Member: anglemark

Is the recent book less threatening in Swedish? "En uppgörelse" sounds like a novel.

posted by shmjay at 10:38 pm (EST) on Oct 28, 2009

Thanks for the suggestion of Stig Dagerman books. Any specific titles?
Tom

posted by thetom at 3:42 pm (EST) on Aug 19, 2009

Well, the Cabell group is now set up, here: http://www.librarything.com/groups/thera... . Please join unless you don’t want to and spread the word if you know anyone else who might be interested.
I mean to add a photo of the author or a Cabell-related image, but so far have produced only error codes. Also, there is some sort of textual glitch that Forbids the used of the word ‘style’ in Group Descriptions (I know this sounds too weird to be true, but ‘tis so), and in the last paragraph of the Group Description where you see the words ‘forbidden forbidden’ please substitute ‘style.’

posted by Crypto-Willobie at 9:02 pm (EST) on Aug 15, 2009

Hi Johan -
I read about 10 of Cabell's books back around 1980 (yikes-- giving away my age!) and bought a number of others then I never got to. I've decided to read them now in 'Biography Order' but with awareness of when they were written. I've just finished Beyond Life and am well into Figures of Earth.

Arda Reconstructed-- I'm about halfway through and have temporarily set it aside, but will finish it. In many ways it is very good -- very thorough, informative, revelatory. But it can also be whiny and repetitive, and borders on Christopher-bashing in places. I would however, like the author, like to see a 'maximal text' Silmarillion some day-- a two or three volume work that finds a good middle ground between the over-compressed 'Silmarillion' as we have it and the variant jungle that is HoME, wonderful as that is...
Bill

posted by Crypto-Willobie at 10:02 am (EST) on Aug 15, 2009

"Banks äldre icke-SF", se där åkte mitt intresse upp ytterligare ett hack! Där hittar man några av mina älsklingsböcker...

Angela Carter har jag än så länge bara nätt och jämnt upptäckt. Har bara läst ultraqueera "Den nya Evas passion", vilken jag gillade men tyckte var lite för episodisk för att bli nån riktig fullträff. Är klart nyfiken på att se vad hon har skrivit mer, dock.

/Anders

posted by GingerbreadMan at 9:02 am (EST) on Aug 14, 2009

Hej Johan,

Har faktiskt aldrig varit nån mässbesökare att prata om, men det vore kanske kul att pröva på! Ska definitivt kolla upp saken. Nåt hälleberg har det således inte alls fallit på.

Graham Joyce är ett nytt namn för mig, men det verkar klart intressant, verkligen. Tack snälla för tipset!

Ditt och Neas bibliotek är för övrigt det jag har flest titlar gemensamt med, om man räknar rakt av. Men så har ni ju 6000+ böcker också... Räspekt, det.

Allt gott
Anders

posted by GingerbreadMan at 8:35 am (EST) on Aug 14, 2009

Dear Anglemark,
I must confess that, though I can still speak Latvian, I can't write
it and am rather weak in reading it.
I remember my Father once saying that The Latvia he remembered would
take an approximate generation to be renewed. Thus he never revisited it, even after it's liberation. He said 25 years! As I become older I understand his views, but also remember I AM an Australian.
I do have a relative in Latvia (20 yo. and beautiful)
and clever (architecture) and... and... and...

Your mate, Guido.

posted by guido47 at 1:03 am (EST) on Jun 29, 2009

"Gaelic without groans": is that even possible?

posted by shmjay at 10:00 am (EST) on Jun 27, 2009

Hi Anglemark. I remember I liked The Worm Ouroboros a lot, though when I finally catalogued it a few days ago I realised I didn't remember very much about it. I might have to put it back on the "To be read" pile.

The only other Eddison I've read were a couple of short stories which didn't make much of an impression.

posted by PhileasHannay at 6:53 am (EST) on Jun 22, 2009

Hi, it's gonna sound very crazy, but I have been looking for Maria's Gripe Skugg-gömman since I was 12 years. I'm spanish, and that book never was translated to spanish, nor english. I have found that you own that book, is it right?
I would thank you so much if you could tell me what happens in the end of the story, coz' I'm afraid I will never be able to read it. Please, if you are so kind write me to my email: eowyn170@hotmail.com

posted by xeternax at 10:23 am (EST) on Jun 18, 2009

Is it useful the other way, for English-speakers?

posted by shmjay at 8:09 pm (EST) on Jun 5, 2009

My Dear friend,
I just LOVE your library.
I do indeed come from that part of the Baltic sea.
Yes My parents were Latvians, Though I am an Australian.
Born in Germany (1947) Guess the typical Babyboomer!

Guido (even the name is not that usual)

Guido.

posted by guido47 at 4:03 am (EST) on Jun 4, 2009

So what's the Swedish perspective on the university grammar of English?

posted by shmjay at 12:18 am (EST) on Jun 3, 2009

Hi - yes it is me! :-)
Vincent

posted by Docherty at 2:57 am (EST) on May 20, 2009

Hej igen! nu har jag tagit bort Heidenstam som författare, men jag har lagt boken med titeln som huvuduppslag. jag undrar vad som fick mig att sätta in Heidenstam som författare, det skulle jag aldrig ha gjort i jobbet. hör gärna av dig! Britt Sofi

posted by 1964ub2002 at 3:00 pm (EST) on May 14, 2009

Oh, those crazy Swedes, thinking V and W are the same letter and alphabetizing accordingly when they enter their library onto LibraryThing :)

posted by shmjay at 6:19 pm (EST) on Mar 28, 2009

http://www.librarything.com/work/1893136

See interesting review

posted by shmjay at 12:59 am (EST) on Mar 28, 2009

Ni vill inte ha en till? Har precis släpat några lådor med makens avhandling. Handlar om sarkoidos. Spännande sjukdom som brukar dyka upp efter ca 32 minuter i House.

posted by Planckskonstant at 12:31 pm (EST) on Mar 13, 2009

Ja, du har ju turen (?) att vara gift med en medberoende - själv är jag ju så svårt bookholiserad att jag gömmer böcker under soffan (eller ännu hellre i bokhyllan, à la Poe) för att min make inte ska se att jag har köpt fler... Men jag har väl kommit till insikt om att jag lika gärna kan hiva alla kärleksromaner som jag fått och ändå aldrig kommer att läsa - så får jag plats med fler bra böcker.

posted by Planckskonstant at 4:38 am (EST) on Mar 13, 2009

Aj då - och jag som har börjat rensa ut...

posted by Planckskonstant at 5:23 am (EST) on Mar 10, 2009

And now you're at S. Are you ever going quickly! I'm waiting for Collections to go online.

posted by shmjay at 11:31 pm (EST) on Feb 7, 2009

Yes, we are done, have been for a while, so you can ooh all you like :-) I, on the other hand would like to know in what strange and unfathomable order you are putting up your backlog, watching them pop up is a strange and wonderous thing and without any logic I have yet managed to deduce.
(Sari)

posted by casa_tali at 7:21 pm (EST) on Jan 16, 2009

Greetings! Don't know if you care about such things, but I thought I'd let you know that I just uploaded a cover jpg for Touring Dongegal by Brian Fox which, it appears, only you and I have listed in our LT libraries. Cheers from Northern California!

posted by rocketjk at 2:45 pm (EST) on Oct 10, 2008