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Anyone interested in this needs to look at The List by Amy Siskind. She breaks down each week of Trump's first year in office, and notes when things become the "new normal". The idea being that authoritarianism happens to people like a frog in a frying pan.
We don't realize what's happening until it's too late.
The ability to export is by far the best bit about GoodReads.
And that is because GoodReads is to LibraryThing what Buzzfeed is to Reddit, and you can export from one to the other.
GoodReads is a good entry point, but LibraryThing is far superior in terms of functionality, metadata, stats, and all else besides. I also prefer the community there, though they do tend to be a bit older and a bit more obsessive about books.
Gooreads and LibraryThing are use to do this.
A .doc works as well, all depending why you are doing it and what you want to do with it. Advice from other posts : don't forget to have the ISBN with the title make it esayer to export to another support if you want to change.
Or use LibraryThing, which has the same kinds of recommendations, and would let you automatically import the books directly from that spreadsheet without entering them manually. (Add books -> import -> universal import)
Sorry, I have to represent the underdog book tracking website whenever possible.
This problem is not as simple as this article suggests.
There are studies that show that allowing a child to get their way some of the time helps them develop their sense of power and independence, which is very healthy for an adult in a free-market (as opposed to an adult in an agrarian society). Simply having a completely controlled environment with hard and fast rules does not allow a child to develop negotiating skills and how to compromise.
Having hard and fast rules, or letting a child always do what they want are both forms of lazy parenting, they both allow the parent to not have to be aware of what their child is doing. It is much harder to have rules that are consistent yet also flexible when genuine effort is made and to also sort out the mess when they are learning (such as the garbage on the lawn).
Studies also show that rewarding effort is much better than awarding success and it is easy to see how hard it is to parent children in the best of ways; awarding effort takes much more attention than success as you have to weed out when they are faking trying, which takes conscious attention.
I don't have time to dig out full sources just now, but Nurture Shock is a good place to start.
This is an idea that goes back a long time. One of my favorite examples from modern fantasy is Le Guin's Wizard of Earthsea.
But it actually goes back to ancient times. Here is a very interesting discussion about it.
The &gt;>SOURCE<< of the claim for my post.
Edit: The actual &gt;>SCENE<<
He absolutely knew who Cincinnatus was. Founders mostly had classical educations, much more Roman than Greek influence. Cicero, for example, was a huge influence on John Adams. You can find lists of many of the books in their personal libraries online. Here's GW: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/GeorgeWashington
Trump had an idea like this about regulations and it's actually one of the few things I have liked from him.
The accumulated deadwood of all the past laws and regulations we've made over the last 2 centuries weighs down our legal system, economy and society tremendously.
Anyone ever heard of 'The Rise and Decline of Nations' by Mancur Olson? A pivotal text in economics, here's a quote from a summary:
> As a society becomes more successful, advanced and stable it's institutions become more complex and invariably start to turn the favourable stability into undesirable rigidity. Legislation starts to mushroom along with the people who create and administer it and somehow the society finds that the achievements of it's youth are no longer possible.
In my opinion, the best online store for small batch occult publishers is Miskatonic Books. They have a great selection of Limited Edition grimoires and general occult books. It's so much easier going to their site instead of having to constantly check each publisher's site on a regular basis.
Other than that I find some good stuff on Amazon but I go book hunting all most daily. I got to Goodwills, library sales, thrift shops, estate sales, used book stores, etc.
I plan on opening an occult book store in about 3 - 5 years so I'm constantly buying books.
You can view my entire collection here: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Desertcore
Five years ago, there was a discussion on another book-rating forum about whether winning an award causes a book's ratings to rise (because raters figure if it won an award, it must be good) or fall (because it's held to a higher standard, or because awards attract readers who wouldn't otherwise be interested in the book).
They compiled ratings data in the lead-up to the 2012 Booker Prize, which eventually went to Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies. Before the award, that book's average rating was 4.36 (out of 5). For all ratings made after the award, the average is 4.31. Since the difference is negligible, the disappointing result of that particular experiment is that it appears to be a wash.
I was curious too so I did some searching. Found Easton Press. They have a very nice looking edition of all 6 original Dune books for $110 a piece. So a little cheaper per book, but you have to commit to all 6.
http://www.eastonpress.com/prod/8E8/Frank-Herbert-s-DUNE-CHRONICLES_2210
edit: Found This thread that has a lot of links. Couldn't find any other pressings of Dune, but lots of cools stuff.
This is great, and an advance in the field, but not nearly as original as portrayed.
It is a field that has been developing over the last 80 years or so. See Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life for a great summary.
Hell, I've just gone public with a social networking project called Babbling Brook that I have been developing for the last three years. It extrapolates the theory a step further by looking at social structure as resulting from the same process.
"Norse Myth: Gods of the Vikings" by Kevin Crossley-Holland is a pretty good book about norse mythology. It consists of retellings of a lot of stories and is an easy read. Additionally it has a lot of annotations about variations of the story in different sources and gives many references for further reading.
It looks like the author is Victor Pelevin (Виктор Пелевин), a post-modernist writer who deals with very weird issues (but not Pokemon porn). The actual title appears to be "ЧИСΛА"... except "Λ" is not a Russian letter. It's probably supposed to be "ЧИСЛА" ("Numbers"), which is the title of a story by Pelevin (with a much more sedate, though still weird cover).
Numbers is about a businessman who's obsessed with the number 34, and has nothing to do with Pokemon at all, let alone... that.
All of which makes the actual book cover more disturbing and weird rather than explaining it in any way. It's like finding a copy of Moby Dick or Hamlet with this cover.
You can actually still purchase a CueCat from LibraryThing to help log your books.
I had a friend who got one and thought it was cool, but I prefer just typing the ISBN.
I decided to do a summer of female authors after realizing that I had been reading mostly men. Some of my favorites:
My Ántonia & O' Pioneers by Willa Cather. I picked up O' Pioneers on a whim in a used bookstore only knowing Willa Cather as a distant "classic author" that I'd heard of but didn't know much about. I was immediately drawn in by the powerful imagery of the Nebraska prairie and her complex, surprisingly modern characters.
The MaddAddam Trilogy (Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood and MaddAddam) by Margaret Atwood. Atwood is brilliant and I should really just recommend anything by her but I can't stop thinking about this series of speculative fiction. It's a disquieting journey into the unraveling of a dystopia in the not so distant future. I had nightmares about the pigoons.
Anything by Shirley Jackson. You can't help but fall into Shirley Jackson's stories that are filled with a spooky, claustrophobic atmosphere and her preternatural characters. Her stories aren't so much about ghosts and monsters but about troubled, haunted people trying to find their place in the world.
There are so many more that I could write about: Marilynne Robinson, Zadie Smith, Joan Didion, A.S. Byatt, Laura Esquivel, Helen Oyeyemi, Alice Munro. You can also check out Flavorwire's 50 Books by Women to Read or 500 Great Books by Women for more.
i have over 1000 books. i looked each one up here and cataloged them all here. I then printed stickers for each book with the correct call number, and then organized them in order. now they are all neatly filed and easy to find.
this process took a total of over 100 hours...two or three hours a night for about two months. if i were to do this for someone, i'd charge $20 a hour.
My mother has cataloged about half of the collection on Library Thing. She gave up after a few months as it was too tiresome. p.s. I'm not sure what the link is to our library, but I'm not sure if my mother would like people (as beautiful as you all are) snooping around her profile. I'll get back to you.
Edit: I forgot to mention, on Library Thing there are people who have cataloged personal libraries many times larger than our library. Though some of which are actual libraries, others are very much personal. It's truly mind blowing, check it out.
I always liked magical realism stuff. When I was a girl I found the author E. Nesbit, and was enthralled with her works. She was one of the first writers I'd found who spoke in a kid's natural voice.
The way I had found Nesbit was through this author, Edward Eager, who admired her and mentioned her in his own books.
Other favorites, read over and over again:
Little Women
Anne Frank
As I grew up, I got more and more out of these books.
Agree that women constitute the majority of commercially-published romance readers. However, men do write romance (Nicholas Sparks for instance), sometimes under female pen names.
As far as fanfiction goes, women do write gen, as well as dramas which include relationships but are not conventional romances. In my observation (anecdata, NOT statistics!) those stories also don't get the traction of romances.
So while I'm not blaming readers (they like what they like), to me this does boil down to reader preference, as well as willingness to express those preferences.
I have a GoodReads and LibraryThing account. I like LibraryThing a lot more, because it gives me personalized recommendations and neat stats about my library.
edit: I should have included a link to the Reddit LibraryThing group: http://www.librarything.com/groups/reddit
If you want to tour through a variety of Canadian SF authors before you choose one, I suggest any of the Tesseracts collections. They're all Canadian SF and the first one was edited by the late Judith Merril (who was American but later moved to Canada). She also has a collection named after her at the Toronto Public Library.
I think they're up to 17 collections now. It's a series that is definitely worth checking out.
For anyone who loves book, Librarything has it's own Secret Santa sort of thing (with a guaranteed gift). I do it every year and love their format. Closes at 5PM EST.
http://www.librarything.com/profile/TerenceKempMcKenna
Podcast 366 – “Terence McKenna’s Suggested Reading List”
The top link is basically an index for his library. Mckenna did possess an older copy of Agrippa's Three books of Occult Philosophy and an original folio edition of Meric Casaubon's "A true and faithful relation of what passed for many years between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits". I don't know if you have any interest in occult literature, especially some this old, but it's worth looking at just to delve into the mind of McKenna for a while.
Recommend "The Most Dangerous Book". It's a great read and explains why Ulysses is so important. Gives the context to understand why so many people go woowoo for Ulysses.
You're jumping into an area that's already occupied by GoodReads, Shelfari (which is an Amazon-affiliated site), and LibraryThing, among others, that already do the bookish social media / recommendation thing. You'd have to introduce some really impressive new feature to get me to re-enter my reading list, given it's already in GoodReads & Shelfari.
Non-fiction:
Underground -- Haruki Murakami. Based on interviews after the 1995 sarin attacks in Japan
Helter Skelter -- Vincent Bugliosi. About the Manson cult
Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer. Not about a cult exactly, but really good. About a spin-off fundamentalist group of Mormons.
Fiction:
1Q84 -- Haruki Murakami. This was the only one I could think of that was fiction about a cult, but it doesn't really focus on the cult very much.
If you care about form over function I guess. I have my entire book collection cataloged, and can find tons of info about the books and authors listed, including social and tag clouds, related works, every known cover...well here, feel free to laugh at my collection. I haven't done much work on the tagging which would help functionality even more. I think it's a great site.
I use Goodreads to keep up with what I have read. You might try LibraryThing or Shelfari. There are even more like these, some with apps for scanning barcodes.
What about this?
According to one description, it has eight short stories: "Includes the following stories: "Blood's A Rover" (Chad Oliver), "Noise" (Jack Vance), "Life Hutch" (Harlan Ellison), "Ticket To Anywhere" (Damon Knight), "The Sixth Palace" (Robert Silverberg), "Lulungomeena" (Gordon R. Dickson), "The Dance Of The Changer And The Three" (Terry Carr), and "Far Centaurus" (A.E. van Vogt)."
...None of those are remotely close to what you want, though. The only thing that really works is that it was an anthology called Deep Space and, in at least one printing had a purpleish cloudy cover.
I like LibraryThing the best, because it does some neat statistical analysis of my library and gives me recommendations based off of the books I've read and how I've rated them.
Fyi, there's a reddit group: http://www.librarything.com/groups/reddit
Aha! <em>Mystery of the Empty House</em> (1960?), formerly Secret of the Old Post Box, by Dorothy Sterling seems to fit the bill pretty well. A bit more information at Google Books.
edit: A thorough review. I think this is it. :-)
A citation for idiotforshort's comment: Dilemmas of Desire - Deborah L Tolman - most of it can be read for free on Google Books. Basically about the messages girls are fed about sex and love by western culture, kinda depressing.
One of the psychologist who conducted extensive interviews of James Holmes wrote a book on the Aurora shooting. He's also the one whose interview videos can be found online.
Review of book: http://www.librarything.com/work/22182459/reviews/170350031
I tried a complicated Excel spreadsheet, but I found that librarything.com was the best for what I needed. They have a minimal app that you can use to avoid duplicate purchases and to enter books by barcode (those are the two things I use it for) as well as a few other things, but the website has a TON of functionality. Because you can enter books by barcode as well as search library catalogs and import information about your book from there, you end up with a LOT of information about your books without doing very much data entry.
Here's my catalog: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/jonsweitzerlamme
Click the styles at the top (A through E) as well as on the word "tags" and on the word "collections" to see more information: I use tags to keep track of books, as well as collections. There's also a private section where I keep track of how much I paid for each book.
>International humanitarianism (and how it intersects with imperialism)
So this probably won't be helpful, but I was looking into a book titled The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, and came across this review
>Easterly starts out by repeatetly creating ridiculous analogies, Harry Potter and the Kentucky Derby being his strongest influences. J.K. Rowlings hit is mentioned almost a dozen times in the first 30 pages, pretty surprising for a book that is supposed to be about foreign aid. I am not making this up by the way.
So I dropped that shit realllll quick.
However, just now I came across this long form by Chomsky, so it may be a good jumping off point
Story (if wanted): About a year ago I panic asked you guys for help organizing all of these art history books my work had been accumulating and tracking through excel. A bunch of you suggested I use LibraryThing and it worked out so well.
I just wanted to say thanks again for helping me do my job. <3
Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand. 1994.
'When Sweeney Cassidy, a naive freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine in Washington, D.C., falls in with the wrong crowd, she is expelled for taking part in a lurid escapade.
The university is a haven of the Benandanti, who for millennia have guarded against the return of their ancient foe, Othiym Lunarsa, the Moon Goddess. In Hand's post-feminist tale, however, the goddess is not a comfortable earth mother figure but a powerful destroyer. The Benandanti are unaware that Sweeney's friends Oliver and Angelica are the Chosen Ones, whose violent coupling under the moon will begin to wake Othiym. Oliver kills himself, Angelica disappears and Sweeney is whisked away by the Benandanti. Twenty years later, Sweeney's summer intern at the National Museum of Natural History turns out to be the son of her old classmates, the result of that wild moonlit night.'
You were close! The author is Avi.
Bright Shadow is the book:
http://www.librarything.com/work/110892
Young Morwenna, upon the death of an ancient wizard, finds herself in possession of the world's last five wishes. She soon discovers that this gift is a lonely burden. By a curious trick of fate, a beloved but rather simple and selfish friend believes himself to be in possession of the wishes and constantly gets himself into situations from which Morwenna must extricate him.
The definitive (I think) critical edition of the Lemegeton (which includes the Goetia) is Joseph Peterson: https://www.librarything.com/work/327692
Also Skinner and Rankine produced a different edition from, I believe, different set of source materials and also contains extensive critical apparatus.
http://www.librarything.com/work/4347502
Neither of these would really be useful, probably for practical instruction of course; hopefully someone else can chime in on that point.
You might be better off if you ask on /r/askhistorians
A big clue-in might be; how early was the work translated? How many copies were published? How many later publications reference the work? You might be able to get an idea from these things.
As far as individuals, sometimes you can find lists of their personal libraries which will tell you quite a bit. I was able to find this record of Alexander Hamilton's library with a little Googling. The search feature returns no hits for Kant, however I do get two results for David Hume.
Since Hogfather has already been mentioned, I'll go with Christopher Moore's The Stupidest Angel. "A heartwarming tale of Christmas terror" indeed.
Also, check out this list, perhaps you'll find a few more there! Same thing for fantasy + christmas and fantasy + halloween.
I don't know if this is the book that you are looking for, but [Unwind](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unwind_(novel) seems to have a faintly similar plotline. If you have time to dig through, here is a list of 30 books tagged under "organ harvesting."
Friends of the Fort Worth Library. I've only gone looking for children's books, but they had a great selection, were cheap, and often the books were practically new.
Funny, the only article I found was also from five years ago, with the headline 'Calgary's only French bookstore saved from closure'. It's operating under a new name, Livres Lacoste Books.
http://www.librarything.com/venue/55489/Livres-Lacoste-Books
Oh! I totally forgot - I don't think this is probably worthy of its own [Activity] thread, but just a heads up to any book lovers/talking-about-books lovers around here, the LibraryThing SantaThing book exchange wishlists are all now public and open for comments!
Here's a link, you just scroll down to the request posts and comment with book recommendations if you have any! It's free and not only helpful to the person's assigned Santa but from experience I can say that it's super fun and heartwarming to get your post unlocked Christmas morning and have a bunch of thoughtful recommendations to look over! :) ~~This one is my post, if anyone wants to leave me some recs~~
Tailchaser's song is an old fave :) Definitely fantasy. it's about a cat who tries to save the girl he's sweet on, and goes on a long journey. I'm due for a reread!
Watership down is another excellent story, about rabbits. more "realistic' but fantastic. it's a classic for a reason. It may not be exactly what you're looking for, but it should be read anyway. :)
Um, if you don't mind wading through the YA section, the Warrior cats series is pretty entertaining, as long as you don't look for deep intricacy to your fiction.
Let's see... the TV tropes page on Xenofictional Literature will probably right up your ally. :)
let's see... there is also this forum post about books with unique narrators...
I'm trying to remember a book I read a few years back but I can't seem to place the name of it. Unfortunately i don't remember anything about it except the main character was hobbit-ish, he gets in with the wrong people, ends up on an unexpected adventure and it was the first in a series. The author was someone who I thought wrote some d&d books, but I can't seem to find it. -deskflip- ... I want to say there was a boat ride involved... and maybe some sort of repayment of debts? Anyway.
there's another book I can't remember anything about that I would have been in bookstores in the late 90's and early 00's, that was a series? about orcs and goblins.. but I never read them, though I wanted to. I WANT to say they were in the same kind of area as Simon R Green's books, but I have no clue! I've spent like an hour trying to find figments of my imagination, near as I can tell.
You are on a very interesting line of thinking.
> we should keep going smaller and smaller until the beginning.
You assume that there is a beginning, there is no reason it is not turtles all the way down. Also, you are assuming a linear ladder, but the relationships between emergent systems is actually a lot more complex. For example, both molecules and galaxies emerge out of atoms. Molecules via an organizing principle of electromagnetism and galaxies via gravity. Organic chemistry depends on both of these as the necessary environment for organic chemistry is only found on planets, which form in solar systems, which emerge from galaxies. There are also other things that emerge out of atoms and the basic forces, such as vortices and bernard cells. I wouldn't be surprised if vorticies are also necessary for the emergence of organic chemistry.
>and the rest is evolution through natural selection, mutation, and genetic drift.
There has already been plenty after that. The emergence of organ systems and then mind from neurons, sentience from mind. The emergence of colonies from groups of organisms right up to tribes of humans. The emergence of socio-economic systems, language and tool use (technology.) The emergence of transistors, leading to computers.
Natural selection is just one of many organizing principles for emergent complexity. What most people don't know is that all of this is unexpectedly driven by entropy.
Two great books on the topic:
Into the cool - A good introduction. Cosmic Evolution - More maths.
My sophomore year of college, I read post-apocalyptic fiction ONLY for like 4 months straight. Here's the list of all the ones I read:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/lmichet&tag=post-apocalyptic
I particularly suggest Riddley Walker, The Road, Alas Babylon, Inverted World, and The Day of the Triffids. Of those, only The Road, Riddley Walker, and Alas Babylon are about NUCLEAR apocalypses specifically.
But take a look at the wider world of post-apocalyptic fiction, too. It's a strong subgenre and there are many famous titles out there to discover. Do a few searches of "post-apocalyptic fiction" on the internet and see what you find!
Harry Harrison's The Hammer and the Cross series. It takes place in pre-Norman Conquest England and the magic is very limited to non-humans only.
<em>"The Balkans"</em>, by Misha Glenny, goes over the history that is in the seeds of the Yugoslav Wars.
It starts at a time when the entire peninsula was part of the Ottoman Empire (year 1804). Lack of borders and free movement in a period of 400-500 years leads to ethnic mix-up that would've been impossible to untangle -- hence the century of wars and ethnic cleansing that ends with the Yugoslav Wars.
Another factor, is that Ottoman Empire, when, for example, compared to Austria-Hungarian Empire, is a backward place. And the culture that it bread -- that of animosity to state structure -- is the deeper denominator of many events that took place after end of 19th century.
The book would be extremely valuable to any current inhabitants of the Balkans (I myself was born and raised in Bulgaria) -- every country re-wrote history to glorify its nation. Each country now claims territory that it occupied during its time of greatest expansion. So lands like Macedonia, for example, are now naturally claimed by nationalists from every neighboring country. This book is written from an outsider who is not biased by belonging to any of the participants in that history.
Excellent book.
I enjoy Library Thing very much. You can keep track of your personal library with tags, collections, etc. They also have a really good common knowledge base about series, authors, etc.
I like LibraryThing, it's really useful (particularly when I remember to update my collection) and accessible via web, which makes checking the collection easy from a smartphone.
Ed. Fixed hyperlink.
Would HIGHLY recommend {The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles} and the following books. No shifters but MLM magic enemies to friends to lovers.
Not my review but I agree with the link belowIt’s hilarious and just … wonderful. This was my second MLM and I absolutely LOVED IT.
I believe there was a Borders Express but I never frequented that mall when it was open so I could be wrong.
Edit: Neat! Looks like I was right Borders Express
In the Space Left Behind by Joan Ackermann.
When Colm Drucker's mother heads out to Las Vegas for her third honeymoon, Colm has plans of his own—organizing his baseball cards, playing guitar, and remodeling the family house as a surprise wedding present. But from the start of his week home alone, Colm, practical and adept, is faced with a series of unforeseen and bewildering events: His dog, Chester, meets an untimely death. His long-absent father calls out of the blue with a bizarre proposition. The beautiful Melanie Phelps kisses him suddenly and inexplicably outside the supermarket. When Colm learns that his mother plans to put the family home he dearly loves up for sale, he resolves to do everything in his power to save it, even if it means traveling across the country with the one person Colm never wanted to depend on for anything.
This looks likely: Mystery of the Fleeing Girl by Showell Styles.
On a cross-country hiking trip in Wales, a brother and sister meet a Hungarian girl on the run who asks for help in evading her pursuers.
http://www.librarything.com/work/1135958
aka Journey with a Secret
https://www.fantasticfiction.com/s/showell-styles/journey-with-secret.htm
Overboard by Elizabeth Fama?
Fourteen-year-old Emily boards an over-crowded ferry in Sumatra. When the boat sinks, she’s trapped by hundreds of panicked people. She finds Isman, a terrified young Muslim boy, floating in a life vest. Together, with Emily’s physical strength and Isman’s quiet faith, they swim for their lives.
The Metrozone series by Simon Morden.
In a dark near future, the U.S. has become a theocracy, Japan has been destroyed, and the U.K. has devolved into near-anarchy. Ph.D. student and Russian expatriate Samuil Petrovitch, living in the decaying London Metrozone, foils an attempt to kidnap a mysterious woman called Sonja and finds himself caught up in a war between Russian mobsters and a ruthless tycoon. As things escalate, Harry Chain, an enigmatic cop, and Madeleine, a sexy, violent nun, are also caught up in the war.
Where I'd Like To Be by Frances O'Roark Dowell.
A ghost saved twelve-year-old Maddie's life when she was an infant, her Granny Lane claims, so Maddie must always remember that she is special. But it's hard to feel special when you've spent your life shuffled from one foster home to another. And now that she's at the East Tennessee Children's Home, Maddie feels even less special. She longs for a place to call home. She even has a "book of houses" in which she glues pictures of places she'd like to live. Then one day, a new girl, Murphy, shows up at the Home armed with tales about exotic travels, being able to fly, and boys who recite poetry to wild horses.
Sounds like Clifton Fadiman's World Treasury of Children's Literature!. There are 3 volumes and hard cover used copies are not too hard to find (the one I picked up last year had Volumes 1 and 2 in the same book.
Looking a librarything, there's at least one edition with the cover you've described. http://www.librarything.com/work/6398037/covers
This was a difficult search. I hope I've found it for you...
The Bloodfang Trilogy aka Wolf-Dreams series by Michael D. Weaver?
Thyri, a were-creature trained by the sorceress Scacath, encounters a witch, a clever wizard, and the implications of her true nature...
The shifter girl is named Thyri; her sister (cousin?) is Astrid. Snippet view on Google Books yields the Valkyrie: Host Fetter and Shrieking, Spear Bearer and Might, and Shield Bearer...book mentions Odin, Loki, Ragnarok, etc.
http://www.librarything.com/series/Bloodfang
Edit- more info from another site:
The beautiful Thyri had been cursed with the hated Gift of the werebeast and nothing could free her Her heart pumping wolf-blood, she lusted to kill Into an alien realm, a mystical warrior was her only Hope against the ancient evil that tormented her ... Now Thyri accepted the gift-ring of Odin and is reunited With the Nightreaver crew. But has Odin truly Smiled upon her? Freed from transformation into Wolf, she still responds to the call of battle and faces A stunning confrontation with Loki, who has escaped His chains
> Granted, third-world countries are obviously going to be less happy than first-world countries.
I'd disagree here. Strong counter-example being the pre-1930's Moi tribes scattered about Vietnam: > One of them, a doctor and anthropologist, considered the tribes to have one of the happiest and most attractive civilisations on the planet. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25561810 http://www.librarything.com/work/2930626/reviews/55785046
I couldn't find a separate BBC article on the Moi tribe which described regret by someone affiliated with the missionaries, believing the missionaries were destroying their very happy society by changing their beliefs & values. It went into different details about their culture, explaining more about their happiness. I think grief about the deceased was mitigated both by their beliefs and by the cremated remains being treasured in the home in the jars. It has been maybe 10 years since I read it, I am fuzzy on the details.
I enjoyed your arguments. It is nice to think about them. I thought you'd enjoy reading about the Moi tribes.
The Wind Singer by William Nicholson.
In the city of Aramanth, the mantra is, "Better today than yesterday. Better tomorrow than today." Harder work means the citizens of Aramanth can keep moving forward to improved life stations--from Gray tenements and Orange apartments, upwards to glorious mansions of White. Only some families, like the Haths, believe more in ideas and dreams than in endless toil and ratings. When Kestrel Hath decides she is through with the Aramanth work ethic, she is joined in her small rebellion by her twin brother Bowman and their friend Mumpo. Together, they set the orderly city on its ear by escaping Aramanth's walls for an adventure that takes them from city sewers to desert sandstorms.
In the Eye of the Tornado (Disaster Zone #1) by David Levithan.
Stieg Atwood has the Sense. He can tell when natural disasters are going to hit. Now, with his parents dead, Stieg and his brother Adam must save people before disasters strike--like the twister that's guaranteed to hit somewhere soon.
Away Is a Strange Place to Be by H. M. Hoover?
When she is kidnapped from the Earth in 2349 to serve as slave labor on an artificial world under construction, twelve-year-old Abby must cooperate with her fellow prisoner Bryan, a spoiled rich boy, in order to plan an escape.
Have you tried LibraryThing? If you're on Goodreads for the community this probably isn't very helpful, but they have a lot of the features you want.
The ability to give half star ratings, a tagging system, a relatively powerful search feature (although it doesn't have everything you describe), the ability to perform tagmashes and the automatically generated recommendations are not too bad either.
I have been there four times, have a fifth trip already booked and love that island. Here are the books I own about Key West.
EDIT. I have quite a few books about Key West on my to buy list as well.
I always though the Dragons in Earthsea were awe-inspiring. Huge, mysterious, intelligent.
If you want a really deep, literary book, try The Dragon Griaule by Lucius Shepard.
A strange, fun and cool book set in 1980's California featuring a Chinese dragon is Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy.
The Iron Dragons Daughter and The Dragons of Babel are two great books by Michael Swannwick, set in an industrialized fantasy world full of magic, where dragons are dangerous, sentient and intelligent fighting machines that thrive on manipulating people.
Some sci-fi options:
- Anne McCaffrey's Freedom series
- Embassytown by China Mieville
- Emissaries from the dead by Adam-Troy Castro
If you just need to generate call numbers, try MDS.
Older versions of the Dewey Decimal Classification System are in the public domain. There may be electronic copies out there.
You can always look up individual books on the LoC catalog and search by topic to get the number and cutter.
A visit to a public library for the most recent edition of DDC might be helpful, even though it might be on reserve. Or visit a college library for LoC materials.
Moneysense guide to the Perfect Portfolio, Bortolotti
Millionare Teacher, Andrew Hallam
Personal Finance for Canadians for Dummies
Bogleheads Guide to Investing (skip over 401k and IRA explanations)
For more interesting market or otherwise good personal finance books:
Intelligent Investor, Graham
Random Walk down Wall St, Malkiel
4 Pillars of Investing, Bernstein
Fooled by Randomness, Taleb
Here's a link to his book list http://www.librarything.com/catalog/TerenceKempMcKenna&collection=254415&deepsearch=
Also, I heard the the library burned above a quiznos sub restaurant. I didn't know DMK had been threatened about trying to receive his books although I did hear something about a will change. That's really messed up he deserved to have those books more than anyone else in my opinion, and why the will would change at the last moment? Really strange.
Your score seems to put you in a reading category that could be described as "read whatever you want, challenge yourself, have fun."
You could show this site to your teacher:
http://www.librarything.com/lexile/1480L-1700L
It allows you to adjust the levels easily and see corresponding selections. Even at hundreds of points below your score, most all are college-level material. Since the scoring system seems to be created around which grade level the books were assigned at, it could be said that anything above a 1200/1300 is a college-level book. I would start with the website and see how s/he reacts.
Hi.
I'd like to answer that for you, but have no appreciable experience with Goodreads. Perhaps someone else here can better address the question.
One thing about features, when I discovered LTs legacy libraries, I nearly croaked. They have catalogued the personal libraries of notable people, and some libraries that have long been dispersed. For example, I found a catalogue of a sunken ship's library on there somewhere. Once you catalogue your books, you can compare them with any of these. Out of a mere 200 books I've put on so far, I share one with that sunken library, and 25 with this guy:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ErnestHemingway
I came across LT first, and discovered that it was started by librarians, and is run on library catalogue power. You can catalogue your stuff in accordance with the standards of the finest collections known to us. It's like your own personal WorldCat. And they support local bookshops, new and especially used.
That it was started by librarians, not entrepreneurs and software techs, is important to me. LibraryThing was able to resist a full-on aggressive Amazon buyout, while Goodreads welcomed it. Last I checked, the majority owner of LT is the founder. A librarian.
[later edit: Post-post fact-checked with LT. The founding person is not himself a librarian, but hired bunches of them in his small company. I'd say they've got him pretty well surrounded by now.]
I'm just going to put this out there: that link is such a mess of misconstrued historiography that I don't know where to begin dissecting it. I would suggest a review of the wikipedia page on historiography to get your feet wet. this is a decent over-view of modern historical schools of thought. If you can get your hands on a copy of Breisarch's Historiography, it would help you out. Also, Gombrich speaks in a general way about his view of history in the epilogue of A Little History of the World for Young People. POther than that, I think that there are some interviews out there. Byt the way, the Unification Church is not really a source that you can trust
Do some reading on how relationships work. The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work is a great place to start. You will also have to learn to go against your instincts to some extent to find a happy relationship. That girl who makes you weak at the knees - you might be attracted to her because she responds to you in the same way your mum did to your dad. Take note of how you feel around different girls, learn which feelings you can trust. You can change the tune and find a loving relationship.
Try LibraryThing - it's a site that allows users to catalog their favorite books - it compares your choice(es) again users with similar tastes. Eerily accurate and i've found a lot of good authors that way.
Another aspect that I never got my head around was the female-mother-death cosmology that was presented. Looking for more answers about what was in the samizdat, I came across this discussion on librarything which consolidates a lot of the information in the book regarding The Entertainment.
I still don't know for sure what to think of it. Any ideas?
Witch Hunt by Wendy Staub maybe?
There's also this book, though it seems for somewhat younger readers.
Try /r/tipofmytongue
Edit: Any idea about the year? I dunno when she was in high school xD
Edit2: Try this list
Goodreads and Librarything both have pretty comprehensive collections of book cover images that you could use for inspiration e.g. (from Librarything):
Good book, and I'm nowhere near the age range it's intended for. There's a lot of good things out now in the young adult category that are written well enough to be enjoyable by any age reader.
I'm reading Two Bear Mambo by Joe R. Lansdale, but when I'm done I've got my copy of Dust & Decay, the sequel to Rot & Ruin ready to go.
Started and finished the trilogy within a few days. SO AWESOME.
Sorry to jump on the top post but for the OP ( or anyone ) I'd highly recommend GoodReads. I've spent hours on there finding new books that I want to read plus you can organize, tag, win free books, talk to others and more! :)
There's also Shelfari and Library Thing.
I recently read Gods and Myths of Northern Europe by H.R. Ellis Davidson and I enjoyed it. It is more of an academic treatment of the subject, but the beginning of the book tells a lot of the stories and then the second part of the book goes more into current research and theory.
You might want to check out LibraryThing. Even if you don't want to use their service, you can see the kinds of things they use to catalogue and get ideas for what categories you want to include.
LibraryThing hands down. I like it the best because it has a recommendation engine and library statistics. The recommendation engine is robust and I can apply various tag filters to it (e.g. fantasy, short stories, american) to get specific results. The library stats are neat for a nerd like me. For example, it estimates how many pages are in all of your books, the distribution of author sex, nationality, etc.
Some don't like LibraryThing because after 200 books, you have to pay to add books to your library. I only added books that I read after I got my account, so it'll be a while before I reach that limit, but I'll be happy to pay for it once I do.
Edit: There's a reddit group on LibraryThing: http://www.librarything.com/groups/reddit
You could try librarything, it's a social network for readers, the community 'tags' books with a number of keywords. If you have a concept or a subject that you can explain in one or two words, you'll be able to easily find other books that have been tagged with these words.
You could also try tvtropes.
OK a few from my shelf: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/andyr354
Between A Rock and A Hard Place
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
The Great Escape
Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth
There, that will keep you busy for a while!
I have for the last 16 years. When I wrote a journal in a notebook (as opposed to now, when I use a laptop), I used to just keep a running list on the back page: books I was currently reading, and then a date for when I finished. When I discovered LibraryThing, I transferred them all, and sort them by Date Read.
Selections from The Other Bible:
- The Book of Enoch
- The Gospel of Nicodemus
- The Infancy Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew
- The Infancy Gospel of Thomas
The Book of Enoch provides an awesome description of what heaven is really supposed to be like, complete with "storehouses" where things like rain and fog were kept under lock and key, and so on. You really get a window into the ancient conception of the world. The others are there because of, well, hilarity.
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
It's atheist insofar as it features a misogynistic, fundamentalist theocracy that's taken over the United States. I've always wanted to read it, but have never had the chance.
Yes, I like LibraryThing way more than goodreads. Primarily because LibraryThing gives you neat statistics about your library and a bunch of good recommendations customized to your library. They also have monthly book giveaways, legacy libraries, and some other cool features. A lot of people complain that you have to pay to have more than 200 books, but I think the price is extremely reasonable and I'll have no problem paying once I reach the limit (I only catalogue books I've finished in the past couple of years).
There's a reddit group, btw: http://www.librarything.com/groups/reddit
I'm currently reading the third book in the series (Memories of Ice), and I have felt confused for the first 100 pages or so of each of the books. However, once the pieces start to come together, the series is truly wonderful.
Librarything Is great for this. There are so many different routes to take. Without signing up you can simply follow tags or the recommender list. Or you can take it to another level and enter your whole library (here is mine) and then navigate other users libraries that have books in common.
Dr William Reid, the one who interviewed James Holmes wrote a great book on the Aurora shooting. Here's the link
There is an online thingy called Name That Book. It is an message board run by librarians who can help you identify books. You could also try r/whatsthatbook.
The penis festival is specific to one culture on one planet, not the Radch as a whole. It's introduced to point out the issues with the Radch approach to cultural integration, not emphasize the role of gender in Radch society.
From exploring others perspectives on the topic, it looks like Radch society doesn't give much weight to gender but that individuals do each have their own. Breq's use of a female pronoun is due to Radch language, not her inability to recognize gender. Here's a longer debate on the topic:
Before ABIM was established in 1971 he was already a student leader. In 1968 he was the president of National Union of Malaysian Muslim Students and also president of Universiti Malaya Malay Language Society. He would've been familiar of the figures mentioned, and the incorporation of such works in his speeches were most likely to have occurred then.
There are 2 main groups of listeners of his speeches. One would be in awe of his usage of bombastic words and ideas. The other would just dismiss it outright as mere words but lacking in substance.
But I remember before leaving overseas for study (many many years ago), the government gave each of us a package consisting photocopies of excerpts of articles from some authors. Can't recall all but one of them was called The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington. We were young so me and my friend were puzzled on why the heavy topic.
That time Anwar Ibrahim just left his Education Minister post to become Finance Minister but we knew it all had his handprints on it. That article later became an influential book and is very eerily accurate in predicting our world in the last 30 years.
Ok I found the weight-loss-booth story I was thinking of:Lose Now, Pay Later It is apparently included in 2041: Twelve Short Stories About the Future by Top Science Fiction Writers
http://www.librarything.com/work/184388 But was also excerpted in some textbooks, which would make sense with Jekyll and Hyde also making an appearance.
Edit: just saw your edit, and searching various "inside this book" keywords for The Sci Fi Factor definitely shows it includes the Bradbury story but had no matches for Jekyll & Hyde.