Member: chamekke
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About meI'm a technical writer! Of course I love books!
About my libraryWell, my books very much represent my interests these days. Take three cups of Buddhism, stir in a generous half-pint of Chado (Japanese tea ceremony), and add a dash of various spices... many of which are also Japanese.
By the way, you mustn't assume that I don't read fiction. I do; but my library had to be downsized when my husband and I moved into a smaller apartment. I reasoned that I could sacrifice most of my classic literature, since virtually all these books are readily available via the local library when I want to reread them. But the same can't be said of most of my non-fiction!
So what you see is the lean, mean, pared-down version of a book collection that once numbered in the thousands... because every book had to meet at least one of two criteria: (1) Do I reread or refer to it often? (2) Is it difficult or impossible to replace? Sigh...
GroupsAlternative Fiction, Anarchism, Arthurian Legends, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Ask LibraryThing, Atwoodians, Banned Books, Book Care and Repair, Book reviewers, Bookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill —show all groups, Brits, Buddhism, Bug Collectors, Calvin and Hobbes, Can you recommend....., Canadian Bookworms, Cemeteries & Gravestones, Chadou, the Way of Tea (Japanese tea ceremony), Combiners!, Comics by Women, Cornish books, Cover Art, Dalkey Archive, Discordia, Editors, Researchers, Whatever, EmilyDickinson, Etiquette and Manners, Eureka! finds, From Avalon to Tir Na Nog, Frontispiece Quotations, Gaeilge—Students of the Irish Language, Getting Things Done, Graphic Design, Guilty Pleasures, Herbal, Historical Mysteries, Humor, I heart metadata, I Love Jane Austen, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Indonesiana, INTJ, Irish & Celtic Studies, Irish Books, Irish Mythology, Japanese Craft Books, Japanese Culture, Japanese Literature, Judaica, Kindred Spirits, Language, Librarians who LibraryThing, LibraryThing Coffeehouse, LibraryThing-ers Anonymous, Lists, Loitering with Intent, Mark Twain, McGonagall - the World's Worst Poet, Mensans of LibraryThing, Monks, Monasteries and Monasticism, Myers-Briggs: All Types, Mystical & Spiritual., Nun talk, Origami, Orphans, Pacific Northwest, Pedants' corner, Progressive & Liberal!, Rare, Old or Offbeat, Reading Tips, Real Ale (& Other Beers), Recommend Site Improvements, Resistance is Fertile!, Science Fiction Fans, Scrapbooking and Card Making, Self-Improvement / Self-Help Books, Simple Minded, Singleton Showcase (Books!), Spruitjes (Brussels sprouts), Stalking Tim & Company, Taggers!, Tai Chi, Talking Piffle, TAROT LOVERS, Tea!, Tess Gerritsen, Textile art, The 'verse, The Colbert Nation, The Daily Show, The Scepter'd Isle, medieval history of England, 500 to 1500 AD, The Strategati: the Secret Society of Masterminds, The Title Slips my Tongue ...., Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night, Thingamabrarians That Flickr, Things found in books, Time Travel, Alternate Histories and Parallel Worlds, two inches of ivory, Vajrayana, Virago Modern Classics, Voices of the People's History, Who Would Win in a Fight?, Wikipedians, Zen
Favorite authorsTsultrim Allione, Benedict Anderson, Jane Austen, Daniel Berrigan, Philip Berrigan, Randolph Silliman Bourne, A. S. Byatt, Thubten Chodron, Noam Chomsky, John Crowley, Claire Culhane, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Liza Dalby, Annie Dillard, Patrick S. Dinneen, John Donne, Fritz Eichenberg, Chris Ferris, Timothy Findley, Ford Madox Ford, Alan Garner, Ursula K. Le Guin, Hanna Havnevik, Seamus Heaney, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Sermey Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Tharchin, Geshe Thubten Loden, Daphne Marlatt, William McGonagall, Brian Merriman, A. A. Milne, Glenn H. Mullin, A. J. Muste, Ernest G. Neal, Flann O'Brien, Fredy Perlman, Rachel Pollack, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Keith Roberts, Marilynne Robinson, Joanna Russ, Shantideva, Carol Savvas, Sōshitsu Sen, Benedictus de Spinoza, Linda Stitt, Thubten Yeshe, Tsong-Kha-Pa, Bill Watterson, Joss Whedon, Howard Zinn (Shared favorites)
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Favorite bookstoresBanyen Books and Sound, Bolen Books, Grafton Bookshop Inc, Ivy's Book Shop, James Bay Coffee and Books, Munro's Books, Russell Books, Sorensen Books, Triple Spiral Metaphysical Store
Favorite librariesGreater Victoria Public Library, Main Branch
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Member sinceSep 15, 2005
Currently readingFour Secrets to Liking Your Work: You May Not Need to Quit to Get the Job You Want by Edward G. Muzio
Authenticity: Clearing the Junk: A Buddhist Perspective by Venerable Yifa
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posted by zenomax at 6:31 am (EST) on Jul 11, 2008
Maren
posted by Marensr at 10:34 am (EST) on Jan 21, 2008
With pleasure. Hopefully, it will get serious attention within the next two or three weeks. I'm looking forward to more than the browsing it's had.
My Christmas involved an attractive, intriguing book, but scant tea: it sounds about even to me. :)
I hope you've been enjoying the holidays, yourself. Have a marvelous New Year....
Julie
posted by Eurydice at 11:18 am (EST) on Dec 28, 2007
Grace O'Malley! Funny you mention her. Granuaile : the life and times of Grace O'Malley by Anne Chambers is on my list of books to read. I heard about it from a friend, and it has gotten good reviews on Library Thing. Let me know if this isn't quite what you are looking for.
posted by mpramanik at 9:27 pm (EST) on Nov 22, 2007
posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 6:58 pm (EST) on Oct 31, 2007
(http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=21326)
Nobody else has even heard of Red Shift, it's one of my favs, too.
posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 11:49 pm (EST) on Oct 25, 2007
posted by tiffin at 7:52 pm (EST) on Oct 11, 2007
posted by NativeRoses at 11:53 am (EST) on Oct 1, 2007
you're very kind to help me put workable links in the Tea group message board.
But I tried with IE and Firefox to access your link "address" and here's what I got:
Sorry, but the page you requested can't be found.
Please check the url. You can also look for help in Groups, or contact us.
Then I followed the instructions you added in your 2nd message so now the links seem clickable but I get the very same error message.
So thank you very much for your time and patience. I should bring this problem to the tech team (but I won't).
Kris
posted by krishh at 6:54 pm (EST) on Sep 30, 2007
Thanks for pointing me to the excellent article by Ursula Le Guin in your review of her Earthsea book. I love her work but would not even have known about the mini-series (a bad thing) if I hadn't seen a new edition of paperbacks (a good thing) on the shelves at the bookstore. Be that as it may, I did not see the mini-series and thus did not even know about the whitewashing of the script.
J
posted by jveezer at 9:51 am (EST) on Aug 25, 2007
Thanks for your comments.
You have a great collection, and I love your listing of favorite authors.
I see you listed Daniel Berrigan (I recall the Berrigan brothers fondly). A great book written by Daniel Berrigan and Thich Nhat Hanh in 1975 is "The Raft Is Not the Shore: Conversations Toward a Buddhist/Christian Awareness", which is the record of conversations between them in Paris in 1974, when Berrigan was very well known, and TNH was an unknown Buddhist priest living in exile.
And your photo is an equal match for mine!
All my best.
posted by bodhisattva at 10:14 pm (EST) on Aug 2, 2007
You have Thich Nhat Hanh's book Viet Nam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire listed as "need cover".
I have scanned my copy, so it should be available for you under "Change Cover".
Very nice library!
posted by bodhisattva at 1:03 am (EST) on Jun 21, 2007
I had a look at your link. I very much enjoyed the `camel` quote, but I think for me the `scream` sentence a few quotes later caught the right balance between the florid and the strange penchant for over-explaining the good Lord indulged in.
I recently read a book by Somerset Maugham - clearly an excellent writer, but with nothing much to say. I think on balance, I`d have preferreed to spend my time on a good example of bad writing.
The public remain impervious to the lures of Lord Lytton, so i may fetch him off the shelves and indulge in another quote before to long. Let us vouchsafe that the noble scion`s peerless penmanship gives pleasure, perforce, to unborn generations yet.
posted by nickhoonaloon at 6:59 am (EST) on May 30, 2007
I'm new to LT, and just started my cataloguing. Your name came up as someone with a lot of shared titles in Buddhism - so I thought I'd make contact. I hope that this finds you well.
posted by Parthurbook at 4:18 am (EST) on Sep 27, 2006
Sorry , dropped a digit off the link, now fixed. bob
posted by GreyHead at 3:40 am (EST) on Sep 23, 2006
posted by luxarific at 8:23 pm (EST) on Aug 13, 2006
The URL for our new Japanese catalogue is http://www.rarebook.com/cat36signup.html - there's a brief registration and then you get the username and password for the catalogue (Japan and Asia). Promise we don't sell the email list! It's just for future catalogue announcements.
Hope you enjoy it!
posted by sionnac at 12:51 pm (EST) on Aug 5, 2006
You'll have to read my dissertation to find out ;)
Actually, it's because I talk about the his poem “Trydydd Cywydd Dafydd” when ap Gwilym threatens Gruffudd Gryg
“O doi di i’r Deau dir / Ti a fydd . . . Broch yng nghod“
“if you come to the land of the South, you will be a Badger in a Bag”
Bromwich cites the entry for gwarau in Davies’s Dictionary (1632): ‘gwarae broch ynghod, lle y rhoe’r trechaf y llall mewn cod,’ ‘the game of Badger in the Bag, when the strongest one puts the other in a bag’” (Bromwich 1986, 150 n. 66).
I don't have access to Davie's dictionary locally, so I'm citing Bromwich.
posted by medievalist at 3:02 pm (EST) on Aug 1, 2006
I love the current picture you have for Japanese Culture.
My brother and I are huge fans of anything Japanese. He just picked up a copy of The Japanese Samurai Code by Boye Lafayette De Mente--great book, you might be interested.
posted by WhimsyWinx at 12:59 pm (EST) on Jul 28, 2006
"Hi."
Have a good one.
posted by coffeezombie at 9:25 pm (EST) on Jul 26, 2006
peace,
~~elle~~
posted by beau.p.laurence at 1:41 am (EST) on Jul 24, 2006
Have you seen this website? I thought of you when I saw it!
http://hinatan.cool.ne.jp/story/nerikiri.htm
hrabbit
posted by hrabbit at 7:14 am (EST) on Jun 1, 2006
You can also try searching the OPAC in the National Diet Library. It has English searching. It would be great if Tim could hook up to that, but I think it would be complicated. It is at:
http://opac.ndl.go.jp/index_e.html
Sara
posted by hrabbit at 9:19 pm (EST) on Sep 23, 2005
I just gave it a whirl and got one book catalogued via Amazon Japan. But I had to do it as you said--by going in, searching the ISBN and then pasting the title into the add books for LT. I don't understand why an ISBN search directly using LT and selecting Amazon Japan doesn't work. But this is very cool!
Sara
posted by hrabbit at 6:26 pm (EST) on Sep 23, 2005
I'm starting to enter my buddhism books and see we have more in common. I'm also still thinking of setting off on a hunt for some wagashi books. It's that time of year in Japan... wagashi sounds like a great idea! And I can't wait for Tim to get Amazon Japan. I have a huge collection of Japanese children's books.... though I might not be motivated enough to enter them....
Sara (hrabbit)
posted by hrabbit at 10:13 am (EST) on Sep 22, 2005
There seems to be something (newly) funny happening with the diacritics. Some of my Irish-language titles are no longer displaying the acute accents (specifically on the e, i and o). This seems to have changed only in the last few minutes, as the shift took place while I was looking at my Irish book listings.
For example, see the Title and Review fields for this book:
http://www.librarything.com/card_edit.php?book=70827
Without diacritics, the title is Cuirt an Mhean Oiche. There's an acute accent on the "u" in Cuirt, on the e in Mhean, and on the i in Oiche. It's now being rendered as C?an MheᮠO
posted by chamekke at 12:36 pm (EST) on Sep 21, 2005
I peeked in on the chado conversation there, will have to check out those books too :) I am so totally addicted to this site!!
posted by fraise at 10:16 am (EST) on Sep 20, 2005
I admire your Chado collection! If I were to add one book on Chado to my collection, should it be the Book of Tea? I am embarrassed that I have nothing now. Also, like your kodo stuff. Along similar lines, I want to collect some books on wagashi.
I'm still adding my Japan books--I also have a lot of books in Japanese that probably can't go in... yet!
Sara (hrabbit)
posted by hrabbit at 9:22 am (EST) on Sep 17, 2005