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philosophefop

philosophefop

has 22 followers and is following 17 people

Well, I'm here obviously because I love books.
But I also love old films (especially silents), sewing, fashion design, vintage anything, slash, fashion design, foreign heavy metal, thrifting, painting, drawing, and dabbling at cooking. And TEA.
I'm from Colorado, attend college in upstate NY. I just got back from a study-abroad year in... more »
  • Utica, NY, USA
  • member since February 21, 2009

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  • Silvana

    Silvana says

    I love your new photo!

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Julie B

    Julie B says

    About time you finished that book. I would be happy to learn if anyone in your book circles had read that book. Yes I did like Mr. Monday, will probably read the whole series. On the 3rd now. I was reading some McCarthy books to your sister and after the APUSH test (5!!!) she wanted a light book.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jerseygirl / Mrs. Constance (Oodles) Oxford-Whapdoodle, B.C., D.C.

    Jerseygirl / Mrs. Constance (Oodles) Oxford-Whapdoodle, B.C., D.C. says

    The History Non-Fiction Group is voting for the Oct-Dec Quarterly Group read. We've had several interesting books nominated. Please take a look and vote if you'd like to join in.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • La Muse Malade

    La Muse Malade says

    Hi, no I haven't read them, I didn't even know they were so many! I took a class on 19th century art some years ago and came to love Beardsleys' drawings.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • preeti s

    preeti s says

    dear lovely friend thanks for being such a source of constant appreciation....wish you lots of happiness,everlasting joy and may god always ve with you......love you lots..happy friendship day my dear friend!!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Halie

    Halie says

    Wow, you asked me a question regarding APUSH ages ago but I just now noticed. Sorry about that! I just wanted to let you know that I thought the APUSH prep book was helpful, I got a 4 on the exam, but I think US history is about as interesting as a rock (unless you're into geology, and I'm not). You must have had a really good teacher and/or you are very smart :). I would recommend using a prep book, but then again when I took AP World this year I hardly studied at all (no prep book, reviewed notes maybe 2x, because I'm a senior and lazy as heck) and not to sound cocky but I'm pretty sure I got at least a 4. If your sister is a good writer, she needn't worry, particularly if she's also good at process of elimination for the multiple choice. AP exams (particularly history, and I've now taken 3) are about the way you think and process/synthesize information, not what you know. In my experience. Hope that helped!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Silvana

    Silvana says

    Hi Kelsey. I love the sight and I will just leave it. I will aslo take your excellent suggestions. Don't worry we have a lot of University students in Shelfari, i am sure. Like yourself, and most of our members, life is getting pretty busy. I am starting a Theology course soon and this will keep me out of mischief for a while. However, being glutten for punishment, I was thinking of starting a group that discusses books that touch controversial issues as well as discussing current issues that are very much on people's mind but have no way of venting their opinions. This group will be a private one and will have some definite rules that needs to be followed. An ongoing issues in Australia include: Bullying and violence in schools, airport security, ect., This are two examples. What do you thinK? If you think it is a good idea, then I will go ahead, but I won't start the group until I have some time to think it through. Your imput in this is imporatnt to me, thank you and all the best with your studying...do find some time to sleep, relax and smell the roses. Silvana

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Silvana

    Silvana says

    Hi Kelsey. I love the sight and I will just leave it. I will aslo take your excellent suggestions. Don't worry we have a lot of University students in Shelfari, i am sure. Like yourself, and most of our members, life is getting pretty busy. I am starting a Theology course soon and this will keep me out of mischief for a while. However, being glutten for punishment, I was thinking of starting a group that discusses books that touch controversial issues as well as discussing current issues that are very much on people's mind but have no way of venting their opinions. This group will be a private one and will have some definite rules that needs to be followed. An ongoing issues in Australia include: Bullying and violence in schools, airport security, ect., This are two examples. What do you thinK? If you think it is a good idea, then I will go ahead, but I won't start the group until I have some time to think it through. Your imput in this is imporatnt to me, thank you and all the best with your studying...do find some time to sleep, relax and smell the roses. Silvana

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • CCRecRat

    CCRecRat says

    I saw that the U-Boat book made your top 10 List for 2009. I would highly recommend you try Shadow Divers. It's by Kurson, and that is the book that got a group of us together for a book club at work. Leslie

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • 4PJ

    4PJ says

    Intriging books you have! I like that. "Hi" back at ya from CO. Stay warm in NY!

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Bobby M

    Bobby M says

    George is my best friend, and I lived in Clinton for 6 months (above the Village Tavern). We should be Shelfari friends.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Darra W

    Darra W says

    Done!

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • James F

    James F says

    That sounds fine, it's great that Darra is going to do it.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • James F

    James F says

    I'm at work and just tried to order a copy of Bones That Float -- Ingram doesn't carry it. I checked amazon.com and it seems that Wild Heaven Press is only listed as publisher for this one book. This means that very few libraries have it, since most libraries (at least in the US) use either Ingram or Baker & Taylor and they probably wouldn't carry a one book publisher. Actually, I just checked OCLC and only 55 libraries there have catalogued it (as compared with over 2700 for the Book Thief). This is a consideration as many people would pick up a book at the library they don't know anything about, but spending $25.00 on amazon is another question.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Darra W

    Darra W says

    Sounds like fun; I loved the book, and enjoy Edith Wharton in general. So...do I start a thread now, posting that AOI will be the September book, and I'll be the guest admin for the thread? Or do you typically do the intro?

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Darra W

    Darra W says

    Hi Kelsey,

    Well..this is quite a surprise, and an honor ;-) As a newbie to the group, I'm wondering if you could give me a brief description of what this involves I want to make sure I can do the job justice before I commit.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • James F

    James F says

    Hello Kelsey,
    That was my understanding as well, that different people would take on different months. Although I'm skeptical I think now we've started we should try for a couple more months to give it a fair chance and see if the problem is with the idea in this sort of group or just the particular book.

    Do you want to do the Cambodia book this month, as the "leader"? I have no problem with discussing political books -- quite the contrary -- I'm just a little gun shy of leading a discussion on one myself, after this month. I don't want to "offend" anyone -- at least as the discussion leader. My only reservation would be whether it is accessible -- you mentioned that you bought it from the author, and I haven't seen it. I know we don't have it at the library, although if Ingram carries it I can order it and probably have it within a couple weeks (although I'll be on vacation in another week.) If you don't want to, we may need to skip August, because it's getting late and I don't have any other suggestions.

    I like your idea of Age of Innocence for September, especially if Darra -- I think that was who said she taught it -- would be willing to lead it. I haven't read it, but I own a copy and it is on my PTR shelf. I read Ethan Frome in high school, but I don't remember either strongly liking or disliking it. Ethan Frome was the other book besides The Book Thief that more than one member was planning to read this summer, and I notice other references in the group to books by Wharton in addition to the one by Darra. A "classic" is always a pretty safe choice. The only suggestion that was ever made in the "Suggestion Box" I think was Guns, Germs and Steel, which I think you said sounded interesting. I haven't read that one yet, although I have a copy. Again, I'm guessing it's political.

    I do tend to think that most novels are political, in the wide sense in which I use the word; or at least those which aren't are generally not the ones worth reading. There are exceptions, which concentrate on form -- Joyce, Nabokov, the "nouvelle roman", etc. -- but I can't really see a discussion here on Finnegan's Wake, Ada or Les Instantanees. Most of my reading in the past two years has been fairly nonpolitical (except for The Book Thief and the Mandel bio) -- at any rate, the politics of Hatshepsut and Tuthmose III doesn't push too many buttons for most people (the politics of the excavations being another question) -- but any history from the American and French Revolutions on would be political certainly.

    PS -- it just occurred to me that discussing the group, especially mentioning who might be willing or not to lead discussions, etc. might become awkward in public notes, so I'm going to send you a "friendship request" so that if necessary we can use private messages, as I have occasionally with Silvana.
    James F

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Ann P

    Ann P says

    Nice to hear from you - I have moved on from Earl Grey to Rose Congou ... If you have another vacation coming up, why not try Terror on Tuesday?

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • James F

    James F says

    Hi Kelsey.
    I was puzzled by your question, until I read Silvana's last post. I was rather taken by surprise, since to the best of my recollection I only agreed to lead the one discussion on The Book Thief, not to choose all the books and lead all the discussions! So I haven't given any thought to an August choice at all; if I'd been expecting to make the choice, I would have posted in the "Suggestion Box" asking for input -- it's already August, a choice should have been announced already. In fact, if you go to Silvana's profile and look at my public notes to her, you'll see that I was skeptical of the idea of group reads to begin with (from when she first asked me to be an administrator), and the experience with The Book Thief has made me more so.

    In that connection I want to thank you for your "defense" in the last post you made in that thread. I had expected Silvana to disagree with me -- in fact, I hoped she or someone would, to get a discussion going -- but I was more than a little amazed by the suggestion that my comments, or the book itself, were "offensive" because I have always tried to keep a civil tone, expressing opinions about the subject but not calling names or using rhetorical words and phrases (Nazi or fascist, except in the WW2 context, imperialism, etc.) (By the way, I didn't exactly "choose" The Book Thief, I just noted that it was one of the two that more than one member was reading over the summer, and that it seemed to have more scope for discussion than some other possibilities, of which I gave several.)

    I haven't read or heard of the book about Cambodia, but if I am going to lead the discussion I think I want something nonpolitical -- and as I mentioned in one of my posts, I even considered Harry Potter political, so that rules out a lot.
    Jim

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Silvana

    Silvana says

    Hi Kelsey, I am not sure if James has planned a book for August yet. But, I suggest you discuss this directly with him. It sounds like a good book and one that would generate some good discussions. So, do discuss it with james. I am 100% supportive of whatever you both decide to do. Hope youhave a wonderful weekend, Silvana

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )

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