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Tolkien: A Look Behind the Lord of the Rings by Lin Carter
Talking to Dragons: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Book Four by Patricia C. Wrede
Twisted tales from Shakespeare, in which Shakespeare's best-known plays are presented in a new light the old light havi by Richard Willard Armour
Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
Roget's International Thesaurus of English Word's and Phrases by C. O. Sylvester Mawson
Our great Northwest by Arthur Samuel. [from old catalog] Taylor
The Summer of the Danes: The Eighteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters
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About meI am 69, retired & enjoying it & now since my recent house move i do seem to get a lot more reading done than when i was working. I was a home health care worker & a cannery worker & substitite teacher. My teaching certificate was in History/Earth Science/Political Science, however now i am only certified for subbbing (for life). I had read mainly non-fiction until the last 10 yrs. When I discovered Fantasy (Tolkien, Lewis, Pullman, Pratchett etc.) I live by myself in an apartment in eastern Washington state in Yakima, a city of about 85,000. I find that i enjoy city life as everything in the city is acessible by public transport. Having no one else in the household lets me do as i wish on my own schedule w/o depending on anyone else or on their schedules. My car has been sitting in the same spot for the last 6 wks. & @ the price of gas may be there forever.
About my libraryIn September of 2005 our house burned down & most of my library w/it 1000's of books & NG mags. My Tolkien was elsewhere, thank goodness. Since then I've been rebuilding my library by prowling the used bookstores & 2nd hand stores. I now have nearly 600 books & my book shelves are stuffed. That does not mean i shall quit buying books however! Mainly I have earth science, history, & of course fantasy in my collection. I also collect rocks, minerals, post cards, non-bear Beanies, dragons, turkeys & lots of dust! As I now live in an apartment my space is somewhat limited mainly by the number of bookshelves i now own, but am working on expanding my capacity. I am closing down the rented storage unit i have rented for the past several years as i have a smaller & cheaper storage space here in the complex-but am taking some books, which i have recently declared excess, to a booksale the local YMCA has held as a fund raiser for the past 40+ years. Since i originally acquired them @ said sale it seems appropriate to take them back there. Of course it goes w/o saying that i will find some books at the sale which i will bring to live w/me for a while anyway.
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Currently readingThe Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart
Saving Fish from Drowning: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Amy Tan
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posted by theoldman at 7:31 am (EST) on Aug 22, 2009
I felt compelled to get in touch with you after reading about your heat problems. We are suffering from the same here in BC. DH and I spent a couple of night in Yakima this spring, camping in your state park.
Did you know that those 'magic bags' that you heat up in the microwave for winter comfort work equally well for the summer if you put them in the freezer for a few hours? They are a great sleeping aid.
Lorraine
posted by loosha at 1:55 pm (EST) on Jul 31, 2009
posted by maggie1944 at 4:46 pm (EST) on Feb 6, 2009
Lovely to hear from you - sounds like Shadow found you when both of you needed each other. Your entire menagerie sounds simply wonderful. Sadly, Brian and I live in the suburbs, although we would dearly love to live and work in the country, we are both city folk. I work in Perth and Brian is in the building trade, which pretty much takes him all over. He's actually been to Ghana to work on a gold mining town at one point. I'm very pleased to hear that you have been able to replace a lot of your books. I wish you did live here, you could scrounge books when ever you liked! Storage isn't a problem for me at the moment, as Brian turned over a room to me for my library - I'm rather spoilt (understatement). I do hope you manage to swap and change your books around with the ones in storage from time to time?
It's most strange hearing you discuss the cold of winter, whilst hear in Perth we have been having a heat wave, although for the most part we are in reprieve at the moment (heavenly relief), our eastern states counter-parts are truly suffering in, on average, 40 degree celcius, and the bush fires are fairly bad. In Adelaide there have been Koala bears moving out of the bush and into the suburbs, these are wild animals mind, and they are excepting hand watering - which shows just how bad it is in these area's, it's simply incredible.
Oooh, retirement for a year - sounds a bit like book heaven to me. As you can tell, I like to talk, so if you can handle it, I'd love to be on your friends list. Thanks for the offer. I don't get to go online as I could wish - I'm on a pc all day at work, so by the time I get home, I'm just about over it.
Be well, be warm and hope to hear from you soon.
Kindest regards, Debs.
posted by TheOneTree at 6:25 am (EST) on Feb 5, 2009
I would be delighted to be included on your friends list.
- TT
posted by TheTortoise at 5:00 am (EST) on Jan 6, 2009
Let me know if the words work. Pointy open parenthesis, slash, symbol, pointy close parenthesis.
posted by maggie1944 at 9:14 am (EST) on Dec 24, 2008
Hope that works.
posted by maggie1944 at 9:12 am (EST) on Dec 24, 2008
First find the parenthesis that look real pointy: < That is what you will type first. Then you type the symbol for whatever you want: i = italics; and b = bold. and then you close with the other pointy parenthesis: > And then you type whatever it is you wanted in italics or bold. Lastly in order to quit you need to type the . That will quit the italics or whatever.
Now to try it on some thread and be sure you tell me that you got it. The pointy parenthesis are over the comma and the period on my keyboard.
Thanks for asking.
Karen (aka maggie1944)
posted by maggie1944 at 9:10 am (EST) on Dec 24, 2008
Sorry took so long to answer... Im still getting used to how this place works :)
My real name is Bernice... the kitty is one i poached on the internet :)
posted by Taliska at 8:51 am (EST) on Aug 4, 2008
So are you a teacher?
posted by SpicyCat at 5:50 am (EST) on Jul 22, 2008
posted by RachelfromSarasota at 11:09 pm (EST) on Jul 19, 2008
Yes...Always Coming Home was beautiful...very different to her other works I think...when you read it, let me know what you think! I only know of one other person who's read it...
posted by Severn at 12:43 pm (EST) on Jun 12, 2008
posted by Musereader at 6:47 pm (EST) on Jun 10, 2008
posted by Morphidae at 1:35 pm (EST) on May 20, 2008
posted by TheUSTolkienGuide at 11:45 pm (EST) on Apr 11, 2008
Thanks for writing! The Tolkien Guide's LibraryThing is just inventory - an easy way for multiple people to update and correct the book catalog. I've been meaning to get a personal LibraryThing going, but it's a daunting task; I don't seem to have the energy just now to tackle it. We appear to have very similar taste :-) Man, I miss Washington!
posted by TheUSTolkienGuide at 10:11 pm (EST) on Apr 11, 2008
posted by maggie1944 at 8:50 pm (EST) on Jan 20, 2008
Any way, thanks for your concern. I live on a hill (thanks be to the gods) which is between Little Bear Creek and North Creek. Both creeks jumped their banks yesterday and flooded the area around at the bottom of my hill (not an insubstantial hill). I did have to do some fancy navigating in the car to get my grandson to school, get myself home, and then pick him up again after the school closed (due to flooding) and the public transportation "bailed out" at the sight of a raging creek over the road. Our drive to school which usually, with rush hour traffic, takes 45" - 60" took us about three hours yesterday. Then the school closed about 10 minutes after I dropped him off. Oh man! But he of course took advantage and went to a friend's house and baked cookies. Kids - they are so creative.
Bottom line: I am home safe, warm, watching the rain out the window and the floods on the TV. Good reading weather.
posted by maggie1944 at 11:40 am (EST) on Dec 4, 2007
You know, I knew you were a friend but this just goes to show it was a good choice in the first place. (-;
I'm trying to get ready for our little community arts and crafts fair, so no long leisurely hanging out in the Green Dragon tonite. Later....
posted by maggie1944 at 8:47 pm (EST) on Nov 30, 2007
I think I'll request to put you on my Friends list. I hope you'll accept.
posted by maggie1944 at 12:58 pm (EST) on Nov 30, 2007
You haven't managed to replace you Durrel books after the tragic fire? I only have a few, though I've read a few more many years ago when I was a more voracious library user. Can't remember which though. He had such a wonderfully light tone which captured than animals people and places so well with just a few words. Visiting his zoo on Jersey is still on my List Of Things To Do.
That's a lot of Tolkein books you have! All read?
If you are on the lookout for new fantasy try Karen Miller who's my latest find. Excellant characters.
posted by reading_fox at 6:12 am (EST) on Oct 30, 2007
Can't say I am particularly stuck on any one genre - I am reading more fiction now after a few years of reading only nonfiction. Right now I am reading Alan Furst's The World at Night. A WWII book set in France.
posted by maggie1944 at 6:47 pm (EST) on Oct 11, 2007
Where in eastern Wa. are you? What kind of critters? seems like we may have lots in common. I have two dogs. I spent many summers when younger in central Idaho so I love the dry warmth of east of the mountains!
Also, do you do rock hounding still? Where do you go? I've played with the idea of doing a gold panning vacation but have not taken the first step towards doing it.
I'm going to ask you to be a friend.
thanks for the note.
posted by maggie1944 at 6:05 pm (EST) on Oct 4, 2007
posted by domeloki at 7:11 pm (EST) on Sep 17, 2007
posted by collsers at 2:31 pm (EST) on Jun 1, 2007
Hey! I lost everything in a fire one & 1/2 years ago including thousands of books & magazines & have been trying to replace them ever since. I have been only partially successful thus far. So I can empathize w/your problem! Vanye
If you call collecting books a problem. ;-)
By the way, if you like fantasy (and it looks like you do) you might try Will Shetterly and Emma Bull.
posted by TheAlternativeOne at 7:08 pm (EST) on Apr 14, 2007
posted by Vanye at 2:46 am (EST) on Dec 30, 2006
P.S. I have just stated putting my books on the site, so this is just the tip of the iceberg!
posted by Vanye at 2:25 am (EST) on Dec 30, 2006