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Galeria: De Arte Y Vida af Margaret Adey

Eureka!: What Archimedes Really Meant and 80 Other Key Ideas Explained af Michael Macrone

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Om migI teach high school English, sophomores and juniors. I have four children ranging from high school age to toddler.

Om mit bibliotekMy library is primarily fiction. I love historical smut. I love psychological thrillers as well as rambling, wistful tales. I wish my library was as varied as it is extensive. I have books from one end of my house to the other. I have books in every corner of my classroom. At any given moment, I probably have half a dozen books in my car. I always carry a book in my purse.

I have recently been introduced to Boxall's 1001 Books to Read Before You Die. I am using this list as suggestions; I am not worried about being unfulfilled without all that Dickens or whatever. Most of what I have read on the list I read during college, but I am still working on it. I am considering both the new and old editions, bringing the total to 1284 - until they publish again.

I am currently reading:

2009 Reads - so far:
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Invisible by Paul Auster
The Scenic Route by Binnie Kirshenbaum
A Girl Made of Dust by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
Love and Summer by William Trevor
That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Out by Natsuo Kirino
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
The Way through Doors by Jesse Ball
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Guernica by Dave Boling
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
The Believers by Zoe Heller
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolano
Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
What Happened to Anna K by Irina Reyn
The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa
Breath by Tim Winton
The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt

2008 Reads:

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
The Quiet Girl by Peter Hoeg
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender
Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Reserve by Russell Banks
Soul Thief by Charles Baxter
Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Beautiful Children by Charles Bock
The Match by Romesh Gunesekera
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
Beginner's Greek by James Collins
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
An Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
A Father's Law by Richard Wright
Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
Johnny One-Eye by Jerome Charyn
Darkmans by Nicola Barker
The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger
Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science by Mary Roach
Maus - A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
Signed, Mata Hari by Yannick Murphy
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs
Maus - A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Speigelman
Trespass by Valerie Martin
A Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing
Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
To Siberia by Per Petterson
The Implacable Order of Things by Jose Luis Peixoto
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Indignation by Philip Roth
Whiskey Rebels by David Liss

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Læser for øjeblikketSwann's Way: Remembrance of Things Past af Marcel Proust
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned af Wells Tower
Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones: Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting For af Thomas Newkirk
Notes from a Small Island af Bill Bryson
Sarah's Key af Tatiana de Rosnay
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emaestra vurderede:
The Hour I First Believed af Wally Lamb

emaestra vurderede:
Every Man Dies Alone af Hans Fallada

emaestra vurderede:
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders af Daniyal Mueenuddin

emaestra tilføjede:
Love Medicine af Louise Erdrich

emaestra tilføjede:
Wishin' and Hopin': A Christmas Story af Wally Lamb

emaestra tilføjede:
Broken af Daniel Clay

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Beth- How are you? You always have such an impressive reading list! I saw that you had picked up "Everything Ravaged..." and "Everyman Dies Alone". I read & enjoyed both of them but the Fallada book is amazing and is right near the top for my best of the year. There are also so many books you've read recently that I "need" to get too! Hope you are having a great weekend!
Mark

skrevet af msf59 kl. 8:44 am (EST) den Dec 6, 2009

Thanks for the tip on the sound software and affiliated site. Will certainly check this out. Creating music, marrying it with my words, has added a whole new dimension to my work. Appreciated the info...and your interest.

skrevet af CliffBurns kl. 9:06 pm (EST) den Oct 5, 2009

Hi;
Mark and I have been discussing the possibility of another group read in November and want your input. We have narrowed it down to two books at this point. "The People of the Book" by Geraldine Brooks and "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield. So chat it up with friends or us and let us know if you are up for it and what you think. Probably the same plan as with "Pillars of the Earth" which seemed to work out perfectly for almost all of us.
Think it over and give one of us a shout.
hugs and looking forward to hearing from you,
belva

skrevet af nannybebette kl. 11:03 am (EST) den Sep 9, 2009

I'd love to have a reading partner for In Search of Lost Time. Let's stay in touch and see how things pan out for a fall read.

karenmarie

skrevet af karenmarie kl. 4:21 am (EST) den Jul 16, 2009

Hi, Beth- I see you are reading "Out". I just received my copy recently and I'm really looking forward to starting it. You should consider joining us in the "Pillars" read. It'll start on the 15th and be a good excuse to finally knock this one out. You should stop by Mark's 50 Book challenge some time and say hi!
Mark

skrevet af msf59 kl. 8:53 pm (EST) den Jul 8, 2009

Hi,Beth! You're absolutely right -- I haven't even browsed LT in months! I'm still reading 5 books a week, but my teaching schedule became so crowded over the last six months that I just didn't have the energy to both read and post -- so reading won out. I didn't have a planning period last term, and I won't have one this year either -- I'm being paid for the extra classes I teach, but teaching all day with only a 30 minute break for lunch is really exhausting.

I'm also still busy with my volunteer work. I'm serving on a mayoral commission about race relations, and still doing public outreach for CERT, not to mention being on the ERV team for the Red Cross (I get to respond to fires! So far no one's been hurt, so I can enjoy the excitement guilt-free, not to mention the scenery -- Sarasota has some darned good looking firefighters!) Next week I start training to become a hospice volunteer.

The latest books I've read are WAR CHILD, the story of one of the lost boys of Sudan who was sold by one of the elders of his tribe and forced to become a child soldier (he's now a pop artist in England), and THE WEIGHT OF A MUSTARD SEED, which is the "biography" of one of Saddam Hussein's generals during the 30 years of Saddam's reign. That was an awesome and informative book -- frightening in that it shows how ordinary people can become sucked in to both ignoring evil and then perpetrating it themselves. A truly fascinating book and one I highly recommend.

I stumbled on a series of books (only 3 or 4 written so far, alas) by a terrific author -- Michael Gruber. They're wonderfully fun, about a Miami detective whose mother is a Santeria priestess and whose wife is a scientist. Very well-written and engaging.

I'm also devouring a young adult author I just encountered -- Tamora Pierce. Her Immortals series and her books on lady knights in the fantasy kingdom of Tortall (?) are a delight.

On the serious side I'm reading Michael Shermer's WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE WEIRD THINGS -- he's one of the world's leading skeptics and does a lot of debunking of pseudo-science and psychic "phenomena". I love it! I've read a couple of books on economics too, but nothing I can heartily recommend at this point. I'm working my way through Susan Faludi's BACKLASH: THE UNDECLARED WAR AGAINST AMERICAN WOMEN and Gail Collins' AMERICA'S WOMEN: 400 YEARS OF DOLLS, DRUDGES, HELPMATES, AND HEROINES. The latter is terrific fun, the former a bit depressing. For pure fun I've just reread Barbara Holland's delightful romp called THE JOY OF DRINKING. Oh, and a bit late I picked up (for $1.00!) A YEAR IN PROVENCE, which I loved! I also just finished TOUJOURS PROVENCE, the sequel to the first book. Both were great fun.

And that's what I've read for the last month.

So. . .what's up with you these days?

skrevet af RachelfromSarasota kl. 9:58 pm (EST) den Jul 4, 2009

Beth;
Thank you for adding me to your group of interesting libraries. I am flattered and appreciative when someone finds my reading choices interesting enough to read through my titles.
I have been observing yours for quite some time and find the variety within very fascinating. I have enjoyed your profile and I love your profile picture. It makes me feel like a voyeur and like I am looking at two people in love in the city. Just like in the movies.
Happy 4th to you.
belva

skrevet af nannybebette kl. 9:47 pm (EST) den Jul 4, 2009

Beth- I'm sure you are aware of this but I'll say it anyway, you have "great" taste in books. That's one of the amazing things about LT, is that you meet all these cool people that know their literary stuff! I'm nearly finished with "The Shadow of the Wind" and it's been a lot of fun. I see you've read "Angel's Game". Are they about the same quality? I have both "Never Let Me Go" & "The Sorrows of an American" in my tbr. I love Murakami and I've read both of your recent works by him, along with "After the Quake", a short story collection. I'm planning on "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle", as my next choice by him, when I can fit it in. Downside of LT: way to many books.
Have you read "The Pillars of the Earth"? I'm hosting a group read on the 15th,it seems there are a bunch of us that have still not read it. I could go on and on, but I'll let you go and you have a great holiday!!
Mark

skrevet af msf59 kl. 8:35 pm (EST) den Jul 2, 2009

Hi Beth! I did read Anna Karenina about 3 years ago, and I liked it very much - but not as much as War & Peace. Anna is too much about high society life for my tastes. But thanks for the tip!

skrevet af Steven_VI kl. 1:09 am (EST) den Jun 25, 2009

I don't mind being in lack of friends (in general) or interests (in school). I'm sure there may be interesting people in high school, but don't expect much; I don't really mind either way.

As for college, unfortunately, the silly kids aren't weeded out. Just look at Stanford (a prestigious, well-known college in the area near me, though perhaps not so recognizable where you are); the kids were playing their musical instruments in a pool. Why, I ask, oh, dear God, why? Do you like damaging perfectly good instruments without reason? Do you really? Worst of all, the newspaper I saw that in was talking about them like they were wonderful. I'm flabbergasted, and, frankly, appalled.

I'm fine with uninteresting school days. I'm not much for excitement anyway. So long as things are calm, I'm good. ;-)

Thank you for commenting. It is heartening, though my reply may make it seem otherwise.

skrevet af Irieisa kl. 4:52 pm (EST) den Jun 13, 2009

Took me a while but I realize why few people "overlap" with my list: it's my age!! The books are ones I have accumulated over the past 70+ years (I'm now 86 years old) and tho they would be interesting to many they are not current, so would need to be found at library or booksearch places (Alibris etc.) I do hope tho that some reading my reviews will get the books and share my enjoyment. Thank you for responding on that thread.

skrevet af Esta1923 kl. 2:37 pm (EST) den Jun 2, 2009

Greetings Beth.

Hope you don't mind that I added your library to my "interesting list."

Good reading and hope to see you round LT.

Slainte!

Sean

skrevet af SeanLong kl. 10:18 pm (EST) den May 27, 2009

we kept them BECAUSE they're good books that we, as adults, can enjoy rereading.

As it's become something of a literary as well as a SF classic, you might be able to get away w/ LeGuin's "The left hand of darkness" or "the word for the world is forest" though HS kids would probably like LHoD better.

Another long shot - Naomi Shihab Nye's anthology of poetry, "This Same Sky", relatively modern, from everywhere in the world BUT the USA. It is an excellent anthology, containing works by some v. well known as well as pretty obscure poets. Poems are loosely grouped thematically.

sorry to go on for so long - both children's and "YA" lit have been favorites of mine - since childhood, when my mom had to send off to Blackwells, in England to get a lot of books that were unavailable in the US in the 50s

skrevet af bobmcconnaughey kl. 8:44 am (EST) den Apr 17, 2009

Seriously, if a local library has Rylant's book, [i had seen castles] check it out and read it - it's short, contains a host of issues explicit and implicit and is beautifully written. The points it makes are as valid to Vietnam or the Iraq war as they are to WWII. I don't think there's anything a board could object to, no, i'm SURE there's nothing objectionable, except ideas and excellent writing. As i mentioned in the first post, Cynthia Rylant is primarily a poet, and her prose writing reveals that w/out appearing precious or "poetic."

[Summerland] is long, but an easy book to read and chock full of "Americana" (albeit somewhat twisted). Chabon has turned into a major modern writer and while HS kids could easily enjoy other books of his [the Yiddish policeman's union] in particular, they would be harder sells to a conservative board. As would the other books i mentioned, although they're all v. good.

Feel free to go into our library and search on YA - we were pretty broad in what we included - but there are a couple hundred books labeled as such i think, and none are crp. We've kept them though our son graduated from college 3 yrs ago.
cheers,
bob -
Shakespeare and Antigone are great, and fine for HS (though does the board really know the whole story behind Antigone???) but those dog eared 50s-60s- "classics" didn't cut it then and certainly don't cut it now. We also read Lord of the Flies which is v. good, of course, but pretty nihilistic and not "fun" at all.

skrevet af bobmcconnaughey kl. 8:33 am (EST) den Apr 17, 2009

No offense at all taken! Sorry if it sounded defensive; it's so hard to get tone across in internet comments...

I really hope you get your curriculum settled. My girlfriend (the other half of the sollocks account) suggests Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (though that may be a bit advanced) or something by Sherman Alexie.

skrevet af sollocks kl. 11:25 pm (EST) den Apr 16, 2009

Hi,

Saw you liked Trainspotting, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reading my new novel and posting your comments here (as well as on a few other book-related sites). Thought you might like my novel since it's also about a group of disturbed kids and a bit dark. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like. Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

skrevet af cmtusa kl. 11:40 am (EST) den Apr 8, 2009

First of all, You'll notice my English is more broken. That's because I can't meet my English teacher until next year. So please accept my apology.

"It is not flour of a bag of mine"
You can replace flour with thougts and bag with brain or mind.
We also say, "It is not a "fruit" of his mind"; it is not something , she/he produced.
For instance, it can happen , a student of your, who usually is really bad at writing essaies, he normaly has poor ideas and most of the time barely manage to take C, one day he makes a wonderful work, no spelling mistakes, brilliant concepts. What would you think? I would think "for sure it can't be flour of a bag of his" ultimately he cheated.
I used this expression because I didn't want to take credit of something I didn't elaborate on my own.
The first one who asked himself , why we are so empathetic to a certain characters or stories and so on, was Sigmund Freud. You can find what he thought about this topic in this book: "The Uncanny" the chapter relating to these matters, twenty pages more or less I seem to remember, is titled "Daydreaming and creative writing"

Perusing at your library, I couldn't help noticing, you've got a good deal of novels which stories are set in (for you) foreigner countries.
If I may suggest to you two Italian authors worth reading, here you go: Beppe Fenoglio and Elio Vittorini

skrevet af grelobe kl. 8:03 pm (EST) den Dec 18, 2008

Hi there......yes, I loved "I Know This Much Is True" also! I've been waiting so long for another one by Wally Lamb. I read a portion of the first chapter (from another book website), and it looks great. Can't wait! I may have to purchase this one right away, rather than wait for the paperback version. :o)

Let me know how you like it, as you'll probably get through it quicker than I will! I go alot slower than you guys! lol

Have a good weekend.....

~ "Porchy"

skrevet af porchsitter55 kl. 9:27 pm (EST) den Nov 1, 2008

La, madame, you bring ze blush to ma sheek wiz your praises!

Glad to help, if I think of more I will share.

Cheers from some weird little town in Virginia
RMD

skrevet af richardderus kl. 8:36 pm (EST) den Oct 31, 2008

Hi There, gosh I think I want to correspond and then I get busy or lazy or I can't FIND people. Anyway, do you read Western books at all? I like Tony Hillerman, etc. But I just discovered Thomas McGuane.
I read murder mysteries a lot. But I love any book well written. I fell completely in love with John Dunning (Denver author) and Arturo Perez-Reverte.
No snow here yet...and too hot for me period.
mtnmamma

skrevet af mtnmamma kl. 6:32 am (EST) den Oct 31, 2008

Thanks for the advice on making friends. I am slowly finding my way around.
Jenny

skrevet af mumoftheanimals kl. 8:03 am (EST) den Oct 15, 2008

Hi there! It's been incredibly nice for so long I think I will be personally offended when the weather turns nasty! I am getting so spoiled!! I think it was around 78 degrees today, nice balmy breeze....ahhhh! I've been working too hard, so decided today would be a great day to "porch-sit" and catch up on my reading....hope you enjoyed your day as well.

Thanks for writing!

Have a great weekend.

skrevet af porchsitter55 kl. 8:06 pm (EST) den Oct 10, 2008

I have been off LT for a little while b/c of frenetically getting ready for DragonCon 2008 (Labor Day weekend) and the whole rush of going back to school. We started back August 11, with kids returning to class August 18. So far, knock on wood, my classes are going beautifully well! All the other teachers at SMA have had major problems with this particular class (I teach juniors) and I was a wee bit worried about that for a while. But if they're unconventional kids, they've met their match in me, who is anything but a conventional teacher. We're having fun and learning a lot together -- who could ask for more? Well, a decent salary would be nice! All those reading classes I took last year have really helped me reshape my curriculum and throw out the chaff.

I'm also taking some seminars on Economics at USF (the University of South Florida) this term, at night, which is about 2 hours away from my home, so I'm probably NOT going to be posting on LT much this fall. Not to mention that we're hitting the peak of hurricane season here, and both the Red Cross and CERT are gearing up into battle mode! So right now I'm kind of rushed off my feet.

Thanks for asking about me! I hope your year is going great!

skrevet af RachelfromSarasota kl. 11:10 am (EST) den Sep 7, 2008

I notice you have "I Served the King of England." It is one of my favorite books. This morning I heard (NPR) that it's been made into a movie. I was surprised to find rather negative reviews of this book here on LT. I wonder if you are liking it? (I hope so!)

skrevet af Esta1923 kl. 10:59 am (EST) den Aug 22, 2008

Thanks for your comments on Haruki Murakami! I don't know a lot about this writer but he sure seems prolific. I'm going to have to get busy catching up. What is your favorite of his, so far? Also, I really like your library and profile page. Well done! I also would like to read all 3 books you're currently reading. The tbr pile keeps growing! Mark

skrevet af msf59 kl. 8:40 am (EST) den Aug 20, 2008

Beth - Your book images look great! I clicked on all three of them and they brought me right to the book page, so you got it right. Now you can do what I do - just copy, cut and paste when it comes time to update - you've done all the hard work already. ;)

Tracy

skrevet af Talbin kl. 1:57 pm (EST) den Aug 7, 2008

Good luck teaching your research class!
There are tons of great sites for evaluating web information. Cornell has a very concise guide: http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/....
And here's a list I check out a bit, especially for incoming freshmen and our education students:
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/sch...

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me :) My email is kvandertulip@txwes.edu. Good luck with your lessons!

skrevet af kaelirenee kl. 4:09 pm (EST) den Aug 4, 2008

I just finished Painter of Battles.Wow. What I love is the extraordinary skill and power of the writing.I love to read almost any topic..what I admire is good writing.This author has written about such diverse topics. This book is about a war photo journalist turned painter who is confronted by one of his subjects. But there is so much knowledge, for instance, in the book about war and paintings--good grief...an entire new subject to explore.
I thoroughly enjoyed the love story piece in the book..he has unusual insight into women..his characters are quite
believeable.
DO try it and let me know what you think....
Peggy in Denver CO

skrevet af mtnmamma kl. 7:57 am (EST) den Jul 25, 2008

I lied....I need another thing....
have you--or any of your pals....heard of
The Book of Counted Sorrows?
I don't know if it is real, a book, a book of poems,
it is quoted in a murder series I read---
fantastic quotes....but I've never been able to find out if it is an actual book.
Thanks

skrevet af mtnmamma kl. 9:15 am (EST) den Jul 19, 2008

One other thing.....what did you think of "No country for Old Men".?
I also love movies and I thought that was one of the strangest ones I have seen...........
Do tell....

skrevet af mtnmamma kl. 8:12 am (EST) den Jul 19, 2008

Hi There, I'm back........but I bet no one knew I was missing. How did it get to be July? I'll jump right in. It's distressing to read the teacher's comments. Both my Mother and sister were teachers and I remember their struggles. I worry about my Grandchildren. I have been reading Arturo Perez=Reverte-The Painter of Battles. He is an extraordinary writer. I read so much that I LOVE to find a new, GOOD writer. And he writes about such interesting, different topics. I started with The Flanders Panel. DO give this author a try. I am from N Florida but now have chosen the West.

skrevet af mtnmamma kl. 7:22 am (EST) den Jul 18, 2008

Beth: I'm no expert in HTML - I figured out how to post covers with links by following the directions from Noisy's profile. Looking at his page, he's chosen to do something different, which is too bad because his instructions were better than mine will be! You can also look here to learn more. The big difference is now there are editions, so there where GreyHead shows "work=123455", now you need "work=1234556&book=654321".

Okay - here goes. No promises, but hopefully between these instructions, Noisy and GreyHead, you'll get it figured out!

On your Profile page, open the Edit Profile link. Go to either About Me or About My Library and copy the almost-working-link below into a blank area. Once copied, delete the (spaceMMMspace) - that is, delete the three MMM's and the space directly in front and directly behind the M's (I added these so that the HTML shows up here as text). Then delete the two ()'s and the two ()'s (I added the bolds to show you what needs to be replaced). Unfortunately, LT now truncates links in comments, so the stuff that is blue bold doesn't show all the way here in the comment. However, I'm pretty sure that it will work when you copy in your full link (instructions below).

< MMM a href="/catalog.php?work=45161&book=20076527" MMM >< MMM img style="height:120px; border:1px solid black;" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/034546..."/ MMM >

Now, open another window or tab and go to the LT book page for the book you want. In the URL for the book you want, copy the the stuff after "work=" (in my comment it's bolded and says "45151&book=20076527") and replace my text with the text you copied into the profile edit page.

Next, go back to the book page and right-click on the book image. Choose Copy Image Location. Then go back to the edit profile page and replace my text with the link you just copied (blue bold link in the example - should be between quotation marks - starts with http:// and ends with .jpg).

Now try saving your profile page edits to see if if worked. Try clicking on your image and hopefully it takes you to the book page (fingers crossed!).

If it worked, you can add more. If you want your covers to show horizontally on your profile page, then go back into Edit Your Profile Page, copy your brand new link, go to the end of the link and hit Space once, then paste the link in. Replace the two things that need to be replaced, save the page, and see if it worked.

If you want your covers to show vertically, then after your new link hit Enter then copy the link and make the edits.

Good luck - please let me know if it worked!!

skrevet af Talbin kl. 12:13 pm (EST) den Jul 3, 2008

About our lack of shared books -- I am only S-L-O-W-L-Y adding all the books I own (much less those I've read) to my library catalog. I checked out your drama section and I wanted to let you know I've read most of Shakespeare's plays (though, granted, I read some of them last about 12 years ago -- besides, I prefer to see Shakespeare in performance), most of Tennessee Williams, and both my kids performed in Anouilh's Antigone a few years ago. Have you ever read or seen THE LION IN WINTER? Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole (not to mention Anthony Hopkins) give some of the most terrific performances I've ever seen in the movie based on the play. And of course I've read Sophocles and Euripides (I was lucky enough to study these about 13 years ago with a master classics teacher -- great stuff), as well as some of Plautus' comedies. I've read and seen some good Arthur Miller, not just DEATH OF A SALESMAN, and Eugene O'Neill. However, those all those works are either on my classroom shelves or packed away in my storage unit (otherwise known as my garage), I will probably not get around to adding them to my library for quite a while yet -- I'm more anxious to add the books that I read and love, and reread often. Alas, I have so many books, and the library is just a few miles away -- I am just slothful enough to want to spend my off-hours reading, rather than cataloging.

Anyway, have a happy 4th! I'm volunteering at our city's fireworks display all day -- since two of my kids are grown and out of the house, and my 3rd adult daughter (who still lives with me) is working that night, I figured I might as well do something useful with my day. I just hope I can get back home in time to be with my dogs when the fireworks start -- they get frightened of fireworks and thunderstorms, both of which we have in abundance in this area.

skrevet af RachelfromSarasota kl. 7:54 pm (EST) den Jul 2, 2008

So far my summer's going very well. I am active in a community service group here in Florida: CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) and I've signed up to learn how to manage an emergency shelter and improve my emergency first aid skills with the Red Cross. Living in hurricane country (Charley missed my neighborhood by only a few miles), I want to be prepared to help my family and my neighbors. So I've been kept busy with that stuff since school let out in early June.

I'm also taking another class in helping kids to read. This one is not on-line, but, thank goodness, face-to-face. Of course, the real problem is NOT in the teachers nor even in the curricular materials, but in our a-literate society (as both political historian/philosopher Susan Jacoby and reading specialist Sharon Kane have noted). I'm reading Jacoby's latest book THE AGE OF AMERICAN UNREASON and it's making me as depressed as hell!

I'm glad you liked my remarks to geneg on education. Almost every caring teacher, as you've pointed out, knows WHAT the problem is -- but we are so strait-jacketed into a fairly rigid system that we are practically helpless to change it. I have absolutely decided that I'm going to work independent reading into my curriculum on a formal basis this year. But how I'll make kids truly accountable for their reading is a matter I haven't quite figured out. And of course, so much depends, not on a red wheelbarrow sitting in the rain, but on the kids themselves. I have had classes where even struggling readers were anxious to read; and classes where fairly fluent readers would do anything to get out of reading. I've been mulling things over in my mind -- but I have to hope that the class I'll be starting in 2 weeks can give me some practical advice.

We got our textbook for the course last week, and I've been skimming through it. So far, I'm not terribly impressed, b/c the author seems to feel that teachers should make sure they have accessible and attractive texts in their rooms, and she seems to place a heavy reliance on using fiction in the content-areas.

This is a problem for me. I have spent hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars over the past ten years in buying both young adult fiction and "grabby" and exciting nonfiction in the areas of history, English, and science. But I don't have ANY class sets of interesting books, which Sharon Kane (the author of the textbook on Reading in the Content Areas) seems to feel is vital. And down here, our schools have taken an enormous budget hit this year -- none of us are even getting step increases, in an effort to keep everyone working. There's no way, unless I get a grant, that I'll be able to acquire new (or even used) classroom materials. So I'm going to dig up the teaching material I was introduced to over the winter, in the last reading class I took, and see how I can actually use it this year in my classroom.

I have one great advantage going into this term. Every classroom in my school got six new computers last spring -- hooked up to the Internet. So I will be able to have kids break up into groups to do hands-on research right in the classroom. And I do have three class sets of history textbooks -- so I can work out something with those. I've found that my kids at SMA do well working on their own or in small study groups, and then presenting their findings to the rest of the class. This year I'm adding a wrinkle to these groups. Each group will have to make up a term list, a study sheet, and a test. I'll have the kids turn these into me a week BEFORE they do their class presentations, and I'll check them for accuracy. That way, the other students will have a grade incentive to pay attention to the other group's presentations -- which can otherwise be all too easy to slough off.

Have you checked out my own website yet? I'd love to hear your opinion on it. It's still a work in progress, though -- just keep that in mind!

What are you doing with your summer?

skrevet af RachelfromSarasota kl. 7:45 pm (EST) den Jul 2, 2008

i am absolutely loving the dorothy parker! it is [reventing me from doing my work actually. :) i sent you a friend request since we have 300 books in common. if you read anything else fantastic, feel free to share the love!

skrevet af amanaceerdh kl. 11:53 am (EST) den Jun 26, 2008

Thanks for the lengthier post! I love reading messages that are more than just a sentence or two in length (it reinforces my feeling of connectedness to a real person out there in cyberspace).

I'm still trying to figure out how I can lend out books to kids and not lose $$. I have kids & parents sign a borrower's agreement that they'll replace any lost or damaged book the student borrows; but neither of the schools I worked out has any way of enforcing this. One school, frankly, didn't even try to help me get back my books. And my current school, though wonderful in many ways, is not even legally allowed to withhold grades or new textbooks from kids even if they've lost every other book they were assigned (and some kids apparently owe over $100 just for lost textbooks).

Right now I have a policy that none of my books leave my classroom. But part of me feels I'm just being niggardly with my books -- and that's not a great feeling.

I'm having a problem accessing your web site. My computer is fairly new, but I'm having a dickens of a time installing the plug-ins I apparently need to read your stuff. Frustrating! My son might stop in tomorrow on his way home (he lives about 3 1/2 hours away from me) to see what he can do to help me with these downloads.

I get my best ideas from other teachers -- I've been known to prowl through the recycling bin in our copy room, just to see what ideas I can glean. And I'm just as open to letting other teachers use my stuff.

Speaking of which: my school's website is www.sarasotamilitaryacademy.com -- I'm sorry but I haven't figured out how to put the link right onto my posts. Anyway, once you get to the school's opening page, go to Departments (at the top of the Welcome page) and then Social Sciences, and then me -- Captain Wasserman (my title is purely honorary). I have a wealth of stuff on my pages (including a 3 year old pic of me which I'll have to update this year) -- feel free to take and tweak anything you like. I'd be interested in your comments on my pages.

Well, it's late, but I've missed my sleep window tonight. It's funny -- during the year I have to get up so darned early (up by 5:30 a.m. so I can feed the dogs & cat and make the l-o-n-g commute to SMA) and I stay at school usually until 4:00 -- so that I'm always ready for bed by 9 at the latest. But it's summer time, and the living is easy, so I've been doing very little this June (other than volunteering for CERT) and my schedule is really out of whack.

Oh, about the Tovani book -- if there's any way you can skim through it, I urge you to do so -- she has some really good ideas to help kids understand and remember what they read. I used her sticky note strategy a great deal with my struggling 9th graders. And if you are at all interested in other tips for helping low level (the new p.c. term is "emergent readers" -- bah!) readers with comprehension issues, I just took a 14 week class through the University of Central Florida on Foundations of Reading, and I did garner some really good ideas that high school and middle school teachers can use. Just let me know -- I actually have the tips on a Word document if you want me to send them to you. Just a thought.

Hope your summer is going well.
Rachel

skrevet af RachelfromSarasota kl. 12:32 am (EST) den Jun 25, 2008

Thanks for the suggestion about the book guide for teens. Do you allow your students to read magazines? Like many social studies teachers, I have a few boxes of National Geographics in my room, and I'm hoping to get a classroom subscription to THE WEEK going. I have also brought in lots of collections of short stories, mostly vampire/horror and I'm hoping to get kids who find the thought of a lengthy book daunting to dip into those.

What's your take on graphic novels? One of my best and brightest students loves them. Most of my students are more interested in nonfiction, which is fine with me -- as long as they're reading, I don't much care what they read. We need to build the addiction slowly. So I have some great books on war and weapons with terrific pictorials and shorter texts.

One more thing (you can tell how excited I am about chatting with another teacher, can't you?): do you allow kids to "borrow" your own books? I did that in when I taught 9th grade English, for a few years, and I really took a beating financially. While the school allowed me to send out a form for parents to sign requiring lost books to be replaced, the school refused to enforce the policy --and while I should be happy in assuming that my unreturned books were kept b/c kids love to read them, I'm afraid I'm not so sanguine.

So, unfortunately, I instituted a policy that Captain Wasserman's books remain in her room (which is open to kids, by the way, from 7:00 in the morning until 4:00 in the afternoon, including our lunch period).

skrevet af RachelfromSarasota kl. 7:01 pm (EST) den Jun 20, 2008

Ok. Found you again. I would like to converse with you. Do I go to MY page to look for other people's comments to me? And, can I post on my page to you?
Are there instructions anywhere that I didn't see?
Peggy

skrevet af mtnmamma kl. 8:03 am (EST) den May 13, 2008

I've noticed you on my "Members with your books" feature lately--you are quite high on my weighted list. Guess I should make it official--your library is interesting to me! :)

skrevet af Medellia kl. 9:48 pm (EST) den May 5, 2008

Thanks for you words of encouragement. I haven't given up on the Wind-up Bird and have only about 150 pages to go. It is becoming more compelling now and I am expecting it to finish with more oomph than it started. I really enjoy Murakami's writing style, and will attempt more of his in the future.

skrevet af judylou kl. 9:43 pm (EST) den Apr 17, 2008

Thanks for the comment. I have asked that same question about "failed" relationships.
I noticed you have almost 200 books tagged 1001. Some people are trying to add them all to their libraries. Are you doing the same? I know there are several that are next to impossible to find...

skrevet af perlle kl. 10:32 am (EST) den Apr 10, 2008

Nice sharing with me. 20 books. jamclash

skrevet af jamclash kl. 7:10 pm (EST) den Apr 5, 2008

Hi emaestra

Sure, no problem. You can find the music map on:

http://www.music-map.com/

Have fun! ^^

skrevet af Vonini kl. 3:21 pm (EST) den Apr 3, 2008

After looking at your list I think you would really enjoy [Bookseller in Kabul] very intersting read. My husband bought me [A thousand Splendid Suns] and [Kite Runner] so I am anxious to get reading both of them. I am currently reading [Three Cups of Tea] and enjoying it very much.

skrevet af investory kl. 9:35 am (EST) den Mar 30, 2008

Oh yes, Found Magazine is terribly dangerous. Great when you're at the dayjob, but terrible when you have real work to do! I love found objects. Some friends are doing a theatre piece using found materials, and I'm helping them to bring a version from San Francisco, where they live, to Chicago, where I live.

skrevet af margaretplays kl. 2:27 pm (EST) den Feb 28, 2008

Good Morning..Thank you for trying to help me. I just now found your note. Obviously, I'm having trouble navigating this site. As in, I now do not know where your comments to me are located...or if this is the place to answer YOU. SIGH.

I just want to go to my groups and talk(listen--read)about books. As usual, the web has too MUCH stuff...this site included.
It's too much to wade thru.
So if I can find you again, perhaps we can chat about books...
Thank you again.
AND it doesn't help that I have a new computer that I am learning.

skrevet af mtnmamma kl. 10:20 am (EST) den Jan 17, 2008

I haven't upgraded. I thought about it after I bought a laptop and thought I might use the synch feature. Instead, I just loaded the free version on my laptop and copied the database to an external hard drive. Anyway, hope you enjoy!

skrevet af jeanned kl. 1:46 am (EST) den Oct 26, 2007

I read Anna Karenina when I was in my forties. Now that I am nearing sixty perhaps I should do a re-read as you suggest and then go on to War and Peace. I recall that I did like "Anna" a great deal.
Have you read Saturday? This is my first read with this novelist and I am finding that while I love his prose and descriptive talents, I am unable to put it all together with the "storyline". I just cannot wrap my brain around it. I wonder if he writes poetry. I think it would be a good match for him. Everyone else out there seems to love this book. I am going back to Shreve, Radish, Quindlen, and Kidd with a classic thrown in now and then for kicks.
Thanx for the suggestion.

skrevet af nannybebette kl. 12:47 pm (EST) den Sep 15, 2007

I’d love to give you some other suggestions, but unfortunately the only other Amis book I’ve ever tried I couldn’t even bring myself to finish. London Fields was so slow and seemed so very pointless that I sold it within a few weeks of buying it. I have The Information and collection of his essays, but haven’t gotten around to reading either yet. I have a few of Martin’s father’s books which are supposed to be quite good, but I haven’t read any of those yet either…

I will say that if haven’t read anything by Nick Hornsby I highly recommend him. I say this because I have read critics who compare the two writers and I would say that there definitely are some close ties to the Rachel Papers and several of Hornsby’s books. (Hornsby’s humor is about a 100 times funnier. At least I think so.)

skrevet af inkdrinker kl. 10:24 am (EST) den Sep 15, 2007

Thanks - I will try Heaney. I've learned reading these to kids that an awful lot of epics really are better read out loud; there is drama to them, and the poetry really comes out, so reading them aloud really isn't just for the kids! But, as long as I have a captive audience...

It must be great fun to teach; somewhere, I came across a web site that had recordings of Beowulf in the original that were really interesting, and gave a great idea of the sounds of the original poetry. I'll try to find that if you haven't come across it - I think it would be great for students studying the book.

skrevet af A_musing kl. 9:31 pm (EST) den Sep 3, 2007

Thanks for your comment about Half of a Yellow Sun. I'll keep going for a bit yet, to give it a fair chance (I'm about 130 pages in), but if it doesn't pick up, I will be putting it down. I think my main problem is Adichie's style of writing - I didn't enjoy Purple Hibiscus and felt I had completely wasted my time persevering with that particular book (I must have missed the point, as I thought it was pretty pointless). I've got till Tuesday when the group will be discussing it, and if I haven't finished it by then, I know I never will...

skrevet af Kell_Smurthwaite kl. 5:25 pm (EST) den Aug 25, 2007

I'll fill you in on a secret: my life is pretty incredibly boring. I just have a knack for making it sound fascinating to others. It's a rare talent.

Honestly, I was mostly kidding when I went on that tirade. My friend suggested I 'engage' the readers. In retrospect, I think I came across as psychotic. I appreciate anyone reading my little ramblings!

skrevet af ellevee kl. 6:25 pm (EST) den Aug 14, 2007

Hi emaestra,
I'm not big on ratings, sorry. There are a very small number of books that I think are awful to the point of unreadability, and everything else is kind of down to taste. If you have specific likes/dislikes then I can give general recommendations, or if you want to ask about specific books I would be happy to tell you what I thought, but I want to avoid ratings for the time being.
Cheers,
Andy

skrevet af depressaholic kl. 6:40 pm (EST) den Aug 13, 2007

I see we have plenty of books in common - including some of Maugham's works, which is always nice to see. Plus, War and Peace! Go team!

skrevet af soylentgreen23 kl. 2:48 pm (EST) den Jul 29, 2007

In a post about organizing your books, you said that you separate classics and fiction? How do you define classic as opposed to fiction?

really, its pretty arbitrary, and based on my own feelings about a novel's literary value. the bookshelf in my bedroom is where i keep me "other fiction" stuff, and it's mostly comprised of science fiction and fantasy series, with a few other random books thrown in. because all my other bookshelves are out in the living room & dining room of my apartment, i guess the question i keep in mind is, "is it important to me that this book be one that is showcased in plain sight to guests?" of course, what i consider to be of "great literary value" and what others do is bound to vary, but it's my library, so my opinion matters most of all. *shrug*

skrevet af philosojerk kl. 10:28 am (EST) den Jul 26, 2007

I saw your comment that you finished Rant. After I finished it I kinda shook my head in puzzlement and thought, good grief Chuck, you can do better than this. If you haven't read Crash by J. G. Ballard, it's worth checking out. It shows what can be done with the car crash fetish and is one reason I wasn't impressed with Rant. Hope you find a really good read in the near future to make up for Rant.

skrevet af VisibleGhost kl. 4:45 pm (EST) den Jul 18, 2007

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