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

Rowena’s comments from the All About Books group.

Gill wrote: "Dhanaraj wrote: "Undset is a lovely writer. I recommend strongly her GUNNAR'S DAUGHTER. That is the only novel I read Of Undset. And I am Planning to read her masterpiece, KRISTIN TRILOGY in summer..."

Thanks Gill! Looking forward to the read.

Book 1 from the Kristin trilogy is what I have on my desk. Looking forward to reading it!

Dhanaraj wrote: "Began reading Sigrid Undset's Marta Oulie: A Novel of Betrayal. It has begun in an interesting manner...."

I'm hoping to start an Undset book sometime next week. Have heard good things about her!

As an African myself, and as a person who has read lots of Ethnocentric accounts of non-Africans in Africa, I was thoroughly impressed at Kapuscinski's ability to try to understand the differences in culture without being judgmental. Very refreshing to see.

Diane S. wrote: "This gives such a wonderful overview of Africa. Explains so many things, his descriptions are wonderful. The snake would have done me in, I hate snakes."

Me too, Diane! :)

Christie wrote: "I was very pleasantly surprised by his writing style! Since he's a journalist, I was expecting it to be somewhat dry, but his imagery is beautiful. I really like how he focus on the macro, then g..."

Agreed, Christie! I found his writing style to be absolutely lovely.

I'm reading The Broken Seals: Part One of the Marshes of Mount Liang. It's a lot of fun:)

Thank you all for understanding. You all do so much work in the group and I really want to acknowledge that. I am trying to take it easy and hopefully after a week or so away I'll be refreshed and ready for duty:)

Hi all,

I'm not going to be on here much for a while until I get things sorted. School is so busy and I'm also currently looking for a new job. On top of that an old friend passed away today (on her birthday:() so I'm feeling quite overwhelmed by life at the moment. I will be back to moderating duties in a week or so.

Jenny wrote: "Did anybody notice that as a rule of thumb our second-place in N/F is always the much more active one? ;) I will go for The Shadow of the Sun this time, but if I manage I would love to read this on..."

That is interesting! I personally adored The Shadow of the Sun so I'm sure you'll love it, Jenny:)

It does look very interesting. I'm hoping my library has a copy:)

The winners of our April/May non-fiction group read are The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński and The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin.

Threads can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

and here:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Discuss our group read 'The Songlines' by Bruce Chatwin here.

Discuss our group read 'The Shadow of the Sun' by Ryszard Kapuściński here.

It's okay, I got my answer from Jenny. Thanks Jenny:)

Hi all,

I'm trying to post a new comment in the "group announcement" thread but I can't seem to do so. It says the thread has been frozen. Any idea why?

Rachel wrote: "Hi, I'm Rachel and I live in Canada with my husband, son and two dogs. I love reading but don't give myself the time to do it much. I've joined this group in the hope it will encourage me to take s..."

Hello Rachel, welcome to the group! Happy reading:)

Oh wow, how pricey!!!! I was lucky enough to get a copy for free.

It really is, Gill. The Native Canadian education system was so different from the Western one, yet it was very effective!

I'm reading Shingwauks Vision by J.R. Miller, which is a book on the history of residential schools in Canada. It is absolutely intriguing (and also sad). Native Canadians have such a rich culture.