William's Friend Comments

Thanks for the friend invite Will. I didn't move to my current location willingly ; its the worse place I've lived and I am the adventurous type. I cannot wait to move back and be part of civilization again.

Note for myself: Next Read book categories to ensure balanced reading!

1. Short Stories
2. Poetry
3. U.S. Presidents
4. U.S. Conflicts
5. Literature
6. Philosophy
7. My Choice
8. Shakespeare
9. Non-Fiction
10. History
11. Graphic Art

Thank you for the friend request! Sorry for the delay in accepting, I've been away. I'll be looking forward to discussing books with you

Scribble wrote: "Happy New Year, Will - all the best for 2014!"

Thanks very much, and for you as well!

Happy New Year, Will - all the best for 2014!

I was going to embark on a chronological read of short bios, to start with, but that never happened. I'll probably continue my habit of reading whatever bio catches my eye at the moment--mostly Theodore Roosevelt ones, so far, but I need to give the Garfield one another try--meant to get to it after reading about his assassination, but never found the time. Hopefully next year.

Will wrote: "VP triva (what two VP's resigned? "

Spiro T. Agnew! And someone else. Plus all the other White House pets (didn't one president have a crocodile?) and other weird bits of trivia. Fer example, didja know two of John Tyler's grandsons are still alive? Just learned that a few weeks ago. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/...

Jacob wrote: "So I decided to give myself a pop quiz today and list all the Presidents in order + the dates they were elected (or assumed the office following a death/assassination), and I got all of them right ..."

It's a slippery slope. Soon you won't get the same emotional bump from that, and you'll slide into chronological reads of 700pg bios, VP triva (what two VP's resigned? Which served two different presidents?), dog names (one was named Veto), and you'll find yourself in some dank and shadowy den of inequity, and the glare from a passing police light will momentarily reveal the faces of other dark travelers near you; Michael Beschloss! Doris Kearns Goodwin! My God, I've become....a Presidential Historian!

So I decided to give myself a pop quiz today and list all the Presidents in order + the dates they were elected (or assumed the office following a death/assassination), and I got all of them right except Coolidge (couldn't remember what year Harding died) and Ford (couldn't remember when Nixon resigned--74 or 75). Everyone else I aced. This feels good.

Thanks for the note and the add, Will.

Will, thank you very kindly. Looking forward to sharing books and opinions.

Thanks for the friend request; but be warned: my reading is eclectic, to say the least. And, yes, I really, really adore Kooser.

Mikela wrote: "Will, just when I started to bring my TBR list under control you had to introduce me to yet another slew of what appear to be wonderful books."

You can blame Proustitute for this. After finding several books I was interested in, I'd find they were on his to-read list. So I threatened, and eventually followed through on beginning a survey of his massive list. I'm up to page 17 of around 70. More to come, I fear.

Will, just when I started to bring my TBR list under control you had to introduce me to yet another slew of what appear to be wonderful books.

Mikela wrote: "Since you were looking for small space ideas I thought you might be interested in this staircase library. http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/at-eu..."

That's really cool, although I think not wonderful for the books. I've got a zillion things on Pintrest (addictive) but never seen that. Yeah, it's likely I'll move into a small house...someplace...sometime.

Since you were looking for small space ideas I thought you might be interested in this staircase library. http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/at-eu...

Will, Thanks for accepting the friend request! I share your taste for the classics, in literature as well as art and music.