BS: Books received at Yule

Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule
From: Hrothgar
Date: 30 Dec 05 - 03:36 AM

Actually, I was given a book of musician jokes. The next banjo player I meet is in for a terrible time.

Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule
From: Hrothgar
Date: 30 Dec 05 - 03:35 AM

Sorry about this -

I wonder what books were received at Hurvurd?

Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Dec 05 - 02:15 AM

I didn't get any books - so far! I have $50 from my sister-in-law & no firm ideas of what to spend it on, and I haven't heard from my sister yet so there will be more money to spend.

I usually buy myself a few To:me-From:me pressies & all I've bought so far is a $2.95 second hand book with my primary school's stamp on it! It's old enough to have been in the library while I was there.

So I now have a skinny red book (it WILL fit on my very full bookshelves) "Soft Toy Making' by Phyllis Chappell, 1962. Even if it had been a folio sized book I would have bought it & found a spot on the floor for it as I've only got 2 books from my childhood.

Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 11:26 PM

None. I was a bad boy this year.

Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 11:15 PM

Why do I persist in reading this thread as "Books received at YALE"??

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From: Desdemona
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 09:50 PM

"Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories : The Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James" (from my sweetie; almost finished with this one...fab late /early 20th century tales with an antiquarian twist)

"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction" from my 14 year old son (I'm doing SOMETHING right!!!)"

"Feng Shaun : Discover Inner Peace with Shaun the Sheep" (from sweetie & kids: wise advice from the heep of 'Wallace & Gromit fame)

Also a flip book featuring Napoleon Dynamite's famous from the fabled
'Vote for Pedro' campaign!

~D

Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 09:38 PM

After reading two fantasy trilogies in a row, with horrific battles between good and evil and our heros prevailing only at great sacrifice, I was in dire need of something completely different. Unfortunately, I got really sick and could go no further than the other side of the room for books already read. I chose "Little Women" and found I was going through as many tissues with tears as with the other sorts of nose-runnings. (I was in a weakened state!)

This all preface to say that my sister, in some prescient state chose to send this year (last year she sent the first of the trilogies):

Horse People; Scenes from a Riding Life, by Michael Korda, which is turning out to be a quite pleasant often amusing read (though of course one treasured steeds untimely end moistened a few more tissues)

and

Indulgence; One man's selfless search for the best chocolate in the world, by Paul Richardson, which sounds like another in the theme of EmmaB's "Raw Spirit". That one looks to be entertaining as well.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule
From: GUEST,pattyClink
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 08:45 PM

"Teacher Man" by Frank McCourt
"Ireland" by Frank Delaney

Anybody read the latter? What did you think of it?

number 6, I read "1776" and found it really made events come alive and made me understand stuff I didn't know; the best kind of history book.

Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule
From: Tweed
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 05:24 PM

I didn't get any books but I got a really fineass Blues Calendar this year.
I did buy my sweetie a copy of "The Broker" for a stocking stuffer however. She likes John Grisham pretty well.

Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule
From: Charmion
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 05:11 PM

A beautiful Folio Society edition of Elizabeth David's book on Provencal cookery, which in a few years will be well-bedizened with tomato stains, and the enormous book of New Yorker cartoons, which comes with two CDs with every single cartoon published in the New Yorker from February 1924 to January 2005.

The only flaw of the New Yorker book is that it's too big to read comfortably on the sofa where the light is good, especially when the cat is being particularly importunate with respect to one's lap. Eventually I'm going to have to come up with an engineering solution ...

Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 04:52 PM

I did borrow 'Memoirs of a Geisha' which I can thoroughly recommend - and if the film is as good a story as the book, it's going to be stunning.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 04:23 PM

I'm surprised, this is the first year I've not received a book as a present.

Limpit got some really interesting junior history books and a wonderful book about Chesapeake Bay so I've been reading those.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule
From: bobad
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 12:08 PM

As mentioned in another thread "The Mayor of MacDougal Street" the autobiography of Dave Van Ronk written with Elijah Wald.

Dave has some pertinent opinions regarding what albums and musicians were most influential to the folk movement.

It's also fun trying to recognize Mudcatters mentioned in the book, so far three, two in the aknowledgements and one in the text, and I'm only at page 108.

Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule
From: Emma B
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 11:47 AM

and, for shame, I forgot the slightly early arrival of

"Tales of the Seal People" by the wonderful Duncan Williamson
and
"The Flight of Dragons" by Peter Dickenson

Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 10:59 AM

From my Secret Santa, Emma B! ones I've been wanting for ages:

Round Ireland with a fridge
The Mother Tongue
and, one she almost didn't find, oh joy that she did!:

Lucia Triumphant by Tom Holt!

Thanks, Emma. We've all been under the weather since Christmas Day, so it's taken me awhile to get round to sending out thank yous!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule
From: Beer
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 10:22 AM

The Heaven Tree Trilogy by Edith Pargeter and The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd.

Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule
From: GUEST,wordy
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 09:53 AM

"Untold Stories" Alan Bennett, and the autobiographies of John Peel, Roger McGough and Eric Sykes.

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From: Firecat
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 09:24 AM

I got "The Farmer's Almanac" from my SS and "Extreme" by Sharon Osbourne (her autobiography).

Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule
From: number 6
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 08:46 AM

"1776" by David McCullough

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule
From: jimmyt
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 08:22 AM

700 Sundays, billy crystal

The Real Festivus,   the true story behind AMerica's favorite made-up holiday, Dan O'Keefe


Emma, I enjoyed the Name of the Rose very much, although I find Ecco a bit difficult in his other books

Subject: BS: Books received at Yule
From: Emma B
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 06:39 AM

"Raw Spirit - In search of the perfect dram" by Iain Banks

"It's a journey of a thousand 'cheers' and subsequent wobbly walks, of unpronounceable place names and daft customs and superstitions. Will Banks prevail? It's a tough job but as he puts it: 'someone's got to do it, and I'm damn sure it's going to be me'

"Stargazing - Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper" by Peter Hill

"It is 1973 and Peter Hill, his head filled with the Vietnam War, Frank Zappa, Jack Kerouac, the Watergate trial and Coronation Street, is about to spend six months on various remote Scottish lighthouses, "keeping" with all manner of unusual and fascinating people"

The latest Terry Pratchett - of course!

and "The Name of the Rose" - from my Santa

Can't wait to start......what was in your stocking?