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

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Leslie wrote: "LauraT wrote: "Christine wrote: "IT’S DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME!"

Don't know this!"

Daylight Savings Time is when we here in the U.S. change our clocks (in the spring, forward one hour; in the fall, ..."

Ah, I see; in Europe is the last Sunday in March and in October. In Italy we call it "Legal Hour" - "Ora legale" - opposed to "Solar Hour" - "Ora solare" of winter time. I remember reading about it in Rilla of Ingleside and loved the way it was there described:

Chap XXX

"But when the Government passed the Daylight Saving law Susan balked. There was a Higher Power than the Union Government, to which Susan owed allegiance.

"Do you think it right to meddle with the arrangements of the Almighty?" she demanded indignantly of the doctor. The doctor, quite unmoved, responded that the law must be observed, and the Ingleside clocks were moved on accordingly. But the doctor had no power over Susan's little alarm.

"I bought that with my own money, Mrs. Dr. dear," she said firmly, "and it shall go on God's time and not Borden's time."

Greg wrote: "LauraT wrote: "Join in then!!!."

I would love that Laura! :)

But I want to get started on The Vanishing Half first as the month has already half vanished somehow. I have my copy r..."

Yes, you're right! Where has half of March gone???

Greg wrote: "LauraT wrote: "It was ages that I wanted to read Poldark saga, remembering when I was a kid! Now I've started listening to the first: Ross Poldark"

That's great Laura! It's been a ..."

Join in then!!!

36 Tove Ditlevsen Gift pag 140 ***
37 Benjamin Stevenson Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone pag 384 ***
38 Alessandro Robecchi I cerchi nell'acqua pag 416 ****
39 Holly Jackson As Good As Dead pag 459 ****
Louise Penny The Madness of Crowds pag 608
Alessandro Robecchi Flora pag 286
Winston Graham Ross Poldark pag 400

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Christine wrote: "IT’S DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME!"

Don't know this!

It was ages that I wanted to read Poldark saga, remembering when I was a kid! Now I've started listening to the first: Ross Poldark

Interesting! At the moment I'm a bit "full up" with readings I have already scheduled; but I'll keep it in mind!

Voted! Thanks Alannah

Alannah wrote: "The next readathon will take place at the end of March from the 25th of March, and will extend to Easter Tuesday 11th April."

Good. Plenty of time to enjoy reading!!!

29 Alessandro Robecchi Follia maggiore pag 390 ****
30 Elizabeth von Arnim The Benefactress pag 418 ***
31 Agatha Christie A Caribbean Mystery pag 283 ***
32 Shirley Ann Grau The Keepers of the House pag 320 ***
33 Tove Ditlevsen Youth pag 132 ***
34 Alessandro Robecchi I tempi nuovi pag 448 ***1/2
35/185 Sara Durantini Annie Ernaux. Ritratto di una vita pag 154 ****
Tove Ditlevsen Gift pag 140
Benjamin Stevenson Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone pag 384
Alessandro Robecchi I cerchi nell'acqua pag 416
Holly Jackson As Good As Dead pag 459

seaside (my family comes from Sardinia!!!)

I bet you are Leslie!!! Same here!

Leslie wrote: "It's Saturday morning and I am sipping coffee watching the snow fall. The storm can't decide between snow and rain making a slushy mess on the ground :("

Still snowing? Here Spring is trying to start... slowly, but still the temperatures are a bit better...

Leslie wrote: "Greg wrote: "How is the Stephenson by the way? I liked Snow Crash back when I read it. ..."

Snow Crash is the only other Stephenson book I have read before. I would..."

Never heard of it! I'll have to give a look then!

I've finally finished it; liked it quite, even if I find that the "magic Realism" is best set in south America. I've loved the figure of the last Abigail, and the courage she had for difentding the house - as symbol of what's right against what's wrong

Great

I'm reading the second of this Childhood / Youth / Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen