Shelfari: The Site for Books & ReadersShelfari Logo

Request Friendship

treal

treal

Greetings and Salutations!

I have recently joined Shelfari last summer, and look forward in sharing my love of literature with other bibliophiles. Feel free to e-mail me with book suggestions at treal4444@aol.com.

Now, a little bit about me. I am 28 year old head medical librarian working at Saint Theresa's Medical University,...more »
  • Basseterre, Saint Kitts
  • member since Monday, September 17 2007

Groups

Friends

treal’s last login was 4 hours ago. show recent activity »

Random books from my shelf

     
 
 
 

Public Notes

  • Rachael

    rachael says

    Hey, thank you for the add! You've got a great shelf going. Sometimes, I wonder if running a small library is going to be the bane of my existence, but I wouldn't trade my job for the world!!

    posted 7 days ago. ( send a note )
  • jloucks

    jloucks says

    Hi treal! Yes, I'm always in the process of reading The Great Books of the Western World and all the classics I can digest; and I doubt I will ever finish them. I skip around and read the author that enhances other titles or concepts I'm interested in. I'd have to go look at them to list the ones I've read so far...but probably not more than 6 or so. Are you working on them as well?

    posted 10 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Margret T

    margret t says

    Hi again ! ;)

    I guess we both live in areas where nature is out to get us ;)

    I'm such a nerd/dork/geek, that there is no way that I can hide it (if I ever wanted to - which I don't ;).

    -I know the difference between Marvel and DC Comics (and then I'm talking about their publishing differences and character development methods!)
    - I nearly cried when Colonel O'Neill said goodbye at the end of SG-1 season 7
    - some of my favorite series are Firefly, most of the Star Trek mythos, Farscape.
    -I have played D&D (but only once ! ;).
    -I read urban fantasy and I collected comic books for a while... I don't think I have to go on, do I ? :D ;)

    Besides my naiive love for all things amazing, I am also interested in history and politics. I can discuss philosophy and even keep my head from spinning a few times - when things go over my head ;) In my spare time I like to paint with oils, write stories and poetry, read all kinds of books - I have a freakish need to know a little about nearly everything ;) I like to talk (!) and I love watching tv and going to the movies. I have a huge DVD collection that is very eclectic.

    I work as an office drone at a large generic drug company here in Iceland, but that is just my summer job. I hope to finish my Eastern-Asia Studies (Chinese) degree in the next 2 years. But while I have learning thirst... I lack the homework and essay gene :D So, the whole two years might stretch out. But I'm in no hurry ;)

    I live with my dad and my brother, who is younger by 7 yrs. I also have 2 older sisters, and they have given my mom and dad 4 grandkids. I spoil my nephew and nieces rotten, but I'm of course their favorite aunt ! :D

    My dad is disabled after a heart attack, so he went back to school (even though he is already a civil engineer and a carpenter), to study goldsmith. So my brother and I, both work and keep house to help him out. My mom works for an Icelandic construction company. She is currently working in Greenland, managing the office there ;)

    My 3 tattoos are : one big Dragon on my right side, going from my hip bone halfway up my side. Another around my left wrist, a dragon head on the underside with some scroll work going around the wrist. And then I have the symbol for "ambition" on my left shoulder high close to my neck.

    Studying Chinese is one of the more fun things I've done in my life and the first time I've studied something that felt so right with me. I've always had an interest in China and chinese history, so when this program started last fall, I jumped right on it. We were only 11 in the whole department ! I didn't pass my exams this spring semester, so I'm going to repeat them (instead of just retaking the finals) so that I can really grasp what I missed. I tried my best, but I had two jobs, so that messed things a bit ;)

    Ok, I've gone on and on and ... well, told you I liked to talk ! :D And now is your turn ;) Tell me a little bit about YOU ;D
    Is your job interesting, what is it like to live on a "tropical island" ? Did you manage to see "Iron Man" (which I loved!) and are you looking forward to the new Batman movie (I've got the date marked on my phone calendar!) ??? :D

    Take care,

    Maddý

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Margret T

    margret t says

    Hi there travis,

    wow, St Kitts ?! That is way far and removed from anything I've ever experienced ;). I checked what books we have in common... and anyone who has read a comic master piece as "The Long Halloween", is fine by me ! ;)

    I have to add a few facts about me : I am a geek/nerd and proud to be one ;) I have 3 tattoos and plan to get more. I love meeting people from all over the world and learn about different lives :D So, living through hurricane season, that is new to me :D How are you with earthquakes and volcanos ? :D Glad to hear that you like my photo album, I don't often take very good photos, but I'm getting better since I started this flickr account ;)

    Well then, ta ta for now, and we'll talk later ;)

    Maddý

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Jennifer the Forgetful Faerie Queen

    jennifer the forgetful faerie queen says

    Hi Treal,
    Welcome to Play Book Tag (PBT) group. Should you have any questions please feel free to ask myself or any other veteren member. Everyone is really nice and helpful. Right now we are finishing up with June's Tag "Africa". We take our montly tag and then we read books about it, set in it, or written by (in this case) African authors. You can read as many or as little as you want. It's up to you. Then we like to share our reviews with each other. Happy Reading.

    *sprinkles you with fairy dust and flutters away

    posted 3 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Jolly Bengali

    jolly bengali says

    Finished reading Letter to a Christian Nation. Now reading Death By Black Hole.

    posted 3 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Miss Ann Thropic

    miss ann thropic says

    Hi Travis,
    Thanks for the invitation. I will look forward to perusing your shelf, and making some suggestions. I've worked in medical libraries--loved it! I'm now a young retiree, due to arthritis, but that leaves more time for reading--and Shelfari!

    Did you know Aimee, the former medical librarian on Nevis? She left that job in December, 2006, so probably your paths didn't cross. She was an online acquaintance of mine.

    So grab a book, and a bottle of Carib, and also consider joining the "Play Book Tag" group. Some people spend a lot of time on the group message board, but really all you have to do is read one book per month from the suggested tag, and post a quick note on it. The tag for July, should be posted on the group page any day now. It's a great way to read outside your usual genres.
    All the best,
    Laura

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Mark H

    mark h says

    Vacation? no way! its 48 degrees and dusty out there, there are no good beaches, and the whole place is like a building site. Maybe you are thinking of Dubai?
    The job sector is another thing...lots of opportunity and everything is expanding.
    I teach in the university and have very good conditions re. housing, schooling for my kids, and so on. Swings and roundabouts, I suppose!
    want to swap?

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Mark H

    mark h says

    How is life in St Kitts?

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Mark H

    mark h says

    Hi there Treal. Well, thanks for that note of confidence! I've got Burmese days on my desk to read during this holiday, but I have to finish Bend in the River by VS Naipaul first. Orwell is quite highly rated in England, mainly for his rejection of Communism in those two books, but also for his experience of colonialism, as in Shooting an Elephant and his book on the Spanish Civil War Homage to Catalonia. You might also enjoy his Down and Out in Paris and London. I read that so long ago I've forgotten it completely and have it confused with Diary of a Supertramp...

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • E. Gail C

    e. gail c says

    Thanks.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • E. Gail C

    e. gail c says

    What is it like to live on Saint Kitts?

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Alyson!

    alyson! says

    Hey there,

    People of the Book is a fictional piece of work. If you enjoy books about books, then it is one that you will like. =)

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Mark S

    mark s says

    Thanks for the insight. Yes, I do trudge along with Portrait, but every fifty pages or so I read a passage or passages that are so amazing and full of depth and uniqueness of language that it makes it all the more necessary that I'm reading him. From a writer's standpoint, I'm now realizing how important Joyce is to read. And to think, it was just a fluke that I picked him up again.

    It makes it hard for me to pick up a contemporary novel; the classics have so much depth and substance. You have to figure that since I've gone (recently) from Dostoevsky to Joyce, that my reading I.Q. calls for exceptional stuff. Do you know of any recent (last 10+ years) novels that you find groundbreaking? I was having this discussion with a coworker. We don't find that there are many, if at all.

    I would be up for any recommendations.

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Mark S

    mark s says

    To be honest, I've just barely started Dubliners. I'm concurrently reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I'm about 2/3 the way through that one. You know, I read Portrait in college, but I'm quickly realizing that I must have only skimmed it in college. Either that or I just didn't give it the necessary attention it called for. This time around I'm reading the novel at such a slow, absorbing pace that I'll find my self rereading paragraphs 3 or 4 times to make sure I understand every bit that's going on. And this time, I'm fully understanding the story, as well as realizing what great "language" Joyce uses in this novel. It's an amazing tone he sets. But it is taking me a while to get through.

    Dubliners looks to move faster as a read. Do you agree? And what's your opinion of both books?

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Mark S

    mark s says

    Are you reading Melville presently? How's it coming along?

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • HemingwayHeroine

    hemingwayheroine says

    p.s. if you couldn't tell, I'm really into watching the movie after I finish the book. I like to size it up to what was in my imagination.

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • HemingwayHeroine

    hemingwayheroine says

    I liked it. I believe I posted a review on it if you are interested. I read it last year, so if you click my tag for 2007, you'll find it there.

    It was tough to get through at times, particularly those chapters that concentrated on the whales skull, then his tail, then his skeleton, then his blubber. But the story itself was phenominal. If you've never seen it, rent the adaptation with Gregory Peck after you finish. It was really good!

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • HemingwayHeroine

    hemingwayheroine says

    Are you currently reading Moby Dick?

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • HemingwayHeroine

    hemingwayheroine says

    Thanks for adding me! I try with the Vonnegut. Sometimes he... well he gets to me. There was a moment in time when I read too much Vonnegut at once. Now, I have to put large spaces between my Vonneguts.

    Have you ever seen the film adaptation of Breakfast of Champions with Bruce Willis? It was totally cracked out. The only thing I liked was that Albert Finney play Kilgore Trout.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
    <