Good news: I found more of my books while unpacking! Yeah.
My foot is feeling better! Yeah.
So, I am hoping to go to knitting group next week and make my reading group in two weeks!
My goal is to read all my books in my personal library by mid-2008 and not buy too many from now on. I want to contribute some books to a teacher in New Orleans East (which got really 'Kaned in 2005). There is NO, I repeat, NO library at her school (She is probably teaching in a a trailer.) She wants to have some books in her classroom to encourage her students to read.
I am ready to contribute my copy of Book Thief and some art books. I am thinking some magazines would be great also.
I decided to join the Russian Reading Challenge. Right now, I have three books in mind.
- I bought War and Peace in Wigtown (3 separate volumes; I remember reading A Work in Progress' troubles with her paperback versions.)
- At Gatwick, I bought a non-fiction book,
- I have a great book that I bought when I was a teen: Photographs for the Tsar. It has early, early color photography of places and people that don't exist anymore with stories about the villages.
- Still deciding about the fourth book.
GROSS TIDBIT: To get rid of lice, the captain ordered blankets to be soaking in boiling, hot, get ready, URINE.
I am also considering moving up to Commadore Level. I found a pictoral book about Skackleton's trip to Antartica and an early biography of him. Within the Antartica, one had to sail sometimes. Plus, he was in the Royal Navy, so it counts.
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You know, I'm tempted to do the Russian Challenge just so I will finally get around to reading Anna Karenina!
Yay, for finding your books and for your foot feeling better. I'm so happy to hear that.
Wow--you'll have read your own books in your library by mid-2008! Kudos to you! It would take me a long time to read all the books I've accumulated, which is why I should stop accumulating them! I ended up having to tape all the corners to my copy of War and Peace, so it held out through the end. I knew I would never be able to lug around a hardback,so paper was what I went with. I have seen multiple volumes of it, too--that's a good ideas well! Sorry to hear you had foot problems!
Ladies, thanks for the comments about the foot. It's a lot better. I can walk on carpet without crutches.
Iliana, will it still count if we start reading in November?
The Moscow 1941 book is chunky.
Danielle, when I recently moved, I had only 3 boxes. I sell my books and trade them for others. I am really interested in finding good homes for them.
Plus, people are lending me books and I am going to the library again, so I try not to go on buying sprees.
W&P mine is in three volumes! I traded an US paperback for the three books, when I was in Wigtown, Scotland.
Do you know if your teacher friend would be interested in a stack of New Yorkers and some Smithsonian magazines? I have some in my recycling pile, but would much rather pass them on to a clasroom. Also, I may have some books for her, too. Send me her contact infor and I'll give her a call.
MJT
MJT, the teacher is not my friend; I found her name on craigslist.org.
I will forward her info to you.
I tried calling her a couple of times, and she didn't answer. I hope that she answers the phone this week.
Thanks for your support.
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