Bargle’s Comments (group member since Mar 04, 2018)

Bargle’s comments from the All About Books group.

You're welcome!

Got it, thanks. Now added to the book.

Susan wrote: "I'd like to add a book cover (I have a scanned copy) and publication details for Louis: A Normal Novel by Kathleen Stewart.

I can do that. You'll need to send me the cover scan.

Thanks, Rosh!

Susan, there's a 'bot program currently screwing up the database. Librarians are pulling their hair out trying to correct things and get the 'bot stopped. I'll deal with these tonight if someone else doesn't do them before then.

LauraT wrote: "Finished it this last week end.
I have to admit I liked it quite a lot: especially the trick of mixing the "fiction" book with the "story" narrated, a nice piece of metanarrative, metaliterature.
A..."

As usual, I didn't guess either one of them either. As many mysteries as I've read, you'd think I'd be better at it, but no.

Really enjoyed the book overall.

OK, done. While I was aware of many of the basic facts, I had no clue about the degree that some of them went to. The places they put leeches was both surprising and off putting. Just the amazing variety of things people would submit to in the name of 'good health' stuns the mind these days.

Me as well.

Karin wrote: "I forgot we were reading it here and have already started it--it works for a monthly thing I have in another group, so I might finish it in Jan, but of course will still be up for the discussion :)"

Yup, me too.

Susan wrote: "Could a kind person please remove this edition of "The Confession" by Jesse Burton:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

The auth..."

When a book is deleted, all the reviews with it are lost. Instead, I corrected the author and combined it with the other editions.

Susan wrote: "I noticed that After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made, the forthcoming book by Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor to President Oba..."

Done.

Done.

Susan wrote: "Could someone please change the title of this one from ALL UPPERCASE to the conventional capitalised style. Thanks!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4..."

Done.

OK, done. Thanks.

There's 2 different versions of the Brilliance Audible version. One has an MP3 version and the the other is just an audio CD. Which would be the correct one for the linked entry you give?

Leslie wrote: "Could someone fix the typo in the illustrator's name in Asterix the Gladiator for the edition below?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

It shows ..."

Done.

Hmmm, I don't participate in the reading challenges, so I don't know what to tell you to do. It's not something I can change as a librarian.

I'm now going through the "Annotated Lolita". Wish I'd known about this earlier.

As good as I remembered. Though, once again, I have missed some of the less obvious things. Reading the Amis foreword shows some things I didn't quite get the full import of when I read them. I need to let it set a while, then read it again.

Leslie wrote: "Why does the 2002 Penguin edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn include a translator!!?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2..."

It don't no more. ;-)