Nina wrote: "Answers to some questions raised by goodreads and other things...
... Also, just finished, "Three Junes," and mixed feelings about it. ... I thought it would be about three women named June; wrong, it referrs to three different months of June in three different settings; Greece, Scotland, and Long Island. ..."

Nina, I read _ Three Junes _. I don't remember much about it except that I didn't enjoy it very much. Thanks for explaining the meaning of the title.

Jim wrote: "Nina,Louis L'Amour is one of the very few western writers I will read. ... "Bendigo Shafter", "Sitka" & "The Lonesome Gods" were my favorites.
Other good western writers areZane Grey & Donald Hamilton ... "

Below are Goodreads links to the 3 books by Louis L'Amour which Jim mentioned:
_Bendigo Shafter_
_Sitka_
_The Lonesome Gods_

My wife is a really avid Western fan (I'm not :-)), and Louis L'Amour is her favorite author! She didn't care that much for Zane Grey, though --like many of the regional Realist authors of his day, he tended to write his dialogue in dialect, and she found that hard to translate into standard English.

I haven't read much or anything by either writer, but plan to remedy that eventually. (Neither of us have read any Westerns by Hamilton, though.)

You can read many of Hamilton's older stuff for free here:
http://homepage.mac.com/mmtz/dh/

If you like westerns, I'd suggest you scroll down to "Mad River" which is in 3 parts. Excellent western story.

Hamilton also wrote factual books on sailing, hunting, guns & writing. Some of the latter are fun to read because of how dated they are. He talks about types of typewriters & the new version of electric word processor that can store an entire sentence!
(How far we have come!)

Studying for the medical terminology test. Test is tomorrow. One hour, 200 questions. Last night I dreamt about the physical text book pages. This has GOT to stop - LOL!!

LOL, I've pulled The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society from the upper reaches, only by standing on the counter and my OH holding tightly. But we managed. Am searching for the reported passage. :)

The only Louis L'Amour I've read is The Sackett's Collection http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_k... There are 18 in all, beginning with Sackett's Land The Sacketts.

And thanks Jim for the link to Hamilton's stuff. Looks interesting. I've not read him, nor heard of him.

Werner wrote: "... She didn't care that much for Zane Grey, though --like many of the regional Realist authors of his day, he tended to write his dialogue in dialect, and she found that hard to translate into standard English. ..."

About reading dialect, I found it very annoying while reading parts of _The Grapes of Wrath_ by John Steinbeck. In fact, I never finished reading the book because of that and also because the story was so depressing.

Thanks for the titles of Louis L'Amour's books. I can't remember which of his I read. I just really liked the ones I did, however. He is known as a Western writer but I feel his books should be mainstream, as well. I am going to start, "South of Broad,"by Pat Conroy. I hear it's wonderful but INTENSE. Have any of you read it? nina

Nina wrote: "... I am going to start, "South of Broad,"by Pat Conroy. I hear it's wonderful but INTENSE. Have any of you read it? nina"

Haven't read _South of Broad_. The GR description says: "Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints." I'm happy to say I toured Charleston, SC, a few years ago. I finally got to actually see Fort Sumter across the water from the mainland while we were riding past the beautiful homes along the water.

I've been having computer problems lately. Fortunately, I can still access the Internet. My main problem is that the bodies of all emails and all newsgroup messages are blank. The headers are there, but the message space is blank. I've been in touch with my sons and hopefully they'll have time to help me.

A temporary solution has been to set my OE "read" option to "Read all messages in plain text". This results in each email message having an attachment which contains the body of the message. However, it's time consuming to wait for all these applications to kick in. Something is slowing down my computer's OE.

Of course, my newsgroup messages don't have attachments. So I am using the clumsy Google web-based newsgroups to stay in touch with my newsgroups.

Joy H. (of Glens Falls) wrote: "I've been having computer problems lately. Fortunately, I can still access the Internet. My main problem is that the bodies of all emails and all newsgroup messages are blank. The headers are there..."
I don't use Outlook Express (rather Eudora, which I got started with way back when that's what my dial up ISP suggested) so I can't be of much help. I use an image backup of the whole damn C: drive, and in dire straits I replace the whole thing with a version a week or so old. Run a virus scan just to make sure it's not that. I've always heard that OE is a crappy newsreader, try Agent. (won't fix your email of course).

Earl wrote: "I don't use Outlook Express (rather Eudora, ... so I can't be of much help. ... I've always heard that OE is a crappy newsreader, try Agent. (won't fix your email of course)."

Thanks, Earl. Our sons keep telling me not to use OE, but I'm so accustomed to it and comfortable with it, that I stay with it. I've been using it for 15 years. It serves as my newsgroup reader too. So I hesitate to change.

One of our sons is trying to analyze my computer to see what ails my OE. He makes his living trouble-shooting computers. So if anyone can fix it, he can. I have great hopes. :)

Hey Nina,

My wife read South of Broad a few weeks ago.
She (and I) is crazy about Conroy and couldn't wait for this new book.
Ultimately, she said she was disappointed , but I suggested maybe because her expectations had become impossible to meet.
But, in general, imo the man is the closest thing to a poet a prose-writer could possibly be.

Arnie wrote: " Hey Nina, My wife read South of Broad a few weeks ago. She (and I) is crazy about Conroy and couldn't wait for this new book. ... But, in general, imo the man is the closest thing to a poet a prose-writer could possibly be."

I loved Pat Conroy's _The Prince of Tides_!

I've read all of Conroy except for the new one and "The Water is Wide". --"The Great Santini" is my personal favorite

Joy H. (of Glens Falls) wrote: "I've been having computer problems lately. Fortunately, I can still access the Internet. My main problem is that the bodies of all emails and all newsgroup messages are blank. The headers are there..."

Our son has fixed my computer. Not only is it fixed, but it so speedy... like greased lightening! Of course I'm thrilled!

I'm getting ready for my trip to Glens Falls to participate in "Falling Leaves", the annual book fair hosted by The Chronicle newspaper. It will be at the Queensbury Hotel on Sunday; 11-4. Please stop by...I'd love to meet those of you who are in the area!

Joy H. (of Glens Falls) wrote: "
Our son has fixed my computer. Not only is it fixed, but it so speedy... like greased lightening! Of course I'm thrilled! "

But what did he do????? Inquiring nerdy minds want to know!

Mary wrote: "I'm getting ready for my trip to Glens Falls to participate in "Falling Leaves", the annual book fair hosted by The Chronicle newspaper. It will be at the Queensbury Hotel on Sunday; 11-4. Please s..."

Hi Mary! I will be there!!!!

For more information about this, please see my topic in this group at:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2237...

SECTION: GLENS FALLS-Goings-on about town
TOPIC: Annual Chronicle Book Fair - November 1, 2009

Mary, you might want to add a comment of your own to the above topic.

Earl wrote: "Joy H. (of Glens Falls) wrote: "Our son has fixed my computer. Not only is it fixed, but it so speedy... like greased lightening! Of course I'm thrilled!"
"But what did he do????? Inquiring nerdy minds want to know!"

Earl, as soon as I find out the answer to that question, I'll post it in this thread. He did the "repair" by remote control late last night. It was like the story of the shoemaker and the elves! LOL I emailed him to thank him profusely and then asked him how he did it. Haven't heard back from him yet. I love that kid!!!!

From what I understand from my friends who have already read, "South of Broad," Charleston setting is almost one of the characters. I will let you know after finishing it what I think. nina

Earl wrote (in Message #918): "But what did he do????? Inquiring nerdy minds want to know!"

About how our son fixed my laptop computer, he wrote the following:
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"You were completed clogged up with 'temp' files. All sorts of weird things can start to go wrong as a result. The following 4 locations on your C: drive totaled more than 70,000 objects. ... The built-in mechanisms for clearing these areas don't truly work. It'll say they're deleted but the objects remain. It took a long, tedious time to get everything deleted. Once done, I defragged the whole drive. ... We'll need to do this on a regular basis more often."
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So that's it in a nut shell. I've omitted the names of the 4 'temp' files.
BTW, my laptop runs on Windows XP.

My computer had a "serious blue screen error" this morning. I'm waiting for some tech advice from my son. Meanwhile, I'm hanging in here. I guess I can always access Goodreads from my husband's laptop if necessary.

PS-I'm going to close down my computer and try to reboot, in order to see if the problem returns. Wish me luck.

Joy H. (of Glens Falls) wrote: "PS-I'm going to close down my computer and try to reboot, in order to see if the problem returns. Wish me luck."

I'm back. Reboot was successful. All is well... I hope. :)

Probably all is OK, Joy. Windows just has a hard time in the mornings sometimes - don't we all? Seriously, a BSOD isn't a problem unless it happens more than once.

Glad it wasn't anything major.

I can't believe what wonderful weather we've been having but I've sure been taking advantage of it. Sitting on the porch with my book and Juneau is my favorite way to spend the day.

Jim wrote: "Probably all is OK, Joy. Windows just has a hard time in the mornings sometimes - don't we all? Seriously, a BSOD isn't a problem unless it happens more than once."

I had to look up "BSOD" (Blue Screen of Death). Yes, I've heard that term before. It gives me the chills. :) Both our sons said much the same thing as you did. Meanwhile when they come for Thanksgiving, one of them will work on my computer. He says that XP and Outlook Express are ancient technology and my computer problems are not likely to go away unless I "move with the times". He says: "Perhaps at Thanksgiving we can try and grab an image of the whole machine and then see how Windows 7 runs on that laptop.

Oi, more changes. :-(

Jackie wrote: "Glad it wasn't anything major.
I can't believe what wonderful weather we've been having but I've sure been taking advantage of it. Sitting on the porch with my book and Juneau is my favorite ..."

Enjoy it while it lasts, Jackie. :)

We've had glorious weather this month, with few exceptions, actually we seem to be having "October" weather in November. :)
Clear blue skies and bright sunshine, averaging daytime temps of 60[ish:] - high 70's.
I'll take it!
I'll take it! :)

Joy, computer probs are the beastliest things, makes me want to chuck it out of the window on occasion.
I have XP, and Outlook Express....and I'm keeping them. Don't fix it if it ain't broke!
heh

I'll disagree with your boys, Joy. XP is old, but solid. I won't trust Windows 7 for a while yet. I plan on getting a new PC in Jan10 for my work machine. I absolutely detest the fact that Microsoft moved everything around again. So many of the same functions are hidden in different places. They seem to like to do this for no reason I can figure out.

It's why my company refuses to move beyond Office 2003 to 2007. We'll probably just move to Open Office. If folks have to learn a new interface, they might as well learn on a free one.

Pontalba wrote: "We've had glorious weather this month, with few exceptions, actually we seem to be having "October" weather in November. :)
Clear blue skies and bright sunshine, averaging daytime temps of 60[ish:]..."

Pontalba, I envy your weather! I agree about how beastly computer problems are. Sometimes I just want to throw in the towel and go back to the old days. :) If my family weren't tech minded, I WOULD be back in the old days. I don't know how people do it without help... free help, that is. :)

Jim wrote: "I'll disagree with your boys, Joy. XP is old, but solid. I won't trust Windows 7 for a while yet. I plan on getting a new PC in Jan10 for my work machine. I absolutely detest the fact that Micr..."

I hear ya, Jim. It seems we're always having to adapt to something new. It wears me down. I'll pass on your words to our kids.

Actually, I don't know why I said XP was solid. That's dumb. I know where XP usually breaks & how to fix it. The gods know I've had enough practice doing so.

;-)

I had nothing but problems with XP. Then when my new computer had Vista, I thought Oh No! But I seem to be on only person on the planet who didn't have problems with Vista. Maybe that's to make up for the XP problems that I did have, LOL

Jim wrote: "Actually, I don't know why I said XP was solid. That's dumb. I know where XP usually breaks & how to fix it. The gods know I've had enough practice doing so.;-)"

Jim, you're lucky you know how to fix the XP problems.

Jackie, I live in dread of having to adapt to new features.

Joy, it's not luck that makes me able to fix XP problems. It's my JOB. One of the main duties, anyway.

Jim wrote: "Joy, it's not luck that makes me able to fix XP problems. It's my JOB. One of the main duties, anyway."

Yes, Jim. I realized that. I meant you're lucky to be in that line. In this computer age, there will always be people and companies who need your kind of expertise.

Joy wrote: I live in dread of having to adapt to new features.

I don't either. I'm satisfied with Vista and I won't change willingly.

I'm at home feeling yuck. Nothing specific, besides achy & yucky & really tired.

Jackie wrote: "...I'm satisfied with Vista and I won't change willingly."

Eddie has Vista. He says it's OK. He hasn't had any problems with it.

Jim wrote: "I'm at home feeling yuck. Nothing specific, besides achy & yucky & really tired."

Hope you'll feel better, Jim. When I'm not feeling up to par, I find that it helps to distract myself with a good movie. I've been watching quite a few movies lately. :)

Between Netflix and our public library, I've been finding quite a few good movies... or at least movies which are distracting enough. I'll list a few of them at our movie thread.

Sometimes I find it easier to watch a movie than to read a book.

Joy wrote: Sometimes I find it easier to watch a movie than to read a book.

It's true, when you've feeling punk, it takes too much energy to concentrate on a book, at least for the most part.
Of course if I'm is feeling too bad...all I want is under the covers till it's over. Any noise irritates me at that point.

This season of colds is really lingering, everyone I know who has been sick said it lasted longer than usual.
Today was the first day Anthony felt better. We had a crazy day. We had plans for finally go food shopping before the insanity of weekend shopping, but the catalytic converter on the car went. We were going to wait for Eric to come from school to use his car but then we noticed the electric fence wasn't working so that became the day's project. But it's not all a bust, since we're out of everything, we get pizza tonight!

Jim, I hope you feel better fast!

Pontalba, I agree. A good nap can cure a lot.

Jackie, I agree. A good pizza can make things better.

Eddie says he's bringing home a surprise for supper. Hmmm, I wonder what it is. :)

I want to know what it is too, LOL

Jackie wrote: "I want to know what it is too, LOL"

The suspense is killing me! LOL

I can't take it when Anthony says he has a surprise. I'd rather he not say anything. The suspense makes me crazy, LOL

I'm sure I'll be disappointed. LOL
Unless it's pizza. :)

Quote:
"The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment" -Samuel Johnson

PS-See next message, #951, next page.