Member: bohemima

Talking of funny cat websites, here is my favourite:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=simo...

posted by pinkozcat at 1:34 am (EST) on Sep 5, 2009

Hi - I was just looking through my 'connections' and you and I seem to be the only people who have listed Ruth Dudley Edwards as one of our favourite authors. I am not sure why she is so little appreciated but I never see her books in bookshops so perhaps her exposure is limited. Or, perhaps she is too politically incorrect for general taste these days.

I have all her whodunnit books and think that they are wonderful adn very very funny. It is so nice that they have all been republished recently.

Cheers - minnie

posted by pinkozcat at 10:49 am (EST) on Sep 3, 2009

BTW - I'll be interested to see what you think of Christine Falls. I just bought it on a complete whim this past week - to be precariously balanced on the TBR pile. I hadn't heard about it here on LT, but the description on the back sounded pretty interesting.

Tracy

posted by Talbin at 8:40 pm (EST) on May 1, 2009

Gail:

Okay - I'm going to give this a shot. I'm actually much better at copying other people's work rather than doing it myself - anything I know about HTML has been shamelessly copied from smarter people!

You're going to copy the link shown below, taking out the four spaces (before the first "a", before the very last slash /, before & after the last "a"). I had to add the spaces so that it would show as the code rather than as the link.

< a href="/catalog.php?work=3093889/reviews/8195172">Review< / a >

You need to open up another tab or window and go to the work with your review. On the bottom of your review there's a little symbol that looks like a link or the infinity symbol. Click on that. Now up at the top in the address bar you'll see the address. The last part will looks something like this: arything.com/work/4214518/reviews/446510... Copy the "first number/reviews/last number" (in my example "4214518/reviews/44651030" but it will be different for your review) and replace the same numbers in the code above. Hopefully this should work!

You can do this to refer to any page on LT. In the code above, the very first slash / is the same as the first slash that comes after http://ww.librarything.com/XXXXXXX. You can also change the "text" part (which says Review above) to say whatever you want.

So, if you wanted to refer to your own profile page, the code would look like this:

< a href="/profile/bohemima">Bohemima's Profile Page< / a >

And the result would look like this:

Bohemima's Profile Page

Just remember to take out the four spaces - before the first "a", before the very last slash /, before & after the last "a".

Hope this works!

Tracy

posted by Talbin at 8:37 pm (EST) on May 1, 2009

I am glad you had good weather for Easter. We had rain in the UK - as you might expect at holiday time. Last weekend we had sunshine!

We ate indoors, needless to say, but apart from cooking I have had a relaxing day.

posted by englishrose60 at 7:13 pm (EST) on Apr 12, 2009

Hello Gail, We have quite a lot of books in common. I like cosy mysteries too but have had to put them aside until next year.

For your biography category might I suggest 'Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire'by Amanda Foreman. I am due a re-read of this before I can watch my DVD of it 'The Duchess'.

Good Luck with your challenge and have a good Easter weekend.

Best wishes
Valerie

posted by englishrose60 at 6:34 am (EST) on Apr 12, 2009

Hi. Yes, I like mysteries and detective fiction so found your library interesting. I have read Middlemarch. Someone decribed it as a 'soap opera of its day', which is a good way to think of it. Found it a little difficult to get into but once past the first section it moves along nicely. Hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you think of it.

posted by janbrunetti at 4:04 pm (EST) on Apr 11, 2009

Hi.
I'm stopping by to thank you for recommending The Doll People. I finished this book a few days ago and loved it!

posted by Whisper1 at 6:58 pm (EST) on Apr 6, 2009

The Highly-Rated Book Group has begun a Group Read of The Blind Assassin. Sign up here: http://www.librarything.com/groups/thebl...

and don’t forget to join in my Book Quiz.

- TT

posted by TheTortoise at 12:12 pm (EST) on Mar 10, 2009

Hi Bo! Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries. It's an agglomeration of many years' collecting...and the hell of it is, they keep publishing books I want to read! *sulphrous muttering* And there are so darn many LTers who WILL talk on and on about the marvelous new books they read!

Glad to see, BTW, that you rated "Ender's Game" only 1.5 stars. I detested that book.

Cheers, happy LTing,

Richard

posted by richardderus at 9:43 am (EST) on Jan 18, 2009

Hi, Bo!

You're most welcome for the poetry recommendations. I don't think you'd find "Prufrock" all that difficult -- and the imagery and rhythm are a delight. There are some allusions, but nothing compared to "The Waste Land" (which can be almost incomprehensible in places without some footnotes).

Not long ago, a fairly well-read friend commented to me that she'd never tackle Shakespeare without some outside guidance. But I find that I enjoy Shakespeare more now than I did 40 years ago in school, with guidance. Partly, of course, I do know more now, but I think it's mostly that I just don't worry about passages that I don't understand, and can revel in his language, characterizations and insights without interference. I think Eliot is much the same.

I also love British mysteries, and I see from your ratings that we share the same opionion on many books. I'll be watching your 999 Challenge thread with interest, to see what you think of the books you read this year.

Ivy

posted by ivyd at 3:11 pm (EST) on Jan 17, 2009

Thanks - I've got something of a glut of reading material right now, but in another month or two, I'll be looking for something, and I'll hunt it up then. I love finding a new author and especially if they have a good series, because I know I'm in for months of happy reading!

posted by sjmccreary at 7:08 pm (EST) on Jan 13, 2009

Hi Gail:

Thanks for considering my library interesting. I look forward to seeing you around LT. If you're anything like most of the folks I talk to on the threads (including me!), you'll soon be addicted and love it.

karenmarie

posted by karenmarie at 6:33 am (EST) on Jan 10, 2009

Hello Bo,

Thank you for adding me to your friends list. You are welcome to look at my profile any time!

Happy New Year

- TT

posted by TheTortoise at 4:55 am (EST) on Dec 31, 2008

Hello and welcome to library thing.
I quickly checked your library and found that you read a book of poems by Tennyson. He is one of my favorite authors. Have you read the poem The Lady of Shalott?

J.W. Waterhouse, a Victorian painter of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, did a marvelous painting based on the Tennyson poem.

http://www.ericjobbinsportraits.com/file...

posted by Whisper1 at 7:58 pm (EST) on Dec 28, 2008