[bookshare-discuss] Re: What went wrong [bookshare-discuss
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 15:28:53 -0700 (PDT)
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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