tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462977744808678.post9184585768123415451..comments2024-03-26T17:48:13.000-07:00Comments on The Clerk Manifesto: Fulfilling My Part in the Third DecreeFeldenstein Calypsohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04896259011478481374noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462977744808678.post-23143516940617012792013-05-29T21:35:10.578-07:002013-05-29T21:35:10.578-07:00Thank you for your nice and kind comment. Really l...Thank you for your nice and kind comment. Really liked Chalice and Knot in the Grain and some others a lot, but Blue Sword is so much the one for me. I requested Quest for a Maid from interlibrary loan. I am all ready to read it. I have heard that about the check out once a year which I guess is partly what my dream of the staff library is addressing, all that recommendation and saving all in one. Anyway, I'll add Quest to the secret library list and if some library board somewhere goes on a vision quest and appoints me King five copies will be immediately acquired!Feldenstein Calypsohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04896259011478481374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462977744808678.post-34734976739786631262013-05-29T14:27:23.778-07:002013-05-29T14:27:23.778-07:00If I didn't already love this blog, I would no...If I didn't already love this blog, I would now solely for your inclusion of Blue Sword on your list. McKinley is one of my favorite authors.<br /><br />The book that I always try to "save" from weeding is Quest for a Maid by Frances Mary Hendry. It is an upper juvenile/lower YA historical novel set in medieval Scotland. It is decidedly obscure. Highly underappreciated. And has been my favorite book since I was nine.<br /><br />Please note...in order to save something from the dusty book weeding list it has to be checked out. I feel it is cheating if I check it out myself. So instead I sneak it into book talks like a ninja. If I can convince 1 person a year to check it out, it is safe!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462977744808678.post-61717609849440083482013-05-27T11:01:03.732-07:002013-05-27T11:01:03.732-07:00Okay, leery of this sort of commitment I will brav...Okay, leery of this sort of commitment I will bravely go ahead and say at some point this summer I will undertake to read The Warden is it? After all, you pretty much go ahead and read or try most things I mention. Do you really read that much? A friend at my job reads so many books like that it never ceases to amaze me. I think I read that much in a way, but not books, I mean not whole books, just pieces of things everywhere. I think I have a blog post coming about that.Feldenstein Calypsohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04896259011478481374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462977744808678.post-2225266827108065972013-05-27T07:30:18.226-07:002013-05-27T07:30:18.226-07:00Oh, yeah! I have the Magic Catalog on my Kindle a...Oh, yeah! I have the Magic Catalog on my Kindle and can easily download all the books in the public domain from Project Gutenberg to my device. Thanks! I'll get it today.<br /><br />I know that Trollope looks intimidating, but once you get started, you won't want it to end. He builds a whole world, and you keep running into people you know as you read through the different books. And you get so wrapped up in the characters' dilemmas that it's hard to stop reading.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462977744808678.post-78420779622602139022013-05-26T09:27:34.125-07:002013-05-26T09:27:34.125-07:00Funny you should mention Trollope... anyway, I am ...Funny you should mention Trollope... anyway, I am delighted you added your list and will immediately buy 5 of each for the metaphorical (hypothetical?) library within the library. Plus you get to pick another one in a year!<br />I am starting to feel I should give The Barchester Chronicles a go. It's a bit intimidating though, all those thousands of pages. Is this how people feel when faced with another of my blog posts running into the multiple paragraphs and having no pictures?<br />And I swear King of the Schnorrers is a pussycat. It's actually free online at project gutenberg.Feldenstein Calypsohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04896259011478481374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462977744808678.post-74141392799586330442013-05-25T21:38:09.398-07:002013-05-25T21:38:09.398-07:00Most of the books I would want to protect are ones...Most of the books I would want to protect are ones that I think the library will always stock, but anyway...<br /><br />The Barchester Chronicles by Anthony Trollope: So sweet and heartfelt, innocent and entertaining. England back when everyone believed in God.<br />Maus I & II by Art Speigelman. The first mainstream graphic novel and a story that needed to be told.<br />The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Highly entertaining, with the most complex and fascinating villain ever.<br />The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Loved it and could see it being lost.<br />Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand. Just excellent. Non-fiction, but so compelling, so well written.<br /><br />P.S. King of the Schnorrers is available in the Amazon Kindle Store for $5.94, and I got Fishwhistle for $2.99! Thanks for the recommendations. I'm kinda scared to buy K of the S. Don't know why.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462977744808678.post-18650647556893484132013-05-24T20:41:42.169-07:002013-05-24T20:41:42.169-07:00Thanks. Thinking about it is probably a good idea ...Thanks. Thinking about it is probably a good idea as I am already torn by misgivings and reconsiderations. Do come back and leave a choice or five though.Feldenstein Calypsohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04896259011478481374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462977744808678.post-12750433211378564402013-05-24T20:35:26.277-07:002013-05-24T20:35:26.277-07:00Great post! A little intimidating to follow. I'...Great post! A little intimidating to follow. I'm going to think on it for awhile before I come up with my choice or choices.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com