Anna's comments
(member since Sep 03, 2007)
Anna's comments from the SDMB - Straight Dope group.
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Surok. But I don't exactly post much on the Dope.
Eleanor, it is adventurous. It was in a bookstore like that I found 30 back numbers of the Paris Review, dating pretty much to the magazine's beginning. They were hidden behind a whole bunch of nothing. If it had been clothes, I'd have walked out of there in 30 seconds. But because it was books, I was down on my knees, sorting and sifting and stacking and sneezing and rejoicing.
And in case anyone was wondering, my kitchen cupboard did not get cleaned yesterday. I read instead.
I am off to the second hand bookstore. Going to have to scrape the ice off the car, and fight my way through the British road system, but damn, it's going to be worth it.
And when I get back I'll do something useful like clean my kitchen cupboard. Or not, as the case may be.
My goal would be to actually track the books that I read on here, which I've done in a very hit and miss way in 2008. The one book published in each year is a fun one, Pam. Will you put them on a separate shelf/ share your list?
Have you read We have always lived in the Castle yet? Certainly not graphically gruesome, and I was pretty scared by it. But it might fall into your 'unsettling but not scary' category.
Hm, I thought that about Terry Pratchett. And read two, and said 'meh'. Maybe I should try Lonesome Dove instead.Top of my current list of famous books is Les Miserables. A good acquaintance whose taste in books I trust said she was not keen on it, so I'm reviewing my options.
For Barbados, for anyone who hasn't already done it, try George Lamming (In The Castle Of My Skin; The Emigrants; and others I haven't read).
It sounds like a good idea, although I'd take issue with 'there isn't a plot to be spoiled' - in reading a memoir, you might not want to know how things turn out.
But posts can always be headed 'spoilers' to give a reader who isn't as far on as the others a heads-up not to read the whole post.
I would say I'm in, but seeing as I seem to be completely incapable of following anything through at the moment, I'm reluctant to.
Looks like a book I would be interested in, though.
I second Tracey's recommendation of Vanity Fair. It's quite long though - think you need to be a reasonably fast reader to get through it, or have a long journey ahead of you.
As for the others - I got nuttin.
Maybe the character felt like building a gazebo? In order to improve his state of mind.
But in the creative frenzy, the author missed the word 'building' and the underzealous proof-reader/ editor never questioned the 'feel like [building] a gazebo'.
Anna (posting from her back garden, which is full of gazebo like structures, so she knows whereof she speaks, more or less - both in terms of building, and in terms of feeling like.)
Eh. Struggling here with the features.
If anyone wants a copy of Duma Key (Garden Traveller, I see it's on your list, and after last years wonderful White Elephant, I think you deserve some payback) I'm happy to mail mine.
I enjoyed it greatly, but I don't want to have it take up limited shelf space.
Pls PM if interested.
As it turns out, it didn't bother me nearly as much I as thought.
So now I'll move onto P&P - picked up a copy in the bookstore at lunchtime.
Well, I've got a copy of I Am Legend. And I haven't got a copy of Pride and Prejudice.
So Richard Matheson wins out tonight. The book itself may not be scary, but I don't do so well with vampire stuff. If I'm a wreck at work tomorrow - I'll know what to blame.
Hmm. I believe that I loathe Jane Austen because my grandmother read Pride and Prejudice to my sister and me when I was 7.
I think that was a little young, and I've harboured a deep dislike against Austen ever since.
Maybe I should have another crack at her. It would give me something to do on the upcoming long distance planes. Haven't read anything substantial recently. And although I was seduced by a copy of 'I Am Legend' I think it may scare me too much to actually keep me entertained.
And if permission is witheld, we could have our own variant:
Fighting illiteracy since 2007
gardentraveler, thanks. I really appreciate the offer.
I think (and everyone please keep their fingers crossed) that I may be moving the UK in the near future.
The UK.
Where they have public libraries!
Where you can browse shelves!
Where you can order books you have read about!
Where you can borrow a whole stack of books and take them home!
Excited, me? Nah.
And yes, I blame Julie too...
Just the title of The Muse in the Machine has me drooling.
I can see I'm going to have to stop reading stuff on this site until I get to somewhere with a public library.
