Tuesday, March 24, 2009

FIRST I'LL SHOW YOU MINE

Since getting laid off, I'm spending a lot more time at home and the chaos is profound. Before I impose order, I thought I'd give you a look at the books piling up around me. Perhaps you'll tell us about yours.

First, IN the bed, next to the cat:
Insight Guide to Turkey (I leave 4/21 w/or w/out you!)
Getting Stoned with Savages (J.M.Troost)

Next, on the night stand, working from the top down:
Lonely Planet Guide to Turkey
Turkish Reflections: A Biography Of Place
NYorker, 3/16
Inshallah: in pursuit of my father's youth
NYorker 2/23, opened to still unread profile of Ian McEwan
A Good Man is Hard to Find (stories by Flannery O'Connor)
Finally, the living room coffee table:

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel (Louise Murphy)
Turkey: Photographs by Roland and Sabrina Michaud
Rejected: tales of the Failed, Dumped and Canceled
Turkey: The End of the Ottoman Empire
Travelers' Tales of Turkey
Knopf Guide to Istanbul
Globetrotter Guide to Istanbul
The Hali Rug Guide to Istanbul

and the Big Boy, where I turn for perspective:
ATLAS MAIOR OF 1665
at 9:43 AM

15 comments:

  1. Your Southern friend is so proud of your Flannery O'Connor showing. You could be a stylist you know?
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  3. I just got back from Arches National Park and am reading Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey, just finished Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollen and wanting to read Egyptian historical fiction by pauline Gedge.
    trish
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  5. Well, no matter how Turkey works out, they will not be able to say that you did not do your homework.

    Mine.
    "Books at Work".
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  6. I've never been to Arches, can you believe it? Thanks for the reminder, gotta get there.

    And Cliff - what's Books at Work?

    Sadly, it's recently been recommend to me that I read "Getting To Yes". Oh dear, what my life has come to... ;-}
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  7. i wish that i had need to be studying for the trip with you. That atlas looks wonderful...hmmm...

    Celia Thaxter's An Island Garden is near by as is the AMC Field Guide to the New England Alpine Summits (i was dazzled by what i saw last summer on Mt. Washington and wish to prepare for my next visit)

    And, if i'm honest while blushing: i've thoroughly enjoyed my first Southern "cozy" Thistle & Twigg by Mary Saums...which features two remarkable females and is set deep within protected woods/sacred Native people's site of northern Alabama--which i am now eager to visit. This definitely ain't your typical "cozy." And way better than most television. OK. i'm done trying to justify my delight in this little volume and i should simply say, "It was fun!"
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  8. Have you checked out www.librarything.com?
    My gardening books may be piling up around my house, but at least they are organized somewhere.
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  9. Hate to seem like an idiot, but what is a Southern "cozy"? Feel good reading? So whoever told you you shouldn't feel good? ;-}
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  10. You're not an idiot. You probably just don't hang around women of a certain age who are the main audience for "cozy mysteries." My oldest sister owns a huge pile of "cozies." And, according to a librarian friend in Alabama, it's genre very popular in the south.

    There is, of course, a website, cozy-mystery dot com wherein one learns that the main character is "usually a college educated woman who is an amateur sleuth."

    Yes, it's escapism/feel good chick-lit. Mary Saums created some cool characters...women i would actually enjoy hanging around. Thistle is an archeologist who is intent on saving the woods she inherited...so that's the earth/plant/history connection that snagged my attention. Twigg made me laugh out loud...which i needed this winter.
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  11. I guess that I was too clever for my own good with “Books at Work.” It is a clickable (presumably) link to a photo on Flickr of books I had on hand at work at the time I read your blog entry.

    Responding to your challenge seemed more interesting than the assignment I was avoiding, but a photo seemed faster than writing out a list.
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  12. It's this blog software, Cliff, not you. Very basic. Sometime in the near future I'll graduate to something more sophisticated so YOU can be more successful at being clever...
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  13. I've got to check out Southern "cozy." I thought it was that feeling I had as a kid when my Great Aunt Nettie Belle left our house and a piece of pecan pie remained.
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  14. I've been working my way through Alexander McCall smith's 44 Scotland Street series. Very funny, full of superbly goofy characters, and now Edinborough, where it all takes place, is on my list of places to go!
    Jodi
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  15. Ketzel darling, are you standing on the coffee table or am I just really tired?
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