Moppet’s Comments (group member since Oct 13, 2010)

Moppet’s comments from the Sweeping Sagas group.

Misfit wrote: "Moppet, I've got an ILL just showed up on my hold list so when that lands in a couple of days it will have to take higher priority. Ill's have shorter borrow times in my neck of the woods."

Yes, same over here. No problem, I'll start the thread and you & Michele can jump in whenever you get to the book.

Misfit wrote: "My copy was sitting on the hold shelf at the library today, but nothing's happening until I finish Guests of the Emperor."

I've started, but you read so much faster you will probably be done before me! I'll start a discussion thread when I get a moment.

Michele wrote: "

My cover. Paperback, original selling price: 50 cents, lol. No isbn. Published in 1952."

That particular shade of beige is very 50s! What does the caption at the bottom say?

I think this is the first edition:



ETA: as per the title I was expecting a chunkster but my copy is only 350 odd pages - not that long.

Misfit wrote: "OK, I placed my hold (chose the first edition of course) and will have to wait. This new catalog they have is hard for me to tell if others have it checked out or not."

Hope it has its cover! Mine is sans dustjacket unfortunately.

I have now got a library copy! A 1952 hardback.

And, I'm almost done with The Darling Strumpet. So my next reading window is coming up fast. Not much reading time at the moment (about an hour a day on public transport basically) and Giant might take me as long as two weeks to read - so if you all think you might start it within that time, I'll dig in. If not I'll wait.

Misfit wrote: "Moppet wrote: "Have you seen the film of Giant? I haven't."

If I have it was so long ago I've forgotten."

I know it has got Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean so it should be good but I'll wait to rent it until I've read the book. I usually prefer to do it that way round, unless a film brings me to the book, which sometimes happens.

Have you seen the film of Giant? I haven't.

Misfit wrote: "Moppet wrote: "This is on my radar and I'm thinking of starting it soon - anyone else interested??"

I think I can handle that, just give me a heads up to get it from the library. My luck it will..."

Yay! I think I can get it Saturday from my subscription library but there is no rush whatsoever as minimum borrowing period is 2 months and I can have the book out as long as I want unless someone else requests it. So I can wait till you can get hold of it and have a reading window.

This is on my radar and I'm thinking of starting it soon - anyone else interested??

Marg wrote: "Sarah Harrison is a new to me author. Sounds like someone I would like to read."

I highly recommend those two books Marg. She doesn't pull any punches with either the sex scenes or the war scenes but the books are all the better for that. The first book follows two upper middle class girls and their maid through the First World War and the second follows a daughter from the next generation through the Second World War. Really hard to put down.

Hello all, just added a load of books to the shelf, so I hope we weren't supposed to vote on them first, or anything.

I think And Ladies of the Club is a small-town saga from Victorian times to the early 20th century, but I'm not sure as I can't get hold of a copy, none of my libraries have it. So probably one of you will get to it before me.

Definitely agree about To Dance With Kings (I didn't like it all that much but it's a family saga all right) and A Woman of Substance. I think two of Danielle Steel's qualify, Thurston House and Family Album, and two of Daphne du Maurier's, The Loving Spirit and Hungry Hill. Honourable Estate by Vera Brittain covers the rise of feminism from Victorian times to the 1930s through three generations of women. Flowers of the Field and A Flower That's Free by Sarah Harrison follows two generations of a family through the two world wars.