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VH-50
11 yrs ago
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These are actually the same place . . . technically, Tisbury is the town(ship) and Vineyard Haven is the village and the name of the post office . . . but in practice they're identical, and all the crossing zones listed …
VH-50
14 yrs ago
Anybody interested in a complete set of this military SF series? Post here, and I'll draw names (if needed) on Monday 27 July. US only, please, due to mailing costs.
Cheers,
VH-50
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What is your biggest complaint about the books you are reading?
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Re: That was a standing argument in my writing group
VH-50
15 yrs ago
> I think it's really a matter of style-
> some writers can do dialog very well with
> no tag aside from 'said'
Three excellent examples: Robert B. Parker, Elmore Leonard, George V. Higgins. Parker is also extrem…
VH-50
16 yrs ago
I think I'd take your argument a step further and treat them not as "siblings" but as ends of a continuum. There's "pure" SF and "pure" Fantasy out there (per newk's post), but also a lot that falls in the middle of t…
VH-50
16 yrs ago
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It may or may not be logical, but it's certainly practical. Imagine a major chain bookstore that had separate, non-adjacent sections for SF and Fantasy. Who wants to decide what goes in what section?* Who wants to w…
VH-50
16 yrs ago
I find clear packing tape endlessly useful for reinforcing tattered PB covers and fixing cover-to-book hinges. I also tend to be more liberal attaching stickers to the covers of old-and-battered books I'm going to wil…
VH-50
16 yrs ago
I'd modify that slightly: You'll love it if you have a particular *kind* of sense of humor. I liked it, but I know a number of people with excellent senses of humor whose responses were: "Eh"
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"When women stop reading, the novel will be dead."
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Re: Most books in the stores are also written by women
VH-50
16 yrs ago
Interesting point . . .I'll have to check the 3-for-2 table at my local Borders next time I'm in!
Might have to adjust the figure, though, for the genres that tend to show up on the 3-for-2 table. In my experience, e…
VH-50
16 yrs ago
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1) Printed, bought, and read in huge quantities (especially after _Da Vinci_ made it big)
AND
2) Extremely unlikely to be held onto, reread, passed down to offspring, etc. . . . hence an easy choice for releasing…
VH-50
16 yrs ago
If you like terse, Ed McBain is always a good bet. His "87th Precinct" novels started appearing in the 1950s, when paperback-original mysteries were routinely about 200-220 pages. They're police procedurals rather th…
VH-50
16 yrs ago
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I confess I haven't read through the entire thread, but I'm guessing that somebody has already suggested Orson Scott Card's "Alvin Maker" series, set in an alternate early-19C America where magic is part of everyday li…
VH-50
16 yrs ago
I use a five-column table in a word document (one document per calender year) because that's how I started doing it and it prints out fast.
This year I also started using Revish.com, which is specifically geared to tr…
VH-50
16 yrs ago
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> Apparently, it's like librarything.com, but after 200 books, librarything.com
> starts charging you, and goodreads remains free.
In fairness to both sites, I'd characterize goodreads as a social networking site wi…
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I need some book recommendations for a 7 year old girl
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Level 2 . . . Cynthia Rylant, maybe?
VH-50
16 yrs ago
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My daughter went through a long "Henry & Mudge" phase when she was in 1st grade or so. Ditto "Mr. Putter & Tabby" and "Poppleton" (my personal favorite). Henry and Mudge is a series of over 25 books now, Mr. Putter u…
VH-50
16 yrs ago
I suppose my general answer is: Books get challenged when their plots/characters/images/messages/language poke somebody in a spot on their psyche that cultural change has rubbed sore . . .
"The Rabbit's Wedding" …
VH-50
16 yrs ago
> I do hate when people say, "I AXED YOU A
> QUESTION." Instead of, "I asked you a
> question." Or "BLEZZ OU!", instead of,
> "Bless you!"... when you sneeze.
I find it grating, too, but . . . languages e…
VH-50
16 yrs ago
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I've read it (just this spring!) and recommend it wholeheartedly. Basically, anyone who was intrigued enough to pick it up will probably like it!
(And to those searching for more "fish" books . . . try "Blues" by Joh…
VH-50
16 yrs ago
The point about BookMooch being less-than-ideal for new, very popular titles is well taken. The flip side is also worth noting, however: The fact that it *doesn't* privilege time-on-list when handing out scarce books me…
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness
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Re: The only thing I don't like about bookmooch...
VH-50
16 yrs ago
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I think I can answer that:
1) If you mooch a book from someone, they mark it "sent," and it doesn't arrive, you can declare it "lost." Doing so is a matter of clicking an on-screen button. Doing that gets you your …
VH-50
16 yrs ago
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Winslow is a criminally underrated (sorry) writer who's like a more precise, controlled version of Carl Hiaasen. _California Fire and Life_ is a brilliant forensic detective story about an arson investigator (who surf…
VH-50
16 yrs ago
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At least according to the Times . . . I subscribe to their online service, though, so the fact that it works for *me* may not prove anything about whether it works for the rest of the world. :-)
http://www.nytimes.co…
VH-50
16 yrs ago
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If he's interested in *everything* then you might want to consider Judy Jones and William Wilson's one-of-a-kind "An Incomplete Education" . . . one of the few "reference" books that I read and reread just for the sheer …
VH-50
16 yrs ago
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The "Spenser" novels by Robert B. Parker, as already noted by several people, but also Charlotte MacLeod's "Sarah Kelling" mysteries, William Tapply's "Brady Coyne" mysteries, and Jerome Doolittle's "Tom Betha…
VH-50
16 yrs ago
I might have gotten around to registering the others someday, for the sake of keeping track of them or recording my reviews of them, but I've since discovered LibraryThing (www.librarything.com) and Revish (www.revish.…
