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Mathematical snapshots by Hugo Steinhaus
The Sporting News Official Baseball Guide 1983 by Larry Wigge
Baseball Register 1955 edition by J. G. Taylor Et Al. (editors) Spink
Hawkweed; poems by Paul Goodman
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
The Living Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
Timeline by Michael Crichton
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Tagsbaseball (1,043), minor league (446), joan (427), fiction (371), reference (339), midwest league (263), science fiction (262), program (211) — see all tags
GroupsCombiners!, HMS Surprise, SABR Members, Say Yes to Michigan, Too Obscure
Favorite authorsJohn Brunner, C. J. Cherryh, David Drake, Bill James, Peter Morris, Mark L. Thompson, John Varley, Richard Woodman (Shared favorites)
About me Prone to enthusiasms....
Grew up in Kalamazoo; Vietnam vet; graduate of Macalester College; government bureaucrat. I'm the author/webmaster of A Fan's Guide to the Midwest League, which gets more or less daily maintenance, and the keeper of A Dabbler's Journal, to which I occasionally post stuff.
The photograph? Cinco de Mayo at Lansing's Oldsmobile Park.
About my library I've been collecting books for half a century. There's a ton (possibly literally) of baseball reference material, many books devoted to Great Lakes history and tourism, computer books in various flavors, and a lot of science fiction (there'd be more, but I once donated my entire SF collection to help reestablish the local public library after a fire). And I collect novels that resemble the Horatio Hornblower series (Richard Bolitho [& Adam], Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin, Nicholas Ramage, Nat Drinkwater, Tom Kydd--not to mention similar SF serials featuring Heris Serrano/Esmay Suisa, Honor Harrington, & Daniel Leary/Adele Mundy). I tend to buy heavily on specific topics as things strike my fancy. Those infatuations, too, show here.
Most of these are mine, but several hundred are Joan's (hers run to nature guides, mysteries, Tom Clancy, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Feynman; they are tagged Joan). I inherited some of my parents' books; those have Mom in the tags. Likewise, a few of my sister's have sneaked in (labeled Debbie) and perhaps one or two of m' brother's (Richard). While there's some system to my tags, I'd never be mistaken for a systematic tagger.
I'm working through a disorderly library in an orderly fashion. Next up is an overloaded bookcase of Joan's stuff, then the frigate warriors, and finally two large bookcases of baseball material. I'll be done by Independence Day.
I'm aging, and the house is small, so I've taken to selling books on eBay and Amazon. Those books may (or may not) be tagged Sold; I expect I'll eventually delete them from the catalogue. Not that you likely care...
Homepagehttp://dabblersjournal.com
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Real nameJoel Dinda
LocationMulliken, Michigan
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posted by rocketjk at 7:04 pm (EST) on Apr 16, 2008
posted by donkelly68 at 12:13 am (EST) on Mar 8, 2008
Thanks for the connect! Kent Mathewson was a friend of mine during the time he and his wife lived in Austin.
The Regionalist Papers remain one of the benchmark writings on Regional Planning in the United States.
I am ready for the baseball season! Cheers! -- Don Kelly
posted by donkelly68 at 4:37 pm (EST) on Mar 6, 2008
In your list of Nautical fiction authors, I miss the names of Isaac Biddlecomb (James L. Nelson) and Alan Lewrie (Dewey Lambdin), but I assume that's because you got tired of typing :-) Also, Bernard Cornwell, although he writes more often of foot soldiers (Richard Sharpe / Sharpe's Rifles) has also written a couple of Sharpe novels with a nautical bias: "Sharpe's Trafalgar" and "Sharpe's Devil" I also have one novel by V. A. Stuart featuring Philip Horatio Hazard, called "Hazard's Command" I read it way back in 1987, but can't recall much about it. It was Vol. Three in the series.
-- Dick Vile, in Dexter, MI USA
posted by hashiru at 7:16 pm (EST) on Feb 23, 2008
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