Maureen’s Comments (group member since Mar 02, 2009)

Maureen’s comments from the fiction files redux group.

Ben wrote: "this might be too small. and weird. but...

ben, that might be the thumbnail size. you can change sizes over on the right in picasa. i forgot to mention that.

since that is one of my favourite books and book covers of all time, i will wait and see if anybody else knows it. :)

p.s. i have taken it off my favourites shelves people, so you can't cheat. :P

dan, on a pc, there isn't an built-in screen cap software. right-click on an image, and save it to desktop. then open in picasa, which is also a great photo editor, and crop it. then upload it and copy the link to the right.

feel free to steal these instructions for your first post. :)

and rod, if only it was swann's way, and not the stuff of my bitterest university memories. i know it sounds like i'm talking about one girl at school, but seriously, i'm really really not. it's a pastiche, but a lot of them did the exact same things, those women who loved the mists of avalon. they spelled it womyn or wimmin though. :)

ben is right! miss lonelyhearts and the day of the locust!

to upload and link to a picture you can download picasa:

http://picasaweb.google.com/

when you have that program it automatically gives you free internet space to upload stuff to. then on the right there are links to the picture you can just copy and paste -- though i admit i always end up using the embed the image thing which has too much code so it took a little bit of practice with the preview button to see what to delete...

sorry, i didn't notice patty coming to give the clue until i'd already posted my rant. and i've been feeling the mists of avalon rage ever since i saw that damned swan. :P

patty is right about the cover. i don't think i've ever seen the other versions of it shown here on goodreads, anywhere.

dan, rod: if you dated any annoying, hippie girls who took women's studies courses in university and cried when bukowski died because he was part of counter-culture even though they'd never read him, and would have been horrified by him (unless they found out he was a singer in a band) and went to cafes with their own tea bags and demanded hot water and a table (do you think i'm drawing from life here?), i would bet dollars to doughnuts they had this on their shelves. in fact, my short, angry review of the book makes mention of these very women: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40..., and i alluded to the author and this hated book in message 33 of this here thread, which is why i suggested patty might be stickin' it to me. in the most loving way, of course. :)

it is the mists of avalon by marion zimmer bradley. if you have never read it, it is a revisionist, feminist spin on arthurian legend. essentially in mists of avalon women = morgan le fay = good pagans goddess lovely and benevolent matriarchy and men = arthur = evil christian oppressors. take a look at the reviews to see the stark divide of lovers and haters of this book.

it drove me crazy. to this day i look balefully at it whenever i see it.

rant over. :)

here's another from my college years, that i love but that really rocked my mental stability, and that i actually can't read through again because i start and then i start to think i'm going to lose it, a la VALIS:



if you all can't get this one (i know that there are a few people who are reading this thread and not participating -- feel free to shout out), i've got another up my sleeve. if it turns out you haven't read it, and are more mentally stable than me, i highly recommend this slim volume. :)

Kerry wrote: "Good job Patty! That Revolutionary Road cover was so pretty. I don't know yours, should I?"

i know patty's. i can't decide if she is sticking it to me or not. :P

Rod wrote:
Maureen, I'd say clue after a day sounds good, and if the poster doesn't show up to offer a clue and everybody seems stump..."

good eye! i think i know what yours is but i'm going to wait and see if anybody else comes along before spilling the beans... :)

the rule you suggest sounds good. when dan comes back to the thread we should get him to update his originating post to include this. :)

and now we wait...

Rod wrote: "I guess mine's too tough, so I'll go ahead and reveal the answer: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97...


hey rod! i've thought about reading that book before too. although i have this feeling that somebody discouraged me from buying it... :)

anyway, i feel kind of crummy that you had to give it away when not many people have looked at the thread yet...
should we leave unsolved ones unresolved? clue after a day? no answer? just skip onto the next? or will curiousity kill the cat? i'm trying to remember what the rule was for that title game we used to play... does anyone recall?

anyway, as brock knows full well, my CANADIAN-NESS also means i rarely read canadians, so this one was a dead giveaway (though i do want to say the englishman's boy is canadian and a western and is kicking my ass -- i will have to revisit the western thread about it.)

anyway, i simply looked up the canadian book i said i'd read with him (which i just saw at the used bookstore sunday and will pick up -- with different cover -- after i get paid this week so hurray!) after viewing this photo and realized it was "not wanted on the voyage" by timothy findley. :P

luckily i made a bunch of standby images yesterday so here we go:

yeah, i was kind of surprised a case could even be made. i've always been in the drug/drunk, madness & art all at play in the same fields of the brain camp but it was nice to see it doesn't necessarily mean the end. sometimes it means the beginning. because after all sometimes the embracing it all makes your priorities get all out of whack, or you can't manage to keep all the balls in the air, and you lose something anyway.

as i mentioned when i posted this on facebook, i love this idea of fitzgerald on oprah's couch as well, and it was interesting that the article points out how much more open people are about their addictions than they used to be. i've bookmarked the link to the fitzgerald essay they linked to but haven't had time to read it yet...

i'm going to have to defer to the rest of the gang on this one. i don't recognize this at all! maybe it is my canadian-ness that is failing me here. :)

are you looking for another image now? yes, it's waiting for godot. i think too easy. i'm going to take it up a notch next time. :)

where the sidewalk ends! good pick, rod! i bet children's books are going to be a bit more universally recognizable.

i think this one should be...



on a side note: i don't own gravity's rainbow or have ever read it so i feel better not being able to guess it and only recognizing the orange. :)

also, have been looking through my books for iconic covers and notice sometimes iconic covers are associated with books i really hate. like a certain marion zimmer bradley book. :)

even with rod's clue, i can't figure out what his is... although at this point i'm thinking i might own a copy. that orange is so familiar!

but since nobody has answered patty's i will wait to the end of the day and then unveil the answer. honestly, goodreads needs to add the "unread" to the group section on the interweb that they do on the mobile app. so much easier to catch up. half the time i only know that there's a new thread because a friend is commenting on it in my newsfeed.

thought you all might be interested in reading this. :)

http://moreintelligentlife.com/conten...

yeah, you're both right! it's moby dick! i still haven't read the long ships so it wouldn't have occurred to me! :) it's the tony millionaire cover i like so much:



rod, yeah, i meant iconic when i said classic. i should have realized how easily that could have been confused with classics. :)

p.s. i know the answer to patty's (hurray!) but i'm not saying, because i want to go back to reading The Englishman's Boy: A Novel because so far it's the best book i've read this year. plus, i'm still a mess and i keep blurting "oh god" intermittently. getting to the duff and a stomach-soothing cheeseburger sapped all my strength. but i'll be back! :)

i haven't the faintest idea what that one is. (and i cropped mine closer because more of the image seemed a dead giveaway.) i will give a hint later if nobody gets it.

it's an interesting idea for a game but i wonder if classic covers make the most sense to use because they're more recognizable? there's usually differences in cover between north america and europe, for example. (rod, i'm guessing yours is a classic cover that i just don't recognize. :)

at first i thought that was a stumper patrick, but then i realized where i'd seen those teeth and those shading of pinks behind him before!!!! it's prescription for love!

all right am subduing my weak stomach but i wanted to pipe in that i recognized austerlitz by w.g. sebald. and also trout fishing in america. thank you for reminding me that my brain still functions even if my stomach does not. :)

Jennie wrote: "I was dividing by twenty people so it could be cheaper if more join."

thanks for doing that jennie! i wondered when patrick thought weekends were off-limits if that meant they reserved those for wedding clients because it was clear from the website that they have quite a few of those at that location.

for myself, i really hope that that's the location that wins the poll. i think more elbow room would be good and i don't think that price is vastly different from the price of the others -- especially if you have to pay for a flight on top of all that... and then figure out a way to get everybody out to a place three hours away from the airport when not all of us drive.

FINGERS CROSSED FOR THE BIG HOUSE!!! :)