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

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

Ha Ha, I hope he locked his diary up so Mrs Pepys couldn't find it!

Lee wrote: "I've managed to confine most of them to the spare room - which I've made pretty much impassable!"

Do you mean the books or the family? Because looking at the size of this list I really can't tell! ;)
Good luck getting through it, but yay for all the fun reading these fifty million books you own!

Ha ha, and we are all such good mathematicians that we didn't notice either!

I haven't read: War and Peace, The Catcher in the Rye, A Passage to India and Crime and Punishment. They are all on my TBR except Passage as I've read another book by Forster and wasn't that taken with it.

It's a bit sad that people feel they would have to lie about what they have and haven't read to look intelligent though isn't it?

Where? In your garden? yuck!

115. A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch.

I should be finished later so will have a think about these then. It is a compliment to Murdoch's writing that I am enjoying this as the story is not one I'm usually interested in and the characters are not very likeable - but it's good - I'm impressed!

I would invite D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis - we would eat loads, drink too much and then go out to the streets looking for some of the cardinals men to get into a fight with. Once we'd beaten them we would all make friends, go back and drink some more yay!

300 is a bit the same in that there are some gory bits but it's also pretty good. Sort of done with actors and then computers as well so kind of looks like a dark graphic novel (which I think it originally was) but on screen.

Started this today - very good so far.

He does seem like a really nice bloke - even people who disagreed with him didn't really have anything bad to say about him personally.

That's really sweet!

Yeah, I'm sure there will be some revelation that links it all in. And I hope Miles gets some of his fire back, he is losing his touch bless him! Looking forward to see if (view spoiler)[ there really is a demon in the station lol (hide spoiler)].

I don't know Montalbano - is it an adaptation from a book or just a TV series??

You know I did think the same thing....maybe this is how he gets his crazy ideas ;)

Lee wrote: "Laurel wrote: "I've finshed The Calligrapher's Daughter which was a lovely story about a young girl growing up in Korea during the Japanese occupation. Still reading the Conan Doyle biography and w..."

Me too. It's a very sympathetic biography - I gather some of them just treat him as a bit of a crank once he takes up his spiritualism cause but this one is very non-judgemental which I like. I just finished it this morning.

Hilary wrote: "Is anybody watching Whitechapel? Seriously spooky!"

I loved Whitechapel last night, the next episode looks quite gruesome!

'Now, apparently, Budd had made such a success that he required a partner to cope with the flood of patients.'
Daniel Stashower - Teller of Tales: The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Are we making up our own story???

Yeah bless them - the horses won that round :)

I've finshed The Calligrapher's Daughter which was a lovely story about a young girl growing up in Korea during the Japanese occupation. Still reading the Conan Doyle biography and will probably start The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Huraki Murakami at some point today.

Cool, I was going to go for 'Tinker, Tailor...' for next month's le Carre.
I have got the film as well at home but I always leave these things until I've read the book first so haven't watched it.