I noticed that you were a fan of Ryszard Kapuscinski, so I thought I'd let you know that a small Canadian press, Biblioasis, has just brought out a volume of his selected poetry. It's the only edition of Kapuscinski's poetry available in english. It's called I Wrote Stone, and was translated from the Polish by Diana Kuprel and Marek Kusiba.

His verse is interesting, and as one would expect, thoughtful, philosophical, aphoristic and engaged politically, morally and viscerally with the world around him. It's something all fans of Kapuscinski should read, a book that meant a lot to him, and that he worked very hard to see published before his death. It's a shame, alas, that he did not quite make it.

Anyway, it's available from Biblioasis. Online (www.biblioasis.com, www.amazon.com) and anywhere else you can find good books. Check it out.

(Sorry: I am an interested party: the publisher. But we're a small, literary press, and we're just doing our best to let anyone who might be interested know about this collection. Pardon my intrusion.)

Dan Wells

posted by biblioasis at 4:19 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008

howdy!

I was poking around with the stats and saw that we share a decent number of books, none of which play into my rpg geekery, so I added you to my interesting libraries list. It seems that we share similar tastes across a decently-sized spectrum. Most of the high ranking people I share books with are either roleplayers or star wars geeks, so I thought it'd be nice to see what someone with similar tastes has outside of those geekospheres.

posted by kawika at 7:57 pm (EST) on Feb 22, 2008

I received the two books you picked for me from Amazon before Christmas. As I am single, living alone, going for Christmas to my niece's, thus Christmas Eve and morning are pretty quiet filled with memories of waking up excited to open the presents sitting under the tree. LibraryThing and you combined to give me at least one really nice surprise this Christmas and I thank you. The two books look very interesting and you did a great job of finding something I might find appealing. When I saw them my first thought was - Yes, I might have picked these myself.

I have two LT Early Reviewers books to finish so I will delay reading these two until I do that but they are next on the top of my TBR pile, which is way big.

Hope you have a wonderful holiday season and that the new year holds many happy surprises for you. Thank you again.

posted by maggie1944 at 10:14 am (EST) on Dec 25, 2007

For Pasadena-area bookstores, after Vroman's it gets a little thin. Cliff's Books across the street is an okay used bookstore, but the turnover rate is quite low so I don't go there frequently. Book Alley which used to be down the block from those two just moved to a new larger store near PCC; I haven't been there yet but it looks like they have a lot more room.

There's supposed to be a good used bookstore in Glendale (on Brand, just south of the 134) but I haven't made it out there yet.

posted by lorax at 2:58 pm (EST) on Nov 28, 2007

Hey -- 6 shared favorite authors. Marry me?

posted by Sethgsamuel at 1:19 am (EST) on Nov 28, 2007

Thanks for reading Foop! and rating it so highly! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

posted by Chris_Genoa at 1:12 pm (EST) on Jul 5, 2007

lol, same story as liddle_r. 30 similar books as me and also from Seattle :p You have some great groups listed - I'm going to check them out.

posted by bkleinwort at 7:21 pm (EST) on May 13, 2007

43 same books so I clicked on your name. And then I see you are in Seattle (me too)! Must be something in the water...

posted by liddle_r at 12:07 am (EST) on Nov 24, 2006

I'm neither a current or former grad student. In fact, I never completed college. I never seemed to have the discipline to attend class on a regular basis. I started a business instead. I enjoy what I do but there are times I wonder what my life would be like had I applied myself to my studies and taken advantage of an education.

-Rus

posted by rdixon98 at 4:06 pm (EST) on Sep 11, 2006

Hi Kristin,

Thanks for the clarification of The Eagle Has Landed. I see you belong to the grad students group. Are you a current or former grad student?

-Rus

posted by rdixon98 at 3:51 pm (EST) on Sep 11, 2006

Didn't Ken Follett also write, The Eagle Has Landed?

posted by rdixon98 at 2:43 am (EST) on Sep 6, 2006

Hello, mind if I put you on my watch list? Heh, "watch list" makes me sound like a stalker.

posted by cleverusername2 at 8:10 pm (EST) on Aug 21, 2006

omg you stole my book collection.

LET'S BE PALS.

posted by snifty at 12:14 pm (EST) on Jul 30, 2006

You're always toward the top of the list of people with the most shared books with me, and after exploring your tags, even the books that don't overlap seem to represent overlapping interests, so I thought it worthwhile to drop a hello. Of course you read a lot more! If you get a chance, check out my collection and I'd be happy if you dropped a note...

posted by tombrinck at 12:49 am (EST) on May 16, 2006

Wow, thank you for telling me about the new PD! I wouldn't have found it for ages, I'm sure! :) Thanks.

posted by blaiseastra at 7:30 pm (EST) on Mar 23, 2006

I have only The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

posted by dominus at 11:26 pm (EST) on Mar 6, 2006

Actually not everyone goes to Tufte's seminars. Me, I only have one, but the other two are on the gonna buy list.

posted by elmegil at 8:03 pm (EST) on Mar 3, 2006

Oh, dear. Now I'll have to go search other editions out. Do you happen to know the publishers? :) And I'll have to check out Loompanics sale, too! Thanks!

posted by blaiseastra at 10:20 pm (EST) on Jan 20, 2006

No, I only have one of Tufte's books. I want the other two, though!

posted by HapaxLegomenon at 8:29 am (EST) on Jan 19, 2006

A woman after my own heart... you, too, own all 3 versions of the Principia. Hail Eris! :)

posted by blaiseastra at 3:25 pm (EST) on Jan 18, 2006

I just finished entering all of my read books (at least the ones I currently own) and reference books and ended up with exactly 1300 for now. Next, to add all of the unread books.

posted by kbuxton at 8:27 pm (EST) on Jan 1, 2006

Yes, everyone who has Tufte's books has all three--it's because you get all three when you go to his seminar.

posted by engelcox at 8:29 pm (EST) on Dec 4, 2005

does everyone who has one of Edward Tufte's books have three of them?

see, e.g.my profile

posted by thf4 at 11:36 pm (EST) on Oct 10, 2005