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BOUCLE D'OR ET LES TROIS OURS by ROSE CELLI

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The Shades by Betty Brock

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What a plant knows : a field guide to the senses by Daniel Chamovitz

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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon

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Notebooks. Volume 1. The Thinking Eye and Volume 2. The Nature of Nature. 1992. Cloth with dustjackets. Two volumes. by Paul Klee

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Maria Tallchief by Tobi Tobias

i know! i know! i'm ludicrously happy about that!

posted by irkthepurist at 5:08 pm (EST) on May 31, 2010

yay! so glad you got the big copy! i've not even seen it yet - it should be imminently mine though! hope you enjoyed it - does this mean i'm a librarything author now?

posted by irkthepurist at 1:28 pm (EST) on May 6, 2010

Well, it's more than just the covers of Asbury's books that are lurid. I can't really shelve his stuff with "history," it's more like "creative journalism." I tag his stuff as "low life" (in honor of the Luc Sante book of that title which is subtitled "Lures and Snares of Old New York," and which covers much of the same ground) and "underworld." This latter is a wider-ranging tag that covers a plethora of subcultural books I own. Take a look at that tag to see some of the strange stuff I have picked up here and there.

Please forgive the lateness of this reply. I go through periods of intense activity here on librarything, punctuated by long periods of dormancy. Same with wikipedia and last.fm.

posted by theoldanarchist at 12:23 am (EST) on Sep 20, 2007

Thanks for adding me to your "interesting libraries."

Even more interesting is that I grew up in Lutherville!

posted by superfastreader at 8:54 am (EST) on Sep 11, 2007

Hi, Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries list! It looks like we have several books in common. Take care,
bookie

posted by bookiemonster81 at 12:50 pm (EST) on Sep 1, 2007

Hi Laurie,

I was just browsing your myspace blog and I see we also have similar interests in films. Have you seen
the Brother's Quay film 'Institute Benjamenta'? It's available on Netflix of all places. I haven't watched it
yet, although it's been in my que for months!

I also see that you attended Vassar. It was a school I longed to attend but life led me elsewhere.
Tell me more about your time there, if you'd like to.

Cate

posted by bleuroses at 9:05 pm (EST) on Aug 25, 2007

Hello Laurie!

Thanks for adding my library to your watch list! That's so cool!
Was it the A.S.Byatt favourites? Which titles have you read?

Her quartet beginning with "Virgin in the Garden" are my
desert island reads. I've read the first two "Virgin in the Garden" & "Still Life"
3 times, "Babel Tower" twice - and (I'm afraid) zero for "The Whistling Women".

I see that we both admire redredshoes' library too!

Cate

posted by bleuroses at 5:28 pm (EST) on Aug 23, 2007

Asbury wrote a whole series of books, all of which were republished after the Scorcese film under similar titles: Gangs of Chicago, Gangs of New Orleans, etc. If you like Gangs of New York, you should check out Luc Sante's Low Life---but, also read Nick Tosches' King of the Jews, which corrects a number of errors Sante made. The Tosches book is interesting just for its own sake, though.

posted by theoldanarchist at 12:31 am (EST) on Aug 22, 2007