Member: mrstreme

Yeah...I almost lost my little black book and panicked so I'm working backward to put all my books in here. One away now before i become a lifelong member.

posted by knithappened at 10:08 pm (EST) on Nov 11, 2009

I enjoyed your review on Fugitive Pieces. I just finished it a few nights ago. Not sure how I feel about it. It was written well but then again not well enough to understand at times. Thanks for the review.

If you are interested maybe you would like to join my thread. We need new heads.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/74233

posted by callmejacx at 10:20 pm (EST) on Oct 16, 2009

Hi Jill. Just popping in again, as I haven't done so in quite a while. Love your pic! :')

Actually, I saw your rating for Affinity & so it prompted me to visit your bookshelf again. There is a movie based on this book, if you're interested. I rented it a few months ago. I didn't think the movie was too bad. I read the book a couple years ago, & of course it's better than the movie, but still not bad.

Enjoy the reading!

P.S. -- How are you liking the Physick Book of Deliverance Dane? I have that on audio, although haven't listened to it yet. I'm anxious to get to that one!

posted by indygo88 at 9:03 am (EST) on Oct 4, 2009

Edward is forever 17, and Bella is 18 when they are married. Though I think they probably pretend Edward is 18 too. She is changed into a vampire a few days before she turns nineteen. Meyer does talk about the bad image that goes along with such early marriage, but only fleetingly. (Of course, I got married a month past 20 and it's been a very happy six years so far, so early marriage isn't automatically bad. It does help that Todd isn't an abusive vampire though! ;P)

posted by wisewoman at 4:12 pm (EST) on Aug 31, 2009

Hi Jill, and thanks for your comment! :) Yes, I would not recommend the Twilight books to anyone. I do confess it was somewhat fun to read them and pick out all the nasty bits. It felt like Meyer was just incriminating herself at times, lol. Now I just need wisdom to talk to the younger readers in my life who love these books, and warn them about the dangerous ideas without coming across as too heavyhanded.

Your sons are cute! They look like quite a handful too :)

~ww

posted by wisewoman at 3:19 pm (EST) on Aug 31, 2009

Hi Jill,

I love reading your reviews. They're so good.

Just found the link to In the Kitchen on Twitter. Have you read any other Ali book? I have one, but I never seem to be in the mood to read it.

I wish we had the ability to do comments on reviews here on LT, but no one seems to want them other than myself and _Zoe_. :(

Madeline

P.S. I'm just having a great time with Twitter. What a difference from FB!

posted by SqueakyChu at 9:45 am (EST) on Aug 31, 2009

Just wanted to drop you a note to say that I am really enjoying your reviews!

posted by wandering_star at 10:23 am (EST) on Jul 22, 2009

Thanks for the tip, Jill, but I don't have a Twitter account. I can barely keep up with life on the Internet and have been cutting back due to lack of time. Plus my life here really doesn't require such "connectedness"! But thanks for thinking of me.

All is well here. Hope things are going well with you and your family!

Joyce

posted by Joycepa at 7:39 am (EST) on Jul 4, 2009

Just saw you added An Abundance of Katherines to your library. My girls both LOVED that book. Hope you do, too!! Apparently the author also has a video blog that's quite humorous.

posted by lindsacl at 7:36 am (EST) on Jun 12, 2009

Sorry was out last night so didnt get on. I have deleted #38.

posted by Caspettee at 4:21 am (EST) on Jun 5, 2009

Oh yea! I'm so glad you like them. It was fun choosing something for you. I thought about some of my 5-star reads, the kind of books I would literally shove into your hands if we met F2F. I perused your library to make sure they weren't there, so I'm really glad you haven't read them!

Happy Early Birthday!!

posted by lindsacl at 4:59 pm (EST) on Apr 15, 2009

Hi, Jill--I've given up blogging, although I am posting about my reading in the Club Read 2009 group: http://www.librarything.com/topic/51894 .

I don't keep up with blogs much, either, although I have been clicking through to some of your reviews.

I hear you about Mount TBR--it's always one step forward, two steps back for me.

What a cute dog!

Chris

posted by cabegley at 12:41 pm (EST) on Mar 15, 2009

Jill--just read you review of [The Lucky One] and that you're sick! I hope it's not serious!

joyce

posted by Joycepa at 4:50 pm (EST) on Feb 7, 2009

'Lo, Jill -

Just a note to tell you the new ETTA Facebook fan page is up

Here's the link:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=58...

Hope you'll join!

Best,
GK

posted by gkolpan at 12:24 am (EST) on Jan 28, 2009

'Lo, Jill-

The ETTA website is up and running!

www.geraldkolpan.com

I hope you enjoy it and don't forget to play the song!

Best,

GK

posted by gkolpan at 1:02 pm (EST) on Jan 18, 2009

Both books were waiting for me this morning when I got to the office. I'm VERY excited to read The Cellist of Sarajevo, I read about it on another blog and have been really wanting to read it. The board book looks great too, I really like how it shows babies of different ethnicities, that is something I am striving for in my baby's library.

posted by DevourerOfBooks at 11:04 am (EST) on Jan 5, 2009

Here you go:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/53414

and yours?

Nancy

posted by alphaorder at 8:19 pm (EST) on Jan 1, 2009

We actually ended up leaving town earlier than we had planned, so we left before my SantaThing gift arrived. I assume it is waiting for me at my office, and I can't wait to go back and see it on the 5th!

posted by DevourerOfBooks at 12:06 pm (EST) on Dec 29, 2008

Hi Jill,

I'm so glad you liked the books I picked out for you! In looking at your library I saw a number of books that I'm interested in, so I'm excited about that.

I also saw the photo of your dog on your profile and I want to let you know that we have a basset hound as well...nice coincidence! His name is Henry and he's about 7.5 months old. Right now the snow up here is deeper than he is tall and he loves to run through it.

Anyways, have a wonderful holiday and enjoy the books!

Beth

posted by bwightman at 5:11 pm (EST) on Dec 22, 2008

Thank you for the lovely Christmas card Jill! And what a cute profile photo. How is the lovely Emma doing?

posted by lindsacl at 9:18 pm (EST) on Dec 15, 2008

Hi, Jill

Back in July you commented on one of my univesity questions. You told me that you wrote a thesis paper on Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", which is something I recently read for school. Not having lived in the US, I've never studied MLK or this text, but I'm so glad I finally read it. I am in utter awe at both his intellect and his writing ability. And his moral position. Wow. That's all I can say. We haven't had the lecture yet, but I've included this in my final essay. Interestingly, we also looked at it in my English class when we did a unit on grace in writing. Our prof thought this an ultimate example. Anyway, I would love to hear some of your thoughts on this, and also what the general message of your thesis was. I don't have to do an undergrad thesis, so I'm not sure exactly what that even means. Any thoughts you have on any of this would be appreciated!

How is your family adjusting to Emma?

Cheers,
Joyce

posted by Nickelini at 9:23 pm (EST) on Nov 23, 2008

Hi Jill!

Glad to hear it arrived safely. That media mail takes a while! Hope you enjoy the book,

Carey

posted by thetometraveller at 7:34 pm (EST) on Oct 11, 2008

Thanks for adding BannedBooksLibrary to your Interesting Libraries, Jill. Happy Reading!

posted by PhoenixTerran at 4:56 pm (EST) on Sep 26, 2008

Well, look at that ... there I am! Cool indeed :)

posted by writestuff at 11:02 am (EST) on Sep 25, 2008

Jill!

Just picked up Coal Black Horse today!! many, many thanks--and I will let you know, for sure, what I think about it.

Joyce

posted by Joycepa at 1:24 pm (EST) on Sep 18, 2008

Hi Jill,

The books are supposed to be in the mail to me today, so as soon as they get here I will send that one out to you. I'm glad it's going to a good home!

Carey

posted by thetometraveller at 10:50 pm (EST) on Sep 15, 2008

Oooh! Oooh! What joy! I'm not gong to ask you what's in it because I want to be surprised. it will be an early Christmas.

Many, many thanks, Jill!

Joyce

posted by Joycepa at 6:12 pm (EST) on Aug 26, 2008