Member: obsessedbybooks

Wow! I share over half my library with you! (That would, today, mean 422 books.) Read on... :)

posted by Berly at 11:01 am (EST) on Jun 11, 2009

We have 90 books in common! I love your nom de librarything.

posted by hthbooks at 12:27 pm (EST) on Apr 22, 2009

Hey,

Just a quick note to let you know that my new novel, Dirty Little Angels, is now available. Thought you might like it since it's been compared to Larry Brown, whom I noticed you like. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/blog/?page_id...

Take care,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 11:57 pm (EST) on Feb 19, 2009

Hi
We share 306 books - Yay! Did you read the Camel Bookmobile? I haven't as yet. I wrote back and forth with her a few times and sent books for the actual camel bookmobile in Kenya. Saw an interesting documentary on remote libraries and they featured part of it on Kenya where half the country is serviced by camel and the other by donkey! Pretty darn cool. Costs a bundle to send a few books there way however, so we donate books via embassies now and they can get stuff overseas much more effectively.
I look forward to reading this book as I have been in that part of the world and it is fascinating.
Cheers
Clamato

posted by clamato at 11:17 pm (EST) on Jan 13, 2009

Hiya ! I'm really impressed with yer library ! We've got 16 books in common . I'm an Early Reviewer too ! I listed yours as an interesting library , hope ya don't mind !

posted by AquariusNat at 3:47 pm (EST) on Dec 10, 2008

Wow! Awesome library! We share more than 300 books so far. Yours is a library to watch -- and admire. Cheers!

posted by laVermeer at 11:16 pm (EST) on Aug 26, 2008

i have added yours to my Interesting Libraries because..your library is very interesting to me
we have 55 books in common..and my library is only 165 volumes strong
we belong to your two groups together
what say, wanna be Friends...and check out my Library if the spirit moves you.....

posted by jdthloue at 7:01 pm (EST) on Aug 18, 2008

I enjoyed browsing your extensive library and found some interesting titles to add to my own. Almost 5,000 books! Where do you keep them all?

posted by axisgrid at 4:04 pm (EST) on Jul 24, 2008

We've got lots of the same books! Just saying hi! Leslie (the "L" in "J and L")

posted by JandL at 7:09 pm (EST) on Jul 18, 2008

Just wanted to say hello.I notice we now have 500 books in common!

posted by posthumose at 9:53 am (EST) on Jul 10, 2008

Hi-loved browsing through your extensive library as another person obsessed by books. This is a great site; I can get lost in it for hours adding books and seeing what other people enjoy and why. I particularly enjoy the psychological fiction that you have tagged. Thanks, in advance, for sharing.

posted by pdebolt at 12:02 pm (EST) on Jul 1, 2008

I agree....I am officialyl addicted to LT. I'm a member of other websites such as BoobBrowse and Random House Reading Circle but I've never found such an amazing platform for avid booklovers. Amazing.
Incidentally, I noticed from some of your "tags" that you like psychological books, which I presume could include thrillers and psychological fiction. I haven't looked through your entire library yet but if you haven't read it, "The Shadow of the Wind" is one of the better books I've read in years. It has all the ingredients for a captivating book. I reviewed it on Amazon.com and I believe my tagline is, "A fine wine that turns into an addictive drug..."
Thanks for the add!

posted by vhoeschler at 3:50 pm (EST) on Jun 30, 2008

Hi there! Noticed we share 41 books (and I've only entered 101 of mine so far - about 1000 on my shelves I think).

posted by odysseia at 6:33 am (EST) on Mar 29, 2008

Greetings! Add me to the list of people that share a lot of books with you! I'm relatively new to LT and up to 546 books posted. Of those, we share 54: 10%! That's cool. Anyway, just a quick hello and cheers from San Francisco.

posted by rocketjk at 3:03 pm (EST) on Feb 22, 2008

No worries - it only means I just started going through the list. Amazon and I have a long day ahead of us :)

posted by ablachly at 12:51 pm (EST) on Dec 17, 2007

Well.

Your username is always the first on my list of "Members with your books" section whenever I (daily) check my profile.

No matter how many hundreds more books I manage to amass at thrift stores (in order to escape you), there you are. It's ridiculous.

So: "Hi."

Read anything great lately?

posted by alaskabookworm at 12:10 am (EST) on Oct 20, 2007

Thanks for the future reading ideas from your collection. Any suggestions?

posted by ShelleyK at 10:32 am (EST) on Oct 4, 2007

a year ago we shared 319 books and today we share 677! feel free to stop by with suggestions anytime! :) happy reading!

posted by amanaceerdh at 9:51 am (EST) on Sep 17, 2007

Hi,
can you please send me a book(PDF) : "Chords & progression for jazz & popular" by Arnie Berle ?
I am from vietnam ! My english is very bad.
my email : bat_com_exe@yahoo.com
Thanks

posted by loopback127xyz at 5:08 pm (EST) on Sep 16, 2007

Hi I recently bought "Three Stories and a Reflection" by Patrick Suskind on the net on 15th of August, however I live in Cairo, Egypt and the book never arrived from the United Kingdom! I am in desperate desperate need of the story "Depth Wish" (which is inside the book) as soon as possible. I am a filmmaker and have based my latest short film on that story. The film is however in Arabic and I need to translate it ASAP into English (subtitles). Could you please please please scan just the text of "Depth Wish" and send it to me by e-mail (noharifaat@gmail.com). That would be so so helpful as i am not sure when this book is ever going to arrive. Your help would be truly appreciated.It is too bad we don't have access to as many books as possible in this region!
Thanks so much,
Noha

posted by noha1980 at 8:22 am (EST) on Sep 6, 2007

Hello, we have 237 books in common and I have more to put up. I will return to look for good recommendations regularly. Sandy

posted by posthumose at 1:35 am (EST) on Aug 29, 2007

I only have 190 books in my library, but I noticed you shared 116 of those. I wondered then if I could add you to my interesting libraries. Have you read all those books in your library?

posted by SweetbriarPoet at 6:45 pm (EST) on Jul 22, 2007

Hi, I noticed several chess titles in your catalog and thought you may like to check my forum site out- www.ChessForums.org, we have a dedicated section to chess books and recommended reading you may be interested in, thanks, Greg

posted by gregfindley at 6:33 am (EST) on Jun 30, 2007

Hi We share 200 books...that is so far, I am still inputting. When I find someone like you on LibraryThing, who shares so many of my favorites, i am always disappointed when I see that that person does not rate his/her books! Seeing your ratings is really useful. Why. Well, if I find out that you consistently rate similar books in a similar way, then when I find an interesting title on you list that I have not read, and that you rate highly...well, I would be very tempted to read it, too. I am writting to suggest that you begin the exercise of rating your books. I found it fun. It is something you can do "on-the-fly"...in between this and that...when you have five minutes to spare on the internet. If you can't momentarily recall what that book was about, look at the Book Information link in Edit...read a review, look at the tags and subjects that others have given it. You would be surprised by how quickly all the memories of that book come flooding back, including your gut rating of it. In retrospect, your gut rating is always better than what it was at the time you read it. Personally, I think you ratings should reflect you. It doesn't matter how critics thought of each title; what matters, is how you reacted to it...how much pleasure it gave you.

I also have a question for you: When/How do you usually read? ...while commuting, before going to bed, in lieu of TV watching, etc. I am just curious. I assume you are a "speed reader," too. Is that true? How many hours does it take you to read a typical fiction or nonfiction book?

posted by msbaba at 11:16 am (EST) on Apr 16, 2007

While we only share a mere 136 books at the moment, I can't help but wonder at the wonderful eclectic mix we share. From Thomas Hardy to Octavia Butler, Henry Fielding to Karen Joy Fowler, Margaret Atwood to Jonathan Carroll, P.D. James to Harry Kemelman... I still have thousands to catalog, including lots of children's books (mine, my children's, and the ones I've continued to buy even though my children are in their 20's now). What are you reading at the moment?

posted by avaland at 8:01 am (EST) on Nov 2, 2006

hey!
I noticed you also own Artemis Fowl, the Princess Bride and books by Alexandre Dumas. Interested in chatting sometime?

posted by ArtemisFowlIII at 7:11 pm (EST) on Sep 23, 2006

I'm impressed you got your books catalogued so quickly. It took me a couple months in fits and starts. There is something soothing about 10-keying ISBNs....

posted by alaskabookworm at 12:14 pm (EST) on Sep 20, 2006

i thought it was amazing that we shared 319 books until i saw that you had 3519!:)
i can only hope one day my collection will be such!

posted by amanaceerdh at 11:18 am (EST) on Sep 15, 2006

You work as a corporate finance lawyer and still have time to read? I'm impressed!

I never intended to practice but rather to use my legal education to conduct research and write; it certainly does change the way one thinks and for that I am ever grateful. I spent many years clerking for an appellate court (best job in the world!), taking off 13 years for community work and rearing a family, clerking for a wonderful trial court judge until he died (I would have done that job for free if I hadn't been a single parent), and, for the past 18 years, working for Westlaw's much better competitor :). The work I do here is extremely rewarding and interesting but corporations suck out one's very soul and for that all management should be illegal. I actually did spend 6 months in a large (for Ohio) law firm but p.c. words cannot do justice to the reprehensible attorneys it attracted.

So how do you store over 3500 books? I have only about 2600 and I've run out of wall space for bookcases.

posted by kageeh at 7:31 am (EST) on Sep 14, 2006

Hi again -- If you search on my library and look for the Smith College tag, you will see that I have 6 books about Smith listed. There are 3 versions of [Smith Voices], one from 1900, one from 1911, and one from 1990, all different stories. I bought the older ones from eBay. I also have one called [Textured Lives] about artists and the Ada Comstock Scholars.

posted by kageeh at 8:11 am (EST) on Sep 13, 2006

Hi back! I only wish I were a Smithie. My youngest daughter graduated Smith in 2003 but from the moment I dropped her off freshman year, I have pined for the place. Never would I have attended an all-girls school back in the 60s but what did I know then? As a newly hatched senior citizen (good only for getting into the movies for half price), I now appreciate the incredible value of being around my female friends who are so smart, so stimulating, so active, so interesting -- we can talk about nothing and everything forever. We intend to spend our senescence (if we're able to recognize it by then) in the Crone's Cottage one of us will have to buy on the coast of Maine. Dogs (mainly big ones), a few cats, and no men except the hunky young one who chops and delivers the wood in winter; our eyesight may be too weak to see him clearly but we can still imagine. Our children and grandkids can visit on certain designated weeks.

When did you go to Smith? What type of lawyer are you?

posted by kageeh at 7:18 pm (EST) on Sep 12, 2006

OBB: Thanks so much for your message. I am excited that we share so many books, too! I know you will be another exciting LibraryThing addition.

posted by ProdigalReader at 11:28 am (EST) on Sep 12, 2006

I am most impressed.

posted by ProdigalReader at 1:22 pm (EST) on Sep 11, 2006

A big welcome to LibraryThing to someone who I see owns both Peter Dickinson's Sleep and His Brother and Sheep in a Jeep.

posted by quartzite at 6:04 am (EST) on Sep 10, 2006