Booklady's Bunch of Books

Library Thing is a wonderful tool to use for readers' advisory. I am sure I will use this often when asked for a good Christian fiction book or author.

I love books and I love to make lists, so this is right up my alley. This is by far my favorite new technology. I think it could almost become addictive for me if I am not careful. I began by adding books by 3 of my favorite authors. I added 29 of my favorites and found I was having way too much fun, so had to quit for now.

FANTASTIC FUN WITH FLICKR

It is almost time to head on home for the day, but I decided to work on this week's activity before I left. I wasn't too excited about it--just thought I should get it done. WOW! Was I in for a treat! I think I could get addicted with this if I wasn't careful.

I decided since time is of a premium for me that I would choose to do Option 1. I decided that I would do searches on some of my favorite Southern Gospel groups and then my favorite artists.

I found a few hits on my favorite groups: Legacy Five and Greater Vision, but what really wowed me was seeing so many photos of my favorite artists and their works. I started out with Susan Point. I have 2 of her limited edition prints in my home. The pictures were fantastic. Then I moved on to Charles Wysocki. I love his work and have lots of it in my home. Last of all, I searched for deGrazia. He is famous for his pictures of small Indian children of the Southwest. I have many of his works in my home, including some hand-cast (is there such a word?) bronze miniature figures made from his pictures. These are limited editions and have not been available on the retail market for several years. My pride and joy of his work though is a book written about him. The book contains prints of hundreds of his most famous pictures. The icing on the cake is that the book was purchased by a friend of mine at the Kingston Friends of the Library Booksale for $1. It is signed by the artist and by the author. What a treasure! One of my goals is to someday go to Tucson Arizona and visit his museum: Gallery of the Sun.

I wish there were more hours in the day. I would love to be able to spend more time on Flickr. I can think of so many photos I would love to add.

Frustrated With a Capital "F"

I am completing my RSS assignment and feel total frustration. The ideas are so great, but it really seems like one week for each assignment is way too short. If we ever do this type of training again, I would like to see each section given at least 2 weeks or even a month so that we could really learn the material. I feel like I am just getting a bite of each and then have to move on to the next course. Maybe some of the staff only needs 30 minutes to do the assignments, but most I have spoken to are really struggling to get everything done. As i think about the whole idea of "RSS", I feel badly because even though it is a wonderful tool, I am afraid I will never have enough time to be able to read everything that comes my way. Maybe if I were about 45 years younger, this would all come easier for me. As it is, I know all of this is good for me and so I will just keep plodding on and try to throw my frustrations in the back seat.

Master Carver 1 and Booklady!

Fort Worden State Park, August 2007. We had just finished a huge scrumptious feast of Vietnamese roasted pig with all the trimmings at a wedding rehearsal dinner.