TD, If you want "Pillars of the Earth" when I am done with it, I will be happy to send it to you. As I said before, it is a well-loved (used) copy. Interestingly enough I find it hard to find people who want to have my books when I am done with them and I have to put them in the library used book sale, or once in a while my daughter's friends want to read one. I would much rather it go to someone I "know" so to speak, as opposed to the anonymous "pile". I have about 300 pages left. That could take anywhere from 3 days to 3 weeks. If only the world would leave me alone to read. Let me know if you want it and if so feel free to pass it on. I'm already looking forward to the sequel, "World without End". Mary Beth

postet av mmignano11 kl. 3:39 pm (EST) den Aug 1, 2008

I was watching author chat and had a good laugh on talking with R. Dahl.

postet av yareader2 kl. 10:59 pm (EST) den Jul 7, 2008

Hey! I just noticed you're tagging the books you've included on your blog, good idea, I think I might do the same (that's my blog not yours). Thanks for giving me an idea I can steal much better than thinking it up myself :)

postet av TheBookImp kl. 8:55 am (EST) den Jun 23, 2008

Hi TeacherDad, nope, not a Charger fan.. something much more mundane. I sell nuts and bolts for a living. (And using "The Bolt Chick" moniker kept people from referring to me as "The Screw Lady"!)
I love your posts and your blog. You keep me laughing!

postet av TheBoltChick kl. 7:34 pm (EST) den May 23, 2008

I just had to check out your blog and comment on practically everything! (it's a slow day at my house) And I love your profile pic.

postet av cmbohn kl. 2:01 am (EST) den May 14, 2008

No, I'm sorry to say TD, that it does not get better. I'm up to page 130 and it is still just wretched.
Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries. I'm reciprocating.

postet av Fourpawz2 kl. 10:24 am (EST) den Apr 23, 2008

Hello TeacherDad. I, too, have gotten Two Brothers. I was wondering - are you finding it as unremittingly hideous as I am?

postet av Fourpawz2 kl. 1:36 pm (EST) den Apr 22, 2008

When did Two Brothers arrive? I didn't know anyone had gotten it yet.

postet av DevourerOfBooks kl. 10:18 am (EST) den Apr 19, 2008

Aha - another adult who reads children's/YA books. When I check out at the library with those, I sometimes wonder if they think I'm getting them for a teenager at home (I don't have one). ;)

postet av chanale kl. 9:45 am (EST) den Apr 19, 2008

I noticed you have The Hound of the Baskervilles According to Spike Milligan on your wish list, have you read any of his other books? His autiobiographical books are pretty good, Hitler, my part in his downfall for one. And then there are his childrens books. My favourite being Bad Jelly the Witch.

postet av TheBookImp kl. 5:06 am (EST) den Apr 7, 2008

Thanks for the welcome TD! The well-read compliment. I guess grad school was good for something.

postet av BigJoel55 kl. 1:04 am (EST) den Mar 30, 2008

Thanks for visiting - we homeschool and don't have much of any library access out here so we have to make our own! Thanks goodness for grandparents who have airline flight benefits and don't mind the 20+ hour plane trip to bring us more books (okay, they like to visit us too). The biggest reason I joined library thing is to keep her from bringing duplicates...

postet av tebowfamily kl. 5:20 am (EST) den Mar 25, 2008

I really enjoy your children's book blog, so thought I'd check you out on LibraryThing ;)

postet av aannttiiiittnnaa kl. 7:43 pm (EST) den Mar 24, 2008

Maybe I did - have this quote from Francis Bacon

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion"

postet av TheBookImp kl. 10:28 am (EST) den Mar 7, 2008

I'll let you off double posting, even though I'm sure it would make my profile page appear as if I was really popular. I noticed you visited my blog too, Whoop! First visitor and comment, thank you. I get excited about the strangest things >:)

postet av TheBookImp kl. 9:00 am (EST) den Mar 7, 2008

Thanks for adding me as an interesting library, just wondered though, you added me twice, does that make me doubly interesting? or did you just think I needed all the help I could get.

>:)

Thanks again.

Jacquie

postet av TheBookImp kl. 7:04 pm (EST) den Mar 6, 2008

Thanks for putting my library on your "interesting" list - I have reciprocated.

postet av Florinda kl. 4:58 pm (EST) den Feb 27, 2008

I haven't really thought to have a written down list of recommendations - at least not beyond my 50 challenge thread. Though now that you mention it, I think it's a great idea! I do work in a bookstore, so I basically recommend books to people for a living - if I didn't read it, I probably know someone who did...

I do think I want to be an English teacher. Which is funny, because for many years people sort of recommended it to me and I was really against the idea. But one day (in the bookstore) a woman was talking about how much her daughter hated this really huge boring classic - I don't even remember which one - that she had to read for school, and the idea just hit me that I could do such a better job teaching kids to love books. I would give them excerpts from dozens of different books in various genres and let them pick a style that suited them, instead of making them read the same stuffy classics that have driven kids to hate reading forever. (Wow, did I just get on a soapbox or what!)

Anyway, but now that I have this great idea to be a teacher, I'm trying to figure out how to go about it. I think I would really love to just get a teaching certificate and work on my master's degree while teaching...but I've yet to really figure out how you go about it. Any good suggestions?

P.S. Thanks for taking an interest...and I've been reading your thread. Quite some interesting discussions going on there ;-p

postet av Ilithyia kl. 4:43 pm (EST) den Feb 26, 2008

Glad you found my library intriguing :) , and I don't blame you for monitoring the myspace! I keep my myspace profile private now that I'm applying for PhD programs, and I still get some awful strange messages. I probably will keep dropping in--the conversation on your fifty challenge was about as vibrant as most any other of the discussions I've seen on threads lately! Good luck with everything, and let me know what you think if you ever end up looking into Englander...

postet av whitewavedarling kl. 12:52 pm (EST) den Jan 30, 2008

TeacherDad, I love your profile picture! Do you still know where it is from? I would really like to get it Poster Sized for my book-room!

postet av J_ipsen kl. 12:00 am (EST) den Jan 29, 2008

Thanks for the "add" to your interesting libraries! I'm enjoying your 50 book challenge thread and your comments in other groups as well.

postet av lindsacl kl. 7:04 am (EST) den Jan 19, 2008

LOL! Glad you enjoyed the photo, it's one of my prouder moments.

postet av teelgee kl. 2:51 am (EST) den Dec 31, 2007

Hello TeacherDad,
I am a bit surprised that you tag my library as interesting. I don't share that many books with the other librarys (unless they have way more than me already listed, and even than it never goes higher than about 15)
But I guess it is a compliment Thank you:) I haven't had the pleasure of "running" into you on this side yet. Except I think for that comment you made on the "Avid Reader" topic. I see that we have NO books in common, well, maybe we get ideas from eachothers books.
I wish you a happy and well read 2008, (after all you still want to be an Avid Reader in the new year....right? ;)
Oh, and yes I like your profile picture too. I guess I was boring posting myself.....=)

postet av PandoraLuvsBooks kl. 4:09 pm (EST) den Dec 30, 2007

Hi TeacherDad -- thanks for the interesting libraries add! I've been circling around you in a couple of groups and always enjoy your input.

Wishing you and yours a happy 2008 with lots of good reading!

Terri

postet av teelgee kl. 2:11 pm (EST) den Dec 30, 2007

Hello and welcome to 40 Something Library Thingers!

postet av MDLady kl. 11:00 pm (EST) den Dec 26, 2007

Hi, TeacherDad ~ Just dropping by to wish you happy holidays!

postet av Storeetllr kl. 1:01 am (EST) den Dec 26, 2007

Ah, I suppose I did not look at the picture all that well then - I missed the grin on his face.

Also, I will just have to do that; certainly she'll understand.

postet av Jessa0711 kl. 1:41 pm (EST) den Dec 22, 2007

Random question, but does your profile picture have anything to do with Farenheit 451??? It just reminds me a lot of that book which was quite excellent (though the movie was terrible, in my opinion).

postet av Jessa0711 kl. 4:41 am (EST) den Dec 22, 2007

Hello there, JK.

Thank you for the link. I will certainly have to check it out.

:)

-Jessica

postet av Jessa0711 kl. 1:20 am (EST) den Dec 20, 2007

Hah! See, 50's not out-of-reach! But why do you think audiobooks are cheating? I think abridged versions are cheating, and I guess if you were just using them for background noise, but I only listen to unabridged, and I really pay attention ~ rewinding when I need to if I've missed something ~ so I always count them. If I didn't, I'd have a whole lot fewer books on my list. 8-O Anyway, in the long tradition of oral storytelling, I count 'em!

Another person who belongs to that group also counts what she calls manga. I think that means the same as graphic novels, but I'm not sure.

postet av Storeetllr kl. 9:34 pm (EST) den Dec 12, 2007

Oh, yeah, and children's and YA books definitely count, as do audiobooks. It's up to you whether to count them. Not sure about textbooks, though.

postet av Storeetllr kl. 11:01 pm (EST) den Dec 11, 2007

I just thought if you joined that group you might find it is an easy way of keeping track of what you read, not that I thought you should do that challenge. As someone else mentioned in a post I read just tonight, if you read even one book a year, you're doing better than many Americans. Scary thought!

postet av Storeetllr kl. 10:58 pm (EST) den Dec 11, 2007

Thanks for tagging my library as "interesting." Funny ~ I was just checking out yours before going to mine to see if I had a new message. :)

postet av Storeetllr kl. 12:54 am (EST) den Dec 11, 2007

No I try not to take myself too seriously. that name is an old joke from high school.

postet av Madcow299 kl. 1:31 pm (EST) den Nov 27, 2007

Thank you for tagging my library interesting :) And great profile pic. I want a sign like that I can hang somewhere.

postet av citygirl kl. 4:39 pm (EST) den Nov 26, 2007