[bookshare-discuss] Re: Discussion re books
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:00:01 -0700 (PDT)
If you or someone would like to scan more of them, I'd
be more than happy to validate them no matter how bad
the scan. I particularly would like to see Skye
O'Malley done because it's the first book in a series.
I feel a bit guilty reading for pleasure books that I
think I should scanning for the collection, but if
someone else scans a book I can validate and kill two
birds with one stone, i.e., enjoy the book and help
add to the collection.
Cindy
P.S. Where in Florida do you live, Dinky?I gather from
what you say that the worst part of the hurricanes
missed you, though you did get wet. At least I hope
you did't suffer any damage.
-- Dinky <dinky88@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Have read those Small books which are most sexually
> explicit and keep one's
> interest piqued with all the exploits not sexual as
> well. *smile* Have not
> read those others sisters or brothers.
>
> Dinky
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 8:08 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Discussion re books
>
>
> > I like all kinds of books, if they're written
> well. In
> > fulfilling requests from bookshare members I've
> > discovered some prolific and popular authors that
> I
> > don't think write that well, though the plots did
> keep
> > my interest, but I wouldn't go borrow other of
> those
> > authors' book for myself. On the hand, I've found
> a
> > couple whose other books I do want to read,
> > specifically Ivan Doig and Bertrice Small. I've
> become
> > addicted to her books -- historical romance, very
> > accurate as to the historical setting and
> characters
> > (I've checked online about some of the incidents
> and
> > people about which I knew little). She wrote many
> > books before the one I first scanned and
> prevaldated
> > for bookshare, and I'm gradually reading the
> others.
> >
> > Speaking of which, it was you, Allison, wans't it
> that
> > scanned some of her books that are now in the
> > collection, i.e., Besieged, Darling Jasming and
> Wild
> > Jasmine? There's a whole saga beginning with Skye
> > O'Malley, of which those are 3. I want to read
> them in
> > order. I'm concentrating of validating now,
> selecting
> > books that are Fair and Good, because I think I
> have
> > more time than most to do that, but when (and if)
> I
> > finish I'll scan more of Small's books -- though I
> > feel I should fulfill requests instead.
> >
> > I also like reading history and biography if
> they're
> > written for the "average" reader, i.e., aren't
> written
> > in a scholarly manner. I'm starting a new book
> now,
> > Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief (published in
> > 2004) which seems interesting. A couple of other
> > well-written and interesting ones I've read were
> Gore
> > Vidal's Burr (though I would have preferred the
> > narrator's part be left out and the book
> restricted to
> > Burr's story) and a book entitled The Speckled
> > Monster, about the early simultaneous efforts in
> > England and America by Lady Montague and Dr.
> Boylston
> > to innoculate (variolate) smallpos in the early
> 18th
> > century. Did you know that the Moors and black
> slaves
> > were doing that long before the Europeans?
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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