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About mePhD in library science but lapsed librarian apart from my own collection, estimated at about 10,000 books, or whatever the number ends up being once the books are catalogued. It's a slow process because of course one keeps buying books and prefers to spend time reading them . . .and the response to them is more likely to be more writing, rather than cataloguing. Also am a writer by inclination & practice and a storyteller, and a sometime student of herbal medicine. Formerly an art teacher and gallery curator, now exercised mostly by fantasizing my ideal art collection. The ilustration (right) is from the catalogue of the major exhibition in London U.K. summer 2008 of fin-de-siecle (1849-1916) Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi, "whose work languished unremarked for years, but who is now regarded as the greatest Danish painter of the second half of the 19th century." (from Times Online June 21/08). The title of this painting is "Interior, Strandgade 30, 1908" -- his home with his wife, who was also so often his model, and is typical of the sense of stillness and mystery in his painting. I think of the woman as sitting quietly reading, her back turned to the world of domesticity, facing open doors leading to the light, therefore chose it as the most appropriate image for a "profile." Hammershoi's interiors always draw me in the way books do to other worlds.
About my libraryPoetry the priority -- but also heaps of fiction (including East European & Russian), cookery books, natural history, ecology, art, herbal medicine, philosophy. Some parts of the collection have been designated by personally relevant tags: "Nyborg Collection" for the storytelling and folk-tale books that are a resource for the storytelling part of my life; and "Rara avis" for those poetry books being kept in a separately organized collection because of their rarity, fragility, size or status as chapbooks or broadsheets. Am considering including,literary journal holdings eventually and have finally begun to add CDs: each time I listen to one, I enter it to LT collection: doesn't seem as daunting that way. Fringe benefit: spending more time listening to music, getting to know how much I've accumulated and also avoiding duplicate purchases.
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HOMAGE TO CATALONIA and Looking Back on the Spanish Civil War by George Orwell
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posted by bridgitshearth at 4:46 am (EST) on Nov 4, 2009
I think you do me slightly too much honour - I haven't actually read Ugresic or Krleža yet. I belong to a small reading group: we've decided that one of our objectives for this autumn would be to find out something about Croatian literature, so I asked around on LT and got some tips from LolaWalser. I'm looking forward to reading them - the Krleža arrived a couple of days ago, but Ugresic is still in the post. I wasn't entirely convinced by Chabon, as you'll see from the review I wrote yesterday, but I'm heart and soul for Wodehouse and Barbara Pym! I do enjoy the freedom of leaping around between genres and periods, though. I see you've got three copies of The Tin Drum, so you must be all right!
I'm not an especially visually-oriented person, but I happened to see the BBC film about Hammershoi a few years ago and was very struck by those interiors. Not enough to remember the painter's name the next day, of course, but it did make me think vaguely that I ought to visit Denmark again. One day...
Mark
posted by thorold at 3:37 am (EST) on Jul 17, 2009
Oh my. You are probably the go to girl for finding out the Canadian poetry scene. I shall definitely keep an eye on your collection. Plus, I am addicted to green tea!
I'm sorting thru my books as I am moving from an apt to a house. I might trade in some books (shame, shame) as I found a used book store that I can get credit at and they have some good finds.
Speaking of libraries, I used to work at OCLC in the preservation division.
Enjoy Kaminski's book. He's a great writer.
Lynn
posted by LynnW at 4:55 pm (EST) on Jul 2, 2009
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posted by weksler at 2:18 pm (EST) on Jun 15, 2009
posted by deliriumslibrarian at 12:35 pm (EST) on Apr 20, 2009
Shaida's book is much less aesthetically attractive. Few photos and those in sections; mostly hand-drawn illustrations and those are decorative rather than illustrative. The recipes are simpler, less complex. To choose but one example, both authors include the standard "adas polow"--rice with lentils and dates. Shaida uses 9 ingredients total; Batmanglij needs 16. I like having both because both strike me as "real" recipes. I fear Shaida errs on the side of simplicity and Batmanglij errs on the side of complexity. Neither is better, both have the virtues and their faults. If I have the time and patience, I'd probably lean toward Batmanglij because of my perception that it's likely to yield more complex dishes with more layers of flavor. But I'd also be happy to use Shaida and perhaps modify it with some touches from Batmanglij.
I don't know how much this helps. I suspect, because I happen to love this cuisine, that I really need other authors.
Let me know how you decide to proceed....
Dave
posted by Gypsy_Boy at 4:32 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2009