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what book are you reading in your picture?

inlägg gjort av mckait vid 6:43 pm (EST) Aug 30, 2008

Hello
You asked me about Away by Jane Urquhart. I really have mixed feeling about the characters-here is what I wrote for the Canadian Bookworms.
I finished Away- I thought that the writing was excellent but I didn't find any of the characters particularly endearing. ( can't find the right word). I thought that there were bad choices made by the characters and no sense of consequences. There were parts of the story I wish were fleshed out more.( Eileen's life after she returned to the farm-did she really have more understanding of her role in the events? Any remorse? ah -the word I would use for looking at Mary's actions.
I really liked The Underpainter and The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart. Those two are my favourites.
Yet I would buy any of Urquhart's books in a minute as she writes very well. I also saw a play that was based on one of her early books. ( The whirlpool)
Thanks for asking.

inlägg gjort av torontoc vid 12:23 pm (EST) Aug 25, 2008

Hi, I have seen you many times on 1001 list.

I have a Corgi, too.

His name is Banjo.

Here is a link to his picture:

http://plopphizz.diaryland.com/images/ti...

Enjoy and keep reading :).

-- M1001.

inlägg gjort av media1001 vid 10:03 pm (EST) Aug 24, 2008

You ask me to let you know how I liked [The Guernsey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society] I did do a review but I wanted you to know that, it will be a book that will be very easy to read againe, even though I know the ending. The island characters were so interesting and the Society was a life saver for them.Why couldn't it happen in real life?

inlägg gjort av cindysprocket vid 9:43 pm (EST) Aug 21, 2008

I've noticed LT does that a fair number of times. When I add newer additions in Add Books, it's usually right. However, older editions often have the names backwards. My suspicion is that it's bad data in Amazon.

inlägg gjort av TadAD vid 7:24 am (EST) Jul 24, 2008

I stopped by to check out your library after the back-and-forth of book titles this morning on the "Silly Game" thread. I saw your review of Pillars of the Earth; I guess I'm pretty much in agreement with that. I wonder, have you read World Without End? Though I really enjoyed the former, I'm having trouble generating interest in the sequel. I can't figure out whether the first was just so long that I'm done, or if I'm worried about it being a disappointment. So, I'm poking around for comments on it from folks who had reactions similar to mine on Pillars.

I see you're in Hemlock. We have a cabin in Ontario and probably pass within 10 miles of you each year as we shoot up Rt. 390.

inlägg gjort av TadAD vid 6:37 pm (EST) Jul 21, 2008

hi again

I just finished James Patterson's 4th of July. I was not so thrilled with it compared to his other books, it was just ok for me. I am now reading "the stillborn God" it is a bit political and kind of a hard read. I am also reading tons of other stuff as I am finishing up my thesis this summer.

inlägg gjort av melissagagnon vid 4:53 pm (EST) Jul 12, 2008

As my aged mind will attest, it is prone to make the occasional boo-boo. Witness my email to you - my review of Fowles' French ...Women was written for a Canadian paper, not a uk publication. Hadn't even been penned when I left to discover new worlds.
Forgive this old fogey!

inlägg gjort av morfam vid 12:42 pm (EST) Jul 12, 2008

Hi there

I am glad that you liked pillars of the earth. I am shocked to hear that on tape it took 45 hours of listening to it. Wow, I now wonder how many hours it took me to read it. What is your next book that you are going to read?

inlägg gjort av melissagagnon vid 11:24 am (EST) Jul 12, 2008

hi there,

I am absolutely blown away by your book list, and how many authors and/or titles we have in common. I'm sure you have heard that before.
Being a 'new' contributor to LT, perhaps you wouldn't mind enlightening me on a couple of things. The obvious would be how do you alphabetize your list? Unlike the elephant, I find it increasingly difficult to remember what I have read over lo',these many years, I'm sure there must be thousands of titles stored in my increasingly gnarly brain. One heck of a lot of the books were borrowed and returned to libraries, a habit I still continue to this day and although I own and buy many books, it only amounts to less than a hundred, after many house moves, and garage sales.
Do you truly have every book on your list within reach, or can you relieve my guilt by admitting you do likewise? If you do own all of those gorgeous titles, how I envy you.
Again, it was remarkable to me how many memories you conjured up for me, with your list, and like others, I'm sure, we connect in so many ways, whether it be the wonderful works of Chaim Potok, or the aged now, and perhaps no longer with us, books by Allen Drury. When I came to Canada in the mid 60's,from the UK, Advise and Consent was the book I chose to read on the long plane ride (Boeing 707).
It fascinates me that you care to read of Ben Bradlee and Kathryn Graham. As an ex-newspaperman, I would add to my list Beaverbrook, Conrad Black, James Reston and Sulzberger, all who have published memoirs.
Then there are the Roths, Irvings and Micheners. How I loved Owen Meany, Hawaii, Centennial and the Human Stain. Again, to reminisce, John Fowles' French Lieutenants Woman was the first book I reviewed for a London paper, when it was first published.
Mustn't go on...but there is also De Lillo, Richard Ford, Caleb Carr and Iain Pears. I love biographical history and love to read fictional accounts of Dickens and Shakespeare/Marlowe. There are so many other books and authors I would love to discuss with you.
Another question: How many languages are you fluent in? I notice works by French writers in their own language.
And I promise to be a little less cranky!

inlägg gjort av morfam vid 1:47 am (EST) Jul 12, 2008

Hi Hemlokgang

( Ah, I see, Hemlock NY, for a moment I feared Hip Hop had "konkered" the Appalachians too :D )

Thanks for the LOL and I just had to repay by noting that I was amused and frightened by how perfectly your picture sums up my wife's soon to be realized vision of retirement - dog, couch, book, empty snack bowl, jeans, repose - she would probably add only some half finished piece of knitting.

Frightened because our cat and I dread the advent of "the dog" - needless to say, for reasons as mundane as "changes of affection","yips","yaps","yelps", and "unjust reassignments of bedspace and blankets" - and will filibuster and stall, until we have exhausted our supply of parliamentary roadblocks. Your serenity, alas, appears so complete and so logically intertwined with said dog, as to spell out our inevitable fate too. Indeed, sniff, dab, alas.

I've been readng an excessive amount of Dickens lately. Does it show? I hope? I hope not?

Pax,
Ganeshaka

inlägg gjort av Ganeshaka vid 3:24 pm (EST) Jul 9, 2008

Hi there

What do you think of Pillars of the Eath. That book is my #1 favorite!

inlägg gjort av melissagagnon vid 4:40 pm (EST) Jun 27, 2008

we have almost 400 books in common! i sent you a friend request because you aren't showing up in my interesting libraries for some reason! happy reading!

inlägg gjort av amanaceerdh vid 8:36 am (EST) Jun 25, 2008

Hi:

I confess I put Fathers and Sons on BookMooch without having read it (I do have another copy on my shelves). So what did you think of it? How does it compare to the other great Russians?

inlägg gjort av polutropos vid 8:19 am (EST) Jun 21, 2008