Member: staffordcastle

Sorry for the delay.

Thanks for the suggestion. But, I already have the Payne-Gallwey.

Jon

posted by John_R_Edgerton at 2:49 pm (EST) on Jun 1, 2009

Thank you, It's a hoot! :-)

posted by usnmm2 at 8:05 pm (EST) on May 25, 2009

Your right. And I stole it for mine.
Thank you

posted by usnmm2 at 6:16 am (EST) on May 21, 2009

I am horning in on your correspondence with stellarexplorer (and should be doing it at your other library?) to second your experience with D. Dunnett and Lymond over Niccolo. I'm picking up/putting down Checkmate as I finish my second reading of Francis (and I've reread some of my favorites from the series out of order), but have made it through only four, I think, of Niccolo. (I also enjoyed the ones of her Johnson Johnson mysteries that I could find without trying too hard.) I'm not sure what the difference is: both series seem to follow the same formula, and it's a formula that I like. Maybe I also agree about the setting.
I'm also reading my first Cherryh - for some reason I thought that she wrote only fantasy.
I admire the few books that we have in common here. Have you actually read The English Medieval House? It's an all-time favorite "look at pictures and browse" book, but now I think that I may tackle it. I also wonder what you thought of A Distant Mirror. I read Froissart in some form and wasn't particularly impressed with Ms. Tuchman's take on him although I'm generally awed by her.
And so, it may be that you'll make your comments private to avoid me and my ilk, but I feel compelled to voice agreement.
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 9:38 am (EST) on Apr 6, 2009

as previously expressed to the other personality!

posted by stellarexplorer at 11:14 pm (EST) on Apr 5, 2009

LOL -- occupational hazard for people with Split Library Disorder!

(with complete respect for that decision, as previously expressed)

posted by stellarexplorer at 11:13 pm (EST) on Apr 5, 2009

Oh. Well, then perhaps you are in a better position than I am to fully understand the Cherryh-Dunnett reading affinity. I have read much CJC but only The Game of Kings by DD, and have been in the middle of Niccolo Rising for some time. I do like Dunnett quite a lot, but there's a time and a place...and I haven't yet found it for the rest of Dunnett. I am hoping to remedy that.

posted by stellarexplorer at 10:31 pm (EST) on Apr 5, 2009

I see you don't have much science fiction, and perhaps you don't like reading it. Admittedly much of it is not especially well-written. But I just wanted you to know that there is an overlap that might interest you. Many readers of CJ Cherryh also love Dorothy Dunnett. I don't know whether you would feel that way, and I don't know what your experience with science fiction is, but I thought you might want to know.

posted by stellarexplorer at 4:58 pm (EST) on Apr 5, 2009

Thanks for that book suggestion (The Measure of Reality)-- perfect!

posted by stellarexplorer at 12:47 am (EST) on Mar 30, 2009

staffordcastle, your Collections haiku are amazing. If you can write something so beautiful in celebration of an LT feature, I can only imagine what you're able to do with a sunset, or an autumn leaf. Bravo!

posted by mountebank at 10:15 pm (EST) on Mar 28, 2009

Hello, Thank you for your response to my query over at the BUG COLLECTER's group. I had been using the AOL browser to access library thing. I switched over to IE,,,and voila,,,my library looks absolutely correct. One more black mark against AOL!!!!

posted by lachatte at 2:50 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2009

your picture raises the hairs on the back of my neck.

posted by poor-ious at 2:56 am (EST) on Mar 24, 2009

Hello Shelley

Yes, it is Jon the Lean. Though not so "lean" any more.

How are you doing?

posted by John_R_Edgerton at 2:19 pm (EST) on Feb 27, 2009

Hi Shelley,
Yes, it's me. I took your suggestion and finally got onto LibraryThing.

I have a question: I keep losing my tags, or they kee moving to other books. I thought at first it was because I used the quick edit button, but several of the books I've added this morning(without that button) have moved and others have been lost completely. Where am I going wrong?

Please let me know if I should be asking LibraryThing rather than you.

Thanks,
Lynn

posted by LDownward at 2:50 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2009

Staffordcastle,
Thanks for your response to my query at the Tea group site on the composition of Scottish Breakfast tea. I see that further down in the messages list someone actually acquired it and her/his review was less than glowing. I will stick with my hearty Irish Breakfast for the nonce.
Susan

posted by swankyankee at 9:01 pm (EST) on Jan 23, 2009

While cataloging James Boswell's copy of Baconiana recently, I found a review on the web which supports the view that Bacon wrote the Shakespeare plays. The reviewer, the late Penn Leary, had an extensive website on Bacon and Shakespeare.

I have a couple of books on the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy as well in my Shakespeare Collection.

posted by moibibliomaniac at 3:44 pm (EST) on Jan 22, 2009

I see you expressed an interest in cataloging the libraries of John, Lord Lumley, and Queen Elizabeth I. I probably won't get around to cataloging Lumley's library myself for another six months. There's a copy of the printed catalog being sold on ebay right now by the ebay seller, Kenpa, if you'd like to start cataloging the library yourself.

As for Queen Elizabeth, I don't know what her contributions, if any, were to the Royal Collection. Ironically, last week, a friend of mine was down-sizing his library, and I was selling his copy of
Camden's Elizabeth, but he changed his mind and decided to keep the book instead.

posted by moibibliomaniac at 7:30 am (EST) on Jul 29, 2008

Greetings, staffordcastle.

At length, I've seen your post about having a copy of Jane Pettigrew's A Social History of Tea, which you kindly said you'd look at and let me know about. As it took me so long to notice it, I thought I'd go ahead and ask. Have you had a chance to peruse it, yet?

I lift my teacup to you, in any case. Cheers!

Julie

posted by Eurydice at 8:23 pm (EST) on Nov 3, 2007