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About meRetired (1986) Professor of Classical Studies, ʻAtenisi University, Nukuʻalofa, Tonga; also re tired librarian, Boston University, Hawaiʻi Public Library System, and others (ret. 1993).
Free lance writer and translator. Author of "A Sense of Order; [translations from French, Greek, Spanish, and Hawaiian"; "Greek and Hawaiian Terms of Authority and Emotion in the Hawaiian Bible"; and others.

About my libraryA collection of about 1,500 titles in English, Greek, Latin, Spanish, and French; with a smattering of Italian and Portuguese; few or no other languages, except for translations of the Bible. Small colleciton of U.S. and U.K. poets, mostly post-1900.

I rarely acquire any book that is available in most public libraries, unless it is something that I would want to consult frequently. Thus, though there is much on literary subjects, there are few novels, except some out of print ones. I am not, in general, much interested in rare or scarce books, or in first editions -- only interested in the content. Besides literature, my main interests are history (mostly Western and Polynesian), and religion and history-- with or without emphasis on the interfaces between those two.

GroupsA Pearl of Wisdom and Enlightenment, Alexander the Great, All Things New England, Amateur Historians, American Civil War, Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts, Ancient History, Baseball, Book Addicts Anonymous, Book Lovers for Obamashow all groups

Favorite authorsPhilip Abbott, Said K. Aburish, Kenneth D. Ackerman, Dawn Adrienne, Aeschylus, Henry David Aiken, Lee Allen, Gordon W. Allport, Perry Anderson, Natalie Angier, Joyce Appleby, Aristophanes, Robinson Edwin Arlington, Michael Astour, Bernard S. Bachrach, Jean Hogarth Harvey Baker, Peter Bamm, Susan Banfield, William Barclay, Giorgio Bassani, Sharon Begley, Saul Bellow, Laurence Bergreen, Martin Bernal, Silvio Bertoldi, Niko Besnier, Charles Rowan Beye, Harry Blamires, Craig Blomberg, Benson Bobrick, Anders Bodelsen, Paul F. Boller, Larissa Bonfante, Albert Borowitz, Fabio Bourbon, G. W. Bowersock, Gregory A. Boyd, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Brion, Fredric Brown, Robert Brown, Tricia G. Brown, Paul Buhle, Sergius Bulgakov, Jacob Burckhardt, John Lewis Burckhardt, James Lee Burke, William Cahn, Italo Calvino, Albert Camus, Lou Cannon, D. A. Carson, Miranda Carter, Catullus, John Cheever, G. K. Chesterton, Carolyn Chute, Cicero, David Claerbaut, Jennifer Coates, Tom Coffman, I. Bernard Cohen, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Joseph Conrad, Robert Coover, Frederick Copleston, Gregory Corso, Louis William Countryman, Betty Jean Craige, Hart Crane, Stephen Crane, St. John of the Cross, David Crystal, e. e. cummings, Fazil Hüsnü Daglarca, Joseph Dallett, Basil Davidson, Dick Davis, Gavan Daws, Dorothy Day, Pamela Dell, Vine Deloria, Milovan Djilas, Nancy Dorian, Nancy C. Dorian, Michael D. C. Drout, Ludwig Edelstein, John S. D. Eisenhower, Mircea Eliade, Stanley Elkin, Robert Ellsberg, Pierre Emmanuel, Ennius, Caradoc Evans, Anne Fadiman, Nuruddin Farah, Benjamin Farrington, Drew Gilpin Faust, John Ferguson, Joseph Finder, Ruth First, Ennio Flaiano, Gene Fowler, Russell Freedman, Allen French, Carlos Fuentes, Futa Helu, Richard A. Gabriel, Ernest J. Gaines, John Kenneth Galbraith, Gary W. Gallagher, Mahatma Gandhi, Marjorie Garber, Carol Gelderman, Jaqueline Girdner, Nikolai Gogol, Yvan Goll, Joseph C. Goulden, Hilda C. Graef, Graham Greene, Lenore Grenoble, Bede Griffiths, James Grippando, Andrew Gross, Edith Grossman, Frances Hickson Hahn, Ole Hallesby, Thich Nhat Hanh, Elizabeth Hardwick, Barbara Hardy, Eric A. Havelock, Václav Havel, Mary Sayre Haverstock, Nathan A. Haverstock, Ammon Hennacy, Herodotus, Hesiod, George V. Higgins, Tony Hillerman, Robert Hillyer, Ray Hogan, August de Belmont Hollingshead, John Dominis Holt, Homer, Thomas Hood, Michael G Horowitz, Arianna Huffington, Dell H. Hymes, Futa Helu, Daisaku Ikeda, Muhammad Iqbal, Molly Ivins, Alan Jacobs, Russell Jacoby, Bill James, E. O. James, H. Paul Jeffers, Roy Jenkins, Donald D. Johnson, Will Johnson, Ben Jonson, David M. Jordan, James Joyce, Ernst Jünger, Ismail Kadare, Toyohiko Kagawa, Louis I. Kahn, Paul W. Kahn, Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau, Lilikala Kame'Eleihiwa, Robert Kanigel, Kelly M. Kapic, Jim Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem Kaplan, William C. Kashatus, Валентин Катаев, Susan Kelly, Thomas Keneally, Noel J. Kent, Jack Kerouac, Veselin Kesich, Ibn Khaldūn, Clyde Kluckhohn, Jeffrey Kluger, Fletcher Knebel, Leopold Kohr, David Konstan, Alfred Korzybski, Paul Kriwaczek, Gary Lachman, Pär Lagerkvist, Rafael Lapesa, Jane Leavy, John Leggett, Leialoha Apo Perkins, Francois Lenormant, Adele Leonhardy, Jill Lepore, C. S. Lewis, Sinclair Lewis, Li Bai, Fred Lieb, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Books LLC, Frances Lockridge, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Lowell, Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Georg Luck, Lucretius, John D. MacDonald, Antonio Machado, J. P. Mallory, Manning Marable, Abraham H. Maslow, Frederica Mathewes-Green, Hamilton Maule, L. R. McBride, Eugene J. McCarthy, Carl McColman, Marshall McLuhan, Herman Melville, Robert W. Merry, Thomas Merton, John Michell, Jeff Millar, C. Wright Mills, John Milton, Arnaldo Momigliano, Dane Morrison, Claude Mossé, Multatuli, Joseph Falaky Nagy, Luis E. Navia, Rob Neyer, Arthur Darby Nock, Barack Obama, William of Ockham, Kenzaburō Ōe, Liam O'Flaherty, Frank Oppel, Paul Van Ostaijen, Nicholas Ostler, Ovidius, Abraham Pais, Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Eric Partridge, Blaise Pascal, Claude Emmanuel Joseph Pierre Pastoret, marquis de, Raj Patel, Alan Paton, John Perkins, John Aristotle Phillips, Kathy J. Phillips, Pindar, Plautus, Plutarch, Edgar Allan Poe, John Polkinghorne, Francis Pollini, J. F. Powers, Tim Powers, Jacques Prévert, Maurice Procter, Sextus Propertius, Marshall Pugh, Betty Radice, Margaret Nutting Ralph, Robert J. Randisi, Juan de Recacoechea, Kenneth J. Reckford, David Rees, Antonio Regalado Garcia, B. L. Reid, John E. Reinecke, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Suzanne Romaine, Ron Rosenbaum, Tina Rosenberg, Carl A. P. Ruck, Juan Rulfo, Francis Russell, Miguel de Cervantes, J. D. Salinger, Sappho, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Robert J. Schreiter, Pete Seeger, Martin Seligman, Gitta Sereny, Lee Server, William Shakespeare, Irwin Shaw, Rupert Sheldrake, William L. Shirer, John Sickels, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Holland Smith, Sophocles, Kenneth S. Stern, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rex Stout, Cass R. Sunstein, Esaias Tegnér, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Marvin Terban, William Makepeace Thackeray, Alexander Theroux, W. Ian Thomas, E.P. Thompson, George Thomson, Leo Tolstoy, G. B. Trudeau, Kate Tuckett, Amos Tutuola, Lao Tzu, 'Umi Perkins, Miguel de Unamuno, John Updike, Jacques Vallée, Gene Edward Veith, Virgil, Joost van den Vondel, Edward Wagenknecht, C. Osborne Ward, Marina Warner, Peter Weissman, Peter S. Wells, Brooke Foss Westcott, Alfred North Whitehead, Cedric H. Whitman, Rowan Williams, William Appleman Williams, Alban Dewes Winspear, Walt Wolfram, Diane Wolkstein, John Womack, Roger D. Woodard, George Woodcock, William Yale, W. B. Yeats, Yasmine Zahran, Howard Zinn (Shared favorites)

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Many thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries, Roland! I was interested to see that we share both 'Teach yourself Finnish' and a Barbara Comyns novel, among others.
I greatly enjoy pitting my wits against you on Solving Puzzles site,
Best wishes, Sally
Hi! "1492: Anul in care China a discoperit America" is a sentence in Romanian language. Regards Reinhardt
Hi Roland,

I hope this is what you are asking for. The name of the post is "Less Interesting Book Titles"

http://www.librarything.com/topic/118574

Regards,

Denise
There's an explanation here with screenshots:

http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Collections#Collections_Manager

I hope it's clear. If not let me know :)
You're welcome! I know that Favorite Authors is one of those ones that leads a lot of people to problems.

I notice that you are also having problems with "what should you borrow?". Do you have "normal" recommendations? As the "what should you borrow" is just a subset of that filtered by the other member's library.

You could also check that the "Include in recommendations" checkbox is ticked for at least one collection. Otherwise it will not have any books to use for recommendations!
I'm sorry, but I'm also completely baffled as to why the "what should you borrow" won't work for you. I can see what you're saying - when I compare our libraries it thinks you shouldn't borrow anything from me, which is possible, but unlikely. I tried poking around other libraries with which I had little to nothing in common, and I still always got at least 1 recommendation. I also tested wishlist res and I can confirm that wishlist items show up in both places for me, and even from libraries with less than 200 books.

If the wishlist is the problem (which I doubt), you can test it by using power edit to temporarily move all your wishlist items into another non-wishlist collection, wait 24-hrs for the cache to clear, and see if you still have these problems. I can only suggest contacting Tim otherwise. Very peculiar.
Middle English. English became the language of the court in 13-something, at least 100 years before Our Richard died. And in Shakespeare's plays everybody needed to speak Elizabethan English (often accented, and the accent is written into the text), or the plebs wouldn't have understood the plays, and wouldn't then have come to the next one.
Bad grammar. The bones are Richard III; Wikipedia tells me his father was Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York. (Quite why R.III shouldn't also have the surname Plantagenet is beyond me.) No idea where Gloucester came from.
Hello Roland! A feghoot is an elaborate or complicated story, told primarily to serve as a setup for a (typically quite atrocious) ridiculous pun. It takes its name from a science fiction character. One example would be the following:

At one point, the Illustrious Feghoot was called in to help a struggling humanoid race on Phi-Omega 9. Their problem was desperate indeed. You see, virtually all of the landmass of the planet was composed of a series of very high mesas and plateaus. The rain, rather than falling on the top of the plateaus, would be expended on the sides. This made farming virtually impossible, so the hapless humanoids were trapped in the Stone Age, neither able to farm effectively nor develop the technology to irrigate the high mesas.
Of course, the poor aliens called upon Ferdinand Feghoot, the illustrious time traveler and philanthropist, to aid them.
Upon arriving, Feghoot looked over the situation and immediately hit upon a solution. He instructed the aliens to dig a trench up the side of the closest plateau, and sent off to Earth for 90 tons of pickles. Once the aliens had ceased digging, Feghoot had them lay the pickles side by side, end to end, along the entire length of the trench. Immediately the water began to flow up the trench and onto the plateau.
The aliens were astounded. "We knew you were a brilliant man, but this is beyond our wildest dreams. We do not understand, though, why the water flows uphill simply because of the presence of pickled cucumbers. What makes this amazing thing occur?"
Feghoot, with a condescending but genial air, replied, "Simple, my boy. We've known it on Earth for centuries. Indeed, every school child knows that, 'dill waters run steep.'"
Hi Roland,

You marked my crime novel PELHAM FELL HERE to-read. My new short story collection SMOKING ON MOUNT RUSHMORE might also interest you. It has 16 new and selected short stories from my past decade of writing and publishing. Most are crime fiction. It's available on Kindle. Thanks for reading my fiction.

Best regards,

Ed Lynskey
No problem. And I always stand ready to be corrected. Someone with a lot of stats knowledge could prove me wrong... but I think I was right.

Hope you have a wonderful holiday. You probably don't have snow (LOL) but I am getting (am at) to the age when I could do without the stuff. Pretty to look at but it has to be shoveled, sanded, boots put on, etc etc - to much!
I could be wrong, I often am when it comes to stats, but as far as I can tell Gywnn was tied, with eight with Horus Wagner.
Yes, that's the way it works. Double-click on the language field to open it up for editing; the link will say "Show all languages". If you then click on the dropdown for the entry field, you'll get the small list. Click on the Show link - it will change to say "Show fewer languages". Click on the dropdown - you get the full list. The link works the same way on the Edit page - when it says "Show all", you'll get the short list in the dropdown; when it says "Show fewer", the dropdown has the long list.
I am extraordinarily honored that you added me to your list of interesting libraries. Thank you for making my day!
That was the fabulous "Stubby Kaye" who sang "Sit Down..." (I only saw the film.) Wasn't he a master at getting the attention of his fellow sinners at that revival meeting? (Granted, he was acting, but it made you want to be pulled into his audience.) And of course he was one of the three who sang "Runyonland Music" at the beginning ("I got the horse right here, his name is Paul Revere...") before the curtain rose on Broadway. What a wonderful way to start a musical
The lyrics I posted may have changed a bit since 1918 -- the song lives again in Fenway stadium, albeit in a bit more punk form, sung by the Dropkick Murphys. That version's been played at the end of every game since I was in high school, I think. It's nice to hear about its long and varied history.
Hi, Roland. Your long and thoughtful letter in re languages deserves a longer Reply than I can give right now. I DO want to pursue this matter with you -- and with others. For the moment, I should say that I am marginally aware of this "gangleri" person. As a matter of fact, he is one of a very few people who have marked mine as an Interesting Library", for whatever that's worth. Meanwhile, without wasting too much precious time -- for we all have many better things to do -- you might do a little mental math, and estimate how many people there really are behind the announced statistics for LT, also what might be the principal motivations for many of them. That might in turn simplify our discussion later. In peace, -- Goddard Graves
Yes, the songs in "Guys and Dolls" (well, most of them) are wonderful, aren't they?
Noted with interest your comments in re languages in on the improvements board. Share your concern completely. The cultural narrowness implicit in much of LT is simply astonishing. Well, until it endangers our blood-pressure and/or bowel-functioning, we must keep putting the digital crowbar to some of the techno-types. Peace to ya, brother. -- Goddard
Hi! I'm pleased to meet you.
My pleasure!
Tah-Da!

http://www.librarything.com/topic/141801
I remember that one. I think we were both playing it. Have not seen it in awhile. Will look for it and let you know.
It's not a game I've played but I wonder if you mean this one - http://www.librarything.com/topic/143857 ?

Thanksgiving doesn't exist where I am (though I did wonder why things were so quiet on LT yesterday!) but I hope yours was a lot of fun.
Well, as a Swiss lady it's definitely an obligation to know Frisch, Dürrenmatt and Keller but also the German famous authors. It's always nice to read some classics from your origin place and also to recommend them to other readers.
Hi Roland!

I've no idea why you did put me into your 'Interesting library' library list, but it's a pleasure to know it.

Ameise1
Good to know you are okay - your name is probably showing as the last one because I started a new thread (continuation, actually),

Yes, it is early to bed tonight for me. It was too close for too long and the thought of waking up in the morning to a R. win kept me up until it was secure.

It looks like it is mostly the two of us on the thread, but others do pop in so I think we should keep going. Besides, none of the other "games" have caught my fancy yet. This one actually makes me go look for someone once in awhile. Have learned a few interesting tidbits here and there. I vote to keep going!

Martha (Max)
Hi, Roland! I haven't yet read it, but from what I understand The Queen Against Owen is a thriller about someone falsely accused of murder. It's available online at ManyBooks / Project Gutenberg, where for what it's worth they quote a review from Sporting Life that compares it to a Wilkie Collins novel. Hope that helps!

Regards,
Liz
Many thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries Roland. Friendly greetings from Monnickendam, The Netherlands!
Hi, Roland,

Yes, I don't at all request trying out something. Just didn't work as we'd thought. Although I wonder if it would have been more interesting if more people were playing. (But still, the game isn't right for me.)
Hi Roland,

I have put Janette Turner Hospital's book [Orpheus Lost] on my wishlist. It looks amazing. I will be interested in what you think of it. Mary Beth
Thanks for finding my library interesting; I will have to look at yours, which the comments below indicate it is very much so.

I'm confused about your comment about "Even Less Interesting Book Titles," because I'm not sure I saw it (your comment), and when I looked at the site tonight, I was happy to see that two entries had been added.

If I missed something, please let me know.

I see you are interested in Ancient History. Did you see my entries in the topic, History from 300,000 feet? I think that the lack of response to my most recent post is because I added a couple of links to multi-page documents. (They were attached for the photos, but who knows if I shut down my own issue about the [Mummies of Urumchi] with too much detail?)

Best regards.
Thank you for thinking my library is interesting. I am very flattered that a man of your education and attainments would consider it so.

Best wishes.

LHi Roland, I noticed that you added a book titled, Bright Earth,Art and the Invention of Color, How did you like that? Have you read it yet? I have recently begun using watercolors, a new experience for me. I should probably obtain more books on art beyond the usual instruction books, Do you do any paintng yourself? :-) mb
I didn't mean to be nosy- but since my roots are on Cape Cod, I am tuned in to relevant discussions - Spent time around Boston for college and get back now and again. Nice to see you on the game threads- Take care.

Thanks for the interesting library nod. I am getting ready to update my profile page, being far behind due to two time-consuming events in my life. One, the simple fact that i was off-line,first no Internet and the need for a new computer. Second, our beloved AMerican Bulldogs surprised and delighted us with a litter of nine bouncing bullpuppies. They are now just over a year old and we found good homes for 8 of them, leaving two females, Rae and Darla, and mom and dad, Remy and Lyla. The litter keptme quite busy. Add to that two mini dachsunds, females, Boston and Kaia. We also had an elderly Chinese Crested, Nylons, who we recently had put to sleep as she was quite ill with congestive heart failure. She was a lovely show dog we adopted from her owner and breeder. If you are not familiar, they are hairless with flowing white and caramel mane and tail. So, now that the litter is older, and my sweet husband bought me a tablet and a wifi hotspot, I'm back! I won't bore you with any more details of our menagerie but they are a huge part of my life, obviously!
Hi, Mr. Perkins...
Even with a Mac, you should be able to use Yahoo search without joining up. At www.yahoo.com, just type your search in the field at the top of the screen. I've also begun using www.bing.com, Microsoft's search engine. Google's becoming a bit too nosy for me, as well! Neither of them require membership, nor does ask.com, but I don't like their answers as well.
Wow! Your library is far more interesting than mine, that's for sure!
I'll be having a look, you have some gems in here!
Thank you for adding mine anyway!

Dolors.
Hello. Thanks for adding my library. glad to return the compliment, I like the cut of your jib.
Hi Roland, thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries!
Thank you for adding me as an interesting library.
The dust jacket calls it "a fictional recreation of the seven-year exile" of Celine from France, beginning in November 1944. I read it a while ago, and before you asked the question, Roland, assumed it was nonfiction, because it reads that way. But taking it off the shelf, browsing through it, I see that the author presumes at points to imagine what Celine was thinking and feeling, which does move it out of the nonfiction realm. There are accounts cited from neutral sources, but also dialogue by Celine, and others, that is most likely made up, though it seems like things Celine might actually say; perhaps reconstructed from the author's research. I should add that it's well written.
Thank you for adding me to your interesting libraries.
My library, Interesting? Eclectic yes..........I have not added the last few books to it yet and I must. Because they are great reads. Thank you for noticing. Librarythings and Goodreads have introduced me to new authors that I would never have tried . Also I just won a book called The Letter Q, that is letters to their younger selves by Queer (the book's word not mine) which is wonderful...Thanks again for your compliment. I would not be doing this had I not gotten a spine injury that gave me the need to fill a S--- load of time. Kathleen Leilani
I have been moving my wishlist to Amazon until there is a way to not add those wishlist totals to my total. I also don't won't "books read but don't own" added to my total so I will no longer keep track of those here on LT.

The comments have been very helpful. Thanks.
Yes, it's a pain. I always check on items I put in "wishlist" after adding - but I don't have that many, so that's easier for me.

How and why this happens? No idea. I've seen it occur too, but haven't been able to spot a pattern.
To echo the person below! I'm honored! What is so interesting about my library though?

Seeing people like you on LT (with you number of books) motivates me to read more. That's the genius of the site.
Hello, thank you for adding my library into the interesting ones. Can I ask you what have you found interesting in it?

That's what they all say, but I feel you spread the flattery rather thinly - how do you grade the interest?

regards

Gateauppain

A lipogram is a phrase or sentence ( or book!) written without a particular letter of the alphabet. Usually, it's done without the letter "e", a particularly difficult challenge as that's the most common letter in English. There's a rather fun book by Mark Dunn, Ella Minnow Pea, in which each chapter is a lipogram, increasing the number of different letters left out. I highly recommend it!
Only three stars for Parallel Lives! I guess that's one less tome to worry about...
I notice that among the 18 books we share is Greg Keeler's book of poems. Was it that(or what)that caught your eye? Esta1923
The current Hangman Thread is here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/137021#3415544

It is under the Playing Games and Solving Puzzles Group.

Will be nice to see you back there.
Thank you for including my library in your collection of "interesting" libraries! We have been meeting up quite regularly in the 'Famous People & Personalities' corner and the odd baseball comment here and there. Greetings from the opposite side of the USofA.
Hello Roland,

Thanks for the reply! I guess I am interested in the Hawaiian language because my mother was raised in the Gaeltacht and her entire education was in Irish. I always wonder how successful those programs are in restoring the language, not very, I'm afraid. It's a shame (to me, at least) that so many languages die so quickly. It was my impression, when I was in Hawaii that it was commonly spoken 100 years ago. It's very kind of you to offer getting in touch and I hope I'll be able to take you up on it. Hawaii is an amazing place. Oh, I will definitely look up your wife's work!

Thank you again, Mary Ellen
Thanks for adding my humble collection to your "interesting libraries",I'm flattered, seeing yours is a formidable one.
A pleasure to share 14 books with you!
Happy Birthday!!
Re-boot or reboot just means to turn off your computer and start it again. I don't know why they didn't just say "restart." Sheesh.

At the bottom of each page, there's a list of items. Clicking "Contact" will take you to a page listing the LT staff. jeremy@librarything.com will get an e-mail to Jeremy, who will be sure your questions go to the right person. Sometimes it's hard to know to whom to send a question.

I hope somebody can help you.

Cheerio!
Thanks for your explanation. I didn't ask in regard to(? of?) the rules but in regard to reading the Bible. I belong to a free evangelical church here. And I do my biblical readings in German and often in English. I did my ba at the London Bible College in England and so had to learn Greek and Hebrew from a Scotsman and an Englishman. Since both languages are not spoken languages anymore you can imagine our 'cultural war' on pronunciation... It was fun, but since not using the languages anymore, I lost them.
"I notice that the "favorite Book Stores listed in your profile include to that specialize in Biblical publications. Must be easier to obtain such material there than here." Well, I am just too lazy to list all the other bookstores in Basel and around, and these two were not listed, so I wanted to give them a place... I won't know if it is easier to obtain material over here. Okay, Basel has a long Christian history. Have you ever heard of the Pilgermission St. Chrischona? A theological training college, founded in 1840. They trained also ca. 200 young men who were sent to Texas (and from there in most US states). They were partly responsible for founding and maintaing the German speaking Lutheran churches and synods back then. But with WW I the German speaking personal wasn't much liked anymore.
I'm not sure who you should contact. One of the LT staff might be able to take a look at your settings and either fix them for you or tell you how to do it. You might start with Jeremy. I wish I could be more help. It must be frustrating. When things like that happen to me, I just cross my fingers and plunge ahead. So far, I've been lucky. Have you rebooted? I don't know whether or not that would help in this case. Probably not, now that I think about it more.
Roland,

I finally finished Hitch-22. Long and rambling, and for the most part, fascinating. I've got to get around to Socrates and the zillions of others on my TBR pile...

Regards,

Steve
Hola Roland, gracias por encontrar mi libreria interesante, saludos desde Nicaragua
Thank you for adding me to your interesting libraries collection. I am most honored. I recently came back to add more books to this site after a hiatus of almost three years so my apologies for the lateness of this comment.

Hello

I have only just found out that you've added me to your "interesting libraries" list - I didn't realise, until I renewed my membership, that I'd disallowed comments.

I felt I should acknowledge it, and thank you.

Regards
I think we are talking about two different things here, Roland.

Zeitgeist stats on how languages would be about the language in which books you have catalogued have been written. This would be based on the language set at the book-level data.

The translation guidelines that I sent you are to do with completely different sets of LT pages, whole copies of the LT site, presented in different languages. These are useful for people who do not have English as their first language and still want to use LT to catalogue their library.

The translation of all of the user interface, all the buttons, all the notices, all the tabs (for example, the 'Home', 'Profile', 'Your books', 'Add books', etc at the top of every page) are done by members.

I just thought that it might be something you would enjoy doing, but of course, there is no obligation on you to do so.

Kind regards,
Jim
Here you go, this is the link to the translation guidlines. That should be all you need to get you started.
I'm at work at the moment but I'll put together a package of info for you tonight.
Hi! Is there a request to add haw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_language to the list oof LT languages?
see: /search.php?search=haw+Hawaiian&searchtype=talk
Helluva wish list you have here.
If you're getting 'iGoogle', I think you must be signed into a Google account and when you access Google it automatically takes you to your Google account. The link I sent was to Google.com, not iGoogle. Find the sign out box and click on it and you should have the old Google with the rectangle and headers for mail, maps, etc.

Roland- Macs have both Command and Control keys-Command has the four lobed symbol. Minus is the key that has a hyphen and Underscore - next to the Plus and Equals sign.
What type of Mac are you using? how old?

Helen
Hello Roland,

I wanted to leave you a note to let you know that my husband and I were in your neck of the woods last week. We visited Hawaii for the first time and we really loved it. We visited Oahu, Maui, and the Hawaii. We were awed by the beauty and the wonderful people. I am interested to learn more about Hawaii's past and present culture, do you have a book to recommend? I got this small book that I thought was great called Historic Lahaina. It explained a bit about the history of the town and has great photos. I would like something in that vein if you know of any. I see you wrote a book about the Hawaiian language. How many people speak Hawaiian? Where is it spoken? Do they teach it in school? Sorry for so many questions, we just wanted to know. You're lucky to live there!

Aloha and Mahalo, Mary Ellen
Hi

Nice library! Keep up the good work!

AP

(Looking at your library has reminded me I have to work on my tags... It's all about tags in life and books, apparently...)
Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries!
Hej Roland
Here are the details to Kratz' book [Dann bist du tot! : südafrikanische Notizen] by Anton E. Kratz
Dear Roland,
Thanks for including me in your interesting libraries! It's really kind of you because I pretty much feel like a moron when I see a library like yours. What have I been doing with my life?
Thanks again! Mary Ellen
Good heavens! What a motley assortment of books we have in common: religious studies, Harry Potter, Nietzche, poststructural philosophy, cosmology, Agatha Christie....Nevertheless, thx for adding my collection to your "interesting libraries."
Dear Roland,
Just send a note (on the Bug Collectors Group say)to one of the LT staff.

Guido.
Greetings Rolandperkins,

It's stange, you added me to your 'interesting libraries', yet when I went
to the "What should you borrow" I found that (for the first time ever) I could lend you nothing but should borrow 15. OK most of those 15 were "standards" which I had read but didn't own.

Thus my question.
Why me?

With fondest regards,
Guido.

PS. I did notice you DO collect many, many 'interesting libraries'.
Just out of plain curiosity, how do you use them?
Thanks RP,

I will keep that in mind! :)
My goodness, Roland. I'm flattered that someone as erudite as you could find my library interesting, particularly considering how much of it is only of archival, and not literary, value.
Odd that we don't have any Donne or Teresa of Avila in common.
Off to browse your stacks now. Alas, my Latin was never good, and has only deteriorated in the many years since undergrad. See you in Crambo!
Best wishes,
Annemarie
Well doggone, I'm impressed you find my library interesting. I would have thought you'd have read anything I've ever even thought of. I see the first book listed that you and I share is The City of Trembling Leaves. It's been many years, but I remember loving that book. Walter Van Tilburg Clark is rather a big deal in the western US, we read The Ox Bow Incident in high school.
We are honored that you have included our library in your list of interesting libraries.

With appreciation,
M
Hi Lei and Roland

I thought I'd give you an update on the novel.

I've had some luck lately with publishing excerpts of Mother's Beach (now called Trestle). Heavy Feather Review has published a short chapter in its January issue (http://www.heavyfeatherreview.com). In February This Literary Magazine (http://www.thiszine.org), will publish the chapter that you provided so much feedback on (the conception among the sharks at Mother's Beach) and in March, carte blanche, published by the Quebec Writers' Federation (http://carte-blanche.org/)will feature the prologue.

I've completed one last rewrite of the entire novel and you're welcome to check it out at http://www.willcall.org/head/pdf I always enjoy your feedback.

Thanks again,

Alex
Thank you for adding my library to your interesting list. It was a nice surprise.

Karen
Thanks for adding my library as a interesting one.

Nzingha
Thanks for the welcome back, Roland.

Things got tight over the past year and I needed some work focus. I really missed everyone though. The LT community is a good bunch of people to know, for the vast most part.

I have started GospelTalk group back up.

Richard
I've always been a fan of names too: little-known full names, original names, pseudonyms, etymologies of place names, etc. It's good to know I'm not the only one who collects such things or wonders why Bishara never became a household middle name alongside Wilkes, Harvey, and Earl.
You're right, the current co-author challenge is a toughie. Will and Ariel Durant are out, as are Mary Matalin and James Carville because they're married despite retaining different surnames. Hence the only two I've thought of so far are "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" (because it's credited on the cover as "co-written" by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith) and "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters" (Austen and Ben Winters). I'll keep thinking, but if you can find another three, feel free to complete the pentad with those two.
Different strokes for different folks!
I'd try eating whatever you want, eliminating those foods that give you problems.
Of course, you know just to try one new food at a time, kind of like they used to test for allergies.
I had my gall bladder removed four years ago and can eat anything I want. My friend, however, couldn't use mustard. Strange how things are so different for different people. Giving up hamburger would be sheer torture for me!
I like the title "I am a process with no subject"
"The book sold more than quarter of a million copies between April and November 1971. So where are all those copies? The Chicago Public Library doesn't have one. Although the New York Public Library has 9,993,000 books, it hasn't had a copy of Steal This Book for twenty years. The Library of Congress, the world's largest library with 20 million books, doesn't have one either."

From:

http://www.revleft.com/vb/steal-book-t41836/index.html?s=79aa750555d5c3add1ccdd4...;

The US has a long proud tradition of censorship, book burning, and information control that would please any Soviet apparatchik or tyrant with OCD. I guess a copy would use vital space to house all those Dan Brown knock-offs and Glenn Beck first editions from the hallowed halls of the Library of Congress. Then again, Congress is populated by sexually hypocritical, morally vacuous, better-health-care-having petty tyrants and self-aggrandizing thugs. Yet, hey, "Best system in the world!" Or so the junkies to The Two Party System(TM) tell me. I'm voting for Maldoror next time around.
Roland, I saw a post by you in which you state a common ancestor of George V, Wilhelm II, and Nicholas II was Queen Victoria. I do not think that is right. Queen Victoria was not an ancestor of Nicholas Ii. Here is a paragraph from Wikipedia:

Nicholas' mother was the sister of British Queen Alexandra, the mother of George V. The Empress Alexandra was the daughter of Princess Alice, herself a daughter of Queen Victoria, thus making Edward VII her uncle, and cousin to the Emperor Wilhelm, on her mother's side; and equally a direct descendant of Queen Victoria. The Emperor Wilhelm was a son of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, also named Victoria, who married Crown Prince Frederick of Germany. Nicholas and Wilhelm were not each other's first cousin, but they were second cousins, once removed, as each descended from Frederick William III, King of Prussia, as well as third cousins, as they were both great-great-grandsons of Tsar Paul I of Russia.
you responded to my message of the 29th w/ a list of the languages you speak. have you, do you think, a particular facility for languages as distinct from, or perhaps in addition to, a love of languages? do you think multilingually? was English your first language or were you perhaps multilingual? do you have a favorite language in which to speak or read? i have so many questions, but shall forbear.

you wrote about your project 'To translate, metrically, 3 plays of Sophocles that deal with three different kinds of illness (nosos in Greek: mental ("Ajax), physical {Philoctetes) and spiritual (Oedipus at Colonus).' do you have a favorite translation, other than your own, of Virgil's Aeneid?? i'd have to listen to it in audio and audible.com has translations by Fagles, Dryden and W. F. Jackson Knight. i'm familiar with Fagles but Dryden gets better reviews. any thoughts?

good luck on your project. it sounds like a wonderful thing to get up to in the morning! i wish you joy.

ellie
Internet is a fantastic tool for information. Ask a question, there is an answerto your question. A novel written by Philip Roth in which Charles Lindberg is a US President is [ A Plot Against America ].
i enjoyed your comments on Henry James on 'another silly book game.' how many languages do you speak/read? i notice that you often use your own translations from the Latin or Greek for the 'silly book game.' you've certainly led an interested (yes, i mean interested though also interesting) life.

ellie
Thanks for the interest in my library. I have enjoyed your posts in both The Person Below Me and Another Silly Game. I have to admit your credentials are awesome. History is my passion, I love it any form, as long as it can be verified. I've been doing a genealogy search and really love it when I can find tidbits of information that would not show up in the history books.
Hey!

Thanks for calling my library interesting! I usually call it sloppy, messy, and downright crazy, but interesting sounds better. =)

Yours is wonderful, too.

Friends? ;)

Girl from Shangri-la
Hello, Roland. Thanks for adding me to interesting libraries; I've reciprocated. Your lists are really interesting. You're very fortunate to be able to live in Hawaii. I've only been there once.
Hi Roland, Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries list. You certainly have an interesting and impressive background. I'm glad to find someone else who shares an interest in Etruria. Kind regards, Elisabeth
wow, Roland.... I had tagged your library as an interesting one. Everytime I sign in the newly added books from the libraries I have tagged are in view. My eye caught your book
[1912 : Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs-- the election that changed the country] by [James Chace]. Let me know what you think after you have read it. I have added to my library just recently: [Four Hats in the Ring: The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics (American Presidential Elections] by [Lewis Gould]. I've not yet had time to read it and it's not on the close horizon, but I do teach the election of 1912 from the perspective of political intrigue and how one candidate can actually cause the underdog to win. Did not think there was anothe person in the world who even knew who ran in the 1912 election!
Roland,

Thanks so much for your comprehensive response.

Ur.
Thank you for adding me to your interesting libraries list. I enjoy reading your comments around LT!
Hmm - I just feel that specialising allows one to grasp a subject in more detail; but there's a lot to be said for a broader study that takes in the context of a particular scientific discovery - speaking as a complete auto-didact who learned nearly everything I know by hiding in the library and avoiding school, I'm not necessarily the one to ask, though!
Roland

Many sincere thanks for help with the Ovid quote; greatly appreciated.

May I ask additional guidance?

1-Which translation do you suggest for Ovid's Metamorphoses

2-Also what did you think of the The Songs of Homer by G. S. Kirk? I am big on Homer and love his Iliad. Boy would I love to memorize that gem...

Urquhart
Glad to hear it's not broken down.
Hi Roland,

Given you read my spiritual suspense thriller THE LAST DAY, I wanted to let you know that my new book THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD & EVIL was released last week by MacMillan.

Publishers Weekly says: "Kleier's undeniably gripping second spiritual thriller is bound to provoke just as many arguments as his controversial first novel, THE LAST DAY. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD & EVIL is the first of a trilogy, and Kleier's many fans will only hope they won't have to wait long for the next installment."

If you enjoyed LAST DAY, I think you'll find KNOWLEDGE an even more engaging read.

Thanks, and best wishes,

Glenn Kleier
gkleier@gmail.com
http://www.kleier.com
Hi, Roland!
I couldn't remember the word, canto being anywhere on this book, so I had to go get it off the shelf. (Thanks!)

The word is on the cover but is not part of the title. Given that others might be confused as well, I inserted the following in "Comments" as an edit. I think it covers your questions.
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First leaf, after the cover: "Canto is a paperback imprint which offers a broad range of titles, both classic and more recent, representing some of the best and most enjoyable of Cambridge Publishing."

Preface. Introduction. Essays discussing the following, Nature, Sad, Wit, Free, Sense, Simple, Conscience and Conscious, World, Life, I Dare Say, At the Fringe of Language. Index.
343 pages
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Although I didn't note it in the Comments, C.S. Lewis collected information from a series of his lectures to serve as the core of the book. I hope this helps! If not feel free to check back with me. BTW, I see you've added my collections to your throng of "interesting libraries". Thank you! Of course, you may be taking that back once I've uploaded everything.

Under the Mercy,
SherryT
Roland, I can find nothig to indicate Thoms Szasz is dead. A Google search shows numeros hits for him but none indicate he is not living. One would think if he had died Google woud show an obitury. What leads you to conclude he is dead?

"A groysn dank" / "Dankon" for adding me as an interesting library. Greetins from Munich Germany Reinhardt
Thank you for adding me as an interesting library. I see you have spent some time here in Boston!
Thanks. Realmente es engorroso añadir títulos en galego tal como está ahora, hay que desplegar la lista completa e ir hasta galician. Tampoco vale de mucho utilizar el catálogo de Amazon, los libros en galego o figuran como de lengua desconocida o como en castellano, portugués o hasta inglés. Intenté traducir al gallego el sitio desde glg.librarything e incluso incluír el título canónico en galego de The Odyssey http://glg.librarything.com/work/1526 desde glg pero desgraciadamente el sitio cuenta, para ese caso, glg como inglés y modificó el título en inglés por lo que tuve que revertir la edición. En definitiva que incluír títulos en las lenguas más conocidas es relativamente fácil pero para las lenguas pequeñas todo paracen ser problemas.
Re: May 30 message about Mother's Beach

I appreciate the close reading and the questions. I actually responded to this immediately after it was posted, and then assuming it had been read, deleted the response. It since occurred to me that not everyone is up on LT as often as I am. So...

That Ono sentence is as I intended it. Ono’s writing plays around with sequence and POV. A character can be simultaneously in the first and third person.

I’ve killed the sneeze (the idea was a fictional big bang). The chapter now ends differently.

There is a little bay in LA named Mother’s Beach. Young mothers bring their toddlers there because it is safe. One every couple of years, a school of sharks shows up and spend several weeks in the bay. Fortunately, they are leopard sharks (some grow to 5-6 feet), harmless to people. You can stand in the water and the sharks will circle you. Here’s the kicker: the sharks are mostly mothers and their young. The sharks travel to Mother’s Beach because there are no predators. It’s safe.

You’re right. Ono does know that Hugh is lying.

Excellent point about “I loved you and my children.” I’ve changed it to I loved you and our children.

The story now begins in the past (the 1994 drowning), shifts to the present, the Huddle’s bookstore scene, and stays in the present (except for the scenes in Ono’s current novel).

The revision is at http://www.willcall.org/mothers.pdf

Heartfelt thanks for the interest and comments.
RP, thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries. After looking at your library I'm humbled and grateful.
Paul
Hi Roland,

As a friend of mine here, will you also do me the honor of joining the Facebook page for my new novel, THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD & EVIL (MacMillan, July 2011)? The page will feature upcoming events that I think you’ll find interesting.

To kick things off we'll be issuing major updates starting June 18th, including the premier of the KNOWLEDGE video trailer. It's unlike any I've ever seen, and I trust you'll feel the same.

Please follow this link and click "Like"--

http://on.fb.me/kRb95M

Hope to see you there!

With much appreciation,

Glenn Kleier
Author of THE LAST DAY (Warner Books)
Quote was from The Court Jester with Danny Kaye. Giacomo the Jester was his cover name to sneak into the castle. Great word play in that movie.
Dear Roland,
Thank you for adding me to your interesting libraries list. Looking at your own library, I'm dead impressed. I notice that we both read Dangerous Muse about Caroline Blackwood and her daughter's book Why Not Say What Happened?. After reading the daughter's book I found myself wishing that she hadn't said what happened. A silly book.
Best Wishes,
Diane
(enaid)
Lovely to be in touch with you, Roland. Thanks for the tip about adding items manually – I'd overlooked that. Could be a useful way of storing and retrieving this kind of ephemeral stuff (and save paper).

I'm surprised too at how little we learn of Byzantium – I think I went through my whole school education knowing it only as a word in the romantic Yeats poem. We certainly don't hear of it as the preserver of Graeco-Roman culture after the fall of Rome.

It's interesting that your Celtic connections lead you towards Lowland Scots as well as Gaelic. I'm not a Gaelic speaker (one day, when I have time ...), but there's a lot of cooperation in academia amongst scholars of Lowland Scots, Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic. I gather that Donegal Irish is closer to Scottish Gaelic in some ways – there's a major difference in word stress between the north and south of Ireland, so e.g. the name O'Cahan in the north, with stress on the Ca, gives O'Kane, while in the south it's Ó Catháin with stress on the áin.
Hi Lei,

I find myself highlighting and making notes on your notes. They really get me thinking. The bookstore scene was published last summer in Rose & Thorn Journal, and the scene of the boys lost to the ocean will be published in the next issue of nthWORD Magazine. Until you suggested it, I couldn't see how I could put together a longer excerpt that would hold together. But looking again at the first version, I saw how I might jump around in time but still have a longer coherent short story of about 7,000 words (25 pages). I've put it together and posted it at http://www.willcall.org/swim.pdf. I'm sure it needs a lot more work, but I hope it reflects the scenes that you don't want me to lose (despite what happens in the full novel).

I laughed at the "OMG. Complicated is an understatement." Yes. My emphasis on keeping MB fairly linear is that that Ono's novel isn't. I'm feeling fairly clear-headed today, so I'll find a quiet table at Starbucks and try sorting out MB using those strategies of the linguists.

Alex

Hi Roland

thanks for adding my library to your list. I had a quick look at your wish list and immediately learned something new - I'd never heard of Ulpian. I see you're using your library to store info on articles as well as books - if you don't mind my asking, how do you do that?

Kind regards

Caroline
Nice to meet you, Lei. Congratulations on the invitation to the Academy of American Poets. Six volumes sounds like plenty to me. Can I get one of those volumes online?

Thanks for delving into the revision. I've changed the beginning many times, and I thought I had finally solved it with the latest, but you've got me reconsidering. With the first version, I jumped around in time (and place), and I thought that disrupted the flow. The revise starts in the past but moves forward chronologically, except for the excerpts from Ono's novel (more on this below). But I see what you mean about rushing into and out of those chapters (my instinct is to leave puzzles or questions as you put it, but if they're losing the reader--too many questions to be answered--I'll have to change that).

Yes, originally chapters 1 & 4 were merged, with Hugh, while trying to drown himself, flashing back to the surfing deaths of his sons. Again, I was afraid to disrupt the chronology. But perhaps there's enough natural emotional flow to justify it. It's comments on things like this that are so valuable.

You think that the bookstore scene is strong enough to open with?

I’m glad that you think the chapters after the first four or five start to flow. I believe that’s where you found problems in the first version, and I revised heavily there (the aftermath of Hugh’s attempted suicide, the students, the visit to his former in-laws).

I do want the overall effect to be understanding and forgiveness for Hugh (life entails risk), but I want the same for Kazuki Ono, and this is where I’ve run into numerous problems. I've got to burden you with some plot here. Hugh’s sons didn’t die in the ocean. They were taken by Ono, because he thought that Hugh was putting them in risky situations that would eventually cause their deaths. Ono took the boys to Japan to protect them, but not a year had passed when the boys were killed in a car accident in Tokyo. Ono has lived with this ironic tragedy and his terrible guilt for 14 years. Ono will reveal the truth in the book he is writing (Fingal’s Cave), a fictionalized version of Hugh’s life. The book’s excerpts are in the Ono POV chapters of MB. In Ono’s book, Hugh becomes Yuudai; Takumi and Hitoshi become Brent and James. Ono hopes to finish the book in Los Angeles and hand the manuscript to Hugh. The book is Ono’s apology, after which he will take his own life.

Although Ono knows plenty about Hugh, he is unaware that Hugh is also bent on taking his own life. Ono is also unaware that Hugh has begun to suspect the truth about his son’s disappearance—that his sons are still alive (this is the engine that drives the narrative). Hugh will twice experience his sons’ deaths—or (if I can pull it off) he will not experience his sons’ deaths at all.

This sounds impossibly complex to me, so I can imagine you frowning, perhaps grimacing, at the above. Am I trying to write something that can’t have a natural life flow?

You suggest that forewarning the reader of the complexities through something like a premonition might help. That appeals to me. At what point in his life would Hugh have this premonition?

I’m so grateful for your interest and help. Your grasp of the underpinnings of fiction is impressive.

Best,

Alex

Hi Roland, good to hear from you. My guess in #47 starts with "val." Hope that helps. If you want, I can give you my guesses for the other unresolved words. Jim
Thank you for having deemed my library deserving to be bookmarked. What was the reason if I may ask ? There are many subjects and I am rather what we in French would call a "touche à tout" if you know what I mean.
Yours
Jean-Louis
Hi Lei,

I have to get back to you through the medium of Roland Perkins, because I'm not sure who you are (I see the tag "Lei’s books," among Roland's tags, but that doesn’t tell me much. An anagram? Anyway, I question my own identity half the time, so I won’t quibble about yours). I was surprised by and grateful for your response to the partial of Mother's Beach. You're the first reader to really dig into the text and get at some of the things I'm trying to do, however unsuccessfully. I’ve been struggling with this story for four years, mostly trying to address the problems that you point out. Really excellent analysis and suggestions—I’ll need some time to think them through. I’ve revised a lot since I posted that partial, and I think I’ve solved some problems but others remain. Clarity, right. Your comments about the humor and writing are heartening. I was really happy that you knew of Paul Kammerer. I’ve posted the latest revision at http://www.willcall.org/mothers.pdf I hope this note makes it to you, and I’ll respond more after I’ve absorbed your suggestions.

Thanks,

Alex
Good question about Friend status.
My only experience with Facebook is that I registered once so that I could view photos my daughter had posted and I felt violated by the bombardment of Friends requests and the fact that the website stole my address book information without my permission. I've never been back there, so I don't really know how it works.

LT has a much more civilized system of contacts, it seems. Much more control goes to the individual user. I have few "friends" here, because I tend to want to note libraries, not persons. I've accepted some friend offers, especially when it appears that we have things to discuss in depth. Newcomers, I think, sometimes use it incorrectly; but everyone finds their own comfort level. I like the tiered contact system, but I still crave a "Notebook" format where I could write notes to myself about who the person is and why I've got them noted on my profile page.

Same thing for threads and messages. If I could categorize in my own "Notebook" it would be much easier to find old material that I want to find again.

I'm completely happy with bumping into so many fine people on the discussion threads, and over time relationshps of a sort develop. For instance I just discovered that MrAndrew is my father!
Thank you for your kind note, Roland. I was President of the Class of '68 at Woburn High. My brothers, Doug and Jeff, also played baseball for Doc Sweeney at Woburn High. Doug became quarterback at UMaine and played third base there. Jeff played hockey at Colby, and scored a hat-trick against Bates when I was there, and played baseball for Colby. All of us went through college pretty much on full scholarships thanks in large part to Doc Sweeney and Woburn High. I appreciate your posting "Bloomsday: The Bostoniad" -- an American sequel to James Joyce's "Ulysses" which is now being read for a national literary award: I hope you enjoy it and relate vividly to the setting in 1974 in Boston. BTW -- if you haven't yet read the work of another Woburnite, Eric Bogosian, his "Perforated Heart" is interesting and alludes to life in Boston and NYC during the seventies. You're a gentleman, Roland, as well as an astute bibliophile.
Have heard from Alicia. She hasn't heard of that book either, so she asked a mutual friend well described as "the last bastion of Afrikanerdom around here" -- who also hadn't heard of it.
I see you've added my library to your set of "Interesting Libraries." Just to forewarn you: It's only free for the first two weeks. After you're hooked, I start jacking up the price to look at my 'brary. Bwa-ha-ha!

C.
Hello!
Thanks for noticing my library. We don't share an awful lot of books, but I am also interested in history and religion. I see that you have just added 2000 Years of Mayan Literature, which I have also read. You may want to check out Dennis Tedlock's beautiful translation of the Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the ancient Maya.
Your wish list amazes me. I always have quite a few books on my list, but I try to keep it short, since I seem to continuously pick up al kinds of stuff that I never knew I wanted.
Best regards,
Magrid
Greetings!

Thank you for your interest in my library. I have been exploring your profile page, and I am struck by several things. We share only 21 titles, yet your tags reflect many books on history, culture and religion, which are topics of more than passing interest me as well. Of the titles we share in common, what jump out at me are The Great Chain of Being and The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influental Persons In History.

Also one can't help but notice the large number of authors you have tagged as favorite. Perhaps you are using that feature for ease in accessing author pages, but I think of "favorite" as a limiting concept, so to see so many on the list suggests a different approach. The same comment with regard to your favorite libraries.

Obviously, you are more scholarly than I am. I'm a former librarian but my interests are in history primarily, and the history of religion in the West -- really since the Christian era.

At any rate, I'm pleased to see your library, and I'll be paying attention now.

Best wishes,

Suzanne (Poquette)
Good to see you got my book, Roland. You might know this, but in case not, we're discussing it on this thread the next two weeks:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/111978

Hi Roland,

I'm honored at the distinction you lay on my library.
I see you just added a Margaret Barker title. Have you read her yet? I'd love to discuss her approach and conclusions. And why do the LDSs like her so much?
Interesting bit on the indefinite article in Yiddish. I have a topic of conversation when I next speak to a friend with a Yiddish interest. They're both Germanic languages, and our indefinite article goes back to Old English for one but gets worn down to "an" and "a", and it may be the process that left us with "a" but Germans with "ein" left Yiddith with a as well. But I'm speculating.

Of course, "a" also got a separate Latin background that we appropriate here and there. Really a lot of uses for that little letter!

do you now i can get this book in pdf file or where can i download this books in pdf file (miami mayhem, my kind of game)
2011's Books for THE HIGHLY RATED BOOK GROUP:

1st Quarter): January 1st, (long gone), -- March 31st.
The Outlander by Diana Gabaldon with an L.T. rating of 4.39.

2nd Quarter): April 1st -- June 30th.
Bleak House by Charles Dickens with an L.T. rating of 4.27.

3rd Quarter): July 1st -- September 30.
The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly with an L.T. rating of 4.05.

And for the 4th and final Quarter of 2011): October 1st -- December 31st.
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton also with an L.T. rating of 4.05.

And perhaps, if cyderry would be so kind to get together another list of L.T. 'highly rated' books come near the end of 2011, we will be able to smoothly segue into 2012. That would be such a treat.
Thanks for the interesting library add! :)
Sure, I'll start it up this weekend sometime. We can call it something else. What would you prefer? Merely "Anecdotes"? Or "Rolling with Roland: Anecdotes and Observations"? Something like that? You tell me, and I'll go with whatever title you'd like.
PS:

Come to think of it, some years ago -- more than a few -- there was a Major Event at the launch of a new translation into Afrikaans to replace the 1934 model. The language has always changed rapidly, despite the efforts of the Akademie to prevent any change, and so I could well imagine that 1934 Afrikaans would be more opaque to a 1990s YA than King James English is to us. But I'm actually the wrong person to ask. AliciaG (a new Dragoneer) would be much better placed to give you an answer, and I'd suggest you PM her with this query.

Al best
Hugh
There is indeed an authorised Afrikaans bible. In my crowing on the February new books thread, I mentioned a book called "South Africa's Yesterdays"; seeing I've only had it for 48 hours I've so far done no more than glance at the pictures, but it has one of the launch of the Afrikaans bible in (if I remember correctly) 1934.

If you want a copy, I'd suggest contacting the Bible Society -- presumably there's one in Hawaii -- and asking them to ask their South African counterpart for the necessary. Otherwise our local would-be Amazons should be able to supply: kalahari.net (fast but a tad more expensive) or loot.co.za (slow but cheap). A third option would be the online store of our major chain bookseller: exclus1ve.co.za (the most expensive of the 3).

Hope this helps
Hugh
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Category:HelpThing

That's the page I found the info on.
Hi Roland. :)

It's no problem at all! I enjoy helping others. :)

I did a quick search through the help FAQ site and found this answer for you, which should help you with your Favorite Authors questions:

'Favorites Authors:

A list of LibraryThing members who have marked this author as one of their favorites; clicking on their names (the author's name) will take you to their profile. Click the link to add it to your favorite author list; a yellow star will show up in the box. Click again to de-favorite. You can see the list of all of the authors you have marked as favorites on your profile.'

I hope that helps! I can paste a link to the page where I found that information if you like. It's a general Frequently Asked Questions help site.

Much Bliss (and purrs),
~Pandora~
Thanks!
It's the first time Auburn has won a national championship since 1957, and it did this old heart good! Or course, they've been way up on top before, but that doesn't nearly match a national championship!
You're welcome.
I have only been puzzling over Latin for about 6 years now.
Apparently, I have a lot more studying to do.
I used to have keyboard shortcuts for accent or diacritical marks.
Now, I rarely use them while "talking" on the internet, unless absolutely necessary.
Hello Mr. Perkins or shall I say: Consaluto!
I am to understand, you have been reading Latin for 70 years?
My quotation in Latin: Una lingua numquam satis est
In English: But one language is never close enough
This is probably a rough translation, but not too far from the verbiage.
I can't break down the translation from "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin", word for word, however I can try to emulate the phrase.
"numerum angelorum insultavi potest in capite acus"
My grasp is this:
'how many' is numerum (numerosus for many, the number of or a tally + the elative)
As for 'dance' there is insultavi translating to "dance/trample on"
'Angels' is hard to translate as well; I don't have an exact translation. There is angeli which is rooted in Italian and my Latin word of angelorum derived from 'Opus Angelorum' which roughly translates into "the work of angels".
'can' translates into potest
'on the head' translates into: in capute
'needle' or 'pin' translates into: acus

If I string it all together I get "numerum angelorum insultavi potest in capite acus"

As for Some Guy, he jokes around a lot it seems, so I pay closer attention to his posts to try and catch the witticism.
Happy Reading!

Oh, the bird/rabbit season thing was not a hint but a response to SecondChances' statement that a little bird told him to use the blunderbuss, which sounded to me like the bird was exhorting him to shoot it. From there it's only a short skip to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-k5J4RxQdE
I'm sorry; I'm not the technician you think I am.

I just tried a works search for dostoevsky, shakespeare, and john gardner. The results went from not bad to not very useful. You might want to take this up on Recommended Site Improvements or Talk About LibraryThing.

Robert
Thanks for your response, Roland; and for your clarification re 'wish lists' - i haven't developed a wishlist yet, but think it is an interesting way of 'mapping' one's interests. I notice in your own collection, you have a couple of works by Charles Peirce. I have only relatively recently been introduced to his concepts - partly that of Firstness, Secondness & Thirdness. I was introduced to them by Claudio Guerri and William Huff. Claudio is developing an analytical tool called the Semiotic Nonagon; and William is applying it in his work on architecture and also on symmetry (he was a former International President of the International Society for Interdisciplinary Symmetry). I have to confess that I am still at the stage of sometimes comprehending and other times not the whole idea of Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness and Claudio's elaborations.

I was interested in your comments on Ward-Perkins and the conclusion of 'decline'. Apart from his interesting theological commentary, I thought that O'Donnell in 'The Ruin of the Roman Empire' put forward interesting alternatives to traditional understanding of 'decline' and 'barbarian invasions'.

Where do you now live? Your academic postings have been interesting.

Regards,

Lynn
Hi Roland,

I notice that you have marked my library as 'interesting library'. I am very interested to note the number of titles that we share in our library. Our interests touch base in a number of diverse areas - theology, languages and Roman history amongst them. On that latter topic, I have noticed that you have recently acquired:

Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome (The Chronicles Series) by Chris Scarre

Is it any good?

A recent reading of mine in this area has been:

The Ruin of the Roman Empire
O'Donnell, James J. 2009 Profile Books (2009), Edition: Reprint, hardback, 436 pages 9781861979353

Do you know it? I found it very good. It had some particularly interesting commentary about the historical implications of the Monophysite/Trinitarian split at Chalcedon in addition to its thorough treatment of post-Constantinian Rome.

Regards,

Lynn

Thank you for responding. My father played second base. His brother Herb I believe played outfield but was only a part time player. Bill Cogan did have a brother Ralph who I also believed for the Cubs.

I played baseball for Doc Sweeney at Woburn High during the late 60's. Though I spent the majority of my time on JV. I graduated in 69. Doc's older brother is "Butch" who was still playing on my pool team at 90. He just had to "retire" from playing this fall. He also played for the Cubs.

My Dad was also a leading bowler in the city during the 50's and 60's. He was an active member of the Towanda Club (which is still around- since 1894)as am I.

Sad, my Dad kept a scrapbook of those Cubs days. I think after he died my mother threw it out. As a child I loved looking through that scrapbook.

Bob
Mr. Perkins- I was interested in a comment you made once about seeing a baseball game featuring the Central Square Cubs in 1942. I am wondering if you have an specific memory of that game. My father (Paul Campbell) and an uncle (Bill Cogan) played on that team. As I was growing up I knew many of the other men that played with my father.

As I get older I have been doing the genealogy thing. And any input would be appreciated. You mentioned they were "semipro". How good were they? Didn't every town have teams like this? Or were they special in any way.

Thanks for your help.

Bob

bob@leasefundings.com
Glad to share my library with you but regret that it's so 'skimpy' having never been able to afford the purchases I would have liked to have made.

P.S. I admire your erudition.
didn't quite answer, did I. I was translating from Persian with Arabic macaronics into English with Italian (or French doggerel) macaronics. I tried to use the original metre and rhyme-scheme, so you can imagine the results. And I must admit that I got bored and went and did something less constructive instead after a few attempts. As a complete aside, I did enjoy reading Olaf Caroe's book on the Pathans (1950s), where in an appendix he puts a Pashto poem into Latin elegaics!
I'm really sorry, rolandperkins, I only vaguely remember the verses. I thought at the time that they were pastiches, ironic FitzGeraldizing pieces, but I didn't know any Persian then and certainly hadn't read any Hafez.. I'll have another look in a month when I get back to Oxford. Do remind me! John
Thank you..i actually thought no one will reply. i found everything i wanted for the project..
It's good to hear from you, Roland, and no need to apologize; I sometimes feel I spend way too much time on LT and wish it were less. I'll check out the books you recommend. I'd like to get a basic grasp on greek, so I think the basic primer will be my jumping off point. Several years ago, a man who ran a great used book store on Capitol Hill said he'd teach me greek (he was a Jesuit priest who left the order) and then promptly died of a heart attack, which I think was sort of inconsiderate. (Kidding. He was widely loved and sorely missed.)
Hello from Canada. I'm honoured to be on your library list. At present I'm working on building a personal library by organizing the books we've collected over many years. This library program has given me the tools to get it all together. I look forward to many snowy evenings when I can lose myself in the reading of good books both old and new. Now I'll be able to find them.
Hi Roland: I know you're a classical language scholar. Can you recommend intro primers in Greek and Sanskrit for someone who wants to teach himself? I've looked at a few, and a few that were really horrendous, but I'd like to take a whack at them without it being too jarring.
Hi, Thankyou for adding my library to your interesting list, I am pleased that you noticed my collection, Best wishes Judith
It was James Wright. He wrote an afterword to Hardy's book. Good catch. I hadn't noticed the incorrect author listed.
Hey they R. V.S. Nuipual. Though I've enjoyed VSN's occasional writings very much indeed. The case with me with a lot of writers. I love Updike's essays and book reviews and not so much his novels, though some are excellent. I love Evans and fellas like Gwyn Thomas, though they will never make anyone's list.
Honestly I found the Parenti to be a bit strange. He was apparently unaware that social history has been dominant at least in North America for the last 20 years or so. He did have some interesting things to say it was just a little heavy on hand waving for my taste.
Hello again, I agree with you, the person must have picked it up on his journeys.

According to my text, dialect is something that we all still have, with Standard American English (SAE) being the prestige dialect of the US for media, business, and education. That was news to me, as I thought dialect was regional, like the accent. So as you said, they aren't synonymous. It just surprised me that whatever we hear essentially is dialect, with the regional variations being considered a 'semantic' dialect by word choice and not by audible traits.

You know, I've taken many English classes in college, almost all, and this Linguistics has been the only one that has really thrown me off. Learning the IPA language was a nightmare, and when I do the phonological exercises it looks like I'm having a stroke. Tough stuff!

Anyway, nice chatting with you! Amy
Hi...I'm no linguistics expert, but in the first example, "depends" is a verb that shows a contingency-some action must be performed for said action to take place. It would be the appropriate use for the phrase. "Matters" is actually a noun, and while some may use it as you showed "it matters that..." it really doesn't make sense. I'm not sure if it would be considered slang or colloquial usage, to me more like simply bad word choice. A person could say "well it matters to me!" because it shows importance, and it is listed as a synonym for depends in some dictionaries (as a verb), but that is far down the list of acceptable usage.

As far as the other "what's his face" has to be slang. I can't verify it, googling didn't help me either, but it seems like a sloppy way to address an individual. Face and name can be linked as identity, but using face instead of name isn't really acceptable. Maybe it originates when someone is trying to remember another person, visualizes their face, but not their name, and so says "you know, what's his face" as if that would remind you of the name. Not sure.

HTH,
Amy
Hi,

Noticed you added me to your interesting libraries. Anything in particular you found "interesting"?

jmnlman
Hi Roland,

I know in you last post in The Haunted Soda you said The situation'd
become so theological, I decided to continue with Wicker Man Sacrifices
to Goddess even though I realize theological has more to do with whether
or not God exists, whether the stories in the Bible are true and actually
happened like they say they happened,etc. Rather than continue along those
lines I chose to take it in a different direction. I have seen the 1973
version of The Wicker Man several times on tv and have also recorded it as
well. And I have also seen the version of The Wicker Man with Nicholas Cage
too. I prefer the original version of the movie.

Beatles1964
Hi

Thanks for the comment on Henry James. Have I found another fan? His writing is so enjoyable.

thanks
Hi Roland, I was just thinking...have you tried clicking on the very top line of the browser? That should minimize your page so you can manipulate it. Let me know if this helps.
Hello Roland, In response to your question to me regarding screen size and scrolling, I'm afraid I can't help you much. I am a PC user and I'm not familiar with the Mac. On the PC you can use F11 to manage your screen size but I don't think that would work on your Mac. (And I don't know any Mac users to ask.)
But I was thinking about it from another angle. Sometimes if you open a screen in addition to the main screen, there is no scrolling function for the 2nd screen.
Anyway, is it possible that you just need to adjust your screen size for your monitor?
Sorry I can't be of any further help.

Nadine (read2me2010)
Saw you added Zweig's Decisive Moments. It is fantastic.
Good Morning Roland,

Maybe I'm just a little bit paranoid at times however sometimes I do get the
feeling that I'm not that popular in LT. You know sometimes I do use the /
between words and it still counts as five words. It's just a feeling I have
that if I ever tried to do the same thing people would jump all over me and
gang up on me. You'll notice that sometimes I try thinking outside of the
box for The Haunted Soda and will try to be a little bit witty and funny
about what I say if the opportunity arises.

I don't know if other people in The Haunted Soda see it exactly the same
way I do. I've been wondering what is gonna happen once The Haunted Soda
officially comes to an end. Will they start up The Haunted Soda II? Kind
of a sequel to The Haunted Soda or will it be entirely different? And I
also try to take The Haunted Soda in a much different direction than
someone else might try to do at the time. Usually as a rule I'm very
impulsive and will just type the first thing that happens to "Pop"
into my head at the moment. Though sometimes you'll notice I'll go
back and change it because I thought of something entirely different
and original that strikes me as being very witty and funny at the time
I get to laughing out loud. I've often wondered if anyone else ever
feels the same way about what I've written too? If they seem to think
it's very witty, funny & original by Beatles1964. Sometimes my sense
of humour is a little bit warped and out there. Wouldn't you agree?

Beatles1964
Roland, I don't know if this is related to your problem or not...but I found that when the icon that looks like a lightning bolt is "on" (by clicking on it to turn on or off) you cannot edit. Click it "off" and I think your editing option will come back. Let me know if this works please!

Bonjour Roland,

Thanks to your interest for my library ! Me too, I am adding yours to my list.
Sorry for my horrible English, I'm like your countryman, John Wayne, who said : "I know only two words in French : Brigitte Bardot" ! For me, it's : "Coca-Cola" (and few others, still...).

Un bonjour de Paris, sous le soleil de la fin d'été !
Hi Roland,

I notice that you added my library to your Interesting Libraries section. That has brought me to look at your library and to note that your eclecticism seems to match mine. Is the "Stilicho ..." book interesting? Cheers, Lynn
Sorry, I'm not really able to figure out what's going wrong with your collections and add books. Add books works pretty easily for me in getting books to the right collection. The only thing I can say is that you need to select the correct collection before you click "search". I'm not sure that changing the collection there after search has been clicked carries over when the book is actually added.
Good afternoon Roland,
You did not miss a book written by Thomas Merton (When the trees say nothing), but one of the many books compiled and edited by others (Kathleen Deignan)after his death.

I read a lot of Alan Watts when I was a teenager, along with Hesse, Huxley, Isherwood, etc. (You know how one thing leads to another.)As folks we relearn the same truths in greater depth all our lives...but in the end mountains are still mountains, only more so. My only caveat to Watts is that many times people read him as if his early "american" reading of Eastern religions, is anything except an early "american" reading.

While the same observation has been made of Merton's interpretation of Zen, and a great deal of ink has been spent on D.T. Suzuki's presentation of Zen. I believe that Merton got the marrow of Zen. I am not sure that Watts did.

Peace,
Bill
Hi
I live 30 miles from "Spiegel Grove" where The Rutherford B. Hayes presidential library is located. I have a copy of "Hayes of the 23rd." his Civil War record & I read the Hayes diaries when I worked at the Ida Rupp Public library in Port clinton. The Birchard library in Fremont OH probably has a copy but I don't know if it is circulating. I would suggest you contact the Birchard Public Library in Fremont or the Hayes Presidential library, there should be a Web site for the latter.
Although Tilden never officially said that he would withdraw Union troops from the South, because he was a Democrat, everyone just assumed he would. Yes our electoral college system does make it easy for those who would like to tip the scales in their favor.
I have read 1876 by Gore Vidal and another more recent book on the "stolen"election, I just realized that around here, Hayes is memorialized more as a war hero than a president. His wife was known as "Lemonade Lucy" because she refused to serve liquor at the White House.
Re: Word Association.

No problem. Your puzzle clearly had right of way, but at the same time, the game is not quite like the scrabble games where it's easy to say "You posted second, back to Roland". Interesting about Jimmy Carter getting sworn in that way. You've clearly got quite a knowledge of presidents and politics/political history. Not to mention many other subjects. I enjoy interacting with you on the boards.
I was long gone by then, Roland, though I did read about Silber and did not at all like what I heard; not sports so much as other things. I went to a few football games, when they had a team, of course, and a few hockey games, at which B.U. still excels. A basketball game too. Frankly, I felt out of my element at B.U., but then, I'd gone to journalism school because I wanted to write, and what I got instead were courses on the theory of communications and other similar stuff. I had to take a few electives to be able to do any writing at all.

It's true I follow sports, but as I wrote on a thread today, following this whole LeBron James thing, I'm seriously considering wasting my free time doing or following other things. There's too much money, hype, and posturing. It seems if I don't go to Wal-Mart (which I don't, ever), I should at least bring that same scrupulousness to other areas of my life.
To answer your question about Zondervan - yes, it's a publishing company. But users enter Zondervan in all its many forms in the Author field of their books, so LibraryThing has to list it as an author. In many cases where the specific author of a work is unknown or unlisted, putting the publisher is much better than nothing at all (as it makes it easier to combine multiple copies of the same book).
Hi! Saw your message. I don't know of any J.R. Richard biography, but I would be very surprised if there wasn't something on Amazon or at Alibris or Abe. Let me know what you find! Best, Jerry
Re. Dead Souls--no problem, it's a game not a contest. I was just curious. My memories of the book are hazy, to say the least. I did NOT read it in Russian, but I did read it back when I was studying Russian in high school.

By the way, thanks for adding my library to your "interesting" list. I suspect that as I catalog the rest of my books, it will become more interesting to you and less interesting to others (as I have a lot more scholarly religion books to add, when I get around to them).

Thank you for adding my library to your list of interesting ones. It will be my pleasure to wander through your shelves.
Paola :-))
Thanks for "the nod", Roland. I acquire books with the randomness of a lonely, recently divorced drunk driver picking up hitchhikers. I don't know which is more interesting - your library or your list of "interesting library"s. I counted about 800 in your list (there's a "rainman" among my syndromes and eccentricities). You must be the Will Rogers of bibliotecaphiles? Or the German soldier from Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In who always concluded "Very Interesting!" Serieusement, mon ami, criteria? :-)
Aloha, Professor Perkins ~ mahalo for the nod!
Roland,
I must correct myself, Alvin was a professor at the University of Massachusetts not Boston. Still you may have know him.
Dave
You're more than welcome. I was actually surprised you added mine to your interesting libraries; I haven't studied the classics in a while and only added them to my catalog in the last couple of days. Because of my job, it seems like I only read young adult materials now.
Hello,

Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries. I see, that we both like classical literature. Nice that you have one of the most famous poets of Belgium as a favorite writer, Paul Van Ostaijen.

Best regards,

Désirée
5 = Now Voyager
9 = The Rock
22 = Love and Death
58 = Role Models
67 = The Waterboy
I saw your comments on Kerouac and wanted to recommend his [Desolation Angels] to you. I always thought his most accessible and enjoyable book and quite auto-biographical.
sounds like you have a love of books
Doesn't ring any bells, I'm afraid - either as a greeting or any other word. I know absolutely nothing about Ancient Greek and am probably about average (16 years of visits interspersed with both formal and informal learning, which isn't as good as it sounds) at the modern kind but this isn't one I've comes across before. The nearest I can think of might be something like 'emmeis' (εμείς) which means 'we'. I know that doesn't sound much like any kind of greeting but the Greeks often reply to a 'τι κάνεις' (literally 'what are you doing?' but colloquially 'how are you?' with 'επίσης' (literally 'also' but colloquially 'and you?') It's a long way from there to replying with 'we' but I can kind of see how it could come about in a conversation like 'Are you well?' 'All of us!' (εμείς!) Bet you wish you'd never asked now! Sorry that's all so confusing and probably irrelevant but I do enjoy trying to work these things out. If I speak to a Greek contact in the near future I'll try and remember to ask.

So do you find that having a knowledge of Ancient Greek is helpful or otherwise when trying to learn the modern version? It's something I've often been tempted to try but I wasn't sure whether it would actually help or just confuse things. I suppose the logical answer would simply be to spend that extra time on my Modern Greek. I must say I don't find it much help knowing any 'modern' when it comes to reading ancient inscriptions or even Katharevousa - I can pick out the odd few words but I'm generally left feeling as confused as everyone else and I really would like to be able to figure them out.
Thanks for noticing my library. I am quite happy with it. My library has many classics that you would not care for. Many of my books are worthy for their objective beauty rather than their readability. Carmelo
If you click on the title of the book, you'll get to the Main (book) page. Details is the third link on the left, on that page, and Edit is between the two.

Is there a scrollbar at the bottom of the screen in List view? Any way to take a screenshot and show us (preferably in the bug thread) what you're actually seeing? You might also try looking at it in a different browser - Firefox or Chrome are both available for the Mac - which would tell you something about where the problem lies.
You can sort your library by anything. Just click the "sort" button in your catalog. It looks like an up and down arrow next to each other. Or you can click on the green header of any column, "Title," "Author," etc.
Thanks for adding BannedBooksLibrary to your interesting libraries. Happy Reading!
Hi Roland
You have an interesting library too!
Thanks for adding me. It looks like I'm in good company. :):):) I will try to hold up my end.

Cheers!

Oakes
I asked Sonya about this and this is what she said:

He has everything inside the collections wish list and your library, and has both set not to be used in connections. Therefore, he will never show connections with anyone.

Cheers,
Sonya

So apparently it is something about the way you have your site set up which makes your "Members which share your books" not show who else has the books you have, though why it shows that I share 15 of your books I do not know.
I confess I am curious that your page indicates "no books shared with other users" and also indicates that I share 15 books with you. So how can the statement that no books are shared with other users be accurate?
Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries list. I appreciate that - especially considering your background.
Thanks, Roland. I am surprised we share only 15 books but no doubt that is because you have put in only books which you own. My site lists every book I have ever read.
Hi Roland, thanks for adding me to your august list! I'm honored. When I get further on entering the books I've read I think we'll share more than four! best, Lucy/sibyx
Thanks for marking my library as "interesting" - you're the first to do so. I am also a retired librarian and envy you your prowess in classical studies. I've been studying Latin and Ancient Greek in retirement with great enjoyment.
Thanks heaps for the info. As for dialog, you didn't mention Hemingway, whom I consider to be the master of it. I believe he wrote one or more short stories totally in dialog, which I've tried to do and which is not easy.
Sorry; I accidentally deleted you from my friends! I was playing around with the "connections" page thing... heh. I hope you'll re-add me!
I had DeWitt's uncle George in mind. Not the guy from Parliament/Funkadelic. Basically the main framers of the Constitution with Adams and Jefferson thrown in.
It's the antifederalist Luther Martin, an extremely interesting guy. The Wilson is James Wilson, a mild federalist considered by some to be the most learned man at the convention, high praise for someone in the company of Franklin.
Thanks for the note. I'm not familiar with Higgins and haven't read much Leonard for a few years now. It seems like gathering a bunch of very quirky characters into a mystery is Leonard's strength--something Hiaasen (sp?) does to a near-cartoonish level. I will have to dig around for some Higgins--what do you recommend I read of his first?
Carlton pitched for one year -- at the end of his career -- with the Indians and another with the White Sox.

As a 13 year old, I left for summer camp when he was 7-7, and when I came home he was 17-7. That was the year he finished 27-10 with the fifth-place Phillies, with a 1.97 ERA.

All that washed away my disappointment at the departure of Wise. The year before he was traded for Carlton, he'd pitched a no-hitter and hit two home runs in that game. The he had another two-homer game later that year. I knew not of Steve Carlton. Who knew he was destined to be one of the finest left-handers in baseball history? I just knew we were losing a hero.

Carlton never made me forget Wise, but he put a balm on the injury!
My Pleasure. Enjoy!

Just don't die before you get the whole lot catalogued, that would negate the 'lifetime' membership. No, wait! You got a second one for when you reincarnate. ;)
Well, I would love to take credit for "knowing" French to the level of my collection of books - I do aspire to that, but I believe that by the time I get to the ability to translate well, it will be unnecessary. My explanation below will tell you why! I hope it fits into the context you have.

passage à tabac
nm beating, beating-up

I got this definition from the url below - after simply putting the expression (passage à tabac) into Google.

http://dictionnaire.reverso.net/francais-anglais/passage%20%C3%A0%20tabac
You're the first person to mark my library as intersting. Having looked at your profile I'm especially honored. Many thanks -- Susan
Hi, did you get your membership problem sorted out? I've notice Tim around Talk in the past day, but I haven't seen Abbey or Sonya yet.
Actually, on the "places" tag, I think any member of LT can ascribe a place to any book through the "common knowledge" function. Obviously, there are some errors. These can be cleaned up by going to the book in question and editing the "places" field. At least, that seemed to work on the Antigone and the Scarlet Letter. Thanks for your comment.
Hi, Roland! I don't know why you added me to your list of interesting libraries, but I'm glad to know somebody finds my library interesting. I work every day at making it more so.

Best.

Deke
Howdy- I love language (I was a German/Russian linguist in the Army)! How many Polynesian tongues do you speak? I myself have always hankered to learn Hawaiian, but the opportunity has never presented itself. My #2 daughter, Rose, is the most gifted linguist I know (she was selected the #1 Arab Linguist in the United States), capable of learning any tongue virtually flawlessly. I am so jealous! After getting her degree in Linguistics however, she decided to become a Firefighter/Paramedic/Rescue Diver, and I can't really say "What a waste" about that.
Regards, Jamie S.
Good Day Roland

Thank you for your reaction; I don't know the poem of Withman, but I'll look for it, thanks for the suggestion. Concerning Henri de Montherlant, I read almost everything from him and I like it more than a lot of 'modern' writers, I like his sharp, ironic pen, his wit, his style; Although that he isn't really a "saint", just on the contrary, he's a genius, but nevertheless almost forgotten. Au revoir et merci (a Flemish reader)

Michel
It's gibberish, as far as I'm concerned....

You'll just have to ask Roger Waters -

http://www.amazon.com/Final-Cut-Pink-Floyd/dp/B0001KZM3O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&...

Hello, Roland.

Thanks for the vote of 'interesting library'. You've sure got a slew of 'em! I've spent a lot of time over the years (mostly in a professional capacity) on all the islands, primarily Oahu, where I've relatives in Waikiki and Kailua.

I'll keep an eye on your progress here.

Cheerio,

Tom


We lived in Ewa Beach and watched some of our grandchildren for nine months in 2007 while our oldest son was in Iraq. And we got to explore the "other side" of the island.

I'm pretty sure I umpired a high school game or two in Wai'anae in the early 80s. While I was stationed at Hickam, I umpired both Little League and High School baseball.

I will give you a call in April. We'll be vacationing with two other couples: our newest best friends here in Florida, and our oldest best friends of over forty years from California.
best,
Jerry

Hi Roland,

Thanks for your comments!

Regarding Twain, I had thought my comments were soo unique. He had some other strange endings. HF was just silly at the end. The Mysterious Stranger (which was aapparently incomplete) and CT Yankee, were just plain weird. I prefer his funny, sadistic, slapstick short stories. I'd hate to have to think too much...

Regards,

Steve

Hi Roland, sorry I've taken so long to get back to you but haven't been on the site for a while

You asked about Rod Lyon's book on Cornish. No, he doesn't include any view about continuous survival of the language (or indeed any of the debates that have surrounded the Cornish language movement over the last few decades about the appropriate version of the language to revive) - basically the book is a primer in Unified Cornish for beginners and doesn't stray from that task.

HTH, will have a look at the Jean Markale page and see if I can link up your version with anyone else's (if that hasn't already been done)

Regards

Ffred
Saw you rated Black Athena 3. Hope you end up reviewing it. Cheers, Tim
Hello, the books you liked most of my libraries are in Italian (from the xvi century) and therefore something in between modern italian and latin. A little bit hard to read, not only for the language but also for age. I like a lot to spend sometime reading a few pages of those books, also thinking about those who read them before me in the past 5 centuries.

About Petrarch, that book was thought to have been written by him (at the time it was published). Later the paternity of the book is in doubt, especially because it contains the narration of facts that happened after the author died. Well, at least something was added by someone else, who knows, maybe the editor. Unfortunately that book is not in great conditions but besides the first 2 or 3 pages it's easily readable.

Diego
Hello, thank you for adding my library into the interesting ones. Can I ask you what have you found interesting in it?

Diego
Yes it would be Latin. I have been adding massive amounts of books into here and it must have been missed. Thank you for spotting it!

I am curious what you find interesting about my library.
PS There was a hardback edition that came out in the 70's that was pinkish and had confetti on the cover....just an FYI...no LBJ on the cover.
Yes, I guess, living in Austin, I, like everyone knew him or read him or knew his ex- wife, Nadine Eckhardt,who just came out with a book of her own: Duchess of Palms or knew his daughters, also writers. Too bad GP is scarce: he could really write and had a front row seat to history: the moment Johnson got elected and started pushing civil rights was the moment the South started to go Republican, as Johnson himself predicted. Johnson was quite complex as was Billy Lee Brammer (BTW, pronounced: Bray-mer). I believe that book should be widely read, that is to say, not just by us Austinites....
Just curious: why do you find my library interesting? (I ask this of all members who bookmark my library, which I find rather English major mainstream....)
You can "type" all sorts of diacritical marks if you are using some form of Windows. (I'd bet it could work with a Mac, too, but I wouldn't now know how; it's been years since I've used a Mac.)

There is a program found by going to Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Character Map which comes up with a grid of characters, and a choice of fonts, too. All you do is choose, by "selecting" and "copying" and then you can paste.

The acute accent over an "e" looks like this: "é", right? Now, I am hoping that this works in Library thing in the comments! I know it does when I want to spell a foreign name for a book's author or title, etc. It's even neat for non-Latin letters, so that I can write about King Ælfred, for example. Try it! It's fun.
Well, I've spent hours today trying to find that quote. It appears unlikely that it will happen. I've noticed, though, that entering "ahura mazda and the iliad" or "the iliad and ahura mazda" brings some results on Google. The words ahura mazda are used more than once in "The Iliad," so the name, at least, must have been familiar to Homer. (assuming I didn't land on completely bogus sites)
This is walf again. This book has no index. It'll take a while. By the way, it's Robert Fitzgerald's translation of 1974 copyright.
Roland, I'll get on that quote from "The Iliad" and hope to have a page number for you today.
Yes, I have read Vidal's Julian book; though I no longer seem to have it. - But too long ago to remember distinctly. I don't believe I have seen the Messiah book.

Yes, I thought that was what pagans originally meant too - country folk. Regarding the stance of Philosophy to Christianity, some steeped in Philosophy accepted it (perhaps surprisingly, neoplatonism often seemed the royal road to acceptance) while many did not.

To me, the City (i.e. civilization) always rises on myth, not philosophy. Therefore, my prediction that a new extra-philosophical religion rises is descriptive, not normative. It is, in my mouth, a prediction, not a prophecy.

Can Christianity survive the coming religious upheaval? Don't know. Perhaps if it returns to its gnostic roots via a 'third testament' based on a 'new age' of the Holy Spirit... But that really doesn't look very likely at this point.

Since we share an interest in late antiquity what do you think of Tardieu's conjecture that the exiled neoplatonists gathered around Simplicius ended up in Harran? I wonder how long a neoplatonic school might have lasted there?

You said, in your 'About my library' section, "I am not, in general, much interested in rare or scarce books, or in first editions -- only interested in the content." That describes my library too. - Used paperbacks whenever I can find them...
Wow! Impressive "About Me". When I retire, in another eight years, I want to return to school to Classic Studies. I would be interested in your informed opinion of Robert Strassler's Landmark translation series.

A hopefully helpful hint: You transposed some letters in "history" in the last paragraph of your profile.
I am curious to have recived a message from Librarything that you have bookmarked my library as one that interests you. Can I ask why?

Liz Wilson
Oakham
UK
Hello, and thanks for adding me to your Interesting Libraries! If it's not too impenetrably self-absorbed of me, I'm curious what piqued your interest (wouldn't usually ask, but I note that our libraries share no books in common--although yours is an intriguing collection!--so I just wondered what caught your eye:)

All best; hope you're enjoying your summer.

Martin
Thank you for your comments, rolandperkins. Because your great-grandfather's book looks interesting, I can't help but continue poking into it here. (FYI - touchstones do not work in profile comments, only in talk/groups.) When I click on the title of the book mentioned in your comment here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/68460#1388921 I get the book's Main page. That page has a lot of places to enter information about the book, which I would LOVE to see filled out. Right now that page shows no reviews, no book description, and no CK (Common Knowledge).

Oh. I see the problem now. Your touchstone goes to a book entered by someone with a private library who entered the editor in the author field. And in your own library, you have entered your book with your great-grandfather's name in the author field. So they are showing up as two different works. On the book in your library I see the review. On the book in the other library, I see the cover and the link to the conversation in the Fifty States Challenge group. I do not know how to combine the two books into one work, so I'm going to ask the Combiners for help. OK. Done: http://www.librarything.com/topic/69216#1391646 . Now, hopefully, they will be able to make that combination. When you see a cover picture show up for the book in your own library, it shows that they were able to do so.

After they get combined, it would be nice to see a book description (maybe there is a description on the back cover which you could enter?). And also CK about the book. On books like this, I especially like to read the Dedication, First Words, Last Words, Important Places, Quotations, etc. Perhaps seeing that kind of information will whet the appetite of others to read the book!

Regards,
countrylife

(For continuity)
You said:

"[Three Years a Soldier] by Perkins (,) George* already has a short review on its page. (If Iʻm understanding rightly what you mean by "its page". It is about half way down the page, following the time-honored "...not enough copies...to evaluate" statement, which almost everything Iʻve looked up seems to have. Certainly true in this case. I know of only 4 copies, counting my own, that are owned by individuals. Then there is the Woburn MA Public Library, and, probably some larger libraries in Massachusetts, and in libraries specializing in the civil War.

*Clicking on Perkins George, you donʻt get my great-grandfather, but another George Perkins, so click on hte title."

~and~

"... the blue for the title didnʻt come through. I guess you would have to go the [rolandperkins] member page."
Roland,
I am shocked and humbled to have someone with your background find my library interesting. Thank you. I am very interested in Greek writing, mostly so far the NT. Right now, working more in Hebrew with Isaiah. I look forward to engaging you directly and I hope in some of the groups.

Thanks,
Richard
I have read Matthew a few times, and I have read about Hinduism broadly and at least some more specifically about Vedanta. I have another book about Vedanta buried near my head in bed. I would like to read a serious book on the beatitudes from the viewpoint of a Hindu. I just looked in Wikipedia for Prabhavananda; it is a short article, but it looks like he has his bonafides. Your book is not available new from Barnes and Noble, but it might be available from ISKCON in Nuuanu Valley or at ABE Books. I'll keep it on my list, but I'm not rushing for it.

Wearing a different mask, I am reading the Mahabharata slowly and, insofar as possible, completely. We have a group here for it: Mahabharata Anyone, not very active at the moment because we have been snagged by that very snag you mentioned.

The Mahabharata has, all of it, been translated, but not necessarily well. Buitenen took it on for the University of Chicago Press; but he died. I have read the three complete volumes that he did, taking me through book 5, the book just shy of the one that contains the Bhagavad Gita. Chicago claims that it is going on, but it is taking its time. Meanwhile The Clay Sanskrit Library has picked up the challenge. I have the first volume of book 6 containing the Bhagavad Gita and am awaiting the publishing of the second volume in August. In the Buitenen translation it is readable and glorious.

I first saw the Buitenen translation when Borders first came to Hawaii in Waikele and was good. It took me until this year actually to try to read it, and I was into in a snap.

This library which you find interesting is the remnant of a wish list. My wish list is now mostly on the Barnes and Noble web site, so this list will fade away after awhile. I'm keeping the mask, however, for talking about Hawaii, Alcoholics Anonymous, and other things that it might be better not to have tied to my real name.

Best regards,

Specto

Roland,
I'm consumed with wonder that you would find my library interesting. While I love it much too much, my reading defines my wide and shallow nature. If I had unlimited money, I would order Black Athena now. When would I read it? - probably no time soon. At any rate, I look forward to reading what you have to say here.
Peggy
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