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April - Antigua's Regatta Month (Antigua Sun Thursday 6, 2004) by Desmond V. Nicholson

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Best friends : a novel by Thomas Berger

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About my libraryI own 2500 books, most entered in Library Thing. I also added journal articles, movies and music CDs I have a 2000 item doll museum and am adding them as realia. My collections are dolls, political science, especially presidents and first ladies, my travels to New Zealand and the Caribbean. There is a smattering of science, art, and Atlanta and Georgia materials.
I have organized my books into boxes rather than on shelves because of space constraints. For my own purposes I am adding the descriptions here.
Box 1 - Behavior Box 18 - Obama, Bush
Box 2 - Post 9/11 to Obama books Box 19 - Women
Box 3 - Economics, Finance Box 20 - Dolls
Box 4 - Travel Box 21, 22 - Fiction
Box 5 - Science Box 23 -
Box 6 - Art, Music, Recreation Box 24 - Reference
Box 7 - World History Box 25 - Media Box 26
Box 8 - Literature Box 27 - Misc,Box 28 Empty
Box 9 - Georgia, Atlanta Box 29 - Empty Box 30 - Presidents
Box 10 - Education Box 31 - Education, Box 32 -
Box 11 - American History Box 33, Box 34
Box 12 - Reagan,Bush Box 35, Box 36 - Presidents,Paper Dolls
Box 13 - Clinton Box 37 - Dolls, Box 38 - Dolls
Box 14 - Nixon, Johnson, Ford Box 39 - Misc Box 40
Box 15 - Box 41, Box 42
Box 16 - First Ladies Box 43- Caribbean Box 44
Box 45 - Dolls
Box 17 - Adams, Grant, Lincoln, this period of presidents

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carterchristian1 rated, reviewed, added:
The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger With Mexico and Canada by Jerome R. Corsi

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Silent Coup: The Removal of a President by Len Colodny

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The nightmare years, 1930-1940 / William L. Shirer by William L. (William Lawrence) (1904-1993) Shirer

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Dominica, Nature Island of the Caribbean by Peter G. H.; James Evans, Arlington

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The Fifties by David Halberstam

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What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray N. Rothbard

hey Carter- i am about to move (back to NYC from Jersey) and am needing to weedle down the amount of books I take with me BUT THe Fifties will still have a place on my shelf. I am glad you, too, liked it. Halbertstram is a favorite of mine;tragic that his life ended before his time.

it shocks me that with over 2000 titles we only have 2 shared titles. what do you enjoy reading? do you reaf fiction - who are some of your favorite authors?

posted by berthirsch at 9:26 pm (EST) on Sep 8, 2009

Hi, Thanks for visiting my library. I'm not retired so unfortunately I seem to aquire more books than I can read. I see that you collect dolls and you mentioned the Teddy Bear Catalog. I do have a small collection of antique bears. The Teddy Bear catalog was published by Workman who also produced an annual calendar of bears. They are no longer in print but a few years ago one of my bears was featured in the calendar. I understand your problem with space for your library. I think thats a problem for many members. I like your box idea which requires strict organization. However, I like to see my books. I found using heavy industrial shelving to work well. I purchased the shelves at Sam's Club and they are wide enough to double stack the books and can support the weight. Well good luck in all your collecting.

posted by realbigcat at 9:27 pm (EST) on Sep 4, 2009

I have resorted to crates because I don't have the bookshelves needed to house all my books. It would have been bad anyway, but when my parents died, I got most of the books. I also want some wall space left for other stuff, including blank space so I don't get claustrophic. I pack my crates by size type within major category. It gives me an alternative form of resistance weight work. ;-)

posted by NeverStopTrying at 9:13 am (EST) on Sep 3, 2009

Thank you very much for your thoughts on The Untold Story, I like to review everything that I complete and find it amazing that so few of the things I read are reviewed somewhere. I don't think we need more reviews of Catcher in the Rye but more of this type of books. Currently I am in Graduate School and can only read books assigned by my Professors. When I graduate I will be able to start on the ever growing stack sitting here growing dust.

Thanks again,

Susan

posted by sgerbic at 3:14 pm (EST) on Aug 23, 2009

I think this link will work -
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=29...

The house/museum is located in Escanaba, Michigan (Upper Peninsula). Donna LaPorte is the owner's name, and she gives all admissions donations to a charity...can't remember which it is right now.

Let me know if you can't open it. I just did a lot of snapping (with permission)so I apologize for some of the light quality.

posted by walkonmyearth at 10:29 am (EST) on Aug 3, 2009

I am amazed at your doll collection! I recently took a trip to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to visit family. On the return trip, we stopped to visit my aunt's childhood friend in Escanaba. This friend has a collection of nearly 9,000 dolls in her home, all on display (and on my Facebook page), by category. What a great idea, to catalog them on LibraryThing, especially when they are reflections of your life around the world.

I've fallen quite behind on cataloging sound recordings. I wish there were a quicker process....I'm sorry your books are in crates...

posted by walkonmyearth at 4:58 pm (EST) on Jul 25, 2009

You wrote: "I see you have New Ideas from Dead Economists. I picked it up at Last Chance in Decatur, where I have found a lot of good books recently. This may be old, but is a great introduction to standard economists. Have you looked at it lately. ?"

I haven't read it recently, but I do remember enjoying it when I did last read it. I had to read it for my high school economics class which would have been in 2000. It seems like I've forgotten a lot of what I've learned, so I should probably reread it sometime soon.

posted by Nexis at 7:13 pm (EST) on Jul 12, 2009

A bit of a delay in replying because I'm often on slow internet connections which don't like LT very much. You're right that the war in Sudan is very complex. If there's one single message I try to get over to the international community when I'm doing advocacy work, it's the complexity. Unfortunately the media and most western governments want simplistic "quick-fix" solutions. These demonstrably don't work.

I too am rereading Wodehouse after several decades. Brilliant! As for the steam trains, I'm taking a week off at the end of July to go down to South Africa to drive and fire (stoke) one. Hard physical work, but relaxing after the complexities of peace work in Sudan!

Cheers!
John

posted by johnthefireman at 6:52 am (EST) on Jul 7, 2009

About Third World War.

It is a recent entry but in fact I read it in 1982.
By now, it is mostly outdated and irrelevant. The only interesting part is the mention of the problem of nationalities causing the fall of the Soviet Union, but even this was not new at the time = a much more detailed analysis, "l'Empire Eclate" had been published in 1978 by the French "sovietologist" Helene Carrere dEncausse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hélène_Carrère_d%27Encausse.

posted by CBi at 6:23 am (EST) on Jun 13, 2009

You wrote: "About World War III. I used to be a librarian...50 years...and was always concerned at the end how many books I had helped get to the shelf that were never read. Why are you adding this to what is essentially a nursing collection. In any case I dare you to get someone to read it."

;)
Anything is possible!

We're actually a (very) small college, the nursing collection is just more established (also better-cataloged.) We had a (former) library worker who was very interested in politics and history, and I'm sure that WW3 was a donation from him... We actually have a fair amount of students and faculty who are devoted readers, and we have a monthly book club. So while I do sometimes despair, I have some hope for the future!

posted by RavennaLRC at 5:38 pm (EST) on Jun 8, 2009

Thanks for the nice comment about Rothbard and my review. Don't expect any update soon, the 1990/91 update was Rothbard's work, but he is not with us anymore. I expect the Mises study center in Alabama to print another copy, but no more substantial updates.

Good reading... Lou Imholt

posted by ServusLibri at 9:36 am (EST) on Jun 7, 2009

Hi Christian (?),

You left a comment on my profile quite a while ago and it's the first time since then that I've logged in to add to my collection.

Really, the reason I'm using boxes to keep track of my collection right now is because we're between permanent houses and the vast majority of my books are in a storage unit. We've been getting a few boxes at a time out, cataloging them and putting them back in. The boxes are mostly the boxes that copy paper comes in as the majority of the books we have fit in them, they are not too heavy to lift, and we can get them for free.

Hopefully I should be on here more often for a while so if you have any other question, feel free to ask.

posted by Penzance at 9:55 pm (EST) on Jun 5, 2009

Hi Christian, (your question :I see that you too have just added Third World War. What did you think of it)

I am sorry it took me so long to react. I bought it but i am buying what i am interested in but i am buying quicker than i can read. So Third Worldwar is still in the pile TO Read. So i can't give a reasonable answer on your question. Perhaps later.

Greetings from Belgium.

Andre Verhoeven

posted by Anver at 5:42 pm (EST) on May 30, 2009

Just saw your May 16 comment. What book were you referring to?

posted by alarob at 4:04 pm (EST) on May 30, 2009

I never finished more than the first couple of pages. I served with the 11th ACR in Germany so the opening scene has a different meaning to me. Plus, on the day this was supposed to occur, the Soviet invasion, I had to sit in a conference room with all the other officers waiting for the announcement that war had begun. What sillyness!

posted by briancreed at 6:53 am (EST) on May 25, 2009

I read the book when I was 12 or 13. It was cool speculative fiction at the time, but obviously falls into alternate history now.

posted by dlevinson at 5:21 pm (EST) on May 24, 2009

I you talking about the one by Hackett or the War That Never Was ?

posted by LouieD at 7:45 am (EST) on May 21, 2009

I haven't actually read it yet. It has been sitting in my To Be Read pile for awhile now. I entered it simply because I was methodically adding the contents of the particular bookcase it's on. :)

posted by Surtac at 12:45 am (EST) on May 21, 2009

I have not read the book yet. I am sure it will be of great interest when I come to it.

posted by delip1 at 11:24 pm (EST) on May 19, 2009

I last read The Third World War many years ago. Thank you for reminding me of it! I will have to re-read it soon.

posted by LeonardIngram at 9:21 am (EST) on May 19, 2009

(Laughing)
I have no idea! I'm a librarian and cataloger for a small college. Actually, it's an older item in our catalog, I just recently scanned about 700 older items into LT. I sincerely wish that I had a chance to read all of our books :)

posted by RavennaLRC at 5:59 pm (EST) on May 18, 2009

I have been entering my book collection since January, so even books that I read years ago, will come up as newly enetered. Nevertheless, I liked the book back when it was written, and I think that it has aged well. Of course, back in the early 80s it was written as a polemic warning the West to not disarm in the arms race with the old USSR. I think the scenario the author presented was entirely credible, and I'm thankful that the West avoided such a confrontation with the Soviet Regime.

posted by Bookmaster1000 at 11:14 am (EST) on May 18, 2009

The Third World war, now there is a blast from the past. I read it when in came out, in the tense period around the installation of cruise missiles, and it confirmed my fears about the Soviet threat.

I'll have to look it up again to see how it holds up, but I remember it being somewhat less interesting than I hoped, with lots of NATO jargon slowing down the narrative. Also the ending with a limited nuclear exchange seemed to me more like a Hollywood style happy end bolted on.

Then again, I'm quoting from memory.

posted by CharlesFerdinand at 6:39 am (EST) on May 18, 2009

It's interesting as an artifact of Cold War thinking, which seems so remote today even though I remember it well. When I was in high school in 1982-83, for a school project I wrote a "future history" about World War III and other events in the late 1990s, in which Gary Hart is president and the U.S. goes to war with China, with 20 million people dying in a nuclear explosion. Of course I still had the Soviet Union as a superpower, but as a tacit ally of the U.S. against China (that was my twist!).

posted by dkathman at 3:06 pm (EST) on May 17, 2009

What book are you talking about?

posted by sgtbigg at 3:05 pm (EST) on May 17, 2009

I thought it was more interesting than realistic. I was in the military at the time and felt that there was little chance that any conflict would be so contained. A preanounced, limited, nuclear exchange?

posted by WLFobe at 11:16 am (EST) on May 17, 2009

I have to admit that I read that book 25-30 years ago when it first came out and I don't remember too much about it. In retrospect there were some remarkably prescient things in it. NATO fighting in Yugoslavia. Televised war as a way to engage the public in the fight. Beyond that I don't recall too much. I should probably pull it back out a reread it. Right now, I'm struggling through The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It's a great book, but I'm just too distracted by spring and the approaching summer.

posted by fredbacon at 10:20 am (EST) on May 17, 2009

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