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[hermionesviolin]

My package from lunabee34 arrived in the afternoon mail. (I'll send you your books tomorrow, Lorraine.)

continuing with the message-to-Lorraine theme:
It's always interesting to see people's comments on books -- and so long as I think of it that way I can stay out of ZOMG YOU WROTE IN A BOOK! headspace. (I am forever jotting down excerpts and reactions, but to actually touch pen/pencil/etc. to page is basically verboten unless to actually make a correction. Why yes I did grow up in a library :) )

Edit, 4:35pm: Andy walks in, "Good morning, Elizabeth." I just laughed. "That traffic can really be tough, huh?" he said. We also chatted about the Glamour magazine from Friday. (He wasn't in that day, so he just saw it.) It was addressed to "SVC MGT INTEREST GROUPRO" with his office number. He put it in Prof.B's box. Ah, fun.

Comments

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Before you mail it, Elizabeth, let me email you my return address. We used to live at another number on this same highway and I caught myself earlier this week writing the incorrect return address on a letter. So I wanna be sure i didn't flub it up on your package as well.

Yeah, people have various and sundry notions about marking up a book. For me, writing in a book is necessary. Reading is an interactive experience. I want to engage with a text and do so immediately, right there beside what I'm reading. If I make notes in a notebook, there's a disconnect. Not to mention the fact that throughout the course of taking classes and then teaching, I've read some books upwards of ten times in an academic setting. It's interesting to me to chart the progression of my reactions to the text. I like to see where I've changed and where I haven't. Plus, it keeps stuff in the same place. I do make notes in a notebook as well, but the really important stuff goes in the marginalia.

I hope you like at least some of the stories in the book. :)

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I'm big on taking what I want/need from a text and then sending the text along, so for me, writing things in computer documents makes _more_ sense than writing in a book -- it's more easily/centrally accessible in a document than in a book, plus I am then free to get rid of the book (can we tell I'm not a big rereader?).