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About mePicture of me as a baby with my brother - say Aahh! Now I am married and have two children - a girl and a boy. I have been a keen reader all my life but not an especially erudite one. I like to try blockbusters, classics, prize winners (except the booker prize winner which seems to guarentee I will hate it) and anything in the charity shop on a whim. I particularly like books that cover childhood and children. I also like children's literature.
About my libraryI started trying to catalogue everything I read from May 2008, give it a star rating and a comment. I have now become much more ambitious. I want to record every book I have read in my lfe. I will include the lot - the diet books, the self-help crazes, the teach-yourself short-hand/website design/Arabic - as a kind of diary of my enthusiasms and feelings at the time. Sometimes I cannot remember the book very clearly but so-be-it. Sometimes it jogs other memories - therapy my dears. So when I see someone has added a book that I have read I pop it into my library.
I will try to develop reviews under my specialism - books on childhood and adoption. Otherwise, I will only review when there are few people who have or I think I have something wonderful to say (which is often!). I would like to make contact with other book-lovers so please leave a comment.
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Mark and I have been discussing the possibility of another group read in November and want your input. We have narrowed it down to two books at this point. "The People of the Book" by Geraldine Brooks and "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield. So chat it up with friends or us and let us know if you are up for it and what you think. Probably the same plan as with "Pillars of the Earth" which seemed to work out perfectly for almost all of us.
Think it over and give one of us a shout.
hugs and looking forward to hearing from you,
belva
posted by nannybebette at 11:08 am (EST) on Sep 9, 2009
Has anybody invited you to check out the Virago Modern Classics group? They are a wonderful group of women with a few men (nannybebette is one) who are devoted to this publisher's reprints of wonderful women's fiction and non-fiction which might otherwise be neglected. Come look and see what you think!
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 11:16 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2009
Because I'm a snoop, I see that you are educating someone on Wodehouse. Feel free to educate me. It seems as though every reader I know raves about Wodehouse as though he were a dear friend. Can you believe I've never read him? Where should I begin?
By the way, my daughter turned 13 today and the first thing she said when she got out of bed was, "Now I'm old enough to join LibraryThing!" I'm signing her up this weekend. Beware.
Teresa
posted by theaelizabet at 4:07 pm (EST) on Mar 25, 2009
Too funny. I am just going to have to break down and do it. Then I will know for myself what ya'all are talking about.
Thanx for the get-back. Appreciate it.
belva
posted by nannybebette at 6:43 pm (EST) on Mar 23, 2009
Have been waiting to hear from someone about Wodehouse.
His name is all over LT and just wondered what the shouting was all about.
You know what would be really cute on your profile? Your pic you share is of you and your brother when you were wee, see if you can add another to it of your son and daughter when they were (or perhaps still are)wee. I don't know if one can have 2 pics on the profile or not but if not perhaps you could scan them onto one page and use it as one. That would be precious.
You have yourself a great day.
belva
posted by nannybebette at 3:06 pm (EST) on Mar 22, 2009
A British friend of mine just alerted me to Mothering Sunday, so I wish you the best on this day.
Teresa
posted by theaelizabet at 9:57 am (EST) on Mar 22, 2009
My name is Belva (aka: nanny/bebette) and I find your posts/thread most interesting. Regarding the post below; it was written on the 10th I believe and I am not sure to what book it refers. Would you please be so kind as to fill me in as I would very much like to read the book that brought about this description?
Thanx and blessings on your day,
N/B
"19 books to go
My adopted daughter Lizi, aka Jason, gave me this for my birthday. Wouldn't have read it otherwise. It is a fairly routine romantic novel although I thought it was surprisingly well up on some of the emotional minefield of adoption - better than many renowned literary giants like Amy Tan. It's only her second novel so maybe she is an author to watch. She is very much in the vein of Judi Picoult so if you like to lurk on the literary snobs message board, I would give it a miss!!"
posted by nannybebette at 2:16 pm (EST) on Mar 15, 2009
I've actually read War and Peace twice but it's been a long time. It's one I'd like to reread but other things keep getting in the way. Yes, I have all my books in a spreadsheet. Crazy, I know, but I do like being able to look back and verify that I have read something or see how long it's been. And since I've been keeping my lists for almost 20 years I can't stop now!
See you around the boards!
Laura
posted by shinyone at 8:00 pm (EST) on Mar 12, 2009
I was planning to read The Pillars of the Earth for my historical fiction choice for this month for the 2009 Genre Challenge. However, my daughter absolutely could not find it. (We do have books everywhere!) So I ended up switching to Cold Mountain, which is a book that belongs to my other daughter, but I did know where to find it. I am about 20 percent of the way into that one. Then tonight my younger daughter found The Pillars of the Earth! I was so excited!! But I have to finish a couple of other books before I can start it. I am in the middle of too many books. Do you think that I need to read World Without End first? Do the books go together? Or can I go ahead with The Pillars of the Earth? I may have already asked that question; I can't remember!
How do you like the 1001 Books list? Are you choosing books to read from it? The Group Reads -- Literature group often reads books from that list. I think that the two books going now are from it. I can't start yet, because I ordered the books from amazon with the super saver shipping and they have not yet shipped. That is the group that I read The Leopard with. The books that they are reading now are Pale Fire by Nabokov and The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy (I think!). You could join us if interested. :)
Have a wonderful day and thanks for asking about The Pillars of the Earth!
--BJ
posted by billiejean at 2:13 am (EST) on Mar 11, 2009