Author Topic: The Library (Read 2087416 times)

Steph · « **Reply #4040 on:** February 11, 2011, 06:37:15 AM »

The Library

Our library cafe is open 24/7, the welcome mat is always out.
Do come in from daily chores and spend some time with us.

We look forward to hearing from you, about you and the books you are enjoying (or not).

Let the book talk begin here!

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I am sitting in my little office.. It was once ours and still has his corner with his desk and the pictures and awards that he treasured, but the rest if mine. I have one whole wall of bookcases.. But two of them are for fiction and nonfictio n andsix of them are for genealogy.. But I have books in every single room except for one bath on the bottom floor.. And I think that when my granddaughter was here lst she left a book there as well.So books, computers,,and music are big for me. I have three tvs, but all were mostly there because my husband adored television. I lwatch early morning news and then again at 6,, usually have a net flix old tv series going upstairs in my bedroom. It feels so much cozier at night than the big living room downstairs.

pedln · « **Reply #4041 on:** February 11, 2011, 10:29:52 AM »

Steph, is today the day? Are you on your way? Bon travels to you!

Hey, MaryPage, may I horn in? I've never been to Annapolis. I could drive PatH, and JoanP too, for that matter, if they'd trust me.

. I'll be visiting Bethesda son and family sometime this summer. Looooove that Beltway traffic, ha ha!

PatH, can you be more specific about Uncle Tom's cabin. What a cool picture. That's great that the county bought the house. Cool.

PatH · « **Reply #4042 on:** February 11, 2011, 10:40:15 AM »

Pedlin, it's close to where you go swimming, just off Old Georgetown road, west side, just south of Tilden Lane.

http://www.montgomeryparks.org/PPSD/Cultural_Resources_Stewardship/heritage/uncle_toms_cabin.shtm

I was luckier with the sunlight when I took my picture than the Park Service was.

MaryPage · « **Reply #4043 on:** February 11, 2011, 11:04:34 AM »

Pedln, I would just LOVE that! Oh, what fun! Anytime between May 1 and October 1 would be loverly! It has to be between Thursday and Sunday of the week; I am at work in an office on the Eastern Shore Monday through Thursday, but can arrange to get home on Wednesday if it helps. We have so very much tourism, Thursday is the best day of all. I can put up three people for an overnight, which would also be fun. I have a most excellent single daybed in the den and a queen-size pull out sofa in the living room. Two bathrooms. Not a whole lot of privacy, but enough for 4 old ladies. There is so very much to see and do here that you might prefer an overnight. In addition to historic Annapolis, there is the United States Naval Academy. I would love to take you all to breakfast or lunch at The Back Porch, my favorite restaurant with fabulous food and view. They do not do dinner. Oh, pinch me!

MaryPage · « **Reply #4044 on:** February 11, 2011, 12:42:07 PM »

A great day in History! A great day for Egypt! People dancing in the streets all over that country and many other nations of the Middle East. Reminds me of V-J Day!

A reminder of what I hope will go down in the History books, though I feel doubtful: this was all begun by a YOUNG WOMAN with college degrees. She has generaled the whole peaceful protest. Hope she gets the credit, but, men being what they are, I doubt it. One can but hope!

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #4045 on:** February 11, 2011, 01:08:06 PM »

Oh MaryPage, Pedln, et al - I am so jealous! It sounds like a trip straight out of Ladies of Covington (didn't they only have one person who could just about face the driving?)

I hope we get a full report of this little jolly afterwards!

Rosemary

MaryPage · « **Reply #4046 on:** February 11, 2011, 04:46:47 PM »

Someone in here asked last week what were good books about climate change. The latest that is getting rave reviews is "HOT, Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth" by Mark Hertsgaard.

PatH · « **Reply #4047 on:** February 11, 2011, 08:34:45 PM »

MaryPage, pedln, JoanP, getting together sounds like a really great idea. When pedln comes to town, we can figure out who is free when, and what makes sense. It seems too much for you to put us up though, MaryPage, but we can deal with that later. I'd really love to meet you.

Rosemarykaye, I love that bit about only one person just about able to face the driving, but in this case, pedln and JoanP are excellent drivers.

roshanarose · « **Reply #4048 on:** February 11, 2011, 08:51:48 PM »

Everyone: Has anyone read "Reading Jackie" by William Kuhn?

MaryPage · « **Reply #4049 on:** February 11, 2011, 09:05:57 PM »

Really would thrill me to have you overnight if you would be up for that. I don't do my own cleaning but have a wonderful cleaning lady. When guests come they are always old friends or family, so I just get the sheets and towels out of the linen closet and hand them out and everyone makes their own beds up. Really no sweat at all. The fun about an overnight is: (1) If you come for a Wednesday or Thursday night, you get to sit out on my back deck overlooking the Chesapeake Bay at 6:15 PM and watch the Wednesday Night Sailboat Races out of the Annapolis Yacht Club or the Thursday Night Sailboat Races out of the Eastport Yacht Club. So lovely to look at. (2) We can sit up and yak like schoolgirls about this and that and the other and you can look at any and all of my books (3) We can take breakfast at The Back Porch where the food is outstanding, there is no inside restaurant and they are only open from about May 20 until October 10, it is on the verandah of a large white house at the end of a peninsula and has a spectacular view, and they have the best French Toast on the planet, I swear. During the day we can take a 45 minute long water cruise of the Naval Academy and, if your legs permit, an hour and a half long walking tour. If you want to skip the walking tour, we can still walk Annapolis or take the trolley ride tour. The little shoppes in Annapolis Historic District are to die for. Then there is a humongous gift shop in the Naval Academy Visitor's Center full of all kinds of Navy stuff, and the Naval Academy Chapel is sooooo beautiful and boasts John Paul Jones down in the basement (well, they don't CALL it a basement!) There is St. John's College here, as well, and the homes of 2 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence to see (only 1 on tour) and our amazing Statehouse: the oldest in continuous use in the States! Oh, do come!

MaryPage · « **Reply #4050 on:** February 11, 2011, 09:17:04 PM »

http://www.stjohnsvideos.com/

http://www.usna.edu/visit.htm

http://www.annapolis.org/index.asp?pageid=49

http://www.charlescarrollhouse.com/

http://www.usna.edu/PAO/facts/faqjpj.htm

http://seniortravel.about.com/od/photogalleries/ig/Naval-Academy-Photos/Naval-Academy-Chapel-Window.htm

http://www.watermarkcruises.com/cruises40min.htm

http://www.kenscreativekitchen.com/experience_back.html

http://www.annapolisyc.com/

http://www.ci.annapolis.md.us/Home.aspx

MaryPage · « **Reply #4051 on:** February 11, 2011, 09:34:27 PM »

This is the community I live in. It is a gated community with a marina. My place is out of sight up at the very top center. Mine is a bay view.

http://www.chesapeakeharbourrealestate.com/

http://www.annapolishomeinfo.com/PageManager/Default.aspx/PageID=2139412&NF=1

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #4052 on:** February 12, 2011, 02:29:10 AM »

MaryPage - this is me

having looked at your website, only the face should be green, with envy. What a beautiful place - have you lived there long? I so so wish I could come on this visit - all of the activities you describe sound so good, especially the breakfast and the sitting up chewing the cud. And watching the yachts on the bay - perfect.

Enjoy, all you lucky people! One day I will try to concoct a similar tour of Edinburgh.

Rosemary

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #4053 on:** February 12, 2011, 02:33:47 AM »

Roshanarose - I'd never heard of Reading Jackie, so I have just looked it up on Amazon - it looks very interesting, although the one reviewer does have some reservations about it. Have you bought it?

R

roshanarose · « **Reply #4054 on:** February 12, 2011, 08:13:31 AM »

Rosemary - I think the guy who wrote it was "grasping for straws a bit" as Jackie left very little writing behind. He seeks to get an idea of her essence from the books she loved. I think I will just read it in sections. I borrowed it from my elibrary, which is connected to my Council library. I will let you know what I think when I have finished it. It doesn't cost anything and you can have the books out for 21 days max.

MaryPage · « **Reply #4055 on:** February 12, 2011, 09:25:04 AM »

ABERLAINE, we did study American history, but information about
particular states only came up when it influenced the national history.
The rangers were a motley lot. In appearance, they could hardly have
been reassuring. Some of the names are familiar to me, though.“Bigfoot
” Wallace and “Allligator” Davis are figures of the local folklore.
It is John Coffee Hays who truly captures the imagination, tho’. A
remarkable young man, and a most appealing character. I would dearly
love to see his story ,…an accurate, true-to-life version…on film.
Properly done, it would be a classic.

That is a most intriguing link, CALLIE. I wish I had more time to
peruse it. Minnie Caudle was a very pretty girl, wasn't she? And it's
good to see Banc lived to an old age.

Babi · « **Reply #4056 on:** February 12, 2011, 09:25:36 AM »

Ah, Ladies, you can't possibly resist an offer like that! You absolutely
must go, sit on the deck and watch the sailboats, and tell us all about
it!

Babi · « **Reply #4057 on:** February 12, 2011, 09:33:41 AM »

YIKES! MARCIE, HELP.

I went back to modify one of my posts, found a bizarrre note that I
never posted...nor anyone else, to my knowledge. I tried to replace it
and wound up with one of my posts under MARYPAGE's name!! Of course, it won't let me delete it. I don't know if there was something else there before everything went haywire!
It's just above, a post from the Quanah Parker discussion under
Marypage's name.

?

MaryPage · « **Reply #4058 on:** February 12, 2011, 10:00:44 AM »

Funny that, but a post I did post, asking if anyone has read The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton has gone missing! Just put it in a little while ago. Also told RoseMaryKay that I have lived here for seven and a half years and in Annapolis for almost eleven.

CallieOK · « **Reply #4059 on:** February 12, 2011, 10:12:18 AM »

Babi, I think your "mysterious post" here is a portion of your post in the "Empire of the Summer Moon" book discussion.

MaryPage, you could end up with a full-blown Annapolis Bash! Wish I could be there, too - as my only experience with Annapolis is a quick glance as my family and I drove across the huge bridge on our way to "the ocean".
We were on vacation in D.C. with a package deal that was ending with a two-day car rental. So we decided to spend one of those days going in another direction. Seeing the Atlantic was the choice - and we did so at Dover, Delaware. But we didn't "see" anything else (which was not MY choice!).

MaryPage · « **Reply #4060 on:** February 12, 2011, 10:19:21 AM »

The bridge you went over is our Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Four and a half miles long. Two spans. A total of five lanes. You would have been on your way to Ocean City or Bethany Beath or Rehobeth. I see that bridge every day from my back deck and drive over it twice a week.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_Bridge

ginny · « **Reply #4061 on:** February 12, 2011, 10:43:03 AM »

Honestly, MaryPage, the Chamber of Commerce missed something in you. You make the venue sound SO exciting, if we ever do a Gathering in MD, you are the Chair! I wish Deems were here, wouldn't it have been a kick to have visited Dr. Deems in Annapolis where she taught!

It sounds like paradise, to me.

I came in to say I'm reading a book I'm pretty sure you all aren't: This Family of Mine by Victoria Gotti. Yes THAT Gotti. Did you ever see her reality TV show?

I had not realized that her father and mother grew up in such abject total poverty and under such awful conditions. Have actually never read anything like it.

She loved her father, and the reasons are clear. It's somewhat an eye opening account of the...life style of the people in the Mafia, and the effect on their families and children, and the rationalizations everybody involved makes. Every side has two stories, some are missing here: all the awful brutality and reasons he ended up in prison are sort of..... those details..... are omitted...what is there is the effect on the family...you'd just have to read it; it's her side. Paramount in the book is respect for her father that everybody, she feels, had for him, police, and everybody else. This made a big impression on her.

I have to say it's fascinating. It's on sale at the supermarket, she actually writes quite well, and mentions his taking her to the library as a child, she was quite a reader.

MaryPage · « **Reply #4062 on:** February 12, 2011, 11:55:08 AM »

I did. I used to have lunch here with Mary. And she has been to my place and took my very favorite ever picture of Bob and me. Great gal. We went down to City Dock with a blue balloon one day and stood where the webcam would catch us and waved at everyone in SeniorNet. A lot of people saw us, as we announced it in advance. Eons ago. Fun!

http://www.annapolis.com/community/historic-annapolis-city-dock-web-cam/

I read the reviews of that book, Ginny, and saw her interviewed on the telly. Very interesting.

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #4063 on:** February 12, 2011, 12:39:28 PM »

Don't know if the post was inadvertently posted here but a phrase lept out that has me scratching my head. The rangers were a motley lot

Holy Hanna that is NOT the image most of us have of the Rangers - for a time the only dependable law and to this day the cleanest cut law officers you ever want to meet. Granted in the beginning no one looked clean cut but then being in a saddle all day, sleeping under the stars with only a canteen of water or later in a vehicle that had to travel hours and hours before a town would appear on the horizon - still the driving experience west of Junction - there were few places to clean up - today the Rangers are spit and polish

http://www.texasranger.org/history/BriefHistory1.htm

http://www.texasranger.org/today/rangerstoday.htm

It is heartwarming to know how much you love living in your community MaryPage - I'm with Ginny, any gathering in Annapolis has a chair in you.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #4064 on:** February 12, 2011, 01:40:26 PM »

I am having similar trouble with posts and thought it was just my ineptitude with this new AppleMac thingy. Two of my posts just got wiped, then I got a message saying I was barred from posting. Or perhaps it's true

R

bellemere · « **Reply #4065 on:** February 12, 2011, 05:03:11 PM »

I am getting ready to download books onto my Nook for vacation. I am so afraid that it will malfunchtion or that I will hve a problem I can't solve. There is no B and N store inMexico. So I must hedge and bring at least one book with me,..
They sell a little book with info about the Nook .. Anybody buy it?

kiwilady · « **Reply #4066 on:** February 12, 2011, 06:04:50 PM »

Mary P- I watched GI Jane last night on Freeview and thought about your Annapolis Naval Academy. I watch more TV since I changed from Sky to Freeview. Only 15 channels but better quality programs. Last night I watched Miss Marples and then followed by GI Jane. I went to bed at 1am! We get some PBS and ABC, China TV, Russia State TV. DW TV all on our Community channel. We also get Al Jazeera whose coverage of Egypt has just been outstanding.

Been to the library this morning. Got some good mystery thrillers and a couple of dramatic novels.

Carolyn

jane · « **Reply #4067 on:** February 12, 2011, 06:37:22 PM »

bellemere: I haven't purchased any print books/manuals. I use the user manual for the NookColor I downloaded for free from B&N. Since December I've added some 70 titles -- free ones and ones I paid for and I've brought it on vacation to a place where there are no B*Ns. I hope you have gone to the free tech support meetings that B&N has for Nook users...at least they did in my area of Iowa.

I brought with me print copies of books that aren't available digitally.

jane

CallieOK · « **Reply #4068 on:** February 12, 2011, 06:52:33 PM »

MaryPage, We went to Rehobeth Beach - not Dover. I recognized the name as soon as I read it in your post. This was in 1976 so perhaps I will be forgiven for the memory lapse.

PatH · « **Reply #4069 on:** February 12, 2011, 08:10:55 PM »

Carolyn, what a combination--Miss Marple followed by GI Jane. I haven't seen GI Jane, but I met a Navy Seal who told me that a lot of the details were unrealistic and not how things were actually done in the navy program.

CallieinOK, if you had looked down the coast to the southern bit of Rehoboth you might have seen me and my family vacationing there.

CallieOK · « **Reply #4070 on:** February 12, 2011, 08:31:53 PM »

Pat - so that's who that was !!! Fine looking group!

PatH · « **Reply #4071 on:** February 12, 2011, 08:34:21 PM »

roshanarose · « **Reply #4072 on:** February 12, 2011, 10:06:34 PM »

Still wondering if anyone has read "Reading Jackie"?

Babi · « **Reply #4073 on:** February 13, 2011, 08:25:22 AM »

It was, CALLIE. What I can't figure out is how on earth that post
got transferred into MaryPage's post.
I'm glad you remembered which post I trampled on, MARYPAGE, so you could repost it. I'm so sorry...and totally bewildered!
ROSEMARY, you're not the first person that's happened to. I recall
someone else having the same problem. As you can see, it's a temporary aberraton....your last post came through just fine, thank
goodness!

bellemere · « **Reply #4074 on:** February 13, 2011, 05:47:36 PM »

Jane, it sounds as if you have successfully mastered the Nook. I am studying the guide that came with it, The store does have classes but I have missed so many being snowed in by storm. One question: Can you read your Nook outside easily? Any adjustments necessary?

salan · « **Reply #4075 on:** February 13, 2011, 06:20:29 PM »

Mary Page, I read The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton. I loved it, and recently checked out and read her latest, The Distant Hours. DH was good up to a point and then it kept going on and on---needed to be about 100 pages shorter in my opinion. Have you read The Forgotten garden and what did you think?? Sally

MaryPage · « **Reply #4076 on:** February 13, 2011, 08:07:13 PM »

Thank you so much for that head's up on The Forgotten Garden. Someone recommended it to me and I put it on my Barnes & Noble Wish List and now I have a gift card to use there and looked at that item on my list and thought I would ask. So glad to hear your review, and I will go ahead and purchase it. Again, thanks!

mabel1015j · « **Reply #4077 on:** February 14, 2011, 02:29:13 PM »

There have been a few articles in the "books" section of Huffington Post abt the gender gap in reading. I can't give you a link, but the first one was in April by Jason Pinter titled Why Men Don't Read and another by him titled "The Widening Gender Gap" where he was responding to someone else's report on a study that was done about whether women writers get critiqued as often as men and what books are considered worthy of critiquing..... Interesting comments. Here is a link to HP.

www.huffingtonpost.com

Search in "books" for Pinter. ........ Jean

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #4078 on:** February 14, 2011, 06:05:33 PM »

I have also read an article somewhere here that said that newspapers review far more books by men, but that women read far more. My husband does read, but much more slowly than I do. There are only a few books that we both like - Bill Bryson, Johnathan Coe, Ian Rankin; he tends to read far more depressing stuff than I can cope with.

I have just finished Major Pettigrew's Last Stand and really enjoyed it. I see that some people on Amazon didn't like it, and I must admit I was prepared to find it twee or overwritten, but in fact I loved it and am going to recommend it to other people (though not my husband!).

R

ginny · « **Reply #4079 on:** February 14, 2011, 06:28:48 PM »

I have just finished Major Pettigrew's Last Stand and really enjoyed it. I see that some people on Amazon didn't like it, and I must admit I was prepared to find it twee or overwritten, but in fact I loved it and am going to recommend it to other people (though not my husband!).

Me too, absolutely loved it. I wish there were more like it, maybe she'll write another one. I could read it again, in fact.

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