I'm Gonna Post Here All The Time-I Swear!

but like i said on the ile thread its a good thing that you did start this board.

Anyway, a happy belated 2nd anniversary to ILB, a clean well-lighted place to rest a while before getting back on the information superhighway that is the interweb.

no, wait, in 2007, i swear! hahahaha!

happy belated 3rd birthday, ilb. if i ever finish a book you guys will be the first to know about it. i am a lame-o, but i still love books!

five years later and i'm still here. for the most part. thanks to everyone who continues to post on ilb. i really enjoy reading your posts and i'm always getting good tips. cheers!

Hey, scott! I enjoy ilb, too. Some day I'm gonna post here all the time, too. ;-)

BTW, do you think you could take a few minutes and fix that dratted '&apos' piece of cyber lint that I unwittingly inserted into the thread title for the What Are You Reading thread? I'd be ever so grateful. Really I would.

if you mean this thread Spring 2007: What Are You Reading?# i gotcha. if not, i just removed a !? for no reason.

yeah scott, fwiw ilb rules!...it might be my favourite board on ilx!*

*(up there with I Love Comix fer sure)

I'm going to accept these thanks, even though I've only posted here about three times. I shall up my rate, and try to think of some good new threads to start. Oh, and my thanks to you, Scott, for starting it all.

I'm pleased to see discussion of Eric Ambler ^up there^ too. I got two of his (A Coffin for Dimitrios and The Levanter) in from Amazon this morning, christamas presents bought on a whim after seeing his name on a list of throwaway guilty pleasures. Love that about ILX - someone here appreciates everything!

Mr. Justen, I meant this one: Winter*****s Here...etc

^^^ er, um, anyone?

It would appear that ILB will celebrate its tenth anniversary in mid-December 2013. Mark your calendars now to reserve your seat at the banquet.

ilb is still kicking! there was definitely a time when i did not post here all the time. life got in the way. always kinda feel like we could use like...hmmm...ten more people? but i dunno maybe we don't.

thanks to search function i even know what i was reading in 2003:

Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler
Norwood - Charles Portis ( talk about comic!! )
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
The Magic Barrel - Bernard Malamud
The Pursuit of Love & Love In A Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
Coda - Thea Astley
Criers&Kibitzers,Kibitzers&Criers - Stanley Elkin (featuring A Poetics For Bullys, one of the great american short stories of the 20th century)
Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
Waiting Period - Hubert Selby, Jr
Up In The Air - Walter Kirn
Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester
The Wedding Group - Elizabeth Taylor (no, not that elizabeth taylor)
East Of Wimbledon - Nigel Williams ( i picked this up at the thrift store. i thought it was funny. i have no idea what his rep is like in the u.k. is he hated? i don't think any of his books have even been published here, but i could be wrong )
The Whore's Child & other Stories - Richard Russo
Reasons To Live - Amy Hempel
Almost Heaven - Marianne Wiggins
Nine Horses - Billy Collins
The Last King of Scotland - Giles Foden

early ilb claim to fame here. linked to all over the 2004 internet and mentioned in the guardian:

Summarise a Novel in 25 Words

come back mikey g, all is forgiven!

happy birthday. you did it. they said it couldn't be done. with no help from me for the last...however long. i'm sending you all nerd medals.

🥳

ILB still not old enough to legally purchase liquor. :(

Never found anywhere online with better bookchat than here

We are doing so much better than the competition

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/18/goodreads-review-bombing

Almost Heaven - Marianne Wiggins

My man.

i'm just happy that people are still sharing here after 20 years. you guys give me lots of good tips! somehow ilx keeps ticking.

Happy 22nd Birthday, ILB! I hope everyone has a great new year and i pray to the SUN that your 2026 is blessed and filled with great reading. Here is a book I bought at my friend Ray's book store next to my house. He opened up a huge vintage room upstairs. Its from 1856! And very crazy. Peace! Your friend, Scott
I am on Facebook and Instagram. I should be reading again with Karen Schoemer at Unnameable Books in Turners Falls, MA at the end of January or early February. And I will have something (very long) in an upcoming issue of Maggot Brain Magazine. Peace! Fuck Trump!

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