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Favorite authorsG. K. Chesterton, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Madeleine L'Engle, C. S. Lewis, China Mieville, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Parker J. Palmer, Terry Pratchett, Dorothy L. Sayers, D. E. Stevenson, Charles Williams, Connie Willis, P. G. Wodehouse (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Booksellers - Fullerton, Book Carnival, Borders - Brea, Borders - La Habra, Borders - Tustin, House of Bibles, Little Professor Book Center - Fullerton, The Bookman

Favorite librariesFullerton Public Library - Hunt Branch, Fullerton Public Library - Main Library, Orange County Public Library - Brea Library, Placentia Library, Pollak Library - California State University, Fullerton, Yorba Linda Public Library

About meMy elementary school library had a summer reading program every year. The summer between third and fourth grades one of my choices was David Copperfield by Charles Dickens -- yes, the unabridged version! I can still remember the librarian trying to direct me to something more "age appropriate." Of course, anyone who knows how stubborn I am can guess how well the re-direct went. Yes, I read that entire book if only to prove I could do it -- and I enjoyed it.

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Hi Terri! We have quite a few books in common, don't we, including Charles Williams (I've read them all, but I only own one - myst do something about that.) On BBC Radio 4, Many Dimensions has just been nominated as a neglected classic by Ruth Rendell, but I don't think he'll win the vote, somehow (I voted for him, of course). Jodie

posted by GeraniumCat at 2:24 pm (EST) on Oct 29, 2009

Terri, Thanks for visiting my blog and making some kind comments. I haven't written in a long, long time. It felt great. Anyway, my husband was reading the blog; following comments; etc.... He discovered goodreads.com through your connection with it. He started an account for me; I uploaded a CRV file. Most of my books made it. But as I explored their website, I felt like I was on a foreign planet. Any comments? I can navigate LT with the same fond familiarity as driving my Kia minivan; a "new" book website fills me with angst and foreboding..... Many minutes have passed..... Now I'm tired and can't finish my thought. Be in touch. (Got my Charles Williams' today...) - Linda

posted by alaskabookworm at 1:25 am (EST) on Feb 28, 2008

Terri, Ok. I made a plunge. I found a seven-volume set of Charles Williams' novels off of abebooks.com for $50 (which, I felt, might be a bargain, especially after pricing out buying the books individually). After FINALLY being reminded of who the "Inklings" were, I kind of went crazy. This, to make up for my appalling ignorance.

I only read "The Chronicles of Narnia" for the first time a year ago last summer, at age 36, and sobbed all the way through them. Recently, I gave the series to a friend, age 48, who has never yet read them. He may have thought I was a bit off when I insisted "they changed my life forever." But, I meant it. He has gone through some very difficult changes this past year.

I can hardly wait to get my Charles Williams. And, I agree with gveach: I would rather have books than anything else in the world (outside of relationships and God, of course).

posted by alaskabookworm at 10:14 pm (EST) on Feb 8, 2008

Terri, I love your library, and your comments about reading! I've just recently come to understand that I'd rather have books than just about anything else! It looks like you're also a librarian (good profession for those of us who love books, though I don't just sit and read them at work like everyone seems to think I do!)

posted by gveach at 7:40 am (EST) on Feb 7, 2008

Terri: Thanks for the "friend" invite. I accept! While I haven't had a chance to study your library fully, I read your profile and chuckled. In 7th grade I picked up "The Old Man and the Sea" by Hemingway, and my mom pooh-poohed me. I responded in about the same way you did to your former librarian. These days, I take my kids into my "library" (in our dining room) and tell them: "As soon as you can read "Bob Books", you can read ANYTHING... The world is your oyster." If any of them become the kind of reader I have become, I don't want them to waste any time before they tackle great, great books. Nice to meet you! Where are you from? What are you currently reading? And, who are your favorite authors? Linda

posted by alaskabookworm at 10:58 pm (EST) on Feb 3, 2008

Terri, thank you very much for your note. I refer to 'No Country for Old Men' as 'McCarthy Light': the evocative, Faulkneresque language that attracks us to McCarthy is pretty much lacking in that particular novel; however, it is still a worthy read. But I would first read 'Suttree' and any of his other works -- including 'The Road,' a book so stunning that when I walked outside of my house after finishing it I found the sky, and the horizons touching the German fields, to be tainted with a haunting portent imbued to me by 'The Road' (you will know what I mean after you read it).

posted by southwestpoet at 3:32 am (EST) on Oct 20, 2006

Thank you for your kind remarks.

posted by deniro at 7:55 pm (EST) on Oct 19, 2006

Thank you for joining the Political Conservatives group. Welcome!

posted by ggchickapee at 6:25 pm (EST) on Oct 19, 2006

I am currently reading McCarthy's new book, 'The Road.' It is a dark, haunting vision, and the eloquence we enjoy in McCarthy's pre-'No Country for Old Men' writing is here in the new work.

posted by southwestpoet at 3:00 am (EST) on Oct 13, 2006

It's a deal, Terri. Just pop back by when you finish The Year of Magical Thinking and let me know your thoughts. I did find parts of it rather sluggish, but also found a lot of very good information about the grief process. I'm sorry to hear about your dad. Losing a loved one is the hardest thing to go through!!

-Rus

posted by rdixon98 at 7:22 pm (EST) on Sep 8, 2006

What an adorable photo!!!

What did you think of The Year of Magical Thinking?

posted by rdixon98 at 7:35 pm (EST) on Sep 7, 2006

Thanks, Terri; I love Joshua trees and the sun in its various passages through desert skies.

posted by southwestpoet at 6:21 am (EST) on Aug 11, 2006

Thanks; I am glad to share information on good reads (at 51, I'm finally reading Moby-Dick for the first time). Jeffrey

posted by southwestpoet at 6:20 am (EST) on Aug 11, 2006

Terri,

Thanks for the link to U of Az Press; I check them out on occasion, and I like the fact that they include download-able excerpts.

posted by southwestpoet at 2:48 am (EST) on Jul 21, 2006

I have a chapbook of Southwest poems I could send you for free, if you like. It is published by The Moon Publishing and Printing in Tucson. Rio Nuevo Publishers, also based in Tucson, publishes 'Voice of the Borderlands,' Drum Hadley's book of Arizona poems: http://www.rionuevo.com/backlist.htm. I admit I haven't read it. Beyond that, Larry Thomas' 'Where Skulls Speak Wind' is outstanding, and there are always Walt McDonald's poetry books -- more outstanding work. Other poems centered on the Southwest seem scattered among anothologies, or among poems of several topics by various authors; I think of 'Desert Wood: An Anthology of Nevada Poets,' edited by Shaun T. Griffin. The late Peggy Pond Church wrote poetry based on her life in the Pajarito area of New Mexico.

posted by southwestpoet at 2:46 am (EST) on Jul 21, 2006

Hi TerriB,

Thank you so much for your note on my email. I certainly appreciate you being 'floored' by McCarthy's Border Trilogy -- I was too, and I read all the literary criticism I can on those three books, as well as Blood Meridian. I recently finished McCarthy's Child of God, though I admit I liked his other Tennessee stories better, particulalrly Suttree.

Do you like poetry situated in the Southwest? I am always seeking poets who write of their natural environments, or situate life stories in regionalism, the way the late Richard Hugo did with the Pacific Northwest. As I mention on my sectionj of Library Thing, I am a Southwest regional poet. I left Tucson a couple of weeks ago, where I was visiting my daughter and grandson. Jeffrey

posted by southwestpoet at 12:43 pm (EST) on Jul 20, 2006

Hello. I see we share an interest in Cormac McCarthy. As a Southwest poet I am curious about your Southwest book collection; I'll have to peruse it.

posted by southwestpoet at 4:03 pm (EST) on Jul 18, 2006

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