you in a couple of groups and always enjoy your input.

Wishing you and yours a happy 2008 with lots of good reading!

Terri

posted by teelgee at 2:11 pm (EST) on Dec 30, 2007

Hello and welcome to 40 Something Library Thingers!

posted by MDLady at 11:00 pm (EST) on Dec 26, 2007

Hi, TeacherDad ~ Just dropping by to wish you happy holidays!

posted by Storeetllr at 1:01 am (EST) on Dec 26, 2007

Ah, I suppose I did not look at the picture all that well then - I missed the grin on his face.

Also, I will just have to do that; certainly she'll understand.

posted by Jessa0711 at 1:41 pm (EST) on Dec 22, 2007

Random question, but does your profile picture have anything to do with Farenheit 451??? It just reminds me a lot of that book which was quite excellent (though the movie was terrible, in my opinion).

posted by Jessa0711 at 4:41 am (EST) on Dec 22, 2007

Hello there, JK.

Thank you for the link. I will certainly have to check it out.

:)

-Jessica

posted by Jessa0711 at 1:20 am (EST) on Dec 20, 2007

Hah! See, 50's not out-of-reach! But why do you think audiobooks are cheating? I think abridged versions are cheating, and I guess if you were just using them for background noise, but I only listen to unabridged, and I really pay attention ~ rewinding when I need to if I've missed something ~ so I always count them. If I didn't, I'd have a whole lot fewer books on my list. 8-O Anyway, in the long tradition of oral storytelling, I count 'em!

Another person who belongs to that group also counts what she calls manga. I think that means the same as graphic novels, but I'm not sure.

posted by Storeetllr at 9:34 pm (EST) on Dec 12, 2007

Oh, yeah, and children's and YA books definitely count, as do audiobooks. It's up to you whether to count them. Not sure about textbooks, though.

posted by Storeetllr at 11:01 pm (EST) on Dec 11, 2007

I just thought if you joined that group you might find it is an easy way of keeping track of what you read, not that I thought you should do that challenge. As someone else mentioned in a post I read just tonight, if you read even one book a year, you're doing better than many Americans. Scary thought!

posted by Storeetllr at 10:58 pm (EST) on Dec 11, 2007

Thanks for tagging my library as "interesting." Funny ~ I was just checking out yours before going to mine to see if I had a new message. :)

posted by Storeetllr at 12:54 am (EST) on Dec 11, 2007

No I try not to take myself too seriously. that name is an old joke from high school.

posted by Madcow299 at 1:31 pm (EST) on Nov 27, 2007

Thank you for tagging my library interesting :) And great profile pic. I want a sign like that I can hang somewhere.

posted by citygirl at 4:39 pm (EST) on Nov 26, 2007