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 Jen7waters
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| Black Bear wrote on Sun, 04 October 2009 17:23 |
Bom dia, Jen7waters! Glad to have you here. 
Look for Chalice in paperback this fall, I'm not sure the release date but should be turning up fairly soon. Great that you found Robin through Librarything--lots of us here use it, and you'll find (if you haven't already) that all the books recommended by forum readers in the Pollyanna threads have been compiled on a LibraryThing booklist here: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/robinmckinleysblog . Check it out!
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Hi Black Bear! Bom dia!Olá!
Yes! it will be out in november, according to bookdepository it's 28 days to go:D I was going to pre-order it but it makes me nervous, stupid I know xD
I haven't seen that, thanks, I'll check it out;)
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #21393 is a reply to message #12225 ] |
Mon, 05 October 2009 23:42 |
libby.gorman
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Hi all!
My name is Libby (as you can no doubt tell from my boring username--but it's easier to remember, between all the different usernames that it's possible to have these days!) and I live in North Carolina.
I'm a librarian who right now works at a university but someday hopes to get back to a library job that involves kids or YA books. I have night hours, though, which are great for having a 1 year old at home.
I've loved Robin's books since my mom gave me Beauty sometime in late elementary/early middle school. I have to confess that when I first read Rose Daughter, I didn't like it, but I gave it another try in either college or library school and liked it a lot.
Reading is my main hobby. I like trying out different crafts, but am much better at starting than finishing. Right now, most of my craft time is spent making cards, because I can finish a few of those in a reasonable time. Playing with my son and hanging out with my husband are also major free-time activities.
I've been lurking for awhile and finally decided to start posting. You all are an interesting bunch--I love the guest posts that have appeared on the blog!
Libby
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #21434 is a reply to message #12225 ] |
Wed, 07 October 2009 10:45 |
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equus_peduus
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Hi.
I registered a week or two ago (mostly to respond to the viola blog post thread, which closed before my registration completed) and here I am now. I play viola, work at a veterinary clinic, spend too much time reading fantasy and not enough reading trade journals, am owned by two cats (one of which eats chocolate), three chinchillas, and a bunch of tropical fish. If I didn't have to work and have a job, I would read more, ride horses, take up aikido and/or kendo, take piano lessons, join a community orchestra, and actually clean my apartment on a halfway-regular basis. As it is, I barely have time for the job, the critters and the viola (I don't really have time for the reading either, but I tend to skimp a little on sleep for it...)
(and BTW... My first copy of The Blue Sword was given to me by my then-roommate, who is a cellist. Who didn't know I'd already discovered and loved the book on my own years before. So yes, there are cellists who read and enjoy Robin McKinley books.)
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #21454 is a reply to message #21393 ] |
Wed, 07 October 2009 21:11 |
skating librarian
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Hey, "hi" to another librarian. You'll notice that there are a bunch of us. I'm retired (phew) and spend my time volunteering at libraries and gardening and "craft" on rainy or snowy days or when the church asks for a workshop or a donation ...
Today I made paper with 5 kids ... gift tags to sell at our Christmas bazaar. It was a hoot, they were all pleased with their work, their parents were pleased, and its nice to see that I haven't lost my touch. We embedded flower petals in them and used Christmas cooky cutters as molds. Their parents appreciated that we used recycled church newsletters and orders of service to make the pulp.
I loved my career ... up until the last year and the principal from the seventh circle of hell. I hope you enjoy yours as much .. and I admit, working with young people can be the best, even if one is sometimes looked down upon. I kept thinking, "yeah, but we get the best books."
I look forward to hearing from you on the forum!
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #21459 is a reply to message #12225 ] |
Wed, 07 October 2009 21:58 |
Annagail
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Hi, I just found this thread. Better a late introduction than none at all..
I'm Annagail, mid-20s, in grad school for vocal performance and pedagogy. My passions are music, my kitties, my husband, and gardening (not in that order). And reading. And cooking. And, recently, sleeping. I have reddish hair, my favourite color is green, and I've been reading Robin McKinley since I was young enough for the single hint of implied sex in The Blue Sword to go right over my head. My internal dialogue editor tends to be on the fritz, so I'm apt to (in person) ramble on about knitting or sex or something else unrelated or inappropriate. I like message boards because one can edit one's inappropriateness before one posts it. I'm also a little loquacious.
I have presently absented myself from all of my fiction, including my TBR list, knowing that I do not read books, I devour them whole and in one sitting, which is not conducive to being a productive grad student.
I tend to tell harrowing tales of, well, bad voice lessons, evil landlords, naughty kitties, and dire throat ailments. (I heard today, and it makes sense, that taking a mouthful of some form of high-proof alcohol, be it whiskey, tequila, or some other such thing, and allowing it to drip down the back of your throat before swallowing was a sure-fire way to avoid getting throat ailments. It sounds like something that needs to be tried on a regular basis and documented for posterity.)
~Annagail, getting back to the paper she's avoiding
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #21485 is a reply to message #21454 ] |
Thu, 08 October 2009 16:23 |
libby.gorman
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Thanks! Yes, I love being a librarian, although I was not going to be one at first, because my mom is one. But you can't escape fate, sometimes (and my original chosen career of classroom elementary teacher met reality in a hard way), and it's really fun to have a built-in person to talk libraries and kids' books with!
Libby
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #21513 is a reply to message #12225 ] |
Fri, 09 October 2009 11:04 |
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Beauty/Anna
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Welcome Jen7waters, Libby, equus peduus and Annagail. I play violin equus peduus, and love the viola and cello, of my family I play violin as do some of my sisters, one of my brothers plays guitar but wants to learn cello, my other brother plays piano as dose another of my sisters and my Mum sings.
I look forward to reading your guys' posts.
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"You are your best resource for success"
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #21839 is a reply to message #12225 ] |
Sun, 18 October 2009 10:54 |
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afuzzybird
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Hi guys! I was here quite a while ago now, but then lost time to do anything outside of work, so I figured I'd reintroduce myself. I am a Family Outreach Worker (sort of like a social worker) at Head Start (the US Federal preschool for low-income kids), and I have on and off part time jobs at a small barn (with only two horses) and babysitting.
I live in Wisconsin with two cats, Amie and Jonas, and my boyfriend the Badger. I like to read, play video games, walk in the woods, work in my very first garden ever, knit, cook, and who knows what else! I am also the owner of three hermit crabs, as yet unnamed, who are living in my Head Start classroom. So far they've only been with me a week, but they are far more endearing than I imagined crabs could be (and far more work, too!).
Hello again, to all I've met before, and hello for the first time to those of you I haven't met!
"He envisioned a world where bears could tell jokes, chickens could sing, pigs could be stars and they all could ride bicycles." -- Frank Oz about Jim Henson
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #26216 is a reply to message #12225 ] |
Mon, 15 February 2010 21:59 |
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SnarkyWriter
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Hi, I'm Shiloh and I'm a chocoholic . . . wait, wrong group.
I signed up for an account awhile ago, but I'm just now getting around to actually doing something with it, so HI!
My first Robin novel was The Hero and the Crown which I believe I read when I was around 13 or 14, and checked it out of the school library so often I had people coming to me to ask what I thought of it before they checked it out of the library. (Same thing with Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey, incidentally.) Now I own every single Robin novel ever (except A Door in the Hedge, and I'm not sure how that one's escaped my collection this long, but it will be mine, OH YES, it will be mine).
Other than that, I'm a PhD student attempting (between semesters) to write my third and hopefully least sucktastic novel.
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #26230 is a reply to message #12225 ] |
Tue, 16 February 2010 15:04 |
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Hello all! This is nice! I was looking for the opportune moment to introduce myself haha!
My name is Michelle, and I'm a 20 year old college student. I've actually been lurking around the website and forums for quite a while, ever since I stumbled across the original website several years ago.
I remember being so excited that I'd found my favorite author's site! Now, this was back in the day where Robin had that flaming border of text spelling doom to all bad fanmail (such as those demanding a sequel haha). So, torn against my desire to write and my fear of upsetting my favorite author ever I wrote the most horrible, stiff, and formal email ever! She did reply, much to my joy, and it sits in my inbox still, but it still embarasses me! 
Anyway, that's my story! Hopefully you'll see me posting around here more frequently!
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #26404 is a reply to message #12225 ] |
Fri, 19 February 2010 17:16 |
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Well I guess having had a good nosey round the forum and now finally joined up I ought to introduce myself
*clears throat*
My name is Kate, though at various places around the net I am also known as Polipetl (which is one of my kennel affixes) or Katarzyna. I recognise a few names on here from other fora.
I first read Beauty ages ago and then saw recommendations for Robin's other books but never seemed to get round to reading them. This year I am on a budget (only allowed to buy 1 book and 1 cd a month) and I was pursuaded to try Sunshine as my February book - which I am very glad I did.
Ok, so, erm, me, yes.... I read (anything that is put in front of me), my mother trained me well, I can do all aspects of the housework with a book in one hand. I don't have spare time unfortunately because my life is controlled by Rent-A-Mob, which currently consists of three dogs and 2 rescue sphynx cats, the dogs live downstairs, the cats live upstairs. I escape by going to work - at home I hide in the corner of the kitchen behind the lap top.
On the very rare occasions I do get spare time I write, knit (mainly socks admittedly) and bake things.
I think that's about it......
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Thu, 25 February 2010 02:32 |
wuffielover
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Well, I suppose I should introduce myself, even though I'll probably mostly lurk around...
I love Robin McKinley's books (of course!) and have since I was in middle school, but only recently discovered her blog and this forum. I'm 22 years old, recently graduated from college with a degree in Asian Studies although I'm realizing with a sinking feeling that I should really have sucked it up and majored in Biology instead, calculus requirement or not
I live in Austin, Texas with one dog, one cat, 16 ball pythons, 2 kingsnakes, 2 cornsnakes, a blood python, 2 leopard geckos, 5 dart frogs, and, um, about 30ish? tarantulas. Oh, and two Russian tortoises. And the fish...I know, I know, I'm nuts. I do agility with my dog, and also like to knit and crochet. I love to sing although since graduating from college I'm currently choir-less; my favorite choir experience was traveling to England on tour with the Classical Youth Chorus of Abilene. Aaaand I think that about covers it, hi all!
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #26597 is a reply to message #26594 ] |
Thu, 25 February 2010 05:01 |
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Welcome, wuffielover, good to see you here. You probably know your way around but please do let us know if there's anything we can help with.
| wuffielover wrote on Thu, 25 February 2010 07:32 |
I live in Austin, Texas with one dog, one cat, 16 ball pythons, 2 kingsnakes, 2 cornsnakes, a blood python, 2 leopard geckos, 5 dart frogs, and, um, about 30ish? tarantulas. Oh, and two Russian tortoises. And the fish...
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My! It must get pretty crowded on your sofa of an evening...
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #27523 is a reply to message #27520 ] |
Fri, 19 March 2010 23:50 |
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A book hoarder! You're in good company here. Never fear. :)
Smooshes!
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #27639 is a reply to message #12225 ] |
Wed, 24 March 2010 11:26 |
claning
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Hi, I'm Chris, and I've loved Robin's books since.... I think I bought _Hero_ when it first came out. I think it has one of the funniest lines in all literature: "Everyone disappeared into the walls like mice, except they closed the doors behind them." 
I've also recently discovered Peter's books -- and I'm selfishly glad that they're no longer new and trendy, because I'm currently unemployed and I can find used copies for 1 cent plus shipping. (Really, I'll buy new books again when I can afford to....)
Robin is on a rather short list of authors whose books I love to re-read again and again. Others on the list include Sharon Shinn, Lois Bujold, Elizabeth Moon, Anne McCaffrey, Margaret Frazer and (the newest) Pat McIntosh.
Other than reading, I have two careers; one I get paid for (writing, editing, graphic design and now web design) and the other I don't (medieval history). I love to knit (often while reading). I really wish I could live in England; I've been reading English landscape history since I was in college and I love the way that every hill and corner is saturated with the past. In California, alas, we have lost all that.
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #27688 is a reply to message #12225 ] |
Fri, 26 March 2010 11:36 |
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Hello everyone!
I've posted a couple of times but forgot to introduce myself.
Er, most people on the forum seem to be a 'something'. I haven't been a 'something', i.e. in paid employment, for a very long time because of chronic ill-health (severe ME, plus a selection of neurological and auto-immune disorders). I'll just say that I try to keep up my interests, although that's difficult now. It's good to see that so many fellow members are into art, writing, reading (of course) and that widest of subjects, 'nature'.
I live in a hilly and pretty remote area of northern England. We've had a bad winter here (and there's another couple of months to go), but actually that's normal for this area. The last eight or so years of mild winter weather have been the abnormality. I'm a bit bemused by the official claims that we've just had the worst winter for 30 years, but perhaps that's the case for the south - they're not used to a prolonged freeze and piles of snow!
Naturally, the moorland birds are later back to the top pastures and moors this year, but they are trickling back now - lapwings first, and my husband saw oystercatchers yesterday. Soon I hope to hear the curlews and snipe again, followed by skylarks and meadow pipits.
Sunshine was the first book of Robin's I read. I saw a brief recommendation in the Guardian and I was suffciently intrigued to track it down. She's certainly hard to find in bookshops here. The review never mentioned that she is a considered a YA writer, and I don't discriminate on that basis: good writing is good writing. I've most recently read Deerskin, partly for research, because one of the themes is related to a novel of my own that has been swimming around my head for twenty years, and which I have now finally got round to starting. It's slow going though...
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #29336 is a reply to message #12225 ] |
Sun, 16 May 2010 23:51 |
UP4D
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I've been reading Robin's books pretty much since she started writing, and I've read her blog for about a year, but I'm new here. I love to garden (just started arranging plants in my new raised bed today!), read, snorkel, travel, and teach my third and fourth graders.
I apologize--my previous attempt to do this ended up as its own topic and I couldn't get rid of it or move it!
In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. Carl Sagan
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #29377 is a reply to message #12225 ] |
Tue, 18 May 2010 00:48 |
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Mirkat
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Hey all.... recently found Robin's blog and this page after having a rather vivid dream of meeting Robin and Peter (Robin thought I was stealing her purse... it was quite odd). Anyway, I finally signed up for an account because of the ARC Pegasus giveaway (See, blogmom, all your pimping HAS paid off!)
A friend introduced me to Hero and the Crown about 20 years ago when I was 10. I'll take a picture of my poor weather-beaten copy and post it here someday I've since read The Blue Sword and Sunshine. Missing a lot, I know!
The problem is... I don't have time to read with the all consuming job of Mom to three young kiddos (5, 3, and 10 months). I'll have plenty of time someday, right, right?
I have a penchant for parentheses (I prefer them to asterix's [sp?] because they're interjected right into the flow of thought... my brain can't hold side thoughts long enough) and smileys. I'm a certified nerd (valedictorian, summa cum laude, wicked gaming skillz), although not as much as my Master's-in-Computer-Science husband.
Not much else comes to mind... ask away if you're interested!
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #29379 is a reply to message #29342 ] |
Tue, 18 May 2010 01:27 |
UP4D
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I grow flowers. Well-intentioned people always talk about how fun it would be for me to grow vegetables, but that never works--I just don't have enough sun. My yard is full of Douglas firs and oaks. I love iris, tulips, native plants, daisies, herbs, unusual poppies, and anything BLUE. What do you like?
In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. Carl Sagan
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #29383 is a reply to message #29379 ] |
Tue, 18 May 2010 02:39 |
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| UP4D wrote on Tue, 18 May 2010 06:27 |
I love iris, tulips, native plants, daisies, herbs, unusual poppies, and anything BLUE. What do you like?
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Hmm, unusual poppies/blue/in Oregon... So, do you grow Meconopsis?
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #29438 is a reply to message #29383 ] |
Wed, 19 May 2010 00:33 |
UP4D
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You should be a plant detective. I finally got one to bloom last year; I was ecstatic. It died last winter and now I'm starting over again. I also like Matillija poppies.
In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. Carl Sagan
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| Re: Welcomes & Introductions #2 [message #29523 is a reply to message #29438 ] |
Thu, 20 May 2010 18:24 |
Library_dragon
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Hello, everyone! I'm Peyton, an overworked highschool student with a surfeit of odd hobbies, most of which I technically have no time for but somehow manage to do anyway- it involves a lot of juggling and frustrated screaming- examples of which include Muay Thai, Rose gardening, reading, baking, cooking, reading, walking my crazed, over-friendly fox (the vet claims she's a dog, but I'm not convinced), trying to blog, even though I haven't posted in months... you get the picture, helter-skelter as it is. I've been reading Robin's books for quite a while, and love how amazing she is at weaving a world out of only a few sentences. It's very nice to meet everyone!
Danger: Here lurks karoshi!
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