Carried Away on Librarything

Yesterday one of our regular patrons mentioned that he grew up with someone who reminded him of Ichabod Crane. He talked about a humorous blunder "Ichabod" made, while reading a portion of the The Highwayman aloud in a high school English class. I just reread the poem. Very exciting. Makes me want to reread Washington Irving. Speaking of reading and other bookish things, I enlisted on librarything. After reading the assignment, I asked myself how many of these things that I'm signing up for am I realistically going to continue to revisit once we finish this program. I believe librarything will be one of them. I didn't consider myself interested in what others were reading, but I was wrong. It was fun to see what others are reading, and that most people are all over the map with their literary tastes,as am I. I think I put about 15 books on my list, but I'm not finished yet.

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Option 2 and Then Some

The horse thing has taken over. Krl has a book about the Burning Man festival that takes place in Nevada every summer. My youngest daughter goes every year. After looking at our book, I have a new appreciation for the creativity that goes into the festival. The picture in this post is what appear to be horses made of some metal wire.

I opted for signing up for a Flick account. I downloaded some pictures from CD of a trip to France in 2005. I found the site (#1) easy to figure out, but I also think I'm becoming more adept at looking for info I need to make the manuveuring "plus facile." The #2 is that I also found the site uncluttered and spare in a way that appeals to me. I know someone who has used photobucket, so I went to that site and was put off but it's busy, billboard-y look. It's getting harder to find the clean look on the web these days. I like google, because it's simply elegant, but not so attracted to yahoo-- it's too busy. One of my favorite iconoclast novels is The Monkeywrench Gang. I'm sure Edward A. would be horrified with some of the stuff out there today. Come to think of it, these horses remind me of that great man of desert lore.

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