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Glenda Y

Glenda Y

I am a Librarian in a small public library in south central Kentucky. Books are my passion and my livelihood. I've been married for 40 years with one son. I have a book review blog at www.readandlead.blogspot.com
  • Russell Springs, KY, USA
  • member since January 25 2008

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  • ch. mohammad khan r

    ch. mohammad khan r says

    dear,



    we are old friends and you are a great librarian. please i wrote a great book on religion "The Unfathomable vastness of God"".In this book , I described God and his powers. All American and Europeans should read it, so many challenges are there in it. it is now ready to install on internet for the great members. your special interest is required please. regards, yours, khan.waiting!!!!!!!!!

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

    Aliza says

    Hi Glenda! I don't really log on as often either. I joined myspace and met some interesting people there as well as an old school friend, so my time is not completely dedicated to Shelfari anymore. I won't join any other internet sites. It could be to much for the brain. I went back to school last spring after over twenty years and I start back again for the fall soon. I am very excited, and will probably be on line a little less.
    Take care and enjoy the rest of your summer! aliza

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • ch. mohammad khan r

    ch. mohammad khan r says

    dear,



    we are good friends. you are a great librarian and you can do a lot for my book 'The Unfathomable vastness of God"". please write some very good suggestions to me and do some thing to promote my book in the world. yours, khan.waiting!!!!!!!!!!!!!remain in touch, yours, khan.waiting!!!!!!!!!!!!

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Aliza

    Aliza says

    That is amazing that you have been married for forty years. I am forty-two but have never been married although I know it takes a deep commitment to be married. I love libraries as well. I live in New York City so I browse the different libraries if I am looking for a specific book. I look forward to chatting! aliza

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Aliza

    Aliza says

    I am sending you another note because right after I wrote you this note I saw you wrote me one too:) I live in New York City but I still feel close to nature. I visualize the trees and the beautiful silent sound they make. Inner Vision is a great gift we can all utilize. If you enjoy quotes and things you might enjoy my group the Meditation and Inspiration group. There are lots of inspiring quotes and stories check it out and see if you like it. I will send you an invitation. Bye for now. aliza

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Aliza

    Aliza says

    Thank you for accepting my friendship! We have fifteen books in common. I look forward to browsing your shelf. Aliza

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Fran

    Fran says

    Join the Vistas of KY & Appalachian Readers & Authors group as Gail Chandler discusses her book, "The Bluegrass Dream: A Wilderness Adventure of Early Settlers. Here is a brief synopsis of the plot:

    In the middle of a snow storm Jess and her Aunt delivered a stillborn that took the life of Uncle David's wife. Devastated by her Father's death in Kentucky Jess vowed to fulfill his dream of life in Kentucky. Dressed in her twin brother's clothes she tried to follow David to the Bluegrass. Weather, Digger and Hutch two Bluegrass long hunters she met, and Indians made her trip very difficult. She reached the Bluegrass on her own and with her neighbor's help she builds her cabin. Then she shared her secret with them. Digger and Hutch returned to the Bluegrass. Hutch found Jess is Jessica and their friction continued. Bandit and Outlaw, Jess' coons added pranks to her life. David and his party arrived, Jess takes in Lightfoot's runaway sister Fawn, then James and Katherine joined the village near Fort McClelland. Jess' life is filled with work, love, Indian raids, death, new life, accidents, nature's elements, and their camaraderie. Hutch and Jess were to be married when he returned from selling their furs in New Orleans. Illinois Indians captured Hutch an hour before the wedding. Jess with the help of Digger and Bill followed on the rivers to retrieve him.

    The book can be purchased online in both paperback and Kindle at amazon.com for $15.95.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • ch. mohammad khan r

    ch. mohammad khan r says

    dear,



    Oh great librarian, can you help me for my book, "The Unfathomable Vastness of God". you are a great lady of America. i am waiting for your positive response. what you can do for my book please. regards, yours, khan. waiting !!!!!!!!I caught a good wowan or a great lady !!!!!!!!!!!!

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Fran

    Fran says

    We are reading this book in the Vistas of KY Readers and Authors Group this month. I hope you will join us.

    Scott P's debut novel, "An Innocent Client," is set in Northeast Tennessee where he lives. It was published by Penguin on November 4 and is available most everywhere. It's about a criminal defense lawyer who hates the profession and is trying to get out, but thinks he's finally stumbled across someone who might really be innocent. You can read the first chapter at www.scottprattfiction.com.

    This book can be purchased at Amazon.com. Here's the info.

    An Innocent Client by Scott Pratt (Paperback - Nov 4, 2008)
    Buy new: $7.99
    Link:
    http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw_2_12?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=an+innocent+client&sprefix=an+innocent+&sprefix=an+innocent+

    For Kindle lovers, it looks as though it is available in this form as well.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • SarcasticChick

    SarcasticChick says

    Thank you for your opinions on The Shack. You along with several others have helped me decide that I think I'll read the book. I think I could learn alot from it. Thanks again!

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Mohammad R

    Mohammad R says

    Driving from Beit Sahour to Birzeit yesterday, I was listening to a program on radio Falastin titled “Wala Budda LilQayd An Yankasir”. The term is a verse from a poem that roughly translates that “the chain is destined to be broken”. The program is a lifeline for the nearly 13,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails to hear from their families outside the prison walls. Since visitation rights are routinely denied or highly restricted, family members call in and have three minutes to say something on air. For those prisoners who have access to radio, it is a way to hear and connect with their loved ones. I listened for nearly one hour to impassioned messages and harrowing stories. All the voices I heard were of women. One woman started her message by saluting women prisoners on International women’s day and specifically mentioned one leading prisoner, a friend of hers whom she shared a prison room with the year before. She went on to encourage all prisoners to be steadfast. Then she directed her message to her husband, still in prison. Saying encouraging words “I know you are strong and you can withstand what they do you” “I believe in your spirit yearning for freedom and justice” etc. She states that she is sorry that she is unable to visit this time because the authorities told her that it was a Jewish Holiday of some sort so visits are stopped for this week. Another woman started with questions that will get no answers perhaps until the next personal encounter: “How is your health?” “How is your spirit?” “How are they treating you?” “Are you eating well?”. She then put her five-year-old child on the phone who said “I miss you daddy,” and “don’t worry, my mom puts on her seat belt and drives slowly.” Another women tells her husband to not worry about the family, they are all doing fine and to just take care of himself then passes the phone to her mother-in-law who tells her son something along these lines: “How are you my son Mahmoud? Inshallah [God Willing] your health is good. Inshallah your spirit is good. Inshallah you will be returned to us safe and sound. Your father’s funeral went well. Everyone in town came. He died 15 minutes before I arrived back home… [here she breaks down crying and the announcer gently encourages her and says “Allah yirhamu” “Allah Yi3azzeekum” etc and then she continues].. He died 15 minutes before I arrived home from visiting you. Everyone was there everyone took care of him. I pray to God every day to bring you back to me. I had you and your father. I need you my son. I miss you my son….”



    That call made me cry and I turned the radio off for a few minutes as I gathered my thoughts. But I turned it back on to hear a few more. They are young women, old women, and a daughter of 10 who spoke with more poise and articulation than most adults and recited a poem that she had written.



    On the way back from my university course I am a bit more relaxed and enjoying the beautiful green countryside between Ramallah and Birzeit. The Palestinian villages unobtrusively on the sides of hills with green fields stretching before them (a friend said to me it reminded him of the Irish countryside at this time of year). I try not to think of the settlements on top of the hills and the slow cancerous growth of these. But I notice I am running on close to empty tank of gas and I need to find a gas station. All the gas stations along the main roads in the West bank are Israeli (Colonial settlements dot the landscape and Palestinians have been herded into concentration camps called areas A and B while most of the West Bank is area C being Judaized). I enter the first Gas station in front of the colony of Ofra and while the lights are on, no one is there. Iconsider what conversation might have ensued with an attendant at such a gas station. I move on and try the gas station near next colony (Shaar Binyamin) but when I entered the gas station and found it also closed, it dawns on me that it is Saturday and that is why they are closed. Then two fears ran through my mind that caused me to sweat: What if I run out of gas near a settlement on a Jewish religious holiday whn those settlers think we should not be driving? And even worse, what if the soldiers in the towers or security people at the gates of these settlements see this Palestinian car making a turn in an empty gas station? With known hair-trigger fingers they could simply shoot and ask questions later (as they do before). I immediately detour through an Israeli checkpoint into an area A and barely get to (sputtering) a Palestinian gas station. Then I arrive home exhausted and a bit disturbed. But it was good to get home to my family and two Jewish friends (Allison and Michael) who were visiting us. After a late dinner, we meet up with more friends; internationals attending a talk on boycotts, divestments, and sanctions at the Alternative Information Center.



    Today Sunday, we are uplifted by the garden, seeing the new flowers of the lemon trees while harvesting the remaining batch of lemons of the last growth, the small new fig leaves emerging, the beginning of the almonds, the vegetables that are starting to take off (beans, spinach, sunflower seedlings). If the weather predictions are correct, we have one more large rain fall this week and this would make this winter an average one (as opposed to really dry winters the last two years). So farmers (and small home gardeners like us) are encouraged. I only wish we could travel to Jerusalem today/sunday (Palestinians like us are barred) to join the demonstration at 2 PM in front of the UNRWA school in Silwan in appreciation of women's day and to show solidarity with the people of East Jerusalem (including Silwan) whose homes are being demolished in the continuing program of ethnic cleansing and changing the character of the ancient city. That school is also the school in which some students were injured when the floor caved in because Israel is digging tunnels underneath the remaining Palestinian areas in Jerusalem. But there are other events in the Bethlehem area.



    In good news, the Viva Palastina convoy (120 cars and vans etc from Europe) is near Al-Arish and we hope it will be allowed into Gaza. In other good news, Mauritania closed the Israeli (apartheid) Embassy and hundreds of protesters battled authorities using tear gas in Sweden at the Davis Cup tennis competition where Israeli athletes were scheduled to participate. Today marked the end of the 5th Israeli apartheid week held this year in over 40 cities around the world and I am sure next year it will be held in 100+ cities. The scenes everywhere around the world are becoming reminiscent of 1980s era of struggle against South African apartheid.

    Muslim friends around the world celebrate Mawlad AnNabi (the birthday of prophet Muhammad, PBUH). May it come to us next year with us closer to peace and justice in Palestine and around the world.

    Video of life in Palestine (2 parts)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m7eaTFWyAs
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWKa29g25yY

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Peter C

    Peter C says

    Dear Glenda: My debut novel HUNTING THE KING was publsihed in April. Any chance your library has a copy? It took me many years to finally break through to the ranks of the published. Now I have a NY agent and high hopes for the new year for my second book. Happy New Year. Peter

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Monique

    Monique says

    Hi Glenda,

    I wish you a very happy Christmas and a fantastic 2009 with lots of love, happiness, friendships and new books to read!

    Lots of love,
    Monique

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Rita Schiano

    Rita Schiano says

    Hi Glenda...Check out my interview on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5-Mrt82hGw. All the best, Rita

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Abigail Christy

    Abigail Christy says

    I'm thinking I'd like the Kindle because when I think I'd like to read a specific book, I usually order a used version from Amazon but it takes days/weeks to get here sometimes through mail. Plus I don't like to keep all my books, never have that much storage, so I usually give them away but then I miss them. With a Kindle I can get a book I want within minutes... and I can store up to like 4000 books. And take it with me when I travel...etc. I can look up words if I want. But, mostly I know what you mean. I love the paper, the book, the ink. I'm hoping to love the Kindle the same way.

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Abigail Christy

    Abigail Christy says

    Hi Glenda, Thanks for the invite to your book blog. I spent some time popping around there but will definitely have to check it out some more. So much! I just placed an order w/amazon and got "Water for Elephants" in the mail this week. I ordered it just because I kept seeing it on everyone's shelf! I have not started it yet though but probably will later this week. I just finished up some history/true-crime books from library book signings I went to recently. My kids are 22,21 & 19. Oldest is a boy, then 2 girls. They are not much of a problem anymore as they are busy in school or work and their own things. So, I have more reading time. I've asked Santa for a Kindle for Christmas, but I will probably drop it in the bathtub or something, knowing me! Well, thank you for the nice note. -AbbyC

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Abigail Christy

    Abigail Christy says

    I should have been a Librarian! I am always reading too & always looking for what to read next. I was just checking your book shelf. Course, looks like it is going to take me a while!

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Bookie

    Bookie says

    I have Sweet Man is Gone on order and am looking forward to reading it. For some time I've been collecting books and titles for an Amazon listamania on mysteries where music tells part of the story.

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

    Fran says

    Just wanted to remind you that we will have Nash Black (our own Irene B and her husband) with us at the end of this month to discuss the latest Brewster County Novel entitled Sins of the Father: A Brewster County Novel.

    Here is the link for ordering it from Amazon:
    http://www.amazon.com/Sins-Fathers-Brewster-County-Novel/dp/1432707248/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220201891&sr=1-1
    You can also get an autographed copy from Jerry Sampson's Antiques and Books on Main Street in Harrodsburg or by emailing him at jsampsonantiques@bellsouth.net. The cost, including shipping/ handling is $20 if you order through Jerry.

    Hope you will join us for the discussion at the Appalachian and Kentucky Authors group!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Ken S, Debbie Slone

    Ken S, Debbie Slone says

    Thanks for reading my poetry collection At Home in the Mountains.
    See "Feather Crown," a poem based on a true story from my childhood. I saw the crown for the first time as an adult professor. I have a newer book out by JSF as well titled Mountain Teacher--An Eastern Kentucky Teacher Tells His Story. It is a contemporary The Thread That Runs So True about teaching in the mountains. My web site is www.kenslone.com. There you will find a link to my myspace page. Thanks again for reading my poems.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )


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