Hello MrsLee:

Things got strange this week. Sorry for the delay. I'll have to try to find some Ellis Peters. I'll even do something unusual and try to find the first one. Thanks for the suggestion.

As far as Sayers goes, I always have such an issue with Christians who talk the talk but don't walk the walk. It doesn't prevent me from absolutely adoring her books, and I don't think of her personal life when I read about Peter and Harriet. Her intellect was stunning and her books, especially Gaudy Night and The Nine Tailors, are beautifully written. All of her books have gorgeous prose and capture the people she is writing about perfectly. They are complex, detailed, quite humorous, and manage to juggle many subplots successfully. In a league of her own. Like I said, I'd like to read some of her non-fiction works. I'd also like to check out Sheridan LeFanu because Harriet was writing about him. Didn't realize he was a real person until this year, believe it or not.

I like your rating system. I guess I would put Sayers, Rex Stout, and Ellery Queen in the intellectual category. I keep all Agatha Christies because my mother bought me the Bantam "The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection" - hardbacks - and gave them to me 4-6 a year for YEARS AND YEARS. I love them. I gave away my ratty thrift-shop-copies of Rex Stout and Ellery Queen when I moved to NC from CA 17 years ago - I regret it. I'll be collecting the Stouts again. Already have 3 or 4, I think, plus the Nero Wolfe Cookbook and Nero Wolfe of West Thirty Fifth Street.

Other mystery and suspense authors that I find pleasing and consistent over most all their books are Michael Connelly and Ruth Rendell. I've always adored Erle Stanley Gardner, both the Perry Mason series and the Cool/Lam series. They are a bit dated, though. Got rid of them too when I moved. With most other authors, I will read and like the first two or three, then get disappointed when they get formulaic or stop developing their character. Lots of those - Cornwell, Margaret Maron, Grafton, Elizabeth Peters, etc. Don't like cat mysteries (Braun or Rita Mae Brown) even though I have 4 kitties. I read Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris - a mystery by one of my favorite paranormal authors - but didn't like it at all.

Separate but related is an author who I absolutely adore - Charlotte Armstrong. The Gift Shop and A Dram of Poison are the two that come to mind, but her books take ordinary people and put them in extraordinary circumstances against bad people. They aren't really mysteries, I guess they are suspense. I think they are out of print. I bought most of them in the 70s and have a couple of hardback trilogies and a few paperbacks.

Whew! Sorry this has gotten so long, hope I'm not boring you. Take care - karenmarie

postet av karenmarie kl. 5:18 am (EST) den Jun 27, 2008

Hell0 Mrs Lee. Just dr0pped in t0 say hi as we haven't sp0ken f0r a while. Wish I had m0re time t0 spend n LT and GD but real life gets rather busy! I h0pe y0u are well . See y0u ar0und the GD s0metime! PS s0rry ab0ut my '0's my keyb0ard is playing up again and i haven't g0t r0und t0 bying a new 0ne. Everytime I think t0 d0 s0 it starts w0rking again!

postet av cayman kl. 10:09 pm (EST) den Jun 26, 2008

Well I'm proud to make it "official" in a nerdy internet sort of way, but I already know who my friends are before clicking any dumb old buttons, heee heeeee!

postet av mrgrooism kl. 8:14 pm (EST) den Jun 26, 2008

Thank you, I will certainly be on the lookout for those books now. I loved The Red Tent and liked how it focused on the relationships with the women and their everyday lives very much, so anything else similar would be good. I think the video's sound very interesting too. I love the old Biblical films, The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur etc and actually like the bible stories, so to see them acted out, even in a simple way, sounds very interesting. I think the bible stories and the biblical times are absolutely facinating, I do love them very much. It was always a real treat for me at school to have the vicar come for assembly and read some out to us. He had a very commanding voice and I adored hearing him really go to work on those stories. It's a shame people are getting upset about the thread in the GD, it's not often we have discord in there. Thank you again for making the recommendations.

postet av Jodyreadseverything kl. 8:14 pm (EST) den Jun 22, 2008

Good morning, MrsLee! Thank you for the wonderful comment. I'm going to have to delay responding to it because my power cord got left at work and my battery is dying. I'll try to answer you properly tomorrow. So much to respond to.

I have a teen too, although she's away at Camp Seafarer in NC for 27 days (today is day 8). I miss her desperately. We can send them e-mails, but they have to use snail mail to us. We've gotten one long letter and a postcard from their overnight trip to Morehead City NC so far. The only advantage to her being gone is that the house gets progressively cleaner and I do less laundry. Her cat misses her too and yowls and looks desolate.

You're right - never wake a sleeping teen.

Eek! The battery icon is almost down to nothing. Bye for now. Karen

postet av karenmarie kl. 7:11 am (EST) den Jun 22, 2008

I'll check out Sayers' letters. I do have a biography of her that I read a very long time ago. The biggest thing i remember is that she had an illegimate son and kept him with an aunt of hers.

As far as Ellis Peters goes, I'll to check her (?) out. I seem to have a vague thought that she's the alter ego of another author.... don't know. Is there a chronology to her books? What would you recommend?

I just pulled my Baring-Gould "Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-Fifth Street" down and am going to compare the list of Wolfe's books to the website list today. Fun.

Thanks for the input.

postet av karenmarie kl. 6:44 am (EST) den Jun 21, 2008

Hey MrsLee. I joined Black Orchid a while back, don't check in as often as I should. I've been reading adult mysteries since 6th grade (whew! that was 1965) when my mother introduced me to Erle Stanley Gardner. I would say it's my favorite genre. I've been reading Lord Peter since college - re-reading most of Sayers' books multiple times. I'm going to start reading some of her non-fiction as I get the chance, too, even though I'm not Christian.

You may have read the post where I said that I wanted to re-read Stout from the beginning - I'll start working on that a little bit later this year. I've already re-organized my Christie's in publication order and have re-read the first two, and am halfway through Edmund Crispin's Gervase Fen books.

Hooray for mysteries, and thanks for writing to me.

Karen

postet av karenmarie kl. 6:16 am (EST) den Jun 19, 2008

No I haven't read Orthodoxy, but I've read all the Father Brown stories. I like Chesterton's style. I understand the distinction you mean and he sounds right up my alley. I'll have to check it out, it's getting added to my wishlist immediately. Thanks MrsLee. I've also never had any doubt about God's sense of humour ;-)

postet av katylit kl. 12:05 am (EST) den Jun 17, 2008

Yes it was me! Good memory, I am impressed :-)

Yeah, I really liked the mystery too, neat twist on the murder, I never lick my finger to turn a page without thinking about it now, very clever. You're right, I think that sex in the kitchen was just gratuitous (sp???), rather disappointing I felt.

I totally understand you skipping over the discussions ad nauseum, but I really enjoyed the debate about riches adorning the house of God versus the poverty advocated by Christ. And the discussion about Jesus laughing. But then, I've always loved theological debate, as long as it doesn't get personal, just stays academic. Which is why I enjoyed this book so much I guess. I would have loved to sit down and discuss with Brother William.

I'm glad you enjoyed it, and I'm really glad you came back to tell me! Thanks :-)

postet av katylit kl. 9:04 pm (EST) den Jun 16, 2008

Thank you for the recipe; it sounds wonderful! I'll try it this week.

postet av GeorgiaDawn kl. 7:43 am (EST) den Jun 15, 2008

Thank you so much for the recipe! I know I'll be trying it soon--I love pork, I love cherries, how could I not love this? I was thinking just a few days ago about how one would pit cherries--the only way I've ever done it is by eating them and then, er, disposing of the pit. I've never noticed if there are any frozen pitted cherries at the supermarket, though frozen blueberries are a staple.

I do have a stick blender, thank goodness; I rejoice every time I read a soup recipe that advises that tedious process of moving the soup to a blender in batches--what a mess by comparison.

Thanks again for sharing--it's the perfect time of year for fresh cherries.

Elizabeth

postet av ejj1955 kl. 2:08 pm (EST) den Jun 13, 2008

Hello MrsLee,

I finally made some photos of one of my vellum bound books. I uploaded them to the webpage I'm just busy building:
http://www.bibliophilio.com/bookshelf/ca...
The vellum binding is the original of this book

postet av J_ipsen kl. 3:30 am (EST) den Jun 6, 2008

One less thing to worry about, youngest daughter has a new job, better place, nicer people, bigger pay. She's happy, consequently Mom's happy. Hurray! Whew! I know it was only a week, so she was very, very lucky, but it was a rough week. And hubby comes home in 2 1/2 days. Life is good. :-D

Congratulations on being famous! Very cool that your review was picked to be highlighted in the LT video. W00T!

postet av katylit kl. 6:26 pm (EST) den Jun 4, 2008

Good morning!
You're exactly right - finishing up the year proved to be quite interesting this year. To add to the usual teacher stuff, my younger son graduated from high school. He had a bad case of senioritis, so it was very stressful. I didn't know until 3 days before the ceremony that he was actually going to graduate. (It was algebra 3 that was the concern, and my husband and I were absolutely no help there! We had to find tutors to help him.)
I will be back in the Green Dragon in the next day or so. I don't think I'll read the threads I've missed but just dive into the current conversations. I've missed the crowd there!
I'll be joining you for some cheese soon!
Beth (aka Hobbitprincess)

postet av hobbitprincess kl. 7:16 am (EST) den May 30, 2008

Hi! We made it back to the states and I went to a big homeschool conference a day after arriving which gave me some really helpful ideas to use with my older daughter in areas whre we have been struggling a bit.
I picked up quite a few books there, some textbooks and a number of fun historical reference types that I will use for school next year. We have made one library stop already but I haven't done much used book shopping yet which is a big priority, but I have several months to go (we go back to Thailand in mid Oct). I also found someone possibly willing to bring over a suitcase for me next year so that means 50 more lbs of books!
The worst part of being back is that we are in Minnesota and it is freezing and we have no warm clothes, it was supposed to be warm when we got back, not snowing!

postet av tebowfamily kl. 10:50 pm (EST) den Apr 28, 2008

Mrs. Lee,

I've noticed in one or two thread that you're struggling a bit with coding. I have the same problem! Please allow me to share with you a useful website that covers all topics html:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_examp...

It shows you through examples of how to do what. And the best part is that you don't even have to remember how to do it - you can just go back to the web site, copy the example, then paste it wherever you need it.

-Danny

postet av buchleser kl. 9:05 am (EST) den Sep 28, 2007

You remeber that recipe I translated for you...?
I found out that it is possible to get that hard liquorice candy in the US :-)

Here's the link
http://www.northerner.com/html/mat-gd-fa...
(the candy also dissolves very well in vodka, to make liquorice vodka)

It seems the site have had elder lemonade (concentrate) as well, but not any longer... But I visited IKEA a couple of days ago and they had shelves and shelves with it. So maybe if there's an IKEA store somewhere near you?

(I bet that Northener site could manage to import some elder lemonade, the brand they sell - Önos - has one that's perfectly good)

postet av Busifer kl. 2:25 am (EST) den Aug 1, 2007

Hi MrsLee, I noticed that you just got [The Good Husband of Zebra Drive]. I just finished listening to it on my iPod this morning. Another good one, I like this series, they have an innocence to them, yet good insights into character. Anyways, I belong to McCall Smith's fan club and have been getting emails from the publisher about an African trip Smith is making with his literary agent right now in Botswana. I thought you might be interested. http://www.randomhouse.com/features/mcca...

postet av katylit kl. 10:42 am (EST) den Jul 23, 2007

The liqourice is only for the topping, and I have done well without it... and I don't think anise seed is a good enough substitute for that special "Turkish pepper" taste; it's kind of "peppery", as in chilipeppers/not as "sweet" liquorice. So just skip it, is my advice.

I'm sure corn starch will do, though, as it's only to stop the rhubarb from getting runny.

As for currant/grapes as substitue for the elder... I have no knowledge of how the flavour differs from each other so I really don't know what to answer. And I'm pretty sure the US customs would get mad if I tried to ship you some elderberry juice, hehe ;-)

postet av Busifer kl. 5:50 am (EST) den Jul 20, 2007

I checked all those in a dictionary to get them right (ok, not the liqourice candy, but...)

Potato flour is starch, essentially. I guess it goes by another namne in the US - my dictionary is UK english and it it says "potato flour" ;-)

Elderflower juice is made from elderflowers, I have a recipe somewhere... but elderberry juice would do as well.

Pearl sugar turned up as that in my UK dictionary... it's a kind of coarse sugar, grain/crystals of maybe 0,04 inches in diameter. Usually used as topping for cinnamon rolls etc.

The liqourice candies are not essential to the recipe... :-)

Hope you don't have to go scavenging!

postet av Busifer kl. 4:30 am (EST) den Jul 19, 2007

Yes, I have some cookbooks written by americans, and ingredients can be VERY regional ;-)
Also, measures don't correspond directly; my tables - UK, US end standard european measures, solid and fluid - are made to convert from US and not to, hehe

I'm curious - which is going to be the hardest to find? Elderflower juice is my guess?

postet av Busifer kl. 2:05 am (EST) den Jul 19, 2007

Here's the recipe I promised you!!!
Please ask if my trnaslation is not making sense
:-)

*Sourdough*

1/2 cup water
1 tbs honey
1 apple, peeled, and grated
1 cup (slightly less) of wheat flour

Heat the water to slightly less than body temp, stir in the ingredients.
Put in a can/jar 3 days, in a warm place. Stir once a day.

*Sourdough buns with rhubarb and elder*
45 buns

DOUGH
2 1/4 cups of milk (whole)
0,035 ounces of yeast (sorry, bad conversion table, I think)
5 1/4 ounces of butter, room temp
1/2 cup of sugar (white)
1 tsp salt
26 ounces of flour (wheat)
+ sour dough from above

ELDER FILLING
7 ounces marzipan (the gritty type)
1/2 cup concentrated elderflower syrup/juice
2 ounces of butter, room temp

RHUBARB FILLING
2 rhubarb stalks
2 tbs sugar (white)
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tbs potato flour

TOPPING
1/4 cup Pearl sugar
1 egg, whipped
1 cup hard liqourice candy, crushed (we call them turkish peppers here, I've done without them and it's ok)

Do the dough as if you where making cinnamon rolls (heat milk to body temp, pour over yeast, mix in the rest...)
Let rest in 30 minutes, prepare the fillings -

Elder: grate the marzipan, mix in the rest of the things
Rhubarb: chop the stalks, keep rest at hand

Split dough in 2 parts. Roll them out, spread the elder filling, sprinkle with rhubarb, sugar, cinnamon and potato flour.
Make rolls or buns or what you like - I usually put them in cupcake "tins" (paper...)

Let rest in 30 minutes

Paint the buns with the egg, sprinkle buns with the sugar and liqourice.
Heat the oven to 437 F, bake in 8 minutes.

postet av Busifer kl. 4:41 pm (EST) den Jul 18, 2007

MrsLee, a huge yes, Dungy's book is appropriate for the church library! I actually had your son in mind when I recommended the book to you, not only because of his age, but because of his sports involvement. I haven't been writing reviews, but this book is so amazing I think I need to write one for it. The book is not only good because of what the book is about, but because of how its conveyed (meekly yet passionately and with authenticity and naturalness, not a forced message).

Dungy in the intro says what the book's about: "...it's not all about football. It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave...although football has been a part of my life that I've really enjoyed, I've always viewed it as a means to do something more. A means to share my faith, to encourage and lift up other people...."

It's like doing a character study of a godly Bible character, a David, Paul, or Moses, but here the life of faith that's fleshed out is a contemporary person going through contemporary circumstances most anyone can relate to--the mistakes and failures, the lessons learned from them as well as from mentors or people passing through...again and again, maybe even every page, there are mentions of lessons. Yet amazingly the book does not at all pedantic, but fun, vibrant, and drawing us in, celebrating the highs, and empathizing with the lows (getting fired, suicide of his son, not making the draft, etc). The book just is imbued with authenticity, reverence, gratitude, ministry...love. He shows how to lead, how to teach, prioritizing God then family, how to deal with both defeat and victory. The book also can be used for evangelism since the gospel message is loud and clear yet with no preaching, Dungy just breathes out his faith onto the page with total naturalness as he shares his moment-by-moment walk with God. Athletes, businessmen, African-Americans, winners, losers, parents who've lost a child, broken families needing a male role model, etc, all might have a certain interest in this book, but it would appeal to anyone, there are so many wonderful anecdotes in it. I've taken up too much space, sorry...ER

postet av EncompassedRunner kl. 1:31 am (EST) den Jul 15, 2007

Awesome new book tip: "Quiet Strength," by Tony Dungy

postet av EncompassedRunner kl. 3:22 pm (EST) den Jul 14, 2007

Thanks MrsLee. That website is wonderful!! It's going to be great fun reading the books now with more depth, it'll give them a whole new dimension. :-D Thanks again.

postet av katylit kl. 9:35 am (EST) den Jun 18, 2007

Hi MrsLee!

Thanks for coming to visit! :-) I had a dear friend introduce me to Lord Peter over 20 years ago and I am eternally grateful to her that she did. Sayers books are so wonderful, how can anyone help but love Lord Peter? And Harriet is great too...well, all the characters. Your Yahoo group sounds amazing, it would be lovely to have all the references explained, I know I get some of them, but not all. You're right, it would add a tremendous amount to the enjoyment. I need to reread the books again, I already had planned to reread LoTR this summer, after finishing The Dark is Rising series, so I'll intersperse my fantasy with some good mystery. Although, we are going to start that Janny Wurts book in the GD aren't we? *sigh*, there's just too many books to read, and not enough time, like Clam has mentioned, if only we didn't have this unfortunate habit of sleeping!

I've noticed you mention James Herriot too, I just started listening to an audio book of All Creatures Great and Small read by Christopher Timothy that is just delightful. There's another set of books I want to reread too! O my :-)

By the way, my sister lives in N. California, in the Sonoma Valley, so I smiled when I saw your location. I love reading your posts, you always have something good to say, and I enjoy your optimistic, positive outlook. I'm glad we've "met" this way :-)

postet av katylit kl. 9:38 am (EST) den Jun 17, 2007

Hi MrsLee! *smile*

I keep meaning to reply to the comments you left in reply to mine in GD, but me being ME I simply couldn't find them anymore and they're hiding from me now. So, I thought I would just leave you a comment: Here. On your page, instead. :)

I -do- love your comments in groups BTW, always have had. *grin* Sometimes I just sit back and cackle with pure glee from the witty remarks you and some of the other members have made. Such fun! Such delight! And speaking of delight... *peeks through shelves* what an extraordinary Library you have here. Nice bio pic too, do you always lay on the carpet???

LoL. Much bliss & happy reading!
~PandorasRequiem

postet av PandorasRequiem kl. 1:45 pm (EST) den Jun 15, 2007

Thanks! I'll keep an eye out for it. Hopefully I can get it at the library. :o)
Very funny about the faces! Hee hee. I've been practicing!

postet av clamairy kl. 5:16 pm (EST) den Apr 30, 2007

Found a new book you might find of interest. HOW TO PICK A PEACH: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table by Russ Parsons. It's all about agriculture from the farms to your table and it includes about 100 recipes. It's now on my to read pile.

postet av OldSarge kl. 4:26 pm (EST) den Apr 29, 2007

I wimpe dout and bought a pineapple-peach salsa at the store. But I have your recipe saved for when I have time in the kitchen to do it right. Thank you again.

postet av OldSarge kl. 8:32 pm (EST) den Apr 25, 2007

Excellent. Thank you. This will be my third attempt to make dinner for fiance and kids. So far so good. Although I have ruined one baking sheet.

postet av OldSarge kl. 4:25 pm (EST) den Mar 14, 2007

I noticed you are a member of cookbookers. Whould you happen to have a recipe for salsa? I'm starting to find my way around the kitchen again after many years. Giving the fiance a break and I've managed to not start a fire twice. Planning on making a chicken dish and want to make a pineapple salsa. I've got a dozen cookbooks and of course no recipe for salsa in any.

postet av OldSarge kl. 2:19 pm (EST) den Mar 14, 2007

My next door neighbor for several years was a lovely lady, a Seventh Day Adventist who homeschooled her four children, with me helping out a bit from time to time on the science (I did not mention Darwin). They all seem to be getting along fine, even though Mom eloped with Judas from the local Passion Play a few years ago.

I tutor kids from the local state and private schools, and am always appalled at what they do not know because they are not taught it by the teachers, and also at what they do know because they learn about it unofficially from other kids.

postet av Doug1943 kl. 3:46 pm (EST) den Mar 5, 2007

No, no, no, no, no!!!! I love the homeschooling movement, and I support it wholeheartedly!!! What I meant, in my clumsy way, was: just as Christian homeschoolers (and me) see a lot of ugly decadence in our society -- sexual perversions presented as alternative lifestyles, a glorification of mindless self-promotion, gratuitous violence, deprecation of our ancestors and their deeds, the wrong sort of people held up as heroes and role-models -- so many Muslims see the same thing.

The conservative author Dinesh D'Souza has written a whole book about this, available here:
http://www.amazon.com/Enemy-At-Home-Cult...

Doug

postet av Doug1943 kl. 10:41 am (EST) den Mar 5, 2007

MrsLee, keep on doing what you are doing. By homeschooling your children you are keeping them from falling victim to the "kultursmog" that is polluting the minds of those far too young to seperate the reality from the noise. That in and of itself is proof that you love them too much to let their minds be shaped by people far more interested in their benefits and tenure than actually teaching what is right and true.

For the time and effort you put into such a thing I salute and congratulate you.

postet av OldSarge kl. 8:35 am (EST) den Mar 5, 2007

You have given me a completely and utterly new thought: Was the Revolution a just war? I have never even heard that mentioned (which is quite a rarity). Kudos on the independent intellect. Kept my brain busy over my Speedy Gonzales lunch special at El Jinete. I guess that we don't question the things that work out good for us, huh?

postet av markmobley kl. 3:04 pm (EST) den Mar 2, 2007

You might be interested in the thread in the "Libertarian and Market Liberals" group on "Christian Government?".

postet av markmobley kl. 4:50 pm (EST) den Mar 1, 2007

Your post on the Bay Area quake of 1906 is oddly parallel to an experience in my family. My great aunt from New Jersey was sent to visit her grandparents in Dayton, OH as a little girl. No sooner did she arrive, when the city suffered a legendary flood (March 25, 1913). The family was able to wait it out on the top floor of their house, but my great-grandparents in New Jersey were frantic reading headlines of widespread death and destruction, but no way to find out about their daughter! My folks and I went there on a trip a couple of years back to see the house for ourselves.
Dianne Day wrote a historical fiction series set in quake-era San Francisco, featuring a transplanted Bostonian (young woman) named Fremont Jones, which might interst you.

postet av Seajack kl. 2:18 am (EST) den Feb 28, 2007

You are quite welcome. About half of my WW2 books were inherited from a cousin who passed away. It's always been a source of interest due to the fact that my father and his brother were both combat veterans of WW2 and Korea. It also helps that the moral issues concerning that war were not as mixed as now.

As for Laura, I haven't read it yet. I started collecting the original novels that many Film Noirs were made from back in the mid-nineties when I discovered the film genre as an art form. Although my film library is not as large as my book library, it is always growing.

Gotta go, my day starts early and working on coffee.

postet av OldSarge kl. 4:29 am (EST) den Feb 21, 2007

Hi, This is your South American friend whom you asked to "stop by" and say hi. I've made a list of book possibilities in my library (none of which I actually own yet) but don't see where/how I ask others for suggestions of books I might be interested in that are 1) interesting to read 2) help me understand the history and/or culture and/or people of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina or Chile (possible hits on our summer bus trip). Can you help? Thanks.

postet av skf kl. 10:40 am (EST) den Feb 19, 2007

Mrs. Lee,

The drooling over Murder Must Advertise is almost unintentional. This is the third in a five volume set from the Folio Society. Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, Murder Must Advertise, Nine Tailors & Gaudy Night. They are all as beautifully printed, illustrated and bound. This was my "free gift" from the society for yearly rejoining by agreeing to purchase four other books. Thanks for the comment.

Smiley

postet av Smiley kl. 2:00 am (EST) den Feb 12, 2007

Here's the link for those books I was talking about. They are more biographical than cookbook, although she does include several recipes. Have you heard of www.half.com? It is a subsidy of eBay, and you can find books on there a lot cheaper. I usually pay more for shipping than for the books!

http://amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/103-776...

postet av MaggiRayne kl. 10:56 am (EST) den Dec 5, 2006

I've just noticed the little yellow alert! Too cool. Shelfari.com? Hmm, hadn't heard of it. Now I have to check it out if only to see your entire collection. I've posted the Chipotle to my wishlist on Amazon, bookins and bookmooch, so if I do get it for the holidays I'll have to remember to thank you!

postet av cckelly kl. 4:19 am (EST) den Dec 3, 2006

Hi,
I saw a post of yours in cookbooks and came to see your collection of cookbook oddities. Your tag 'not a keeper' made me laugh, think I might adopt it.

postet av cckelly kl. 4:31 am (EST) den Dec 1, 2006

I was at our public library and saw some books my brother and I really like by Randy Alcorn. They are to me more 'guy-type' books. Deadline, Dominion, Edge of Eternity, Safely Home are the ones I've read. Also, I keeping thinking of them!, Is a book called The Last Guardian by Shane Johnson. Ted Dekker's books are pretty good, at least I like them, and they are not girly/romancy, typical girl reading. John Eldredge's books are great.

I love trying to match people to books they'll like, so if you don't mind, I'll keep giving you my two cents' worth! I should look at your list and see what you have, or if you want to e-mail me what you have for the church library already, then I won't come up with duplicates.

postet av MaggiRayne kl. 10:04 pm (EST) den Nov 29, 2006

Hi,
I'm a friend of Chrity's (emmetofarolis) and noticed you asked if she had any favourite Christian authors that you might add to your church library. Karen Kingsbury is one of mine. My husband likes The Robe, by Lloyd C. Douglas. As for other books the men like, my father-in-law and myself and husband and brothers love Louis L'Amour's, but then they aren't exactly Christian. If I think of any more or ask my husband for suggestions I'll pass them on.

~Maggi

postet av MaggiRayne kl. 10:13 am (EST) den Nov 29, 2006

Mrs Lee, I appear to be following you all across LibraryThing! Ever time I post in a new thread, I see that you've been there before me.

Dorothy Sayers on Holmes is available on Amazon for $8 - it's quite tiny, I admit, but I'm glad I have it! Aside from the tidbit of Lord Peter, it also has some of her great essays on Holmes (including speculation on Watson's middle name), and a list of every Holmesian references in the Lord Peter books :)

http://www.amazon.com/Sayers-Holmes-Doro...

postet av parelle kl. 12:17 pm (EST) den Nov 28, 2006

It is good to find a mother out there who is like me! Maybe my boys will read one day too, although right now, that doesn't seem possible! They are having a good time telling me to "get a life" when I talk about spending time on LT! Thank goodness this site is here!!

postet av hobbitprincess kl. 10:31 pm (EST) den Nov 21, 2006

Thank you! You're very kind. I wish I had kept up with that group as I should, or read as much as I should (and will); but I do love the trio you mentioned. Sayers especially (least read) is bracing and fascinating; the quality of her mind shows more strongly in her non-fiction, I feel, than in her novels, much as I love them. (Which is no slight on either of the gentlemen!) But if words have no meanings then, as I probably said, we are quite lost. The whole writing enterprise and much of life would be at an end, even if it did not mean so much to Christianity as it does.

The Nero Wolfe group has been rather quiet awhile, which is my fault. But I am glad to see a new member and anything you say, I can assure you - between myself and the others - will receive an answer!

postet av Eurydice kl. 9:37 am (EST) den Nov 18, 2006