jam maestro jay says
Hola SelinaGreetings from Mexico.What a great idea for a group!You are receipient of my first note. Congratulations!The books on your shelf look great.I have a question for you today. Are you into Bette Davis. Could you recommend a nice biography?Are you familiar with "The Girl Who Walked Home Alone" or "Dark Victory"I'm trying to finish a short story right now that involves Bette Davis stepping of a boat in the port of Guaymas, Sonora in the late 40's. I'm looking for a few more juicy details.. Please let me know.Paz,J
gina l says
Yes I agree on the different authors, I've just recently started to branch out. Do you have any you'd recommend?
laura f. says
Hi, Selina! Really, you did? I didn't know about that! I should have told me before! We have a LOT to talk about now, don't you think so? Hehe.
bodrugan says
Selina, a stringer is a correspondent who basically will accept diverse assignments, write up reports, submit them, and wait to see if they are picked up for print (or airing). Stringers are paid for actual published space or aired time. They can be part-time or essentially full-time, depending on how driven they are. Sometimes it is fast, heavy and lucrative; sometimes it's 'starving time', so to speak.
Selina, yes, I was a print journalist, a stringer for Reuters. I did a bit of freelance magazine work too. I stopped when my children were small and one of them had health problems.I've been reading for over fifty years -- lots of plane and train reading -- so the books I've read just accumulate. You'll see. :-)
barbara m says
The only place that it gives me just a name label for my Friends is when I'm specifically on the Friends page. I was surprised when they added all that additional information on the Friends section of the What's New page. On the latest books - do you mean the ones on my page? I can't remember ever getting a comment when I mouseover on the book cover other than what I put on there. Heck this begins to sound like we are using different versions of the same page! :-) On this new version, at the bottom of the page when it show "Members are talking about your books" - or something like that - it does give you information on those books with a mouseover. I don't care for the inconsistency on that one though. Sometimes it is an Editorial Comment and sometimes it is a member comment. I'm told that the Editorial Comment is supposed to be there and that you are supposed to click on the book to get the member comment. In the old version, there were constantly comments but they tended to be on the same book titles over and over again. I don't know what criteria they changed but that seems to have stopped. I found that annoying, this isn't so bad and there's a better variety of books from my shelf.
simon c says
Hey Selina!Yeah I've just handed in the final bit of work for the MLIS, so just about there. Still in the same workplace, 6 years later! ;)Where abouts are you now?
Selina, I'm surprised about what you said at the Discussion Group that your mouse over didn't work on you Friends. On my What's New page, the Friends that are shown there, are the ones with the most recent posts/visit; when I mouseover, it tells me exactly what they've been doing. It tells me # of comments, # of new additions, etc. On the Friends page it doesn't do that but on the right side, it shows exactly who's been commenting on what book. Is it possible that its your browser? Does you page not work like mine?
You don't sound like a whiner but you do sound frustrated. Being a librarian with information, I had to share it!
Hi Selina, I'm responding here instead of the Discussion Group because it didn't allow me to reply directly to you - no reply button that deep into the discussion. Anyway, the part you want about what your Friends are doing is still there, you just have to choose "My Friends" in the drop down and its right there along the right side. Also, on the issue of what People are Saying About My Books - I received a reply that they hope to have that fixed within a week or so. I've been complaining about that too on the Shelfari Insiders group. It seems like such a waste to have the picture of the book that's on my shelf and all someone did was put stars on it - no comments at all. I'm glad to hear that's being fixed.I expressed my dislike of this new version after trying not to be judgemental for a couple of days. I am beginning to adjust and I do like some of the things. I'm hoping with the fixes it will improve. Some people were tickled to death with the changes! I would hate to be in the position of trying to please everyone :-) I still like this site in spite of a few glitches. Hang in there!
jacktheartist says
Another really good set of books I read was 'Those Who Hunt The Night' and 'Travelling With The Dead' by Barbra Hambly (might've misspelled her name, sorry in advance). Not a completely unique look at vampires, but still a very interesting one. I never read all of Interview because I found it too depressing and upsetting but I've been told that Armand, at least, is worth reading. My friend described his character to me and he seems like one of the few characters in her (Anne Rice's) vampire series that I can sort of empathise with. I could relate to Louis up to a point, but when he basically gives up on not killing people it made it difficult to like him.
coyotee says
i am talking about..... memiors of geisha!!!!!look dont feel bad it was just a thought of mine.....
So, have you read any other vampire series besides Anne Rice? And which of her vampire chronicles would you say is the best?
*~*~*~*~*chri$$y*~*~*~*~* says
hi selina!i love your book choices! some i've read, and some i plan to read. thanks for the ideas!chrissy
If you liked Dracula, you may like The Diaries of the Family Dracul series by Jeanne Kalogridis. It's written in a style similar to Dracula (journals) and it's basically the backstory to Dracula, from the perspective of the vampires.
i never really understood why so muchfuss about this book???? its a dead book even before it was written.....well....just thought i will share it with you....
david d says
Thanks Selina.
laughing monk says
great to see a voracious reader like u...by chance we share at least 10 books in common...take care
somshivam says
I agree and for someone like you,with all the biographies,you've read, mosty with the same messages of follow-your-dreams 'n self-belief, it is not surprising if the book struck you as hackneyed or trivial.Actually my previous comment was a response to yours,where you asked why the bird was named Jonathan Levingstone :)
sorrow says
lol i loved jonathan livingston seagull