tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post72897424850096009..comments2024-03-25T05:23:41.171-04:00Comments on Bilbo's Random Thought Collection: Free Entertainment for LifeBilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14213505386288233192noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post-90459279759163354812011-08-22T22:27:59.622-04:002011-08-22T22:27:59.622-04:00Well I commented right after Banister but in true ...Well I commented right after Banister but in true blogger fashion... IT'S GONE!!!!Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00017192454403363349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post-38648207070237765632011-08-22T21:35:08.121-04:002011-08-22T21:35:08.121-04:00Well said. I love our local library. I bring the...Well said. I love our local library. I bring the kids there weekly for books, dvds (for friday night movie night) and also TOYS! Our library system here is so amazing that you can rent toys! Really nice ones too. I love love love it. <br /><br />Plus, the library here offers classes for kids (for free). Both of my kids have been through the music classes and the mommy & me reading classes. <br /><br />Can you tell, I like the library??chrissyhttp://www.mygotfam.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post-62246481044207024202011-08-22T19:54:27.805-04:002011-08-22T19:54:27.805-04:00Yay for Booth Tarkington in "Seventeen."...Yay for Booth Tarkington in "Seventeen."Big Sky Heidihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00946389103423542051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post-63678766752416947262011-08-22T14:24:52.231-04:002011-08-22T14:24:52.231-04:00I fell in love with books as little boy when mom w...I fell in love with books as little boy when mom would take us to the local library branch for story times. My three brothers and I have so many books between us that it's become difficult to move around in our space on the third floor.<br /><br />Having spent every summer of my life (up to this one) on the Magothy River, and having cut my teeth on sheets and halyards, I suppose it was inevitable that my favorite books all had a nautical bent.<br /><br />I started with the wonderful C. S. Forester "Horatio Hornblower" series, and then discovered Alexander Kent and his truly magnificent "Richard Bolitho" series, and then the "Aubrey–Maturin" series by Patrick O'Brian. There are other authors of course, but I find myself returning to these more often than to any others.<br /><br />My brothers and I were lucky in having had parents who read to us and encouraged us to stretch our minds and read "ahead of ourselves." I can still remember the feeling of total awe that overcame me the first time I walked into the great central room of the Pratt Library downtown. I think I could more readily give up my driver's license than my library card! <br /><br />Want a great laugh? Read the now-nearly-forgotten Booth Tarkington novels "Penrod" and "Penrod and Sam." Dated? Maybe. A bit racist in places? Maybe. But still hilarious.<br /><br />Three more days and I'm off to sophomore year of chemical engineering. Whoo-hoo!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post-52931850542396794062011-08-22T09:47:06.305-04:002011-08-22T09:47:06.305-04:00Peg - I'm the same way. I usually have three b...Peg - I'm the same way. I usually have three books in progress at any one time: one for my commute; one for the dinner table (yes, Agnes has one, too!); and one for the nightstand/bathroom. My mother used to say that I'd read the label on the milk bottle (remember milk in bottles?) if nothing else was available.<br /><br />Amanda - The Riftwar Saga has been recommended to me, but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet.<br /><br />eViL pOp TaRt - I was never able to get into Austen or any of the Bronte, but loved Alexandre Dumas almost as much as Charles Dickens.Bilbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14213505386288233192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post-91694685611563274742011-08-22T09:03:25.504-04:002011-08-22T09:03:25.504-04:00I also love LOTR. And the classics, such as Jane ...I also love LOTR. And the classics, such as Jane Austen and Emily Bronté and Alexandre Dumas. And Jennifer Crusie for a modern change into fun, witty books.<br /><br />And they're free! And accessible at a university library. Students and faculty mostly read work-oriented material.eViL pOp TaRthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15039755407564122331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post-77368061008680328952011-08-22T08:43:15.347-04:002011-08-22T08:43:15.347-04:00I like The Lord of the Rings too.
My other favou...I like The Lord of the Rings too. <br /><br />My other favourites are the books from the Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist.Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03542715899155247984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post-62117495499027135812011-08-22T07:16:50.305-04:002011-08-22T07:16:50.305-04:00I read all the time. I read fiction, non fiction, ...I read all the time. I read fiction, non fiction, business etc. As my roommate after college said, You'd sit and read a pamphlet if you had no book. For some reason my reading annoyed the s-t out of her. Yep,I love to read.<br /><br />But the books that has stuck with me through the years is Little Women. It was a book way ahead of it's time. Last year I read a wonderful biography of the author. It was so thorough and eye opening.<br />Last week i read a biography of Sammy Hagar - okay they aren't all great pieces of literature but it was very interesting. Who knew he was such an entreprenuar. (sp?) I found him to be a great business man - c'mon who knew? I knew I loved his tequila but how it started and the deal he made were very impressive!<br /><br />I currently have a book on hold for me at my local library. There are still some of us old relics out there that love to hold an old fashioned book.Margaret (Peggy or Peg too)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04247428494327269983noreply@blogger.com