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  1. Miss Shelf

    Looking for Book Title and/or Author

    Can't find it. You might ask at your local public library.
  2. Miss Shelf

    Holiday newsletters

    As far as emails go, if I have something important to share with more than two people, I'll compose something on WordPad and copy it to individual emails, inserting comments and such, or deleting parts, depending on who I'm talking to. I don't like the mass emails, especially those where my...
  3. Miss Shelf

    Philippa Gregory: The Other Boleyn Girl

    Has anyone read Constant Princess yet?
  4. Miss Shelf

    Characteristics of an awesome library

    I think there should be a separate area for Internet-connected computers. It's one thing to have a computer or two for looking up books, but in my small branch library- which is in an historical building so there's no hope of expansion-there are four computer desks on one side of the main...
  5. Miss Shelf

    Holiday newsletters

    Now why didn't I think of that??? I love telling people the cute things my dog does! If you'd like to get one, let me know and I'll be more than happy to send you Spot's Year 2005. I'll even include a photo of a pretzel shaped chew toy that, viewed from the proper angle, looks uncannily like a...
  6. Miss Shelf

    Psychic abilities

    Cab you imagine if we all knew how to use psychic abilities-life wouldn't be any fun anymore since we'd all know what was going to happen.
  7. Miss Shelf

    The Truman Show

    Yeah, it did make sense-I think! :D I think that watching reality is entertaining, to watch someone botch something up and tell yourself you can do better, or be glad it's not you botching up in front of the world. I personally don't watch those so-called "reality" shows because I think...
  8. Miss Shelf

    Psychic abilities

    I've often had the same thought at the same time as my mom, I can't explain that one. I've often thought about a person I haven't seen or heard from in a long time and then I'll either get a letter, phone call or email from that person. But these happen fairly infrequently-if they happened with...
  9. Miss Shelf

    would you rather...

    No, no, minnie, you can't go for the middle ground here-either be a gazillionaire or a timeless classic who will still be read in two hundred years. ;)
  10. Miss Shelf

    would you rather...

    write a marginal literary phenomena such as "Harry Potter" and be a gazillionaire, or write a timeless classic that will be taught in high school and college classes like Shakespeare?
  11. Miss Shelf

    Characteristics of an awesome library

    why, CDA, are you competing with Stewart for Crank of the Year award? ;)
  12. Miss Shelf

    Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones *spoilers*

    Well, I think she was in the "training heaven" until she could cut her ties with the earthly world and progress to the real Heaven. I was puzzled too by her choosing to sleep with Ray instead of pointing out her burial place (which I think is more important than a big neon sign over the head...
  13. Miss Shelf

    Psychic abilities

    I sense that you have some abilities yourself.
  14. Miss Shelf

    What are the best psychology/self-help books?

    I agree with what Peder said. I also think that a book that helps YOU might not necessarily help ME. I pretty much went off self-help books twenty-odd years ago because they all had confliciting advice. As far as general psychology, what I used to read were the books on helping...
  15. Miss Shelf

    Favorite non-fiction books?

    I get a blank page. Is it a documentary or docudrama?
  16. Miss Shelf

    Psychic abilities

    I've been thinking about psychic abilities, I watched the show "Psychic Detectives" on Court TV last week. Before I go further, I'll say I believe that some people have abilities we don't fully understand. If I had true psychic abilities, I'm not sure I'd want to publicize it like the...
  17. Miss Shelf

    The Truman Show

    Yeah, I remember it, I can't say I liked it too much though. I am not a fan of Jim Carrey's but he did a good job in this one without going over the top as he often does. Remember the Shakespeare saying, "All the world's a stage"? I think that's the message we're supposed to take away from...
  18. Miss Shelf

    Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones *spoilers*

    I think that heaven isn't something you "win" like the lottery. It's not material, and it's not a place where your fondest wishes come true. It's a place where you can be at peace, you don't have the same wants and needs and desires as when you were a living breathing person. You might see your...
  19. Miss Shelf

    Characteristics of an awesome library

    The children's section would be in another wing, or even another building. I'm tired of nearly falling over toddlers, having small children carom off my legs, etc. when I'm browsing. In my library, no children under the age of 16 would be allowed. Parents could leave their kids in the...
  20. Miss Shelf

    Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones *spoilers*

    Why shouldn't each person's heaven (or the first level or whatever it is) be self-centered? Isn't that the point of going to heaven-most people think of it as a place they create themselves. I wouldn't want to go to heaven if it was run like a boot camp.
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