hi
I think I have untangled Lynn Hall's Sticks and Stones from the other work. The only thing that remains is a wrong cover between the covers. It can take a few days, but then it should appear right in your library. Would you please let me know if it worked?

Anita Meulstee

posted by FAMeulstee at 6:43 pm (EST) on Jun 8, 2008

The kind and wonderful gentleman behind AfterElton.com site interviewed me about Vintage...

http://www.afterelton.com/blog/brenthart...

Steve

posted by steveberman at 2:08 pm (EST) on Oct 25, 2007

Good evening! Ah, just taking a break here from revising some Librarything listings. When I first started listing last year, I (rather carelessly) didn't bother adding images of the books. So now I'm having to go through the entire lot again, making sure I have the correct images for each title (and also complete information in the "publication" field). Man, scanning HUNDREDS of book covers is more than a little dull! I'm happy to use the images provided by other Librarything users (yours included!) if the correct picture is available, but I am having to scan in quite a few.

I do hope you enjoy "Poor Tom's Ghost." I read a fair amount of young adult material, but only a small percentage of these books really have that something extra, that pulls me in on an emotional level---and PTG had that something special, for me. If I may recommend a few other juvenile/YA titles, that had a similar affect...

"The House on Parchment Street" by Patricia McKillip---Great ghost story; re-reading this as an adult I think it has a whole sub-text that I perhaps only subconsciously sensed as a kid. Though, I'm not at all sure that the author intended the sub-text that I have assigned to the story!

"Libby on Wednesday" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. Hmmm, another case of sub-text (maybe I'm projecting, here!) I found it quite affecting, though... And do try this same author's very fun fantasy "Black and Blue Magic."

"The Pinballs" by Betsy Byars---very short, but a great read.

I've enjoyed looking through your Librarything listings---have come across a number of books that I'd not heard of before, but look quite good. I'll have to purchase a few of these, at some point in the future...

Cheers!
Frederick (octobercountry)

posted by octobercountry at 1:54 am (EST) on Aug 23, 2007

Good evening! Sorry I did not respond sooner; I don't check librarything as often as I could, but came on tonight to enter some new Nesbit titles I received in today's post, and saw the message waiting for me.

Yes, I'm quite a fan of the two authors mentioned! With Curry, I really liked two of her books as a child ("Mindy's Mysterious Miniature" and "Parsley Sage, Rosemary, and Time"). And over the past few years I've been picking up more of her titles. I highly recommend "Poor Tom's Ghost," if you've not read it yet. I think it is my absolute favourite, of all her books. Hey, it features ghosts, time travel, and the renovation of a historic house (one of my own hobbies)---who can ask for anything more?! I really do enjoy this one, and re-read it on a regular basis.

I think I've read most of Nesbit's juvenile titles, though I don't have my own copies of several of these books yet. (Including "The House of Arden"! I do need to get a copy of that one, since it and "Harding's Luck" really are meant to be read together.) "The Enchanted Castle" is still probably my favourite Nesbit title, though I quite like most of them. "Wet Magic" is probably her weakest book of the juveniles, and I've only read that one once, though I'm lucky enough to have a first edition of the title.

If you enjoy young-adult magical stories, feel free to check in on the ABE message board now and again, where there are a number of threads devoted to such books---there are quite a few fans of this sort of thing over there. I don't post as much as I used to on that board, but still do check in nearly every day (under the name "octobercountry"). I've come across a ton of good recommendations for some fantastic books, through reading what other people have posted.

http://forums.abebooks.com/abecom

Nice to hear from you---cheers!
Frederick

posted by octobercountry at 5:36 am (EST) on Jun 30, 2007