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About meThomas Fortenberry is an American author, editor, reviewer, and publisher. Owner of Mind Fire Press and the international literary arts journal Mindfire [www.mindfirerenew.com], he has judged many literary contests, including The Georgia Author of the Year Awards and The Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction. Among other awards, such as twice winning Best Novella of the Year, he has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He has edited many publications, including most recently the journals Mindfire and The Istanbul Literature Review. His award-winning work has appeared internationally in English and translations.
About my libraryI am a bibliophile, well, probably bibliomane. I absolutely love to read and read as widely as possible in all genres and areas. Literature is the backbone of civilization and reading needs to be taught from the earliest possible ages. I am also a firm believer in the validity of genre fiction as literature, worthy of study and respect. I collect books insatiably, much to my wife's woe. I also review books for a living and thus receive hundreds of review copies each year from publishers around the world. My collection is massive and there is no way to ever list it (unless I had a warehouse to unbox and categorize them all), but I thought I would give this Library Thing a go and list a few random texts just to see how it works.
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posted by Goldengrove at 9:47 am (EST) on May 31, 2009
posted by weaponxgirl at 3:19 pm (EST) on May 28, 2009
By James Weldon Johnson
Lift ev'ry voice and sing,
Till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the list'ning skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chast'ning rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered.
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who hast by Thy might,
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,
Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand,
True to our God,
True to our native land.
posted by theoldman at 12:12 pm (EST) on May 26, 2009
Best,
Karen Harrington
posted by writergirl at 9:13 am (EST) on May 26, 2009
posted by moibibliomaniac at 11:30 pm (EST) on May 25, 2009
Best,
John
posted by prettysinister at 6:10 pm (EST) on Feb 1, 2009
posted by okalrelsrv at 10:31 am (EST) on Nov 10, 2008
You're involved with Istanbul Literary Review? Do you know Maureen Freely (transl. of Pamuk) or Caroline Finkel (author of Osman's Dream)? They're friends of my best friend, who grew up in Istanbul, and who I traveled with in Turkey and Afghanistan. I've also consulted with Taner Edis, a Turkish-American physicist and critic of pseudoscience. I'm hoping to collect works of Harun Yahya.
posted by tmciver at 11:10 am (EST) on Jul 21, 2008
Rather busy with my PhD. right now but thanks for the invite. I'm always curious about the reasons for someone putting me on their friend list. Obviously something to do with books - and we do share an interest in sci-fi - and presumably Tolstoi - but was it something specific?
Cheers
posted by Neutiquam_Erro at 10:15 pm (EST) on Jun 5, 2008
posted by fang at 2:29 pm (EST) on May 1, 2008
posted by oldmanriver1951 at 5:20 pm (EST) on Apr 29, 2008
posted by oldmanriver1951 at 1:27 pm (EST) on Apr 25, 2008
Welcome to librarything! Its a great application and a wonderful way to meet fellow bibliophiles...My good friend is a prof. of eng. lit, and we spend many hours sitting and reading to each other...tis a wonderful life indeed.
posted by oldmanriver1951 at 1:21 pm (EST) on Apr 25, 2008