Membro: myshelves

Thanks for the kind words -- I always enjoy your posts. :)

escrito por Essa, às 11:02 pm (EST) , Sep 1, 2009

I am working on teaching him to stay nearby so that he can be off leash. He's doing pretty well so I think I'll be able to eventually, I just don't trust his recall yet. We are also fencing in the backyard so then he'll have all that space. I can't wait for that to be finished! There is also a dog park in town and we are in the process of becoming members so that we have access to all their land. They have about 6 acres fenced in with different play zones (a fetch area, water for swimming and such, etc.). And he is perfectly happy to trot alongside me mile after mile. Since he is still so young, I don't take him farther than about 3 miles at once. He loves to go running though so we're a good match. :)

escrito por lefty33, às 9:39 am (EST) , Sep 1, 2009

I used to be able to keep up but the last 2 or 3 weeks he has gotten a lot faster. His sprint is now much faster than mine! My husband is pretty close still at a dead sprint, but Miles can keep it up longer. Pretty soon I'm sure he will be just a blur! When we run any kind of distance, he is really only trotting. There is a big park and also a college cross country course here so sometimes we run at one of those places and I put him on a 30-foot lead line so that he can run ahead and behind or jump in a bush and then charge on ahead again. He LOVES those runs!

escrito por lefty33, às 10:16 pm (EST) , Aug 31, 2009

As well as I understand it -and that's not very well- holistic instruction approaches the student's whole language experience as one piece......no dividing into grammar, organization, mechanics, expressiveness, depth of insight, for instance, when teaching writing. Somehow the holistic experience considers success of the text as a whole. Simply because nobody else was doing it, writing became my specialty, and I couldn't do it holistically. For everybody else this approach became a good reason not to bother with marking papers or to teach anything except organization (which, incidentally, they boasted could be done without having kids write anything except a plan of what they might write). The state of N.C. fostered this laziness by not "counting" mechanics or usage at all in the writing tests given in the 4th and 10th grades. We, therefore, have a whole generation of kids who can't begin to write a clear, direct sentence. (One example, and I'll quit: this is from a very bright honors student who had a fine academic career at one of the state universities. He wrote (in a typed, major paper as a senior in high school) "He's cloths was expense.")
I'm nosing around your page. Thank you for the A.E. Newton quotation that expresses exactly what I feel about owning books. I also have to check out the HH group to which Richard is speaking in the comments below.....AND I probably need to make Rushdie a favorite on my page....
Peggy

escrito por LizzieD, às 9:47 am (EST) , Jul 7, 2009

It is disappointing that no one is commenting. (I can't even get a comment on the Book of Isaiah, and I will be asking some more historical questions there soon. Hoping for some learned answers, as I received from the HH contributors.)

If you have any links to the church leaders' responses, please post them or send them to me. I did not find anything since the end of May.

I can post those that I found in google, but perhaps you have something more recent.

escrito por richardbsmith, às 10:29 pm (EST) , Jun 15, 2009

Oh oh oh!!!! Gorgeous dog! Perfect! thanks for sharing :-)

escrito por LadyN, às 4:34 pm (EST) , Jun 10, 2009

myshelves,

Wow. I had ignored the thread A church gets it right, thinking the discussion was getting old. I missed well over 100 comments, including that on observation. Yes the discussion there very much addressed my question sufficiently.

Appreciate you consideration. Nice to have a pro take time to help a newby.

escrito por richardbsmith, às 11:14 pm (EST) , Jun 4, 2009

Thanks for catching that! ;-)

I should have said (assuming professorial tone): "At high enough temperatures, molecules tend to dissociate into individual atoms. In these cases the increase of entropy wins over the decrease in energy that we would obtain when forming molecules."

But that would make my impossibly long posts even longer!

It is so difficult to completely remove any anthropomorphic language from the vocabulary. In science, we actually do that a lot, with the understanding that it is meant tongue-in-cheek. In physics we say things like: "these atoms like to go there", when we mean:" the atoms randomly diffuse and tend to accumulate there because this minimizes energy". Using words such as 'want', 'like' or 'are happy' makes for a more friendly, but unfortunately imprecise language.

escrito por yapete, às 12:40 pm (EST) , Jun 4, 2009

Probably can help, but glancing at the thread I could not see the passages in question. I am slammed at work to day, and really did not read through all the comments. Please reply with the passages. I may have some in mind as well, given Jim's thread. Reckon he is baiting me? :)

Anyway if you have time copy and paste the verses in question.

escrito por richardbsmith, às 4:59 pm (EST) , Jun 1, 2009

Glad the issue is resolved for you

escrito por kevmalone, às 9:13 pm (EST) , May 10, 2009

Sounds good
No there's no delay on that data (as far as I am aware!)

escrito por kevmalone, às 8:47 pm (EST) , May 10, 2009

M:

Splice this into that URL (idiot machines!)

/ncfguide/fangloss.htm

Fred

escrito por Farree, às 2:12 am (EST) , Apr 19, 2009

There is an aphorism about an ant and a rubber tree at the top of the story...So "Faster Than Ants" does seem like a plausible guess...But I can't see that there's much evidence to back it up. Cheers!

Curt

escrito por clong, às 9:30 am (EST) , Apr 16, 2009

Sorry, I've gone back and re-read the story, and it's not trivially obvious what the "a" stands for.

Mankind desperately needs to invent an ftl drive to alleviate overcrowding of the solar system, and a hotshot young scientist is demanding to know why the big hyperspace research foundation won't support his promising work. In the end he finds out that they already discovered how to get into hyperspace, only to find out that speed of light is indeed not the limit of velocity in hyperspace...the limit is slower. But they won't announce this because the hope that an ftl drive is going to be discovered is all that's keeping mankind from slipping into despair.

escrito por clong, às 5:42 am (EST) , Apr 16, 2009

"fta" is a short short story by George R.R. Martin first published in Analog Science Fiction/Fact in May 1974. The title is a play on "ftl", commonly used to abbreviate "faster than light."

escrito por clong, às 4:38 am (EST) , Apr 14, 2009

I saw your note in the Detectives discussion group about the best detectives and I wanted to check out your library. Vast! I have only gotten a few of my books listed (I need to order one of those scanners), but I have nowhere near the number you do.

thejazzmonger

escrito por thejazzmonger, às 5:49 pm (EST) , Mar 20, 2009

Thanks so much for sending me the list :) It is odd that we have so many mysteries each and not many in common. There are really a lot of mysteries out there though. I only keep the historical ones for the most part. I have read a ton more and didn't hang on to them. Mysteries are easy to pass along to friends and used bookstores take almost all of them in trade.

As to "owning" or not... I have an entire room that is devoted to books, so I enjoyed the cataloguing even though it was a lot of work. I have read so many more than I own that I can't even remember them all. I thought it would just be simpler to keep track of what I actually have instead of what has passed through my hands. Given the size of my library, simplicity seemed the best option.

Have a great weekend, and thanks again!

sevedra

escrito por sevedra, às 5:37 pm (EST) , Mar 6, 2009

Havne't read any more Mark Twain yet, though I'm keen to. I have an enormous backlog of books to read, since I buy them faster than I can keep up.

Thanks for the compliment on the reviews - out of curiosity, which didn't you agree with?

escrito por edgeworth, às 10:54 pm (EST) , Feb 25, 2009

been catching some posts you've made here and there, mostly in the old Richard III group. You sound like you have an interesting collection. Wish I could see it... I will just stalk you quietly here until you may become public as a library. If that bothers you, let me knwo and I'll stop :)

escrito por sevedra, às 8:46 pm (EST) , Feb 16, 2009

Hi, about a year and a half ago, you posted on the Aviation group that you were looking for information on a squadron that was stationed at Call Field in Texas. I posted a response saying I thought it was the 73rd Squadron. Photoray just joined Librarything and posted the following in the Aviation group which I wanted to make sure you saw, as he has additional info on the 73rd Squadron.
"rudel519:

I just found this site group tonight and stumbled across your post. Send me an email to my work email and I'll look up what I can for you.
ronald.ortensie@randolph.af.mil. Send whatever information you can that way I can pull up what I can find and send it to you.

Ray

Oh, the 73d is still around today, its an operational squadron with Special Operations Command stationed down in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Here is their lineage and honors statement.
http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/facts... "

escrito por rudel519, às 10:15 pm (EST) , Dec 13, 2008

In response to your response... ad infinitum.

The Science Fiction good stuff is like pizza... even when it's bad it's good!

As a lifelong obsessive over the SF genre I must admit that I've not added ALL my favorite authors to my LT profile. I just don't have the time to list them all. The masters, which I adore, are Zelazny, Niven, Heinlein, Russell, etc. Interesting newer authors are Meiville and McDevitt.

As for the Saugerties history? I've been constructing my family history for over 25 years and many of my ancestors were from Ulster County. As part of my research local history books have become important to tracking friends and family and they are fun to read. Thanks for leaving a post. Hope to hear from you soon!

escrito por TheAlternativeOne, às 7:05 pm (EST) , Dec 2, 2008

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?

escrito por littlegeek, às 12:04 am (EST) , 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!

escrito por littlegeek, às 7:03 pm (EST) , 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

escrito por J_ipsen, às 11:56 pm (EST) , 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

escrito por LucasTrask, às 8:14 pm (EST) , 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....

escrito por littlegeek, às 10:52 am (EST) , Oct 5, 2007

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

escrito por JPB, às 4:21 pm (EST) , 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

escrito por mrdrjohn, às 1:37 am (EST) , 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 :)

escrito por collsers, às 7:12 pm (EST) , 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.

escrito por LucasTrask, às 12:34 am (EST) , 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.

escrito por angelikat, às 7:54 am (EST) , Sep 7, 2007

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

escrito por jbd1, às 3:05 pm (EST) , 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

escrito por ThomasJefferson, às 2:31 pm (EST) , 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... :)

escrito por bookstothesky, às 9:59 pm (EST) , 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?

escrito por jagmuse, às 3:23 pm (EST) , 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?

escrito por lilbrattyteen, às 12:48 am (EST) , 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?

escrito por lilbrattyteen, às 2:56 pm (EST) , 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

escrito por devenish, às 11:41 am (EST) , 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

escrito por gerben1980, às 1:33 pm (EST) , 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

escrito por LittleKnife, às 9:04 pm (EST) , 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

escrito por timspalding, às 8:48 pm (EST) , 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

escrito por nickhoonaloon, às 5:41 am (EST) , 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

escrito por WilliamDorr, às 3:16 pm (EST) , 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.

escrito por littlebookworm, às 3:35 pm (EST) , 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 :-)

escrito por archaeofreak, às 12:15 pm (EST) , 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

escrito por sunny, às 2:37 am (EST) , 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

escrito por nickhoonaloon, às 12:20 pm (EST) , 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.

escrito por Larxol, às 11:29 am (EST) , Jul 18, 2007

It is never too late!

escrito por Arctic-Stranger, às 5:59 pm (EST) , 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.

escrito por Larxol, às 2:51 pm (EST) , 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?

escrito por rudyleon, às 4:51 pm (EST) , 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.

escrito por oregonobsessionz, às 3:22 am (EST) , Jul 16, 2007

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

escrito por timspalding, às 11:07 pm (EST) , 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.

escrito por McBadger, às 1:59 pm (EST) , 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

escrito por dchaikin, às 12:25 pm (EST) , Jul 11, 2007

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

escrito por samgb, às 8:56 am (EST) , Jul 2, 2007

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

escrito por Tane, às 3:31 pm (EST) , 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 :-)

escrito por JohnMcGrath, às 7:52 pm (EST) , 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.

escrito por Potocky, às 9:54 am (EST) , 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

escrito por devenish, às 1:12 am (EST) , 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

escrito por devenish, às 2:07 am (EST) , May 16, 2007

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

escrito por jscook8, às 12:06 am (EST) , 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!

escrito por Cascadian, às 1:52 am (EST) , May 13, 2007

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

escrito por dougwood57, às 11:33 pm (EST) , 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 :)

escrito por oszymandias, às 4:02 am (EST) , 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.

escrito por bibliorex, às 2:41 am (EST) , May 4, 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.

escrito por littlegeek, às 11:17 am (EST) , 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.

escrito por littlegeek, às 3:15 pm (EST) , 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.

escrito por littlegeek, às 5:34 pm (EST) , 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

escrito por nickhoonaloon, às 10:13 am (EST) , 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.

escrito por darrow, às 4:03 pm (EST) , Mar 26, 2007

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

escrito por NativeRoses, às 6:32 pm (EST) , Mar 24, 2007