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About me"Us", really. She's a Librarian and I live vicariously as a Librarian through her. In my other life, I do contract coding and some book restoration work. Our mutual interests are (in general) the Humanities and Natural Sciences. If you look at our catalog, you'll see that it's not limited to just those categories. We're each very much interested in whatever the other happens to 'discover', reading or otherwise.
"Spare time" activities include music, museums, antique stores, coffee shops, rock shops, hiking, and delving into craft-related activities. Diane Setterfield summed us up fairly nicely in her book The Thirteenth Tale -- "In the background is the hiss of the gas heater; we hear the sound without hearing it for, side by side, together and miles apart, we are deep in our books."
Currently Reading:
(He) -- The Middle Way: Finding Happiness in a World of Extremes by Lou Marinoff, Ph.D.
and --- Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer edited by Bret Anthony Johnston
(She) -- White Witch, Black Curse (The Hollows, Book 7) by Kim Harrison
Some books I have read recently: -- * = Review available
The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It
* A Short History of Myth
* The Strange Orchid
* Feynman’s Lost Lecture; The Motion of Planets Around the Sun
* What Happened: Inside The Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
* Almost Home
* The Little Prince
* The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
* The 28 Biggest Writing Blunders (And How to Avoid Them)
* The Right to Write
* The Art & Craft of the Short Story
* This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
* This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
* A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
* How I Got Published: Famous Authors Tell You in Their Own Words
* A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books
* On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
* Great Feuds In Science: Ten Disputes That Shaped the World
* A Great and Godly Adventure: The Pilgrims and the Myth of the First Thanksgiving
* Retained by the People: The "Silent" Ninth Amendment and the Constitutional Rights Americans Don't Know They Have
* How to Read a Book
* The Art of Reading Poetry
* The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems
* Cavender's House
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
How to Read a Novel
* The Child that Books Built
* A Princess of Mars
* Mr. Brisher's Treasure
Fatal Revenant
The Runes of Earth
In the Stacks
46 Pages
Missionary Position
The Elements of Editing
god is NOT Great
You Can't Read This
American Bookplates
84 Charing Cross Road
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
* Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
* Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian
* Evolution of the Gods: Exploring the Myths of Religion
The Laws of Simplicity
The Word Museum
Book by Book
Used and Rare
* Chauvet Cave: The Art of Earliest Times -- MrsHouseLibrary read and reviewed this one.
About my libraryThe name says it all! My wife and I have bookshelves in every room of our house -- 2 stories (the house, I mean), 4 bedrooms, LR, DR, Kitchen. A while back, we added 6 large bookshelves, and it took us a mere year and a half to fill them. We also got an additional 9 (smaller) bookcases when we took possession of WholeHouseFather-in-Law's library after he died. That added another 450+ books to our library. The other half of his collection was divided between the WholeHouseSisters-in-Law or given to Goodwill.
As of mid-October '08, the mantle of empty-nester has been bestowed upon us. We have converted my youngest son's bedroom to the Harrell J Odom Memorial Reading Room (named after my late father-in-law and author). We had six bookcases moved into that room before my son had walked the distance from our front door to his car with his last box of belongings.
Also, as a result of the above, we have been able to finally realize our dream to arrange all of the books in the house according to the Dewey Decimal System. It didn't go necessarily as planned (which was: one, maybe two major classifications per room). In the end, MrsHouseLibrary didn't want to lose the aesthetic and range-of-interests appeal of the books that reside in our living room, and she wanted to keep certain 'collections' intact. With that set of considerations, we ended up with one room housing four of the major classifications, and another containing three.
She's now complaining that her favorite set of books are spread out over four shelves in two bookcases in the same room. My favorite genre (Books about Books) are in four different rooms. So, Dewey is kind of a bust, but before we go to some other system, we're going to take pictures.
I'm not wasting time. I've begun an analysis of the Jeffersonian System -- circular library, major classifications are Memory, Reason, Imagination (or History, Philosophy, Fine Arts), which at first blush, seems like it ought to meet at least most of our wishes.
Ask us about the Library Hotel sometime.
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Currently readingThe Middle Way: Finding Happiness in a World of Extremes by Lou Marinoff
Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer by Bret Anthony Johnston
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posted by copyedit52 at 1:46 pm (EST) on Nov 8, 2009
--a Hudson Valley resident
posted by copyedit52 at 8:52 am (EST) on Nov 8, 2009
posted by urania1 at 1:34 am (EST) on Oct 27, 2009
posted by paruline at 9:12 am (EST) on Oct 18, 2009
Nice profile pic! You and your wife make a good-looking couple and look very happy.
I wish my book-stashing system was as organized as yours. I started out trying to simply shelve by author's last name but have since given up on that. Now, when I get new books, I put them in order by author's last name on the next available shelf. Also have most fiction/nonfiction separated. I have books stored in my linen closet in the hall. Need another bookcase but don't know where to put it. I've threatened to buy some 3-4 shelfers and glue them to the top of some small chests-of-drawers in my computer room. Hey, maybe that would really work!
Cheers!
posted by Boobalack at 6:04 pm (EST) on Oct 10, 2009
Did I mention that Stan Rogers performed in my school? That was thirty years ago, and I still can vividly recall him singing Barrett's Privateers and White Collar Holler. He and his band were so huge (and loud) in our school library, and he had a truly impressive stage presence.
posted by SylviaC at 10:06 pm (EST) on Jul 20, 2009
Now I have a new collection of books but not as much and the books are more mature than the ones I used to have.
I really love to read books; I try to go to the library as much as I can to borrow more books; mostly.......15 or more books every time I visit.
Oh and one time we went to the mall and my mother was asking me what shoes do I want but instead of buying the shoes I told her "I'd rather go to the bookstore". I know its silly to other kids that's why I am so glad to find other book lovers.
Do you have any books to recommend for teens or just for any age?
posted by ragulto101 at 9:45 am (EST) on Jul 10, 2009
But when I moved i had to give away my collection and started a new one. I must say I have a good collection of books now but I don't have as many as i used to have; but its growing.
I notice that we don't share any books; that must be because the books you read are mostly for adults and the books that i read are for teens and children.
Well HAPPY READING!!!!!!!!!
posted by ragulto101 at 1:00 pm (EST) on Jul 7, 2009
And my username is something I made up way back when I first started getting on the internet. I've been using it for over 15 years so I can't even remember. ;-)
posted by stezton at 8:08 pm (EST) on Apr 29, 2009
The pretty, fancy widgets (including the recently-debuted ones) use javascript, which LT doesn't allow on the profile pages. So, I use the graphical widget: here's the blog post. It doesn't show covers, but it generates a .jpg file that has your book titles, and you can put on your profile page just like any other image.
The URL for yours would be: http://www.librarything.com/gwidget/widg...
Just put that in an img src tag like you currently have for your book covers, and you're good to go! (You also have to tag your "currently reading" books.)
You can change how many it shows by changing the "5" after "num=", the title is after "top=", etc.
Because it's just an image, I like to have it link to my catalog view with my currently reading books displayed (so that people who think they're clicking on the title will actually wind up somewhere where they can see the books.) I'll put the code below... just replace the square brackets [ ] with angle brackets (and tag some books as currently reading) and you're good to go:
[a href="/catalog.php?tag=currently%20readi... src="/gwidget/widget.php?view=WholeHouse...
posted by fyrefly98 at 3:19 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2009
With your copy of 'I Love Books',you have experienced one of the most terrible things that can happen to any book or book-lover,a mutilated copy. The past owner certainly did not 'love' this book and that is a fact.
To business - well then,page 516 continues the Bibliography of Biography and Autobiography, needless to say,starting with the line Paul Revere and the World he Lived In.
The Bibliography continues with Cultural and Inspirational 517-520,Devotional 521-522,Economics and Sociology 523-524,Educational 525-526,Essays 527528,History 529-532,Imaginative Literature 533-534,Literary Criticism 535-535,Missions 537-538,Music 539-540,Nature 541-542,Poetry 543-544,Political Economy 545-546,Reference Books 547548,Science 549-550,Speeches,Journals,and Letters 551552,Travel 553-554,Vocational 555-556. Then comes the Index Header page.
I would deduce that the vandal involved thought he would like a handy list of books to carry about with him in his pocket,and as the book itself is a fairly bulky item,cut out those pages that he felt he wanted !
Hope the above information is of use,but if you want any more help with this, do not hesitate to get back to me.
The rating I gave the book, is because some of the information and indeed the style of writing is rather out-dated from today's point-of-view.
If you look at my Profile page,you will see how I manage to fit the 11,000 books in. This is with some difficulty I might say.
Best wishes.
posted by devenish at 4:27 am (EST) on Mar 29, 2009
posted by sgerbic at 3:08 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2009
Who says no one takes you seriously?
jadebird
posted by jadebird at 6:18 pm (EST) on Mar 3, 2009
posted by kleahey at 2:58 pm (EST) on Feb 13, 2009
posted by pechmerle at 2:20 am (EST) on Jan 7, 2009
What I noticed was that you belong to the group Fountain Pens. My husband has started to collect Fountain Pens but I am pretty green about what to look for and where to look. Any books/info/web sites you would suggest for this I would appreciate it.
Love your library!
Investory
posted by investory at 8:50 pm (EST) on Dec 26, 2008
posted by suslyn at 6:35 pm (EST) on Dec 8, 2008
I've got (SWAG) maybe 180 or more singlets that I'd like to clean up, but I don't pretend to know how
Please feel free to post the combinings that you would like in the combiners group thread "Please Fix this Book (I believe we are on #5)" -
http://www.librarything.com/topic/48755
It helps if you include the URLs (not touchstones) for the works you would like combined.
For instance you could post (from your library):
"I have a book in my library:
http://www.librarything.com/work/4302827
which should be combined with the following:
http://www.librarything.com/work/6162785
AND
http://www.librarything.com/work/6161271"
(I left them separate for now so you could see them - until some other combiner comes along and reads your post in the badge thread - I will fix them later if no one beats me to it.)
posted by PortiaLong at 12:45 am (EST) on Nov 25, 2008
posted by BarkingMatt at 6:55 am (EST) on Nov 23, 2008
I think 40 women chanting "Edward, Edward" would scare the bejezus out of me, personally. It is clear to me that Edward is cast in Heathcliff's mold, and I'm no fan of Heathcliff. But it is good to know that I'm not the only big girl who's been sucked into these silly books. I'm impressed that your wife can convert 167 people. Maybe she should start a cult; I hear they're real moneymakers.
posted by citygirl at 7:21 pm (EST) on Oct 9, 2008
Oh my! The Library Hotel is just so lovely! I've got to start saving so I can stay there some day soon! :) I've never been to NYC, and I was planning on visiting one of these days...
Ohh hehe we do love our coffee here, preferably strong. ;) Actually, I don't think it's too strong, I rather think American coffee is too weak! Haha. Yes, for me to get a caffeine fix in the US, it has to be Cuban coffee in Miami, or some other city with a heavy Latin American influence. Because otherwise, coffee in places like Starbucks, IHOPs or Dunkin' Donuts or a regular deli: weak. Anyway, I'm glad Panamanian coffee is starting to get the recognition it deserves (I come from a family that has coffee plantations, incidentally), winning international awards over Colombian coffee, even.
Re: your post in the "pets thread @ the GD": You're welcome! :) I think it's only fair that there are non-pet persons just as well as there are animal lovers in this big ole green & blue planet. You're a book lover (ohh the size of your library!), so that's fine by me. :D
Tess
posted by Delirium9 at 10:07 pm (EST) on Sep 28, 2008
Tomorrow, we are going for 2 days to London, which means a happy trawl round Charing Cross Road and Hatchards and a scrawled list to bring home for future Amazon purchases. Help me!!
Thanks again!
posted by TalulahBelle at 5:04 am (EST) on Sep 24, 2008
I was browsing through the local users thingum, and this is how I found you guys (we're in RR, too!) :) Our first child is out of the house (although not permanently - freshman year at college), and I'm just itching to turn one of the kids' bedrooms into a library. For Thanksgiving, my dad and husband put up 90 linear feet of shelves in our bedroom, and we ran out of space within a couple of weeks. We're hitting critical mass now with piles and piles and piles... I'm hoping that I might get more shelves sometime soon!
Nice to "meet" you!
posted by ehschwab at 2:48 pm (EST) on Sep 20, 2008
posted by readafew at 2:38 pm (EST) on Sep 15, 2008
On the same note, my husband mentioned to me yesterday, "You know, honey, we do have some duplicate movies . . . ."
My eyes are still twitching.
:)
Pam
posted by JolieLouise at 6:44 pm (EST) on Sep 5, 2008
That was a fantastic description of the Library Hotel! Thank you. I had never heard of it. I told my husband about it and he said, "Let's go!" But then, neither of us is a fan of big cities. :(
I enjoyed reading the profile of you and your wife. I like the way you write about the two of you. It's sweet and funny.
I see that you have recently read 84 Charing Cross Road. Isn't it great? I recently recommended it to a man who was looking for something at Barnes and Noble. He comes into the store every day - and probably reads a book a day. I make suggestions to him and sometimes he'll say, "Well, do you have any other suggestions?" and not read the one I'm recommending until he has run out of other ideas (though he keeps asking me for more recommendations). He did that with 84 Charing Cross Road (apparently I don't know how to make a book sound really enticing). Now he keeps coming back to me and asking, "Got anything else like 84 Charing Cross Road?" (He did the same thing with The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell - I guess when I say it's about "Jesuit priests in space" that just isn't the "grabber line" people want to hear. But he LOVED that one!)
Have you seen the movie of 84 Charing Cross Road? It's a terrific little film.
I love the picture of you and Mrs. WholeHouse. How long have the two of you been married? Mr. JolieLouise and I have only been married about 10 months. I'm still pretty possessive of my library and, at the moment, couldn't imagine "mixing" his with mine on LibraryThing. Whah! But we're both fanatic readers - like the two of you! Though I'm not willing to do it myself, I have had a lot of fun discovering couples on LT who list their libraries together. Very cool.
Thanks, again, for the description of the Library Hotel.
Pam
posted by JolieLouise at 8:14 am (EST) on Sep 2, 2008
Even the bathroom??? ;-)
I'm getting close--the living room/dining room contain more bookcases than any other furniture. Entry has some bookshelves; cookbooks are in the kitchen. They haven't infiltrated the upstairs yet, except for my current reads in the bedroom.
So what's this about a Library Hotel? Can I send my books on vacation when I run out of space?
posted by karen5l at 9:09 am (EST) on Feb 17, 2007
Kari
posted by karip8 at 11:03 pm (EST) on Dec 14, 2006