Stacia Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Read the lost Sherlock Holmes story found in an attic: Revealed for the first time, here is the short Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in an effort to save his favourite bridge in Selkirk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 This afternoon I finished the third book in Rhiannon Held's urban fantasy series ~ Reflected (Silver Series). It was an enjoyable read. Now I'm curious to know whether more books will be forthcoming in this series. Silver is the first book in the series. If interested, here is a link to an excerpt. Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beckster Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 I tried to read that book recently and abandoned it, wasn't enjoying it at all. It didn't strike me as very Twain-ish, but maybe I didn't stick it out long enough. Just sympathizing with your son! ;) I haven't tried Ivanhoe yet, but didn't enjoy my attempt at Waverly, and abandoned it too. He says thank you!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beckster Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 I wish I had suddenly found a few more feet of empty bookshelf. It might reduce the stacks of books on the floor. Nan YES!!!! Though a few more feet would hardly make a dent... agreed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 YES!!!! Though a few more feet would hardly make a dent... agreed? Agreed. I had written unfortunately, but it isn't at all unfortunate to have an embarrassment of riches. : ) Nan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 I finished Bring Up the Bodies last night. Wow, what a book, what a writer. I am def putting Mantel on my 'must read everything by" list. I am starting "Daughter of time" today. It is a mystery, which isn't usually my fave genre, but I've heard this is a great story. It is only 200 pages so I can finish it quickly. I try to read at least 350 pages a week. DH had to run his library today to do a small task and he is picking up "Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights" by Katha Pollitt for me. I need a non-fiction book after all these dramatic books, and this has been on my list for a while. DH is going out of town to a conference tomorrow, so I will have some quiet nights to read. ETA: I am reading The Daughter of Time by Tey. There is another book with the same title that is a time traveling romance. I am not reading the time traveling romance book, but the one about Richard III. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellifera33 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Today I remembered that my library does e-books. This is the only way I read these days. My "real books" that I've started are lonely on the shelf. I haven't been doing much reading of any type these days. We started a small kitchen remodel, only to find that ALL of the plumbing in the house was leaking and we had a pond in our crawl space. The last week has been devoted to drying out the crawl space and replacing the plumbing. I did get an amusing story out of it, though--on the day that our drain pipes were replaced, we didn't have use of the toilet for several hours. My boys were introduced to the joy of "watering a tree" in the yard. In the afternoon, just before all the systems were turned back on, my 7 y/o said "I'll be back in a minute, mom, I'm going to go fertilize a tree." "Okay hun." Wait, did he say…."Noooooo! Wait!" I had to explain to him why watering a tree in the backyard was okay, but fertilizing….yuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beckster Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Agreed. I had written unfortunately, but it isn't at all unfortunate to have an embarrassment of riches. : ) Nan No, it is not!! What is unfortunate is that we have all these other things we have to do that keep us from reading! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin M Posted February 21, 2015 Author Share Posted February 21, 2015 Good morning, dolls! Princess bride is a kindle daily deal today along with the whole How to Train Your Dragon series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 No, it is not!! What is unfortunate is that we have all these other things we have to do that keep us from reading! :) Right. Into our 24 hours of day and night, we need to insert an hour with tea or coffee in bed to read before getting started on the day, a reading siesta after lunch, and an hour or two before we go to sleep, perhaps called crepescule or something pretty like that. And having discovered how to insert things, we need to insert shelving that exists in the same space as our current shelving so we can double or triple or quadruple our space without needing more walls. Some people might need a whole library room behind their front shelves. When we were little, my sister and I used to invent castles. They always had libraries and special places for reading. If you could add a library onto your house, what would it be like? I think mine would be high up, with lots of windows with panes that opened all the way looking all directions (although I know that windows and bookshelves compete for wall space) with deep windowseats under which could be stored musical instruments and cozy bedding. There would be a fireplace with a me-plus-kitty-sized rocking chair. There would be a wooden table for laying out papers with armless wooden chairs (my kitchen ones are really comfortable) for playing music in, and a closet for the music stands to live in so we weren't always tripping over their legs and upsetting them. I think I would put glow-in-the-dark constellations on the pale blue ceiling and have cream-coloured wood paneling and lots of good lighting next to each place I might want to read (seem to be going blind in my old age sigh) and flashlights for finding books on the shelves. The floor would be more of our ordinary wood ones with orientals on them (wool ones - the plastic ones are impossible to get animal hair out of and where I am, there have to be animals). There would be pretty cushions on the window seats to add colour. The shelves would all have glass doors because anywhere I live is inevitably very dusty, housework being very low on my priority list. Would you organize your shelves? How? Nan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 If you could add a library onto your house, what would it be like? ... Would you organize your shelves? How? Ah, what a pleasant fantasy -- an in-home library! I'd discuss shelf organization with my in-home dream librarian to see what insights she or he might offer. I might also get input from my dream housekeeper, chef, and chauffeur. Hey, if I'm going to dream, I might as well dream big! Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Now there,s an idea - our own librarian. I think I,d make him or her be able to teach whatever languages and music I wanted to learn, and be an expert at finding the odd bits of information I,m always wanting, as well. I don,t want my books rearranged, but someone to help make suggestions of books to read next and ... Hmmm... Lol I seem to want this thread personified and siting discretely in a corner of my library waiting for me. But actually, I think having multipleeople is more fun. I take it back, Kareni, I guess I don,t really want a librarian. I already have one here!!! Nan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Now there,s an idea - our own librarian. I think I,d make him or her be able to teach whatever languages and music I wanted to learn, and be an expert at finding the odd bits of information I,m always wanting, as well. I don,t want my books rearranged, but someone to help make suggestions of books to read next and ... Hmmm... Lol I seem to want this thread personified and siting discretely in a corner of my library waiting for me. But actually, I think having multipleeople is more fun. I take it back, Kareni, I guess I don,t really want a librarian. I already have one here!!! Nan If it wasn't for the musician requirement, I'd say "it's a her." Coz I know her! She's so cool she has internet stalkers who send her info plagiarised from her own articles. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 This is the only way I read these days. My "real books" that I've started are lonely on the shelf. Ebooks and audiobooks are all I do these days. If I can't get it on my Kindle, I usually don't bother reading it. I finished two audiobooks yesterday and it took me by surprise because I hadn't really paid attention to where I was in each book. Suddenly I was getting the "Audible hopes you have enjoyed this program" message. :) The first was The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon. I was fascinated not only by how many people got caught up in looking for the mythical lost city, but also by the number of people obsessed with finding those who disappeared looking for it. I had put Out Stealing Horses aside when the Lost City became available through my library, so when I finished the first book I went back to this one. Apparently I only had a chapter left. It was okay. I was expecting to like it more than I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 If it wasn't for the musician requirement, I'd say "it's a her." Coz I know her! She's so cool she has internet stalkers who send her info plagiarised from her own articles. :lol: Can you elaborate the stackers part? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Can you elaborate the stackers part? Maybe, if I understood how you wanted me to. :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 I already have my own librarian. It's pretty handy, especially since he works for an absolutely huge research library. I can pretty much get any circulating book in the world that I want at any time, and keep it for as long as I like, as long as no one else wants it. It saves me from needing a huge home library. Not that I don't have one, mind you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idnib Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 I managed to go the bookstore today and not by anything for myself. This may be a first. I usually get at least a magazine or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Grrr... StaLkers lol. Why would they submit material to her? And why are they stalking her? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 This is the only way I read these days. My "real books" that I've started are lonely on the shelf. I haven't been doing much reading of any type these days. We started a small kitchen remodel, only to find that ALL of the plumbing in the house was leaking and we had a pond in our crawl space. The last week has been devoted to drying out the crawl space and replacing the plumbing. I did get an amusing story out of it, though--on the day that our drain pipes were replaced, we didn't have use of the toilet for several hours. My boys were introduced to the joy of "watering a tree" in the yard. In the afternoon, just before all the systems were turned back on, my 7 y/o said "I'll be back in a minute, mom, I'm going to go fertilize a tree." "Okay hun." Wait, did he say…."Noooooo! Wait!" I had to explain to him why watering a tree in the backyard was okay, but fertilizing….yuck. Ha ha! Clever catch, Mum! : ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Grrr... StaLkers lol. Why would they submit material to her? And why are they stalking her? They stalk her because she's cool. She's considered an expert in a rather geeky field, even though her PhD is in an entirely different discipline and she only does this stuff for kicks. I guess they submit material to her because they want to be thought cool by a cool person? She would think they were cool if they found new info she didn't know about. She doesn't think plagiarism is cool and more than the rest of us do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 They stalk her because she's cool. She's considered an expert in a rather geeky field, even though her PhD is in an entirely different discipline and she only does this stuff for kicks. I guess they submit material to her because they want to be thought cool by a cool person? She would think they were cool if they found new info she didn't know about. She doesn't think plagiarism is cool and more than the rest of us do. Ah. I see now. Well, she is welcome to be my librarian. I will just find a music tutor for the music part. : ) Nan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Here's a fun visual for book lovers. Of course, it's no longer Friday but .... Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathleen. Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 This week I read the "Collected Poems of Enda St. Vincent Millay" by Edna St. Vincent Millay. I just love to read her poems. My 8yo read another book about Egypt - "Pyramids and Mummies" by Anne Bolton. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Here's a free Kindle book that sounds intriguing. I haven't read it so I've no idea as to the content. Cobweb Bride (Cobweb Bride Trilogy Book 1) by Vera Nazarian "Many are called... She alone can save the world and become Death's bride.COBWEB BRIDE (Cobweb Bride Trilogy, Book One) is a history-flavored fantasy novel with romantic elements of the Persephone myth, about Death's ultimatum to the world.What if you killed someone and then fell in love with them?In an alternate Renaissance world, somewhere in an imaginary "pocket" of Europe called the Kingdom of Lethe, Death comes, in the form of a grim Spaniard, to claim his Bride. Until she is found, in a single time-stopping moment all dying stops. There is no relief for the mortally wounded and the terminally ill....Covered in white cobwebs of a thousand snow spiders she lies in the darkness... Her skin is cold as snow... Her eyes, frozen... Her gaze, fiercely alive...While kings and emperors send expeditions to search for a suitable Bride for Death, armies of the undead wage an endless war... A black knight roams the forest at the command of his undead father... Spies and political treacheries abound at the imperial Silver Court.... Murdered lovers find themselves locked in the realm of the living...Look closer--through the cobweb filaments of her hair and along each strand shine stars...And one small village girl, Percy--an unwanted, ungainly middle daughter--is faced with the responsibility of granting her dying grandmother the desperate release she needs.As a result, Percy joins the crowds of other young women of the land in a desperate quest to Death's own mysterious holding in the deepest forests of the North...And everyone is trying to stop her." Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 How many Oz books can you read before your Mamma brain rebels? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 How many Oz books can you read before your Mamma brain rebels? Less than one. (But that's just me. :lol: ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeacherZee Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 My parents used to have a library but when they downsized the library didn't fit in the new house. My dream library has deep window seats with big windows that look out over an ocean, big squishy chairs in front of a fire place and an endless supply of tea that is always at the right temperature. Oh and one of those bookcases that is actually a secret door. It has built in oak bookcases and lots of little lights that make pools where you want them. And a big desk with a comfortable chair. When I can't sleep I design my dream house. I usually fall asleep in the library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 I just finished 'From Russia With Love' by Ian Fleming, who also wrote 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.' What a diverse fellow! Oddly enough, I enjoyed the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Less than one. (But that's just me. :lol: ) Me,too, having been traumatized by the movie when I was little. I have no idea if they are even related but the very word Oz was enough to make me refuse to have anything to do with them or to deliberately expose my children to them. I rethought it a bit when I met someone who loved the movie and said she used it as a guide for life the same way My my husband and I use Pooh, a way to classify people and situations, sort of. Nan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loesje22000 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 :grouphug: , loesje. Hope you're all feeling better quickly. Thank you, We are feeling beter now, but still coughing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loesje22000 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 My library would be upon an Island without telephones, TVs or pets. Not a bridge just a ferry as connection. I might want to have a park to walk in with my book on nice days. No cooking requirements ( food often got burned when I am reading...) The shelves would be organized by language, and then by region/country of setting. As I have Tinnitus ( noises in my ear) I would prefer some easy listening music as background music. As dh works at home, a library in home will never give the same level of rest or peace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 It seems so darn luxurious to be able to multiquote again! (Thanks, OtherJohn!) Me,too, having been traumatized by the movie when I was little. I have no idea if they are even related but the very word Oz was enough to make me refuse to have anything to do with them or to deliberately expose my children to them. I rethought it a bit when I met someone who loved the movie and said she used it as a guide for life the same way My my husband and I use Pooh, a way to classify people and situations, sort of. Nan, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who dislikes the movie. I've never understood why it is so popular. My dc never liked it either. My library would be upon an Island without telephones, TVs or pets.Not a bridge just a ferry as connection.I might want to have a park to walk in with my book on nice days.No cooking requirements ( food often got burned when I am reading...) I love this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin M Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 Link to week 8 - please continue conversation in new thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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