Just For January

[Ellen]

Omg that’s awful!! I’m glad no one was hurt but how terrifying.

I also felt pretty much the same as you about Oranges.

And Comfort Farm definitely made me laugh. It’s like Emma by Austen only even more light-hearted.

[Petra]

OMG, Megan! I'm glad everyone is okay. It's a blessing that no one was hurt. I'm sure the woman feels awful, too, but.....yikes!.....that's a big mistake to make. It happens, though. I'm glad no one was hurt.

We're doing fine here in PoCo. The streets are bare but a bit icy. We've had a dusting of snow to wake up to each morning and there's supposed to be one last "kick at the cat" tonight with a large dump of snow. Next week is supposed to be a lot warmer and lots of rain to wash things away.

Ellie, I added Cold Comfort Farm to the bookshelf.

[Ellen]

Thanks Petra for adding Cold Comfort Farm.

I love the expression "kick at the cat"--that's a new one for me.

[Petra]

LOL..... it's probably not great for the cat....on the other hand, cats are so quick, they get away unharmed. I like the saying, too (with the cat getting away in my mind).

The snow missed us. According to the news, it hit several pockets but no new snow here. Today is warm enough for the snow to start melting.

I went to the produce store yesterday. Was disappointed in the quality of a lot of the produce. I guess not many people came in to do their shopping last week due to the road conditions and the produce has been sitting for awhile. I just bought a little and hope that early next week will have fresher items.

[Magdelanye, Senior Flight Attendant]

Waiting to come here to give Megan in particular this link First Snow, Last Light by Wayne Johnston. Its definitely not fluffy but its eminently readable.

It's great that others are doing stuff with our library. RM definitely belongs on the best of fiction shelf. I admit I dont remember to check in there each time I log on but then again I am never stumped for long about what to read next with my pile of library books.
That said, let there never be a fluffy shelf there! Im sure you don't mean really fluffy, as in nauseous. Lighter fare okay, but fluffy obviously triggers something in me that belongs in another thread, How about Ellies phrase light hearted? Its also the intention of laughable and wedge.

Ellie I have finally managed to get to the creative fiction part of 3 body;that is I think the hard science lesson is over. I looked it up on the internet and there are several videos and explanations that added to my understanding. Well, I will never completely understand but enough to get the drift which made the book more fascinating instead of a bit boring.

BTW, I wrote the member who had been posting reams of bosom beaters. I explained how I I respect her right to read whatever she wants to, and that didn't want to lose her friendship but to get a blast of 4 or 5 of those covers at once was a bit much and could she maybe do something about it. She wrote me back very sweetly and I see she is bringing in more variety.

Hope everyone is snug and safe this cold winter evening!
Feeling a special kinship with those in Newfoundland, which is where First Snow is set.

[Petra]

I'm going to suggest that we use our current shelves of "Makes Me Laugh" and "Wedged Between The Heavies" as our form of a "Fluffy" shelf. Those shelf titles insinuate a lighter, happier read, I think.

I like the bookshelf. I don't use it often but I do like going there to see what books are liked by our members and how they have classified the books on the shelves. It gives a good idea of what is in the books.
I am slowly going through the books on the shelves and looking more deeply into those only shelved as "read" and trying to fit them into our other shelves. I'm not rating them, if they have no ratings, though, as I haven't read them. If anyone knows more info on any of the books labelled only with "read", please send me a message letting me know which shelves to add them to. Each book can be added to as many shelves as are applicable to it.

I spent the afternoon painting 2 small carved caricatures. One is 3" tall; the other 2" tall. The taller one is a man in a suit & tie; the shorter one a man in bibbed overalls. They're kind of cute, if I say so myself. I'm going to get a couple of corks to attach them to and make them into bottle stoppers.
I'm enjoying carving these little projects as they teach me technique and are quick(er) but I am running out of things to do with them. I have purchased some key chain making items and will experiment with using some of these small carvings for keychains, as well as more bottle stoppers.

I'm still reading Salt. It's got some very interesting information but there is a section that talks only about salted fish. Who salted fish for food? Well, it turns out that EVERYBODY in all of Europe did and the author goes through each country's history with fish salting separately….as well as adds a bunch of fish salting recipes. This section is way too long. I got the point early in the section: all countries relied on salted fish for food. Got it. Move on. LOL!
Thankfully, I'm out of that section now and back into more interesting stories.

I am going to start Unleashed, another Andy Carpenter series book, as a lighter read between Salt chapters. I read 2 of the Christmas themed Andy Carpenter books in December and find them to be a lot of good fun.

I haven't been going for jogs lately and am looking forward to going again soon. There's still way too much snow on the sidewalks to make this possible yet.

[Ellen]

Is it still snowing on the West Coast? It's colder here than it was but still not that cold. Not compared to you folks!

I just finished A Fine Balance. Which I loved, even though it was totally heartbreaking.

Now I'm trying to settle in with a new book. I'm floating amongst Flame (a collection of the writings of Leonard Cohen), Disoriental, and Little Dorrit. Also The Hidden Life of Trees. I can't seem to choose. I think I'm still caught up in AFB.

[Petra]

Ellie, the snow has melted away over the past couple of very rainy days and nights. It's much warmer than it was during that deep freeze.

Gosh, I read AFB so many years ago. I don't remember the ending at all, sad or not. I do remember thinking it was a fantastic read.

I'm hoping to finish Salt: A World History in the next day or two. I'm mostly enjoying it but wouldn't recommend it. It meanders and repeats itself too much. The section about salting fish was painful. It described where the fish were caught, the history of coming to America for fish, the salting, the salting, the salting....each country and each variety of fish. It was just too much. Also, there's a ton of recipes sprinkled throughout that seem more like filler.
That said, there are some very interesting bits of information so the read isn't wasted.
"To sail The Seven Seas" = there used to be a 25 mile wide stretch of water between Venice and Italy's mainland called The Seven Seas. It was a treacherous, sandbar filled stretch. The Seven Seas doesn't exist anymore. I always thought this expression meant the World's seven seas; not one particular sea with the name of The Seven Seas.

[Magdelanye, Senior Flight Attendant]

oh Petra I'm sorry to be laughing at your experience with the salted fish book -sounds like a real potboiler! (sorry, i couldn't resist) I actually love black alaskan cod which I think is a salted fish. Do post us a couple of recipes. I can't imagine. And maybe Venice is being reclaimed by the seven seas?

Ellie RM's other books are also fabulous. Have you read Shantaram? And Elif Shafuk would engage you I believe.
Have we got anything in the library under wedge?

I'm reading a crooked little gem right now, Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall by Suzette Mayr Actually, it could be a wedge book but I need to finish it to be sure.

This week is the literacy crawl in our village. The idea that each of the participating places has an activity or a challenge to complete and you get a letter bead to put on the leather strip you get for registering. So after days holed up in my cabin I went down and played a game of scrabble and several find the word games.

Actually thats not strictly true: yesterday I got a lift with a friend who was going in to town for an appointment so I got to spend an hour in the library and exchange books. I got quite a few of the canada reads books, a new Jesse Ball, and at last ploughman! My days have all of a sudden gotten full with the on line seminars I am doing this month, keeping up with reviews, and of course reading and writing. I havent found my lost book of notes but I have found quite a few envelopes and scrap papers tucked in old journals and even my original notebook of titles from the mid to late 70's!

the snow is mostly gone although up here there are still piles of it in the shady parts of the lawn. Petra I'm sure you will be zipping around your neighbourhood! Hope Megan is warmer too!

[Petra]

I don't blame you for laughing, Magdelanye. I rolled my eyes after awhile. LOL.

Here's a recipe for a custardy, molded dish that the Romans enjoyed.
Lovage is the herb used in a German spice called Maggi, which we use quite a bit in our home for seasoning.
Garum is a condiment very much like soy sauce (but without soy) that the Romans called "broth". It's the salt in the recipe. It seems that many nations had some version of salty sauce, like soy sauce, that they used for cooking.
Maggi would be a garum. It's liquid, salty and is used to spice & salt a dish.

"Place cooked mallows, leeks, beets, or cooked cabbage sprouts, roasted thrushes and quenelles of chicken, tidbits of port or squab, chicken an d other similar shreds of fins meats that may be available. Arrange everything in alternating layers (in a mold).
Crush pepper and lovage with two parts old wine, one part broth (garum), one part honey and a little oil. Taste it: and when well-mixed and in due proportions put in a sauce pan and allow to heat moderately; when boiling add a pint milk in which about eight eggs have been dissolved; pour over the mold and heat slowly but do not allow to boil. When thickened serve. "

If one has a hankering for salt cod pie (17th century English recipe):
"Being boiled, take salt cod from its skin and bones, and mince it with apples, season it with nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, pepper, caraway seed, currans, minced raisons, rose-water, minced lemon peel, sugar, sliced dates, white wine, verjuice and butter. Fill your pyes, bake them and ice them."

Verjuice is a "sour fruit juice, in this case probably from apples".
I have no idea what one would ice a pie with. ….Or maybe they mean to refrigerate it on ice.

This is a handy 15th Century Spanish rule of thumb for salted, smoked hams, even in today's time. LOL:
"Stick a knife into the middle of a ham and smell it. If it smells good, the ham will be good; if bad, it should be thrown away."

[Magdelanye, Senior Flight Attendant]

well who would have guessed such elaborate prep. I'm not sure where to source some of those ingredients. Do you think the thrush are essential? I'll bet that verjuice is fermented!

I love the wording if not the idea of eating these!
what about the salting methods?
gosh Petra I might have to get this book.

Ellie I am hammering myself to finish 3 body. It does become more coherent . I have ditched it actually a few times but it bothers me so I am pushing on the last 100 pages

Megan I think you especially would resonate with Second Sight: An Intuitive Psychiatrist Tells Her Extraordinary Story and Shows You How To Tap Your Own Inner Wisdom by Judith Orloff I am waiting for her other book The Empath's Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People

[Ellen]

Magdelanye, I've become completely distracted from 3 Body but I do hope to get back to it. I've started Little Dorrit which I'm enjoying (although I'm intimidated by the length); also, The Flame, a collection of Leonard Cohen's writings, which I'm excited about.

I do wish I could read books simultaneously!

Petra, such culinary ideas! They're such fun to read although I doubt that I'll ever have a hankering for salt cod pie!

Katie and I went to see The Lion King last night. We had dinner at a vegan sushi restaurant which I loved. Such whimsical combinations of fruit and veggies! But the crowds downtown are overwhelming and everyone apparently considers themselves the only one in the universe. Well maybe not everyone. One older man fell and a group of young men and women helped him up and made sure he was ok so that restored some of my faith in people. But really--it was very intense! But dinner and the show were so much fun. However, I'm exhausted today. I don't know if I'll make it to the gym. I might just stay home and read!

[Magdelanye, Senior Flight Attendant]

Ellie you've encapsulated the joys and drawbacks of living in the city: great restaurants and wonderful theatre choices (and poetry events and live music) vs surly and self obsessed crowds. In my town theres a great food truck, a Japanese restaurant and a Mexican one and the fancy expensive pub up the hill and the even fancier (and pricier) Painted Boat Resteraunte part of a tourist destination. Thats it for miles around. Im glad you witnessed some kindness in action though. I'd like to think that that kind of thing is growing
Hope you have a lovely day whatever you decide to do!
Im rather blown away by Dennis Lees poetry and determined to finish up with the exasperating 3 body this weekend as well as starting a sequel to Nervous Conditions that i thought so brilliant.
sorry no link, im just getting moving so on the fone for immediate response
well its just after 7:30 and the darkness is beginning to lift, an improvement. It might be light by 8!

[Megan]

@ Magdelanye, thanks for the book recommendations! My library doesn't have Second Sight, but does have her Empath book, so I'll check it out.

@Ellie, that's a big night out. I live in a city and hardly go do big events anymore, I find it very overwhelming. My husband and I are going to see Great Lake Swimmers at the end of February. They are my favourite chill music band, so it's worth it. Then I will need to recover I'm sure!

@Petra, everything you could have ever wanted to know about salt!! Good for you for persevering. I gave up on Moby Dick once he spent way too many pages listing the type of whales in the ocean. Snore.

[Petra]

Magdelanye, the salting is described; not in a recipe. It's detailed on how to clean the fish, which fins to remove, how to pack it, etc.
If you are serious about finding a copy, I'd be happy to add it to Silence and give it to you when we meet up.

Here's a 14th Century recipe for Porpoise:

"Take purpays: do away the skyn, cut hit yn small lechys (slices) no more than f finger, or les. Take bred drawen wyth red wyne; put therto pwder of canell (cinnamon), powder of pepyr. Boil hit, seson hit up with powder of ginger, venegre and salt."

[Ellen]

Petra, putting the recipe in 14th century English makes it sound like a kind of poetry!

It's a great day for reading here: dark and rainy. I'm going to settle in, dividing my time between Little Dorrit and Leonard Cohen.

But I won't be able to enjoy the evening this way: a friend of Katie's just called and gave us tickets to Billy Joel's concert at Madison Square Garden tonight so I'll be braving the subways and city crowds again. One good thing is I get a lot of reading done on the train!

[Petra]

Billy Joel! So worth any trouble to get there. Ellie, I'm so glad you are going. I'm almost jealous. Have a great time. I know you will.

Some of my favorite musical artists:
Billy Joel
Elton John
Cher
Rolling Stones
Moody Blues

I'm sure there are more but these come to mind immediately.

To everyone here: who are some of your old time favorite, go-to musical artists?


Ellie, the scattered recipes were fun to read. It's interesting to think about how our ancestors lived and survived. The recipes give a focus to the reality of their food supply.
I finished the book last night. It was an interesting read with a ton of great information and stories. It was a bit repetitive at times but my overall feeling is one of interest and I'm glad I read it.
I still prefer the book that brought Salt to my attention: The Great Hedge of India: The Search for the Living Barrier that Divided a People (which is also mentioned in Salt....not the book; the hedge). The Great Hedge is a modern day travelogue, as well as a search, and was very interesting on all fronts.

[Magdelanye, Senior Flight Attendant]

Hows this for synchronicity> I came her to read your comments of course but prepared to share a link to my favourite cello player, Jami Sieber. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiBzt...

if you want old faves Petra those you listed were some of mine. I have to include Frank Zappa and early Alice Cooper and Bob Dylan and Joan Biaz and Etta James and (ike and) Tina Turner and of course by the time I was 17 I had fallen in love with Miles Davis and John Coltrane/ I have gotten into the habit of finding music to resonate with the book I am reading. It's especially nice to play whatever music is referenced in a book.

Do let us know how was the concert Ellie. I will not be jealous but happy to live it vicariously.

BIG NEWS: I finished the 3 body problem! Not that I solved it, but even though it wasn't the most fun reading, I did learn a lot and I am grateful I made it through to a place where I understand CLs
intentions. I will probably order the next volume-after a good break. Actually, that's what happened with Tsitsi Dangarembga, although I loved Nervous Conditions and put a hold on the sequel immediately it took this long -months- to get it. I am not having any trouble picking up.
I think I'll try the great hedge and would appreciate it Petra if you could find somewhere for it in our library. I am getting scared of my tbr list again and it would be nice to have a reminder of it on our shelves/
Megan it was the opposite in the library here...I have been eager to read the empathy book but I sure did get a lot out of second sight. I am participating in a 10 day compassion challenge and I am finding it challenging

[Petra]

Congratulations on finishing 3 Body Problem. It's been interesting listening to you and Ellie make your way through this book. I once took it out of the library at the time of its popularity but took it back unread because of the queue. Since then it's gotten such mixed reviews that I haven't taken it out again.

I have added The Great Hedge of India: The Search for the Living Barrier that Divided a People to the bookshelf, as well as added a shelf (Travelogues).
Magdelanye, I will be putting Salt: A World History into the book bag for my next trip to a Little Free Library. If you'd like it, please let me know and I'll move it to your "pile" of books here (currently a pile of 1). LOL.

Those are great musical artists, Magdelanye. I like some Alice Cooper (School's Out), some Meatloaf (Paradise By The Dashboard Light) and lots of Joan Biaz. Dylan is also good but I haven't listened to much of his work....or don't remember it as much.

[Ellen]

Petra, I love Baez. Also Judy Collins and Dylan. Leonard Cohen. The Who. The Eagles. Meatloaf (that whole album with Dashboard). I also love classical: Bach, Beethoven.

Magdelanye, I love the cello. Thanks for providing the link. Also: Congratulations on finished 3 Body Problem. I feel inspired to go back to it (at some point).

[Megan]

@Petra, I love listening to Joni Mitchell, The Carpenters, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, The Guess Who, the Beach Boys and the Rolling Stones.

I just started reading Girl, Woman, Other. I'm really enjoying it so far.

[Magdelanye, Senior Flight Attendant]

Joni! I knew I had left some significant others out of my list. In fact, I tried to edit my comment to include Miriam Makeba and a few others but thats when the program froze and so I was just glad not to lose the comment altogether. I should probably admit that I loved Fabian over Elvis, who I thought was too greasy; and I disliked Neil Youngs whiny voice but I adore Tom Waits.
I came to classical music late. I did have some influence from my ballet classes but I had no inkling. My mom was a big opera fan. I hated it till a couple of decades ago. Also not a fan of bdway musicals with exceptions for the shows I saw at Vancouvers Theatre Under the Stars/

Girl etc is one of those books that keeps getting better. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did Megan.

And Ellie I'm so glad to introduce you to Jamie. 3 body does get more interesting.Still I was so glad to finally finish with it and write my review.
Petra Id love to look at salt book before it goes on.
Did people see my comment on the compare books thread. I dont see a notification for it.
OMG the sun is shining!

[Petra]

Joan Biaz! The Beach Boys, The Carpenters!
These remind me that I also loved The Mamas & The Papas and The Beatles. Any British Invasion groups as well. I remember singing along with those tunes as I walked to school (I was about 8 at the time). I listened to the radio every chance I got. Best gift ever was a transistor radio of my own. I must have driven people mad. LOL!

Magdelanye, I will put Salt aside for you.

I don't get notifications for every thread because I don't set it up that way. I go to the Discussions board and can see which threads have new comments. I sometimes miss these if the thread slips down the group's page too far as the Discussions page only shows a few of the most recent comments.

It's sunny outside! It's so nice to see a bright sky again.

I am reading a fantastic poetry book, Holy Wild. While it focusses on the trans experience of pain, fulfillment, acceptance of self, the feeling of not fitting in (especially in the sense of feeling "ugly" in comparison with others). These are feelings everyone has experienced at one time or another and these poems reflect all of these emotions. Some of these lines can really stab one in the heart.
I'm sure a lot of the meanings are going over my head but I can relate to enough to really enjoy this book.

[Magdelanye, Senior Flight Attendant]

just ducking in here for a moment before I put the computer to bed.
Ive been listening to the compassion summit and getting quite a lot out of it. Tomorrow is the last session and there was only one day I just didn't have the energy to turn the machine on, but I did double the next day.

Yes Petra the sun! It was so stormy and wet this morning that it was a pleasant shock to watch the clouds shred and the sun come out. I took advantage of the moment and walked down to the village for groceries.

I will be glad to have a look at the salt book. As for Holy Wild, how great a discovery. I just found out that they have it at the library in town and hope I can snag it when I next get there.

The music I listen to now is quite different. At the moment I'm listening to Inuit throat singing and earlier I found a few of the women on the African playlist mentioned in the book I just started.If You Want to Make God Laugh by Bianca Marais Ellie I think you enjoyed her other book, Hum If You Don’t Know the Words which I thought was very insightful and endearing. Robin and Beauty have cameos in this book and I wish I could find my review.

[Petra]

I've come to realize that I enjoy music that is either upbeat or melancholy and with lyrics that I can sing along with or listen to. For me, it's about mood, atmosphere and the story of the lyrics. Magdelanye, I imagine (but don't really know) that chanting would fit into this category.
I used to have a record of Gregorian chants. It was ages ago but, if I recall correctly, I enjoyed listening to them.
Hubby, in contrast, never hears the lyrics in a song. He doesn't know a single one. However, he hears each instrument in the music, so for him it's all about the composition.
Brains are wired weirdly, don't you think?

The Salt book is in your pile, Magdelanye.

I got out for a run this morning, It was nice to be outside again. The temperatures are perfect right now.

I spent the afternoon reading and carving and thoroughly enjoying myself.

[Megan]

I've been listening to A LOT of pop/hip-hop lately. My son's favourite singer is Lizzo. I admire his feminist leanings!

Basically, the rest of the time we listen to whatever is on CBC Radio 2 at our house.
My husband and I are going to see Great Lake Swimmers next month, so I am excited for some chill folk music.

In book news I finished Girl, Woman, Other. What an amazing book!!
Today I started The Innocents, so far so good.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!
We're off to the Flying Canoe tomorrow which is a French/Metis event here. We're pretty excited, last year was too cold to take our son.

@Petra I'm happy it's nice enough for you to run outside again! :)

[Magdelanye, Senior Flight Attendant]

Gregorian chants. I used to have a life where I had a wonderful sound system and shelves of records that I kept organized and Gregorian chants had its own category. Now I have two broken old boomboxes and the computer with my YouTube playlist and the whole range there, and four shelves of cds. I prefer cds actually because the youtube ads drive me crazy but I do have a youtube addiction. I mostly listen to music with no lyrics -classical or east indian, Persian and music with lyrics in languages that I do not understand on instruments I had to learn to identify. I love the kora and the oud especially. I adore throat singing but i dislike yodelling. AND I usually listen to CBC weekdays from 9=3-Julie Nasrallah and the first half of Tom Allens shift. I will often turn the radio back on for 7 programming, definitely on wed from 7-8 Jarett Martinau Reclaimed my favourite show along with In Concert Sundays from 11-3.
If I am feeling lazy I will keep the radio on for Odario Williams and all weekend actually. But I also enjoy extended silence.
Does this sound familiar to Canadian members?
What do you think of the new cbc playlists?
Megan, I can't take a LOT of hip hop but I love K'naan dusty foot philosopher and enjoy good rap esp Tribe Called Red.

Girl Woman Other blew me away too. It kept getting better and deeper where a lot of books flounder towards the end, Well thats a very general statement but I do notice how so many books start off with a great energy that sometimes flags and sometimes runs out in the middle or has a disappointing end. The best books rearrange themselves as I read and another world opens.
And I love Michael Crummy even if I sometimes get him mixed up with Wayne Johnston.
Did I already mention what a fun read is Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid. It was a bit odd that the book I picked up next, for library reasons, had similar features. If You Want to Make God Laugh by Bianca Marais also a great read
As I wrote in my review, who would have thought that racism, rape, and homophobia could be confronted in a manner that is not polemical but warm and engaging.

Almost noon and still raining gloom so I guess Petra is in, peacefully reading I hope. I get to choose a new novel from the pile and I am feeling drawn to some science fiction. I have the conclusion to the Patrick Ness series.
Have also begun Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall

If not so dry may we all be warm and safe in our nests this weekend as the world falls apart, ready for our love

[Petra]

I just got home from running some errands and having my hair cut. I'm so glad to be home where it's dry. It's horrible outside today.

After a bite of lunch, I'm going to read and carve the afternoon away.
I ordered 3 of the Andy Carpenter series mysteries today. I don't usually buy murder mysteries but I'm really enjoying this series and the library only has a few. I ordered the 1st, 3rd and 5th of the series. Both the 2nd and the 4th are overpriced. The second is selling for around $100!!!!! It must be out of print. Shame.....but I'm not paying that.

We don't have a stereo set up either. I used to listen to more music when we did.

Hope everyone is keeping warm and dry. Spring will be here soon. Keep looking for that bright horizon.

[Megan]

Well the Hip hop/pop is for when I'm at the gym. It's mostly Lizzo, Missy Elliott, Post Malone, billie eilish, Drake, Classified, and the like.

My song also likes to have dance parties, so it's a lot of the same.

I have about 500 cds, I don't have a cd player or a computer with a disc drive. I think I'm hanging onto them for the memories...I would spend all my allowance and babysitting $$ in high school on cds.

I do want to get a record player that has blue tooth, so I could listen to records/radio/youtube, etc all from one device.

Does anyone have a spotify subscription? Is it worth it? Like @Magdelanye I put up with youtube ads....

My favourite CBC playlist is best of drive, I listen to it a lot at work. I also enjoy island music when I need a pick me up. Reggae and Dance Hall especially.

[Ellen]

Magdelanye wrote: "just ducking in here for a moment before I put the computer to bed.
Ive been listening to the compassion summit and getting quite a lot out of it. Tomorrow is the last session and there was only on..."

Interesting title--I'll check it out.

[Magdelanye, Senior Flight Attendant]

Ellie wrote: "Magdelanye, it's interesting: I just started The Three-Body Problem (I don't list a book until I've read at least 50 pages and think I have a good chance of finishing it). Also I re..."

did I mention? I actually finished this book! And I do not think it was elegantly presented, it does raise some interesting questions for brooding about. But Doris Lessings epic multi volume series is way better Die sentimentalen Agenten im Reich Volyen oh gosh, she has 0ver 100 references and many in german...but this may lead to the series {yes it does. Canopus in Argos / Archive 4 und 5. Zwei Romane. is the name of this mind boggling series{
Ellie I did not realize that you like sci fi too. who else ?

I noticed also your review Ellie of the Rwanda book and tho I feel as you do obliged to witness, after reading RomDallaire Roméo that sounds like an excruciating read. Your review was a bit heartbreaking.

My God the sun just came out!
cheers!