Aha, it was you who asked about the Nargun and the Stars - yes, it's a good read, an Australian children's classic. It's been a while since I read it, but I have a feeling it was quite spooky!

Must look up Teazle now. :)

posted by Hobbitlass at 5:10 am (EST) on Oct 9, 2008

Hi Muumi,
Wow, I thought 2MB had an impressive library, but you beat her by about 200 books! Nice to see more Abe-rs here - like Kehs said, we're taking over the net, one web site at the time. ;-)
Most of my books are still boxed up from the move, so I am just adding a few books at a time, from memory. Not sure what I've got, only that it's not enough! :)

posted by Hobbitlass at 3:20 am (EST) on Oct 8, 2008

Hello Muumi,
Nice to hear from you and thanks for the message.I'm glad you find my Library of interest as it has taken many years to put together,and what with reading,collecting,cataloguing and just fitting the ever increasing numbers of books in continues to be my foremost interest.
John Buchan has been a favourite of mine for quite a while and I read and re-read 'The Thirty-Nine Steps nearly every year.It is however some of the other stories that are perhaps even more to my taste,as also are the poems and the autobiography.I think some of the short ghost stories are great as well. Although,needless to say I do not know any of your Canadian Governors (sorry)apart from Buchan I agree that he was a man of great stature.
When I have a little spare time I will have to look through your large number of books too.
With best wishes from the UK.

posted by devenish at 2:10 pm (EST) on Oct 5, 2008

Thanks so much for listing my book on Mormonism. You may be interested to know that Zondervan will release in April an updated version of the The Mormon Mirage, with an additional section of all-new materials. Also in April Moody Publishers will release my first novel, about Mormonism, a literary suspense entitled "The Latter-day Cipher.

I'd be pleased if you chose to visit my Web site: www.latayne.com

Thanks again.
Latayne C. Scott

posted by latayne at 11:41 am (EST) on Sep 2, 2008

'The Curve of Time' does look interesting - I'll have to look out for it.

posted by Teazle at 9:34 am (EST) on Aug 25, 2008

Thanks for the positive feedback. I sent the ARC yesterday via media mail, so it will take a week or so I'm sure, but it is on its way.

Thanks

posted by sdshspress at 9:04 am (EST) on Aug 22, 2008

Muumi,

Just read your comment about not being able to get an SDSHS Press book to Canada this month. Apologies. A mistake at this end not adding the right flag. Please note, I shall send you an ARC of the Prairie-Dog Prince right away.

Apologies again.

Martyn

posted by sdshspress at 3:53 pm (EST) on Aug 21, 2008

Ann Bridge - yes, I like her writing very much. My first book by her was Singing Waters (and it's my favorite), where she waxes enthusiastic about Albania -- a country I'd never given any thought to before. Of course this was all before the terrible dictatorships ruined so much of the country and peasantry. On the back cover it says of her early life, " she spent much of her girlhood visiting relatives in northern Italy, was educated at home..." Another homeschooler...or did they have a hired teacher for her.

posted by SaintSunniva at 7:23 pm (EST) on Aug 11, 2008

Canadian History for Canadian Kids is a new group I just noticed. I noted a few books for their consideration, but I'm sure you'd know a lot more.

posted by SaintSunniva at 12:48 pm (EST) on Aug 8, 2008

Nin hao ma?

Since we seem to be the only two with the Pinyin Chinese-English Dictionary, I thought I'd let you know that I just scanned and uploaded the cover of one of my copies (don't ask why I have a hard- and a soft-covered copy - I'm not sure myself).

Others may have this book but without the Hanzi in the title.

Jim
(甘)

posted by justjim at 1:37 am (EST) on Aug 1, 2008

How neat that Victorine & Julia arrived in their new homes almost simultaneously!

posted by Bicyclette at 3:30 am (EST) on Jul 9, 2008

Still no other requests for "Home Girl" so it's probably yours to keep. Enjoy

Beth

posted by mcna217 at 10:23 pm (EST) on Jul 3, 2008

Hello Muumi,
I have added dozens and dozens of covers...but still hundreds and hundreds to go. Something to keep me busy and away from my other projects and keeping the house. I tried to join bookmooch (I see you have a little exchange going on in these comments) but I was thwarted... I wonder if anyone there would want my offerings of ex-lib children's books anyway.

posted by SaintSunniva at 12:43 am (EST) on Jun 10, 2008

Hi

Nobody else has requested "Home Girl" yet except you. I'll send you a message if anyone else is interested. Enjoy your trip.

Beth

posted by mcna217 at 12:56 am (EST) on Jun 4, 2008

hi

"Home Girl" was mailed today, enjoy.

Beth

posted by mcna217 at 8:08 pm (EST) on Jun 3, 2008

I certainly do - I'd love to be able to travel more.

posted by Teazle at 10:01 am (EST) on Jun 1, 2008

I've tagged all my memoirs now, and the ones I particularly enjoyed I've given 4 or 5 stars. My absolute favourites are 'Married to a Bedouin' by Marguerite van Geldermalsen,
'Gweilo' by Martin Booth, and 'On Hitler's Mountain' by Irmgard Hunt.
The last one is a slightly uncomfortable read, but absolutely absorbing as well. My copy will shortly be going on holiday to Australia with my mum's wonderful lady minister, who's borrowed it from Mum, who had borrowed it from me!

posted by Teazle at 3:06 am (EST) on Jun 1, 2008

Congratulations on the new baby.

Send me a private message with your address and I'll mail "Home Girl". I'll be going to the post office early next week.

Thanks for the trade offer. I've already read "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" and the other one doesn't really sound like my cup of tea. I'd love if you would keep me in mind for future book swaps and I'll do the same.

Beth

posted by mcna217 at 10:36 am (EST) on May 31, 2008

Hi

Mailing to Canada is not much more than mailing to the U.S. if you'd prefer I send "Home Girl" there. So far you're the only person who has requested it.

Beth

posted by mcna217 at 8:34 am (EST) on May 31, 2008

Yes, I find I usually prefer memoirs to a lot of fiction, although I do read fiction as well. That's interesting about your family history - nothing like that in my family, although we used to love to hear Grannie's tales of her childhood in a log cabin in Alberta. I have swarms of Canadian relatives I don't know!

posted by Teazle at 12:59 pm (EST) on May 30, 2008

Hi muumi/shannon. I love The River Road too - if you haven't got it yet, you'll have to hunt for Vail D'Alvery now. The Chess Players is very different, but I enjoyed it and learned a lot of trivia from it. It didn't improve my chess, though!

posted by Bicyclette at 4:09 am (EST) on May 28, 2008

Thanks for Totor et Tristan!

posted by SaintSunniva at 12:17 am (EST) on May 23, 2008

hi mummi, glad you enjoyed my book list --- thought yours was interesting too.
neldred

posted by neldred at 2:09 am (EST) on May 10, 2008

Hi Muumi,
Sorry I´m so late in replying. I´ve added more books to my library, so have a peep.

ADB42

posted by adb42 at 3:24 pm (EST) on May 9, 2008

Hi Muumi,

The Lay of Czar Ivan illustrated by Ivan Bilibin... is on ABE for $11.50 and that includes shipping - and it has a dust jacket. I did a little search for Bilibin to see what would come up, as I was moseying around on ebay and ABE, looking for a book I just heard about, "A Little History of the World" by E. H. Gombrich: aimed at children, but not as Protestant-biased as Hillyer's Child's History of the World.

So do you have all your covers on now? if so, I am suitably impressed! I have over 900 to go!

posted by SaintSunniva at 2:58 pm (EST) on May 2, 2008

Thanks for your comments, and for adding me to your "Interesting Libraries" list - I'm only about 2/5 of the way through my embroidery books, so watch my space! It's taking a while, though; I thought of leaving the covers and tagging till later, but realised that I'd probably never get back round to it.

It's worth keeping an eye out for the Elsa Gudjonsson book - I've seen it on Abebooks a couple of times. Meanwhile, if there are any patterns you're particularly interested in, let me know the page numbers in the Nye books and I should be able to let you have the DMC key.

posted by Sovay at 6:14 am (EST) on Apr 29, 2008

Hi - I'm busy adding my craft books, and noticed that you have Thelma Nye's cross stitch pattern book and have commented on the lack of colour photos/key for the Icelandic designs. You might like to know that most of the patterns are charted with key and photos in a book by Elsa E. Gudjonsson (Traditional Icelandic Embroidery) which also has interesting notes on history and techniques, and is well worth getting hold of if you can.

posted by Sovay at 7:39 pm (EST) on Apr 28, 2008

My nine Dandelion books have their covers now, in case you want to change any of your.:)

I had to tell my kids tonight, LT is a *hobby* It's *not* my life, and I could drop it if I wanted to...trying to get the more avid computer gamer of my kids to see the difference. However, if I did drop it, for whatever reason, it would be *so* painful! I just love organizing my books on here, what can I say.

posted by SaintSunniva at 12:47 am (EST) on Apr 28, 2008

What an excellent idea, to prop Heidi/Babar open for the cover picture, thus showing both covers (albeit one would be upside-down). When I get through my current project (all my books about Indians), I'll tackle my Dandelions.

posted by SaintSunniva at 5:55 pm (EST) on Apr 25, 2008

The scanner worked for one scan and then quit. Back to the camera method.

I'm afraid I don't know how to retrieve images - from ABE or anywhere else for that matter. Even if you tell me, I probably won't be able to follow your directions. (Although your instructions for finding one's coverless books was easy enough even for me). Re combining titles, like for the Dandelion books, I've wondered how to go about it. My preference for one story over the other, however, means I will put a cover of Babar, and not Heidi, for example.

Another set of books I have, Best in Children's Books, defies listing in any fashion that makes sense. (Not that I've ever asked anyone here - or even looked to see how they list them...)Maybe I should list the authors as tags -- I really want to note the authors, especially my favorites.

Rambling.

posted by SaintSunniva at 1:31 am (EST) on Apr 25, 2008

Sigh, I have over a thousand books without covers. A good many are unique to my library, and another large number have unique covers. Happily, I now have a working scanner. My pictures should be clearer than what I could achieve with a digital camera, as soon as I get the hang of it, that is.

That said, it's nifty indeed to be able to see them, the coverless ones.

posted by SaintSunniva at 12:12 am (EST) on Apr 24, 2008

By the way, I just started a thread on Book Talk (I *meant* to start it on the Fans of Russian Authors group - don't know what happened), Children's Books with Russian authors and illustrators. And yes, I misspelled *illustrators*, the shame of it.
Maybe you can get the word out about Ivan Bilibin...I wonder if any of these book artists knew each other?

posted by SaintSunniva at 12:18 pm (EST) on Apr 22, 2008

My profile picture of the moon lady is from The Little Humpbacked Horse by Peter Yershov, illustrated by N. M. Kocherin. The story is in rhyme; the illustrations are amazing.

posted by SaintSunniva at 1:54 pm (EST) on Apr 21, 2008

I just put a different picture on my profile page, from one of my Russian folk tales.
Please take a look!
Amy

posted by SaintSunniva at 9:58 pm (EST) on Apr 17, 2008

Thanks for letting me know about your covers! I tried to make pictures of some of mine the other day, but couldn't get them to upload on LT. Someday I'll get my husband to loan me his scanner and get this thing figured out. In the meantime, between you and Amy I'll get a lot of my books covered. (And I totally agree with you about knitting and reading!)

posted by LauraLLD at 8:45 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2008

Hi,
I've added some covers -- like Bzzz: A Primer for Beekeeper's, and a number of titles by de Angeli and van Stockum. Others, too, but I can't remember them all.

posted by SaintSunniva at 12:03 am (EST) on Apr 4, 2008

Here I am, in the mood and with the time to add more covers for the books we share, and wouldn't you know it, the Change Cover feature isn't working. I noticed it wasn't working last night, either.

posted by SaintSunniva at 7:58 pm (EST) on Mar 30, 2008

Hmmm. I never thought of that - color copying a jacket to put on my jacketless book. I don't see anything wrong with that, especially for personal libraries.

posted by SaintSunniva at 11:33 pm (EST) on Mar 29, 2008

Thanks, Muumi, for telling me about all the covers you've just added, that we share. Surely some must be the same ones as I have. A lot of my books are vintage, though, hence their covers are not the more recent editions. Or else mine don't have a dust jacket.

I've been busy elsewhere - haven't done as much of my LT thing lately.

posted by SaintSunniva at 9:56 pm (EST) on Mar 29, 2008

What a friend! Thanks very much for telling me about the covers. I have dozens, hundreds, without covers...just haven't had time to go through them all yet, with my digital camera in hand -- currently loaned out to son #4 who took it on a trip. I completely agree, the illustrations make the book...funny you should mention Alice. I got rid of my copy because the illustrations weirded me out more than the story. I have such a visual memory it truly jars if I put the wrong cover up, just for the sake of having a cover...so there are some books, owned by 1000s here, that I haven't put a cover on, because none of the LT ones match what I have. Gradually working through it all.

Happy Easter!

posted by SaintSunniva at 7:51 pm (EST) on Mar 22, 2008

Mary Reed Newland also wrote "The Year and Our Children" about living the liturgical year at home. It is back in print, from Sophia Institute Press. I recently got a used copy but haven't gotten into it yet.

I think you are right about needing good Catholic friends. We have found ours through homeschool support groups. It does make such a difference when you can see other people living out the faith in their homes and lives. It gives a good example to follow.

posted by maryanntherese at 10:39 pm (EST) on Mar 16, 2008

Gould's "The Catholic Home" was okay. It would be most useful for someone new to the faith, or new to creating a Catholic culture at home. There was really very little new there for me. But, I read the Catholic Culture website, and some Catholic homeschooling blogs, so I have some good ideas already!

posted by maryanntherese at 10:16 am (EST) on Mar 16, 2008

Thanks for your comment. The Enid Blyton thing seems to be happening so widely and to so many people it has to be a bug. I can't believe even Amazon's data is THAT bad. Very weird.

posted by tardis at 11:36 am (EST) on Mar 4, 2008

Pictish history is fascinating, not in some small part because there is so little really known about it, but more becomes available every year. If you are ever headed back to Scotlans and touls like some recommendations of sites to see, please feel free to ping me!

posted by eithni at 3:48 am (EST) on Mar 4, 2008

Hullo, muumi! Thanks for the comment you left for me. Your library is one I would love to browse through, and I love the story of how you became a bookseller: "Like many addicts, I eventually took up dealing to support my addiction." Ha. Excellent!

posted by growlery at 12:31 am (EST) on Mar 3, 2008

I just got the Coatsworth book about Greenland, Door to the North, and another by her, The Golden Horseshoe.
:)

posted by SaintSunniva at 12:43 am (EST) on Feb 29, 2008

Thanks for letting me know about the cover for the miniature book, Scriptural Rosary.
While searching for the right book I saw you have a copy of Michael Buccino's Rosary Album. I too have that book, but when I tried to combine your single copy (on the author's page) with the other seven copies on LT it wouldn't combine. I'm sure they're the same book -- I knew the artist's niece in fact, and asked if I could meet her uncle, but he was too frail. Her uncle died only a few years ago. Maybe you'll have better luck combining (or else tinkering with your title so it matches exactly), because then I'll be add the cover for it.

Wow - two more rooms to go...I am so relieved to have all my books listed, because I am trying to cull them to under 3000, a rather painful task.

posted by SaintSunniva at 6:29 pm (EST) on Feb 27, 2008

Hello!
Thanks for letting me know about the cover for Jon the Unlucky: I put it on my catalog immediately...I just love seeing the covers. About Door to the North, well I just haven't come across a copy yet. I am enamored of Greenland for some reason -- have you read Jane Smiley's The Greenlanders? I really liked it. And Nevil Shute has written a few about Greenland, too.
Amy

posted by SaintSunniva at 7:38 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2008

Hi,
I was drawn to the sheer depth and breadth of your collection - particularly the children's books, which my budget won't let me indulge myself in (as I don't have kids to justify it - dammit). I was surprised to discover, not how many books we have in common, but their eclectic nature... I could spend hours browsing your 'shelves'.
One children's book I don't see, and would utterly recommend you get your hands on, is The Arrival, by Shaun Tan. It doesn't have any text, just pictures, and is all the more beautiful for it - it still manages to tell quite a complex, moving tale. I love it, and will be getting more of Tan's work when I've run out of books on my to-own list that I can actually justify buying ;)

posted by trishtrash at 5:59 am (EST) on Jan 29, 2008

Hi - Thanks for the comment on my library. John Goodall and Elizabeth Goudge in common must be pretty unusual. I do have Lavinia's Cottage but it seems not to have made it into the list, will have to find it and add it! I'm just getting used to using this space so stay tuned we may have more in common to come. All best wishes, MissHavisham

posted by MissHavisham at 4:09 pm (EST) on Jan 24, 2008

Thanks for the comments on my library. I study Pictish history rather seriously and have a better library on the subject than many Universities. :) The asterisks denote the subject heading the book is shelved under. A book may have multiple tags (ie: Pictish, costuming, shoes, medievalbritain, for example. If it is more about shoes than anything else, the list will also include *shoes. If the book is just on the general topic of the Picts and discusses clothing and shoes in passing, it will include *pictish.) This is also helpful because some books have *lenttoX as their location, so I can remember who has things checked out. :)

posted by eithni at 2:52 am (EST) on Jan 22, 2008

Thank you very much for the in depth (for me at any rate!) look at Charles Williams. Have you read Marion Lochhead's Renaissance of Wonder, which is an analysis of the work of some of the Inkling crowd and other authors? I've not read anything else by her, or anything quite like her book for that matter. (I see quite a few titles by her owned by other LTers) That one book is wonderful. Pun intended, I guess.

posted by SaintSunniva at 11:31 pm (EST) on Jan 18, 2008

Charles Williams? He's new to me as well. What would you suggest by him?

posted by SaintSunniva at 10:15 am (EST) on Jan 16, 2008

I've read The Emperor's Winding Sheet and I've tried to read Parcel of Patterns. For some reason I couldn't get into the story. And I read an adult novel by her, but I've forgotten its name...about three Catholics, one a priest who falls in love with one and she with him. (Looking at her books on LT I wonder if it was Lapsing) It was Not what I was hoping for, after reading TEWS. Have you read everything by her, then?

New to me is Muriel Spark, and I see you have The Comforters, which I'm reading right now. I laughed a lot at the beginning of it, but it's getting kind of creepy imo.

posted by SaintSunniva at 9:46 pm (EST) on Jan 15, 2008

I just noticed we share The Emperor's Winding Sheet by Jill Paton Walsh. That is one of my favorite historical fiction books. Favorite books, period. If you've read it, what do you think of it?

And, thanks for the chuckle...I reread your profile..."like many addicts I eventually took up dealing." Hah! I used to think I could support my insatiable appetite for more books by selling. It's a lie. I need a 12-step program.

posted by SaintSunniva at 10:14 am (EST) on Jan 8, 2008

I just noticed that you've included Berthe Amoss's Advent Calendar -- so I'm going to add mine as well. I wish she'd get back to designing them again -- they're the most beautiful ones out there, imo.

posted by SaintSunniva at 10:19 am (EST) on Dec 6, 2007

I have no magic algorithm for "least interesting libraries". I just worked my way down the list, calculating percentages as I went: which is why the list doesn't get updated!

posted by MyopicBookworm at 6:04 am (EST) on Oct 8, 2007

My interest was aroused by the more unusual books we share, such as the ones on St Frideswide and Skye. I may add Tove Jansson to my favourite authors when I've had a chance to re-read her stories. (I once visited the Moomin museum in Tampere, Finland.)

posted by MyopicBookworm at 5:43 am (EST) on Oct 5, 2007

Can it be that you and I have the only books on Assisi embroidery? It appears so! And thank you for adding the covers -- I've picked them up, now. From your library, it looks like you're a quilter. I love to look at them, but never had the patience to make more than one, and it was small.

Yeah, I think the stats are kinda fun -- useless, but fun. I specifically avoided HP and LotR at first, to see how small I could get the obscurity ratings. I'm now at 4,370 books, with obscurity of 18/268. I see you are at 13/238 with just over 1,000 books. Still a pretty unique library. My numbers went up a lot when I added my science fiction/fantasy books.

I've enjoyed browsing your library, too!

posted by EowynA at 2:07 am (EST) on Aug 24, 2007

Thanks for your kind comments about my library. Out of curiosity, how'd you stumble across it?

EowynA

posted by EowynA at 12:39 am (EST) on Aug 24, 2007

What a happy childhood memory to have: being able & allowed to walk to the library by oneself at the age of seven. Amazing. When I was seven, we would go every two weeks - a big family expedition, requiring a whole morning, as it was quite a drive to get there.

posted by SaintSunniva at 12:42 pm (EST) on Aug 12, 2007

I think your library is interesting, too. I like your "double e's" tag -- I have a lot of books by those authors...they're not pseudonyms for a single author, are they?
Isn't Brink's Winter Cottage a great little story? Amy

posted by SaintSunniva at 1:52 pm (EST) on Aug 11, 2007

Hello there....

Hmmm, I think I know you from ABE---heh, heh, heh! I'll have to check out your reviews; you have a nice way of summing up a book. Perhaps I should write a few myself, but at this point I've still got tons of material to enter; suppose I should do that first before the reviews...

Cheers!
octobercountry

posted by octobercountry at 1:19 am (EST) on Aug 8, 2007