Bluedaizy's comments (member since Jun 08, 2008)

Bluedaizy's comments from the The Next Best Book Club group.

very nifty!

what a great list!

I'm reading Steve Hamilton's Blood is the Sky right now. His first novel, Winter of the Wolf Moon, was an Edgar Award winner. Character driven and very entertaining. It's set in Michigan and is the perfect contrast to a hot muggy day in the South.

If she's looking for more of a puzzler, though, I'd have to agree with Tom about The Poet by Michael Connelly. It's one of my favorites. As is anything by James Lee Burke...that man can WRITE!

Hey there, fellow Hoosier! Nothing better than those library cards! :)

I like them both, too. Lori's reminds me of reading in a park or coffee shop and Grace's reminds me more of an old world library. Both fabulous places to read!

You could start a 6 star shelf for reads you think are better than the 5 star rating. :)

What's nice is you can sort your shelves too. You can move a book up in ranking on your To Be Read shelf if you want to read it sooner than another book. Sort of like Netflix, but not as functional, yet.

I agree that it really depends on what your interested in and what you want to get out of it. I tend to shelve by whether I own/Want to own or if fiction/non-fiction. I also have children's and poetry shelves. I'm thinking about adding a philosophy shelf, but am waiting to see how many of those books I have.

It's really easy to delete/rename shelves too. It will not remove your books.

I read this book a couple of years ago on a recommendation from my sister. I enjoyed it, but haven't read anything else by her yet. I might give Love Medicine a try.

hehehe...mayby Otis and crew could come up with something.

Croyle wrote: "And my most treasured old book ( sounds crazy ) is the, 1935 library edition dictionary from Brown college. Yeah I know its just a dictionary but its kind of cool. "

Croyle! If you're crazy, then I am too. Well, I really am a bit crazy, but I TOTALLY DIG dictionaries! I probably have about 50 and the older the better. They have the coolest words. And I usually can't be beat at Scrabble. "...just a dictionary..." shame on you! :)

Christi wrote: "I just read an article about how Sci Fi writer Ackerman's collection was going on auction. First edition signed Frankenstein among others. He had a signed Dracula also with Bella Ligosi's (sp? sorr..."

I just love Bela Lugosi! I vant to suck your blooood! hehehe...that would be a great book to have!

I collect books. I probably have over 2000 all together. I've got most of the books with ISBNs cataloged, but have yet to finish cataloging those prior to ISBNs. I have a Pilgrim's Progress that's so old it doesn't have a publish/copyright date. I don't think it's dollar value is much, but I just LOVE LOVE LOVE it! It has a creamy white binding with gold leaf lettering and peacocks imprinted in gold leaf on the cover. Priceless to me. (I'd post a picture if I could get that HTML to work for me.)

I also have a book called Livingston The Pathfinder by Basil Matthews, copyright 1912 with a really cool picture of a man with a rifle getting mauled my a lion. I may have been pmsing when I bought it, but it seemed perfect at the time.

And these are not even my favorite old books. I'm truly blessed.

I love the smell of lots of books. I can still remember the smell of my favorite library when I was young. Although walking into a Books A Million is not nearly as nice. Maybe its too much coffee in the air. Geesh, I feel like I just blasphemied. Too much coffee??? But I hope you understand... :)

Liesl wrote: "This isn't a word I mispronounce, but whenever I see it written I stumble and have to actually think how it's pronounced - "epitome" in writing always makes me want to say in my head epp-uh-tome wi..."

When I was in college, I was raving about a book my English professor has assigned the class and said something to the effect it was the epp uh tome blah blah blah....I was corrected in my pronouciation. It was one of those times I wished the floor would open up and swallow me whole. :)

she has wings.


why did the chicken cross the road?

Brenda,

I love that you included Lethal Weapon and Die Hard. I have to watch those every Christmas too. The first two Die Hards have some cool Christmas tunes.

And, what??? No one mentions Home Alone??? I love all the Tim Allen Santa Clause movies too.

I'm on vacation at Myrtle Beach...don't hate! Last nite I had the patio doors open listening to the waves hit the beach and was watching a cheesy version of Dracula on TV. It was so great! It had Donald Pleasance and Lawrence Olivier. Now I wish I had the book with me. I'm going to see if I can rent my condo at Halloween, get some creepy classical music and some red wine and whoop it up good! :)

Hey Giovanna! I think this is so cool...I'm vacationing at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and you're in Scotland. Is technology great or what?

Chat with you soon! :)

Another issue I'm paranoid about is this whole moving to digital TV in February and the government is giving everyone two $40 coupons for a digital converter box. Why? What's in it for the government to keep the population glued to the TV to subsidize $80 for every household in the nation??

We spend waaaaay too much time in front of that damn box. The government really shouldn't be encouraging that, but should be spending that money to get people off the couches and helping the community or even, yes, you guessed it, READING!

I'm sure there is more to this than my meager brain can think of....

I read State of Fear, too. It really makes you think. Well, it made me think, TRUST NO ONE! Now I'm totally paranoid and asking, "what's in it for him/her" when they go spouting figures regarding the environment.

I cry at the drop of a hat, but usually can maintain my composure when in public. But I was reading One True Thing while eating out and I started crying at the table. I couldn't stop. I had seen the movie (cried buckets at that too) and knew what was coming. You'd think I would have known better. Anyway, it was most embarrassing! I'm quite sure everyone put their forks down to stare. I felt everyones eyes on me. Needless to say, I haven't taken that one with me again when dining out.