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Post by Celebith on Dec 7, 2022 9:01:37 GMT -5
We have 'random thoughts' for almost all the other boards, but no random book chat. So now we do. I saw an add for some chunky-ass bookend designed to look like Bag End (although Walmart calls it a Dwarf Cave House), and other adds for big bookends like these  And I thought, 'those are nice, but who has room for non-books on their bookshelves?' Mine are already stacked two-deep, with more slotted in on top of them, if they fit. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Dec 7, 2022 22:43:14 GMT -5
We have 'random thoughts' for almost all the other boards, but no random book chat. So now we do. I saw an add for some chunky-ass bookend designed to look like Bag End (although Walmart calls it a Dwarf Cave House), and other adds for big bookends like these And I thought, 'those are nice, but who has room for non-books on their bookshelves?' Mine are already stacked two-deep, with more slotted in on top of them, if they fit.
I don't have any room for bookends at all. I have some and they are still packed in boxes after I moved. I do have a couple of short bookshelves, and I do use the top of the shelf for books. I had previously used the bookends for those. But now I just stack books at the ends.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Dec 21, 2022 11:47:40 GMT -5
Yea, if anything I’m trying to work out what kind of additional bookshelf I could make work in my office to accommodate my overflow.
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Post by Lurky McLurk on Jan 10, 2023 10:12:12 GMT -5
They've changed the matrix so that it was Fay Weldon who came up with "Go to Work on an Egg". Could've sworn it was Rushdie.
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Post by Dellarigg on Jan 10, 2023 17:04:31 GMT -5
They've changed the matrix so that it was Fay Weldon who came up with "Go to Work on an Egg". Could've sworn it was Rushdie. Rushdie was ‘Naughty … but nice’. |
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Post by Lurky McLurk on Jan 12, 2023 4:16:54 GMT -5
They've changed the matrix so that it was Fay Weldon who came up with "Go to Work on an Egg". Could've sworn it was Rushdie. Rushdie was ‘Naughty … but nice’. I took my daughter to the ballet last weekend - The Nutcracker, obviously - and I want to know who's responsible for my brain filling in the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy with the lyrics "Everyone's a Fruit & Nut-case". Way things are around here it was probably A.S. Byatt. |
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Post by Dellarigg on Jan 12, 2023 4:46:32 GMT -5
Rushdie was ‘Naughty … but nice’. I took my daughter to the ballet last weekend - The Nutcracker, obviously - and I want to know who's responsible for my brain filling in the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy with the lyrics "Everyone's a Fruit & Nut-case". Way things are around here it was probably A.S. Byatt. Don DeLillo worked in advertising for a while, though I don't know if he has any famous slogans to show for it. |
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Jan 12, 2023 14:16:28 GMT -5
I took my daughter to the ballet last weekend - The Nutcracker, obviously - and I want to know who's responsible for my brain filling in the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy with the lyrics "Everyone's a Fruit & Nut-case". Way things are around here it was probably A.S. Byatt. Don DeLillo worked in advertising for a while, though I don't know if he has any famous slogans to show for it. The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jan 13, 2023 11:21:05 GMT -5
Iffy and I were discussing not necessarily favorite authors, but authors that make you feel heard, or make you feel like they must be a kindred spirit in some way.
He said Laini Taylor. I said Jo Walton, Terry Pratchett, and Seanan McGuire.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Feb 18, 2023 21:18:59 GMT -5
Emily St. John Mandel is coming to Des Moines as part of the library’s visiting author series this year and it’s when I already know I’ll be out of town for a conference ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
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