Oh, thanks, Carolyn!

You need never apologise for singing praises about anything I've written - I'm just desperately grateful for the attention! Thank you so much for buying Tiny Deaths and - even more importantly - reading the thing.

The award nominations are rather fun, aren't they? I'm also up for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize in July, so I'm having to dust off my best suit (and hope I scrub up okay and look reasonably smart). I'm honestly amazed the book's getting noticed. Being a short story collection from a small press, I thought it'd be released on to Amazon, drown, and never be heard of again!

Rob

skrevet af shearrob kl. 8:09 pm (EST) den Jun 12, 2008

No problem - the exposure seems to have had positive effects!

Regards
Tim

skrevet af senjmito kl. 5:32 pm (EST) den Jun 11, 2008

Hope you don't mind, I stole some of your ideas out of your 'about me' section! Great library you have BTW.

skrevet af Megami kl. 6:43 am (EST) den May 8, 2008

Hi, you might like my little video about Shakespeare & Company (www.literaturwelten.de). I missed Goldsboro Books in London´s Cecil Court in your list - they are just great and certainly have a wonderful inventory of signed books.
Cheers, Jonas, Bücherwelten

skrevet af buecherwelten kl. 3:15 am (EST) den Apr 19, 2008

Thank you for the welcome! Sadly I only *live* in Cambridge - work 50% in London, 50% from home. Completely awed by your library. I haven't added many of my books, but enough to know that the total is going to be a fraction of yours - my turn to be envious...

Looking forward to learning more about LibraryThing and poking nosily around in other people's books :-)

Cheers,

Rachael

skrevet af FlossieT kl. 5:02 pm (EST) den Apr 6, 2008

You are most welcome. - L

skrevet af avaland kl. 3:08 pm (EST) den Apr 3, 2008

I see that you have Roddy Doyle's The Deportees in your library but haven't gotten around to it yet. I just finished the book (loved it!) and posted a review. Amazing how well Doyle gets inside the immigrants' heads. The stories were at times warm and touching, at other times laugh out loud funny. When you get around to it, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Deborah

skrevet af Cariola kl. 9:19 pm (EST) den Mar 27, 2008

Hi – have you weighed in yet on the next book for Group Reads – Literature? The discussion thread is here. And Irish set up a poll for us here (it can be amended if there’s lots of interest in a book that isn’t on there yet). Hope to see you there!

Terri 'scuse the form letter ;o)

skrevet af teelgee kl. 1:21 am (EST) den Mar 27, 2008

Hey I see you have The Burial at Thebes,by Seamus Heaney. I just booked a ticket to go see it at the Peacock Theatre. Just wondering if you have read Heaney's translation or seen it produced?

skrevet af liamfoley kl. 1:29 pm (EST) den Mar 19, 2008

Hi! I found you here looking for people who had read Nicholas Shakespeare's Snowleg. This book was the first piece of fiction I've ever managed to make my father read--and he liked it. I'm not sure if it's the historical setting (we're West Germans, all of us, but my father seems interested in the GDR anyway) or Shakespeare's style or whatever--I haven't actually read the book myself yet, and realizing in full how silly and pointless a question this is, but: could you recommend anything, well, similar? If you can think of another book that deals with this historical setting, great, if you can think of some salient feature of Shakespeare's style that you have seen in some other author, cool too; even if you have a random idea based on nothing but intuition, I would appreciate it. I need to get my father hooked on this fiction thing.

Thanks!

skrevet af DanielZKlein kl. 2:06 pm (EST) den Feb 21, 2008

Hi Carolyn - Thanks very much for the link to the excellent Guardian article about Fred Vargas. I enjoyed it, and read much of it aloud to Bob (I've been encouraging him to read Vargas, too, though he's not a mystery reader.)
Best,
Maggie

skrevet af MaggieO kl. 5:38 pm (EST) den Feb 18, 2008

Hi Carolyn,

I play a mixture of Irish trad, American old-time country, 70's folk, and a little jazz/swing at several sessions around Dublin. I started a MySpace account recently and have started putting up some pictures--it's at www.myspace.com/donconlan As soon as I figure out the technology I'll put up some videos.

I've been to Birr a few times over the past few years as an English cousin of mine moved there with her husband--they live close to the GAA grounds there and are mad into hurling. Another cousin is planning to move there--he's married to the daughter of a former gardener at Birr Castle (from Czechoslovakia) so they're familiar with the place.

I didn't manage to get all my German books over to Ireland as when I was working in Italy I put them into storage and some of them went "walkies". I used to know some Irish in Hamburg back in the 80's, but i've no idea whether they are there now. I've still got lots of friends in Hannover, though, and go there a few times a year.

Don

skrevet af Hohenloh kl. 3:22 pm (EST) den Jan 21, 2008

I'm Irish too and lived in Germany for many years, so it was a major job moving back to Ireland (73+ cases of books alone). I'm only listing my German and Italian-related books on my site (so we share only 16) until I get a bit more time and perhaps a little more familiar with all that this resource has to offer.

skrevet af Hohenloh kl. 12:39 am (EST) den Jan 17, 2008

Carolyn,

Hope you don't mind that I added you to my intersting libraries list. I see that we share 83 books! Not unusual though seeing how you have 3,999 in your library!

Slainte!

Sean

skrevet af SeanLong kl. 10:16 am (EST) den Jan 9, 2008

Hi Carolyn

I definitely enjoyed reading Quarantine. I only discovered Jim Crace this year and have really liked the two books I have read by him - Quarantine and The Pesthouse. I like his understated style and the way he develops his characters. However, having never delved into the story of the life of Jesus and never having read the Bible, I think I missed (or misunderstood) some of the themes in Quarantine. But, I don't think that it spoiled the story for me at all.

I'd be interested to hear what you thought of it as well. Have you read any other Jim Crace novels?

Judy

skrevet af judylou kl. 7:42 pm (EST) den Dec 25, 2007