an excited Hello from FannieB

FannieB · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:52 am Post subject: an excited Hello from FannieB

I recently told a friend that I'm so grateful, so passionate, so in love with books that if I could spread my books out all over the floor I would roll around naked in them, lol. I cannot get enough. (In hindsight, I guess I really could roll naked in my books - who's to stop me, really?)

My name is Tiphanie, but I go by FannieB because my husband calls me Fannie and my last name begins with B, although I sometimes use FannieBee also, because I am a fan of the bumble B, in part for his good looks and in great part because he shouldn't be able to fly, but he no one ever told HIM that, so he flies anyway. Such inspiration!

I am 36 years old and have an amazing, beautiful, polite, energentic, exhausting, amazing, smart, funny, kind ....did I mention energetic... four year old son. We live in Macomb, Michigan - my husband is from this area (north of Detroit) and I am from the Upper Peninsula but don't claim to be a "Yooper" as I was raised in a town that is considered one of the "twin cities" with another town in Wisconsin. So I consider myself a "cheesehead" - I do love cheese, lol. Oh yeah and..."Go PACK, GO!"

I have 3 cats, one being a "polydactyl" as Hemingway was so fond of, one being a tuxedo black and white who, on her own, sits up and begs like a dog and will jump from the floor to my arms whenever she feels like it, even if I'm not paying attention, which is a very strange experience. Our third cat is nearly 12, all black with the most beautiful green eyes.

My other passion, besides books, is music. I have far-reaching tastes and lyrics to me are poetry set to melody - it's the the beauty of the words, how they sound together or the poetic way they set a scene, describe a person or an event - even just the way they sound when rolling off of ones lips, how it feels ....does it make you sad, does it make you laugh, does it just feel GOOD? For instance, I love the word "perhaps" - slightly erotic, full of possibility, a slight pucker of the lips to suggest a kiss or maybe just thoughtfulness. (I ramble when something excites my soul....lol)

I have always read mostly fiction but have lately started to take interest in much non-fiction, although not having started reading any of the books I've purchased. Is there anything more satisfying than having shelves and shelves of books waiting to be caressed in your hands as you devour their words?! I confess I am less prone to examine the structure of a story or the author's "meanings" and more often find myself reading passages to my husband because of, again, the beauty of the words, how they sound together or the poetic way they set a scene, describe a person or an event. Part of my excitement about this site is that I hope to challenge myself to explore those things I haven't in the past, and perhaps share my passion for specific passages with other like-minded bibliophiles.

It is my pure joy and uncontainable excitement at having found this site that lends me to rambling on so...

"I cannot live without books." ---Thomas Jefferson

Ophelia · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:38 am Post subject: Re: an excited Hello from FannieB

Ophelia · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:56 am Post subject:

Sorry Fannie B, somehow I ended up copying your posting when I only wanted to quote the passage about...bookshelves.
How lucky you are to find joy at what must orderly shelves... I have a recurrent problem with books and space. I got on top of things when I moved to this flat 10 years ago, but since then chaos has been creeping back in, and it's often difficult to find a book I'm looking for.

Also I understand your joy at finding Booktalk, I felt the same.

FannieB · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:13 am Post subject:

Evelyne-
LOL, well, my shelves (custom built lovingly by my husband) started out beautifully organized, but as books have been read, added to the "read me next" collection ...it has become an assortment of vertically shelved, horizontally shelved and towering stacks of books. I love them no less for their haphazard existence. I am frustrated only by not being able to find a particular book with ease although the upside of such a search is that I am reunited with books I may not have spent time with since reading or purchasing...a literary reunion is always cause for celebration!

irishrose · Freshman Joined: 22 Sep 2007 Posts: 215 Gender:

Welcome to the board, FannyB.

Just so you know, the Packers have a city of Kelly green (well really the new Eagles green) here in Philly pulling for the them too—anybody but Dallas.

As for books, I guess it can be satisfying to have shelves of unread books (actually my unread books sit in stacks) , but I usually find it pretty daunting. As for books I’ve read, they sit on shelves in alphabetical order, organized into genres. Which makes anything I want to reference, usually, easy to put my hands on. My biggest problem is not keeping track of my loans. Here’s a big book geek revelation. I used to have a card catalogue, and I would pen the names of who I loaned books to on the back of the card for that book. Alas, that went by the wayside a half dozen years ago. So now I don’t know who’s in possession of most the books I’ve loaned out.

I, like you, used to be, for the most part, a fiction-only reader. About ten years ago I started incorporating non-fiction and these days I have to remind myself to pick up some fiction now and then.

And, I don’t know, but that four-year-old of yours seems like he’s gonna have his hands full with his mom’s energy.

Again, welcome! Hope to see you around.

Constance963 · Intern Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 165 Gender:

FannieB · Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:50 am Post subject: library room

oh Constance! Pile books high in any room you wish and call it your library. There are few things more sacred than a "library" ....all those pages, characters, events, feelings! It doesn't have to be in the form of what we traditionally consider a library - that is just one person's idea of what a library is, I think. Very Happy

Any place books are allowed to gather is a library - making it yours requires only calling it so and perhaps sitting among them taking joy in their offerings!

Constance963 · Intern Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 165 Gender:

jales4 · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:51 pm Post subject:

FannieB · Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 5:42 am Post subject: LI Berry and other pet peeves...

Isn't it funny how the best pranks always seem to involve other peoples pet peeves?! I guess this is moving a bit away from li-berrys (which also drives me insane) but one of my pet peeves involves pens that are supposed to have caps, but to which the caps are missing or lost. I cannot use these pens, markers etc. If the cap is not available for attaching to the end of the pen while in use, I can't use it. I bugs me. BIG TIME. If there is a capless pen in my house, it gets thrown out or sent to work with my husband, "get this vile creature out of my house!"

So, before I was promoted to stay at home mom, a girlfriend of mine that I worked with decided it would be funny to go in my office while I was in a meeting and remove all the caps from every writing utensil in my office.

Imagine your gut feeling upon realizing you just set $500 in cash on fire. That's kind of how I felt. I didn't get any work done until she returned the caps. The story even gives me creepy-crawlies to this day, lol.


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