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The lovely bones / Alice Sebold
Scapegallows / Carol Birch
The river knows / Amanda Quick
An empty death / Laura Wilson
The scarlet contessa / Jeanne Kalogridis
in recent months, i've not read as much usual, and my bedsite book stacks show it: they're an odd mix of things i finished months ago, books borrowed from j. and christmas presents. i'm too tired at night and spend the long hours on various trains every other weekend either sleeping or working. that's my two main acitivities right now, anyway.
however, these past three weeks, i've read two books, somehow, between the sleeping and the working: barack obamas "the audacity of hope" and "dreams from my father". and they've strengthened both my crush and my belief that he'd make a fanastic president for the united states.
i wish we had politicians this awesome round here.
go obama!
On My Toes In The Library
Today I felt like paying a little more attention to my photography and took a trip to one of the many libraries at my school. I should have changed my lens from my 50mm to my kit lens but I like my 50mm more and as I started to take pictures my friend texted to go out to eat. So I only took a couple of pictures in the bookstacks and then went off to eat.
Still I like this picture. I feel like it says a bit about me. I'm short so often I have to get on my toes to reach things and I love reading so I like being around books. I tend to like bookstores more than libraries though. Anywho, this is definitely a location I will be revisiting in the future.
Reading (on the iPad): "In Darkness" by Nick Lake. Listening (on the iPhone): "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz, read by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The other three are under consideration for "up next"." Last time I posted a book stack, I had a ridiculous number of books in progress at one time.....this is probably a little more normal.
Architects: RMJM
Completion: 1998
Image Taken: June 2009
RMJM designed their Phase I building at Lincoln to be flexible. Phase II however was to be quite the opposite. Designed as a bespoke academic building housing the learning resource centre and the media studies department, this building uses a similar language to the Phase I building (although in practice, the wooden cladding in particular, has been treated with rather different products, resulting in less of a 'family look' than was perhaps originally intended), but in a different way.
With Phase II, the building is split into two bays, but lengthways (as opposed to Phase I's three widthways bays) by a central core holding circulation and more cellular spaces. The uses were designed to each occupy one half of the building. The TV studio, media spaces, edit suites etc. occupying one side (to the left of the core in this image) in a more visually enclosed 'box', befitting the use of the spaces, and the learning resources centre workstations and bookstacks (though the focus was originally on PC space) on the other side where the façades are more highly glazed.
Where on the other three elevations the building steps out, almost like a reverse wedding cake, the entrance elevation is a sheer four-storey cut with a largeoversailing canopy to signify the entrance (shown here).
The University of Lincoln campus continued to expand after the completion of this building, and it was rendered redundant by the completion of a larger library building on another part of the site in 2004. The former learning resources centre was divided up into smaller lecture theatres and seminar rooms.
The building made a brief appearance in the 2002 (but filmed in Summer 2000) film: Possession, as the workplace of Gwyneth Paltrow's character, Maud Bailey.
Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Publication:
[1963?]
Language(s):
English
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Libraries, Medical,
African Americans,
Library Materials,
Catalogs, Library,
Librarians,
National Library of Medicine (U.S.)., Reference Services Division.
Genre(s):
Pictorial Works
Abstract:
Interior view: In front of the information window is a bench and a floor ashtray. On the other side of the information window area is the card catalog. To the left of the catalog are book stacks.
Extent:
1 photographic print : 21 x 26 cm.
Technique:
black and white
NLM Unique ID:
101445845
NLM Image ID:
A017256
Permanent Link:
My passion rises for storytelling and somehow I've been making a career out of it, from TV now at Intel. Now I'm wising up and reading books about the wonders and techniques. Springboard storytelling was like reading what I've been experiencing inside Intel -- immovable at first, then skyrocket results when you can tell good stories that cut through the data and reliance on reason.
I don't know why libraries (bookstacks in particular) have such an intoxicating effect on me, but I love them!
Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth I picked up on my return from Italy in April 2008. I've listened to him read his previous works -- wow!
Speak like Churchill, Sound Like Lincoln just the title alone grabs me! I could use the help, and I hugely admire both people leaders.
The Opposable Mind was just finished today. This jumped out at the perfect time as I spend 2007 integrating my skills, passions and people and teams at work. This book is a bit repetitive, but describes and motivates to go beyond yes and no. Take the best of everything and shake it all about with your experience, understanding of complexity that is life, reflect and move ahead to mastery and originality in the way you think and things you do.
The Story Factor is my next book to read on the joys, power and techniques of storytelling.
On the Road to Mr. Mineo's by Barbara O'Connor: greetings-from-nowhere.blogspot.com/2012/04/on-road-to-mr...
All my books currently in various stages of active consumption as of 11/19/2007. In no specific order
Saturday February 27, 2010 I love that I continuously challenge myself. Sometimes this can be a curse, sometimes this can be a direction. Sometimes this means that you don't get to sleep at night because you are constantly thinking of ways to better yourself.
I took this on my break. I don't actually work in the bookstacks putting them away, I mainly work at the desk checking them in and out. In a book today I found a postcard from someone's vacation.
Tonight a concert at a local venue, tomorrow schoolwork.
Jacqueline Carey grimly spoofs the Lord of the Rings. Who's evil? Who's good? The elves here are terrible racist snobs, humanity is no better, the Gods are either absent or horrific. Oh, they're not orcs, please. Dragons, dwarfs, and 'heroes'.
Andrew Schrader writes spoofy, somewhat cheesy horror and heroic fantasy. Well done.
Gabriel Squailia's world is odd, insect-y, obsessed with body-horror and gender identity. The gods might be dead but their body parts are usable for other purposes. Not for the easily offended or squeamish.
It's Jack Vance! My favorite author. Here's a collection of early-ish stories, some of which I'd never read.
Brendan Bellecourt (Bradley Beaulieu) writes a steampunk ('deco-punk') tale set in the years after WW I, with robots (of course), super science, evil scientists and monstrous conspiracies. Fun and deeply paranoid.
And a collection of articles about my recent (plant) obsession. Brad had an interesting sense of humor.
An amazing book store in Halifax. We wandered in becasue the site of piles and towers of books stacked in the windows made us curious. There were towers up to the ceiling, windows cut out through books, stairs lined w/ books. There were narrow corridors and twists and turns - some you could not even get through.