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Und die Seele nach außen kehren by Konstantin Wecker

Reiseführer Amsterdam

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Jane Campion. Neuseeland. Kino von der anderen Seite

Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles

Unsere Geschichte in Flugbildern 5. Wunder der Technik im 20. Jahrhundert by Matthias Wolf

Götter in jedem Mann. Besser verstehen, wie Männer leben und lieben. by Jean Shinoda Bolen

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Favorite authorsDouglas Adams, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Helen Dewitt, O.Fred Donaldson, Anne Donovan, Anne Enright, Wolf Erlbruch, Alan Fletcher, F'Murr, Howard Luck Gossage, Mark Haddon, Bonnie Kreps, Annie Leibovitz, Anne Michaels, David Pogue, Oliver Sacks, Deborah Tannen, Bill Watterson, Tim Winton, Art Wolfe, Naomi Wolf (Shared favorites)

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Favorite librariesÖffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel, Bibliothek für Gestaltung

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Currently readingPlanet Earth: The Making of an Epic Series by David Nicholson-Lord
Annie Leibovitz at Work by Annie Leibovitz

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The World's Top Photographers' Workshops: Travel & Nature (World's Top Photographers Workshops) by Andy Steel

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Vinyl Cafe Diaries by Stuart McLean

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Something Missing by Matthew Dicks

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Wanderführer durch 132 Naturschutzgebiete der Schweiz die schönsten Pro Natura Schutzgebiete by Annette Barkhausen

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David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

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Meine Blumenmärchen by Hans Christian Andersen

Your comments are a ray of sunshine, Sunny -- thank you! I also enjoy Dr. Sacks writing (both subject and style) and now it looks as though I'll have to add Guy Claxton to my list. That's one of my favourite things about LT: learning about books and authors I might never have heard about, but for the people and recommendations here.

If you do pick up a copy of The Winter Vault (and you have a spare moment to write back), I'd love to hear what you think of it.

posted by mountebank at 9:25 am (EST) on Apr 17, 2009

Dear Sunny,

You kind comments (and your delightful username) made my day -- thank you! It's very exciting to hear from someone from as far away as Switzerland.

I'm sorry to say I'm not synesthetic myself: I do have visceral, colourful reactions to certain words, but nothing out of the ordinary. I think it's a fascinating condition, though, and love to read up on it. How about you? I see you have Born on a Blue Day in your "liked a lot" list -- I keep meaning to pick that one up. I also keep meaning to sign up for Bookmooch, but I haven't quite gotten around to it. It took me ages to even join LT (whereas I see you were an early adopter!) :)

I'm thrilled that Anne Michaels is coming out with a new book; have you read her poetry, or Fugitive Pieces (or both)? One of my favourite authors, to be sure...

posted by mountebank at 1:20 am (EST) on Apr 17, 2009

My cat might disagree ;-)

posted by BarkingMatt at 6:03 am (EST) on Mar 30, 2009

Sunny - you're welcome! Are you Swiss or do you just reside in Switzerland?

posted by existanai at 6:20 pm (EST) on Mar 15, 2008

"Monthly" is a relative term...

:)

posted by ablachly at 10:51 am (EST) on Oct 11, 2007

http://www.librarything.com/work-swap/41...

posted by sunny at 5:49 pm (EST) on Aug 1, 2007

Sunny --

I picked up [The Art of Looking Sideways] per your suggestion, and it is a very beautiful book.

Thanks for the tip!

I've only poked through it briefly, but it has already helped on a project. So there you go!

Thank you again.

Greg

posted by gregtmills at 11:01 pm (EST) on Jul 26, 2007

No, but I saw that you have it promintently featured in your profile. Tell me about it. It looks interesting.

posted by gregtmills at 2:49 am (EST) on Jul 19, 2007

So you're a Gossage fan. How'd that come about?

I'm a copywriter, and Gossage is a hero of mine. He was/is a very interesing man. Glad you appreciate him. He is hugely overlooked.

posted by gregtmills at 11:57 pm (EST) on Jul 13, 2007

Hi. Thanks for explaining how to do a detailed search. You left the comment a while ago, but I just got it. Looks like there have been some updates to the search features since I was llast on the site, too. Just wanted to let you know I appreciate the help.

posted by branadain at 8:35 pm (EST) on Jun 27, 2007

Iggyyyyyyyy!!! :D :D :D :D

posted by Tigre_og_Isbjoerne at 9:19 pm (EST) on Jun 26, 2007

Hello Sunny and thanks for taking the time. Now I understand the concept of HTML and copying it in I might play around a bit more. Trouble is that I really want to get on and read! Have a good evening Julie

posted by juliette07 at 12:09 pm (EST) on Jun 25, 2007

Thanks Sunny. I am a luddite compared to the likes of you and others but I do love learning!

posted by juliette07 at 12:09 pm (EST) on Jun 24, 2007

Marc 21 list

Found here: http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...

posted by sunny at 8:16 am (EST) on Jun 21, 2007

Power tag-searching: http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...

posted by sunny at 3:43 pm (EST) on May 30, 2007

User defined fields: August 2005 http://www.librarything.com/blog/2005/08..., September 2005: http://www.librarything.com/blog/2005/09...

posted by sunny at 9:56 am (EST) on May 30, 2007

New search:
It supports "all," "tag," "title," "author," "ISBN," "subject," "dewey," "LCCN," "source," "date," "review" and "comment." (You can use plural for all names too.) By default, it now uses the field "most," which is "all" minus subjects, reviews and comments.

posted by sunny at 5:47 am (EST) on May 23, 2007

Direct link to a post: / talktopic.php ? topic = 1443#13456

posted by sunny at 2:12 am (EST) on May 16, 2007

Ah, but for that exact reason I added it from a working library! ;-)

posted by Ottox at 10:14 am (EST) on May 7, 2007

Thanks for the followup re: At Home with Books. I'll look out for it. I'm definitely interested in Naomi Wolf's Treehouse that you mentioned. Born on a Blue Day is available as an Audible.com download, read by a narrator whom I hold in high regard (Simon Vance); I'm planning on that one for one of my transcontinental flights later this year.

posted by Seajack at 3:40 pm (EST) on Mar 18, 2007

I see you've gotten hold of a copy of "The Yellow-lighted Bookshop", so I wanted to recommend a similar book to complement it: An Alphabetical Life: Living it up in the World of Books by Wendy Werris.

posted by Seajack at 1:39 pm (EST) on Mar 18, 2007

I was off vacationing. Thanks again for the English humor. My family all enjoyed it too! When I was in college, I wrote a term paper on the use of a preposition at the end of a sentence. Apparently it is a big no-no in Latin and somebody (I never found out who) just arbitrarily used the rule for English too. There are lots of little anecdotes about it. One of my favorites:

Winston Churchill was taken to task by someone for ending sentence with a preposition. His response? "That is the kind of pedantry up with which I will not put!"

posted by xorscape at 1:16 pm (EST) on Feb 21, 2007

Thanks again for the help with the German. I'm finding these resources to be a useful push in the right direction. Languagehat had the right of it, by the way, though who can ever say online?

Best,

mindysullivan

posted by mindysullivan at 10:36 pm (EST) on Feb 16, 2007

Hi, sunny! I wish I could help, but I studied German 35 years ago (also for grad school) and as best I can remember, I just brute-forced my way through old issues of Kuhns Zeitschrift and Indogermanische Forschungen with the aid of a dictionary and basically knowing the subject matter already. I didn't much enjoy German, and haven't really kept it up. But I wish her the best, and I'm delighted you enjoyed The Last Samurai (and that I've inspired you to read it again)!

Steve (LH)

posted by languagehat at 2:49 pm (EST) on Feb 12, 2007

Holy cow! This is also great! English ain't easy...

posted by xorscape at 2:55 pm (EST) on Feb 3, 2007

Re. Fforde's book upgrades, I liked the "not" slipped into the second line...

As is customary with early book releases, there are a few bugs that made it through the rigorous testing procedures for which Fforde books have not become legendary.

Thanks for the tip!
Paul

posted by paulb at 10:37 am (EST) on Feb 3, 2007

Thank you, thank you! Both the link and cut/paste worked great! This is really funny...

posted by xorscape at 8:16 pm (EST) on Feb 2, 2007

I took a quick glance at the rules for writers early, early this morning but figured I would read them today (and go to bed!). But now I can't get back to them. And they were really funny!!! Can you send them back to me? Thanks!

posted by xorscape at 4:32 pm (EST) on Feb 2, 2007

It worked great. I think you have a great command of English!

posted by xorscape at 4:11 pm (EST) on Feb 1, 2007

New account message

posted by sunny at 4:43 am (EST) on Jan 18, 2007

Thanks for the pointer to the blog search technique. Benevolent hacking is so useful. ;)

posted by Linkmeister at 2:49 am (EST) on Dec 13, 2006

http://www.librarything.com/work-swap/11...

posted by sunny at 6:18 am (EST) on Nov 3, 2006

Rewrite LT

posted by sunny at 3:36 am (EST) on Oct 17, 2006

Thanks, Sunny. I can't wait till I read instead of just chew the books.

Liam

posted by Buddywuddy at 10:33 pm (EST) on Aug 5, 2006

I panic!

posted by Ottox at 6:48 am (EST) on Aug 1, 2006

Stopwords:

"Actually, "Act and Being" and "Culture and Value" suffer from the
"stopwords" problem. MySQL refuses to index certain words. The list is
MUCH longer than you might think. It's not just "the" and "a," but
"being" and "value" too. The title "We are not our own" has no indexed
words!"

posted by sunny at 11:30 am (EST) on Jun 20, 2006

Websites - design

posted by sunny at 3:37 pm (EST) on May 12, 2006

Humorous fiction

posted by sunny at 6:33 pm (EST) on May 8, 2006

get to page 2 in power edit: &offset=100

posted by sunny at 1:45 pm (EST) on Apr 26, 2006

tags that don't show up in search (yet): http://www.librarything.com/tag/tag

posted by sunny at 4:59 pm (EST) on Apr 19, 2006

combine tags:
http://www.librarything.com/combinetags_...

posted by sunny at 7:56 am (EST) on Apr 15, 2006

direkt link to my profile: http://www.librarything.com/profile/sunn...

direct link to a specific author in my catalog:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?...

direct link to a tag, sorted by year, descending; graphical view:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?...