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About me We have been married 225 weeks (we were married on 04/04/04), and we have been together for 286 consecutive Saturday nights! She is a librarian and I am an English Professor at a small college in Texas. Talk about a match made in heaven! It was not so much a marriage as a merger of libraries, film collections, and CDs.
--updated 07/20/08

About my library This cataloguing "disease" makes us want to expand our desert island shelf at least two-fold! We will have to pick a larger island on which to be marooned!

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Hi Jim, The 510 Reading Series is the brain child of author Michael Kimball (the one in Baltimore--author of Dear Everybody, How Much of Us There Was, The Way the Family Got Away--not the thriller writer in Maine). (I'm not him ... just an enthusiastic supporter and go-to kitty, as it were.) His mission is to bring together writers and their readers, writers who have been at this for a while and have books out to promote as well as writers who are just getting going, reading works-in-progress or short stories from literary magazines. The crowds have been fantastic with this kind of mix--it's a literary sampler of sorts. And with the readings themselves confined to 15 minutes, everyone is at their best! Afterwards, a whole mass of enthusiasts gets to go out for a drink with the authors at the place down the street. We'd love you to do it, too, a literary franchise! Let me know what your plans are. And if you're ever in B'more, you are warmly welcome.

posted by elduque at 6:09 pm (EST) on Jul 17, 2008

Thanks for sharing! If you're in the Baltimore area, William Henry Lewis and Jessica Anya Blau will be reading in the 510 series in September (different dates: info here:

510readings.blogspot.com)

posted by elduque at 11:10 pm (EST) on Jul 16, 2008

Hi Jim,

Yes, I did see the review you wrote, and was quite moved by your enthusiastic response to "Tomato Girl." Thank you so much for your generous words of praise.

I won't be traveling to Denver, but I'm sure we can work out a way for me to inscribe the book for you. Drop me a line (JaynePupek@aol.com) when your book arrives and we'll figure it out.

My poetry book, "Forms of Intercession," is available at Amazon.com. Thanks for asking about it. Poetry isn't as popular as fiction, but is my first love. Few people know this tidbit, but "Tomato Girl" began as a poem.

All my best,

Jayne

posted by JaynePupek at 6:41 pm (EST) on Jul 12, 2008

Hi - I have added Fly Away Peter after reading your thought-provoking and thoughtful review. What a match made in bibliophile heaven you two are - I have visions of your spending many evenings with just the sound of turning pages and shared appreciation of a particularly moving passage in a book. My husband, although wonderful, is a sports addict - both playing and as a spectator. He was inducted into the West Point Sports Hall of Fame last year - alas, there is no Readers' Hall of Fame. I would like to peruse your extensive library from time to time for more suggestions. I finished What We All Long For and look forward to your review after seeing that you also received an ER copy.
Pat

posted by pdebolt at 10:34 am (EST) on Jul 12, 2008

You did a beautiful review of "Fly Away Peter." I am especially glad to see it since other was so far off the mark!

posted by Esta1923 at 1:23 am (EST) on Jun 23, 2008

We share 63 books, including Malouf's "Fly Away Peter." It has 2 reviews, mine, and one quite opposite. Since this is a book I am haunted by I wonder what you thought. . . Esta1923

posted by Esta1923 at 1:42 pm (EST) on Jun 9, 2008

Jim/Ramona, I just cataloged my arc of Margot Livesey's forthcoming novel and I see that you also have a copy. Should you read it before me, and that's entirely possible, I'd love to hear what you think. I like her work, so when I was visiting the bookstore where I used to worked they kindly passed the ARC on to me (it came to the store in my name anyway which made me feel good:-). It is one of the things I miss about not longer being in the book biz. Best, Lois

posted by avaland at 5:39 pm (EST) on Jan 22, 2008

I picked up Max Tivoli on the strength of your review. Today I read your review of Young Werther. I'd always assumed that book wouldn't appeal after late-adolescence or early adulthood and I've avoided it. Now it sounds like a must read! That grad project must have been a gas. I'm surprised you can't find it on one of those academic databases that are too expensive for anyone but an institution to afford. I also liked C's review of Farenheit 451. Kudos and best wishes to you both in 2008.

posted by slickdpdx at 9:08 pm (EST) on Jan 9, 2008

Jim: Really nice review of The Fall. I wasn't over impressed when I read it. but I was young. I will definitely go back and read it again. The Plague on the other hand I have reread every seven years or so. It is illuminating and enjoyable every time.

posted by slickdpdx at 10:44 pm (EST) on Dec 12, 2007

Hi,
Thanks for adding me to your friends list. I live in North Carolina, and am a teacher of the Visually impaired. As a lifelong reader I love teaching reading (braille) and always hope that my students will be inspired to read beyond the requirements for school.

I had noticed that we share several books that not many readers have found yet, like the Long Walk and Ebenezer Le Page-what a delight he is!

posted by jill123 at 9:31 am (EST) on Dec 8, 2007

Thanks for your friendship! I look forward to checking out your books and hope you enjoy mine.

posted by lisaunger at 11:24 am (EST) on Nov 7, 2007

Hi Jim and Ramona,
Thanks for accepting my invitation! We live in Bridgewater, NJ which is in Somerset County, kind of in the north central part of the state. I grew up here, and my husband is from central PA. We met at Penn State as undergraduates and have been together ever since.
You have a nice looking cat and dog there.
Adele

posted by abarree at 10:15 pm (EST) on Oct 30, 2007

Hi Jim & Ramona,

Thank you! He is called Nelson. We have another cat, too, called Gus, who is mainly white with black splodges (Nelson's brother).

Yes, I am in England. Banstead is in the northern part of the county of Surrey - very close to London.

Looking forward to getting to know you,
Allie

posted by AllieW at 3:52 pm (EST) on Oct 6, 2007

Hey, Jim -

You're spot on about this "thing" being addicting. I suppose there are plenty worse vices, but dang, this thing has been guilty today of gobbling up a good portion of my afternoon... but I am delighted it exists.

It's a real kick to see your collection of covers in a collage, huh? I'm new to this whole "tag cloud" concept, so let's just say I'm relishing in all the features of the site and the novel ways it is schooling me.

I'm a former bookseller who's just started cataloguing my collection, but I'm sure to fall short of the depth and richness of your library.

Look forward to continued book talk,
Dan

posted by dcafaro at 4:38 pm (EST) on Oct 4, 2007

Your poetry and literary criticism books were the deciding factors in my adding you to interesting libraries. Then I read that you're an English professor and your wife is a librarian. It's perfect, not to mention adorable :) Literature has always been my favorite subject in school, and remains among my top classes in college. Being an avid reader, I am especially fond of bookstores and libraries. You and your wife are, indeed, a match made in heaven!

I recently finished Passage by Connie Willis and I'm currently engrossed in my Biological Psychology textbook. Good stuff!

Read any good books lately?

posted by TinazReading at 7:35 pm (EST) on Sep 15, 2007

Hey -- I'm finally on this thing!!

My libary is pitiful in comparison to yours (even though I'm not finished yet), so I won't be visiting your catalog too often. Your libary makes me weep bitter tears of envy. So thanks for that.

Hope all is well with you two :)

posted by bibliolatrist at 4:09 pm (EST) on May 7, 2007

love Jacobsen! a friend gave me a copy for my birthday and it turned into one of my favorite books. luckily have a friend who owns a used bookstore, and he scrounged a couple other books of his out of the ether. Have read Mogens and a collection of his other smaller stories. truly amazing literature.

love the Dawkins also, but find myself not liking his all-or-nothing approach. his passion for science is amazing, but even as an atheist myself he comes off as exceptionally harsh. i think i'll just have to go back to reading his books on evolution. what did you think of it?

posted by crosseyedswede at 2:00 pm (EST) on Nov 21, 2006

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