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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: fat B****rd Date: 25 Feb 12 - 05:02 PM ust finished 'That Woman' about Wallis and David. What a pair! Light relief (light!)with Peter Robinson's "Before The Poison' and currently "French Children Don't Throw Food" Charlie's the name - eclecticity is my game. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: GUEST,Manuel Date: 25 Feb 12 - 05:06 PM Not to worry,MAG, I will gladly stand next to you and be stoned by those unfortunate folks who are unable to enjoy Eliot's poetry. I will not confess but, rather, proudly proclaim that I keep going back to his poetic works - over and over. To me, there was none greater than he in the entire twentieth century. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: MAG Date: 25 Feb 12 - 08:51 PM ... and I have to remember not to type with a very demanding cat in my lap ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: GUEST,HiLo Date: 26 Feb 12 - 11:07 AM I too love Eliot..but let us not forget Yeats. I think he is Eliots pnly rival in the last century. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: wysiwyg Date: 26 Feb 12 - 11:23 AM Book of Stories for the Storyteller, The by Coe, Fanny http://librivox.org/the-book-of-stories-for-the-storyteller-by-various/ For my Kindle, for campfires. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: GUEST,Manuel Date: 26 Feb 12 - 12:12 PM My fellow-guest HiLo, your comment is short and sweet. I hasten to express the fullest respect for your opinion. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: ChanteyLass Date: 26 Feb 12 - 12:24 PM Finished Macia Muller's City of Whispers. I'm about to reread P. D. James's Cover Her Face. I read it years ago when the Adam Dalgliesh mystery programs started appearing on public TV here. Now one of my book clubs has chosen it. We wanted to read James's new Death at Pemberley, but it is in such high demand at libraries that we won't be able to get copies for months. I suggested Cover Her Face as an alternative. I have mixed feelings when one of my clubs picks a mystery. That's my favorite genre, so there's a good chance I will like the book, but I joined the book clubs to get me out of my reading rut and expose me to other genres. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: GUEST,HiLo Date: 26 Feb 12 - 12:59 PM Hi ChanteyLass; I have been in the same book club for over twenty years (same eight people). The way we avoid getting into a rut is that we do not all read the same book. We just bring along whatever we have read in the lasr month. We end up with quite a variety of books, both fiction and non fiction. We also have a poetry month, we each bring along two poems..that is always great fun, goes everywhere from Chaucer to Wendy Cope. We don't meet over the summer so In June we do brown bag books. We each put two books in a brown bag and exchange them. We all do enjoy that as you never know what you might get. Loads of fun and lots of variety. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: ChanteyLass Date: 26 Feb 12 - 07:32 PM That sounds like fun. I couldn't do the brown bag exchange, though. I only buy books to give as gifts, or if I've gone to an author talk, I'll buy the author's autographed book and donate it to the library. Then I will borrow it! My mystery rut is a personal one. In addition to wanting a book club to expose me to other genres (as a young person I read a wide variety, I wanted to discuss books with other people who had read them. In my library book club, the members submit suggestions in the late fall and vote on them in December. The librarian eliminates the ones that are not readily available in the state library system before we vote. We each can vote for 12 books. The 12 books that get the most votes are the ones we will read in the coming year. In my YMCA book club, we suggest books at each meeting. When we find one that we agree on and that has enough copies available in the library system (which I check by accessing the catalog on my smart phone), that is what we choose. Most often I do not suggest a mystery. I am content to enjoy those on my own. I usually suggest something that I want to read and discuss so that I can hear other people's opinions At both book clubs people often bring in other books they have read. Often these are new books that have long waiting lists in the library system. Some of them become our choices when they are readily available. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 26 Feb 12 - 10:32 PM Currently reading Burton's "1001 Nights" for pleasure. Samuel Sandmel, "Judaism and Christian Beginnings", a bit more intense. Today I attended a symposium which devoted two lectures to aspects of that history. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: LilyFestre Date: 26 Feb 12 - 11:21 PM I'm reading War Horse for my book club. :) It's an easy read and a very enjoyable book. Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: katlaughing Date: 27 Feb 12 - 12:01 AM Joe, I am delighted you have read one of the Sister Fidelma books! IMO, they are brill. It is best to read them in order, if possible, though, as she has one relationship which develops throughout. Thanks to whomever mentioned East of Eden. I've just finished it and loved it. Wow! I have a bunch of quotes marked to add to my collection, then I shall pass it along to my son. I think he will enjoy it, too. Just about half-done with my first taste of the Matthew Shardlake books by C.J. Sansom. This one is called Dissolution. Thanks, NeilD, for the recommendation. I like the characters, very much, and the history. There is something about his writing which bothered me, at first, but I seem to have gotten into the rhythm of it, now. My grandson and I are reading to one another over the phone just before he goes to bed at night. He's been hearing some of the Just So Stories and a couple of Robert W. Service poems. He esp. liked the Cremation of Sam McGee.:-) Tomorrow we are going to read a couple of stories from a book he requested: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark ("collected from folklore and retold by Alvin Shwartz.") kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: GUEST,Manuel Date: 12 Nov 14 - 03:12 PM This cafe is frequented by many avid readers of books. It would be good to hear again from some of them as to what they have been reading of late. To start the ball rolling, I will say that I have recently read and re-read Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo, a book of which I had heard many a favourable comment and which I would certainly recommend to those who can read Spanish. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: fat B****rd Date: 12 Nov 14 - 03:55 PM Just finished re-reading Michael Herr's "Dispatches" (I recently visited Vietnam) and just started Alex Gray's "The Bird That Did Not Sing" an Inspector Lorimer mystery. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: gnu Date: 12 Nov 14 - 05:30 PM Olde Charlie Farqharson's Testament. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: Jim Carroll Date: 12 Nov 14 - 06:52 PM Great to find a masterpiece by a new author - 'Beyond Pulditch Gates' - a satire based around the building of the Poolbeg Power station in Dublin - from the 1950s to the '80s - brilliantly hilarious. Jim Carroll |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: Bat Goddess Date: 12 Nov 14 - 07:35 PM Best novel I've read lately is "The Secret of Lost Things" by Sheridan Hay. Also recently finished "Expats" by Christopher Dickey -- a circa 1990 book about the Near East "from Tripoli to Tehran" and south to Oman. Good reminder of what was going on in that region from the Sixties until the late Eighties. Right now I just started Gail Sheehy's book "Passages for Caregivers" which I really wish I'd read when it came out. But then I got so wrapped up in caring for Tom that I forgot I wanted to read it. Sigh. It's still worth reading now. Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: Joe_F Date: 12 Nov 14 - 09:19 PM Rereading: Pat Buchanan, Right from the Beginning Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: LilyFestre Date: 12 Nov 14 - 09:21 PM Between Sundays. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: Janie Date: 12 Nov 14 - 10:27 PM "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak. "Local Souls" a collection of short stories by Alan Garganus. Peterson's Field Guide "Birds of Eastern and Central North America" is a constant companion. Rereading for the 3rd time "A Species of Eternity" by Joseph Kastner. "Best of Hillbilly" edited by Otto Whittaker, author, Jim Comstock About to reread "On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon" by Kaye Gibbons |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: ChanteyLass Date: 13 Nov 14 - 12:25 AM Fiction: Gone Girl, The Memory Keeper's Daughter Nonfiction: The Wordy Shipmates, Delancey |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: GUEST,Manuel Date: 13 Nov 14 - 07:48 AM Very grateful to all who have already responded to my call. I do hope we'll also have the pleasure of hearing from others, such as my fellow guests, Hilo and, yes, Eliza. I know, Eliza, that you said, over four long months ago, that you'd stop posting on Mudcat. You didn't vow, however, to stop visiting the cafe. Therefore, I want to think you are reading this and, though no more than a fortunate guest myself, I put in this long overdue plea: let us hear from you again, please! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: Rapparee Date: 13 Nov 14 - 09:08 AM I just now finished "Murder of the Century" about the Guldensuppe case in NYC in 1897. Paparrezi are no new thing! Also Tony Husband's "World War II In Cartoons." Brian Crane's latest "Pickles" collection. Currently reading, depending on where I am in the house or car: Hobton's "Pistols at Dawn." O'Neal's "Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters." Sotomayor's "My Beloved World." Glass's "The Deserters." Malone's "Waterpower in Lowell." Keegan's "The Face of Battle." Grossmamn's "On Combat." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: Sean Belt Date: 13 Nov 14 - 11:34 AM Just finished Herbie Hancock's Possibilities. Currently on my nightstand is Goldfinger for the third or fourth time. I'm a sucker for those old James Bond novels. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: Firecat Date: 13 Nov 14 - 03:58 PM The Hunger Games trilogy again. I read it really fast first time, so now I'm taking a bit more time over it. I'm about halfway through Catching Fire. All being well, I'll finish it before going to see Mockingjay Part 1. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: GUEST,saulgoldie Date: 13 Nov 14 - 07:46 PM I'm reading "I Am Malala" by Malala Yousafzai, the young woman who just won the Nobel Peace Prize. She is an amazing person, and the book is so well written! Saul |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: GUEST,gillymor Date: 13 Nov 14 - 08:10 PM Rereading "Chalkstream Chronicle" by Neil Patterson. A good read even if you don't take trout on a fly. Just finished "Such Troops as These: The Genius of Stonewall Jackson" by Bevin Alexander. It's a concise bio and analysis of Jackson's military endeavors. Highly recommended for Civil War buffs but it may not sit well with R.E. Lee fans. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: Mrrzy Date: 13 Nov 14 - 10:22 PM Reread 100 years of solitude when Gabriel Garcia Marquez died... what a great book. Am looking for a good nonfiction science of thinking and communication book, any recommendations? I've read a bunch, looking for something else... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: Musket Date: 14 Nov 14 - 09:52 AM Boris Johnson's Dream of Rome. Anybody who wonders if he is too thick or too clever as a politician? If he retired and spent all day writing like this, he'd be one of the most respected men in The UK. Instead of a dangerous buffoon. My bedside Kindle read is working my way through Ian Rankin's Rebus series. Good escapist detective drama. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: Rapparee Date: 14 Nov 14 - 10:38 AM "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" is excellent on science and communications and thinking. It is, however, nearly inaccessible reading. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: Bill D Date: 14 Nov 14 - 10:43 AM I am getting rid...somehow... of most of my 60 year collection of science fiction, but have saved out some special ones to re-read. Recently finished "The Mote in God's Eye" by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, and am just starting its sequel, "The Gripping Hand". Brilliant books in their concept After that, I 'intend' to work my way thru the entire "Darkover"series by Marion Zimmer Bradley....possibly reading them in chronological order instead of published order. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: Mrrzy Date: 14 Nov 14 - 02:47 PM LOVE the Moties! What *alien* aliens, not at all Star Trek-like! (I need a human word!) Have read Redwall both chronologically and in order of publication. Excellent series. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: GUEST Date: 14 Nov 14 - 05:25 PM Waging Heavy Peace an autobiography by Neil Young. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: GUEST,achmelvich Date: 14 Nov 14 - 06:18 PM i read that neil young book. loads about cars and guitars but - 'i don't want to talk about disagreements i have had with steve stills so i won't' i enjoyed the book though . just started re-reading 'ragged trousered philanthropists' but don't expect to get that far with it. enjoyed 'the goldfinch' and ali smith's 'there but for the' - which somehow made me feel nostalgic so i have also been listening to and (re-)reading '70s album covers with my mobile turned off and not wasting time on err.....mudcat etc |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: michaelr Date: 14 Nov 14 - 07:17 PM I'm reading the new Terry Pratchett Discworld novel Raising Steam - delightful! TP is said to have Alzheimer's, but his wit and imagination appear undiminished. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: MGM·Lion Date: 15 Nov 14 - 02:01 AM Currently reading the memoirs of Rabbi Lionel Blue "Hitch-hiking to Heaven"; of interest to me, because I was at school with him at Hendon County, after he returned to school for sixth form Higher School Cert, after a year out when left school in East End, and won a scholarship from there to Balliol. Bit of drift: but might be of interest that Frank Williams, later the Vicar in "Dad's Army", was in same VIth form -- oddly ecumenical! Not that Frank was a real vicar, but he was a devout practising Christian, regular churchgoer, member of Synod of CofE IIRC. Another drifty coincidence: I was in school play in which Frank played the lead, "The Ghost Train", written 20 years earlier by actor-playwright Arnold Ridley, who was also in "Dad's Army" as the somewhat incontinent elderly Private Godfrey. Also reading collections of essays by the interesting campaigning & socially-commentating journalist Theodore Dalrymple. ≈M≈ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: MGM·Lion Date: 15 Nov 14 - 02:07 AM Also Dirty Northern B*st*rds! & Other Tales From The Terraces: The story of Britain's FOOTBALL CHANTS by Tim Marshall. Folklorically interesting! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: MGM·Lion Date: 15 Nov 14 - 02:19 AM Dalrymple, mentioned above, if you don't know his work, I find a useful counterblast to much of the trendy "progressivism" which, given entirely free rein, can bedevil so much of contemporary thought & attitudes. He is a former prison doctor and psychiatrist, with much insight into what makes the criminal mind tick. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 15 Nov 14 - 06:05 AM Hi Like Musket I read Ian Rankin's Rebus books for bedtime reading. Just got through all of them and am trying Peter James and his Inspector Grace novels. Not as gritty as Rankin but probably a little more bloody - especially since his new girlfriend works in a mortuary. Keep Reading, Cheers MikeL2 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: GUEST,Dani Date: 15 Nov 14 - 05:34 PM What a great thread! Mrrrzy... YES! 100 Years is such a gorgeous book. And Kendall, The Green Mile broke my heart. I'm not a huge King fan, but I thought that was amazing. Have you seen the movie? What's on my table? - The finally-finished "Travels with William Bartram" - Faulkner's "Light of August" (HATED IT! My first Faulkner, and I'll do no more) - "It's Your Ship; Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy" by Michael Abrashoff - "Eating Mindfully", Susan Albers Need to find some good fiction, or so help me I'll start again at the beginning with Jack Aubrey! PS: How do y'all do italics here? My normal command-I doesn't seem to work. Dani |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: GUEST,Manuel Date: 15 Nov 14 - 09:02 PM Mrrrzy and Dani, you may wish to note that, according to Wikipedia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez experienced an awful case of writers' block after producing his fourth novel and only emerged from it after reading Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo, which I referred to in an earlier posting. Marquez does not seem to have regarded such emergence and such reading as purely coincidental occurrences. His next work was, of course, One Hundred Years of Solitude. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: MGM·Lion Date: 16 Nov 14 - 03:50 AM Dani: One italicises by using letter i in angle brackets before bit to be italicised, and then closing with /i also in angle brackets: thus -- italics One can similarly achieve 'bold' with letter b used similarly, &c. ≈M≈ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: GUEST, topsie Date: 16 Nov 14 - 04:12 AM Perhaps some members need an explanation of "angle brackets" - they are < and >. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: Musket Date: 16 Nov 14 - 05:51 AM Well booger me, so it does.. But how does one do this? 😎 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: MGM·Lion Date: 16 Nov 14 - 05:56 AM Likewise, why does one do that? What does it signify? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: Bill D Date: 16 Nov 14 - 09:13 PM we do italics with code that looks like this <font color=Black> <i>we do italics with code that looks like this </i><br> </font> |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: Bill D Date: 16 Nov 14 - 09:17 PM hmmm... that used to work. I haven't used that program in years. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Whatcha readin lately? From: Bill D Date: 16 Nov 14 - 09:21 PM one more try <i>we do italics with code that looks like this </i> |
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Subject: RE: Books: Whatcha readin lately? From: GUEST,Claire M Date: 17 Nov 14 - 02:39 PM Hiya! Re King – used to love him; saw Misery live. Then saw Sleepwalkers. Spent whole film crying for the poor cats; went right off him. 1 of Doreen Virtue's books re how the angels can help you in every area of your life made a big impression; DV actually makes sense when you sift through the psycho-babble/ Angelic language. Highlighted all over, written all over. Can't remember the exact quote, but it said something like how you're not surrounded by sharks; you're surrounded by angel-fish, how you can be guided to another who is like you – that's what this place is for! I was, & continue to be, v pleased to find there is an aspiring writer out there as odd as me – she even looks like me before I bid goodbye to my long hair. Gave me a bit of a jolt. Reading last in Twis**** I mean TwiLIGHT series. I thought i'd love it, but I find Bella nothingy & Edward needy & creepy. I can see why I never bothered w/ it before. @ my meet-up group, we bring books in/rec them to others – too many books! they're breeding. |
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Subject: RE: Books: Whatcha readin lately? From: GUEST, topsie Date: 17 Nov 14 - 03:31 PM Re-re-reading Brendon Chase by BB. One of the best ever books for 'children'/young adults/well, any age, really. |
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