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Posted by OddipusRex on March 21, 2003, at 16:05:41
In reply to A random post about books... » fayeroe , posted by NikkiT2 on March 21, 2003, at 11:54:43
I like Isabel Allende too. My favorite was House of Spirits. I read it a couple of times.
I liked Garcia Marquez "One Hundred Years of Solitude". I never finished "Love in the time of Cholera". That was one of those books I started and then couldn't quite finish. Maybe I should try again.Thanks for all the great recommendations.
Lately I've read "The Third Policeman" which I heard about here on the board and it was great. I kept thinking how could I not have read this before? And then it started to seem vaguely familiar like maybe I had :)
I also read a "crazy chick" book as I like to call them. "The Moth Diaries" not only had a crazy chick but a vampire too sort of. I really liked it. It didn't get really great reviews but I read it straight through and kept thinking about it later.
I liked a book I read awhile back that seemed a little like magical realism with a Celtic twist. "The Lambs of God" was about three nuns who lived alone and untouched by the outside world in an abandoned nunnery where there faith took some strange turns. It had fairy tales and myths and magic and something to offend the faithful and the faithless I suppose. But it was a good book.
Posted by fayeroe on March 21, 2003, at 16:19:09
In reply to Re: A random post about books... » NikkiT2, posted by OddipusRex on March 21, 2003, at 16:05:41
I've heard good things about the book about the nuns. I'm so pleased about all these recommendations. And don't forget Tom Robbins when you really want to read someone who can turn the language more ways than Carter has little liver pills! Crazy! Thanks again!
Posted by NikkiT2 on March 21, 2003, at 16:41:52
In reply to Re: A random post about books... » NikkiT2, posted by OddipusRex on March 21, 2003, at 16:05:41
"One hundred years of solitude" was great too.. yeah, I forgot that one!! Have you read isabele Allende's new one "City of the Beasts". Its for "younger readers" but I did enjoy it.
Thanks for the heads up on "The Lambs of God", gonna look for that one next week when I visit the store.. really like the sound of it.
Thanks again
Nikki x
Posted by NikkiT2 on March 21, 2003, at 16:43:04
In reply to mole creatures! » NikkiT2, posted by fayeroe on March 21, 2003, at 14:58:19
I know shrews.. they're cute!!!
I think getting kids interested in books is so important.. Harry Potter has been great for that!!
Nikki x
Posted by sienna on March 23, 2003, at 23:42:49
In reply to What are you reading at the moment??, posted by NikkiT2 on March 16, 2003, at 15:43:36
"symbolic logic" by lewis carroll and
"calculus" by larsentrying to read "the age of insecurity" by alan watts too.
sienna
Posted by sienna on March 23, 2003, at 23:45:18
In reply to Re: What are you reading at the moment??, posted by sienna on March 23, 2003, at 23:42:49
the calculus book is text for school.
symbolic logic by lewis carroll is a math book bythe aliceinwonderland guy ;P
the last one is about anxiety in this century...sienna
Posted by sienna on March 26, 2003, at 17:24:35
In reply to Uhm, those links arent to the books i listed..., posted by sienna on March 23, 2003, at 23:45:18
you guys must be trying to get through the symbolic logic book. or godel escher bach or something.... hehe..
sienna *trying to be funny*
Posted by NikkiT2 on March 26, 2003, at 17:41:57
In reply to hmmm...., posted by sienna on March 26, 2003, at 17:24:35
My husband read the "godel escher bach" book while were in Thailand last year.. start ALOT of conversations!!!
Nikki
Posted by beardedlady on March 29, 2003, at 8:46:31
In reply to What are you reading at the moment??, posted by NikkiT2 on March 16, 2003, at 15:43:36
I just finished the wonderful book "The Secret Life of Bees". And now I'm reading "The Lovely Bones". I'm not sure how I feel about it, having only read forty pages.
Before that, I read one of the best books I've ever read (even better than "The House of Sand and Fog": "Middlesex". It's huge but worth every word.
And for "wordophiles," as Shar calls them, there's "The Frog King", which has fabulous words.
beardy : )>
Posted by fayeroe on March 29, 2003, at 12:11:07
In reply to what I'm reading, posted by beardedlady on March 29, 2003, at 8:46:31
> I just finished the wonderful book "The Secret Life of Bees". And now I'm reading "The Lovely Bones". I'm not sure how I feel about it, having only read forty pages.
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> Before that, I read one of the best books I've ever read (even better than "The House of Sand and Fog": "Middlesex". It's huge but worth every word.
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> And for "wordophiles," as Shar calls them, there's "The Frog King", which has fabulous words.
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> beardy : )>beardy, i just figured out your little "face"!!!
tehe.....you've set the bar again with books. I'm reading, pedaling, as fast as I can!! Almost finished the book on writing..I keep going back to re-read portions because the writer is so good, and can't wait to check out some of the books that everyone has mentioned. In fact I may go to the library today!! :-) BUT it is NCAA time and OU is doing so great! Oh, what's a girl to do? pat
Posted by beardedlady on March 29, 2003, at 13:29:40
In reply to Re: what I'm reading » beardedlady, posted by fayeroe on March 29, 2003, at 12:11:07
> you've set the bar again with books. I'm reading, pedaling, as fast as I can!!
Pat:
Don't you mourn the end of a book? Sometimes I don't want to read the last few pages because it will be over, I will be out of my characters' lives forever. I start a couple books at a time so that, when I finish one, I am already in the other life.
>Almost finished the book on writing..I keep going back to re-read portions because the writer is so good, and can't wait to check out some of the books that everyone has mentioned.
I'll have to check out this writing book. I have 100 pages of a novel lying here. I started it in '90, and the AIDS subplot is no longer relevant. I hate that!
>BUT it is NCAA time and OU is doing so great! Oh, what's a girl to do?
Maryland lost to Michigan last night. We are seriously depressed, though two years in a row as champ would seem like too much! : )>
Take care.
beardy : )>
Posted by fayeroe on March 29, 2003, at 13:41:00
In reply to Re: what I'm reading » fayeroe , posted by beardedlady on March 29, 2003, at 13:29:40
> > you've set the bar again with books. I'm reading, pedaling, as fast as I can!!
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> Pat:
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> Don't you mourn the end of a book? Sometimes I don't want to read the last few pages because it will be over, I will be out of my characters' lives forever. I start a couple books at a time so that, when I finish one, I am already in the other life.I COULD NOT STAND TO FINISH LONESOME DOVE. I WAS SO IN LOVE WITH GUS THAT MY HORMONES WERE OFF THE CHART!! And "Terms of Endearment" affected me that way. "The World According to Garp" and then John Irving just kept writing them for awhile and I was in hog heaven! Read "The Method Man" by him. One of his earliest and I think some of his best work!
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> >Almost finished the book on writing..I keep going back to re-read portions because the writer is so good, and can't wait to check out some of the books that everyone has mentioned.
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> I'll have to check out this writing book. I have 100 pages of a novel lying here. I started it in '90, and the AIDS subplot is no longer relevant. I hate that!I've been working on a book about Indian rodeo for over 10 years. Broke my ankle, had a mastectomy and then got rocky mountain spotted tick fever....sidetracked a few times! Oh, yes and I'm a depressed sister!
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> >BUT it is NCAA time and OU is doing so great! Oh, what's a girl to do?
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> Maryland lost to Michigan last night. We are seriously depressed, though two years in a row as champ would seem like too much! : )>Please don't hate me but I picked Michigan....Our Big 12 has three teams that could possibly go to the final four! How's that for Southern kickass ballplaying??????? :-))I'm going over to my daughter's house to watch Kansas play Arizona. I pick Kansas.
xoxoxofayerodey
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Posted by NikkiT2 on March 30, 2003, at 9:02:23
In reply to Re: what I'm reading » fayeroe , posted by beardedlady on March 29, 2003, at 13:29:40
"Don't you mourn the end of a book? Sometimes I don't want to read the last few pages because it will be over, I will be out of my characters' lives forever. "
Oh.. I do that sooo often!! My hubby will often find my in tears at the end of a book.. and all because I am sad at finishing it. So often, the characters in a book become my friends.. and to leave them is awful!! Thats why I get so excited about finding a series of books.. so that I can look foward to "meeting" the characters again!
Gonna look for some of the books you'ce reccomended at the book shop on tuesday :o) I really need a good book to restore my faith in authors again!! *lol*
Thanks for posting
Nikki xxx
Posted by beardedlady on March 30, 2003, at 10:23:18
In reply to Re: what I'm reading » beardedlady, posted by NikkiT2 on March 30, 2003, at 9:02:23
>Thats why I get so excited about finding a series of books.. so that I can look foward to "meeting" the characters again!
Me too, but I can only find them in serial killer novels and Harry Potter!
> Gonna look for some of the books you'ce reccomended at the book shop on tuesday :o) I really need a good book to restore my faith in authors again!! *lol*
I don't know what kind of fiction you like, but, even though this was an Oprah book, I really recommend that Andre Dubus book, The House of Sand and Fog. (I linked it above.) It's sad, maddening, disturbing, and creepy, so if you're looking for a happy book, fagetabowdit. For something more uplifting, though still very sad in its way, The Secret Life of Bees. For something totally silly and totally "men are idiots," The Frog King (about a guy who treats his girlfriend like dirt and deserves all the bad crap that happens to him), this will make you laugh.
But really, best book I've ever read, Middlesex, by the guy who wrote Virgin Suicides. It's huge--500 pages. But the writing--if you want to read a writer who can really write, who has an excellent vocabulary, who combines historical events with bizarre ideas and makes them come alive (this is, after all, about a hermaphrodite), this book's for you. I want everyone to read it. My mom's reading it now and can't believe how right I was (we have totally different taste, but she loved Sand and Fog as much as I did).
> Thanks for posting
Nikki, it's always a pleasure to read your posts. You have great spunk!
beardy : )>
Posted by fayeroe on March 30, 2003, at 11:03:36
In reply to books to read » NikkiT2, posted by beardedlady on March 30, 2003, at 10:23:18
> >Thats why I get so excited about finding a series of books.. so that I can look foward to "meeting" the characters again!
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> Me too, but I can only find them in serial killer novels and Harry Potter!
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> > Gonna look for some of the books you'ce reccomended at the book shop on tuesday :o) I really need a good book to restore my faith in authors again!! *lol*
>
> I don't know what kind of fiction you like, but, even though this was an Oprah book, I really recommend that Andre Dubus book, The House of Sand and Fog. (I linked it above.) It's sad, maddening, disturbing, and creepy, so if you're looking for a happy book, fagetabowdit. For something more uplifting, though still very sad in its way, The Secret Life of Bees. For something totally silly and totally "men are idiots," The Frog King (about a guy who treats his girlfriend like dirt and deserves all the bad crap that happens to him), this will make you laugh.
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> But really, best book I've ever read, Middlesex, by the guy who wrote Virgin Suicides. It's huge--500 pages. But the writing--if you want to read a writer who can really write, who has an excellent vocabulary, who combines historical events with bizarre ideas and makes them come alive (this is, after all, about a hermaphrodite), this book's for you. I want everyone to read it. My mom's reading it now and can't believe how right I was (we have totally different taste, but she loved Sand and Fog as much as I did).
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> > Thanks for posting
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> Nikki, it's always a pleasure to read your posts. You have great spunk!
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> beardy : )>i'm jumping in again on books that i don't want to end...Armistead Maupin wrote a series of books about gay life in San Francisco...my bookseller in Taos handed me one that was actually in the middle of the series and i ran the battery down on my truck reading it. i was at an indian rodeo in Window Rock, Arizona and read in my camper til my lights went out and then read by flashlight. i could hear the stock producer's workers creeping around and whispering because they thought i was asleep!!! little did they know that i was in SF, living with all these characters and smelling the ocean and going up and down the hills and careening through their lives with them!! if you like series.......oh my Lord, you'll love these.
easy to read but totally engrossing. pat
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Posted by mair on March 30, 2003, at 12:02:03
In reply to Re: books to read, posted by fayeroe on March 30, 2003, at 11:03:36
Thanks ladies for suggesting some good books. I've been in a horrible drought for a long time. My favorite John Irving book was "A Prayer for Owen Meany" which we read as a group on this Board about a year ago (a second reading for me.) I guess one of the best books I've ever read would have to be "Stones from the River" by Ursula Hegi. I thought it was a pretty remarkable story. Also a great book for women in particular is the "Sixteen Pleasures", even if it was written by a man. It's about a woman who goes to Florence to help in a post-flood art/book restoration project.
On another topic, my husband and I can't believe how many tournament games have been real cliffhangers. It's great to see so much parity. We all love March Madness here.
Mair
Posted by fayeroe on March 30, 2003, at 12:22:05
In reply to Re: books to read, posted by mair on March 30, 2003, at 12:02:03
> Thanks ladies for suggesting some good books. I've been in a horrible drought for a long time. My favorite John Irving book was "A Prayer for Owen Meany" which we read as a group on this Board about a year ago (a second reading for me.) I guess one of the best books I've ever read would have to be "Stones from the River" by Ursula Hegi. I thought it was a pretty remarkable story. Also a great book for women in particular is the "Sixteen Pleasures", even if it was written by a man. It's about a woman who goes to Florence to help in a post-flood art/book restoration project.
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> On another topic, my husband and I can't believe how many tournament games have been real cliffhangers. It's great to see so much parity. We all love March Madness here.
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> MairMair: was the Kansas-Arizona game unreal or what?
I was trying to make notecards and found myself just paralyzed listening to the game on my computer! I'm going to my daughter's today to see the OU game! I'm a Sooner born!!!
Posted by NikkiT2 on March 30, 2003, at 13:16:41
In reply to Re: books to read » mair, posted by fayeroe on March 30, 2003, at 12:22:05
Posted by NikkiT2 on March 30, 2003, at 13:49:21
In reply to books to read » NikkiT2, posted by beardedlady on March 30, 2003, at 10:23:18
I've made a note in my diary of both "house of Sand and Fog" and "Middlesex" (which sounds great!)... off to book shop on Monday or tuesday, so will let you know how I get on! *g*
I do like a nice big book that will last.. though I often have to butcher them and cut them in half as my wrists don't have the strength to hold big ones!
Nikki xx
Posted by beardedlady on March 30, 2003, at 14:41:26
In reply to What sport are you talking about??!! (nm), posted by NikkiT2 on March 30, 2003, at 13:16:41
And it's way better than pro.
Posted by beardedlady on March 30, 2003, at 14:44:05
In reply to Re: books to read » beardedlady, posted by NikkiT2 on March 30, 2003, at 13:49:21
I read in the tub every night. I am very careful not to get the books wet, but Middlesex was a bear to hold. Let me know how you like the books. And then we can chat 'em up.
Did you read that book of short stories edited by Nick Hornby? Sometimes I can't believe how much I've read in the last two years.
beardy : )>
Posted by fayeroe on March 30, 2003, at 14:57:59
In reply to heavy books » NikkiT2, posted by beardedlady on March 30, 2003, at 14:44:05
> I read in the tub every night. I am very careful not to get the books wet, but Middlesex was a bear to hold. Let me know how you like the books. And then we can chat 'em up.
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> Did you read that book of short stories edited by Nick Hornby? Sometimes I can't believe how much I've read in the last two years.
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> beardy : )>they make a book holder for the bathtub!! wire and it goes across and has a nice easel type thingy for the book!! pat
Posted by NikkiT2 on March 30, 2003, at 16:21:02
In reply to heavy books » NikkiT2, posted by beardedlady on March 30, 2003, at 14:44:05
I've read a few books by Nick Hornby, but not a collection of short stories.. are they good??
I've got to start going through our books shelves (we have over 1000 up one wall of our lounge) and decide which books to keep, and which to take tot he charity shop.. we need to cut them number of books by about half, so its gonna be a tough job!! I've never got rid of a book in my life!! But we need to clear out some of the junk in this place before we do it up for selling! The majority of books saved will be going into storage anyway *sobs*!!
Great talking books with you!!
Nikki x
Posted by NikkiT2 on March 30, 2003, at 16:22:10
In reply to Re: heavy books » beardedlady, posted by fayeroe on March 30, 2003, at 14:57:59
I was bought on of those book rests as I read in the bath every night too!! Its was rubbish!! It was totally the wrong angle and height for me to read comfortably!
Nikki x
Posted by beardedlady on March 30, 2003, at 16:27:14
In reply to Re: heavy books » beardedlady, posted by fayeroe on March 30, 2003, at 14:57:59
My bathtub is flush up against the wall, and the side of it is rounded. In spite of this, I bought one of those things, and it won't stay up.
beardy : (>
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