# 9 LibraryThing

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http://www.librarything.com/catalog/rosenpage


This link should take you direct to my library shelf at LibraryThing! I like the fact that I can add heaps and it mixes up my books and obvious likes and dislikes and suggests what to read!

Brilliant! And it is spot on too! As I have only added a couple of pages to the library I was amazed when it suggested ten "reads" it thought I would enjoy in non fiction and I'd read and could endorse seven of the ten. Equally in the "Non read" column I'd tried but given up on three authors of the ten!


If you go to Your Profile tab, LibraryThing will even show a list of contacts who have shared the same books; by highlighting their name it takes you to their lists!

# 9 More blogs and feeds

http://blogs.enotes.com/news-blog/2007-10/enotes-authors/
A good source for a few authors but I'm giving it a chance as it is new- and I like the look of the posts so far. eg Alice Walker gives brief bio / lists her books and gives notes at an academic level for bibliography- easy study if you want to follow up a topic such as Black American Writers.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/r/ A commercial site which is useful for finding if a popular novelist has published another book. Easily cross referenced. Works on alphabet /surname then click to their latest cover. Good for genre lists

Playing and Plants!

It is a blue sky day, from one window, I can see the geraniums and pelagoniums in a dazzle of brash pinks and reds, and from another the rose Banksia Alba cascading over the better behaved beauty of Duchess de Brabant with her soft pink flush (rose) and the annoyance of General Gallieni (rose) that he has been neglected yet manages to colour red/salmon/ pink . All this and instead of weeding to thank them, I am inside pecking away on myLibraryThing site and my garden continues to wait. Yesterday, I mowed the lawns- a task which took over two hours as I had not done the upper garden the week before and the growth would make any farmer envious. At present I have to do it every week or I suffer for it! I try telling myself its a good workout. One of these days I'll borrow a digital camera and try showing some of my favourite plants. I have two strelitzias (Bird of Paradise) in bloom and they always look so smug with their noses in the air-they know how stylish they look, and some beautiful iris.
Despite the beauty outside I've added two pages to my "Library" and even added some tags (despite my initial misgiving) which I think could be an aide memoire, rated most of my additions, and evn written a couple of reviews!

Oct 30th

Yes, I'm still playing! Still exploring... I have joined up with " librarything" and established the beginnings of a librarylist. I find fascinating viewing the differing authors popularity through the site although the consensus tags irritate.

If you are looking for a particular style it rocks! For example, I saw a reference to Longitude a book by Dava Sobel which I had read some time ago(and thought great) Clicking on the title brought up all the relevant library info but also a list of similar style books - which I found over a period of time. However, there was one I hadn't read so that will go on my "to read" list. I suspect I will use the Librarything more for this type of info in the future- like having a readers advisory a click away!

Back to 9 and books!

Some blogs which I have enjoyed reading- starting with

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Susan Wittig Albert a mystery writer with an encyclopaedic knowledge of herbs. She has an excellent webpage http://www.abouthyme.com/ and she also shares another with her husband(also a mystery writer) http://www.mysterypartners.com/ Susan reveals much of her love for the small town life in Texas in her China Bayles mysteries and I find her characters and gardening details noteworthy! With her love of writing she edits a book review page- see more on her site. Her blog tells more! http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/A3734S7RAY2KDF


Jeffrey Archer is an entertaining writer, and his blog reveals much. Despite his deserved
success, I found his admission of his perturbation on sending his latest ms. (after the 12th draft) delightful. http://jeffreyarchers.blogspot.com/

B for bloglines !

Also for Bloomingwriter.blogspot.com another author/gardener iun Nova Scotia. Lots of
photography of plants.

C is for celtic otherworld Do Read! http://celticotherworld.blogspot.com/

D is diazz - http://lifeisajourneyforever.blogspot.com/ Close to home!

D is http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/

D is for a dictionary with a difference http://www.doubletongued.org/

Maybe I should stop there, otherwise my oos is going to keep me awake again!

Task 10 (And still more! )Oct 29th

Just want to try again to settle it in my memory! Image icon, browse, select the cartoon from my pictures file ...

Before I forget, last night whilst working with the cartoons, accidentally I clicked on Links- it was a fortuitous moment. So many links to graphic oriented sites eg, how to make logos, how to make barcodes- about the only one missing was a forger's set for currency. Amazing! (And another time filler!)

Task 10 Oct 29th

Love the images it is possible to create. Had a go with Technorati -Bit difficult to follow the accent- still, I can't even say "Good morning" in his language so I should be grateful.

However , love comic strip generator and http://www.signgenerator.org/ Really fun.

At the start I kept getting frustrated as my words spilled all over the cartoon- definitely needed to keep an eye on my font and the number of words. Also, found it important to alter the text at the side before clicking! In other words as easy as flying for the mermaid and the fish!

Thanks to www.comicstripgenerator.org/

I had a great time working with several cartoons but, when I wanted to upload them to the saved draft of the blog, I had a problem. (Makes a difference having a blog toolbar with the image icon!) My colleague saved me!