Hayes's comments
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Hayes's comments from the The Next Best Book Club group.
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I'm reading two (almost) connected books: Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, and The Smell of Apples: A Novel (A memoir, but really a novel, of an Afrikaner boy growing up during the 70s and 80s). Both are fascinating, and I realize just how much I don't know about Africa. I've got Google going full blast while I'm reading!
Marci wrote: "...My daughter is a synesthetic ... she associates word or names to a taste. .."Many many people associate words and or/people with colors (including my favorite italian police detective Salvo Montalbano, so I assume his author Camilleri.)
I confess I rather like and often use "prolly"... prolly 'cause I'm lazy ;-)
Piffle is another word I like, as in "Stop talking piffle!" or when angry "Oh Piffle!"
That's a pretty big name to live up to...
But it's such a nice, earthy word!! (And I'm with you... the word precious really ticks me off. Was at a dinner party once and the girlfriend of a colleague of my husband's spent the entire night cooing over my son (aged 14 months): "Oh isn't he precious!?!" *retch*)
I love the words fuchsia, ocher, umbrage...
He was indeed! I used to wathch with my little brother (6 years younger than me) but I think I got just as much enjoyment out the Big Bird as he did.
Haven't seen the book, so I don't know how irreverent it is, but the title is great:What to Expect When You're Expected A Fetus's Guide to the First Three Trimesters
Laura wrote: "Guys who send flowers are not always creepy! My boyfriend sent flowers to me all the time and we've been married for almost 20 years..."It wasn't the sending the flowers that was creepy (I think it's wonderful romantic, especially if you don't really know a person!)
What was icky was the attitude of okay-I-sent-you-the-flowers-so-fall-at-my-feet-already-and-lets-get-this-over-with!
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Conversation between Mr Thornton and Mr Darcy:
http://www.foolishpassion.com/humor/darc...
I've just finished this and really liked it.it's going to take me a while to catch up on the thread comments, but I want to see what everyone said. It got such mixed reviews that I'm really curious.
JG wrote: "Maggie wrote: "I'd love to be able to read the book that Juliet writes!"
I sort of had it in mind that this book is supposed to be the book she ultimately writes."
That's what I feel too, JG.
I bet you are excited. Have a great trip. Rome is beautiful, but choose the season well. Autumn/winter is rainy and summer hot. spring and early summer the best.
I am listening now to Kitchen Confidential Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, read by the author and very entertaining. (not for the faint of heart, however... language and situations can be perceived as R to X rated)I loved The Enchanted April, which I listened to thru www.librivox.org
Where are you going in Europe Kristin? (I live in Rome).
I'm reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I'm almost halfway thru and am really enjoying it. Also reading The Lightning Thief which is brilliant! Great trailer too, which I saw on the website for the film... who knows when that will make it here, probably next summer :-(
Finished Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, which I loved. And Ella Minnow Pea A Novel in Letters which I loved too.
It's been a good month for books for me :-)))))
Jeane! That's cheating!! ;-)
Me too! That cover really is revolting, however. I'm gonna eRead it, so I don't have to worry about that!!
I know you did... that's why I decided to read it :-)Starts out really well...
Finished my Rumpole stories, so am continuing on with Stiff and have started Ella Minnow Pea A Novel in Letters which looks like a lot of fun.
That sounds like a better idea... my idea was for wax on carpets or clothes, I think.
I have heard tell, although I have never tried, that there is a kind of very absorbent rice paper you can use for this. You place it over the the wax and then go over with an iron at low temp, but hot enough to heat and melt the wax, which gets absorbed into the paper. Again, I have never tried this, but you might ask at the dry cleaners or something before you try... anything to save Dante!
Becky wrote: "How does everyone organize their shelves (when they are organized at all? *pointed look at myself*)? ... Or not at all?"Guilty as charged... I try to be organized, but then can't find the book I'm looking for, pull everything out to find it -- double rows of books due to minimum bookshelves :-( -- and can't be bothered to be organized again... the shelves look like those puzzles where you have to fit the shapes in without leaving spaces.
Fiona said: My bookshelf is currently a jiggsaw puzzle of books wedged in whatever way
Snap! Saw your message after I wrote mine!
My husband and I both loved Shadow, so I gave him Angel's Game for his birthday (which means I get to read it too... heh heh heh) cant wait!
Finished Proust and the Squid The Story and Science of the Reading Brain which I found really interesting. Am now reading 
the introduction of which had me giggling for 15 minutes...
