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29 Dec 05 - 06:39 AM (#1636584) Subject: BS: Books received at Yule From: Emma B "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? |
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29 Dec 05 - 08:22 AM (#1636617) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: jimmyt 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 |
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29 Dec 05 - 08:46 AM (#1636624) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: number 6 "1776" by David McCullough sIx |
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29 Dec 05 - 09:24 AM (#1636647) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: Firecat I got "The Farmer's Almanac" from my SS and "Extreme" by Sharon Osbourne (her autobiography). |
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29 Dec 05 - 09:53 AM (#1636664) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: GUEST,wordy "Untold Stories" Alan Bennett, and the autobiographies of John Peel, Roger McGough and Eric Sykes. |
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29 Dec 05 - 10:22 AM (#1636674) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: Beer The Heaven Tree Trilogy by Edith Pargeter and The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd. |
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29 Dec 05 - 10:59 AM (#1636690) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: katlaughing 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 |
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29 Dec 05 - 11:47 AM (#1636731) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: Emma B 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 |
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29 Dec 05 - 12:08 PM (#1636735) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: bobad 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. |
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29 Dec 05 - 04:23 PM (#1636871) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: Liz the Squeak 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 |
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29 Dec 05 - 04:52 PM (#1636884) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: Liz the Squeak 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 |
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29 Dec 05 - 05:11 PM (#1636899) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: Charmion 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 ... |
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29 Dec 05 - 05:24 PM (#1636909) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: Tweed 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. |
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29 Dec 05 - 08:45 PM (#1637013) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: GUEST,pattyClink "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. |
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29 Dec 05 - 09:38 PM (#1637061) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: Desert Dancer 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 |
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29 Dec 05 - 09:50 PM (#1637073) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: Desdemona "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 |
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29 Dec 05 - 11:15 PM (#1637142) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: Rapparee Why do I persist in reading this thread as "Books received at YALE"?? |
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29 Dec 05 - 11:26 PM (#1637144) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: GUEST None. I was a bad boy this year. |
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30 Dec 05 - 02:15 AM (#1637197) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: Sandra in Sydney 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. |
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30 Dec 05 - 03:35 AM (#1637204) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: Hrothgar Sorry about this - I wonder what books were received at Hurvurd? |
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30 Dec 05 - 03:36 AM (#1637205) Subject: RE: BS: Books received at Yule From: Hrothgar Actually, I was given a book of musician jokes. The next banjo player I meet is in for a terrible time. |