Susanna's comments
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Susanna's comments from the Pick-a-Shelf group.
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Ingrid Bergman was in the movie of Inn of the Sixth Happiness, I think. It was made in the late 50s ('58, I think) and is available on Netflix.
Most of them don't seem to.
If the Spammer's Circle of Hell over at The Next Best Book Club is anything to go by - no, they don't!
I read a butt-load of romances when I was working on my master's degree. Slayermel - paranormal smut is flavor of the month just now, so you're in luck!
Photojim wrote: "Well, I have more than a couple August Romance reads. I may have missed one or two, but here they are:Anticipation – Jennifer LaBrecque (249 p) – HRB# 228. Nick O'Mally embezzled ..."
Snort! "Gag-worthy"! "I didn't believe a word of it."
Tell us how you really feel!
The Convenient Marriage, by Georgette Heyer. Three stars.This Heyer is not actually a Regency, as are so many Heyers, but is set in about 1775. Horatia (named for Horace Walpole, her godfather) offers herself, instead of her sister, who is in love with a soldier, to the Earl of Rule. They agree to a "convenient marriage," but, naturally, adore each other without wanting to admit it. Gambling for high stakes, involvement with notorious rakes, and encounters with highwaymen ensue. The only thing it was missing was pirates!
No, that's romance that's the Rodney Dangerfield of literature!Yet I'm told it makes up a third of what's published every year in the U.S.
Welcome back Karen!
I hear they changed the ending from book to film.
Interesting idea - I confess the only book with "banks" in the title I could think of offhand was On the Banks of Plum Creek!
I love the movie of it that was made in the 1930s.
Apparently the state of California allows for "short" Fridays, kinda "Teacher Work Days"? They are required to have 180 minutes of classroom instruction, and then they can let the kids go home early.This district had "short" Fridays with 175 minutes of classroom instruction, all year. None of these days now "count," and the kids have to go to school all summer.
Some of the parents were quoted as saying they thought the administrators ought to be in summer school, instead - in remedial math!
Natasha - it was a challenging read, but I really did enjoy it.
I feel sorry for those poor kids (and teachers!) out in Chino, California, who are going to have to go to school all summer, because their administrators can't do basic math.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard. 5 stars.This play, introduced at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1966, is the play that put Stoppard on the map. It got a great deal of attention, and ran for some time in both London's West End and on Broadway, where it won four Tony Awards (including Best Play).
It is Hamlet as an absurdist farce, concentrating on what are two of the least important characters in Shakespeare's play. It is also the only play I, at least, have ever read that requires knowledge of another play. This is probably only possible because it is a play built on Hamlet. Some familiarity with quantum physics probably helps. A challenging read, but a rewarding one.
I've only seen the first Harry Potter movie. It's a reasonably faithful translation to the screen - but it is by far the shortest novel in the series.I would recommend reading the books.
I guess so?
Have you seen the movie, Tara? I enjoyed it.
Have you read Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Jamie?
The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger. Three stars.This novel is about Henry, whose existence is not fixed in time, and Claire, who is. They meet when she is six, and he is thirty-six, but marry when she is 23 and he is 31. I suspect opinions on this one will have something to do with how one feels about fatalism; Henry is seriously fatalistic.
