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Beth
skrevet af mcna217 kl. 9:27 am (EST) den Jul 1, 2008
I have to admit, though, that I'm intrigued by the idea of reading fiction set in a place one is going to visit--what a great way to enhance the experience.
Elizabeth
skrevet af ejj1955 kl. 1:38 pm (EST) den Jun 29, 2008
I saw on the thread about historical fiction set in France that you were looking for Druon's The Iron King. There do seem to be some very high priced copies out there, but try searching on www.bookfinder.com--the least expensive copy they list is $19.32 from Amazon in the UK--though I didn't go to that site to check the condition. Some others in the $20-@30 range, also.
good luck!
Elizabeth
skrevet af ejj1955 kl. 11:56 am (EST) den Jun 28, 2008
I'm finished with "The Enchantress of Florence" if you'd still like to read it.
Please send your address by private message and I'll mail it next week.
Beth
skrevet af mcna217 kl. 5:36 pm (EST) den Jun 27, 2008
skrevet af lgondelman kl. 3:27 pm (EST) den Jun 5, 2008
skrevet af lgondelman kl. 7:59 am (EST) den Jun 5, 2008
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Kris
skrevet af krisvalkyrie kl. 12:52 am (EST) den May 20, 2008
I'd be happy to send you the Rushdie book. I very rarely keep books, unless I know I'll reread it someday. Once I'm done I'll send you an e-mail so I can get your address.
I do enjoy books about history, both fiction and nonfiction. I'm about ready to start Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky, "the amazing adventures of a man who rescued a million Yiddish books."
Beth
skrevet af mcna217 kl. 8:54 pm (EST) den May 8, 2008
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skrevet af wizardsheart kl. 12:50 am (EST) den Jan 13, 2008
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skrevet af avaland kl. 6:00 pm (EST) den Dec 23, 2007
And, welcome back!
skrevet af Kailana kl. 7:48 pm (EST) den Aug 31, 2007
Empress Orchid was very good. I plan on doing a review for it in the next week. I really enjoyed it and so did the other members of my book club. It's a fast read if you have the time (which I haven't lately...lol). I have Tipperary to read also and just don't feel the push to start it. The hubby and I are going away for a little r and r this weekend so maybe then!
Emily :)
skrevet af sunnysmileqt kl. 9:00 am (EST) den Aug 27, 2007
skrevet af Kailana kl. 1:01 am (EST) den Aug 27, 2007
My blog has been inactive for about two months also. My grandma's been in the hospital and I've been dealing with some health problems myself so blogging was really the last thing on my mind! Right now I'm reading Empress Orchid by Anchee Min which is extremely well written. I'm enjoying it very much and just wish I could find the time to finish it soon!!
skrevet af sunnysmileqt kl. 3:05 pm (EST) den Jul 25, 2007
We are both members of the historical fiction forum and I read your blog. I just thought I'd stop by and say hi and see what types of books you have in your library. I'm working on getting mine updated and have a few more books to enter and then need to work on tags :)
skrevet af sunnysmileqt kl. 2:33 pm (EST) den Jul 25, 2007
skrevet af 100pph kl. 11:59 pm (EST) den Jul 19, 2007
skrevet af wizardsheart kl. 2:47 pm (EST) den Jun 17, 2007
JUst left a post on Reading Globally about The Colour. It's a good novel, so don't believe the bad press. I've looked at our books in common and that also tells me that you would like it.
Amanda
skrevet af amandameale kl. 9:07 am (EST) den Mar 28, 2007
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Cheryl
skrevet af Spuddie kl. 1:36 pm (EST) den Dec 27, 2006
Stephanie
skrevet af stephlee_77 kl. 1:04 pm (EST) den Dec 22, 2006
Stephanie
skrevet af stephlee_77 kl. 11:34 am (EST) den Dec 22, 2006
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Stephanie
skrevet af stephlee_77 kl. 4:04 pm (EST) den Dec 4, 2006
skrevet af Dragonfly kl. 8:34 pm (EST) den Nov 30, 2006
skrevet af wizardsheart kl. 4:13 pm (EST) den Nov 6, 2006
skrevet af Kailana kl. 8:48 pm (EST) den Oct 18, 2006
skrevet af joelcl kl. 7:00 pm (EST) den Oct 17, 2006
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skrevet af boswellbaxter kl. 9:37 pm (EST) den Aug 29, 2006
skrevet af boswellbaxter kl. 11:49 pm (EST) den Aug 28, 2006
Yes, I am looking forward to reading His Majesty's Dragon. I put aside Child of Saturn to read A Fistful of Charms. I wasnt that far in the book. So, after Charms I will read Child of Saturn and then His Majesty's Dragon. I am really looking forward to it.
How long is King Tut's exhibit going to be there? I kept forgetting that everyone was telling me about it. I hope I have time enough to make my way over there and check it out. Amelia Peabody...you know I love her. But she doesnt take place in ancient egypt, if that is what you are looking for. She takes place around the turn of the century. Still, very highly recommended. I actually bought to Egypt books when I was at Barnes and Noble yesterday. One is The Mysterious Death of Tutankhamun by Paul Doherty. The second one is a book called Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt by Maspero. Looks interesting, but footnotes up the wazoo. I also have a tag on my shelf for egypt if you want to take a look. I seem to have packed a bit of my egypt books away in storage. Which isnt surprising...most of the ones I packed away were non-fiction ones that I had read, I think. Judging by what I know I have and isnt on my shelf.
skrevet af wizardsheart kl. 1:59 pm (EST) den Aug 28, 2006
I know what you mean. I am, as you may have heard me profess historically challenged, I really never found it very interesting in school, maybe I just had bad teachers. My husband however is a serious history buff and constantly watching historical documentaries and I usually find them pretty interesting.. The only thing I find uninteresting is battles fought in any of the wars.. probably because war repulses and scares me... I find people interest me more than particular time periods.. I am all about the people really.. But I am discovering time periods that I want to know more about, things I can't beleive I don't know.. This is all thanks to Nichole, she has turned me onto some good stuff and got me started reading a little historical fiction.. I don't consider myself to be a big fan of the genre yet.. but what I have read has sent me searching for more by certain authors and about certain time periods..
I have not read Remains of the Day and am anxious too since reading Never Let Me Go. I loved that book...Ishiguro is brilliant he takes this story that is just so gentle and slow and melodic and comes out of nowhere with something sinister and evil. When I got to the climax of NLMG, and discovered the purpose of the school and the students... I felt like I'd been punched in the stomach... So I am very eager to read anything else by him.. I also have one called When We Were Orphans by him.. Anyway, Remains of the Day might be a good co-read.. I am going to read Fistful of Charms next I think, Nichole is reading it now and I am almost done with the book I am on and would love to read it at the same time.. So after that I will be free to read whatever... So let me know when and if you'd like to do a co-read.
Lisa
skrevet af Booknose kl. 9:38 pm (EST) den Aug 27, 2006
skrevet af wizardsheart kl. 6:22 pm (EST) den Aug 27, 2006
I saw Good Night and Good Luck, I liked it a lot more than I anticipated.
The show I saw was on our local public television station called American Masters and this one was on Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan. They'd been close friends, Kazan was a fellow filmmaker and one of Marilyn Monroe's lovers and he first introduced her to Miller. This was when Miller was still married and before Monroe married Dimagio. Kazan was called before the committiee for unamerican activities and caved in giving them names of all the people who were in his old communist group, he was no longer a communist at the time but that didn't matter. He turned these people in to save his career, he was the It guy in Hollywood at the time. But after he gave up the names everyone turned on him, including Miller and his career went down the tubes anyway. It was a really interesting program, some of the actors and actresses that were blacklisted were interviewed. Some didn't work for a decade after they were blacklisted and others never worked again. Something else I didn't realize is that Richard Nixon was on the first committiee for unamerican activities..
skrevet af Booknose kl. 2:50 pm (EST) den Aug 27, 2006
We've got 52 in common now. Mostly historical fiction, alot of which was passed on to me via Nichole. But we've got a lot of classics in common too. I think you, Nichole and I ought to do a classic co-read sometime.. well sometime in the future I am not in the position to do one at the moment, too busy, but keep it in mind for the near future..
I was just watching a documentary the other night that went into the political statements Arthur Miller was trying to make when writing of The Crucible, very interesting.. evidently he was using the Salem witch trials in comparison with the Hollywood blacklist of the 50's.. All the actors who starred in the original play got blacklisted simply for being in it!
Talk to you soon,
Lisa
skrevet af Booknose kl. 4:20 am (EST) den Aug 26, 2006
No...I am not done putting all my books in here. I still have all those boxes in storage and some stacks around the house that I havent quite gotten to. The majority of the ones at the house are in. I maybe have a hundred or so that aren't in around here. I havent listed the ones on pbs that I have or the ones that I know I am getting rid of.
I am loving The Book Thief! I am so glad that you recommended it to me! I am about halfway through with it right now. It is definitly a top ten contender!
I think that SKP for our next buddy read sounds great! I am in the mood for a nice fat historical fiction!
Take Care
Nichole
skrevet af wizardsheart kl. 1:12 pm (EST) den Aug 22, 2006
skrevet af Dragonfly kl. 7:52 pm (EST) den Aug 18, 2006
skrevet af Dragonfly kl. 1:17 pm (EST) den Aug 16, 2006
I bought the 19th century shoplifting book for a class on consumerism. A bunch of my books were either required for courses...or were shelved next to the books for those courses, and I couldn't resist. But "immersion value" is a good term. Yes, I think that I'm with you on that one. I really do believe (well, maybe not really but hopefully) that owning a bunch of books on a subject will subsequently force the contents to miraculously "osmose" into my grey matter. Yeah - doesn't really work most of the time. But you and I - we could have worse vices... :)
skrevet af sylphette kl. 9:45 pm (EST) den Aug 13, 2006
Thanks for pointing out my tbr is out of control. lol. Its bigger then I thought it was. But I dont let it stress me out. I like to have a lot of options. :o) I keep saying that this might get me to stop buying books...but I just dont see that happening any time soon! I still have a hundred or so to enter here at the house and then I will just have my books that are in storage. It will be really nice when I get them all on here!! Its been fun entering them though. I sure have found a lot of treasures! A lot of junk too...;o)
skrevet af wizardsheart kl. 8:14 pm (EST) den Aug 13, 2006
Well I just finished entering my extensive collection of classics, and I really don't feel any smarter LOL actually I feel kind of dumb because most of them have been sitting on the shelf for years.. Even Dracula, which I really wanted to read when I got it.. and still do.. I did move it to the front of the shelf.. We'll see if that helps..
Lisa
skrevet af Booknose kl. 7:34 pm (EST) den Aug 12, 2006
No, I haven't read The Glass Castle yet, but I am eager to do so soon.. I have heard a lot of good buzz about it.. I have been inputting all my books, a little at a time, I had all my vampire books, I finally got through all my chick lit, part of my literary fiction and just started on Fantasy and Sci-fi.. In the course of things, I have been finding books that just got shoved in with other genre's or misfiled.. etc.. I am astonished at the number of memoirs I have.. I never really got into memoirs before but there are so many good ones out right now.. Like Glass Castle when I first read the synopsis I just had to have it.. it sounded just like something I would like.. about the same time another one came out called Jesus Land the authors last name is Scheere and I got that one.. it sounds really good too.. its about a girl who grew up in the south (I think) with an adopted brother who was african american.. it sounds like a really moving story, but I know it's going to be really sad, so I have to wait for a very chipper mood to read it..
I have Pullman's 2nd Dark Materials somewhere around here too, i have 4 more stacks of sci-fi and fantasy still to put on here and I am sure some of them got put in with my Horror books.. I do that all the time.. because I am not always sure..
Heck I found romance in with my sci-fi and fantasy.. ;-/
I can't wait to get all my books on here and see which genre i have the most of.. I do hope it's not chick lit LOL I really don't want to be defined by that.. I am thinking I have ALOT more Literary Fiction, than chick lit.. even women's fiction.. LOL
I bet we'll have a few more in common before it's over.. I looked on my profile and I have 113 books in common with one person.. I guess it's not that strange but I only have about 450 books on here so far and someone has almost 1/4 of the exact same books.. I can't wait to see if anyone has more, as I log more in.. I just love this site.
Lisa
skrevet af Booknose kl. 3:30 pm (EST) den Aug 11, 2006
As for Babyville, its one of the few Jane Green's I haven't read.. mostly because I am not into the whole "baby thing" but I have enjoyed most of her other books, though some are much more what I would classify romance than chick lit.
Lisa
skrevet af Booknose kl. 10:30 pm (EST) den Aug 10, 2006
I had to come and check out your shelf and Nicholes too.. I was really surprised to find some chick lit books we have in common.. I didn't think you went in for that stuff.. You;ve got some interesting stuff..
Saw the post earlier about you reading Never Let Me Go.. that one is near the top of my best of for 2006 and maybe even #1.. Not sure yet.. lot of the year yet to go..
Happy logging and reading
Lisa (Bookworms anonymous)
skrevet af Booknose kl. 7:01 pm (EST) den Aug 9, 2006
I'm glad you liked Bookwormz and that you found a store and added one! Thanks!
skrevet af Cinnamon-Girl kl. 12:57 am (EST) den Aug 6, 2006
skrevet af Cinnamon-Girl kl. 10:56 pm (EST) den Aug 4, 2006
Nice to meet you! Nope, I haven't made it to Hay on Wye yet. I keep trying to persuade my Fiancé but I'm not getting very far. I'm in two minds about going - I desperately want to go and spend a few days just drinking in all the books (and buying them, obviously!) but I don't know that my credit card could take the considerable strain. :-( I think I may have to learn how to shoplift VERY well before going :-)
Can I just say - you have a fantastic library! I've just spent an age going through it and I know we're going to end up sharing even more books because I kept seeing ones I KNOW I have in some pile, somewhere!
I'm off to look at your library some more and try to work up a plan to get to Hay on Wye.
skrevet af Tudorrl kl. 3:46 pm (EST) den Jul 27, 2006
skrevet af Fence kl. 4:58 am (EST) den Jul 27, 2006
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skrevet af diamondlil kl. 8:25 am (EST) den Jul 2, 2006
skrevet af sagespot kl. 11:08 am (EST) den Jun 15, 2006
I was interested in the book by Lian Hearn (whom I've never heard of) and you have a book by Kay I missed plus co-authored books by Wrede and Stevermer. Plus the Teresa Edgerton titles you mentioned. I think I've only read one of hers. I need to keep an eye on her titles for the library I work at. I ordered the new book on Beau Brummel for the library too and will be reading that as soon as it's processed. Indeliby marked by Georgette Heyer, that's me!
skrevet af Dragonfly kl. 10:27 am (EST) den Jun 10, 2006
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