Member: jjlong

LOL, Thank you!
Your list is hilarious, love it!
I have no concern for the people who get so mad at those who post in the wrong topics. I try to get it in the right topics for their sake but if someone else screwed up, you might as well just go with the flow!!!

posted by SecretariatGirl at 11:15 pm (EST) on Sep 25, 2009

Hi Joel,
OMG I think you are right! The word 'Season' really rings a bell.
Thanks so much, you are a genius!

Erin

posted by erinmontague at 12:39 pm (EST) on May 11, 2009

I'm so glad you like the Secret Santa books! I have not read the one about the dustbowl yet but I want to. I loved "The River of Doubt" and hope you like it too.

We went on a cruise up the Danube in early December and you are right, we ended the trip in Prague. What a beautiful city - and the Christmas market was so festive and beautiful.

Happy New Year,

Jennifer Angelo

posted by jyangelo at 11:47 pm (EST) on Jan 2, 2009

Do you know if Abby had her baby? (Our computers were down for a week. . . I cannot find any mention now of the arrival. . . hope all is OK)

posted by Esta1923 at 1:46 pm (EST) on Dec 22, 2008

Your plan re the last untagged books sounds good to me. When you google and can't find any information about the writer, let alone his books... Anyway, the untagged ones are only a small percentage of all his books. EH's tag cloud looks really good. More informative than his tag mirror, in fact.

I've decided to leave Wahlöö/Sjövall for later and start with Henning Mankell.

As for the election, it's easy to get caught in this one, isn'it? For once, politics is not even remotely boring. It's getting a lot of coverage in our media, too.

Have a good week,

Nina

posted by Rullakartiina at 3:59 am (EST) on Sep 8, 2008

Hi Joel,

oh, don't thank me, you are definitely doing the lion's share of tagging. I worry that I'm sometimes too hasty when tagging EH's books, but I'm hoping you'll correct my mistakes...

BTW, some LT profiles include a short description of the tagging system they use, which I find really helpful. What do you think, would it be useful to add something like that to EH's profile? Heh, and if so, would you feel up to writing a paragraph or two about the tags?

About Wahlöö&Sjövall: I hope I didn't make the situation worse there. :) LT's not at its best with multiple authors. I got to combining when I was trying to find the listing of their books, as I haven't read any and am trying to decide where to start. Any suggestions?

-Nina

posted by Rullakartiina at 4:06 am (EST) on Aug 26, 2008

Thanks! I'm glad if I didn't come across sounding preachy...

I'll go on then and add 'politics' tag to EH's books (hopefully) when appropriate.

And I know I'm a day late, but anyway:

Hauskaa Vappua! (Happy May Day!)

-Nina

posted by Rullakartiina at 6:03 am (EST) on May 2, 2008

Thanks for asking, I'm fine! I didn't mean to disappear, I've just been a little busy. :)

I think there's probably more interest in EH's library than we realize. Those that are interested might just not comment or blog about it right away... The way I see it, this is not something that gets a lot of attention all at once, but rather something that crops up in different contexts over time. Something with lasting power.

I've done less tagging than I planned, but I see that you (and nperrin?) have taken up the slack? For me, tagging is still fun, but it is slow going now, especially with fiction.

What do you think about 'politics' as a tag? Seems to me there's quite a lot of untagged books that would fit that description.

posted by Rullakartiina at 2:33 am (EST) on Apr 28, 2008

Great announcement. :) I'm hoping that as a result of your message and the library showing up in the Legacy page, EH will get more comments, suggestions or help with the tagging.

The profile page looks really good, too. Thanks for taking the time and making the effort!

-Nina

posted by Rullakartiina at 11:51 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2008

Fitzgerald is done - just today, actually! You caught me before I could post about it. :)

posted by spookykitten at 9:50 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2008

Congrats!!! Excellent work indeed. I'll switch him over right now. Thanks for all your hard work!

posted by jbd1 at 7:11 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2008

Heh, oenology, mixology...you started it!

I like the idea of Papa H making the announcement (with the poker game thing, too).

I've finished my duplicates, and christiguc has done her entries. Are we done with the book entries?

-Nina

posted by Rullakartiina at 12:42 am (EST) on Apr 3, 2008

I like your idea, it sounds fine as you've got it--I think corny might be a good thing in this case. After all, we did just spend I-don't-want-to-know-how-many hours cataloguing the books of a dead man. How much dorkier can we really be?

posted by nperrin at 9:42 pm (EST) on Apr 2, 2008

I think you or nperrin should make the announcement.

I may not be able to get the remaining 60 done until after work today, and then I'll look into your tagging style to help you both on that. Have you and Nina been following a certain format?

Christina

posted by christiguc at 9:43 am (EST) on Apr 2, 2008

Ok, I'll take the duplicates from 6828 onwards.

Oh, you should definitely make the announcement, as long as you remember to take credit for what you yourself have done. :) You and nperrin have been the driving forces of this effort.

When it is finished, I hope there will be a lot of interested Hemingway fans looking through his library. Do you think we should ask for help with the tagging or spotting errors in the data? Personally, I think tagging is going to get more time consuming from here on. There are a lot of books with no LoC subject matter or pre-existing LT tags.

-Nina

posted by Rullakartiina at 8:45 am (EST) on Apr 2, 2008

I've finished entering my duplicates. I could do some more, if there's still any left.

By the way, this is part of a message I left christiguc (heh, maybe we should go back to posting in the thread): "On the subject of cataloging errors, I noticed that there are two different books numbered #5967 and #5967a respectively, which means that there are at least 7369 entries in the catalog, not 7368."

-Nina

posted by Rullakartiina at 2:39 pm (EST) on Apr 1, 2008

Heh, yes, what could be more interesting than entering a bunch of duplicates...

I too noticed that there were a number of books with a gay theme. I don't think it would be editorializing to tag them as such. You can see it anyway in the tag mirror. There's a book about superfluous hair removal and another about electroshock therapy that I would be more hesitant to tag.

If you decide to go with 'fishes', the next would be 'rocks'? :)

-Nina

posted by Rullakartiina at 12:56 am (EST) on Apr 1, 2008

I have a catalog problem I need advice for (I've left a message for Rullakartiina as well)

In EH's catalog, #5191 is Big Game Shooting by Phillipps-Wolley, Clive (MH)
#7246 is Big Game Shooting by Wolley, Clive Phillips (kwfv)

Should this be treated as a catalog error so that we do one entry (kwfv MH)? Or should I enter another copy of the book for MH?

I'm leaning towards thinking it's an accidental double-entry and have left it off for now. Let me know what you think.

Christina

posted by ErnestHemingway at 4:03 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2008

I finished entering the 5401-5500 range. I haven't entered my duplicates, yet, or checked for combinations.

Tagging:
No, you were right, there really weren't that many books that could be tagged children's fiction. Especially with the new 'historical fiction' tag in use. I removed the tag.

There is a lot of books relating to travel, isn't there?. Maybe there should be a separate 'travelogue' tag, though it might be difficult to determine which of the books fit the description.

BTW, I love the 'birds' tag. Simple and to the point. :)

-Nina

posted by Rullakartiina at 12:14 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2008

I changed 'aeronautics' to 'aviation', but I left 'travel guide' alone. There's now a separate 'travel' tag, consisting mainly of travelogues, I think.

About half of the books have tags now. I guess there is still a lot of fiction untagged, as well as books of nature/wildlife/animals or natural history. There seems to be a number of books that could be tagged 'historical fiction'. Is that too specific, considering the books will probably also be tagged as 'fiction' and '... literature'?

(As for my my English skills: there are large gaps there, trust me. But thanks anyway.)

-Nina

posted by Rullakartiina at 4:14 am (EST) on Mar 29, 2008

Tag mirrors are up again. I looked at EH's and there are no big surprises. Well, maybe it is surprising that it is fairly representative, since a lot of EH's books are untagged by others or even us at this point.

It did give me some ideas. I'd like to make two changes: replace the tag 'aeronautics' with 'aviation' and the tag 'travel guide' with just 'travel'. From the specific to the general, so to speak.:) What do you think?

-Nina

posted by Rullakartiina at 8:29 am (EST) on Mar 28, 2008

I'll do the same with the duplicate copies that I've entered. Thanks for letting me know about the problem.

Frankly, I'd be happy if you 'claim' tags. Some nuances of meaning are lost to me as an ESL speaker. :)

I'll also be checking the original language data in all the entries. It is frequently missing even when LoC is used.

-Nina

posted by Rullakartiina at 12:17 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2008

Re: tagging

I think 'Catholicism' probably should have its own tag in EH's (a converted Catholic)library. 'Religion' as a top tag for all religious and spiritual books?

Sorry about the 'elephants' and 'mushrooms'. I couldn't resist, was feeling a bit whimsical...

'Wildlife', 'nature' and 'animals' all sound good to me. There's also the LoC subject 'zoology', but that might be too specific.

"I still have nature/natural history, marine biology, oceanography, communism, pulp fiction, Soviet Union in mind." These are great.

posted by Rullakartiina at 2:14 am (EST) on Mar 26, 2008

Good (next) morning to you, too!

I'll start with the 5401-5500.

-Nina

posted by Rullakartiina at 1:06 am (EST) on Mar 26, 2008

I finished my 3801-3900. Still a little bit of combining to do. I could take a hundred or two of christiguc's entries, if needed.

About tagging: I've been using the 'memoir' tag as you suggested. There's still some personal narratives where it does not fit. 'Military history' might be a useful tag, though there would be serious overlap with the different 'war' tags. I'd rather tag books with no tags than the ones that already have one or more. And speaking of un-tagged books: any suggestions as to how the spiritual/religious books could be tagged?

-Nina

posted by Rullakartiina at 3:23 am (EST) on Mar 25, 2008

About EH's posthumous novels: yes, I went with the assumption EH's manuscripts weren't that different from the published versions and so I added the books without any publication data. But I'm not at all certain this is the best way to handle them. What do you think? Also, I'm pretty sure there are short story collections missing from the list of his works that I used, so it is still a work in progress.

Yep, that's me tagging...feel free to change them or leave me a message, if you notice mistakes. Question: would the 'memoir' tag be appropriate for the books that are personal narratives? And BTW, 'exploration' = great tag!

posted by Rullakartiina at 12:11 pm (EST) on Mar 22, 2008

I'll go ahead then. Oh, and no rush with the replying. There aren't that many LTers in my timezone anyway, so I'm certainly not expecting immediate replies from anyone.

-Nina

posted by Rullakartiina at 11:14 am (EST) on Mar 19, 2008

The last batch went easier than I expected, so I could take more Hemingway. Say 3801-3900?

-Nina

posted by Rullakartiina at 1:39 am (EST) on Mar 19, 2008

Heh, yes, I figured there would be more than enough Hemingway to go around...

I'll get to work on the 3901 - 4000.

Thanks for the tagging compliment.:) I wish I could do more, but as I'm not that familiar with his books, tagging by LoC subject (when it's included) is about as much as I can do.

-Nina

posted by Rullakartiina at 1:18 am (EST) on Mar 16, 2008

Hi!

I could put in about a hundred Hemingway entries. Are there any left?

-Nina

posted by Rullakartiina at 11:46 am (EST) on Mar 15, 2008

Joel! I loved On Agate Hill! Thank you so much (again) for sending it to me. My review is posted on LT and on my blog, if you would like to read it.

Happy Reading!
Jill

posted by mrstreme at 9:54 am (EST) on Jan 20, 2008

Hi, Joel: I just saw on the LT blog that you helped with the Thomas Jefferson project. How cool! I am enjoying looking through his library.

Take care,
Jill

posted by mrstreme at 9:40 pm (EST) on Jan 4, 2008

Glad you got and liked your LT Secret Santa books! Happy New Year.

posted by Dogberryjr at 7:51 am (EST) on Jan 2, 2008

Hey! I accidentally "unflagged" your flag of the Kary Mullis pic. Or, rather, I intentionally unflagged it, not realizing this one of those "dead author" deals. So go ahead and re-flag it. (After I saw my error, I also flagged it.)

Sorry!

posted by lilithcat at 9:00 am (EST) on Sep 26, 2007

RE: Arkady & Boris

Those sorts of pages are never finished! The minute you think you're done, someone comes along with a brand-new spelling of a name.

By the way, I noticed there was a suggested combination of "Igor and Boris" (http://www.librarything.com/author/strou...). The titles don't seem to be the same as any of the ones under "Arkady and Boris", but a) my French ain't all that good, and b) sometimes titles change completely when translated! Do you know if these are really Arkady & Boris?

posted by lilithcat at 8:24 pm (EST) on May 17, 2007

I finally got around to joining. Thanks for telling me about Library Thing.

posted by MaryEPearson at 8:38 pm (EST) on Apr 23, 2007

I appreciate the tip -- I made the change in my profile. Guess I overlooked that earlier.

posted by leebot at 9:47 pm (EST) on Mar 30, 2007

Thanks! I just today saw your comment -- I guess we're not notified when comments are left.

posted by leebot at 9:05 pm (EST) on Mar 29, 2007

Thanks for noticing! Doyle is such a pain because there are so many slightly different editions, and he wrote such a lot.

posted by reading_fox at 8:23 am (EST) on Mar 12, 2007

Thanks for unflagging me! There are a few Chris Mansell's - and at least one other who is a writer - this might have lead to the confusion.

posted by writerslink at 11:34 pm (EST) on Feb 23, 2007

Not Aruba. Venice. Just got back after a fabulous week. The only drawback was that a week is way too short!

posted by lilithcat at 10:39 pm (EST) on Feb 20, 2007

~back at you~

I've unflagged the image of Chris Mansell, who is user writerlink.

;-))

posted by lilithcat at 8:53 am (EST) on Jan 29, 2007

(I posted this in the Author pictures group, too.)

The picture that shows up for me on Kelly Link's page has a large frame around it and the text "Click here for hi-res download" below it. Did you only get permission from the author to use only this version, or can we replace it with the hi-res version? (Or at least remove the frame and the text?)

posted by ellen.w at 4:32 pm (EST) on Jan 26, 2007

Nicely done! I like your post for the haunted soda turning the dangling car into car-otid.

posted by jayqq1953 at 9:20 am (EST) on Jan 22, 2007

Hi! My answers are still up on the thread - I just changed the text color to white, so you have to highlight to see them against the background.

posted by melannen at 2:57 am (EST) on Jan 14, 2007

My father and niece and one brother in Nashville and another brother near Cookeville. (My uncle is an outlier in Memphis.) I went to MTSU and my husband went to Vanderbilt. I also used to be familiar with Franklin and Columbia but not anymore.

What part are you from?

posted by hailelib at 8:04 pm (EST) on Dec 19, 2006

My initial reaction to your photo above was: 'Not Lookout Mt. What other high places are nearby?' Then read your profile.
I was born and raised in Middle Tennessee and a lot of my family still lives there.

posted by hailelib at 1:01 pm (EST) on Dec 17, 2006

So are you saying that your flagging finger is flagging? ;-))

posted by lilithcat at 7:35 pm (EST) on Nov 28, 2006

Hmmm, looks like we have some flag abusers on your "greengrocer's apostrophe" thread. Perhaps they work in the K-Mart book department?

posted by Rule42 at 9:21 pm (EST) on Nov 26, 2006

You're a permission machine. Very impressive! I think I'm taking a break from requesting (although I didn't realize it)

posted by alibrarian at 11:47 pm (EST) on Nov 13, 2006

But admit that you cut-n-pasted "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".

I didn't! I swear! I guessed.

Must admit, I had fun trying to top your comments! ;-)

posted by lilithcat at 7:05 pm (EST) on Oct 30, 2006

"I do love it when you type in Cyrillic."

LOL! It's called "cutting-and-pasting". Glad you enjoy it. ;-)

posted by lilithcat at 12:12 pm (EST) on Oct 29, 2006

Esther takes nice photos.

posted by alibrarian at 10:16 am (EST) on Oct 21, 2006

Hey, I've done it myself!

The Pulitzer thing is nice, isn't it? I've been pleasantly surprised at how readily I've been getting permissions from authors and organizations.

By the way, I've been intending to tell you that I've been enjoying your clever comments when you flag pictures. Much more interesting that the usual "need permission"!

posted by lilithcat at 7:48 am (EST) on Oct 20, 2006