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Aug 13, 2013 09:23AM
Starting mid-September. Please feel free to join us!
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I read this only a short time ago, so will add some comments once you've both read it, if I may?
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Sure! The more the merrier ;)
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And of course Katy you're really welcome: as leslie was saying, the more the merrier!
Laura, I was looking through the Audiobook group's thread on good Librivox recordings and ran across one for this book! It is recording version 2 but here is the link:http://librivox.org/a-room-with-a-vie...
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Good! It'll be my audiobook of "Back to school" - the school of kids of course!!!
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I LOVE how she reads! I comfess:today I stayed at home in the morning doing some washing up and I started listening the first two chapters. But tomorrow back to seaside. I'll pick it up again in Perugia in a week!
I think I may read this with you, too. It sounds very good.
Elizabeth wrote: "I think I may read this with you, too. It sounds very good."Yes, do! :)
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And here I am, slightly delusional in regards to the capacity of words that I can stomache per month (I am seeing my name in a LOT of these readalongs here) but hey, who needs a life if one has a book? In short: I'm in. ;)
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Sorry for the stupid question - Is there a date when we are supposed to start this or do we just read it in mid-September when we can? Thanks!
Elizabeth wrote: "Sorry for the stupid question - Is there a date when we are supposed to start this or do we just read it in mid-September when we can? Thanks!"When you can - I think Laura has started already. I will probably start this weekend, unless my library books get in the way.
I've just started it today and swallowed several chapters in one big gulp which I suppose is a good sign.
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Ohhh I really liked that one, Leslie and Laura I am glad you convinced me to join. I will write a bit more once you have started reading it too (I actually took notes, that's how little I trust that brain of mine) but I thought it was a very quick, enjoyable, light yet very clever read (light with undergrowth maybe) with great characters. Somehow I was a bit reminded of I Capture the Castle. I'll be curious to hear what you guys think. Still wavering (sounds weird but my dictionary told me so) between 4 or 5*, I guess I'll sleep on it.
I am having a hard time liking this one. It would help if I liked the characters.
Katy wrote: "I am having a hard time liking this one. It would help if I liked the characters."I know what you mean! Although I did like the Emersons, especially old Mr. Emerson. How far are you?
I am not quite half way through. I just met Cecil. I'm glad it is short.
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Just finished it. I think I enjoyed the second half of the book better. Overall book was 3 stars for me. Liked the way how nicely Lucy's character developed in the book, moving from the shadows of Charlotte to standing up for herself. Mr Emerson , very likeable!
Jenny - it's not in your books! Did you decide not to read this one?
Is it not? oh lol, hold on that's why: it's shelved under it's German title "Zimmer mit Aussicht" ;)
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Nice to have so many languages in one group, isn't it?!!!
It certainly is! It makes me feel a bit inadequate though. I should have tried harder at school! And I've found your "Zimmer mit Aussicht" now Jenny. I could just about have understood that from my schoolgirl German - and I look forward to your review eventually :)
Jean, I don't really do reviews that often I have to admit, unless I really feel the need to, sometimes I do them for books that I think aren't being read enough. I am comfortable enough chatting to you guys here, but usually feel that my English is a bit inadequat for a proper review. I usually just take notes for myself (again: mostly because I have the memory capacity of a hamster)Remember how I said I took notes in order to share my toughts with you after? I've no idea WHERE I wrote them down. LOL. But I'll browse for them now, maybe I'll find them. I do remember though that I scribbled down quite a few things about Cecil, who I thought was a very annoying but interesting character in the way that his self-image (that of a passionate man of nature) and who he seemed to be to the rest of the world (a man with a broom up is behind...is this an acceptable figure of speech in English?!?) where worlds apart.
I loved the old Mr. Emerson. Even enjoyed the moment when Mr. Forster breaks the 4th wall as we say in theatre...talks to the reader? I actually laughed out loud though I usually hate this with a passion. Just sometimes it felt like Mr. Forster was writing under the influence of some sort of substance, as his language sometimes lost all shape and definition for half a sentence to then come back to normal, but that might have been the translater as well, so I am not sure about it.
I tend to be a bit of a masochistic reader, reading lot's of heavy, often bleak stuff, so this was such a great break from all that.
