1megbmore
Hi! My name is Meg and I am joining the LibraryThing staff in the role of Project Specialist. I will be running the official social media accounts on Facebook and Twitter, writing State of the Thing, and eventually taking over the Early Reviewers program. If it involves writing, I will probably have a hand in it. To learn more about me, head to the LibraryThing Blog (https://blog.librarything.com/main/2020/12/welcome-meg/).
I'm excited to be here and glad to meet you all.
I'm excited to be here and glad to meet you all.
3lilithcat
Cool! Welcome aboard!
"books are given on Christmas Eve and people spend the evening at home reading."
Ha. That's like every Christmas for my entire life.
"books are given on Christmas Eve and people spend the evening at home reading."
Ha. That's like every Christmas for my entire life.
6amanda4242
Welcome!
7krazy4katz
Nice to meet you! I hope you enjoy your work at LT.
8SandraArdnas
Welcome and congrats!
Following the interesting link in the blog post makes me think I should move to Iceland. (Except climate.)
Following the interesting link in the blog post makes me think I should move to Iceland. (Except climate.)
9norabelle414
Welcome, Meg!!
10megbmore
>2 rosalita: I am definitely late to the party on Mary Roach. I've read both Stiff and Packing for Mars in the last year and loved them both.
11megbmore
>3 lilithcat: We are usually visiting family, which I will certainly miss ... but everyone in my household is pretty excited for this new tradition!
12megbmore
>8 SandraArdnas: Iceland is on my list of places to visit. I want to go to the hot springs someday.
15Bookmarque
Welcome to LT from a NH native (now living in Wisconsin). I used to work in Kittery, so know the southern coast pretty well. Glad I wasn't there when they replaced the Memorial bridge though. What a PITA!
16timspalding
>12 megbmore:
I haven't been to Iceland, except for a layover in the airport.(1) But my wife and son went, and my son had a transcendent experience at "elf school"—a nice old guy who tells elf stories and had only one customer that day, Liam.
From my layover I learned one thing: airport food in Iceland is priced like the airport food of airport food. Lisa and Liam found the whole country like that. A librarian I knew vacationed to Iceland with a suitcase stuffed with Powerbars and other dried foods, to avoid having to buy anything there.
I haven't been to Iceland, except for a layover in the airport.(1) But my wife and son went, and my son had a transcendent experience at "elf school"—a nice old guy who tells elf stories and had only one customer that day, Liam.
From my layover I learned one thing: airport food in Iceland is priced like the airport food of airport food. Lisa and Liam found the whole country like that. A librarian I knew vacationed to Iceland with a suitcase stuffed with Powerbars and other dried foods, to avoid having to buy anything there.
17lilithcat
>16 timspalding:
Elf school! Awesome.
One of my sibs went on a hiking trip to Iceland a few years ago. She said that on a scale of 1 - 10, it was a 20.
Elf school! Awesome.
One of my sibs went on a hiking trip to Iceland a few years ago. She said that on a scale of 1 - 10, it was a 20.
18MarthaJeanne
>17 lilithcat: "She said that on a scale of 1 - 10, it was a 20."
I can relate to that. We've done everything from the airport transfer to a 24 hour stopover, to twice staying a week. I overdid the Icelandic wool and also cross stitch books. My menfolk dived between the continents. Each waterfall is more spectacular than the one before. Icelandic Skyrr is much better than the stuff they sell here, and nobody does fresh fried fish like the Icelanders. The bookstores have plenty in English...
I can relate to that. We've done everything from the airport transfer to a 24 hour stopover, to twice staying a week. I overdid the Icelandic wool and also cross stitch books. My menfolk dived between the continents. Each waterfall is more spectacular than the one before. Icelandic Skyrr is much better than the stuff they sell here, and nobody does fresh fried fish like the Icelanders. The bookstores have plenty in English...
19ablachly
Our layover in Iceland en route to Paris last summer made such an impression on my son that we had planned a week-long trip this year. Alas.
20norabelle414
>16 timspalding: I went to Reykjavik in January a few years ago and found it very reasonably priced as long as I was eating local foods. Fresh fruit, beef, and brand name products were expensive but I got a grilled fish kebob and a bowl of lobster curry for less than $10 and the famous lamb hot dog with remoulade and fried onions was less than $5. The prices might be higher during tourist season, though.
21.mau.
>1 megbmore: Welcome!
22Bettesbooks
>1 megbmore: Welcome
23karenb
>1 megbmore: Awesome!
24reading_fox
>1 megbmore: more welcomes!
25Petroglyph
Welcome aboard!
27NorthernStar
Welcome!
28rastaphrog
Since you've been around LT for awhile, not so much welcome as congrats on getting the job!
30megbmore
>15 Bookmarque: It was! My mother still lives in NH and getting to her took twice as long!
31megbmore
>18 MarthaJeanne: "Each waterfall is more spectacular than the one before. Icelandic Skyrr is much better than the stuff they sell here, and nobody does fresh fried fish like the Icelanders."
So it seems like my first vacation will need to be to Iceland.
So it seems like my first vacation will need to be to Iceland.
32MarthaJeanne
>30 megbmore: We have loved every visit we have made. It's homely and friendly rather than elegant. The one thing I did not like was the Blue Lagoon, which glued my hair together through a few shampoos. Rather a shame, as we were there our last afternoon, and I had been really enoying the way the sulfurous hot water in our guesthouse shower made my skin and hair feel.
I'm not sure I would want to visit this time of year. I like sunshine. We were there in 2008 for the summer solstice. We were on the shore at midnight to watch the sun dip down below the horizon and right back up. Then we headed back to our rooms while most of young Reykjavík headed downtown to celebrate. Their National holiday is June 17, and we really enjoyed the parade. Lots of national costumes.
If you are a fibre person, there is a wonderful textile museum near Akureyri.
Oh, and if you have allergies you will probably be able to breath. Most of the plants are different (enough) that you won't be constantly reacting. The plant life is not usually spectacular, but I got familiar with several small flowers that I really liked. Cotton grass was my favourite. My favourite animal in Iceland is certainly the puffin.
So enjoy working at LT, and go to Iceland once travelling becomes easy again.
I'm not sure I would want to visit this time of year. I like sunshine. We were there in 2008 for the summer solstice. We were on the shore at midnight to watch the sun dip down below the horizon and right back up. Then we headed back to our rooms while most of young Reykjavík headed downtown to celebrate. Their National holiday is June 17, and we really enjoyed the parade. Lots of national costumes.
If you are a fibre person, there is a wonderful textile museum near Akureyri.
Oh, and if you have allergies you will probably be able to breath. Most of the plants are different (enough) that you won't be constantly reacting. The plant life is not usually spectacular, but I got familiar with several small flowers that I really liked. Cotton grass was my favourite. My favourite animal in Iceland is certainly the puffin.
So enjoy working at LT, and go to Iceland once travelling becomes easy again.
33Crypto-Willobie
Welcome!
35libraryperilous
Welcome aboard!
39AnnieMod
>1 megbmore: Welcome, Meg :) Please star this thread so when you start getting exasperated with all of us, you can come back to it and see that we are all nice to people... most of the time :)
40sacredheart25
Welcome Meg! Everyone loves LT! I hope this works out for you long term. If not, short term is good too.
42johnxlibris
>1 megbmore: Welcome! I don't post much but I've always loved LT as an idea and I'm hoping to be more active on the platform this year. I got to meet Tim in person in a bar once and he seemed real nice. ;-)
43erinclark
Welcome to LT Meg! Excited to have you with us. LT is one of my very favorite things in the world and very glad to have you part of that:)
44flying_monkeys
>1 megbmore: Welcome, Meg!
46Geekstress
>1 megbmore: Welcome! I absolutely adore Library Thing and am always happy to see it to continue to grow. LT is on social media? Facebook? Or the others? I didn’t know! Or are those future plans?
Either way, so happy you are part of the Library Thing team! All of you are amazing!
Either way, so happy you are part of the Library Thing team! All of you are amazing!
48megbmore
>46 Geekstress: Yes! We are on Twitter https://twitter.com/LibraryThing and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/librarything
49susanbooks
Welcome, Meg!
50AndreasJ
Welcome, Meg!
(I'm more amused than I should be that your user name is almost an anagram of "beg me more".)
(I'm more amused than I should be that your user name is almost an anagram of "beg me more".)
51Brian.Gunderson
Welcome, Meg! Congrats!
52timspalding
FYI, Meg started a new group: https://www.librarything.com/groups/bookrecommendationsr
54mellymel171328
Welcome! Congrats!
55megbmore
Thank you everyone. I can't believe this is only my second week, and I already feel very welcome (and busy!).
56AntonioGallo
Welcome and congrats! I'm pleased to meet a human here in the Library.
58SandraArdnas
>57 MrAndrew: Are we having a Pratchett fans convention? Entrance with banana only?
59.mau.
>58 SandraArdnas: OOK?
60ForeignCircus
Welcome Meg and thanks for your help with my SantaThing issue this year. I spent a week in Iceland in late February a few years ago, and thought it was magnificent despite the cold. The snow was delightful, the driving still easy, the tourist load manageable, and the northern lights magnificent! I hope to return in the spring some year, but would heartily recommend a winter trip as well for those considering.
61Richard68
>1 megbmore: Hi Meg!
Am new member myself.
I hope I bring a new topic for an old matter in my search for info on an old edition of Hugo's "Les Miserables ," but this one published by D. W. McDevitt in Chicago, IL (circa 1870).
Worldca t has a reference
Am new member myself.
I hope I bring a new topic for an old matter in my search for info on an old edition of Hugo's "Les Miserables ," but this one published by D. W. McDevitt in Chicago, IL (circa 1870).
Worldca t has a reference
62Richard68
Last message incomplete and sent by accident, but to complete my greeting, Worldcat has a reference, but no info on it. The Library of Congress has nothing nor any other major resource.
Hopefully someone here can join my sleuthing journey.
Again, welcome to the world of PRINT!!!😀😀😀
Hopefully someone here can join my sleuthing journey.
Again, welcome to the world of PRINT!!!😀😀😀
64Richard68
Queried City Library of Reykjavik and they returned "No Results."
But, not sure if that covered all 6 branches.
Still, TY 4 UR info & effort.
Rick
But, not sure if that covered all 6 branches.
Still, TY 4 UR info & effort.
Rick
65MarthaJeanne
Just watched Jan Haft's Magical Iceland on television. Lots of great shots of Iceland's fauna both above and below the surface of the water.
66Doug1943
Welcome, Meg ... through my casual browsing of LibraryThing, and of your bio, I learned of the Icelandic Bookflood tradition ... can it actually be? Why are those people so civilized? Didn't they used to be frightening Vikings or something?
67walterhistory
Hello Meg, You have a lot on your plate but you have this. Looking forward to "reading" your work
