Member: carolcat

Hi Carol,
I have reserved Everything is Illuminated for you and sent a notification but here is the link:

http://www.bookmooch.com/m/detail/014100...
~Lyn

posted by Lman at 6:48 pm (EST) on Sep 2, 2009

Oh, my gosh! Now your have me worrying. All I can say is that the stories are for fun, OK? They're not thinly veiled treateses on linguistics. Actually, I also prefer a real book to an ebook. Fortunately, these are handsome volumes. The ebooks don't have covers, of course, so I can tell you this, too: there's a face on each one. People often miss the face on volume 1, but if you hold it in the right light you can see it. The vace on volume 3 is not obvious either. Clearly, you are a serious reader! I hope you enjoy them! By the time you finish, volume 4 will be out as well. That one has a cat (a different kind of cat) that's actually a character. Should you decide you want that one too when the time comes, let me know. I'll try to get it to you.
Best wishes!
////A

posted by AnaDarcy at 10:22 am (EST) on May 10, 2009

Ahoy, Carolcat. (Why do so many of us use cats as avatars?)

I'm sorry to bother you, but since you expressed an interest in this, there's news...new news. I posted this elsewhere, but it's easy to miss so I hope you don't mind if I also p.m. you:

I have just arranged a new, worldwide availability of the Distant Cousin series. They are available from Smashwords (http://www.smashwords.com/books/search?q...) in EIGHT different e-book formats. Several of the formats can even be printed, if you really want to. They're budget-priced, $4 each, which is a steal!

The listing is too new to have any reviews, but you can check Amazon for reviews if you like, or, get this: read 40% of the book for free. Talk about a new frontier!

I repeat the earlier caveat: these are light-hearted, recreational stories with something for almost everyone that are somewhat informed by reasonably accurate linguistics, OK?

posted by AnaDarcy at 10:19 pm (EST) on May 1, 2009

Hi! I angel mooched a book for you today (I guess it's tomorrow now in your zone) and the moocher just replied with the condition notes. It was a "darn, I forgot my condition notes! sorry!" kind of thing. Anyhow, the notes are these: "Somewhere around a third of the pages are "rippled" like it's been wet. It's quite readable, but kind of ugly!"

Would you like me to ask some of the other moochers to see if they'll give me conditions? The only person with notes up right now recently (according to their status) had a heart attack, so they're still dealing with fallout from that and I didn't want to add to their stress.

posted by chelonianmobile at 9:22 pm (EST) on Mar 2, 2009

That joke sounds like fun. I have a friend in the States who is supposed to be helping me with my Hebrew by Skype, but she has been so busy since she and the kids went back in August that we've only Skyped once, and there was just too much else to talk about. Basically, I should be working on both my Greek and my Hebrew, but once last summer's on-line Greek course ended and Kate left, I kind of stopped working on both. I do have Art Scroll's interlinear Genesis, though, with Exodus on order, and I just got a really good book http://www.librarything.com/work/7779639... to help me. So what I really need is more self discipline. I have more than enough books. But this one does the Hebrew grammar differently, and I think it might make more sense to me, once I figure it out. Let's face it. English doesn't fit well into Latin grammatical categories, and Hebrew just plain doesn't at all.

I was taking classes, but the teacher left for a better job in Germany. Female Roman Catholic theologians are at a distinct disadvantage in the job market, so when she got a good offer she quite rightly jumped at it. I'm glad for her, and envy her new students. (Kate did say that I have the best Hebrew pronunciation she has heard in someone who doesn't regularly pray in Hebrew. I take that as a big complement to my teacher.)

posted by MarthaJeanne at 8:58 am (EST) on Feb 23, 2009