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

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

Oh dear - I found some more:

91. HG Wells - The Island of Dr Moreau
92. ML Stedman - The Light Between Oceans
93. Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
94. Anne Bronte - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
95. Gustave Flaubert - Madam Bovary
96. Matthew Gregory - The Monk
97. Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Ernest
98. Judith Flanders - The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dicken's London
99. Grahame Farrell - Gaslight Villany: True Tales if Victorian Murder
100.Sean Martin - The Cathars
101. Paul Parsons - How to Destroy the Universive: and 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Physics
102. Alex Scully - Enter At Your Own Risk: Old Masters New Voices. An Anthology of Dark Fiction.

117. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami

That was nice of Mr Chubb - a lot of people would have kept it...

I love this poem, very beautiful but also sad like you say Lee - all the discoveries of science and about human (pre)history will have totally changed their worldview and ideas of humanity's place in the universe for many people, but would have taken some getting used to!

Welcome Mike! Nice to meet you :)

I'm getting to 'Daphne' shortly too, I need to finish The Wind-up Bird Chronicle first - about halfway through. I finished Vanity Fair the other day - loved it!

Have a nice time Joy!

oooh intriguing!

"Neither of us could hear much of anything for a while after we left his house"
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami

Maybe she's picked something else up from him??

Hilary wrote: "Our TBR lists would be even longer"

that made me chuckle!

Hope so! Only one way to find out I suppose...
but by the sounds of it we might have to leave it for a while till everyone recovers from Mason & Dixon!

@Ellie - hope you enjoy them all!

@ Lee - although I loved the Historian, it is one of those marmite books!

Picnic at Hanging Rock sounds good though... is it true or is it fiction???

Minute of silence please for all the books lost in the library of Alexandria :(

Uh oh!

I still haven't been able to get a copy - I really am trying not to buy one so waiting for the library copy to come back in.

The above Ulysses comment worries me...

Lee wrote: "Lee wrote: "Finished today! This book grabs you from the very first paragraph and continues to intrigue all the way through. The plot has all the ingredients of the juiciest of tabloid scandals bu..."

Oops! I don't think I paid any attention to the date :S

Hilary wrote: "Just wiki'd Zamyatin and its true! He worked on the Tyne supervising the building of ice breakers. Well, well, well! Fancy that."

I didn't know that! 'We' was on the tbr list anyway but I think I will bump it up a few places now.
Looks like an interesting event Hilary - thanks for letting us know :)

I'd forgotten I had this CD - this song is great:
Rachel Unthank and the Winterset - Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHN4XT...