February 28, 2008
The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre FINALLY FINISHED
by Stephen Youngkin
Short, irritated review at the original post.
(Book 3 in 2008)
Mossad Exodus
By Gad Shimron
Got this book through the Librarything Early Bird Reviewer program, and am so glad I was picked! This is one heck of a story. It's a first person account of the rescue of refugee Ethiopian Jews by Mossad, Israel's secret service. I had no idea there even were Ethiopian Jews! Shimron was one of the major players in the operation and tells a good story. It's a bit stiffly written, though that may be because it was written in Hebrew and translated -- and anyway, I didn't mind. I was too busy enjoying this real-life spy story. Good stuff!
February 27, 2008
Woo Hoo!
I have finally finished entering alllll my "read" books into LibraryThing! Yay! I have 951 books in that category, wow.
And they are all available for loan!
Well, except the ones that are already out on loan. :)
I've said for some time that I wouldn't add my unread books into the catalog until I'd read them, but I realized that if I catalog them all now, it'll be a LOT easier to count them. And since I've decided to ration my book buying according to how many unread books I have on hand, an easy way to track how many unread books I have will make my life a lot simpler.
So: if a book is tagged "not for loan," it's not for loan. If it's tagged "available for loan," then it's available. :) I'm going to try to update tags according to what's loaned out, we'll see how that works. If I can use LibraryThing to track book loaning, my life will be even simpler (I figure I can tag things "out on loan" and use the comment field to track who borrowed 'em and when).
So how is my book rationing going to work, I hear you ask?
Well. I estimate I have about 300 unread books (I'm still entering them all into LibraryThing, though, so I don't have an exact number). I figure that as I reach nice, round cutoffs every 20 books, I shall allow myself to buy new books. The number of new books bought will depend on my finances on hand, rather than be a predetermined amount. HOWEVER! Once I've exercised the privilege of buying books at a given unread book level, I can't do it again. So if I get my unread pile down to, say, 240 books and then buy ten books, so it's at 250, I have to make it down to 220 before I'm allowed to buy new books.
Once I've finished inputting all my unread books, I shall add a section in the lefthand sidebar tracking my unread books progress. Woot.
Surviving a Borderline Parent
By Kimberlee Roth
Although nobody in my family has a BPD diagnosis, this book was recommended to me as a way to look at some of the dysfunction I grew up with. I found it incredibly useful -- in large part because it is aimed at both adult children of folks diagnosed with BPD and adult children of folks with BPD-like symptoms. It's given me a lot of food for thought. I borrowed it from a friend and am thinking I may buy a copy so I can reread it after I've digested the contents a bit and work through the exercises more thoroughly.
(Book 1 in 2008)