Member: nancenwv

Noticed you liked The Glass Castle, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also about a dysfunctional family and a bit dark. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary (and a sample chapter) in case you'd like to learn a little more about the book before you commit:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 1:50 pm (EST) on Sep 2, 2009

My experience with Weims indicates you had an exceptional dog. Wild abandon is more common in the ones I've met!

The number of dogs here varies greatly. I currently have two, Audie an English Shepherd and Zip the Australian Kelpie. I'd love to add a giant dog to our home (the molossers are my favorite type) but it's not a good time. I'm recovering from surgery on one rotator cuff and waiting to have the second done. Also we're a foster home for National English Shepherd Rescue and they've got 300 dogs *hopefully* coming in very soon from a hoarder situation. They'll desparately need foster homes and I want to keep space for as many as I can take here.

I don't take dogs in for training except for very rare cases. The dog training I do (and yes, it is my full time job) is really people training/coaching/counseling. Dogs are easy, people not always so much. Most of my work is with problem dogs and I love what I do. It's a second career I took up after a few decades as a consultant on groundwater issues.

I checked out your website. IMO your job rivals mine when it comes to the interesting factor.

posted by SmartDogs at 2:52 pm (EST) on Jun 26, 2009

LOL! Glad my library is providing you with good browsing opportunities. Vicki Hearne was a brilliant writer. She was a friend of several friends of mine. I'm really sorry I didn't hook up with that group soon enough to meet her...

If you're interested in a bit of dog-related reading and are short on time, check our my blog at http://www.smartdogs.wordpress.com I try to update regularly and there are some excellent fellow bloggers in my blogroll.

BTW I am jealous of your trips to the Antarctic. I applied for a job at McMurdo back in the 80's (right after spending a summer in the Alaskan bush) but wasn't lucky enough to get hired. Then college, career, marriage etc. took priority.

posted by SmartDogs at 12:32 am (EST) on Jun 22, 2009

Hi, Nancy - Read your comment to Jane on Long Island. Sounds like you're having quite the adventures. I expected you to be considerably younger. I can see why your library here isn't very big - yet. You're too damn busy to be fooling around on the computer, and maybe too busy to read too. I read The Endurance years ago. And I loved The Shipping News. Have you seen the movie version of the latter? Very well done. And I'm always looking for a good "dog book" - a habit left over from childhood, I suppose. One of my current favorites is Hal Borland's The Dog Who Came to Stay, written around 40 years ago. While I do like to read about far-away and exotic places, I prefer to stay home. I'm retired and have been writing my memoirs for the past several years. (See my website at RatholeBooks.com.) I salute you for your important and daring work. Take care of yourself. - Tim

posted by TimBazzett at 10:48 am (EST) on May 9, 2009

Hey! You mention the book "The Only Kayak" and I had to get it. Exactly the kind of thing I like. Haven't had time to read it yet but I was surprised when I put it in library thing to find I already have 3 books by him! Thanks for the book suggestion. I'm sure I'll like it. Paula

posted by walton at 11:34 am (EST) on Jan 1, 2009

I was looking up people that have polar libraries and came across some info on you on someone else's sight where you had left a comment. What a dream job you've had!!! I love ice and glaciers. I've spent about 8 summers kayaking on my own, with maybe one other person with me, in Alaska. It's the best way to see stuff. I spent 4 summers in Glacier Bay, paddling in from Juneau most of the time, and spending a couple months there. Also in Prince William Sound, Kechamak Bay, and Tracy's Arm/Fords Terror. My dream trip is to go to Antarctica but I hate to do just the cruise ship thing. It was funny hearing what you are doing because I took one of the Travel Channel Academy Workshop about 6 months ago and bought a camcorder that records HD and have the Final Cut Express program and have been learning to film. I am really interested in what you do! How wonderful. But I know when you have a job to do it can sometimes make it a little harder to enjoy. I'd love to hear more. Wouldn't it be great if you could go back in time and travel with Shackleton, scary, but amazing--of cause women didn't do that sort of thing!!

posted by walton at 3:20 am (EST) on Dec 3, 2008

Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries. I see we have a big overlap in books about the arctic and antarctic. Alaska too. I picked up a copy of Scott's journals about 10 years ago and have been hooked on polar literature ever since. I don't really understasnd why, I'm sure I would find it too cold to enjoy even a brief visit. Armchair travel is more my speed. What really interests me is how much was accomplished by "ordinary" men, in an age without all the technology and knowledge we have today. I've read many current accounts of trips to the poles, and I always wonder how successful the men and women of today would have been 100 years ago.

jrbeach

jane

posted by jrbeach at 10:53 am (EST) on Oct 8, 2008

Hi Nancy, and welcome to LibraryThing. I am so glad to have found this site and know that there are other people out there who like to read as much as I do. I envy you being able to travel to those places I have only read about. ~Donna~

posted by Donna828 at 9:51 am (EST) on Sep 15, 2008