Medlem: myshelves

And as for Brideshead, don't you think Julia was just a substitute? It never did work out, and Charles didn't marry, as I recall.

Who wouldn't fall for Sebastian?

skrevet af littlegeek kl. 12:04 am (EST) den Oct 23, 2007

Hey, myshelves.

Yes, it's true that many people have homosexual experiences when they are young that don't really relate to their mature orientation. Still, homosexuality is about feelings as much as sex, and DD certainly seemed to have fallen for Grindelwald, given his temporary blindness and stupidity. Having experimental sexual experiences is one thing, falling in love indicates something else.

But I'm not a psychologist. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about!

skrevet af littlegeek kl. 7:03 pm (EST) den Oct 22, 2007

Myshelves,

thank you for mentioning the Hakluyt Society in the "Rare, Old or Offbeat" Group. That was exactly what I was searching for! Are you a member of that society or do you just buy their books occasionally?

Regards,
Julian Ipsen

skrevet af J_ipsen kl. 11:56 pm (EST) den Oct 10, 2007

Thanks for the information on The Post Reader of Fantasy of Science Fiction. I found it in a used bookstore and bought it for a few dollars. Now I just have to find the time to read it.

LucasTrask

skrevet af LucasTrask kl. 8:14 pm (EST) den Oct 10, 2007

You know, I always wanted to go to a launch. A few of my friends trekked out to see a shuttle landing once (being left coasters), but I missed it.

Must be awesome....

skrevet af littlegeek kl. 10:52 am (EST) den Oct 5, 2007

Myshelves: please check out the Green Dragon thread listed here. Thanks!

skrevet af JPB kl. 4:21 pm (EST) den Oct 3, 2007

You asked about the picture on my page... it is a special photograph by the artist Allen Bruce Zee. I orginally caught this picture in an art catalogue and it absolutly jumped off the page at me. At the time, the print was not going to be published but the artist decided to self-publish. He lives in Portand Oregon. I have spoken to him several times through email. You can find his poster at his web page at www.allanbrucezee.com Please go there and take a look. I bought the print and have it in my office. It is an absolute joy to be everytime I look at it.
Pastor John

skrevet af mrdrjohn kl. 1:37 am (EST) den Oct 1, 2007

Thanks for letting me know. That's what I get for cataloging while watching football, instead of focusing on one or the other :)

skrevet af collsers kl. 7:12 pm (EST) den Sep 24, 2007

I read your posts in the Short Stories group about “The Little Terror” and that you found it in The Post Reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Could you let me know what other stories are in the book? Thank you very much.

skrevet af LucasTrask kl. 12:34 am (EST) den Sep 22, 2007

LOL - yeah all of the nuns have kicked their habits up here. Only hard core catholics and the 'exchange school' nunish types continue with the old ways.

skrevet af angelikat kl. 7:54 am (EST) den Sep 7, 2007

Good catch on the Wallabout entry - that's what I get for cataloging late at night.

skrevet af jbd1 kl. 3:05 pm (EST) den Sep 5, 2007

Re: Wallabout - fixed; De Witt should have been an added author, and I'm not sure why the title got so truncated - the full title is in the summary field now. - Jeremy (jbd1), for TJ

skrevet af ThomasJefferson kl. 2:31 pm (EST) den Sep 5, 2007

Hello, myshelves,

Regarding your observation that "the top 50 on the front page doesn't show the same libraries, numbers, etc., in the same order, as the top 1000, and hasn't for weeks. #1 of the top 50 on the front page hasn't been #1 of the top 1000 for a long time," I'm afraid I'm partially responsible for that situation. You see, almost a year ago when I'd dropped from a high of 41st to 51st on the largest libraries list, I noticed two libraries in the top 50 called "gorgebookstop" and "gorgebookstop.com." As these appeared to be commercial libraries/pursuits that went against the spirit of what LT was about, not to mention they were keeping me out of the top 50:), I e-mailed Abby about it and she wrote back "Oh, your indignation is justified! :) We just made a change to exclude organizational accounts from the Zeitgeist's listings, but it won't update for another couple of hours, at least." Thus, the "organizational accounts" dropped off the top 50 list. I pointed out to Abby in a reply e-mail that "the libraries (and bluetyson, too, which I've oft wondered about) still show up under the largest libraries "more" link. Will they (not including bluetyson, I guess, mutter, mutter--inflated library--mutter) be dropping off that list too?" She wrote back that for the time being they would be staying on the "more" list, which didn't make much sense to me because keeping "organizational accounts" on the larger list still keeps everyone who's a household library that's under one of those accounts that much lower on the list. And, you may have noticed of late, more and more libraries, businesses, etc., have been creeping onto the list. In my opinion, anything that's not a household library should be excluded from the top 1,000 list, but what do I know?

Anyway, I hope that clarifies things a bit for you. I'm posting the response here rather than on the bug collectors thread because I'm interested in seeing what Tim's explanation is one year later (if he ever gets back to the thread, that is).

Take it easy,

bookstothesky

p.s. Fer cryin' out loud, will you stop adding books?? You're about to pass me... :)

skrevet af bookstothesky kl. 9:59 pm (EST) den Sep 4, 2007

Saw your post over in Historical Fiction. I just finished Daughter of Time, and I'm glad to hear you say that Tey's research was strong - because I am now fascinated about Richard III and the real story. So your research validated her arguments?

skrevet af jagmuse kl. 3:23 pm (EST) den Aug 28, 2007

I'm sorry this took so long! I'm honestly really bashful when people start calling me smart and telling me that I'm way advanced; in some ways I am but in other ways I am blegh. Possibly my life experiences, which many kids my age haven't experienced, have made me that way.

Just because i read the books doesn't mean that I understood them. But thank you anyway. :-)

How exactly does one keep up with friends on here? ON Livejournbal everyone has blogs, but on here, do we just email or what?

skrevet af lilbrattyteen kl. 12:48 am (EST) den Aug 25, 2007

Hello! Thank you for adding me to your interesting libraries list. I'm not sure why you did, as my library is anything but interesting, though my reading preferences are markedly different from others my age.
Do you have a livejournal, perchance?

skrevet af lilbrattyteen kl. 2:56 pm (EST) den Aug 18, 2007

Hello again,
How is the Doyle family connection progressing ? I see that you have added me to your 'interesting libraries' list,for which much thanks.(its nice to feel wanted) I would like to reciprocate but obviously that is rather difficult at the moment.Also you seem to have no means of adding to the 'friends' listing which would be a nice alternative.You have discussed in one of the threads about part private/part public libraries.Any further up-to-date thoughts there ?
Peter

skrevet af devenish kl. 11:41 am (EST) den Aug 17, 2007

Hello myshelves, thank you very much for the nice comment!
I visit the Rijksmuseum a couple of times per year, mostly when there's a new exhibition. At the moment a large part of the museum is closed for renovations.
The painting you are talking about is quite famous. The problem with all the figures on it is that most are totally unknown and are probably fruit of the painter's fantasy. I CAN tell you that the central mounted figure is the Duke of Wellington, commander of the British and Dutch forces. In the foreground, to the left, is Prince William, later King William II of the Netherlands, lying on a stretcher. He has been shot in the left shoulder.

As for the Dalziel and Pascoe novels: I've read almost all of them. I also watched the BBC series, which are VERY good, especially the old ones. If you haven't seen them, you should! :-)

I hope to hear from you again and keep me posted on interesting books!

Kind regards
Gerben

skrevet af gerben1980 kl. 1:33 pm (EST) den Aug 13, 2007

Thank-you for the invitation, I am really just starting on the topic but hopefully this might spur me on and give me new ideas.

lk

skrevet af LittleKnife kl. 9:04 pm (EST) den Jul 31, 2007

I just went in as you and saw neither group in any of the topics on http://www.librarything.com/talk , going back many pages. Are you seeing them elsewhere?

T

skrevet af timspalding kl. 8:48 pm (EST) den Jul 31, 2007

Thanks for your kind remarks. Actually, I think the tapir was due for a break anyway.

The book I had in mind is The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes by Michael and Mollie Hardwick (1964).

Sounds like you may already have the info it provides - ACD came from line of Irish country squires, grandfather an accomplished caricaturist with four sons, one (james) a noted genalogist. Charles Doyle`s wife an indirect descendant of Cromwell , and had passion for heraldry which she shared with ACD.

There`s about five pages relevant to your interests. Can easily e-mail them if any use.

`Scuse hasty note - overslept today (suspect sleep will soon be a thing of the past).

All the Best,

nick

skrevet af nickhoonaloon kl. 5:41 am (EST) den Jul 31, 2007

Myshelves--the book in my catalogue is a book by John Parker about the History of the Netherlands written by Emanuel van Meteren between 1609 and 1614. This book, which appeared in multiple German and Dutch editions, does contain Dutch views on the Virginia colony, but to my knowledge this particular van Meteren never went there.

RG

skrevet af WilliamDorr kl. 3:16 pm (EST) den Jul 30, 2007

Thanks for the invitation, myshelves. =) I'd love to learn more about my family's history but I'm about 100% certain it's buried, given that half (the potato farmers) escaped from the former Soviet Union and the other half (the shoe makers) came from Italy and none of my numerous Italian relatives knows where to find any existing relatives or records! Perhaps I'll take a more serious interest when I'm older and can afford to travel and look around. I'll poke around the group and see if I can find any help, though.

skrevet af littlebookworm kl. 3:35 pm (EST) den Jul 29, 2007

Hi! Yeah, Rand in 5th grade....it was a book laying around my best friends parents house, who were great readers. I had actually heard of it somewhere before and was curious, so I started reading it. I don't remember finding it hard to read at all. What I remember getting out of it is basically, the individual trumps the collective, and one should not compromise oneself and ones own goals for any reason, especially when such a compromise would lead to the loss of individuality. I remember arguing with my mom that a person couldn't help others before they helped themselves. She said that was selfish :-)

skrevet af archaeofreak kl. 12:15 pm (EST) den Jul 28, 2007

Hi myshelves

Taking it off the 'Reality-check' thread to avoid cluttering it. You wrote "so much stuff isn't explained at all".

Do you have an example? In my opinion, all features should be at least mentioned on the FAQ page - if it isn't there, sending an email to Abby might be what I would do.

Best wishes :-)

sunny

skrevet af sunny kl. 2:37 am (EST) den Jul 25, 2007

Me again,

Just a very quick note re : the genealogy thing. I came accross a book of mine the other day with some information on the Conan Doyles,particularly the shared family interest in genealogy and heraldry. I remembered you asked me about Adrian once.

There is a small amount about the Conan Doyle family tree.

i imagine it would be very `small beer` to you, but if you`re interested, i could either e-mail you a page or two or something like that.

Might be a bit of a delay as currently moving furniture around at home, thus chaos reigns.

Nick

skrevet af nickhoonaloon kl. 12:20 pm (EST) den Jul 24, 2007

You wrote: I have 1709/1710 Palatines to New York. I've wondered if some of the ones in Ireland with the same surnames might have been related. Drop me a note at the e-mail on my profile with the particulars -- I've got a copy of Knittle's Palatine Migration, maybe your family is mentioned.

skrevet af Larxol kl. 11:29 am (EST) den Jul 18, 2007

It is never too late!

skrevet af Arctic-Stranger kl. 5:59 pm (EST) den Jul 17, 2007

You inquired about my Irish origins -- my great-grandmother and great-grandfather both came from small towns near Loughrea, County Galway. One of the families were German Palatine refugees from 1709; the other probably owed their migration to Cromwell.

skrevet af Larxol kl. 2:51 pm (EST) den Jul 17, 2007

Religion in fiction is an interest of mine, and I'm always interested in looking at libraries of folks who also find it an important enough component to tag. Plus, it points to like-minded people to chat with and all. I suspect we might have good book discussions.

I've just gotten a chunk of books in here and haven't tagged most of them yet -- tagging that first input and looking around on the boards could make LT a full time play-job!

I can't look over your catalog and see what fiction you've tagged religion -- what other books do you read/notice for the way they use religion?

skrevet af rudyleon kl. 4:51 pm (EST) den Jul 16, 2007

Pierre Berton does not lend to recitation, but he was one of the finest writers on the Klondike and the Yukon. http://www.pierreberton.com/

You actually drove to Lake Laberge? What fun! I can’t claim that, but I have hiked the Chilkoot Pass. Took the Marine Highway (aka Alaska State Ferry) up from Seattle to Skagway, and hiked from Dyea to Lake Bennett. The entire trail is part of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park, and the route is gorgeous. The sourdoughs were not low-impact hikers, and everything they left along the trail is now protected – from baby shoes(!) to huge boilers, to the folding canvas boats that the Mounties rejected at the summit.

We took the narrow-gauge White Pass & Yukon RR back to Skagway. It was terrifying – narrow gauge is a bit tipsy anyway, and the route wraps around steep cliffs. The engineer looked like he had been there since gold rush days – grizzly beard, stocking cap, plaid shirt, patched pants with suspenders, caulk boots. At the end we asked to take his photo with the train, and my friend asked how long he had worked on the WP&YRR. We just about fell over when he said 3 weeks! Never would have got on the train if we had known that.

We hiked the trail in June, for the long days, but I want to do it again someday, the right way. Go early enough in spring to do it on snowshoes, stash a kayak at Lake Bennett, and float down to Dawson.

Hadn’t read the Ballad of Yukon Jake, but I did find it online. Seems a bit mean-spirited when compared to Service.

skrevet af oregonobsessionz kl. 3:22 am (EST) den Jul 16, 2007

Thanks for the note. You can now change your favorites. You show up--as "private"--on author pages.

skrevet af timspalding kl. 11:07 pm (EST) den Jul 15, 2007

My mother's from northeastern Maine. You can see from my uncles land, a mountainside going down, a lake, an insland in the lake, the lakeshore on the other side, the ocean beyond the lake, and the west side of Nova Scotia on the Bay of Fundy.

They have a couple of seasons there. Winter, and the 4th of July according to some. Others claim that there is a Mud Season, (March, april May), although others call it Rock Season, because the frost forces up all the stones and rocks in the fields to the surface. The water penetrates the soil so much, that when it freezes, the expansion of the ice forces the rocks to pop up and sit atop the frozen ground. If you can get in the fields before the thaw, you can pick up a lot of the rocks and move them to the stone walls around the fields.

You can't go far in Winter with huge snowfalls, but from what the old timers say, they mostly never went anywhere. Just to the farm next door and back, once a week or so. The subsistance farmers, I suppose never really had to worry about going to market, they only grew enough to eat.

skrevet af McBadger kl. 1:59 pm (EST) den Jul 11, 2007

Hi,

I added a bunch of people to my "interesting libraries" this morning, including yours. Mostly they are users whose posts I've been following in TALK and have found interesting. I know your library is private, but I'm kind of psyched up with this tool, so I've begun adding a lot people to see what's there. I haven't added any "friends" yet.

cheers,
d

skrevet af dchaikin kl. 12:25 pm (EST) den Jul 11, 2007

Thanks for the Flashman invitation. Much appreciated. Apologies for my tardiness in accepting.

skrevet af samgb kl. 8:56 am (EST) den Jul 2, 2007

Thanks for the invite, Myshelves, gotta love a bit of Flashman - I'll check out the group

skrevet af Tane kl. 3:31 pm (EST) den Jun 17, 2007

Thanks much for the kind words myshelves, I really appreciate it. This was sort of a perfect storm of bad luck, but hopefully some of the stuff we learned fixing this box will help us run a tighter ship, and prevent outages like this in the future. Makes me feel awful when the site is down and people can't use it. Hopefully we're on firmer ground now. To keep on mixing my metaphors :-)

skrevet af JohnMcGrath kl. 7:52 pm (EST) den Jun 13, 2007

Thank you for the invitation to join the Flashman group. I've designated 2007 to be my "Flashman" year. I'm reading all the Flashman books and a few other books by Fraser. I've just finished "Mr. American" and starting "Flashman and the Redskins".

I'm going to London this summer and intend on visiting the National Army Museum. Their website (www.national-army-museum.ac.uk)has an online exhibition entitled "India Rising" which covers the events in "Flashman in the Great Game". I've also found the Flashman entries on Wikipedia to be helpful in providing historical background (and pictures) of the events covered in the novels. Thanks again.

skrevet af Potocky kl. 9:54 am (EST) den May 25, 2007

Cannot find the information that you want easily. I will however have a search through my 'Conan Doyle Society' Journals as there may be something there,but this may take me some time as there is no master index available.If I do come across anything I will of course let you know.
Regards

skrevet af devenish kl. 1:12 am (EST) den May 19, 2007

Glad to have been of help.I thought that "Out of the Shadows" was a useful book for you to have. Enjoy.
All the best

skrevet af devenish kl. 2:07 am (EST) den May 16, 2007

Thanks for the invitation. Any group devoted to Flashman/Fraser is worth a look.

skrevet af jscook8 kl. 12:06 am (EST) den May 15, 2007

Thank you for the invitation to the Flashman group. I have accepted, and look forward to reading the comments and participating as I can. Thanks again!

skrevet af Cascadian kl. 1:52 am (EST) den May 13, 2007

Thanks for the invite. Are you the troublemaker that started this group?

skrevet af dougwood57 kl. 11:33 pm (EST) den May 11, 2007

Thanks for the invite - i have added myself to the Flashman group - anyone who loves that series is okay in my book :)

skrevet af oszymandias kl. 4:02 am (EST) den May 11, 2007

You're right, it really is surprising that there was no Flashman group before now, given how popular the books are, and that they've been around for almost four decades. In any case, thanks for putting it together.

skrevet af bibliorex kl. 2:41 am (EST) den May 4, 2007

Thanks for the tip on the Summerhill book, I've fixed the author!

skrevet af msreed kl. 1:47 pm (EST) den Apr 16, 2007

Hi myshelves - thank you for the invitation to join Balletomanes. I have been a ballete addict since very young and am very happy to meet others with the same interest.

skrevet af XenaBallerina kl. 2:20 pm (EST) den Apr 8, 2007

I woke up this morning and the first thought in my head was "White Oak Project!"

Zippora was a soloist when I saw her, maybe she never rose above that. John Gardner, tho, was something else. He was the star of our school. During a performance of Nutcracker everyone in the wings was abuzz because he was doing entrecha huits - he'd only rehearsed sixes. Plus he was uber hot and no one was sure of his orientation so every boy and girl in the school had a crush on him.

Mischa in Russia, yeah that would have been cool.

Poll time!

Favorite ballet - Revelations, Trinity
Favorite company - Joffrey
Favorite prima ballerina - I can't pick one - Kirkland or Fonteyn I guess.
Favorite danceur - Misha, of course
Best corps de ballet - Dance Theatre of Harlem or Kirov

We really should start another balletomane thread.

skrevet af littlegeek kl. 11:17 am (EST) den Apr 6, 2007

Danilo I never saw live, but I think I've seen some video and he is in fact wonderful.

I'll date myself even further....I saw Nureyev when he was with Nat. Ballet of Canada. He was really old (in his '50's I think) and didn't have much amplitude, but the grace was still there.

I really love the old ballerinas like Fonteyn, Tallchief, Makarova. I saw Makarova live, too, she was fantastic.

It was really weird when I began to see people I went to school with on stage with big companies. I remember seeing Zippora Karz with NYCB (I went to her bat mizvah) and John Gardner with Baryshnikov's White Something project. (What WAS that called again?) Misha aged much more gracefully than Rudi, but then, I think he did fewer drugs.

skrevet af littlegeek kl. 3:15 pm (EST) den Apr 5, 2007

I will be dating myself if I say Baryshinkov (of course), Fernando Bujones, Ivan Nagy (met him, he's really nice). They all have great butts. I really haven't kept up in the last 20 or 30 years.

I used to usher for the ballet as often as possible and got to see lots of wonderful productions for free from the balcony. I think my fav was seeing Gelsey Kirkland in Gisele. Alvin Ailey's company doing Revelations and Jerome Robbins' Trinity and Adagio Hammerklavier are among my favorite ballets that I've seen live.

skrevet af littlegeek kl. 5:34 pm (EST) den Apr 4, 2007

Greetings, Fellow Sherlockian,

Just found your note re: Adrian Doyle. I believe there are one or two anecdotes about him that show him in a less-than-favourable light. I know there was an incident where a story by an unknown writer was wrongly attributed to Sir Arthur. On the writer making himself known, Doyle Jr was initially hostile, then I believe tried to threaten legal action to silence the poor man. I know he also avoided serving in World War Two, then, disliking the result of the post-war UK General Elections, emigrated annnouncing (I`m paraphrasing) that he didn`t want any this beastly democracy business if it kept bringing about outcomes he didn`t like !

Since my original message we`ve moved house and are not fully organised yet, so that`s based on my own recollections - not always the most reliable source - but I think that`s pretty accurate.

I wouldn`t let that put you off trying his story which I recall as being excellent - though it always makes me smile when both Arthur and Adrian set stories in Derbyshire (where we now live) but are clearly describing Yorkshire (where we often go on holiday).

You might be interested to know that I recently acquired a promising-looking book by David Pirie - short stories based on the life of Dr Bell, Sir Arthur`s inspiration for Sherlock. I think it has some connection with the UK TV series Murder Rooms, which also concerned itself with Dr Bell. Now I just need time to read it !

Best wishes,

Nick

skrevet af nickhoonaloon kl. 10:13 am (EST) den Apr 1, 2007

Thanks for recommending Poul Anderson's novel "Brain Wave". It sounds like it is right up my street, as they say. I will try to get hold of a copy.

skrevet af darrow kl. 4:03 pm (EST) den Mar 26, 2007

You have a wonderful profile quote. Thanks so much for putting me onto Tananarive Due!

skrevet af NativeRoses kl. 6:32 pm (EST) den Mar 24, 2007

That's a cool family story (I'm big into family history) and no one ever gave me a pony either. Having done some searching, I realized that way back in the day I was confused. The racehorse named Maude was famous in the 1880s and couldn't have been named after Maude Adams, but for some reason I thought she was when I was a teen. The horse was the subject of a Currier and Ives print and even had a glass pattern named for her, see http://www.mindspring.com/~reyne/qg943.j... . (Note that the dish is horseshoe shaped.) It's been a long time since trotting horses were nationally famous. Maude set a world record for the mile that lasted for 6 years. Should we regard this as an early blow for feminism?

skrevet af Dragonfly kl. 9:40 pm (EST) den Feb 21, 2007

Hello, myshelves. Isn't LT wonderful -- you can find one person who owns a weird title such as the Maude Adams Acting edition. There is a mention of the book in These Meddlesome Attorneys, by Edward Albert Bell on p. 755, "Notes on some of the Season's Books" which you can find in Google Books. There's also an ad for it on p. 2. My copy is boxed up, but it's a nice little blue book with a frontspiece picture of Miss Adams. My impression is that it contains an abridged version of the play that was used in the actual production, but I haven't looked at it for a long while so I may be wrong about the abridged part. There were not many stage directions. There is a picture of the cover at http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/maude... . I guess I will need to dig through my boxes. I think I bought this book when I was a teenager for some nominal sum. I don't remember where I bought it. My recollection is that I recognized her name because there was a race horse (trotter?) named after her (horse crazy kid obviously), but now I can't find anything about the horse!
How did your family become acquainted with her?

skrevet af Dragonfly kl. 9:12 pm (EST) den Feb 19, 2007

Hi myshelves - I'm happy to hear that someone else on LT shares my interest in some of the older - and odder! - poetry anthologies. I do have a number of them, most of them not shared by others on LT. So it's good to know I'm not alone in my appreciation of this old-fashioned poetry:)
Maggie

skrevet af MaggieO kl. 10:49 pm (EST) den Dec 14, 2006