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Titas wrote: "Sean, Brenda, E., Gopal, Diane, Sonia, Sue, Janet, Amber, Diane S and Perry,Thank you all so much!"
You're welcome!
Happy Women's Day to all the beautiful ladies in the group!!
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38 years !!
Sean wrote: "thanks"You're welcome, Sean.
Congrats. Sean. In two years you'll have to have a big celebration!
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Celebrating 60th birthday in September as well
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Marwan wrote: "Yesterday, I passed my PhD viva, the viva lasted about 4 hours, but it was worth it. I'm in the middle, to the left are my external and internal examiners. and to the right are my supervisor, the..."
A belated Congrats, Marwan!
Titas (I read in bed) wrote: "So, this just happened. I'm getting married on 5th of July. After 8 and half years (since October 2009) of craziness we're finally getting married.
It means a lot to me to share this news with ..."
Congrats, Titas! Such an exciting time!
Sean wrote: "Today, 29th March my wife and my wedding anniversary.38 years !!"
That is wonderful and rare! Congratulations!
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Hopefully announcing our next Q and A author shortly.
A top author and a favourite here.
No more news till I can confirm.
Okay, this is too funny. Does anyone remember John Jakes? I remember discovering The Bastard at my grandma's house in the late 70s/early 80s. Open Road Media has a bunch of his books on sale in e-book form including a book on the fall of Atlantis! Who knew he wrote a book on Atlantis? I only knew about the series starting with the Bastard, plus the Civil War series.
From the description: A courtesan for hire, a brainless hunk, and alien invaders combine to bring about ancient history’s most momentous catastrophe in John Jakes’s hilarious take on the fall of Atlantis
D.B. wrote: "Sean wrote: "Today, 29th March my wife and my wedding anniversary.38 years !!"
That is wonderful and rare! Congratulations!"
Not so rare DB. I have been married 43 years. It's like writing; it takes a lot of hard work and imagination.
P.K. wrote: "Not so rare DB. I have been married 43 years. It's like writing; it takes a lot of hard work and imagination."And an infinite capacity to laugh at your blunders when looking backward, I think.
I hope everyone had a nice Easter weekend. I did not. I spent almost the whole damned weekend in the hospital because of DKA. Sean will probably best know what I'm referring to.
Amber wrote: "P.K. wrote: "Not so rare DB. I have been married 43 years. It's like writing; it takes a lot of hard work and imagination."And an infinite capacity to laugh at your blunders when looking backward..."
To laugh at almost everything, Amber. But not blunders; they are an ongoing learning process, always evolving but never disappearing. So sorry about your weekend and I hope you are now feeling better for it. Here in the UK we had almnost non-stop rain - as we seem to have had since August last year. I'm thinking of getting a boat again and calling it The lost Art.
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96 years old today...
Thanks, P.K. You laugh at past blunders so you HOPEFULLY don't make the SAME blunder again. :)Sorry to hear about the rain. I think Belleville's catching the rain you guys had last year.
P.K. wrote: "Not so rare DB. I have been married 43 years. It's like writing; it takes a lot of hard work and imagination."So true!
Kirsten wrote: "Okay, this is too funny. Does anyone remember John Jakes? I remember discovering The Bastard at my grandma's house in the late 70s/early 80s. Open Road Media has a bunc..."
Thanks a lot, Kirsten. Just another one I have to read now. ☺
Amber wrote: "P.K. wrote: "Not so rare DB. I have been married 43 years. It's like writing; it takes a lot of hard work and imagination."And an infinite capacity to laugh at your blunders when looking backward..."
Hope you're feeling better, Amber!
Am I the only one who has a Notifications list that says "Invalid Date" next to each notice?
Amber wrote: "Am I the only one who has a Notifications list that says "Invalid Date" next to each notice?"Nope, it shows the same thing for me too, looks like a glitch in GoodReads!!!
D.B.: Quite a bit better...aside from the fact I hate rain.Gopal: Damn.
I just found out that this is Banned Book week. I googled a list and was surprised at the amount of banned and challenged books, i.e., The War of the Worlds - Moby-Dick or, The Whale - Gone with the Wind, and a bazillion others.
Why was The War of the Worlds challenged?
Well, the priest doesn't come out as particularly sympathetic...
That can't be the ONLY reason... .
I found an interesting article that discusses the banning of the War of The Worlds. England felt that underlying themes were negative to English imperialism and some countries objected to mention of evolution. I haven't read it but I do have a copy in an anthology.
In hindsight, you pretty quickly realize that those reasons are as stupid as challenging it because the Anglican priest gets his ass killed by the Martians because of what sounded like his own stupidity or hubris.
Amber wrote: "In hindsight, you pretty quickly realize that those reasons are as stupid as challenging it because the Anglican priest gets his ass killed by the Martians."After reading some of the idiotic reasons that books were banned it is definitely worthwhile highlighting them with a special week.
Good point. Too bad The Clan of the Cave Bear and it's five sequels were never challenged simply on the basis of info dump... .
So many challenged or banned due to inclusion of a particular word. If only banning a book could change history.
Well I did find A Clockwork Orange was one that I just put on my DNF books. I just found it to be very negative and distressing. Not for me.
Where did you get the reason why the books were banned?
Not sure who has said what here. But picking up a cuppla points; I don't know if the reference about War of The Worlds is for the book, the radio play or the film. The radio play, as read by Orson Welles caused panic in the States because of its realistic opening; people thought it was for real. But there was a successful tv play of it and I don't remember any ban in the UK or the States. As to A Clockwork Orange. That ran here. I thought it was a brave interpretation that chronicled the phsycological problems that cause violence in young people of which we are suffering tody. It wasn't banned but the director, Lindsay Anderson, withdrew it voluntarily after its one run because of the violence and refused to realese it again. But it was shown again last year after Anderson's death. There are cases of books being banned here; Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and James Joyce's Ullyses being the famous ones. Times change and censorship learns. The silliest censorship I remember was when the BBC banned the recording of Johnny Ray's 'I Believe' on religious grounds. A great song.
Most books that are banned in the states are because of the puritanical attitudes of the religious. I don't remember War of the Worlds being banned, but other books have been. The sad thing is that the books that are trying to teach the wrongs of things like racism, end up getting banned accused of being racist.
We call that "The pot calling the kettle black," Kirsten.
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Thank you all so much!