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[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Aye, it can always be worse I suppose. :)

[C.P.]

Right. ;-) In any case, thanks for the kind words.

[Simona]

C.P. wrote: "But my cats survived, which they might not have if the smoke had gotten any thicker. So it could have been worse."

Yes, but I would have been really sad to be obliged to replace my books - even if it would have been possible to replace them all.
And it happens that we have to discard some, even without a fire: spines crack, glue dries, pages stick together or get lost, expecially on paperbacks...

[C.P.]

Simona wrote: "Yes, but I would have been really sad to be obliged to replace my books - even if it would have been possible to replace them all."

Agreed. They're like children, but much less trouble. ;-)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Simona wrote: "And it happens that we have to discard some, even without a fire: spines crack, glue dries, pages stick together or get lost, expecially on paperbacks...
."

Goodness. What is going on in your house? I think I need to report you for book abuse. ;)

[Simona]

Lols. I just own some very old books...don't call the sheriff, yet.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Alright. I'll not call just yet..but if I hear of any more abuse I will get someone to come around and take them away from you. :)

[Simona]

NOW i'm frightened!

[Linda]

Published in 1905,The Chief American PoetsCurtis Hidden Page. I found this very old book in a library trash bin in 1968. It is coming apart from age and use. I have toted and displayed that book in all the places I have lived since finding it. The book is rare and special to me, but it could be junk to the rest of the world. C. P., I am sorry to hear about your house fire, good to hear about adequate compensation, really good that the cats are ok.

[Darcy]

I accept all rejects. Apparently whether animal or dead-tree.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Darcy wrote: "I accept all rejects. Apparently whether animal or dead-tree."

lol. She has plenty of creatures great and small who can attest to that.

[Simona]

Darcy wrote: "I accept all rejects. Apparently whether animal or dead-tree."

Me too. Actually, they find me and usualy decide to stay.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

First off, I am proud that this was created in my home state. :)
Second, what a wonderful thing it will be.

World-first treatment for Dengue.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/qu...

Sice it says 390 million people are treated for Dengue every year, imagine all those medical resources and hospital beds that will be freed up in countries around the world.
It is a pretty major discovery.

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Terri wrote: "First off, I am proud that this was created in my home state. :)
Second, what a wonderful thing it will be.

World-first treatment for Dengue.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/qu......"

That is great news indeed. Well done Queensland!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

And our trees. Our native tree species save the day too. :D

Goes to show though doesn't it. Sometimes our plants really can be the source of cures and the like.

[Gary]

Terri wrote: "First off, I am proud that this was created in my home state. :)
Second, what a wonderful thing it will be.

World-first treatment for Dengue.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/qu......"
Wow! That is especially important given how diseases that are not so prevalent in the West tend to get short shrift, research-wise.

[Dar B]

Sorry for jumping in and on to another topic BUT, I have recently moved into a house with tons of built in shelves. I have been storing my books for almost 30 years, add in my husband's for 20, and lots of children's books. The youngest of these boxes have survived 3 big moves.

I have been overwhelmed with how to organize these books, especially the non-fiction. To make things worse, we had family visit already so, my husband took lots of books and just thrusted them on to the shelves closest to his reach. They are driving me crazy!

We still have several boxes full and this horrible mess on the shelves. My question is, how do you organize your books, especially non-fiction?? But, suggestions for all of kinds of books are welcome.

Am I really weird for considering applying the Dewey decimal system to my non-fiction?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Gary wrote: "Wow! That is especially important given how diseases that are not so prevalent in the West tend to get short shrift, research-wise. ..."

Very true.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Hi Darla, Good to hear from you. :)

I don't think any kind of organisation, ie dewey, is weird in the home library. I think as book lovers we are permitted to get as complicated as we want with our organisation. lol.
I personally though, do it by genre.

I have all my non fiction organised by setting/topic. For example, I read a lot of military non fiction ( although I haven't had a chance to get to any for months!). I will have all my war non fic grouped together according to theatre. Vietnam, Afghanistan etc...

My fiction is grouped by genre. I have all the fantasy together, all the crime and thriller together.
Once I have them in genre I then have them in a declining scale for height. Largest books on the outside, coming into the smallest books in the centre.

[Darcy]

I organize by topic-ish. History stuff is all on one huge shelf and then I put military stuff together, then military, folklore, etc. my social sciences are on another shelf. My humour, sports, arts and architecture are together. Biographies I do by subject as well.
My friend organises hers by cover type and size. I personally like an uneven line, but I suspect most people like things a bit more linear than I. Also, my books are three deep - I tend to switch them around a bit when I find I'm reading a lot about a particular subject.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

*gasp* your books are uneven? sacre bleu!!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Have been watching the Hobbit movie at night with hubby. He's tired so we are watching it in sessions.

Gosh it takes me back. We read the book as a little kid in primary school and I have always had only thin memories of the story. but watching it this week it has been coming back to me.

[Darcy]

Ayup. Kind of matches my lifestyle though, so I think it looks okay with everything else. I hope ;)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Darla,
I think your query is such a great topic, i am going to start on a thread on it. The variations from person to person must be so diverse.

[Darcy]

I really like the topic too. *waits for new thread*

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

NEW THREAD alert...(where we can hear about your untidy uneven books, Darcy..:)..)
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Terri wrote: "Have been watching the Hobbit movie at night with hubby. He's tired so we are watching it in sessions.

Gosh it takes me back. We read the book as a little kid in primary school and I have always h..."

Martin Freeman looks EXACTLY how I pictured Bilbo Baggins when I was a girl. :)

[Darcy]

Brooding Thorin.... *sigh*

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Darcy wrote: "Brooding Thorin.... *sigh*"

Isn't brooding Thorin meant to be short though...a dwarf...? :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I think Martin Freeman makes an excellent young Bilbo too.
He also is a great match to the older Bilbo.

[Darcy]

Yes, but I'll forgive Richard Armitage his genes.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Terri wrote: "Darcy wrote: "Brooding Thorin.... *sigh*"

Isn't brooding Thorin meant to be short though...a dwarf...? :)"

Kind of hard to find dwarves these days. Billy Connolly is playing a dwarf in one of the later movies.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Darcy wrote: "Yes, but I'll forgive Richard Armitage his genes."

hahaha. I suppose that's only fair.
But it is his dwarf character that I thought you were sighing after. :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I saw an ad for the newest Hobbit movie about a month ago and was stoked to see all the elves doing their thing. The next one looks more like the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, whereas The Hobbit I am watching now seems more childlike. one for the kiddies.

I did give a childish giggle though when Bilbo said that "Gandalf likes to let off his whizpops" :)

[Darcy]

Terri wrote: "Darcy wrote: "Yes, but I'll forgive Richard Armitage his genes."

hahaha. I suppose that's only fair.
But it is his dwarf character that I thought you were sighing after. :)"

Oh right. Okay, I want Thorin's hair. Not so much the dwarf. More the man inside the dwarf. Lol

There are so many euphemistic lines and call backs to Lord of the Rings that I felt it was really a trailer for the original trilogy.

[Bryn]

Cor. I didn't know Richard Armitage was in it, brooding. I don't often go wobbly, but I wobbled a bit at him in Robin Hood.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

he has lovely hair for sure.

He seems rather moody in the movie..he would be hard to get a laugh out of I think. Maybe he would lighten up when he gets his kingdom back. I have not got that far yet so don't know if he gets jollier.
I wouldn't want to party with him. :/

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Bryn wrote: "Cor. I didn't know Richard Armitage was in it, brooding. I don't often go wobbly, but I wobbled a bit at him in Robin Hood."


In Robin Hood? I shall go look..

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Oh that's who he is! Oh yes. Wobbles from me too.

[Bryn]

BBC Robin Hood. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0787985/ Which I am inordinately fond of. He was Guy of Gisbourne.

[Darcy]

That's the fellow. He was also on Spooks and Chris Ryan's Strike Back and the BBC prod of Elizabeth Gaskill's North & South

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I image googled him. :) I was an admirer of him...although not so fond of the show.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Terri wrote: "I saw an ad for the newest Hobbit movie about a month ago and was stoked to see all the elves doing their thing. The next one looks more like the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, whereas The Hobbit..."

Peter Jackson did say the second and third movies would be darker than the first. He apparently drew not just on the Hobbit but on other writings of Tolkein's.

I'm excited for the second one. My favourite character is in it. Smaug! I adored the dragon. Was never happy with him getting killed. My own little story Smaug ate all the dwarves and he kept Bilbo as a pet.

Kind of weird when you consider the actor's playing Smaug and Bilbo.... Sherlock and John from BBC's "Sherlock".

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Ah. Ok. That makes sense that he went darker. that is how it looked.

[C.P.]

Linda wrote: "C. P., I am sorry to hear about your house fire, good to hear about adequate compensation, really good that the cats are ok."

Thanks, Linda. That's very kind of you.

[Lia]

C.P. wrote: "Linda wrote: "C. P., I am sorry to hear about your house fire, good to hear about adequate compensation, really good that the cats are ok."

Thanks, Linda. That's very kind of you."

Sorry to hear about your house fire C.P.

[Lia]

Wow... I was absent for couples of days and I feel like I was away for ten years. So many things happened in the various threats within the group.

[Simona]

I'm sorry, you maybe mean threads? (Actually I'm the only one being threatened by Terri because she's now convinced I abuse my books...)...;)

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Simona wrote: "I'm sorry, you maybe mean threads? (Actually I'm the only one being threatened by Terri because she's now convinced I abuse my books...)...;)"

*gasp* You abuse books?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Simona wrote: "I'm sorry, you maybe mean threads? (Actually I'm the only one being threatened by Terri because she's now convinced I abuse my books...)...;)"

Yes I do. I have noted some very suspicious behaviour.. :]