Membre : christiguc

Hi Christina,

thanks for leaving a comment! I've been wanting to expand my reading to new authors, particularly contemporary ones who write in English, and found that your library was an excellent source for interesting authors and books.

Juha is a good representative of Juhani Aho's work, and considered one of his best. I enjoy his language immensely - he has great sensitivity to the life and language of the common people. Juha is set around the Finnish-Russian border in a time when the borderline was just something that existed in the maps of the ruling powers, and had little or nothing to do with the lives of the people who lived in the area. I find that an interesting setting. The storyline is one that is well known to most people in Finland, even though only few have actually read the book. (Happens to classics all over the world, I suppose.)

If I may recommend a contemporary book by a Finnish author (well, half Estonian actually), Purge by Sofi Oksanen is a very powerful story of two women in the turmoils of Estonian history and the present day. It's been recently translated into English.

All the best to you,

Annamari

écrit par AnnamariH à 3:19 am (EST) le Mar 18, 2010

Hello Christina
It's going to take me a while to fully appreciate all the aspects of LibraryThing but I'm already picking up some good recommendations for my TBR list. Thank you for the group suggestions - I've just signed up for the Georgian and Regency Britain group as that is my first love, albeit more for the portraiture than the literature, but I do read round the period as well both in fiction and non-fiction. In the art world, it is above all the Georgian portraits (not the large museum-style oil portraits of the aristocracy but the smaller, usually amateur and often naive, modest paintings of ordinary men and women) that draw me as they are unique records and so insightful of their period. I've lost count though of the number of miniature portaits of elegant young Regency women that I've privately christened after Jane Austen characters!

I hope you found something to inspire you in my small library and I'm looking forward to browsing yours too ere long. My latest acquisition, which I've only dipped into as yet but which I can already thoroughly recommend as a fabulous book, is Mrs Delany and Her Circle (sorry, I don't yet know how to make titles into live links).

Thanks for getting in touch and perhaps we can chat again soon.
Cynthia

écrit par wigsonthegreen à 5:04 pm (EST) le Mar 8, 2010

Hi Christina

There is no copyright justification field now. I'm just leaving "with permission from the author" in the comments field.

Meg

écrit par merry10 à 4:24 pm (EST) le Mar 4, 2010

Hi Christina

How do I mark this as "with permission from the author"? I put that in the comments box after I uploaded it.

Meg

écrit par merry10 à 3:16 pm (EST) le Mar 4, 2010

Done! Yes, silly that we weren't already. I haven't found your thread for ages either - I am grabbing 2 minutes here and there, and have 4 reviews or comments to write on books I've finished. I will go and have a nosy now.

I didn't know you had the Heirloom Tomato book - I like how it's listing the weirdest combinations we have in common. We are really missing our tomatoes over here and might try some measly pots on the balcony when it warms up a bit...

Kids asleep, time for bed (and a very annoying book so far - How Markets Fail, by John Cassidy.)
Cheers
Cush.

écrit par cmt à 2:45 pm (EST) le Feb 24, 2010

Member christiguc has left a message on raideoman1's picture.

écrit par system à 6:41 am (EST) le Feb 23, 2010

Here are the permissions for pictures you flagged:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radovan_Ivan%C4%8Devi%C4%87_13._11._1931....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Miro_Gavran.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:August_%C5%A0enoa.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ante_Kovacic.gif

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tomaz-Lavric-2008.jpg

Melina

écrit par Modra à 2:28 am (EST) le Feb 22, 2010

Thanks for your help - I'm pretty thrilled to learn how to do the labelling thing to

See you around

C

écrit par Littlemissbashful à 10:24 pm (EST) le Feb 21, 2010

For future reference

Does appending >CORRECT LABEL at the end of the shortcut always change the link to show a specific label?

écrit par Littlemissbashful à 10:20 pm (EST) le Feb 21, 2010

I think that worked if you want to check.... (third times a charm!)

écrit par Littlemissbashful à 10:16 pm (EST) le Feb 21, 2010

I'll give it a go!

écrit par Littlemissbashful à 10:08 pm (EST) le Feb 21, 2010

Hi

I've just tried again - I think I've got the link in now It's just it's not neatly labelled and just looks like a URL

I'll dig around to see ig I can neaten it up

Thanks anyway

écrit par Littlemissbashful à 10:03 pm (EST) le Feb 21, 2010

Hi

Thanks for the heads up about the Strauss II piture - I have found where the original link went to but I'm not sure how to go back and get in the credit line?

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?strucID=450643&...

Do I have to edit it and copy in the URL - err I just tried that and now it's saying no picture....

Not sure how to correct any ideas, maybe I need to start again?

écrit par Littlemissbashful à 9:53 pm (EST) le Feb 21, 2010

Well, it only took three times as long to get to TX as the book to NZ! Next time I send you something I'm mailing first class!

Elaine

écrit par Liz1564 à 6:05 pm (EST) le Feb 19, 2010