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A Song I Knew by Heart: A Novel by Bret Lott
Quotable Sex by Carole McKenzie
The Penguin Dictionary of Saints by Donald Attwater
The Houses of Ireland: Domestic Architecture from the Medieval Castle to the Edwardian Villa by Brian De Breffny
Saturday Evening Post Reflections of a Decade
Hanging Curve by Troy Soos
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Favorite authorsSherman Alexie, Jane Austen, Dora Aydelotte, John Baker, Kage Baker, Nevada Barr, Ann Benson, Peter Bowen, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Robert Browning, Ken Bruen, Fiona Buckley, Thornton W. Burgess, James Lee Burke, Andrea Camilleri, P. F. Chisholm, Tom Clancy, James Clavell, Liza Cody, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Connelly, Judith Cutler, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Joan Druett, John Dunning, Kate Ellis, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Walter Farley, Jasper Fforde, Jack Finney, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nancy Freedman, Diana Gabaldon, Neil Gaiman, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Marguerite Henry, Tony Hillerman, Shirley Jackson, J.A. Jance, Erickson. K J, John Keats, Rett MacPherson, Val McDermid, Pablo Neruda, Robert J. Sawyer, Barbara Seranella, Nancy E. Turner, Edith Wharton, K. J. A. Wishnia (Shared favorites)
About me I was born and raised in a small farm town in central Illinois, went to college in Utah, and moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1976. I've worked for Target for the past 22+ years. I imported an Englishman I met online and got married for the first time in 2002. In my spare time, (besides reading), I like to travel, fix up this old ranch house, entice birds and butterflies to my property, take the Jeep Liberty out on trails in this beautiful state, work on my website, and photograph nature and landscapes.
You can see some of my photographs at http://cathyskye.myphotoalbum.com/
About my library I've been a voracious reader since the age of 4. I still have the Little Golden Books I was given as a baby--no teething marks or slobber, which proves that I was born with the passion. My library has somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000 volumes, which is about all my house can hold comfortably. One of these days, I'll finish cataloging it and know the exact number. The subjects run the gamut, since I have an eclectic mind. My favorite fiction genre is mysteries.
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Since I actually managed to fix the shower door, the wife is "just going to close [her] eyes" to the nasty gouge in the drawer, so I live to fight--and do home repair damage--another day:) Us guys are an uncommonly clumsy breed, eh?
Congats on starting up a book review blog. My friend jackanaples here on LT and I have been contemplating starting one ourselves, but I've been a bit resistant because I'm a really slow writer and I'm also afraid of spoiling my reading pleasure if I start reading like a reviewer (whatever that is). Have you noticed any diminishment of your reading enjoyment since starting the blog? Maybe I just need to keep it simple if I decide to do it.
Have a great day,
bookstothesky
P.S. Can you really read on a horse?? That sounds like a good trick!
posted by bookstothesky at 4:18 pm (EST) on Jul 21, 2008
Nope, it's just a dream library (belonging to some lucky folks out in Colorado, somewhere) that I decided to put up to kind of keep me focused on a particular goal, which is to someday have a library looking pretty close to that one...except bigger, natch:)
I really wish I'd followed your example of taking a cold drink and a book to the pool today, but I decided to be Mr. Handyman and try to fix our glass shower door that's been scraping at the bottom when opening and closing it. I took out a few screws and promptly managed to drop the entire door. It fell edge-on like the blade of a guillotine and gouged a 3" groove in one of our bathroom drawers. So, if you never hear from me again, it's because my wife murdered me about 2 hours from now. Tell the police it was Mrs. bookstothesky in the library with the candlestick:)
Later (I hope),
bookstothesky
posted by bookstothesky at 9:00 pm (EST) on Jul 20, 2008
Well, I didn't get to the Craig Johnson signing, either. I will drop him an e-mail, though, about your efforts to expand his readership through your yahoo group(s) and friends there.
Thanks for the credit, too, over on ckNikka's page:)
Take it easy,
bookstothesky
posted by bookstothesky at 1:53 pm (EST) on Jul 20, 2008
posted by ckNikka at 4:08 pm (EST) on Jun 24, 2008
Cliff
posted by ckNikka at 3:40 pm (EST) on Jun 24, 2008
That's awesome! I just saw his new book in the store two days ago and checked his website yesterday for tour dates. I'm sorry you missed him but I still have a chance here in L.A. July 1st. I'll let him know how you've helped out his sales (it was really hard to resist buying his book right then and there, but I always buy from the store doing the signing to support future events).
Take care,
bookstothesky
posted by bookstothesky at 7:20 pm (EST) on Jun 4, 2008
Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries list! We appear to have similar reading tastes. Where are you from in central Illinois? How do you like Phoenix? Your profile makes you sound adventurous, lively, and artistic! Thanks again for choosing me for your interesting libraries list.
Jan
posted by janiswatson at 6:57 am (EST) on Jun 2, 2008
Too funny that you "imported an Englishman." Great sense of humor..:)
posted by MDLady at 1:03 pm (EST) on May 6, 2008
posted by xorscape at 5:25 am (EST) on Apr 9, 2008
See you.
posted by devenish at 9:12 am (EST) on Mar 16, 2008
Just a quick note to congratulate you on your Reviews.I especially like the way that you begin with the first line from each book,a clever idea which usually brings out the essence of the book quoted upon.
Best wishes.
Peter
posted by devenish at 2:45 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2008
Glad you liked "Cold Dish." My streak of people who loved the book after my recommendation remains 100% intact:) The third book in the series just came out in trade paper a week or so ago (can't say much for the cover art, though, compared to the previous books'). The fourth book is due out toward the end of May and Johnson writes on his website that he'll have a larger tour this time due to the growing success of the books. He's a really nice guy, so if you have a chance to meet him I recommend it.
I'll keep an eye out for similar works and let you know if I find any.
Take it easy,
bookstothesky
posted by bookstothesky at 3:59 am (EST) on Mar 8, 2008
Thought it was time I contacted you again as I was interested looking at your list of books tagged 'Architecture'. I have today acquired a fantastic book called 'England's Thousand Best Churches' by Simon Jenkins. One of his moans (which is also one of mine) is the large number of churches that after making a special journey to see the interiors,are closely locked and barred. I should have mentioned that church architecture and furnishings are one of my (other) interests.I don't know if you have found this on one of your visits here,or indeed if you find the same thing in America ? Or do the churches in your part of the world open in a more user-friendly fashion. Anyway I love having a look round when I can get in.One place I did get to recently was the city of York with the great Minster.Now that is something to behold and no mistake . There is certainly a whole load of history there and also in the same city we saw Cliffords Tower (part of the old castle) and the city walls,which are in a great state of preservation. Maybe though I'm telling you about somewhere that you have visited,being the traveller that you are.
Hope you are well and I send you both , all best wishes for Christmas and the New Year
posted by devenish at 12:17 pm (EST) on Dec 11, 2007
I just saw your rather impressive list of author's/series' on Devenish's profile page. Really good information, I have to say, since there were more than a few books mentioned that I've never heard of, so I'll have fun investigating them. Thanks for taking the time to compile the list.
You wrote that you like mysteries with a Native American angle, so I thought I would recommend to you Craig Johnson's excellent series featuring Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire and his best friend Henry Standing Bear. The first book is called The Cold Dish. If you go to Craig's website www.craigallenjohnson.com you can find out about him, his books and Wyoming (some nice pictures, too, on various pages).
Thanks again for the list,
bookstothesky
posted by bookstothesky at 4:27 am (EST) on Oct 13, 2007
Thanks very much for taking the time and trouble to compile the list of authors for me.It will come in useful for new ideas.
Let me know if you need the same from me any time.
Peter
posted by devenish at 2:48 pm (EST) on Oct 11, 2007
How are things in your part of the world.Having had a lovely look around your library listing I see that you have included in your authors Rebecca Stott,Paul Doherty and Ruth Dudley Edwards.A few weeks ago I met all three at a Book get together in my favourite Bookshop,Heffers in Cambridge. They were all very nice,and in particular Ruth was such a laugh. (just as one might imagine her from her Baroness Troutbeck books)
Oh by the way,can you give me any leads on a new American mystery writer.I should be able to get most publications from the aforesaid Heffers.
I see that we are now up to 320 books shared.Good going.
Regards (and to your husband)
posted by devenish at 12:58 pm (EST) on Oct 9, 2007
I enjoyed your review of Dissolution, a book I also thought was excellent. I missed something that you caught--what was it that made the 'who done it' obvious to you?
(Because a women whacking a head off was the most unlikely and therefore the guilty party?)
David
posted by HorusE at 8:33 pm (EST) on Oct 7, 2007
Good to hear from you,and indeed having looked over both your blog pages and your excellent photographs I feel that we are 'on the same wave-length'. Interesting to hear your comments regarding Bedford,as my wife and I visit fairly often.There is a super little bookshop on the edge of the town called "The Eagle Bookshop' which I am sure that you would love.We also like the town because it houses both the John Bunyan Museum and Meeting House and the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery and Museum.This latter has many exhibitions of a literary nature.In fact just a short while ago they held one about the Bloomsbury Group which was excellent.
Oh by the way I have just applied to add you to my 'Friends' listing,which I hope you will agree to.
All the best to you and your husband
Peter
posted by devenish at 3:41 pm (EST) on Aug 25, 2007
I see that you have put me on your 'Interesting Libraries' listing. This is especially gratifying as I seem to be the first one on your list. Many thanks.
I hope that you find my Library list useful.I also see that we have no less than 310 books in common,including the superb "Oxford Companion to English Literature" Being greedy I own the Drabble version and also the earlier Paul Harvey version too.I usually go to this one first as it contains more of the older authors that I usually want to look up first.
I better say (in case you haven't looked at my profile page) that I live in the English midlands in a largish town called Northampton. Fairly near to London,Oxford,Cambridge,Bedford,Leiceste... and the like,so quite a good position for book-collecting.
Best wishes
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Sally from Oz here (4MA) just mosied over to your shelf to have a sticky beak :)
Hoo Roo
posted by sally906 at 11:30 pm (EST) on Mar 10, 2007
Cheryl
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