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Add books to this section?
By: KathySky Date: August 14, 2021, 1:42 pm
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Is there any interest in adding discussion of books here?
Does anyone share my love of [I]Middlemarch[/I]?
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Re: Add books to this section?
By: DavidSPumpkins Date: August 14, 2021, 2:25 pm
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Does anyone share my love of [I]Middlemarch[/I]?
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Yessssss. I just reread it last year.
I'm reading Charterhouse of Parma right now.
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Re: Add books to this section?
By: PalomaBlance Date: August 15, 2021, 3:08 pm
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[quote author=DavidSPumpkins link=topic=35.msg400#msg400
date=1628969117]
Does anyone share my love of [I]Middlemarch[/I]?
[/quote]
Yessssss. I just reread it last year.
I'm reading Charterhouse of Parma right now.
[/quote]
I admire you. :)
I was a French major, along with something more 'practical', and
had to read Stendhal in the original. "Le Rouge et Le Noir" and
'La Chartreuse de Parme" were among my toughest. slogs. ever.
:) Had to have a dictionary for some of the vocab no longer
in current use.
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Re: Add books to this section?
By: DavidSPumpkins Date: August 15, 2021, 7:00 pm
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No way I'm reading it in French. I tried Le Rouge et Le Noir and
it was just too hard to retain anything.
I'm not sure I'm destined to be as big a Stendahl fan as others,
but I'll see how this one turns out....
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Re: Add books to this section?
By: kkt Date: August 15, 2021, 7:24 pm
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I'm enjoying the mystery stories by Anne Hillerman, with the
main characters Chee and Manuelito who work for the Navajo
Police. Hillerman is continuing the series begun by her father
Tony Hillerman. The descriptions of the land and culture of the
Four Corners region are wonderful. And Tony Hillerman's
mysteries had a practically obligatory violent scene - guns or
fists or something more exotic. I'm glad Anne doesn't always do
that. It doesn't seem all that likely that a criminal capable
of planning a murder that baffles detectives for 300 pages is
going to resort to fighting a no-win gun battle against the cops
on page 302. There's always a little tension between different
Native American tribes, between them and the FBI (which is
really in charge of investigating serious crimes), between the
Navajo who still live in the Navajo way and those who don't,
between the New Mexicans and the tourists, the collectors of
Native American pottery and other artifacts...
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Re: Add books to this section?
By: PalomaBlance Date: August 15, 2021, 7:45 pm
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[quote author=DavidSPumpkins link=topic=35.msg654#msg654
date=1629072014]
No way I'm reading it in French. I tried Le Rouge et Le Noir and
it was just too hard to retain anything.
I'm not sure I'm destined to be as big a Stendahl fan as others,
but I'll see how this one turns out....
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IIRC (and there's a chance I might not!), he was really big into
psychological realism. His character portrayals rang very true,
particularly of women. Then again, he was a total player, so
there's that on how an author's life informs his work. :)
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Re: Add books to this section?
By: GladGrace Date: August 15, 2021, 8:09 pm
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Ahah! I have found the book discussion.
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Re: Add books to this section?
By: DavidSPumpkins Date: August 16, 2021, 1:58 pm
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[quote author=kkt link=topic=35.msg662#msg662 date=1629073463]
I'm enjoying the mystery stories by Anne Hillerman
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This is so interesting to me - I tried reading her dad, and some
of his language choices made me feel uneasy. But I don't know
how others felt about him, particularly in the community.
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Re: Add books to this section?
By: northbayteky Date: August 16, 2021, 5:23 pm
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I admit I'm a lazy reader. I love reading and read every thing
that's in front of me. I turn my head to read the side of big
rigs on the freeway. But, when it comes to books, if the author
doesn't suck me in, if it's work at all to press on and continue
reading, I'm likely to return the book and look for another.
My brother got me started on Clive Cussler and his "The Oregon
Files" series. He's got other series I'm not interested in. RIP,
Clive, I'll miss your stories.
I enjoy Nicholas Sparks novels, because they're so easy to read.
I've missed a few of them and some of them I just couldn't get
in to.
I used to discuss books with my hairdresser. But we have
different reading styles. She says "I do fluff all day, when I
read, I want something I can think about." She doesn't want
fluffy reading, like I do. I'm using my brain all day so I don't
want to think when I'm reading for pleasure. So we don't talk
about books anymore.
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Re: Add books to this section?
By: Alison8 Date: August 16, 2021, 11:40 pm
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I was just talking to my 90-year-old mom about Dr. Rachel
Remen's books, Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's
Blessings, especially the latter. Both of us said we pick them
up every now and then and re-read them to remind ourselves what
it is to be human and to remember to love.
Her grandfather was a rabbi in Russia who gathered up his
congregation just ahead of WWII and fled to the US.
She's a doctor at UCSF who's long been a patient as well
(Crohn's) and tells stories from both perspectives. Powerful and
lovely writing.
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