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Baudolino by Umberto Eco
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The Last Legion: A Novel by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Benson & Hedges Presents Entertaining With Style
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation by Elizabeth Knowles
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
Dante's Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, Paradise by Dante Alighieri
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Favorite authorsJames M. Cain, Laurie Colwin, Harry Crews, Lindsey Davis, Margaret Drabble, M. F. K. Fisher, Charles Frazier, Carlos Fuentes, Robert Graves, Barry Hannah, A. J. Liebling, Leo Perutz, Barbara W. Tuchman, Marianne Wiggins, P. G. Wodehouse, Marguerite Yourcemar (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresAppalachian State University Book Store, Book Exchange, Book Rack, Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe, Manteo Booksellers, Muses, The Captain's Bookshelf
About meWith two degrees in history I've made a career in human resources and seem to have landed in the aviation industry. Go figure, one has to eat and buy more books.
The book of the week for November 15 is The Kabul Beauty School. This week's music is Joe Bonamassa's The Ballad of John Henry. This week's movie is Yes Man.
For you Myers-Briggs folks I'm an ESFP. If you are an "I" you can come to my pirate party and hide behind the palm tree. I will bring you beer and nachos and not tell anybody you are there. 
with a strong 9.
Books read in 2009
January -
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Comfort Me with Apples
February -
A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelocanth
Frankenstein
When You are Engulfed in Flames
A Brief History of Everything
I am Charlotte Simmons
Dinner at Antoine's
The Red Queen
Life is a Mixtape: Love and Loss One Song at a Time
March
How Not to Look Old
The Logogryph
Medicus
April
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Reading Like a Writer: A guide for People Who Love Books and Those Who Want to Write Them
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
The Weekend
The Dream of Confucius
May
Ye Will Say I am no Christian
The Know-it-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
The Terrible Hours
Imperium
Einstein: His Life and Universe
June
The Golden Notebook
The Fated Sky
July
All the World's Mornings
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
August
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Silk Hope, NC
Everybody was so Young
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
September
A Story of Deep Delight
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
October
The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
The A.B.C. Murders
The Eagle and the Wolves
November
The D Case: Or the Truth About the Mystery of Edwin Drood
The complete Illustrated Poems, Songs and Ballads of Robert Burns
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varielle = 21895225 = 218+952+25 = 1195
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Contains: Books on metaphysics, logic, ethics and philosophy.
What it says about you: You're a careful thinker, but your life can be complicated and hard for others to understand at times. You try to explain things and strive to express yourself.
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Your result for The Which Historical Queen Are You Test...Catherine de MediciYou scored 58% on ruling power!
You are: Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, 1519-1589.
Catherine de Medici was a born into the influential Medici family of Florence, Italy. In 1533 she was given in a political marriage to Henri, Duke of Orleans, who became the French King in 1547. As queen she was very influential in bringing aspects of Italian culture to France, such as their theater and food. After her husband's death, she gained political power as regent for her sons (she had ten children). An ambitious woman, she actively involved herself in the political intrigues of the court, always trying to increase royal power. At first Catherine tried to reconcile France's opposing Catholic and Protestant factions as their violent disputes threatened national unity. But with the massacre in 1570 of Protestants (the massacre of St Bartholomew), this peace was shattered, and Catherine was blamed for allowing it to happen.Take The Which Historical Queen Are You Test at HelloQuizzy
About my libraryIt's a foundling home for books. We are trying to be more selective, but they keep following me home. Half of them just escaped from two years in storage. It made me sad. They needed fondling. Despite fears that moisture might have crept up to them along with mold they have escaped unharmed. There will be no weeping and gnashing of teeth in grief and frustration. Hurray.
My best beloved just got a load of the Kindle for the first time. By the gleam in his eye I could tell he was thinking about all the books that could be gotten rid of. Little does he know....
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Currently readingThe Shadow of the Wind: A Novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
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posted by Poleaxe at 8:16 am (EST) on Nov 17, 2009
thanks for thinking of me
Os.
posted by Osbaldistone at 9:53 am (EST) on Jul 19, 2009
I want to thank for doing such a good job keeping us informed on the Written in Stone list. I started typing my obit on Paul Hemphill tonight about an hour before your post, but when I was two thirds of the way through my entry a local lightning strike turn our power off for a couple of seconds and that was enough to shut my computer down and I had to start over. This time I typed my entry into Word where I could save it and then I copied it to the list. Since I had already put that much effort into it, I went ahead and posted my entry even though it was basically a repeat of yours. I was a big fan of Paul Hemphill and have been following him since he started a newspaper column in the Atanta Journal in 1964. When I looked up your profile, I discovered that you have a copy of [War Bird: The Life and Times of Elliott White Springs] by [[Burke Davis]]. Do you have a story about your copy? I grew up in Fort Mill, SC when it was a small cotton mill town and [[Elliott White Springs]] owned the mill where my mom and dad both worked. It was after I went off to college before I bought my copy but there were many tales of Colonel Springs exploits in World War I.
posted by mrkurtz at 9:19 pm (EST) on Jul 12, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4rUiV_Hh...
posted by destinyhascheatedme at 6:06 pm (EST) on Jun 26, 2009
i know how it feels. i like crickets. the noise outside my window lulls me to sleep, because as long as they're singing, i can rest knowing there aren't any zombies outside.
posted by destinyhascheatedme at 7:19 pm (EST) on Jun 25, 2009
posted by destinyhascheatedme at 6:01 pm (EST) on Jun 25, 2009
"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended:
That you have but slumb’red here
While these visions did appear. . . .
No more yielding but a dream,
. . .
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends."
posted by destinyhascheatedme at 5:13 pm (EST) on Jun 25, 2009
posted by destinyhascheatedme at 6:12 pm (EST) on Jun 23, 2009
posted by destinyhascheatedme at 2:44 pm (EST) on Jun 23, 2009
http://www.librarything.com/topic/66785
posted by callmejacx at 10:40 pm (EST) on Jun 13, 2009
posted by Django6924 at 7:49 pm (EST) on May 11, 2009
posted by Django6924 at 3:57 pm (EST) on May 11, 2009
Also what did you think of A Fish Caught in Time? Is that worthwhile to pick up? Thanks!
bfertig
posted by bfertig at 2:27 pm (EST) on May 5, 2009
If you can identify the book you read for a presidential bio, it counts!
Just be sure to put it on the President's thread so we all can ask about it.
It's really been fun so far and I'm really glad you joined us.
Cheli
posted by cyderry at 5:30 pm (EST) on Apr 26, 2009
posted by mpramanik at 12:29 am (EST) on Apr 15, 2009
posted by chase.donaldson at 3:29 pm (EST) on Mar 16, 2009
posted by Ammianus at 7:10 pm (EST) on Mar 13, 2009
PS. RE: How Not to Look Old: Putting a bag over my head isn't the answer?
posted by Ammianus at 6:02 pm (EST) on Mar 13, 2009
People have basically been saying which book they think they might like and leaving a means of contact. In your case you can just say Varielle at LT as I think there won't be any name confusion.
off to find coffee... :o)
posted by ThePam at 9:14 am (EST) on Mar 13, 2009
posted by DevourerOfBooks at 4:40 pm (EST) on Feb 25, 2009
posted by furdog at 8:22 pm (EST) on Feb 24, 2009
Oh! I see you have frogs!
Os.
posted by Osbaldistone at 8:40 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2009
posted by DeadFred at 6:03 pm (EST) on Feb 5, 2009
posted by Poleaxe at 11:16 am (EST) on Feb 4, 2009
posted by Poleaxe at 3:40 pm (EST) on Jan 21, 2009
You are in fact only the second person I have contacted in a social manner.
I don't really know what this entails.
There are after all 500K+ of us, thus why did/do I talk to you?
I just appreciate your work on "the memories of heroes" who were just humans. So THANKS.
Guido.
posted by guido47 at 6:22 am (EST) on Jan 7, 2009
posted by Poleaxe at 1:29 pm (EST) on Jan 6, 2009
posted by Poleaxe at 1:24 pm (EST) on Jan 6, 2009
posted by Poleaxe at 9:08 am (EST) on Jan 6, 2009
I stumble back and pick up
the stuff that falls out.
It is hard to tell
who is food and who isn't
in the nursing home.
Nothing hurts me now
Normally the screwdriver
Wouldn't have gone there.
Good stuff, if you like zombie prose.
Well actually a bit spotty in places, but fun. I recommend it.
posted by Arctic-Stranger at 5:37 pm (EST) on Dec 31, 2008
posted by Poleaxe at 9:42 am (EST) on Dec 31, 2008