Random books from janeajones's library
Women of Sand and Myrrh: A Novel by Hanan Al-Shaykh
The Way to Eternity: Egyptian Myth (Myth & Mankind , Vol 2) by Fergus Fleming
Legs by William J. Kennedy
Daulaires Book of Greek Myths by Ingri D'Aulaire
The Woman's Day New French Cookery by Sylvia Schur
Her Name Was Sojourner Truth by Hertha Pauli
The Florida reader : visions of paradise, from 1530 to the present by Maurice O'Sullivan
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Tags20th c (1,378), American (943), fiction (922), British (539), drama (360), poetry (342), medieval (313), history (230), Florida (229), anthology (224) — see all tags
GroupsAtwoodians, Books Compared, Feminist Theory, Floridians, Girlybooks, I See Dead People['s Books], Medieval Europe, Poetry Fool, Reading Globally, Virago Modern Classics
Favorite authorsLouisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Margaret Atwood, L. Frank Baum, Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, George Borrow, Bertolt Brecht, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Joseph Campbell, Angela Carter, Geoffrey Chaucer, Isak Dinesen, Margaret Drabble, Louise Erdrich, Wolfram Von Eschenbach, Connie May Fowler, Marie de France, Northrop Frye, Athol Fugard, Nadine Gordimer, Hermann Hesse, Zora Neale Hurston, Henrik Ibsen, Henry James, Carolyn Keene, Milan Kundera, D.H. Lawrence, Lois Lenski, Doris Lessing, Astrid Lindgren, Sir Thomas Malory, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, L.M. Montgomery, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Maurice Sendak, Dr. Seuss, William Shakespeare, Ntozake Shange, George Bernard Shaw, Johanna Spyri, Leo Tolstoy, Sigrid Undset, Derek Walcott, Tennessee Williams, Christa Wolf, Virginia Woolf, W. B. Yeats (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresA. Parker's Books Inc., Elysian Fields, Main Bookshop
Favorite librariesManatee Community College Library: Venice, Sarasota County Libraries - Selby Library
About me Jane is a community college professor (by training a medievalist; by practice a generalist and feminist: literature and humanities). Doug is a repertory actor. We're transplanted Floridians, but we've been here for 25 years, and our children were born (well, one of them) and raised here. I became passionate about Florida when I started putting together an anthology of Florida poetry -- traveled around the state, learned the history, and came to savor the fragrances, bird song, winds rustling through the palms, and subtle and not-so-subtle seasonal changes. As someone who grew up in western NYS where winter lasts from Halloween until past Easter, I relish Florida weather -- despite the hurricanes.
About my library This is really our library -- Jane and Doug's -- we met as English majors at Hobart and William Smith -- the books have travelled with us for over 30 years from Geneva to Baltimore to Cleveland to NYC to Florida. Lots of fiction and poetry and drama. And, of course, Floridiana. We own all the books cataloged in our Library, but for those who want other suggestions about Florida books, here's an ongoing bibliography: http://faculty.mccfl.edu/jonesj/Flbib/FL... .
The authors named favorites are those who were important to me at one point or another in my life.
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It's fun seeing the books we have in common. Everything from the Borrowers and Grimm's Fairy Tales to Magdalena and Balthasar (a favorite of mine) and Slammerkin (another favorite).
posted by margad at 8:09 pm (EST) on Jun 5, 2008
posted by dchaikin at 10:09 pm (EST) on May 28, 2008
Also, I must have missed it before, but I just noticed you have an LT author button! Now, I'm going to hunt down a copy of Florida in Poetry. Cheers,d.
posted by dchaikin at 7:07 pm (EST) on May 12, 2008
posted by medievalmama at 9:20 pm (EST) on Feb 4, 2008
posted by margad at 11:58 pm (EST) on Oct 24, 2007
Early in the storm:
"It woke up old Okechobee and the monster began to roll in his bed. Began to roll and complain like a peevish world on a grumble."
And the dike collapse:
"And the lake. Under its Multiplied roar could be heard a mighty sound of grinding rock and timber and a wail. They looked back. Saw people trying to run in raging waters and screaming when they found they couldn’t. A huge barrier of the makings of the dike to which the cabins had been added was rolling and tumbling forward. Ten feet higher and as far as they could see the muttering wall advanced before the braced-up waters like a road crusher on a cosmic scale. The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles an hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling the people in the houses along with other timbers. The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel."
PS: Enjoyed your comments on the books compared thread.
cheers,d
posted by dchaikin at 10:06 pm (EST) on Oct 24, 2007
Now that I think about it, I wish I had saved my questions to ask you them, but I can't recall what my main questions were.
You might find this thread of interest: Books Compared : The Sound of Waves / Their Eyes Were Watching God
posted by dchaikin at 11:40 pm (EST) on Oct 21, 2007
I hadn't thought about the poem being haunting before but i can see how that can be the case since the frames are empty.
It seems that there is a connection between memory, the spirt world, and that which is haunting.
I have never been to Florida but one book that I read which discussed many aspects of Florida's history was the [Orchid Thief].
David Perrings
posted by dperrings at 2:42 pm (EST) on Oct 9, 2007
thanks for your kind note regard the Poem "The Curator" by Miller Williams
David Perrings
posted by dperrings at 12:38 pm (EST) on Oct 8, 2007
rare that it's lifted a foot And is turning it's head.
the herons & egrets we get up here seem to move more slowly.
maybe it's the cool night air ...
posted by tim_watkinson at 10:30 am (EST) on Oct 3, 2007
Regards,
Dan
posted by dchaikin at 11:40 am (EST) on Jun 5, 2007
posted by dchaikin at 10:04 am (EST) on Mar 19, 2007
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