Well please schedule your trip over here when we have a Books Gathering and we'll all get together!! Wyoming is out west and Kidsal here on our site lives there, as well.
I have heard of this book! Great Minds run together, just yesterday I was thinking about Tracy Kidder's book House, (not a new book but it's sure memorable), and how I'd like to discuss it with somebody. It was also about building a house. Wouldn't it be fun to have a series sometime and read three of "I built a house" books and what the choices made while doing so reveal? We could read some good books, for instance do Annie Prolux's new one Rosemary mentions here, and Tracy Kidder's (I still wish I had somebody to talk to about it) and maybe Betty McDonalds (The Egg and I) of her house on...was it... Vashon Island? Where just getting an appliance by boat took forever? Hers is hilarious, Kidder's is telling and what I wonder is Prolux's like?
I think it would be very exciting, for the future, a good slate exists now for voting in the near future, but something really fun for when they are over. I've never built a house to live in but I have arranged this one (if you can call it that) and it might bring out some fun revelations of how we decorate our space. And what our space shows about us. And a lot of other things. Barbara can be our resident expert in the choices people make in decorating their houses, due to her years and experience as a real estate agent. When we met in San Antonio years ago she opened the trunk to put something in it at a mission and it was full of awards, awards in the trunk, I usually have junk or a dead chicken in my trunk, but she had signs for real estate (is that opposed to false estate? Am suddenly wondering about the title) which mentioned many different awards won, million dollar this or that, it was amazing, she's too modest.
For instance it's amazing the different reactions to Dapphne's Voyage, I am concerned, to put it mildly. It sounds quite the adventure. Thank you for putting it here, Barbara. I do hope she'll be safe. I read for quite a while on her site, there is even an entire colony of people doing this type of thing, women only. I actually have seen people parking in Wal Mart parking lots, RV's, etc.. I hope that this venture ends up the positive thing she envisions, she does write well. Gosh.
Larry is always up on the latest technology, do tell us about Calibre as you learn to work it, sounds like just the thing. I must admit I am hooked on the little IPodTouch bookshelves, how silly can you get?
And last night I finally got the I Phone connected, with a real operator from AT&T who had a southern accent, boy was she smart. In talking we discovered that I have been shutting down the I Touch and I Phone incorrectly, no wonder it used so many batteries. I made a joke about "those who read the manual," which I don't, and she said "Oh I haven't read a manual in years." Thinking I had found a kindred spirit I said Oh me either, when she said, "they are so basic." Yeah, well for some people I guess they are. hahahaaa If you don't know how to shut off a phone correctly they may not be.
What are you reading? I am, in addition to reading the Odyssey which I love, it's just now getting good, and taking off in Book IV, plenty of time to jump aboard, it's a super group, but I'm also reading for contrast the "lite" The Weismanns of Westport. It's got a strange light but telling ambiance, like floating in a sparkly sea. So far it's about women and relationships. The NY Times recommended it in two separate articles, I'd read a few pages of it online first, and see if it's what I wanted to try.
What IS this with Google Books? Have you noticed this new feature? You can actually READ the book online, I am not sure what they re doing, but I enjoyed reading about Roman Odometers in a new book out which is on sale at $87.00 at Amazon so they may have to keep it, about Engineering in the Ancient World, but you can read it free on Google Books. You can't COPY it from Google Books but you can read it. I don't know what that is, have any of you tried it?
We just had a nice note yesterday from Bruce Frankel, the author we met in NYC last year that his What Should I Do With the Rest of My Life, that it's just come out in paperback. He wants to know if people here like e books, I think we can respond in the affirmative! I really love the relationships we have with "our" authors here, and have had, over the years.
What's in YOUR book satchel or e reader?
