Member: annggables

Hi, I just joined this site. I noticed that you're interested in parenting books. Have you read The Ultimate Guide for Stay at Home Parents? Here's a link: http://www.ulitmateparents.blogspot.com

posted by RobertKoger123 at 10:10 pm (EST) on Mar 15, 2009

The administration of Library Thing has agreed to review my request that you be banned for un-bookman-like conduct and also conduct unbefitting (unbefitting?) a librarian. Think long and hard about whether you want these smudges (library term) on your record, sister. Oh....the terms say "be nice, please" so I will just quit right here and now.

posted by jfurshong at 12:57 am (EST) on May 24, 2007

Hi- I have some books by Charles Morris (1833-1922), and have been trying to clean up the author page. This author was writing in the early 1900s on natural disasters, Queen Victoria, and the assassination of Pres. McKinley. You have "American Catholics: The Saints and Sinners..." (1996), by Charles R Morris. He is alive and still writing, but he is sticking to the earlier Charles Morris because his name keeps coming across from Amazon without the middle initial. Would you mind editing your author field to “Charles R Morris”? This would help the accuracy of shared book counts for both authors. Thanks!

posted by oregonobsessionz at 12:09 am (EST) on Feb 23, 2007

Another Montana book to read: THE WHISTLING SEASON by Ivan Doig. His newest. Great story telling, lovely use of language, memorable characters.

posted by MLHahn at 7:45 am (EST) on Jul 10, 2006

I'm looking for a good description of the Anaconda smelter, especially its operations. If you know of same ... or run across same ... I'd appreciate the reference. (A dozen years ago, I worked for an unnamed West Coast oil company who inherited the Super Fund obligations to clean up the Anaconda sites in the Rocky Mountains. The scale of the environmental damage was so extraordinary, it made me curious about the era of Anaconda's major operations.)

You've read A River Runs Through It. There's a reference to Anaconda's operations, therein ... in an "anti-Industrial Age" vein. Rent Motorcycle Diaries. There's a scene at Anaconda's Chilean operations in that movie (warning: Anaconda isn't portrayed as a fine, benevolent institution).

Here are some Montana books that you might find interesting:

Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City (The Working Class in American History). Laurie Mercier. University of Illinois Press (2001), Paperback.

The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925 (Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Series). David M. Emmons. University of Illinois Press (1990), Edition: Reprint, Paperback

Smoke Wars: Anaconda Copper, Montana Air Pollution, and the Courts, 1890-1924. Donald Macmilla. Montana Historical Society Press (2001), Hardcover.

Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America. J. Anthony Lukas. Simon & Schuster (1998), Edition: Reprint, Paperback. (Montana's not the focus of this book. But, that non-conformist Butte Miners Union
plays a notable supporting role.)

posted by UncleVerbal at 11:24 am (EST) on Jul 9, 2006

ok - i have 17 so far.....

posted by djacobsen at 11:50 pm (EST) on Jun 29, 2006

nice photo too! u as a child?

posted by djacobsen at 10:17 pm (EST) on Jun 12, 2006

Hi AGG!

Nice collection.

Thanks for the connection with sdv.

dr.da

posted by djacobsen at 10:16 pm (EST) on Jun 12, 2006