[bookshare-discuss] Re: What went wrong [bookshare-discuss
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 00:58:19 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks, Lissi. I'm glad to know the lists are useful. Adding the number of
books added was someone's request, as as adding whether the books are fiction
or nonfiction, and using asterisks for navigation. I'm always glad to
incorporate any idea that might make the list more useful.
G.Cindy
-- On Tue, 7/8/08, Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: What went wrong [bookshare-discuss
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 9:19 PM
> Dear Grand Cindy,
>
> Congratulations on doing such a wonderful job of delivering
> the new books
> lists right to our front doors and congratulations on more
> than doubling
> your list of Booksharians who can anticipate your updates
> in their in boxes.
> Last I knew forty something people were getting your lists.
> Now you're near
> a hundred twenty! With your validating, supplying missing
> pages, describing
> pictures, channeling wishes, and packing new books lists
> with extra
> information, we must be a full time job for you!
>
> As one of the 117 people getting your nightly lists of new
> books, I'm glad
> you didn't read all of your e-mail and explained what
> you do for us. I look
> forward to your lists which get better and better. It's
> great that you put
> the number of new books added in the message line. High or
> low, they grab my
> attention. I feel so informed and have more of a sense of
> how fast the
> collection is growing.
>
> Always with love and thanks,
>
> Lissi
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grandma Cindy"
> <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 6:28 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: What went wrong
> [bookshare-discuss
>
>
> > Lana, and anyone else who is new and doesn't know
> about list I send out
> > and wants it: Mary Anne and I provide synopses for the
> PQ books that are
> > added by Carrie daily and nightly. I check the Browse
> New Books frequently
> > during the day and night, and when Carrie has finished
> posting the
> > additions to the collection, I add the books to my
> email list--English
> > language books only. I delete a couple of lines that
> are repetitious, add
> > whether they're fiction or nonfiction, juvenile,
> children's or Young
> > Adult; and, if necessary, add short synopses,
> including replacing quoted
> > reviews, which we aren't supposed to have, with
> short synopses. Thus when
> > I email the list of Books Added to the 117 people who
> have asked for them,
> > all the books on the list have short synopses. I also
> send the short
> > synopses to Allison, who will, as soon as she has a
> chance, add them to
> > the books in the collection, so sooner or later they
> will be there.
> > Allison and some other volunteers
> > also write short synopses for PQ books.
> >
> > If anyone wants to receive my list of books added,m
> just pet me know,
> > either by posting here or writing to me at
> popularplace@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > G.Cindy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I
> >
> > ***WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE
> BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS
> > AVAILABLE AT
> >
> http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/Book_Requests.htm
> > http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/
> >
> http://studentpages.alma.edu/~07jmyate/book_requests.htm
> >
> > A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE
> AT
> >
> http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/scanning.html
> > http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/
> >
> > Jake's site for useful links:
> http://www.jbrownell.com/bkslinks.html
> >
> >
> > --- On Sun, 7/6/08, lana <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: lana <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: What went wrong
> [bookshare-discuss
> >> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Date: Sunday, July 6, 2008, 12:12 PM
> >> And things were going so well, but here are those
> pesky
> >> publisher qualities back, with no synopses either
> in the
> >> new book list or once you've linked the book.
> I
> >> thought that, except for one or two now and then,
> we'd
> >> gotten past that.
> >> So disapointed.
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "solsticesinger"
> >> <solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> >> <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Date: 2008/07/06 03:11:57
> >> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Kristin Hannah
> submitted to
> >> step one
> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I have just submitted Firefly Lane by Kristin
> Hannah
> >> to step one. I forgot to strip headers before
> submitting,
> >> but most scannos have been removed. Also, page
> breaks, and
> >> chapter headings have been protected. Here is the
> synopsis.
> >> >
> >> > In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate
> Mularkey has
> >> accepted her place at the bottom of the
> eighth-grade social
> >> food chain. Then, to her amazement, the
> >> > "coolest girl in the world" moves
> in across
> >> the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart
> seems to
> >> have it all--combeauty, brains, ambition. On the
> surface
> >> > they are as opposite as two people can be:
> Kate,
> >> doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family
> who
> >> mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in
> glamour
> >> > and mystery, but with a secret that is
> destroying her.
> >> They make a pact to be best friends forever; by
> summer's
> >> end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable.
> >> >
> >> > So begins Kristin Hannah's magnificent
> new novel.
> >> Spanning more than three decades and playing out
> across the
> >> ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest,
> >> > Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story
> of two
> >> women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead
> of their
> >> lives.
> >> >
> >> > From the beginning, Tully is desperate to
> prove her
> >> worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an
> early
> >> age, she longs to be loved unconditionally.
> >> > In the glittering, big-hair era of the
> eighties, she
> >> looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in
> the
> >> buttoned-down nineties, it is television news
> >> > that captivates her. She will follow her own
> blind
> >> ambition to New York and around the globe, finding
> fame and
> >> success . . .. and loneliness.
> >> >
> >> > Kate knows early on that her life will be
> nothing
> >> special. Throughout college, she pretends to be
> driven by a
> >> need for success, but all she reallywants
> >> > is to fall in love and have children and live
> an
> >> ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as
> driven as
> >> Tully. What she doesn't know is how being a
> >> > wife and mother will change her . . . how
> she'll
> >> lose sight of who she once was, and what she once
> wanted.
> >> And how much she'll envy her famous best
> friend.
> >> > . . .
> >> >
> >> > For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each
> other
> >> through life, weathering the storms of
> >> friendship--comjealousy, anger, hurt, resentment.
> They
> >> think they've
> >> > survived it all until a single act of
> betrayal tears
> >> them apart . . . and puts their courage and
> friendship to
> >> the ultimate test.
> >> >
> >> > Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank
> Boone's
> >> Farm apple wine while listening to Abba or
> Fleetwood Mac.
> >> More than a coming-of-age novel, it's the
> story
> >> > of a generation of women who were both
> blessed and
> >> cursed by choices. It's about promises and
> secrets and
> >> betrayals. And ultimately, about the one person
> >> > who really, truly knows you--comand knows
> what has the
> >> power to hurt you . . . and heal you. Firefly Lane
> is a
> >> story you'll never forget . . . one you'll
> >> > want to pass on to your best friend.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Shannon
> >> > I am only one; but still I am one. I can not
> do
> >> everything, but I can do something. And, because I
> can not
> >> do everything, I will not refuse to do the
> something I can
> >> do.
> >> > Everet Edward Hale
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