Member: shauneeh

my condolences on the loss of your library - even if a while ago one must grieve for the books now gone. I lost a few hundred books to water pipes bursting and then mould growing on the wall I kept a list of what was lost and slowly trying to replace and get v excited when one lost soul turns up. but you know the fun of collecting books is finding new authors and new subjects. It is a life time fascination I see we share areas of history, biography, gardening and travel. strength to your collecting.

posted by Africansky1 at 12:10 pm (EST) on May 23, 2012

FYI, I uploaded a cover for "The Rider and His Horse" in case you want to use it.

posted by casebrad at 9:43 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2010

FYI, I uploaded a cover for "Footsteps" in case you want to use it.

posted by casebrad at 9:33 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2010

How lovely to read your mesaage: may I ask why you felt different? Certainly many of her bokos had heros (very rarely heroines) who were outside in one way or another, ....

posted by aglawton at 8:30 am (EST) on Mar 28, 2010

just noticed you have lots of Rosemary Sutcliff. www.rosemarysutcliff.wordpress.com might interest you and you might have opinions for it?
(Looking at your recent activity, a Sutcliff and a Springsteen fan!)

posted by aglawton at 4:24 am (EST) on Mar 13, 2010

Hi Shaunee,
I just noticed you have three copies of Japanese Fairy Tales, a Giant Golden Book which we share. It IS a beautiful book, isn't it.

posted by SaintSunniva at 7:59 pm (EST) on Nov 8, 2008

Hi,
I added you to my interesting libraries list partially because you have the some of the Maggody books by Joan Hess. I find these quite funny and turn to them for comfort reading. I also have the books about Julia Redfern by Eleanor Cameron. They are some of my favorites. I was sorry to read about your fire. That is my ultimate nightmare as a booklover! Hope you have had fun re-building your collection.
Leslie

posted by lesliecp at 9:19 pm (EST) on Aug 23, 2008

I just finished reading Bad Times, Good Friends and I LOVED IT!!!! I noticed you also had it in your library and was wondering if you had read it. If so, what did you think????

posted by bnbookgirl at 8:18 pm (EST) on Jul 17, 2008

I have been combining Dutch translations of Rosemary Sutcliff with the English titles and discovered you have a lot of her works too. And some other authors.

Like you are rebuilding your collection (must have been awfull to loose your collection that way), I started to collect books I had been reading from the library as a child, I needed to OWN the books I liked.

posted by FAMeulstee at 9:45 am (EST) on Mar 11, 2008

Hello,
I just added the cover for h.a.rey's We Three Kings.
Amy

posted by SaintSunniva at 8:44 pm (EST) on Feb 16, 2008

I just uploaded Legendary Animals' cover picture, in case you'd like to add it, too.

posted by SaintSunniva at 1:55 am (EST) on Dec 29, 2007

I just uploaded a cover image for Song of the Pines. Thought you might want to use it in your Library!

Wanda

posted by Wanda_Weinberg at 8:54 am (EST) on Nov 10, 2007

I study legal history.

'Blanket of the Dark' is very good: it's an often overlooked 'Oxford novel'. Sometimes Buchan 'goes for Kipling', and sometimes he 'goes for Walter Scott', and I think that in BOTD he goes for Walter Scott.

posted by messpots at 12:21 pm (EST) on Oct 29, 2007

Thanks for your reply about the history of Brasenose College. It's a pretty rare book, written when John Buchan was a very young man (an undergraduate in fact).

posted by messpots at 10:56 am (EST) on Oct 29, 2007

I see you have the very rare history of Brasenose College by John Buchan. Perhaps you're a 'Noseman' yourself!

posted by messpots at 3:35 pm (EST) on Oct 25, 2007

Thank you for joining the gardening group. I like your garden books collection. How is the book: "gardening by mail?" I miss something like that.

posted by diwan at 6:00 pm (EST) on Sep 11, 2007

Metaphorical forest.

posted by dave_newton at 11:41 pm (EST) on Jul 31, 2007

I'll look for The Dolphin Crossing by Jill Paton Walsh. A great book by her is The Emperor's Winding Sheet (about the fall of Constantinople)...do you know it?

posted by SaintSunniva at 10:33 pm (EST) on Nov 28, 2006

Speaking of (juvenile-to-young-adult) historic fiction set in WWII, what about books by Margot Benary-Isbert and Hilda Van Stockum? They're personal favorites of mine.

posted by SaintSunniva at 7:07 pm (EST) on Nov 27, 2006

You and I are the only LTers with these three books:
Cortez the Conqueror
Treasure Trove of the Sun
The Little Fishes
What a lovely collection you have now...do you really have THREE copies of Ludmilla? I just love that book!
Amy

posted by SaintSunniva at 12:43 pm (EST) on Nov 24, 2006

Are they online? I don't have a car or any way to get to Canada, so if I could find them online I'd appreciate it.

posted by sister_ray at 10:06 pm (EST) on Nov 7, 2006

I feel kind of silly, because I missed her as a child. I only found out about her three years ago when I bought The Shining Company. I was thrilled when Mark of the Horse Lord came back into print. I'm dying to read more of her stuff, but the out of print titles seem to average 20 dollars a book! (One of my other favorite authors, H.M. Hoover, also has books that are mostly out of print, but I only had trouble finding one of hers.)

posted by sister_ray at 9:57 pm (EST) on Nov 7, 2006

I noticed you seem to be a big Rosemary Sutcliff fan. I have all her books in print and Dawn Wind, but most of them are hard to find, especially in the US. (Fin MacCool is in print in the UK, and I've asked for it for my birthday.)

posted by sister_ray at 9:03 pm (EST) on Nov 7, 2006