Biography, Autobiography, Memoir discussion
chit Chat (talk about anything) #2
Koren wrote: "I belong to paperbackswap.com and last week I saw someone who put a request on their book that they didn't want any bookcrossing books. I wonder why?"Maybe because with Bookcrossing you are supposed to 'release' the book after you read it and they want to keep the books?
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Maybe because with Bookcrossing..."
That could be.
I do "wild releases" all the time. You put a Bookcrossing label into a book you want to release, note it on Bookcrossing.com, and leave the book somewhere people will find it. A park bench, the reading room at the library, a restaurant.
I haven't come across any bookcrossing books round here. If we leave books on the park bench they will get wet. I don't often go out to restaurants but I do sometimes just return non library books to the library and put them on the withdrawn trolley.I don't keep track of any of the books I release though. I suppose if I really liked a book and wanted to keep track of where it went maybe but I haven't ever come across a bookcrossing book I wanted to read and take home. I mean nice idea but..its another bit of work loading it on there isn't it? When there's so many books at the library you could read.
Maybe its for people that don't have public libraries...? Or people that have duplicate copies of books?
Koren wrote: "Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "Julie wrote: "Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "Yesterday I found my first ever "wild book-crossing" book on a bench in Central Park. I have "released" a few, never to hear from them ag..."I have had a few request stating they did not want any bookcrossing books. I too have wondered why.
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It seems like its so hard to get requested books that I don't care where they came from, although I don't really like to get discarded library books, mostly because a lot of the books I mail are new or almost new, but I hesitate to put it in my request form because I don't want to miss out on a much wanted book because its well used.
Germ freaks. Germ freaks would only want nice new books, not a Bookcrossing specimen that's been read by who knows who.
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That is true. I've heard there are people that wont go to the library because of that. Unless you buy all brand new books how do you know someone didn't read the book while sitting on the toilet? (which actually doesn't bother me unless I saw obvious brown spots).
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Koren wrote: "Why oh why, does it drive me crazy to see an ad on Facebook of someone selling a diamond ring and twice they put how many 'carrots' the ring was??? Just saying."For the same reason I wear a t-shirt that says "SILENTLY CORRECTING YOUR GRAMMAR."
I worked as a freelance proofreader and it drove me nuts having to constantly correct people. I decided to give up that job as its so time consuming. People can fix their own mistakes. I've got my own writing to do. If people want to write carrots insted of carats well...it can drive you crazy or you can just laugh.
At least they attempting to use English..good try.
If people could fix their own mistakes, I think they would!
My Stapelia lepida is blooming only a couple of months after I plunked the unrooted stem cutting into a pot of cactus soil. It's gorgeous! The flower is 3 inches across and I could look at it all day. The only drawback is that is smells like a woodchunk that got hit by a car and then roasted in the hot sun for about a week. But the bluebottle flies are crazy about it. They just twirl around and around and plunge their little fly faces ecstatically into the center of the flower, as if they were drinking the nectar. They don't even notice me as I stand there (upwind).
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That is sooo cool. I've never seen that before.
Fishface wrote: "My Stapelia lepida is blooming only a couple of months after I plunked the unrooted stem cutting into a pot of cactus soil. It's gorgeous! The flower is 3 inches across and I could look at it all d..."Great picture and I love that you got it with the insect on it.
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Koren wrote: "Just wanted to share- today I start on a new adventure. I am going to start working at the elementary school as a nurse in the morning and to get full time hours I'll be a para at the high school i..."Congratulations on the new job!
Julie wrote: "Fishface wrote: "My Stapelia lepida is blooming only a couple of months after I plunked the unrooted stem cutting into a pot of cactus soil. It's gorgeous! The flower is 3 inches across and I could..."Oh, I just stole that photo from Google Images. I don't even have one of those zany Game Boy camera phones yet.
Koren, the kids at the high school will THINK they are smarter than you. This will not be a belief based in fact.
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Thanks everyone. I didn't have to worry about getting a kid smarter than me. I was told I would have a group of kids but when I got there I found out I was one on one with a boy that is the mental age of a first grader. I was told if I could count to 20 I wouldn't have to worry about math. LOL! Not what I thought it would be but I think I will like it.
Koren wrote: "Fishface wrote: "My Stapelia lepida is blooming only a couple of months after I plunked the unrooted stem cutting into a pot of cactus soil. It's gorgeous! The flower is 3 inches across and I could..."Wow!
I ordered a bunch of different Stapelias. This is the only one blooming so far. The others will look like:
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There are 2 others that came in the mail without packing slips. I can only wait and see what they turn out to be.
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Fishface wrote: "I ordered a bunch of different Stapelias. This is the only one blooming so far. The others will look like:and
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There are 2 others that came in the mail without packing slips. I ca..."
I don't think I have ever seen these flowers in person. They are very unusual - I love their colors.
I am crazy about brown flowers and I finally just went ahead and ordered some...
Koren wrote: "Fishface wrote: "Germ freaks. Germ freaks would only want nice new books, not a Bookcrossing specimen that's been read by who knows who."That is true. I've heard there are people that wont go to ..."
My next book is Poo!: A History of the World from the Bottom Up I specifically requested it from the library and I don't know where it's been, but I am going to read it.
I am studying permaculture and need to know about sewerage systems, I think they all want us to go back to composting toilets i.e emptying buckets at night and putting it in the garden.
Selina wrote: "I am studying permaculture and need to know about sewerage systems, I think they all want us to go back to composting toilets i.e emptying buckets at night and putting it in the garden."Now, Selina, that is NOT how a composting toilet works!
Koren wrote: "Do you keep them outside all year round?"Oh, heck no, not in Michigan! I bring them inside for the winter.
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Oh, heck no, not in Michigan! I bring them inside for the winter."
Ohhh. So you keep them in a pot, not in the ground.
Fishface wrote: "Selina wrote: "I am studying permaculture and need to know about sewerage systems, I think they all want us to go back to composting toilets i.e emptying buckets at night and putting it in the gard..."Was rather disappointed in this book it didnt explain where all the poo goes apparently it just ends up in the sea after being treated with chemicals! It didnt have much about composting toilets at all.
Koren wrote: "Fishface wrote: "Koren wrote: "Do you keep them outside all year round?"Oh, heck no, not in Michigan! I bring them inside for the winter."
Ohhh. So you keep them in a pot, not in the ground."
Definitely. They're equatorial succulents.
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In the middle of this book and don't want to go to work.
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LOL! You had the title of True Crime queen so I have to have the title of Bio/memoir queen.
And my title is ***walks away sobbing**
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You can be Fishface's princess.
I am SO irritated. The lawn crew took it upon themselves to drive a tractor, or something, over my newest flowerbed so the mulch is all ground up into the topsoil, the plants are ripped right out of the ground and the edging stones are flung every whichaway. I took a photo with my agency cellphone this morning before trying to set it to rights. So I was at the chiropractor this morning and spent this afternoon putting my spine back out of place hauling rocks. I'm wondering if it would violate condo rules if I put up a sign saying HEY, STUPID! DON'T RUN YOUR MACHINERY OVER THE FLOWERBEDS!
Fishface wrote: "I am SO irritated. The lawn crew took it upon themselves to drive a tractor, or something, over my newest flowerbed so the mulch is all ground up into the topsoil, the plants are ripped right out o..."Oh no!!!
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I can feel your pain. My flowers are my babies.
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Koren wrote: "I'm broken-hearted! My teenage heart throb, David Cassidy, is not doing so well. Sounds like he has multiple organ failure and in need of a liver transplant to survive."Multiple organ failure? Caused by what?
Koren wrote: "I'm broken-hearted! My teenage heart throb, David Cassidy, is not doing so well. Sounds like he has multiple organ failure and in need of a liver transplant to survive."I knew he was battling dementia and had problems with alcohol which can cause problems with the liver but I did not realize he was in such bad condition.
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Multiple org..."
Sounds like alcohol and drug abuse. He also had dementia caused by same. Just read that it is just a matter of time. Liver transplant is no longer an option. He is on life support and family has been called to bedside.
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I love withdrawn library book trolleys. I thought I might write a book one day but am too busy reading them all to write one. Plus how do you know the book you are writing someone else already has written...if you were writing a bio on someone wouldnt you be miffed if someone else wrote on the same subject and published it at the same time?!
Selina wrote: "I love withdrawn library book trolleys. I thought I might write a book one day but am too busy reading them all to write one. Plus how do you know the book you are writing someone else already has..."
Well, let me just say that unless the person's life was incredibly 2-dimensional, you would probably be writing 2 very different books. And yours might be the runaway bestseller!!!
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I thought I might write a book one day but am too busy reading them all to write one. Plus how do you know the book you are writing someone else already has..."
I've read several books about one of my favorite presidents- Franklin Roosevelt. There are about a billion gazillion books on the Roosevelts and most of them have the same information and yet they are all different in some way. So I think you could do a bio on someone that has already had one written.
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Koren wrote: "I've been sick the past week with a terrible cold so I'm way behind on my Christmas chores so if I'm not around much in the next week I will catch up next week. Perks of working at a school, we get..."I had a bad cold the week before that.
Biography, Autobiography, Memoir
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Poo!: A History of the World from the Bottom Up (other topics)
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I hear you. I would love to share books with people in other countries but I could buy a new book for what it costs to send out of the country.