Laurel’s Comments (group member since Aug 06, 2013)

Laurel’s comments from the I Read Therefore I Am group.

Cool - I'm onto that one next!

Happy Birthday Ellie! Hope you had a fab time ;)

Good luck with the yoga course Angela - sounds great!

Thanks for the well wishes for my business guys - it's still just an idea at the moment so am just researching stuff and trying out/refining loads of recipes - my family and friends are long-suffering guinea pigs lol! Wish I could send you all some cake but I don't know how to post it without it getting damaged or eaten by the postie ;) It's funds I'm struggling with - no money and really bad credit record so am going to have to get saving.

I'm off tomorrow (yay!) but am going to be very busy - am doing a lot of researching and planning - thinking about starting my own business maybe with a market stall selling my jams and cakes etc seeing as I haven't the capital to open up my own coffee shop.

So it's just like the literature festival then...
Have fun ;)

Yeah could you imagine? - I would prefer watching the paint dry ;)

Although I think that you need at least a working knowledge of cricket to understand that so it probably won't be much help to Antipodes!

I've just finished S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst which I really enjoyed. It's the novel Ship of Theseus by the fictitious author V.M. Straka plus coded footnotes by his translator and annotations by Jen and Eric, a student and a post-grad who are trying to unravel the mystery of Straka's life and death. Fascinating although maybe difficult to follow at times if you like a nice linear narrative - the annotations are from different periods in Jen and Eric's friendship/relationship (they write in different colours each time they go through the text)so sometimes you get them referring to things in one colour ink that haven't happened yet to the Jen and Eric writing the earlier notes...
Loved the mystery and even though it left some questions unanswered (like life), I felt like I got enough to be happy with the story - 5 Stars.

Need to finish Therese Raquin,
and am going to read The Medusa Frequency by Hoban and The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler as well as a bit more of Inferno and The Man Without Qualities.
Apart from that we'll see as I'm stupidly busy at the moment...

Ha ha my dad listens to it on the radio! Makes even less sense and the commentators tend to fill in the gaps by rambling on about pigeons and the cream cakes they are scoffing!

So now I'm up to Canto 8 and we have just been through the Fourth Circle - he raced through the first four in a canto each so am wondering if he's going to slow down a bit once they get to Dis otherwise I'm not sure what the rest of the poem will be about! The punishment aren't too graphic so far although we are still in relatively mild sinning territory - I liked the description of Cerberus though and also |Minos wrapping his tail around himself to show the sinner what level of hell they are going to.
Also re: the first circle with all the noble Pagan dead - he seems a bit critical that these guys can't go to heaven without wanting to actually come out and say it - It must have been hard for people in the medieval times to have to accept that people whos writing's and philosophies had so much shaped and influenced their culture weren't technically allowed to be saved simply because they were born too early!

I've got the mysterious affair on my kindle - is it good?

Cricket explained (...or not) -

Cricket: As explained to a foreigner...

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!

Simples.... ;)

Love this, she was very cool!

Who is 'them'?? It's not clear, although it is very powerful - he is totally throwing down the gauntlet.

Has anyone read The Eyre Affair? Thursday and her chap go to see this but it's done as audience participation - so funny ;)

Come on George mate - it's not difficult ;)

ha ha ha - took me a minute to get that!

oooh a room of infinite cakes - my dream kitchen!

lol! well hope it's good anyway ;)

54. William Faulkner - Light in August
55. Jo Nesbo - The Redbreast