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I really am trying to read for class, I am! But for some reason I keep getting pulled back to LT. I have asked CJ why the book is not appearing in our "shared books" area. Just waiting for the answer.

I'm excited to see that you are posting more books and that we have more shared books. I have a question that I just posted on the American History group that concerns one of your books. If you have read "Britons" then maybe you can help with the answer?

Susan
 
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I really am trying to read for class, I am! But for some reason I keep getting pulled back to LT. I have asked CJ why the book is not appearing in our "shared books" area. Just waiting for the answer.

I'm excited to see that you are posting more books and that we have more shared books. I have a question that I just posted on the American History group that concerns one of your books. If you have read "Britons" then maybe you can help with the answer?

Susan
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hey Susan, I'm still working through my shelves! Linda Colley's book? Sure, whats the question. I'll dig it out and have a look!

cj x
 
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sidetrack/ you basically get a BSc called "chemistry" at a UK uni whatever you specialise in. The first and second years of my course were all fixed and a combo of inorganic, physical, organic and analytical stuff, then in year 3 you choose modules and research projects. I did mostly organic ones in year 3 but my degree is chemistry the same as everyone else on my course. Chemical engineering is a separate degree from the start (you could probably have transferred after max 1 term, after that you would have to start over) and it was a 4 year course with one year on an industry placement. I worked at a plant in summer 95 for the 3 month vacation./
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They are separate degrees in the U.S. as well, offered in different colleges. I was able to transfer my 'basics', meaning core classes that any college graduate must have such as English, U.S. History, political science, a humanities course. Both Chemistry and Chemical Engineering typically require basic chemistry, organic, and physical chemistry, and at least two semesters of physics. I had two years of German for my Chemistry degree program that did not transfer. Once I changed from Chemistry to engineering, I still had about 6 semesters of courses to get my degree, but they were all in engineering and differential equations. I didn't get to take any 'easy classes' to mix in during my last two years because I had already completed all the English, history, humanties, etc. Most people take four years plus at least two summers to complete an engineering degree, and try to work in an industrial job the last two summers.
 
Is it possible to get a roll-call for all of us on LT?

I think I have all of you on my watch library list, but I think I have a few more "outsiders" who were on my list for other reasons besides this forum. I wish they would allow us to "note" or group people up. I suppose I could write it on a piece of paper, but I'm not sure I remember how to use a pencil and paper.artwollipot
cj.23
GeekGoddess
Francesca-Rizzi
Gurdur
LyonTamer
Grijndvar
Librarylady623
Rixsal
Gurdur
 
^I confirm I am on there :)

Still writing reviews--14 so far. I've read seven books since Christmas which is unusually rapid for me--usually it's more like one every couple of weeks. I have just started the last unread literary christmas/birthday present, but fortunately Amazon just delivered a nice parcel to my office today which contains

"Macro markets: Creating Institutions for Managing Society's Largest Economic Risks" by Robert J Shiller
"The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else" by Hernando de Soto
"Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science" by Charles Wheelan
 
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I don't know every single book I own, but the last additions were Better than Sex by Hunter S. Thompson, and The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery by Wendy Moore.
 
I have too many books to list, Half of my childhood has been spent without a television set (then I hated it, now I thank my parents for their great insight. And I was free to go watch the A-team or Michael Knight at my buddies house) , anyway this caused me to read a lot as a child. Combine this with one grandfather that was a minister in the church and another who was a professor in chemistry and you get a LOT of books. A few thousand I guess.

I read a lot about theology, philosophy, history and science. Also a lot of light stuff, fantasy, satire, thrillers. I have a habit of rereading books more than once. Anybody with small children will recognize this, but I do it as an adult. I also like comic books, but in the French-Belgian tradition. I have about 1000 of those.

As for the serious stuff, I doubt I am smart enough to get most of it, and I am certainly lazy so my preference is to read well written books about the hard stuff, and not the hard stuff itself. Most genius scientists are not very good writers anyway, so I am thankful for good writers that write about scientific things.
The metaphysical stuff is read because I am like Charlie Brown and I need a personal philosophy to be able to tackle life.
 
I spent a couple days putting all my books into the software. I have an inexpensive barcode reader that I used to put a lot of them into my BookCollectorz software, but even without that, BC and Librarything go very quickly. I would take one stack at a time to my computer. You can type in the title or even part of the title, and it immediately* pops up with matches, which you then just click and add. Pretty cool!


*immediately, depending on your internet connection.
 
I was shocked how few books I had once I put them in LT. But now I almost overwelmed, the shelves are stuffed in places. I try to organize things on one shelf, but they are outgrowing shelves. I think I am getting a really fancy scanner and then scanning in some select magazines as PDF and then tossing the magazines. I have so much stuff and will not toss a book.

Susan
 
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