[bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum Thicket

  • From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:17:38 -0700

Hi Roger!

Oh, thanks for the info about withdrawn books not being truly unavailable!
I can't tell you how thrilled I am about this!  There were books I wanted
that I thought were lost to me forever!  Yaye!  A hunting I will go!

I actually still have a record player that will play the hard discs!
Woohoo!

Thank you again for this info that is invaluable to me!

Mayrie



-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Loran Bailey [mailto:rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 9:25 AM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum
Thicket

If the NLS used to have it recorded they still do. If it is very old,
though, and has not been reissued it might be a little difficult to get hold
of. If you browse the NLS on line catalog you will find that the old RD
books are marked as withdrawn. On the email list that was formerly run by
the NLS for their BARD initiative, though, I learned from NLS employees that
the withdrawn designation only means that the regional libraries do not
still have them on hand. You can still order them though. You will have to
wait for them to be shipped from a remote storage facility and wait for one
of the old record players to be shipped to you too and then you will have to
deal with the bulky things. Considering that you can just download the
digital books I think you would have to want the book pretty badly to want
to bother with all the hassle to get it and play it. All cassette books are
still available too and should be a lot easier to acquire because the
transition to digital is still underway. Depending on how old it is, though,
you might get a deteriorated copy with very poor sound quality and if it is
not good enough for you then you might have to send it back and work with
your library in finding a copy that is good enough for you.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:37 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum
Thicket


Hi Lori,

It was good!  I know folks who have read it several times!  NLS used to have
it recorded.  I don't know if they still do.

Mayrie




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From: Lori Castner [mailto:loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 7:26 AM
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Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum
Thicket


Oh, this one sounds good!

Lori C.


----- Original Message -----
From: Mayrie  <mailto:mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> ReNae
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 4:05 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum
Thicket

Hi Bob,

I adore the quote in your sig file!

Another postapocolyptic book, the only one I've ever read is "Emergence" by
David R. Palmer.  Bookshare doesn't have it, but I'll see if I can get  a
copy cheap somewhere.

Here's its synopsis.

Book Description:
               Immune from the effects of a bionuclear war that
                  has destroyed most of humanity, an eleven-year-old girl
                  realizes that she represents a new stage in human
evolution.
                  Recording her thoughts and experiences in a diary, she
sets
                  out across a scarred America seeking others of her kind.


Mayrie


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From: Bob W [mailto:rwiley45@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 2:31 AM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum
Thicket


Hi Lissi.

I never ever read children's books, never! (I ain't one, I ain't got none,
and I don't want none.)

But your description of the "plumb thicket"'s main character and her
approach to books is so intriguing that I want to encourage you to hurry and
get it in the collection so I can read it.

Bob (the grump)


A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing
you just did? Don't do that.' Douglas Adams


----- Original Message -----
From: Estelnalissi <mailto:airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:31 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum
Thicket

Dear  Booksharian Friends,

Thanks to all of you who contributed to the discussion on post apocalyptic
books and especially to Bob W. for starting it. The detail in which these
books were described helps me to decide which to read. I've only read three
of them of which, The Postman, the book, not the movie, was my favorite. It
was hopeful, inspiring  and exciting.

In a few days I'll be checking in The Plum Thicket by Janice Holt Giles.
'The copyright is 1954 so some of you who enjoy books written then might
want to check it out. Whether you like her work in general, I think most of
you might share some of its eight-year-old narrator's views on books and
reading.


"I stood before the rows of books, undecided, all of their bindings, all of
their titles, alluring. I cannot remember when I did not have a love for
books amounting to reverence; my passion for reading is so deep that it is
actually an addiction, like the drug habit. I would read the telephone
directory if nothing else were available. But not only is opening a book,
any book, any time, an adventure which makes my pulse beat faster, I love
books also for their own sake. I like to hold in my hand a beautiful book,
feel its quality and texture, smell it and, I can think of no better word,
love it. I particularly love the old leather bindings, such as those on my
grandfather's shelves, and I particularly love, too, the heavy, torn paper
and the exquisite type which many of them had. A beautiful book is truly a
work of art.

What should it be? Scott? Thackeray? Trollope? Brontë? Tentatively I took
down Madame Bovary. I knew Grandfather greatly appreciated Flaubert But the
text was in French. Regretfully I put it back. The Dickens shelf was next,
and with a kind of homing instinct I picked out David Copperfield. I had
read it twice already, but it was always irresistible."



Always with love,



Lissi



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