♥Books, Coffee, Music & Ireland♥ discussion
Where do you live?
I love to travel and I'm so so grateful for the opporunities I've had to see the places I've seen so far. I will see more, but still just so happy I've seen what I have.
Eh...Ireland lol. I thought most people here would be Irish but I was wrong!
Deb wrote: "Nashville, Tn. My boyfriend lives in Ireland so I visit as much as I can-going for my next trip the end of August. Anyone in the group actually from Ireland? :)"
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@Edel: that is SO neat. I love ships. :)
They opened a new museum here this year it was a birthday present from Prince Philip to the Queen for her Jubilee. It's the Cutty Sark ship and it looks really cool.
I live in Connecticut, last week hurricane Sandy. Today at noon "Athena" came (nor 'easter) and in 2 hours we have 3 inches of snow and it is still snowing. (We still have leaves that need to be picked up!)
Crazy weather!! Now up to 6 inches and still snowing.What kind of museums do you love? Art museums are my favorite, we have 6 in our state plus many more in Boston and NYC which are an easy commute.
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thats neat about the ships, Edel! :D I just recently bought a "squatty mug" set decorated with ships- they are so pretty!!!! white and blue, too! =D
Wow Carol that's a lot so quickly!!I love museums too!! London has some great ones and most of them are free which is awesome!
Hi Zach.
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I'm more like, go to a museum, or read?...read. lol ;D haha never really been interested.
I love museums! But I def prefer historic locations -- towns, forts, mansions/houses, etc. And I LOVE reading a book and being able to say "Oh, I've been there!" :)Fun museum to visit - National Corvette Museum in Kentucky ;)
Aerykah wrote: "I love museums! But I def prefer historic locations -- towns, forts, mansions/houses, etc. And I LOVE reading a book and being able to say "Oh, I've been there!" :)Fun museum to visit - Nation..."
oooooh Corvette museum!!!!
I love all museums but yeah the historic location ones are amazing. Palaces being a top favorite :-)
and yes, Aerykah it is nice to be reading a book and think "hey I know that place, I've been there" LOL or watching a movie too :-D
Edel wrote: "Oh wow, I know what you guys mean....I worked in the Loire valley in France many years ago, I was just getting into a writter De maurie, she wrote a book called The Scapegoat and it was based in th..."Exactly! That is so cool!
Even novels written that are based in NY since I grew up there. I think it's just exciting when you can personally identify with physical places in books - it helps bring the story to life. But it is especially exciting when it's not a common place or if it's a historical place, it has a special quality and you can better visualize how the characters may have lived.
ooh my gosh I LOVE the Tower!!!! And I just went to Hampton Court Palace this past weekend - LOVED it too. I also love Tudor history :-)I hope you get to go back to see the Tower and definitely take the short little hop to Hampton Court Palace if you haven't seen it yet.
The tower was a surprise for me actually. I honestly wasn't expecting to love it as much as I did.
LOL there was that!!! We had hoped to go to Scotland with the children before we left but since we weren't able to do more than a day trip we decided to go somewhere closer instead. So we're going to Paris for a day next week. But hubby and I plan on doing Scotland and Ireland in the future.
Wonderful tips - thank you! I'll keep them in mind when we visit!!
Edel & Kim - You two are making me Seriously Jealous!! :( I wish I could see the places y'all have mentioned...I'm kinda reluctant to read books that take place in modern day Oklahoma... I've read (or partially read) too many that didn't portray my home state very well -- made me wonder if the author had ever even been to the southern U.S. much less Oklahoma. :/ I have read a few really good ones, though. :)
I do really enjoy books that take place in historic Oklahoma. Like back when it was Indian Territory. So interesting!! :)
Aerykah - I am very fortunate to have been able to travel to the places I have and I hope to do more traveling in my life. I hope that you get the opportunities as well some day.You know I'm not sure I've read any novels that have taken place in OK. I should look some up. But I get what you mean, it does make one wonder sometimes if the author doesn't portray it well if they'd ever actually been to the place they're writing about.
Kim N - Lost-In-A-Book wrote: "I'm not sure I've read any novels that have taken place in OK..."
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Paradise by Toni Morrison
How in the world did I forget that The Outsiders was in OK??? I love that book!!and I forgot about The Grapes of Wrath as well - I haven't read that one though.
Thank you Carol!!
Edel for novels about Native Americans I can recommend
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both by Jim Fergus. They are both Historical Fiction. He takes a single historical fact and builds a fictitious novel around it.For instance in the first one (One Thousand White Women), he took the fact that the Indian Chief asked the President (Grant) to exchange 1000 White Women for 1000 Horses - the govt. refused. But in the book he writes the story as if they had secretly accepted the offer. It's a great book. And The Wild Girl is also great. My middle daughter has also read them and she loved them as well.
Carol wrote: "Kim N - Lost-In-A-Book wrote: "I'm not sure I've read any novels that have taken place in OK..."The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck[bookcover:The Outsiders..."
Hmmm... I haven't read any of those books.
Edel wrote: "Oh wow that's be so cool reading bout the indians, is it factual or like a tale?..."I'm not sure I completely understand what you mean... :/
The historical fiction I read about the Indians (when OK was a territory) is based on facts.
Edel wrote: "ah right yea that's what I was meaning. Like the Philipa gregory books. based on facts but with the blank bits filled in by the author"I haven't read any books by Philipa Gregory, but that sounds like what I mean. :)
Have you read any books with Native American Indians in the story? Just curious...
Native American culture is very interesting to me, of course part of that may be because I have Native American heritage in my family history. But even without that I'd still find it very interesting.
I've got Scottish & Irish in me too, as well as English & a lot of German -- it's all traceable. The Indian is a bit harder to trace, but it's there. :)
aww cool!I have Irish and German on my Dad's side - my Grandparent's immigrated to America and my Dad is 1st generation European American. My Grandmother was from Portadown in County Armagh Ireland. My Grandfather was from Manheim Germany.
On my Mother's side we have a bit of everything including Native American. My Mom has done the geneology. We are distantly related to Pocahontas and we had a female Native American ancestor who was married to a white man, she died on the Trail of Tears.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of...
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Kim N - Lost-In-A-Book wrote: "aww cool!I have Irish and German on my Dad's side - my Grandparent's immigrated to America and my Dad is 1st generation European American. My Grandmother was from Portadown in County Armagh Irel..."
How neat! :)
My great-grandparents immigrated from Germany. We've traced my dad's ancestors to a knight in England whose sons immigrated many generations back. While researching, we found some Scottish & Irish ancestors. Genealogy is so much FUN!! :D
As for the Native American... We know that my mom's grandma was at least part Indian. From what I've heard, the family was kinda ashamed of it, so nobody knows how much Indian she was or what tribe (probably Cherokee).
Yeah, that's what happens in the U.S. You end up with a crazy mixture of nationalities & history. ;)My grandpa lied about his age & joined the army at 16. Not sure why, though...
I wish you luck in learning more about your family! :)
My grandmother was a Native American -- Wampanoag tribe (the ones who helped the pilgrims survive the first winter and had the 1st thanksgiving).
Carol wrote: "My grandmother was a Native American -- Wampanoag tribe (the ones who helped the pilgrims survive the first winter and had the 1st thanksgiving)."That's pretty cool :)
She did her best trying to raise 3 children (with the help of her grandmother). Her husband left her and so she traveled from Massachusettes to Hartford, Connecticut because at that time (around 1940s) there was a lot of factory jobs. She always told me to never forget that "Indian blood runs through my veins."
It's so neat to meat people who are familiar with their family history. I love it! :)Carol wrote: "...She always told me to never forget that "Indian blood runs through my veins.""
It would be a hard thing for me to forget since people can walk up to me and recognize that I have Indian blood in my veins. lol! ;)
Aerykah wrote: "It's so neat to meat people who are familiar with their family history. I love it! :)Carol wrote: "...She always told me to never forget that "Indian blood runs through my veins.""
It would be a..."
Are people nice about it?
Carol wrote: "Are people nice about it?"Oh, yeah. I've never had a stranger say anything about it. And it's not extremely obvious... But I have had people that know me ask me, "Is there a lot of Indian blood in your family?" When I ask them, "What makes you ask?" They usually reply something like... "I can just tell. You look like you're part Indian."
I've been told that I get my nose, cheek bones, & skin tone from my great-grandma & her sisters who are obviously part Indian. I admit, I do favor them a great deal. But I don't mind... ;)
That's great that people are curious and inquiring. When my dad was a kid it wasn't like that.
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.....and you haven't started another one yet?!?!?! *gasp* Lol ;)
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Oh, yeah. I've never had a stranger say anything about it. And it's not extremely obvious... But I have had people that know me ask me, "Is there a lot ..."
thats awesome. :)
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sorry about the lack of sleep Zack; do you like going to the library? ....other than to study. ;P lol
Southern USA here *timid smile and waves shyly*
That's good to hear :) Where exactly in the Mid-west? If you don't mind me asking
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true that.
@Sakerra: awesome!
Wow. What a worldly group! Don't know why I assumed it would be full of people living in Ireland like me ( reading ,books while listening to music and drinking coffee). BTW I live in beautiful West Cork!
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♥Books, Coffee, Music & Ireland♥
Books mentioned in this topic
The Grapes of Wrath (other topics)One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (other topics)
The Wild Girl (other topics)
Paradise (other topics)
The Outsiders (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Toni Morrison (other topics)S.E. Hinton (other topics)
John Steinbeck (other topics)
American is amazing. ;)
I live in a really small town but we live nearby an average sized town...so...lol