Medlem: _Zoe_

Seriously, start that thread. Contextualize the issue a bit too?

skrevet af timspalding kl. 3:35 pm (EST) den Dec 18, 2009

Two stars? I hit the wrong button. Thank you for pointing this out!

skrevet af merryme kl. 10:40 pm (EST) den Nov 22, 2009

Hey, that was way too easy. Nevermind!

skrevet af sonyagreen kl. 8:49 pm (EST) den Nov 20, 2009

Hi Zoe:
I was wondering if you'd had a chance to start "Across the Endless River" yet and if so, how you found it. It's pretty slow going for me - can't bring myself to care about any of the characters in it. If it weren't an Early Reviewer book I think I would stuff it back on the TBR shelf - way at the back!

skrevet af Fourpawz2 kl. 12:25 pm (EST) den Nov 9, 2009

I'm simply stopping by to say how much I enjoy your posts on the 75 challenge thread!

skrevet af Whisper1 kl. 12:01 pm (EST) den Nov 6, 2009

Thanks! I'll keep The First Hebrew Primer in mind. :) My Hebrew is pretty well limited to dreidel terms.

skrevet af infiniteletters kl. 7:35 pm (EST) den Nov 3, 2009

Hrm. I'm only idly interested in Arabic as is. Alas.

I rated Gatekeepers high because I'm interested in how things work/how people live in general, and education as a subtopic. I hope you like it. :)

skrevet af infiniteletters kl. 7:09 pm (EST) den Nov 3, 2009

Do you have any recommendations for books that will teach Arabic in a more interesting fashion?

skrevet af infiniteletters kl. 6:46 pm (EST) den Nov 3, 2009

Thank you for recommending the ARC Junkies group, Zoe! Much appreciated.

Best,
Bronwyn / Penguin Canada

skrevet af PenguinCanada kl. 2:26 pm (EST) den Oct 26, 2009

Got your request, but I knew you figured it out already! :)

Madeline

skrevet af SqueakyChu kl. 10:00 pm (EST) den Oct 23, 2009

Your examples of possible areas of study both sound interersting. And I think I understand that you are primarily studying history - is that right? Are there many differences in the way that mathmatics has developed over time, and the development of other technologies? I hope you will, from time to time, keep us informed about the progress you are making through your studies.

skrevet af sjmccreary kl. 3:47 pm (EST) den Oct 18, 2009

Thanks for the reassurance about "popular" science. I'm not sure I understand it, either, but it's not unique to science. My sons are both musicians and they feel the same way about popular music. We keep trying to tell them that, as musicians, it's hard to make a living unless lots of people are willing to pay for your work. I imagine the motivation is slightly different in science, but if you're doing something truly wonderful, don't you want as many people as possible to know about it so they can sing your praises? (Not all intelligent people in the world are scientists, just because we can't do what they do doesn't mean that we can't develop an understanding and appreciation for what they do.)

I think it's fascinating that you are studying ancient mathmatics (and that certainly explains your nonchalance when discussing the Euclid book), but I have to ask, what kind of research can be done in a field that's already progressed onto something else? In any case, I'm intrigued and impressed. After I left that message last evening, I added 3 more wishlist books for a total of 24 for the day - a record, I think!

Sandy

skrevet af sjmccreary kl. 11:29 am (EST) den Oct 18, 2009

Hi, Zoe

Here are the 14 books that went on to my wish list today as a direct result of your conversation about Euclid's Elements:
1. God Made the Integers by Stephen Hawking
2. Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
3. Oceans of Kansas by Michael Everhart
4. Climate of Extremes by Patrick Michaels (I also looked at, and dismissed, The Coming Global Superstorm because it was written by television talk show people instead of real scientists)
5. Smithsonian's Earth ed by James Lohr
6. Magick, Mayhem, and Mavericks by Cathy Cobb
7. A Measure of All Things by Ian Whitlaw
8. Longitude by Dara Sobel
9. Physics for Future Presidents by Richard A Muller
10. The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
11. Science and Technology in Colonial America
12. Science and Technology in Nineteenth Century America (both are part of the Daily Life Through History series - didn't catch the particular authors)
13. New Theories of Everything by John Barrow
14. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould

Quite a few more caught my eye, but I was attempting to be discerning (and realistic) and trying to spread my list out over several subjects.

Before these, I had already added a few books today based on LT reviews (including your comments about A Long Way Gone), and then afterwards I felt like "oh, what's another one?" and added even more that caught my eye - all together I ended up with 21 new wishlist books today!

I see that you are working on your PhD - what is your field? (Probably some kind of science and now you are cringing at my selection of a dozen lightweight/popular science books!) Thanks for letting me "blame" you for such a delightful day!

Sandy

skrevet af sjmccreary kl. 9:34 pm (EST) den Oct 17, 2009

Hi There Zoe

I noted your comments on Ronicats thread regarding The Adoration of Jenna Fox. I loved this book. It is very thought provoking. I enjoy your thread and reading your comments posted throughout LT.

skrevet af Whisper1 kl. 9:14 am (EST) den Oct 8, 2009

(Adol. lit. course. Good class. I had avoided the entire idea of YA books for years before I took the class.)

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 9:15 pm (EST) den Oct 6, 2009

Ayuh.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 9:13 pm (EST) den Oct 6, 2009

Thx. I sort of fixed it following #36's advice, but tried to make it obv. it was an edit.

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 8:59 pm (EST) den Oct 6, 2009

Sho sho sho! that'd be great! ;D

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 8:46 pm (EST) den Oct 6, 2009

It's just an act; I'm basically copying the vulgar and comedic style used in articles on the pop. new journalist website cracked.com.

(Still dislike Meyer a LOT. And I'm still embarrassed on spelling her name wrong. Ugh. That sort of thing is one of my biggest pet peeves.)

skrevet af RSHabroptilus kl. 8:33 pm (EST) den Oct 6, 2009

Hot Review! Way to go!

skrevet af sjmccreary kl. 11:01 pm (EST) den Oct 2, 2009

Congratulations on your hot review listed on today's home page

skrevet af Whisper1 kl. 3:17 pm (EST) den Oct 2, 2009

Thank you for trying to explain that! You seem to have a far better handle on the concept of 'I am never going to read this' than I have. I still believe fervently that I will sooner or later read every book I buy. I imagine some post-nuclear date in the future when I may be confined to the house with nothing to do but read my way through my TBR pile. In fact, I've just been a bit confined like that since having surgery a few weeks ago which meant I haven't been able to drive. I thought that might do the trick but what did I do to beat the boredom? Went online to order a pile of books I may never get round to reading!

Must admit that also, as far as non-fiction goes, I do suffer a bit from believing in literary osmosis - there's a bit of me that thinks as long as I buy the books about a subject, the information will creep off the shelves in the middle of the night and find its way into my brain without me actually having to read it.

I've tried all kind of strategies to beat the habit, from 'no buying until I've read at least ???? from the pile' to reading my books in order of those with the smallest number of pages (so that I just might read a bit faster than I'm buying). None of them really work. I'm just stunned with admiration for anyone who can exercise that kind of self control! My only consolation is the knowledge that I really am lately findng fewer and fewer books I want to buy, because I've already got most of them so maybe it'll be self-righting in the end. Fingers crossed, anyway!

skrevet af Booksloth kl. 1:16 pm (EST) den Sep 26, 2009

Do share the secret,Zoe - how on earth have you managed to control your book-buying? In the past, I've given up smoking, drinking, even sex (and I haven't yet returned to the smoking) but book-buying?! If you've got any tips I'd dearly love to hear them.

skrevet af Booksloth kl. 11:29 am (EST) den Sep 26, 2009

Look at all your Latin!!!! And now I see that you are pursuing a PhD in classics. I'm envious of your youth and your persistence. One goal for my retirement (now going into its second wonderful year) is to read Latin so long that I finally can read Latin. My great-grandfather could, but I still have to translate. I wonder whether I can even do that since I haven't read anything to speak of in the whole first year. I haven't practiced piano either, but I trust that I will eventually return to my better self - assuming that I have enough time!
(I came here because I was interested in your comment on the "Pedants" thread. I'm sure that you know more grammar than I do.) The sad thing is that the young teachers now can't teach what they don't know - witness that experience of the teacher agreeing that a sentence had to be compound-complex because it was long. Oh my!
Well met!
Peggy

skrevet af LizzieD kl. 10:41 pm (EST) den Aug 12, 2009

Now I get it--now my library is de-cloaked again, though it could use a bit of updating.

skrevet af Branimir kl. 9:00 am (EST) den Jun 25, 2009

Thanks for explaining the 'pony' thing, Zoe. Now I feel were all speaking the same language at last - I was feeling quite left out there for a while. Am I getting over-sensitive or is LT getting more and more contentious by the day? These scraps seem to break out all the time on the most unlikely threads. BTW, you have a great library!

skrevet af Booksloth kl. 12:22 pm (EST) den Jun 19, 2009

Love your library in the new cover mode—a sea of Green and Yellows, Oxfords, Teubners... gorgeous!

skrevet af timspalding kl. 1:40 am (EST) den May 27, 2009

You misread what I wrote. It is you who are skinning readafew alive.

And, may I ask, why on earth would you 'lower yourself' to read threads in a group you don't believe should be allowed to exist?

skrevet af clamairy kl. 10:08 am (EST) den May 21, 2009

Hi Zoe,

Well, we do post the upcoming author chats on the main author chat page. But I agree, we need to make it more visible. I'm thinking we need to add it as a homepage module somehow...

Abby

skrevet af ablachly kl. 3:51 pm (EST) den Apr 27, 2009

What? People are saying you can't talk about the Twilight books?

skrevet af timspalding kl. 2:38 am (EST) den Apr 8, 2009

Just saying "hi", I live in Toronto too.

If you were to die today what do you think would be on the other side?
http://www.torontobaptist.org

skrevet af bluemurdoch kl. 5:54 pm (EST) den Apr 2, 2009

The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare
by Joseph Addison

The Lord my pasture shall prepare
And feed me with a shepherds care;
His presence shall my wants supply
And guard me with a watchful eye;
My noonday walks He shall attend
And all my midnight hours defend.

When in the sultry glebe I faint
Or on the thirsty mountain pant,
To fertile vales and dewy meads
My weary, wandering steps He leads,
Where peaceful rivers, soft and slow,
Amid the verdant landscape flow.

Though in the paths of death I tread,
With gloomy horrors overspread,
My steadfast heart shall fear no ill,
For Thou, O Lord, art with me still;
Thy friendly crook shall give me aid
And guide me through the dreadful shade.

Though in a bare and rugged way,
Through devious lonely wilds, I stray,
Thy bounty shall my pains beguile;
The barren wilderness shall smile,
With sudden greens and herbage crowned,
And streams shall murmur all around.

skrevet af theoldman kl. 11:50 am (EST) den Mar 25, 2009

good post about face book

skrevet af ckNikka kl. 7:59 pm (EST) den Mar 4, 2009

Lol why are you up at the crazy time of 7.30?

skrevet af Kira kl. 8:36 am (EST) den Feb 27, 2009

yeah, that is true, but I want to do it a bit later in life. I don't want that degree just for the sake of it, I want to pursue it when I will be able to get the maximum out of it and that might also include taking a break from corporate life for this purpose.

skrevet af PiyushChourasia kl. 9:02 am (EST) den Feb 26, 2009

I know the kind of people you are talking about. I am happy that you are doing something you like. As much as I do like finance, I would like to get a degree in philosophy/literature/classics later in my life. Anyways, with the current economic turmoil, everyone is looking at bleak employment prospects, specially fin people like me.

skrevet af PiyushChourasia kl. 2:40 am (EST) den Feb 26, 2009

23 and already working on a PhD in Classics!!! You make my life look so very miserable, I am 24 and still toiling my way through a MBA in Finance.

skrevet af PiyushChourasia kl. 4:22 pm (EST) den Feb 25, 2009

yo whats up so u know u have no picher i like pichers so ill be nice if u have a picher so later

love, perkydakota

skrevet af perkydakota kl. 6:51 pm (EST) den Feb 21, 2009

We got the same Early Review book? That's hilarious.

I actually haven't read it. It arrived after I left for England, so my mom read it and then dictated her review because I told her the purpose of the book was so it could have an early review. She's so cute.

skrevet af xaverie kl. 11:58 am (EST) den Feb 11, 2009

Zoe, I'd like to do some more development of the timeline too. We've recently hired some new programmer types so maybe I can get to doing some more experimental development. I'm not sure.
Regardless, the timeline only has two optional arguments
view=USERNAME which allows you to view another user's timeline
tlmode=x (where x=0 or 1)
tlmode=0 shows dates based on start/finish in the record, or, if none, date purchased
tlmode=1 shows entry date into LT

LegallyPuzzled has a good wikiThing page for the timeline in it's current form:
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.p...

skrevet af conceptDawg kl. 2:34 pm (EST) den Jan 14, 2009

Oh, no, that's fine! Makes perfect sense. Will put you on my private watch list, too. :)

skrevet af allthesedarnbooks kl. 8:52 pm (EST) den Jan 12, 2009

Oh, I hope it arrives today! We've only had two mail deliveries in the past two weeks. Our mailman refuses to come up our street if there is any snow on the ground, and we've had lots! The UPS guy has only made it once, and the only thing he brought was my SantaThing gift. I had to go out and buy presents on Christmas Eve to make up for stuff I had ordered online and didn't get. The Seattle area just doesn't do well with snow.

skrevet af janoorani24 kl. 10:23 am (EST) den Dec 29, 2008

Hi! I am just checking to see if you received your SantaThing gift. If so, I hope you like it! Regards, Jan

skrevet af janoorani24 kl. 10:05 am (EST) den Dec 29, 2008

OK, I've taken up you invite and 999. BUT, I'm going to use unlimited overlaps. So I figure I'm getting an extra category at no extra charge. Thanks!

skrevet af A_musing kl. 3:44 pm (EST) den Dec 1, 2008

Thanks for the 999 invite, but I'm sticking to 888 unless someone creates a 777 or 666 group (and, indeed, I'd be up for the 111 group if anyone wants to do it). 8 is enough stress, especially as I panic over filling out my last category this December! Even when I say I don't care about keeping score, well, I do. Though what I really need is an 8-8-16, given how many overlaps I have to weed out, as well.

Thanks for the post, and good luck on the Arabian Nights category - I'm going to be watching that one, and may imitate it someday. Great idea.

skrevet af A_musing kl. 3:12 pm (EST) den Nov 29, 2008

Zoe: You're absolutely right, it was unwarrented. My deepest apologies. If you've seen me around the site, I hope you know that post was really unlike me.

I thought you were responding to my "I feel stupid...What am I missing?" post.

Due to my dad's recent stroke, I've been off my meds for two days. My own fault, but it made me hyper-sensitive (not to mention paranoic, weepy, and generally looney tunes).

I just took my pills (had to find them), now if I can make things right with you, I'll feel much better. I am so sorry. Mary Lou

skrevet af MerryMary kl. 6:10 pm (EST) den Nov 7, 2008

Zoe, thanks for the invitation. I am going to approach this slowly, and with no timed goal, but what a wonderful way to expand my mind, organize my tbrs and see how much I've already accomplished. I have officially joined as of today, and look forward to seeing what's happening with this group.

skrevet af tututhefirst kl. 1:12 pm (EST) den Oct 30, 2008

I've actually acquired quite a few from BookMooch, now. I think I have.... 30? Somewhere around that number. Most are Sweet Valley Twins, a few are High (omg I have the full mini-series about Margo again!), and a few are even SV Kids. And yes, you are crazy, but only as much as any other serious LTer. :)

skrevet af Heather19 kl. 4:57 pm (EST) den Aug 24, 2008

Zoe, I so appreciate your Talk comments about privacy options (the lack of) on LT, thank you for your efforts to be heard. - ER

skrevet af EncompassedRunner kl. 2:28 am (EST) den Jul 27, 2008

I can't remember the Orientalizing Revolution well enough, but, when I read it, it was an eye-opener. I'm also a fan of his Creation of the Sacred.

skrevet af timspalding kl. 12:48 am (EST) den Jun 12, 2008

Whoops. Hit that too quick. I was pasting in "Have you read it yet?"

skrevet af timspalding kl. 1:39 am (EST) den Jun 9, 2008

Just finished Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis while waiting for a script to run. Left a review. Burkert persuades, but it still left me feeling empty.

skrevet af timspalding kl. 1:38 am (EST) den Jun 9, 2008

I think it was due to those two party poopers who invaded the group. I really told the one member off and he has now dissapeared :)

But, so did everyone else

I am going to send messages to the other members and try and revise the interest in the list.

skrevet af keren7 kl. 11:51 am (EST) den Apr 11, 2008

Hi Zoe

Are you coming back to Lt's list of interesting reads? Everyone seems to have abandoned the group and I thought we were having fun.

skrevet af keren7 kl. 6:39 pm (EST) den Apr 10, 2008

The grey stars were done per request from Tim. Just following orders.

skrevet af conceptDawg kl. 5:31 pm (EST) den Apr 8, 2008

Hi;

We're up and rolling on the GEB read at http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...
Looking forward to your comments. Jim

skrevet af torus34 kl. 7:33 am (EST) den Apr 1, 2008

_Zoe_, thank you very much for your advise about how to enter acquired dates faster. That will same me a considerable amount of time!

skrevet af EvilPlatypus kl. 5:46 pm (EST) den Mar 28, 2008

Oooh, thanks for letting me know about Dewey Decimal Challenge. I joined and am looking into it. I need to read more NF anyway. It isn't that I don't like it, but that I largely gravitate towards novels. This will be a good way to expand my horizons, I think.

skrevet af SunnyLea kl. 8:25 pm (EST) den Mar 25, 2008

Zoe

Thank you so much for the kind words on my profile page. It's hard not to give up, I requested over tweleve books...sad. But, true....

I'm happy that you got your book. Again, thank you for being so sweet.

xoxo
Star*

skrevet af AStarIsBorn kl. 4:42 pm (EST) den Mar 18, 2008

Thanks for the invite, Zoe, but I am going to decline for now. We are in the middle of house hunting and I am looking for a job, so I am a bit overwhelmed at the moment. I will probably take up the invitation at a later date, though. ~Stasia

skrevet af alcottacre kl. 7:37 pm (EST) den Mar 10, 2008

Most LT data isn't really deleted when it's deleted. "Deleting" data piecemeal from a database is a bad idea usually—it leaves holes in the files that get filled up, leaving the data fragmented. Instead, you set a "delete flag." When the delete flag is set, you don't show it. And then every once in a while (every couple months for books, for example) you delete everything with the flag and pack the data back together to fill in the holes.

So, if you went deleting like mad, we could restore.

skrevet af timspalding kl. 10:05 am (EST) den Mar 5, 2008

Incidentally, I absolutely reject the idea that Latin or any other language gives someone the right to pontificate on good or bad grammar. Latin is a language, no better or worse than Abkhazi or Cree. Latin has no special relationship with English not shared by, say, Albanian. And while Latin borrowing—much of it through French—is one of the things that makes English English, excessively Latinate English is more often a sign of bad writing than good.

Anyway, as a serious scholar of languages I hope you agree that there is no such thing as "bad" grammar anyway.

skrevet af timspalding kl. 7:22 pm (EST) den Mar 1, 2008

I am not saying et cetera but the English word etcetera, which, while derived from the Latin, is not the same thing. (Etymology is not meaning!) When used as a noun, etcetera means "A number of unspecified persons or things." English even uses the plural "etceteras," which is bad Latin, but good English. Anyway, etcetera is bad *PIE.

But then, the hoi poloi irks me. We are all irked by what irks us.

T

skrevet af timspalding kl. 7:10 pm (EST) den Mar 1, 2008

Thanks for the link!

skrevet af elvisettey kl. 10:18 pm (EST) den Feb 4, 2008

thanks for givibg me the title for the books i couldn't remember, you're a star

skrevet af starrylady kl. 4:58 am (EST) den Jan 12, 2008

Victoria is very cool and her classes are always great - enjoy!

skrevet af scaifea kl. 8:30 pm (EST) den Jan 11, 2008

Thanks for taking care of things this month for February's book. I don't know what happened I guess I got busy over the holidays and now that I am not working with YAs I have to make an extra effort to keep up on YA stuff. So, thanks again!!

skrevet af SheReads kl. 10:42 pm (EST) den Jan 8, 2008

Hi Zoe, Yikes! I have just realised that I never responded to your very kind invitation. My sincere apologies. I will be happy to join the group. I have promised myself to not spend so much time at work this year and to spend more time reading and on LT! All the best.

skrevet af XenaBallerina kl. 12:33 pm (EST) den Jan 4, 2008

_Zoe_,

I just read your post on the Reading Goals thread, and had to come check out your profile, since I'm a Classicist and had my suspicions that you might be too. And now I see that you're at Toronto - my dissertation adviser and one of my secondary readers just moved to your department in the last year (Erik Gunderson and Victoria Wohl, respectively)! Also, one of my advisees from Kenyon College (where I teach) is currently in the MA program in the Medieval Studies program there (Kelly Henry). Small ol' world, innit?

skrevet af scaifea kl. 7:23 am (EST) den Dec 29, 2007

I just opened a new thread on the “New Features” group to highlight the loss of tag vs. book searching. Feel free to respond. Hopefully if enough people jump on board we can get the functionality returned to how it was before.

skrevet af gregfromgilbert kl. 4:21 pm (EST) den Dec 10, 2007

I've been following the bug you have been discussing in the groups (no longer have the ability to search by tag vs. title). I was wondering if you have started another thread on this as I would like to speak up about it. I think the loss of search ability is a major pain.

skrevet af gregfromgilbert kl. 1:33 am (EST) den Dec 10, 2007

Hello,

Today I received this very new The Blackwell history of the latin language. So far, I have only glanced in it, but it looks great. It's a more modern version of the classical The Latin language by Leonard Robert Palmer. A description of the book can be found here:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book....

Higly recommended for those interested in the history of the latin language.

Best regards
Hans

skrevet af hnn kl. 11:55 am (EST) den Nov 8, 2007

Editing can be lots of different things, depending. I've mainly done specialized nonfiction book editing for small publishers (medical, computer programming, and numismatic books) - this is probably very different from, say, magazine work, or corporate communications. Much of it consists of making the commas and hyphens conform to some rulebook of choice, but if one is any good at it (and is good at picking up knowledge quickly) there can also be a fair amount of involvement in developing content - I'm in effect writing a book for a client at present. At big companies it can be a lot more rigid and controlled, though - it really varies a lot.

I don't find that editing gets in the way of reading all that much - like any job that uses the brain it eats time and saps the will to do anything that involves thought, but after a day of reading a dull, badly written manuscript it's a relief to relax with something interesting and well written. I think teaching has somewhat the same effect only more so - it's a very tiring and time-consuming job, but something intellectually engaging can be a good escape from it by contrast.

Depending on research topic, a PhD can be death on free choice of reading, but OTOH it's a great way to avoid the real world!

skrevet af E59F kl. 5:31 pm (EST) den Nov 4, 2007

Are you just doing a masters or also a PhD? If you find yourself trying to become employed with an MA in classics, you'll find that you're as suited to various forms of professional dilettantism as anything. At least that's how I think of editing, for example. People pay me to read stuff. Some of it is even interesting.

skrevet af E59F kl. 3:36 pm (EST) den Nov 3, 2007

Thanks for the invite, it looks fun! I love obsessing over lists... I'm currently doing this but I'm already about halfway through so I'll need new ones ;)

prezzey.

skrevet af prezzey kl. 3:03 pm (EST) den Nov 3, 2007

I think we wouldn't want it any other way!

skrevet af DoctorRobert kl. 1:01 pm (EST) den Nov 2, 2007

Thanks for the invitation to the Dewey Decimal group. It's a great idea for a group! But my reading list is already hopelessly (or hopefully?) long. I'll peek at the group posts now and then, however, to see what people have been reading. I'm sure many people will uncover great finds that they wouldn't otherwise have sought out.

DoctorRobert

skrevet af DoctorRobert kl. 11:41 am (EST) den Nov 2, 2007

I guess doing a degree in classics you end up reading the same sorts of things in large quantities; one can read only so many citations of the Aeneid before footnote fatigue sets in. Being kind of a professional dilettante, I spend more time reading about stuff I don't really know all that much about, so there's usually an element of exploration for me in the citations of what I read. Often they sound a lot more interesting than whatever it is that I'm actually reading :)

skrevet af E59F kl. 11:23 pm (EST) den Oct 29, 2007

I have joined rather a lot of groups - fortunetly (or not) most of them are rather quiet. I'm aware of DD challenge, but I don't feel it's really for me. I don't read much non-fiction, and there is more than sufficient fiction available to sate even the fastest 24/7 reader, which I'm not. It is a worthy goal to broaden one's reading horizens and attempt genres that don't intrinsically appeal, but not today.

skrevet af reading_fox kl. 11:01 am (EST) den Oct 26, 2007

Continuing from the TBR list thread, but moved here since this part has become personal chatter that no longer relates much to the idea of a DDC challenge TBR list....

I like reading the citations - I find all sorts of interesting stuff in them :) I find it irksome when they're put in the back, because I have to keep the book open two places at once to follow along the endnotes. I'll confess that I don't read the critical apparatus on editions of ancient texts, though, unless I really need to be picky about the wording of a particular passage.

Regarding the Annals, it's that indeterminacy of translation thing. The translator made an analogy on one point, which is the number of soldiers - a legion of 5000 soldiers is reasonably close to the size of a British WW2 brigade, for example - the problem is that the system worked differently enough that using some other point for the analogy would give a different equivalent. For example, the legion was the largest permanent focus of identity as a unit, so the British WW2 analogy there would be a regiment rather than a brigade. But it was a self-contained combined-arms force, so the best British WW2 analogy for that would be a division. And so on. It's an interesting problem really, because the same problem occurs even with less technical terms that people normally do translate, but it is a lot worse when it's a technical term like "legio" or "primipilaris" or whatever.

skrevet af E59F kl. 6:56 am (EST) den Oct 26, 2007

Zoe

Thanks for inviting me to the Dewey Decimal Group - what a great idea! I won't be joining it (I have enough problem reading the books I've got, and controlling my growing wishlist, without trying to complete a challenge like this) but I'll definitely watch some of the threads (and I've added Dewey categories to my library...)

skrevet af wandering_star kl. 6:48 pm (EST) den Oct 24, 2007

Zoe, thanks so much for inviting me to the Dewey Decimal group - this should really help me to branch out and read a little outside of my comfort zone.

skrevet af aemilys kl. 4:16 am (EST) den Oct 24, 2007

Hi, Zoe ~ Thanks for the invite to take the Dewey Challenge. It looks like a lot of fun. I've joined the group and will be checking out the posts periodically, but, until December 1, I'm going to be pulling way back on my reading and LT participation to do the NaNoWriMo challenge. Until then ~ happy reading!

skrevet af Storeetllr kl. 11:27 am (EST) den Oct 20, 2007

Hi Zoe, and thanks for the invitation to the Dewey Decimal Challenge - might keep an eye on that group and perhaps pick up this challenge in the new year - it sounds like a lot of fun. :)

skrevet af Kell_Smurthwaite kl. 5:32 pm (EST) den Oct 13, 2007

Thank you, Zoe. It's not as wide a variety as I'd like - so this should be perfect! (And what a neat way to structure it!)

skrevet af Eurydice kl. 12:45 am (EST) den Oct 13, 2007

Thanks, Zoe, for recommending the YA Reading Group. I have joined. I am also hoping to bring together educators who read, teach, discuss, booktalk, recommend, etc. YA books, that's why I created YA Fans in Education. I plan to present LibraryThing as a tool and groups as strategy for connecting and creating community at the North Carolina School Library Media Association conference next month. Love it!

skrevet af mthibault kl. 9:46 am (EST) den Oct 12, 2007

Thanks for your help with the poll on Read YA lit. Thanks too for all the posts. It seems lately, I can't keep up with anything and I am lucky if I get to spend time reading posts on LT.

skrevet af SheReads kl. 12:20 am (EST) den Oct 11, 2007

Funny you should mention that, I just mooched 4 Sweet Valley books from BookMooch today!

skrevet af Heather19 kl. 9:03 pm (EST) den Sep 11, 2007

That is so awesome! Where do you get Harry Potter in Latin and Greek?! I would love a copy!

skrevet af shewhowearsred kl. 7:37 pm (EST) den Aug 23, 2007

I can't believe you also have Regulus and Le Petit Prince. I thought I was the only one crazy enough to have one book in more than one language! Of course, I am worse-- I've got it in German and Filipino too!

skrevet af shewhowearsred kl. 10:18 am (EST) den Aug 23, 2007

I haven't looked at them at all yet, *goes to look*.

skrevet af Kira kl. 5:41 pm (EST) den Jul 11, 2007

Sorry about that. Not anymore it isn't. I was looking at the code and was amazed by that. I think it was just me--that it wasn't happening before--since the code was broken. When I un-broke it, it revealed the fact that--although working--it did completely the wrong thing...

skrevet af timspalding kl. 10:58 am (EST) den Jul 6, 2007

Thanks for joining the group! Feel free to invite your friends, start topics, and generally be as involved as you're interested in being.

skrevet af sapiens kl. 3:46 am (EST) den Apr 7, 2007

Random Comment - from someone passing by in Talk. Finding you have a new comment always brings some fun back into LT for me!

We seem to share a fairly eclectic mix of books - a bit of fantasy a bit of classics and a bit of "others"!

skrevet af reading_fox kl. 5:34 am (EST) den Mar 15, 2007

changed your mind about me zoe or just worried that anything that is said on that thread will just dig a deeper hole.

skrevet af SimonW11 kl. 11:05 pm (EST) den Mar 3, 2007

Thanks for the invitation to the group.

How is your 50 book challenge coming?

I'm on my 17th and 18th books....both non-fiction and am anxious to get back to some fiction, but can't see starting a third at this time!

skrevet af LynnB kl. 12:46 pm (EST) den Feb 14, 2007

Hi Zoe!! I had no idea about "Dark Visions!" Thanks so much!! I'm a huge LJ Smith fan as well! :O)

skrevet af punkypower kl. 1:16 pm (EST) den Feb 4, 2007

Oh, wow, I would say that some more people need to read Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures and get some better suggestions! Those are not really related at all! haha I am about to browse your books. :)

skrevet af Kailana kl. 5:53 pm (EST) den Jan 4, 2007

I finally catalogued all the books in my room, including all the books from this year's booksales. Since it was inevitable that I'd go past 200, I decided I'd might as well plunk down the $25 US. Today, I felt the need to get out of the house and see for myself that BMV store on Bloor. I also stopped by Annex Books, which is probably closing around mid-January. You can see the results of my shopping binge for yourself.

skrevet af Branimir kl. 4:22 pm (EST) den Dec 27, 2006

Thanks! I'll let you know if I do read it. :o)

skrevet af Eilonwy kl. 7:35 pm (EST) den Dec 22, 2006

I saw your post in a group somewhere and thought you can possibly help me. I've just finished 'A Great and Terrible Beauty' and I am not really sure if I liked it or not...it seems incomplete, and I can't really decide yet. I'm trying to decide whether or not to read the sequel. What didn't you like about Rebel Angels?

Thanks!
Eilonwy

skrevet af Eilonwy kl. 3:25 am (EST) den Dec 22, 2006

Thank you for the suggestion _Zoe_!! Uglies is a wonderful option. We read it for our YA book club last spring and the students loved it! I would love to do it again.

skrevet af SheReads kl. 2:22 pm (EST) den Oct 9, 2006

Zoe!! This is unbelievably awesome! I didn't think anyone else would use this library thing, I thought I was such a dork! Wow, looking at yours, you're completely dominating my library, I'm so jealous! My dream is to have the library from Beauty and the Beast, haha, but for now I guess I'll just have to keep accumulating. I don't work at Second Cup anymore which makes me sad because honestly, it was like the best job I've ever had. I don't care about the minimum wage! Do you know if you or anyone else will be going to any part of the International Film Festival? I'd love to join you if you are!

skrevet af Herzophia kl. 9:15 pm (EST) den Sep 6, 2006