tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604938.post1226783917890907630..comments2024-03-17T13:13:58.214-07:00Comments on Blue-Hearted Bookworm: Books: A Memoir - Larry McMurtryBybeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10061186489010154661noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604938.post-11027293369165206382008-11-02T10:06:00.000-08:002008-11-02T10:06:00.000-08:00can I lure you to Dubai? They really need English ...can I lure you to Dubai? They really need English teachers here...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604938.post-67399377172354340662008-11-01T19:28:00.000-07:002008-11-01T19:28:00.000-07:00QUESTION...LOved your review...I'm hoping you can ...QUESTION...<BR/>LOved your review...<BR/>I'm hoping you can answer my question...do you remember the title of a book that McMurtry mentioned...he said he would give it to his daughter if he had one or that it should be required reading for all young women?<BR/>Please help,<BR/>thank you,<BR/>ElizabethAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604938.post-53013881054634299872008-11-01T11:55:00.000-07:002008-11-01T11:55:00.000-07:00I picked this up at the library a couple weeks ago...I picked this up at the library a couple weeks ago and haven't gotten around to it. I'll put it in a more accessible place now, it sounds right up my alley.<BR/><BR/>I don't think I have an odd book shelf.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17401807675546808620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604938.post-4448431065355682002008-11-01T05:55:00.000-07:002008-11-01T05:55:00.000-07:00PS Odd book collections...I collect books on dream...PS Odd book collections...I collect books on dreams and dream analysis (this is why I'm having so much fun with your dreams!), but they have to be good analysis, not by rote which are stupid and miss the point; astrology - for years and years; I have a middling collection, but not everything that has been published (not yet anyway)....that's all I can think of so far...good question, Bybee! :-)Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09095246748581382752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604938.post-85230744900464745052008-11-01T05:44:00.000-07:002008-11-01T05:44:00.000-07:00Oh, I missed you! Good luck with the job hunt, B...Oh, I missed you! Good luck with the job hunt, Bybee, really, and good luck with the nerves too. It's hard changing jobs, even if exciting, but I think you would be great at teaching books! I haven't read any Larry McMurty yet *hangs head* I keep meaning too, but I saw parts of Lonesome Dove and the book is so big.....*hangs head even lower and shuffles feet* mumbles "I'm tired of westerns anyway" and shuffles off to read Jane Austen :-)<BR/> But your review makes me want to might, possibly, one day, try McMurty!!Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09095246748581382752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604938.post-59480855746421058822008-10-31T08:24:00.000-07:002008-10-31T08:24:00.000-07:00My odd shelf contains numerous copies of Jonathan ...My odd shelf contains numerous copies of Jonathan Carroll's books. I have two, and in one case, three copies of several of his novels because when I see one in a used book store I must buy it. Even if I already have two copies, I MUST buy it. Really weird.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604938.post-85973920647935286792008-10-30T12:51:00.000-07:002008-10-30T12:51:00.000-07:00Man, crushed by a bookshelf is TOtally how I want ...Man, crushed by a bookshelf is TOtally how I want to go. But not for, like, 70 more years. And then I want to be BURied with all my books. No, I want them passed on. Ok, maybe one or two clutched in my cold, dead hands.<BR/><BR/>My grandkinds are going to hate this.raychhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604938.post-62734067614115538392008-10-30T04:44:00.000-07:002008-10-30T04:44:00.000-07:00Before I moved to Turkey, I went to a used booksto...Before I moved to Turkey, I went to a used bookstore back in my hometown with my mother. I had no intentions to buy any books because I was moving and had no where to put them. But then I saw a great deal that I couldn't resist.... 10 hardcover Larry McMurty books for $15....<BR/><BR/>Now I have added a huge stack of books to the already huge stack of books back in Canada that have not yet been read.myzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08569119583551676481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604938.post-5225957884845642912008-10-29T20:14:00.000-07:002008-10-29T20:14:00.000-07:00Don't be silly. My books are a perfectly normal co...Don't be silly. My books are a perfectly normal collection. Unlike Bookfool. ;)<BR/><BR/>If the Hayward Quake ever goes, I'm going to be buried alive by hardback books. <BR/><BR/>Good luck on the job hunt!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604938.post-8743071559624451182008-10-29T19:25:00.000-07:002008-10-29T19:25:00.000-07:00Well, that was worth waiting for. I don't think I ...Well, that was worth waiting for. <BR/><BR/>I don't think I have any weird collections, but I do collect certain authors. Paul Watkins, for example -- I've collected almost everything he's ever written (just found out I missed a book), simply because his memoir is one of my all-time favorites. And, it turned out I don't really like his fiction all that much, but I still have to keep up the collection.<BR/><BR/>Now and then, I grab an older book from the library sale, just for the cute covers. I like old dust jackets. <BR/><BR/>And, I have quite a collection of Bibles because King James sometimes baffles me. Originally, I just wanted a parallel Bible to compare versions, but I eventually became completely carried away. I just donated a few; I had too many.<BR/><BR/>Oh, wait! I used to collect nonfiction on *anything* because I thought I was going to be an author when I grew up and you just never know when you're going to need a book about guns, pottery, rock climbing, cacti and succulents, scuba diving, whatever . . . for research, of course. That might be really weird. Is it?Bookfoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247136634069540446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604938.post-36177559906926121502008-10-29T17:31:00.000-07:002008-10-29T17:31:00.000-07:00yea! Bybee has a post! and it is quite interesti...yea! Bybee has a post! and it is quite interesting. I have never been a re-reader, except accidently (Atonement) but I am starting to think about books I want to read again. Is this a sign I'm getting old or depressed?<BR/><BR/>Want to send me your resume and I'll send you mine and we can red-pen critique each other? just a thought...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com