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I wish I had over a billion dollars worth of loot hiding in my back room..Nazi-looted art stash found
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/wo...
Has anyone read
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. Fascinating--this portrait was stolen by the Nazis and subseequently recovered. It was a very good book, and I love that portrait!
I haven't. I know the Klimt portrait painting though. So famous. I didn't realise the Nazis had stolen that one too.
Mark wrote: "http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/1... interesting reading. About eating meat in the middle ages."Ian Mortimer in his books
talks about how much animal protein the merchant and upper classes consumed ( three or four courses at every meal ). No wonder gout was a major problem :)
happy wrote: "talks about how much animal protein the merchant and upper classes consumed ( three or four courses at every meal ). No wonder gout was a major problem :) ..."...and the reason the smell in the streets and waterways was so bad.
(not trying to be disgusting, just fact)
Cool. Goodreads Choice Awards are up and running.For those who love voting on stuff (me) I like to vote.
I get annoyed by the choices a lot of the time, but i still like the voting.
Terri wrote: "happy wrote: "talks about how much animal protein the merchant and upper classes consumed ( three or four courses at every meal ). No wonder gout was a major problem :) ..."...and the reason the..."
He does mention the aroma of London and other major cities - but he credits it more to sewage disposal problems :)
Terri wrote: "Cool. Goodreads Choice Awards are up and running.For those who love voting on stuff (me) I like to vote."
Me too. Unfortunately I haven't read any. When I went to 'need inspiration?' for write-in votes, I see I only have 5 books published in 2013, 4 of them nonfiction, 2 of those on pre-order, 1 fiction a review copy I didn't love. Drat can't vote.
Terri wrote: "Cool. Goodreads Choice Awards are up and running.For those who love voting on stuff (me) I like to vote.
I get annoyed by the choices a lot of the time, but i still like the voting."
Both of mine were write-ins, so they won't come close. Oh well... some of these categories I don't even like. Plus I thought many choices were putrid in the categories I do like.
I voted and then went back and changed them already. :)I remembered a couple good books published this year that weren't on the list so had to change my votes.
I have written in before (it was a Cornwell) and then realised that it hadn't been released in the US yet...and they work on US release dates.This was back in the day when I did not realise that they only worked with books released in the US. I quite often forget that this is, despite being open to all internationals, a US site and not an International site.
I can only find digital books available in the US and I can't find a US release date either.
I'm going to be bold and write-in, for nonfiction. I'll stand up for lit studies. Medieval/renaissance at that. It's won an award.
Sure, good for you, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Actually, now I think of it, I did write in a non fiction once too.This one:
What It is Like to Go to War
Dawn wrote: "I can only find digital books available in the US and I can't find a US release date either."I couldn't find a US release either.
We need an American to check an online bookstore and see whether there is a US publication of The Lion Rampant, or do they all come from the UK.
Try this: it's HarperCollins, but don't know if it's the UK or not. http://www.amazon.com/The-Lion-Rampan...
Afraid because I am not in the US (I am in Australia) it will always throw up UK results when Americans link to the book. :( So I need someone in the US to see if they have any US editions available to them or do they all ship from the UK.
Checking The Book Depository, it appears there is no US edition. So I guess I can write in a vote for it to the Goodreads Choice Awards. *sigh*What about The Ill-Made Knight?
Amazon.com has a pre-order price guarantee on The Ill-Made Knight so it's not released in the US yet.Actually, with this one it actually says it hasn't been released yet on the left.
None of the books released this year that I have read and enjoyed a lot have been released in the US yet. Or at all for that matter.
What about Templar's Acre?
or Rome: The Art of War (which I haven't read, but I love the series and would vote) or Stormbird (which I also haven't read, but would vote for becasue there are no books in the options that smack of the historical fiction books we read in here).
Maybe I need to look at my 2012 publications and see if any of those have been released in the US this year.
of the 2012 ones I am not sure what their US release date was or even if they have one.Crowbone
Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth
Hawk Quest...now that one WAS released in the US wasn't it. I remember all the ads on GR Hawk Quest
1356 was released in the US in 2013 wasn't it, but I thought that was a awful book so wouldn't vote for it.
I tried to vote for Hawk Quest and got an ineligible message.This one:
Books published for the first time in the United States in English between November 26, 2012 and November 16, 2013 are eligible for the 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards. If you think you've received this message in error, please contact a librarian.
Templar's Acre looks like it was released in September in the US.
Though I don't see why Hawk Quest would be ineligible.
I think this is happening a lot. I checked into the Librarians group and there is a thread set up for books such as Hawk Quest, where the US publication date is this year and yet it is saying it is ineligible.I posted about Hawk Quest and we'll see how we go.
I may end up trying to vote for Templar's Acre. That one I really enjoyed and Hawk Quest I haven't finished, but I enjoyed what I had read and hope to get back to it soon.
According to the book's details it was originally published in January 2012. Probably why it's not eligible. Perhaps a publishing date typo?
That should be the UK release date. The US one was in April of this year.
I wonder how GR knows which editions are from the US?
Sweet. Since it starts on Nov 26 2012, my fave hf of the year scrapes in by two days.
Darcy wrote: "According to the book's details it was originally published in January 2012. Probably why it's not eligible. Perhaps a publishing date typo?"I even remember in April when there were sponsored ads splashed around GR and the GR newsletter for the April release of Hawk Quest in the US.
I wonder how a librarian fixes books like these to make them eligible for the awards.
Bloody Field was my last year's love, Terri, aside from her lack of eligibility. :) This year it's Arauco: A Novel.
Oh, was that last year? I had it in my head that we read it in Feb. But yes, the wink smilie was for the extreme ineligibility of it anyway. :D
Bryn wrote: "Bloody Field was my last year's love, Terri, aside from her lack of eligibility. :) This year it's Arauco: A Novel."The cover is truly beautiful.
Maybe we did. I have no time sense. It is a gorgeous piece of art for the cover, and done with great care to tally with the contents.
No. No. You were completely right. It was September last year. I was just muddled up. :)
Tyler Jacobson is the cover artist. I quite like his other work as well. In case anyone is interested: http://www.tylerjacobsonart.com/#port...
Oh thanks Dawn. I hadn't investigated.
I had not investigated either.Nice nudes. :]
I rather liked his Moby Dick stuff. And the nudes are quite nice, aren't they! ;)
Dawn wrote: "I rather liked his Moby Dick stuff. And the nudes are quite nice, aren't they! ;)"Agreed, the Dick stuff is quite nice. ;)
I know. *slaps own hand*
They fixed hawk Quest. I voted for it successfully.
Their solution to fixing it was to change it's first published date. Which technically makes it the wrong info now?? Seems a bit odd.I voted for a book in a series that's not being released in the US at all. Just because I didn't like any of the others. :)
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