Your TBR pile.......what are the top three ?
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Comments (43)Oh, I enjoyed this thread! I have to add that the only room without books & bookcases is my bathroom & that's because it's too humid! The dining room I'd love to turn into a "library" but haven't managed to yet. Mine are sort of organized by topics within a bookcases. The two in the dining room hold all the field guides for birds, butterflies, wildflowers etc. Then there are two in the living room with (mostly) gardening. My bedroom has a row of shelves built specifically to hold paperbacks(double stacked)These are mostly beloved books that are read again and again. The breakfast room (who thought of a room just to eat breakfast in?) has two small shelves of series (mysteries)Oh and another shelf of cookbooks! The back bedroom holds all of my late mothers books-complete Agatha Christie & several other mystery series that I read occasionally. Then there are several miscellaneous (sp?) bookshelves scatteried where ever there is room-one of those tacky metal ones from college is in the hallway below where I hang my coats! Oh the livingroom has another one for dictionaries & other reference books. And after my mother passed away in 2005 I started a library at the facility where I work with mentally challenged adults-so I could clear space on the bookshelves (and I had a bad case of insomnia)Like most posters I can lay my hands on a book fairly quickly-of course some of them have been in the same place for 50 years so... Hope this is not too much information! I got a real laugh out of this as not all my close friends are readers & don't understand why I need all these books! Susan...See MoreThe tottering TBR stack
Comments (25)Pam 53, I do like Minette Walters, but I think I keep buying them only because they are offered through the Mystery Guild at a good discount and I have all of them so far. I can't really say which I like best--she doesn't write a new one really often, and I tend to forget them in between. I do know they all seem to have a very tense, if not downright terrifying, denouement. Karalk, here is the complete poem: THE READING MOTHER I had a mother who read to me, Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea, Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth, "Blackbirds" stowed in the hold beneath. I had a mother who read me lays, Of ancient and gallant and golden days. Stories of Marmion and Ivanhoe, Which every boy has a right to know. I had a mother who read me things, That wholesome life to the boy heart brings Stories that stir with an upward touch, Oh, that each mother of boys were such! You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold, Richer than I, you can never be. I had a mother who read to me. Strickland Gillilan...See MoreManaging TBR titles without a tower
Comments (19)Pam53 - If you're interested, here are the instructions on how to load up a photo. (I just learned over the summer, so you're not the only one!) * First, you find and take a photo you want to put in here. Using whichever photo program you have (iPhoto, Picassa etc.), save it and make sure you give it a file name that you can recognize (not IMG123.jpg or something - some meaningful title), and then save it where you can find it again... (Important step.) :-) This could anywhere on your computer, but say it's on your desktop. Note: Change the image title when you're saving it either by during the "save as" step or right-click on the image in your computer file and select "rename". * Open up internet and come to RP (like normal). Come to this set of posts (the TBR pile one). Scroll down to the bottom. * In the "Post a Follow-Up" section (like the place where you write your reactions to the post), at the top of the section (above the message bit); there is a line that says "Image file to upload (optional)" and then there is a box which has "Browse" right by it. * Click "Browse" and find your image file (i.e. the photo that you have just saved). "Browse" will give you access to all your files, you need to dig around a bit and remember where you saved it and what you called it. * Once you have found your photo you want to use, just click "open" on that file upload window (the same kind of window you use to open a normal file). You click on it, press "open" in the bottom right hand corner, and then you should see a trail of letters and back slashes (there "\") in that Browse box. That's good. Go to the message box and just type your message as usual. Then preview message. Bingo....See MoreYour Favorite Books of 2005
Comments (37)ullis - it's The Shadow of the Wind. I gave Joan Didion's book to my mom for Xmas, and was very happy to see that both my parents are reading it now. My father, who doesn't read, is 100 pages into it. He went to see King Kong in the afternoon on his birthday last week (my mom was working and in any case was not interested in that movie), and while he found it novel to be at the movies by himself, because he was reading that book he found himself wondering about life without my mom, and how he would feel, and I actually think this book is bringing them closer. They have been empty nesters for a year now, and there have been some rocky times as they are still learning to relate to each other without mediators........................................................................ I also gave my mom Oprah's 50th anniversary DVD, and there are some very moving interviews on that (with Nelson Mandela, for instance)....See More
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