tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831754181239500013.post8905304679095221697..comments2012-10-10T09:11:06.941-07:00Comments on EAST OF THE SUN, WEST OF THE MOON: OF BOOKS & MEMORIESBill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831754181239500013.post-22690712664739731102012-10-10T09:10:42.148-07:002012-10-10T09:10:42.148-07:00Old books I bought at thrift shops when I was in t...Old books I bought at thrift shops when I was in the 4th grade: Edith Hamilton's Mythology, same with the one pictured here, and Emily Cheney Neville's "It's Like This, Cat". This is a beautiful blog, btw~ Eric Gerardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12638864857438404719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831754181239500013.post-21707039616124517232010-07-01T19:42:21.810-07:002010-07-01T19:42:21.810-07:00Bill, I organized Hawaii Five-0 Fandom. After &qu...Bill, I organized Hawaii Five-0 Fandom. After "Star Trek V," that textbook on how to make a bad movie, came out, I figured it was time to take my endeavors elsewhere! (smile) There was a rather large untapped reservoir of Five-0 fans. I published (and wrote for) five issues of a Five-0 Fanzine, and I ended up writing a book about the show, Booking Hawaii Five-O: An Episode Guide and Critical History of the 1968-1980 Television Detective Series. It was published in 1997 by McFarland, and has been in print ever since -- ten years in hardback, and now out in paperback. That was my first published book, and it was exciting!<br /><br />Then I found genealogy, and the rest is history. Er . . . no, it's genealogy. Er, well . . . Anyway, my second book is Non-Federal Censuses of Florida, 1784-1945: A Guide to Sources. I am now working on my project on St. Augustine, from which I hope to have another book published, in time for the 450th Anniversary of the founding of St. Augustine, which will be in 2015.Karen Packard Rhodeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07641711434283636830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831754181239500013.post-54141419942106035892010-06-26T22:13:18.685-07:002010-06-26T22:13:18.685-07:00I might also have to ask how many sf and fantasy w...I might also have to ask how many sf and fantasy writers are into genealogists. Just discovered that Hugo award winning author C.J. Cherryh has a<br />page on her web blog devoted to genealogy. You can see it here at:<br />http://www.cherryh.com/WaveWithoutAShore/?page_id=72Bill Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831754181239500013.post-32223608981868432602010-06-26T11:37:34.009-07:002010-06-26T11:37:34.009-07:00Heather,
I realized after the move that "Ivan...Heather,<br />I realized after the move that "Ivanhoe" hadn't <br />made the trip with me, and neither had "The Black Arrow!". But the pb edition of Howard Pyle's <br />"Tales of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table" did. His books were among those I used to borrow at the Codman Square Library in <br />Dorchester.Bill Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831754181239500013.post-20794007648080412922010-06-26T11:34:04.168-07:002010-06-26T11:34:04.168-07:00Karen,
Homer, Thucydides and Herodotus were the G...Karen, <br />Homer, Thucydides and Herodotus were the Greeks that hooked me. Which fandom were you involved in?<br />I was active in the Darkover fandom, writing atories and articles for fanzines from Lynne Holdom and Roberta Rogow.<br /><br />I wonder how many geneabloggers are sf and fantasy fans as well!Bill Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831754181239500013.post-12363135797762590882010-06-26T06:35:36.099-07:002010-06-26T06:35:36.099-07:00This was so wonderful! It brought back memories o...This was so wonderful! It brought back memories of some of my childhood favorites. I lost my old "Ivanhoe" years ago, but I bought it in paperback last year and re-read it on vacation. One of my first books from my Dad was a nice edition of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". Dad bought it at a used book stand in Townsend. It was the type of open book stand along the side of the road, like a farm stand. If the guy wasn't there you left a dollar in a can! It was demolished about five years ago, and now the forest has reclaimed the spot. Whenever I drive down Rt. 13 in Townsend I think of my Dad, that book and that little book seller.Heather Wilkinson Rojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17704949156266722016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831754181239500013.post-15050542551720445962010-06-26T01:17:55.557-07:002010-06-26T01:17:55.557-07:00I did not read much until eleventh grade in high s...I did not read much until eleventh grade in high school. We had to keep a folder each year, which had spaces for writing the titles and authors of the books we read right on the folder itself. For tenth grade, I barely covered one side. Something happened over the summer before eleventh grade, and I made many a trip on my bicycle, riding nearly twenty miles round trip, to the nearest bookstore, where I bought and read nearly everything Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Faulkner ever wrote. I read Bradbury and Asimov as well. And, of course, Tolkien.<br /><br />I got into the Greeks in a big way, with Sophocles, Aristophanes, and nearly all the others. I have a lovely hardback book with two of Aristophanes' plays, The Birds and The Frogs.<br /><br />Brek-ek-x, brek-ek-x, co-ax, co-ax!<br /><br />Another big category for me was the political and apocalyptic fiction of the late 1960s, such as Seven Days in May or On the Beach. My friends and I who had read Alas, Babylon got a big charge out of the page where Jacksonville, Florida, gets blown off the map, with the immortal words, "We just lost Jacksonville." That was where we lived. With typical warped teenage black humor, we found that hilariously funny. Ah, well - it was How We Learned to Stop Worrying, and Love the Bomb . . .<br /><br />My mother had introduced me to mystery stories, putting me onto Agatha Christie and Mary Roberts Rinehart. I've even become a bit of a Sherlockian, though other matters keep me from practicing the skills of the craft as much as I would like. I have a two-volume, slipcased, dust-jacket-protected copy of Baring-Gould's Annotated Sherlock Holmes which I bought at a science-fiction convention I helped put on. I had another fandom going, and had a table in the dealer's room, selling zines, my own and others on consignment. One of the best used bookstore operators had his table across from mine. He put up the Baring-Gould Holmes on his table, and I asked him how much. $75, he replied. "Mine," I said, and he set it aside for me.<br /><br />While e-books can be practical in many ways, I do not think they will ever replace the physical book for the feel, the interaction with the actual page, and the memories that books can hold.Karen Packard Rhodeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07641711434283636830noreply@blogger.com