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[DJ]

Her beginnings, the way she re-invented herself given the time she was living in, her fear of inheriting mental illness from her Mother, her dlusions rgarding her father, he way she tried to escape jrough her first marriag to Jim Docherty, h way she managed to get herself propelled owards the stardom she craved, her fascination with scince and religion after the strictness of her upbringing, the way she repetitively fell for married men which to my mind was in part due to the fact that it took the burden of settling down to typical domesticity off of her......
Er maybe I should stop....
Sorry but In pretty into it

[Shane]

Cheers Jo. How are you BTW?

S

[ms.petra]

To Diana D. I have just started it and so far so good. I give Imperfect Birds a "C"...it started out fine, but ended very predictably and just not that interesting :( I mostly listen to books when working my mail route for the P.O. My books keep me company! My daughter is graduating from high school in a couple of weeks and between that, college planning, work, life, I don't have the time or energy to read real books anymore. Abe wasn't available at my library on audio so it will take me a while to finish it....

[Shane]

I'm fine thanks, just got thru a REALLY busy period. So much so that I worked 73 hours in one week!You keeping well?

[Shane]

Crikey, that doesn't sound like good news! Glad it's picking up.

S

[Diane]

ms.petra wrote: "To Diana D. I have just started it and so far so good. I give Imperfect Birds a "C"...it started out fine, but ended very predictably and just not that interesting :( I mostly listen to books w..."

Hi Ms. Petra. What a great way to get in reading, audio while doing your mail route! I really should pick up Abe Lincoln....I'm in the same boat as you, not enough reading time lately. I'm reading like a page a day before falling asleep at night and I can't stand reading that way.

[ms.petra]

Currently listening to The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano. Shane, I love memoirs and bios too. Have you read Game Change? It is all that and politics rolled into one. A peek behind the scenes at the 2008 election. Very good.

[Donna]

Started City of Bones

[Shane]

Hmmm... sounds interesting, might give it a go. I have to say tho that my knowledge of US politics is practically zero. I'll look it up shortly. It's only in the pase few years that i've started to read this kind of kind of book and they can be truly fascinating. Like your dog in the picture what breed is he?

[Diane]

ms.petra wrote: "Currently listening to The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano. Shane, I love memoirs and bios too. Have you read Game Change? It is all that and politics rolled into one. A peek behind t..."

Ms. Petra/Shane - I just picked up a memoir A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir

[ms.petra]

I wish it were my dog, but it is my sister's Australia Shepherd, Sawyer. Sawyer and I share a birthday...He is my dog nephew. I have so few pictures of myself because I am usually behind the camera. But I love that rascal's baby picture :) I like it when people use their actual pictures on their fb or other networking site. I like to look at the people I am conversing with....Finished Solitude today. I will have to think about it a bit. The characters are just on the edge of society and don't quite fit in. We have all felt this way... yet one is so averse to taking any risk he is destined to be alone. Funny thing is, he is ok with that. Everyone else feels discomfort in it. Makes me think about the point that I start living for myself instead of always the other person..... always good when a book makes you think

[Stephanie]

Almost finished Dead In The Family by Charlaine Harris.

[Afsana]

Currntly finishing off Tales of the Otherworld

And still listening to

Mansfield Park and Assassination of Marilyn Monroe

[Ivan]

Death in the Fifth Position by Edgar (Gore Vidal) Box - an early detective novel by a true American master. This book is set in the world of NYC ballet - it's really fun.

[DJ]

Hi I'm reading AFFINITY by Sarah Waters.
Should I start 1984 next Jo?

[Maggie]

I loved Affinity - in fact I love all Sarah Water's books. hope you enjoy it!

[DJ]

I have loved FINGERSMITH and THE LITTLE FRIEND and I also have NIGHTWATCH...so hopefully in safe hands of enjoyment.I will let you know.

[Maggie]

I think Fingersmith is my favourite. Nightwatch was a bit different but very good.

[DJ]

I loved it as it was so in the style of Wilkie Collins....
Great Chatting to you..

[Jim]

I'm close to finishing Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger. Just when I think the book couldn't be more appalling, it manages it. I'd really like to read the original version, properly translated, one day. This version is, I believe, from his 1964 re-write. The distance & humor that he shows for the horrors of WWI is incredible & heart wrenching. I guess it was that or go nuts.

[Afsana]

1984 should be read asap DJ

[Monica]

DJ wrote: "I loved it as it was so in the style of Wilkie Collins....
Great Chatting to you.."

I agree! Sarah Waters' writing style reminded me so much of Wilkie Collins! I loved, loved The Little Stranger!

[DJ]

Afsana wrote: "1984 should be read asap DJ"
YES MAM!!!


Oh Lord I`m sorry I meant to type THE LITTLE STRANGER,I mixed upthe title with Donna Tartt.....
Sorry for any confusion..

[Maggie]

I'm currrently reading What we All Want by Michelle Berry - I'm trying to get through some books that have been on the TBR shelf for what seems like years. Just finished The 9th Life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen which I really enjoyed - she's a strange writer!

[DJ]

Is that the same author as THE RAPTURE????

[Maggie]

Yes, I've got that to read - and just ordered Ark Baby from Amazon - along with 4 others books lol

[DJ]

You can never have too many books.....well thats what I say and I`ve just discovered that I bought 135 books since last I listed...
Let me knowif you wantto discussTHE RAPTURE as I haven`t read it yet either....

[Jason]

Can anyone recommend a really good self help book ? I am interested in one that deals with self belief and confidence and gives practical advice on how to live your life on a day to day basis ?

[Jim]

Jason wrote: "Can anyone recommend a really good self help book ? I am interested in one that deals with self belief and confidence and gives practical advice on how to live your life on a day to day basis ?"

The best advice I ever read was the following, a Sanskrit Proverb:

Look to this day,
For it is life,
The very life of life.
In its brief course lie all
The realities and verities of existence,
The bliss of growth,
The splendor of action,
The glory of power –

For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today, well lived,
Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore, to this day.

[Leslie]

Jason wrote: "Can anyone recommend a really good self help book ? I am interested in one that deals with self belief and confidence and gives practical advice on how to live your life on a day to day basis ?"

I find memoirs like Jeannette Walls The Glass Castleinspiring to read when I am feeling down.... When one thinks of the obstacles she overcame (growing up in a family of Appalachian hillbillies) before becoming a journalist/writer, it is uplifting. Recently, I started a blog called "The Reading List" at www.the-reading-list.com to explore how literature has raised my spirits at crisis points in my own life.

[Maggie]

I agree - you can never have too many books!

[DJ]

Jo wrote: "DJ, start with 1984 whenever you are ready. I am about half way through but in a slight reading slump so i should be done in a week or two. Just let me know when you have finished with it so we can..."

Rightie O!!

[Diane]

Afsana wrote: "Diane D. wrote: "I've started The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest -- it's going to take me awhile, I'm afraid. It's a big book and unfortunately I don't have a lot of reading time ..."

Afsana -- read it! :)

[Afsana]

Diane D. wrote: "Afsana wrote: "Diane D. wrote: "I've started The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest -- it's going to take me awhile, I'm afraid. It's a big book and unfortunately I don't have a lot o..."

will do

[Stephanie]

Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson.

[ms.petra]

The Man From Beijing by Henning Mankell

[Donna]

Finally started Honolulu by Alan Brennert

[Liz]

I'm thinking about reading A Wrinkle in Time

[DJ]

Just starting SOLAR by Ian McEwan.....
I know I was supposed to start 1984 but Husband have me this tonight as I recently read and loved ON CHESIL BEACH and I saw an interview at the Hay Festival where he was discussing SOLAR....It seems like it will be humourous...He got me it for the Anniversary of our first Date which will be 12 years ago on Sunday,but he gave me it tonight as I had just finished AFFINITY......

[DJ]

Hi Jo I had it in my hand when he walked in and ga e me this.I'm look g forward to reading 1984 so it will be next up.I seem to he been reading slower than usual.....
Thanks for understanding. :-)

[Jason]

just got today the edge of darkness afraid the last gospel and the given day. Started reading a book about the Permian extinction as well.

[ms.petra]

Angelology by Danielle Trussoni

[Donna]

Both Poison Study and Beautiful Creatures just came into the library! Looks like I got a busy week ahead of me!

[Liz]

Donna wrote: "Both Poison Study and Beautiful Creatures just came into the library! Looks like I got a busy week ahead of me!"

Please tell me what you think of poison study!

[Donna]

Will do! It seems like it will be a quick one.

[Jason]

Jack Kilborn writes a pretty mean horror story, I was up till two thirty in the morning reading Afraid. It had me hooked that much I didn't want to sleep in case I had nightmares.
I haven't read much of Stephen King but I think Kilborn out horrors King by a league and a half and then some. Imagine having your worst ever nightmare and not being able to wake up and thats just at the start of Afraid !!Afraid not for the faint hearted !! only gore hounds and grand guignol fans need apply !!

[Leslie]

Over the weekend, I started Wayson Choy's Paper Shadows: A Memoir of a Past Lost and Found, which I have been meaning to read for a while. Love it. He skillfully weaves back and forth between present and past, bringing Vancouver's Chinatown (of his youth) to life, replete with ghost stories, interesting customs and tales of intrigue.

I also read over the weekend Jeffrey Eugenides' fabulous short story "Extreme Solitude" in The New Yorker (www.newyorker.com) and couldn't resist blogging about it.... www.the-reading-list.com

[Harriet]

I haven't posted on here in forever, but I promise I've done a lot of reading since then :)
Currently reading Philippa Gregory's 'The White Queen' and absolutely loving it. She's one of my favourite authors and I haven't read anything of hers in a few years, so it's lovely to be back and loving her books just as much as before!

DJ wrote: "Just starting SOLAR by Ian McEwan.....
I know I was supposed to start 1984 but Husband have me this tonight as I recently read and loved ON CHESIL BEACH and I saw an interview at the Hay Festival w..."

DJ, I read Solar last week (Ian McEwan's another of my favourite authors!) and it was so much better than I expected it to be (although not quite as good as 'Amsterdam'). What do you think of it?

[Jim]

I just started reading The Good Old Days--They Were Terrible! by Otto Bettmann. It's pretty interesting. He points out in the introduction that we moan about all the problems today & say how great it was, but it wasn't. I'm only a few pages in & he's pointed out that car exhaust is bad, but NYC used to have so many pigs that people passed out from the smell. Horses left so many piles of manure that, on dry days, it turned into dust that choked people.

[Diane]

Jim, that books sounds pretty interesting!

I just started Pride and Prejudice.