Hi,

Your second comment made me laugh. I wouldn't change your stars, although if you ever do read a five star book though, let me know!

re the moutains: It's a beautiful picture. My geologist side is looking at the rocks and pondering the crossbedding.

re my comments: It's nice to know someone actually saw some of my comments! If you want to get a better feel, sort my library by "date read" and then go to my preferred view. That was part of my intention when I started posting the comments...although I doubt anyone besides me has ever looked at my library in that way.

Cheers,
d

posted by dchaikin at 11:10 am (EST) on Jul 1, 2008

i haven't read it yet, but plan on doing so soon. i am reading 'the thirteenth tale' right now and have a stack of books that i am dying to read! so many books, so little time. :)

posted by amanaceerdh at 9:54 am (EST) on Jul 1, 2008

Hi Akeela, After reading some your talk posts I was curious to see what other books you've read. The first thing I noticed, after that really cool picture, was that you no five star books. You're a tough critic ;). Anyway, I enjoyed looking at your library. Cheers,d

posted by dchaikin at 9:33 am (EST) on Jul 1, 2008

Hi
Thanks for your reply to my inquiry regarding After You'd Gone. I did like this book very much. I read it in two days. Yes, it did move me to tears. Maggie O'Farrell really is a good writer. I'm going to check Amazon to see if she wrote any other books.

posted by Whisper1 at 10:27 am (EST) on May 28, 2008

Hi
I checked your library and note that you read After you are Gone by Maggie O'Farrell. I haven't read this as yet, but I am currently reading her book [The Vanishing Act of Esme Lenno] and I'm finding it very good.

Did you like After you are Gone? If so, I'll try to get this from my local library.

posted by Whisper1 at 1:02 pm (EST) on May 21, 2008

Hey! Just in case you're interested, we're having a BookCrossing meeting at the Coffee Bean on Saturday at 3pm. The Coffee Bean will apparently be closing down soon, so this will probably be our last meeting there. Please come along if you're not doing anything else, you don't have to bring any books this time round, but if you want to that'll be cool.

posted by miss_tibbles at 3:49 pm (EST) on Apr 24, 2008

Hi Akeela!

Yes, Bookcrossing works very well for me. Partly because there are a number of other active Bookcrossers here in Cape Town, so a lot of the time I just end up swapping books with them. Wild releases don't work too well, maybe because a lot of people here don't have free internet access, but I do still do some wild releases at times. And I've discovered that sending a small paperback overseas only costs R26 airmail, so sometimes I send books to other Bookcrossers who have those books on their wishlists. It does get very expensive for larger books though, so I tend to only send lighter books and only every now and then.

We'll probably be having another meetup soon if you'd like to come along. In the meantime you can check our community: http://community.livejournal.com/bookcro...
It's not very active but it'll get you an idea of what we're up to :)

posted by miss_tibbles at 3:49 pm (EST) on Apr 14, 2008

Hi Akeela -- yes I met Elizabeth Berg at the Printer's Row Book Fair in Chicago in June 2006. I live in NYC and it was worth the trip just to talk to her!! She is every bit as wonderful as you'd imagine she would be... she was gracious and warm to every single person who waited on line to meet her, and during her reading/discussion, she was so "real" -- funny, intelligent -- someone you'd love to have dinner with. (None of this surprises you, I'm sure!)

I don't know if you are a fan of Augusten Burroughs or not, but at one of his booksignings someone asked him who some of his favorite authors were, and immediately he said he loved Elizabeth Berg, and was first in line to buy every one of her books when they came out! That made me love him even more...

Thanks for your suggestion, too... I'm going to look that one up!

posted by tls1215 at 9:24 pm (EST) on Jan 28, 2008

Thank you Akeela. I have about 3,000 books in my collection, but haven't got round to cataloguing them as yet. I am just about to open an account with LibraryThing so that I can add the rest when I have time.

I assume you are South African as you have some SA'n books including at least one in Afrikaans. I reside in Johannesburg. I do have Muhammad Asad's masterpiece *The Road to Mecca*. Amongst your collection are some of my favourites: *The Name of the Rose*, *The Reader* and Martin Lings' *Muhammad*.

posted by aasomers at 5:04 am (EST) on Oct 19, 2007

I agree...I liked the book much better. Mitch's other books are good but Tuesdays is still my favorite.

posted by SeriousGrace at 5:33 pm (EST) on Oct 16, 2007

Thanks for the compliment. I see that we share Tuesdays with Morrie . I loved that book. Did you ever see the movie?

Have a nice day!

posted by SeriousGrace at 2:40 pm (EST) on Oct 15, 2007