OT - needed a good read or two

This is just a guess...
The new term Media Mail is trademarked. Book rate wasn't. Post office
service quality varies drastically from one clerk to the next so the
gals may have met up with a smarmy clerk who didn't feel the need to
tell them the new name or simply chose to gouge them. Even worse, it is
possible the clerk didn't know Media Mail includes books. I don't have
any data to tell if the prices changed along with the name although I
seem to recall libraries complaining about it...

Brenda

BDS2pds wrote:
That sounds wonderful. I wonder why the gals were told no more Book Rate back
then. It was sad cuz it ended a good idea as long as the book wasn't covered
in food etc. I was a newbie at the time and it had gone on already for 4-5
years and perhaps the gals were looking for a way to end it as it was past
it's usefulness... One will never know. I think it covered several hundred
miles...

The books are found in the youth section in the bookstore, but I think
that is because the heroes of the stories tend to be teenagers. I found
them very good and not written with a younger reader in mind.

My oldest "younger reader" just turned 14, but has read at "post high school
level" for several years now (Tested at that level by her school, not just
proud mom hyperbole, I swear! lol), and reads mostly from that section of the
bookstore.

Believe me if they were written "down" she'd have stopped browsing those
shelves long ago! lol

Caryn
Blue Wizard Designs
http://hometown.aol.com/crzy4xst/index.html
Updated: 7/7/03 -- now available Dragon of the Stars
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??? I said that it was still there.

Meredith

Cheryl Isaak wrote:
On 3/5/04 7:12 AM, in article ,
"BDS2pds" wrote:


That sounds wonderful. I wonder why the gals were told no more Book Rate back
then. It was sad cuz it ended a good idea as long as the book wasn't covered
in food etc. I was a newbie at the time and it had gone on already for 4-5
years and perhaps the gals were looking for a way to end it as it was past
it's usefulness... One will never know. I think it covered several hundred
miles...



I went to the US Postal Service web pages

For "media mail"

http://www.usps.com/consumers/domestic.htm#standard
Media Mail (Book Rate)

Description

Used for books, film, manuscripts, printed music, printed test materials,
sound recordings, play scripts, printed educational charts, loose-leaf pages
and binders consisting of medical information, videotapes, and computer
recorded media such as CD-ROMs and diskettes. Media Mail cannot contain
advertising.

The maximum size is 108 inches in combined length and distance around the
thickest part.


Sorry Meredith - it is still there.

Cheryl
Mark each package "Media Mail" in the postage area.

Sorry Caryn i appologize , if i mixed you up with a karen,,,,,
mirjam
On 05 Mar 2004 14:03:04 GMT, wd (Caryn) wrote:

as to Caryn Suggestion to have a picture book next to you while
reading Da Vinci ,,,, this is very personal , it would distract me



Not my suggestion! It was Karen C. (who I would really, really like never to
be confused with, please!!!!).
I did look up the paintings mentioned in the book, but AFTER I'd finished
reading it. I don't see the need to go from reading a detailed description of
a painting, put down the book and run to another book to see the actual
picture. Definately distracting, not to mention a waste of time. All the
pictures are exactly has he describes them afterall.
Yes you are so rifght , i have to trust the writer that he doesn`t
require it, the beauty of reading is in it`s fluidity ,,,,,, Our time
being short as it is ,
But then, I do tend to think visually, being an artist myself. So perhaps my
rather vivid imagination was able to supply the pictures in my head better than
those with less imagination are able to.

Was just reading the book before it (Angels and Demons) while waiting on the
school bus, getting very exciting now, our hero is exploring the Vatican
Archives looking for a clue left by Galileo. But again, I'm not running to a
book about the Vatican to see what everything actually looks like! lol

Now, the big decision....be good and model stitch (new dragon, btw) or read the
book that didn't want put down? g

Caryn
Blue Wizard Designs
http://hometown.aol.com/crzy4xst/index.html
Updated: 7/7/03 -- now available Dragon of the Stars
View WIPs at: http://community.webshots.com/user/carynlws (Caryn's UFO's)

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 16:25:53 -0500, Ellice wrote:

Dragon lovers should read Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly. The rest of the
series is ok, but that one is a keep forever book.


Good point. I read everything she wrote - for a while. But..... You're right
about Dragonsbane, though.
Oh, she wrote a Trek/Here Come the Brides (remember that series, with
the 3 brothers who owned a mountain in Seattle?) crossover that had
Mark Lenard's character in HCTB marry Biddy Cloom, and it turned out
that they were Amanda's ancestors (and therefore Spock's). She didn't
have quite all the HCTB canon right, but it's a charming and fun read,
anyway.
Darla
Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 07:19:12 -0900, "Harry and Anita"
wrote:

I have rread the Sunrunner series so many times, I'm
thinking of getting a second set to replce the wornout bindings.
Actually, Heinlein's _The Glory Road_ is the only one that I've had to
buy replacements for. Mel's books aren't far behind (although I do
have the second trilogy, The Dragon Star books, in both hard cover and
paperback. It's the paperbacks that take the beatings.
Darla
Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

In article , Darla
writes:

Mark Lenard's character in HCTB marry Biddy Cloom, and it turned out
that they were Amanda's ancestors (and therefore Spock's). She didn't
have quite all the HCTB canon right, but it's a charming and fun read,
anyway.

Oh, my, that *does* sound like a hoot!

BTW, the Mystery Book Club newsletter came today, and reminded me of another
local author who'd slipped my mind: John Lescroart.


--
Finished 12/14/03 -- Mermaid (Dimensions)
WIP: Fireman's Prayer, Amid Amish Life, Angel of Autumn, Calif Sampler, Holiday
Snowglobe

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Just finnished The lady And the Unicorn by same author as the Girl
with the Pearl earing , both are very wellwritten , both artistic as
well as socio'economic levels very well researched.
mirjam
On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 20:18:14 GMT, Darla
wrote:

On 3 Mar 2004 19:52:46 -0800, (Raine) wrote:

Has anyone read Girl With a Pearl Earring or Birth of Venus yet? Any
reviews?
Girl with a Pearl Earring. I enjoyed it.
Darla
Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

Ellice wrote:

On 3/1/04 6:49 PM,"Caryn" posted:

You can always go for Focaults Pendulum by Umberto Eco. He also wrote The
Name of the Rose, and Baudolino.



ellice

I tried the "Name of the Rose" after seeing the movie. I never did
finish it, I found the untranslated parts interfered with the flow of
the read. I didn't have the inclination at the time to try to translate
them myself and skipping over them made me feel I was missing important
information for understanding the mystery. I didn't understand why the
American publisher didn't do a complete translation.
John