Member: themagiciansgirl

Will do -A-. Book's on my shelf already. I noticed CMc calls it a "novel in dramatic form". Guess that would make it either a dovel or a nay.

posted by Kinch at 12:40 pm (EST) on Oct 11, 2009

"I'm curious to see how it plays out."
Forgot to award your 2 extra points for word play.

-K-

posted by Kinch at 6:02 pm (EST) on Oct 3, 2009

Let me know.

-K-

posted by Kinch at 10:57 pm (EST) on Oct 2, 2009

McC's three plays are on my "To Buy" list but I haven't gotten to them yet. From what I've heard of them, I imagine him sitting on the dias between Beckett and Genet. Haven't a clue whether they'd hold up on stage. Some other's reactions in the link.

http://www.alibris.com/reviews/book/9652...

-K-

posted by Kinch at 6:06 pm (EST) on Sep 30, 2009

TMG, thanks for your note! Hahaha, yes I did notice that you had very few bestsellers in your library - hence its interest. Your library was flagged when I added "The Death of Virgil" the other day - not sure why. I'm having a bit of trouble reading it and may leave it until I have more time to appreciate its poetry. Ahhhh Dylan Thomas: I've read pretty much everything he wrote and have multiple copies of Under Milk Wood including several audio versions (a couple of Richard Burtons and an Anthony Hopkins). Oh and García Márquez, an absolute master of the short story. From time to time contemporary authors get to be touted as "the new García Márquez", but it's rare for anyone to come close. Books, books...

posted by chrisharpe at 3:52 pm (EST) on Jul 29, 2009

Hello magiciansgirl! I hope you don't mind me having noted your library for future reference. You have a really interesting mix of books, a good few of which I have been on my wish-list for a while - particularly those with a nature theme. It's also unusual to see John Cowper Powys in libraries: I wonder why he's so little read? Or Andy Goldsworthy... Happy reading! Chris

posted by chrisharpe at 9:57 am (EST) on Jul 23, 2009

Well then, welcome to the club.

-K-

posted by Kinch at 12:24 pm (EST) on Apr 29, 2009

Sadly, I've yet to read any of Bolano but the books are on my shelves and I will. "2666" does sound attractive. I've scanned some sections and the prose deserves to be read aloud. Time,Time, Time!

Eagles are cool. We have Bald and Golden varieties, plus several species of hawk I can't differentiate so easily, patrolling our sky. Happened to see one (hawk) dive on one of our cats the other day. At the last possible second, the raptor seemed to have second thoughts. Had it been an eagle, Polecat would now be history. Nature concerns itself with a vaster scale than the small, businesslike encounters between birds, cats, mice, weasels and gophers that play out daily in the fields around me. Cruel, cruel, cruel. But think of the galaxies concerns and what they must feel for us. Yikes!

Was unaware that females could aspire to Dorkdom. Thought that was a last bastion of male dominance.

-K-

posted by Kinch at 7:24 pm (EST) on Apr 26, 2009

Tis the season for wildflowers and wildbirds, sweeping anew from south to north and from valley to peak. Have you read/owned the lore of Jack Sanders? I'd rec'm'nd his 'Hedgemaids and Fairy Candles'...

posted by subarcticmike at 1:53 pm (EST) on Apr 19, 2009

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

- William Blake, Auguries of Innocence, 1863

posted by theoldman at 8:11 am (EST) on Apr 19, 2009

Good selection on Joseph Krutch, one of my favorite authors. Although I have not read The Voice of the Desert, I have read The Desert Year. Wonderful observations
Now reading Theophilus North by Thornton Wilder, immensely enjoyable. ~S

posted by eugenegant at 12:16 pm (EST) on Apr 15, 2009

hello magic
What a small world... Yep, I am a grad of SDSM&T, good school and great times. Easy switcheroo of lingos between our two countries, just sub 'huh' for 'eh'. I never did get out dino-digging yonder but good memories of Ranch A field school in the Black Hills plus pix of spring-break field trips to the sw desert on my photostream in flickr(dot)com. I have a paleoprone (lol!) good friend in Yellowknife who has been on digs with the Royal Tyrell Museum in Alberta. It's easing up towards zero (degrees C) north of 60, whereas flowers must be out by now south of the 49th?

posted by subarcticmike at 6:50 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2009

Thanks cool. I had not heard of him. I will look him up. Similar then to Rockwell Kent, who while divorced, took his young son to Alaska during 1918-1919 and lived out of a very small cabin on Fox Island. His journal and drawnings were subsequently published in 1920 entitled 'Wilderness'. If you go into any Alaskan bookshop your sure to see a paperback verion on the shelf. My sister gave me my first copy when she lived in Eagle River, Alaska years ago. Of course, being a collector I had to get a 1920 hardback edition, although not a first printing. (a first printing would be much too expensive since it is such a classic.)

Major snow storm to hit tonight. Anywhere from 4" to 12" expected. Will be putting together a pot of red chili tonight for tomorrow's menu. ~S

posted by eugenegant at 12:13 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2009

Who's cabin in the north woods?

posted by eugenegant at 1:13 pm (EST) on Apr 2, 2009

Happy Birthday Jack.
“I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.” J. Kerouac

posted by eugenegant at 11:58 am (EST) on Mar 12, 2009

Then have at it, magicians girl! Quote away.
I feel as if I've created actual houses with the books I keep- many over the years of moving and packing and unpacking, shelving, retrieving, stacking under bed and couches...
Now I keep only the ones that really mean something to me- I give away the rest.
Or I use the library to sample and investigate- I have been on a library jag during the last 6 months.
I really like your library.
Ghost

posted by lil_ghostcrab at 11:30 pm (EST) on Feb 25, 2009

Hi,

Re. Thank you for your comment re. the Joshua Bell "experiment". The eldest of our sons is still an active cellist (and is now an assistant professor of earth science). The youngest was a violinist in high school (and is now a practicing criminal defense attorney). We spent many hours taking them to lessons and attending concerts and competitions.

Naren Jackson

Hi,

Re the Joshua Bell "experiment"; In the summer. of 2008, we were visiting our oldest son, in Davis, California; the week-end public market (in a public park) was in progress and we were "experiencing" it; opposite across from one of the many "stalls" was a lone (stand-up) violinist playing Mendelsohn's vionis concerto

posted by Naren559 at 1:49 pm (EST) on Feb 23, 2009

That's a funny request! Never thought of it as quotable! Watcha gonna do with it?
Ghost

posted by lil_ghostcrab at 4:15 pm (EST) on Feb 22, 2009

Did you hear Andrew Wyeth died last night? He was 91. I would guess you are a fan.
For him, begins his eternal journey. I think 'The Carry' is a fitting memorial to his (and our) journey in life: http://www.andrewwyeth.com/AndrewWyeth8....

~S

posted by eugenegant at 12:28 pm (EST) on Jan 16, 2009

Hey -A-

Eliot's a favorite, a major waypoint in 20th Century poetry. Frost, on the other hand, seems only clever, and was a mean spirited, iron bound son of a bitch in life. Haven't read Bolano yet but he's looming. I want to read "By Night In Chile" and "Distant Star" before "2066". Hope to get to him this Spring. Don't know Robert Harry Lowie (a Boasian I understand) but I do know a few Crow. The Res is just over the hill, down the valley and to the left. Plan to revisit Proust (new translation) this summer and Thomas Mann in the fall. No new stars in the heavens, that I know of. Keep me posted.

O O O O that Shakespherian Rag -
It's so elegant
So intelligent

-K-

posted by Kinch at 3:19 am (EST) on Jan 11, 2009

Almost forgot to mention: Muir lived for a time, when he was young, near Madison. You may have known that.

posted by eugenegant at 9:02 pm (EST) on Jan 7, 2009

I got to listen to Donald Worster last night speak on his new biography of John Muir. He is a Professor at the Univ. of Kansas. I have his prior 'great' biography on John Wesley Powell (River Running West) and a book of essays on the west. Now they are all signed. A review: (to perhaps put on your to-read list) http://tinyurl.com/9b7hjh

~S

posted by eugenegant at 9:00 pm (EST) on Jan 7, 2009

Thanks, tMG. Can't have enough Miles fans. BB

posted by bitchesbrew at 7:58 am (EST) on Dec 27, 2008

Hey A,
Painting is from my collection, by a painter I've known for some twenty plus years. It's a 6x8 inch field sketch. I almost always prefer these to the finished studio pieces. I think the largest painting I own is 14x18.

Bowles is an excellent choice. "Sky" follows a young American couple (and,ultimately, the wife) as their North African tour draws them more and more deeply into their external and internal wildernesses. A remarkable novel whose language and intense focus you won't forget. In fiction, "Out of Africa" by Isak Dinesen and, in nonfiction, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T. E. Lawrence also come to mind.

-K-

posted by Kinch at 1:21 am (EST) on Sep 29, 2008

I see the Crazy Mountains when I look out my west windows. I've lived here thirty three years now and have yet to find anyone who knows why or how the Crazies got their name. I, of course, have manufactured half a dozen explanations over the years, all, alas, apocryphal.

-K-

posted by Kinch at 7:12 pm (EST) on Aug 30, 2008

Pessoa, Steppenwolf, and hats!

charmed, indeed.

posted by tcw at 3:16 pm (EST) on Aug 28, 2008

Ah,old stones and old bones. What fun. Harry was one of my early heroes and I carry the ticket stub from my first night at the Magic Theater in my wallet at all times. Currently reading Jane Mayer's "The Dark Side" and "La-Bas" by Joris Karl Huysmans. No irony intended there. Just one of those serendipitous confluences that so amused Nabokov. Plenty of very productive dig sites in eastern Montana as well, and, if you're paleoprone, The Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman is another treasure trove. Nice town too. Keep me posted.

-K-

posted by Kinch at 11:53 am (EST) on Aug 27, 2008

Hey Amy,

Did you happen to see the expose on the illustrator, Charley Harper, on Sunday Morning? Great stuff. He died last year. This gallery sells a lot of his prints/lithographs: http://www.galleryone.com/harper_prints....
I uploaded one of his images on my profile page. I'd love to get one of his images for the house.

Hope all is well.

~S

posted by eugenegant at 8:57 pm (EST) on Feb 4, 2008

Hi,

I just saw the note you left on my page a while back--thank you. My new novel came out in '07, and I was at ALA signing and giving away copies to as many people as I could! So I see you like Cormac McCarthy, also a favorite of mine. I didn't like NO COUNTRY at all, but THE ROAD I think is brilliant. I used it in a seminar last semester on the Literature of War, and this was the closing salvo. Students really liked it.

In any case, thanks again for the nice note. Best in 2008,

Terrence Cheng

posted by tcheng at 9:57 am (EST) on Jan 27, 2008

"There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."
~Washington Irving

Merry Christmas Amy and may God bless,

posted by eugenegant at 10:27 pm (EST) on Dec 21, 2007

Ah, Thoreau, can't go wrong there. A piece from Jim Harrison called 'Two Poems' in http://narrativemagazine.com/ (upper left)

posted by eugenegant at 9:01 am (EST) on Nov 9, 2007

Hi again, It's Ed Abbey: A Life by James Cahalan http://www.librarything.com/work/669537&...

I noticed I already had a copy listed....The bits I read made me want to return to finishing The Journals of Abbey (the real thing, not someone's dissection,,,I forget title.) We just went to *our* nearest Great Lake beach and revelled in the over-our heads mountains of drifted old snow and sand...the ice as far as we could see...the nice sunset effects...taking note that the sun is setting later...hints of spring, yay!

posted by drawingdiana at 2:20 pm (EST) on Mar 12, 2007

Hi-was just randomly reading snatches in an Ed Abbey bio book that I can't find quickly via isbn yet, I was trying out my :cuecat....worked on the first 2 titles.... I noticed you are in Desert Solitaire...the snatches were discussing how & when he wrote Solitaire.....and what he left out.

posted by drawingdiana at 10:02 pm (EST) on Mar 10, 2007