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About meI grew up surrounded by books and music... and being tone deaf, all my energies had to go the other way. I like to think that I read a lot, but the truth is that it comes in waves... I won't read anything for 3 months and then I'll average 500pp a day for the next 3 months. I suppose that it all evens out.

About my libraryI'm estimating that I have about 5,000 books in my house. I'm about halfway done indexing, anyhow. Most (well, maybe about 3,000?) are actually my parents' books that they dropped off on me when they moved abroad. So, if your question is "have you read all of these books?" my answer would have to be a resounding "no." However, between my parents, my husband, and I... I would say that yes, almost all of my books have been read by someone in my immediate family.

What belongs to who:
Me: my main interests are history, literature, gardening, crafts, and cooking.
My husband: all of the computer books and all of the more recent science books are his, as well as a bunch of fiction.
My parents: the older science books (dating from my dad's PhD), most of the fiction (all of the science fiction and mysteries), and well everything else.

Of course, it's all much more static than that. They're all in my house, after all. Yes, there are some books that I have that I'll never read, but most everything in my house is so interesting that I'd like to have a go at it at some point.

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Le mai de la révolution. by Dauvergne a. et Lagoutte l.-M. . Andro P.

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Cecilia Beaux by Alice A. Carter

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Children of the Gilded Era: Portraits by Sargent, Renoir, Cassatt, and Their Contemporaries by Barbara Dayer Gallati

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Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X by Deborah Davis

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Sheep in the Cotswolds: The Medieval Wool Trade by Derek Hurst

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The Medieval Calendar Year by Bridget Ann Henisch

Dear PMegan:

I noticed that you have James & Patricia Deetz's "The Times of Their Lives" on your reading list, so I thought you might be interested in a book I wrote, "Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America." It's been getting very good reviews and ratings here at LibraryThing and over at Goodreads.com.

You can read excerpts at NLLibrarium.com/librarything/thanksgiving.html . You can order it there, too, at a special discount offered to anybody who agrees to write a review of the book.

Note that is NOT a book about a holiday. it's about a bunch of PEOPLE and everything they did, everything that happened to them, in every detail I could find about them.

Let me add that this would be a good Father's Day gift for any fathers you happen to know who have an interest in history or the founding of America. What could be better for fathers than forefathers? If you get it as a gift, I recommend the hardcover edition, which has a red ribbon bookmark in it - the kind of book a father will want to pass on to a daughter or son. I'll be glad to sign the book and write a dedication in it. Just let me know what to write ("For my favorite forefather," for example, or "For my nephew the father" or whatever you like.)

As you'll see from the excerpts, it's a different kind of history - very graphic and dramatic but always sticking strictly to the facts. It's a book for everyone, not just historians. It covers just about every known detail about what happened in that crucial year between the landing of the Mayflower and the famous harvest feast of the following autumn.

I hope you get a chance to read it.

Sincerely,

Glenn Alan Cheney
Hanover, Conn.

posted by GlennCheney at 3:10 pm (EST) on May 28, 2010

I found a biography & info on Cooper Edens here: http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1987/Edens-Cooper-1945.html. I only have two of his books, but hope to have them all. He is enchanting.
Nanci
Book2Dragon

posted by Book2Dragon at 3:50 pm (EST) on Mar 9, 2008

Hello,

In a strange turn getting author permission for picture use on a sight, she noticed a book being incorrectly credited to her. You have this book:

The True Subject: Writers on Life and Craft (Writers on Life and Craft)
by Jan Bode Smiley

listed as such. Jan Bode Smiley asked that this be corrected to Jane Smiley (a different person all together).

Thanks!

Steph

posted by stephmo at 4:15 pm (EST) on Oct 23, 2007

Hi,
I also don't want to be a bother, but you have Chordates 2ed, which I take to be by R. McNeill Alexander. At the moment, you have the author as just Alexander, and this book is mixed in with a lot of others which obviously have nothing to do with it: in fact I think there are at least three different authors mixed in with the name just Alexander. If you change Alexander to by R. McNeill Alexander on your copy, it will show up together with his other books on biology.
Regards, Jim Roberts

posted by jimroberts at 10:50 am (EST) on Oct 16, 2007

Hello.

I am taking the liberty to let you know that Minds and Machines--that obscure dusty philosophy anthology--is, as you probably know, not by Poul Anderson. But I think that if a source identifies a book with only a last name for the author--i.e. "Anderson"--the program assumes that it is the most popular one. I only just noticed the mistake myself.

By the way, I enjoyed your Cannadine review on Amazon. Is there a reason that you didn't paste it to LibraryThing? I LIKE long reviews.

Cheers! I hope I am not being a bother.

Oakes

posted by oakes at 6:38 pm (EST) on Feb 25, 2006

Isn't J.F. Powers wonderful?

posted by perodicticus at 6:01 am (EST) on Oct 19, 2005

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