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

Rowena’s comments from the All About Books group.

Noorilhuda wrote: "just started: Negotiating the Siege of the LAL MASJID"

That looks really interesting! Are you enjoying it?

Raul wrote: "Began reading Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima. It's my first book written by a Japanese author and I am loving it already, just a mere 42 pages in."

I adore that book! Such a great writer!

Gill wrote: "I've just started reading 800 Years of Women's Letters. It looks fascinating."

Wow, that does look interesting, Gill!

katie wrote: "Rowena wrote: "katie wrote: "I'm currently reading Quiet Moments in a War: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir 1940-63.

I wouldn't say it's the most exciting collec..."
I will, thanks Katie!

DJ Zippergirl wrote: "Just hit my annual challenge: 100 read (and 100 reviewed)

Blood in the Soil: A True Tale of Racism, Sex, and Murder in the South [bookcover:Blood in the Soil: A True Tale of Racism..."

Wow, congrats!

Raul wrote: "Currently reading A Thousand Splendid Suns."

Wonderful book! Happy reading:)

Leslie wrote: "I am currently reading/listening to Outlander - I am almost halfway through. I have been taken aback (and disappointed) by the amount of graphic and explicit sex scenes."

Is there a television show based on this book? It sounds familiar

katie wrote: "I'm currently reading Quiet Moments in a War: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir 1940-63.

I wouldn't say it's the most exciting collection of letters ever, but I j..."

Thanks for your update, Katie! I actually have a copy of The Mandarins but I haven't read it yet. I'm really interested in both Sartre and de Beauvoir so I'd like to read that letter collection:)

Terri wrote: "I finished The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End and gave it 5 stars. My review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

I enjoyed your review, Terri. Thank you:)

I'm reading The Deep Zoo. So far it's been a slow but intriguing read, I really love Ducornet's knowledge and writing style.

Chrissie wrote: "Thank you, Pink and Rowena. I didn't know of the book."

I heard about it in How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance and I just had to buy it!

Pink wrote: "I haven't posted to this thread yet, so thought I'd start with a few letter collections that I've especially enjoyed -

[book:Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of..."

Hi Pink,

I started reading it last night and so far I'm really enjoying it. I may post some favourite excerpts later:)

I read Anais Nin's Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin which is essentially a journal with some letters inserted. I'm going to read The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse next.

Teri-k wrote: "I read a book I thought was going to work, but didn't. It turns out that Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott isn't excerpts of her letters, as I'd always thought, bu..."

I had no idea that Alcott had been a nurse, how interesting:)

Gill, that's a brilliant titbit!

Ooh, some nice picks already! This is one of my favourite non-fiction themes so I think I'll be reading more than a few books in this period. One book that's definitely on my list is The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

Hello everyone, the seasonal non-fiction theme for April-June 2016 is ‘Letters and Correspondence.’

We will be discussing the books we read based on that theme in this thread. Please share what you plan to read and how you’re finding it.

Thanks everyone and happy reading! Look out for our new theme starting in July 2016.

Hi Sandra, welcome:)

Diane S ⛄ wrote: "Have started Dimestore: On Memory, Place, and Writing, which even though I am not from the south is proving to be a nostalgic read."

I've just read some of the reviews and it sounds really good

I'm reading Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatema Mernissi and it's proved to be such an enjoyable book