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1jennyifer24
Editado: Nov 20, 2009, 10:36 pm

I'm taking the approach of bfertig, in viewing this as a reading list more than a challenge. I like the idea of using it to broaden my reading, but I like to happen upon books more than plan (well, I do like to plan, but it doesn't always turn into actual reading). I am including books I've read in the past- there had to be a reason for reading Rethinking the New Deal Court in college right?



2jennyifer24
Nov 15, 2009, 8:35 pm

000-099 Computer science, information and general works

3jennyifer24
Nov 15, 2009, 8:37 pm

100-199 Philosophy and Psychology

128- Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

6jennyifer24
Editado: Ago 16, 2012, 6:09 pm

400-499 Language

421- Phonics Through Poetry by Babs Bell
428- Bringing Words to Life by Isabel L. Beck

7jennyifer24
Editado: Ago 16, 2012, 6:10 pm

12fundevogel
Nov 16, 2009, 6:18 pm

that's a pretty impressive Dewey list you've collected so far.

13jennyifer24
Nov 16, 2009, 6:54 pm

Thanks! It's interesting to see how the categories played out...now to find travel and education books that fit into science categories :-)

14lorax
Nov 16, 2009, 7:10 pm

13>

The 500s aren't scary, I promise. If you're truly science-phobic, there are always biographies, and it looks like you aren't totally averse to those; otherwise, maybe something like Last Chance To See would be close enough to travel for you? Or even Voyage of the Beagle?

15fundevogel
Editado: Nov 16, 2009, 10:00 pm

I actually added Oaxaca Journal to my reading list. It appears to be a sort of travel book but is grouped in 587 (plants - Pteridophyta Vascular cryptogams). I imagine I'd have trouble finding another interesting book about vascular cryptograms.

16jennyifer24
Nov 16, 2009, 10:36 pm

thanks for the suggestions! I do like bios and travel so I'll definitely check them out. I'm not science-phobic, but apparently I don't seek out science books, based on my current list. I'm quite happy to "disguise" them as bios, memoirs and travel books :-) It worked out nicely- and unintentionally- with Find Where the Wind Goes; I was pretty surprised to discover it was 629 (other branches of engineering) and not a bio #.

Thanks again!

17fundevogel
Nov 16, 2009, 10:58 pm

You shouldn't have to worry about that too much. The bio section of dewey was retired at some point (as you saw in the 920's) so if you find books with a retired number they probably received it a along time ago and somehow missed reassignment. It's neat when you run across them. Now they try to stick biographies and memoirs with the section most relevant to the subjects life. So Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is in 070 journalism and so on.

I think the Dewey system is essentially assigned by individual libraries that mostly agree, but not always. And sometimes the number is just not appropriate at all for a book. Someone on here managed to find and read a book in the metalurgy section that was actually about ecology or marine biology or something like that.

18jennyifer24
Ene 16, 2010, 7:38 pm

I've finally gotten to add a new book to the list:
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes. I started off reading A Year in the World and left it at my parents' house after Christmas so picked up this one to tide me over. A good read- definitely makes me want to travel, buy a house, eat, etc.!

945 General history of Europe; Italian Peninsula & adjacent islands

19GoofyOcean110
Ene 20, 2010, 4:02 pm

17. oh yeah, I think that might have been me.. It was one of my textbooks on marine ecology... For the life of me I can't figure out how it got classified as metallurgy. Looking at the index, metals are only discussed on 4 of the 686 pages (including index), and 'metallurgy' isn't even in the index.