nohall, I think Miss Kitty wants Mrs Hop to play with us here on the board. we have definitely enjoyed her company in person several times - she is our official sowal dance instructor...
we'll get her on the board some day soon, I feel sure. she thinks she has to know stuff about the computer and this board to participate. we'll have to convince her that all she needs is a name and a tar, and she's off to become head dance wench.
i can prove that theory wrong
...OMG, she has no idea, does she????
right now i am reading "under the banner of heaven" about mormonism and a crime that was committed by some mormons. it is very interesting yet bizarre
Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin. This is the most biting, hysterically funny book I've read in a long time. It's a disguised story of Charles and Diana, so it helps if you're a Royal family junkie (but just as good if you're not). Helprin has a wit about him that you don't often see. Merman wouldn't let me read it in bed because I kept shaking the matress from laughing so much.
We are fortunate enought to live very close to a great library and I just checked and this is in so I'm off to go pick it up....thanks Mermy!
It starts out with an odd story on a Scottish mountain top, but stick with it and you'll be so glad you did. It's funny as all get-out. If you look on www.amazon.com you can peek inside the first chapter. My ribs hurt from laughing at Freddie's (Charles') antics!
right now i am reading "under the banner of heaven" about mormonism and a crime that was committed by some mormons. it is very interesting yet bizarre
Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin. This is the most biting, hysterically funny book I've read in a long time. It's a disguised story of Charles and Diana, so it helps if you're a Royal family junkie (but just as good if you're not). Helprin has a wit about him that you don't often see. Merman wouldn't let me read it in bed because I kept shaking the matress from laughing so much.
It starts out with an odd story on a Scottish mountain top, but stick with it and you'll be so glad you did. It's funny as all get-out. If you look on www.amazon.com you can peek inside the first chapter. My ribs hurt from laughing at Freddie's (Charles') antics!
Ok Mermy! I ordered it....we do the one click ordering on Amazon we order so much! Look forward to reading it and will see if I concur! Can't wait!
I am in the final throes of an incredible novel: Suite Francaise, written by Ir?ne N?mirovsky while WWII was going on, rediscovered years later by her daughter (after N?mirovsky's apparent death in a camp).Just finished this.
has this been posted???
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I haven't read this particular book but "Red Water" sounds similar.
I must tell my sister about "Under the Banner"... despite being totally "non-religious" she's had a years-long obsession / freaked out fascination about the whole polygamy thing.
I read it a month or so ago.Keeping track of the people he used up was exhausting. I believe his childhood, and father's influence made him incredibly self-centered. He surely lived "in the moment" more than anyone I can recall.
WZ is one of my very favorite musicians; I saw him live in concert many, many times. He grew up steeped in classical music as well as classical literature--he was so talented, and never got the credit he deserved while he was living.
How is the book?
Well, Warren certainly was an excitable boy. Especially when he was drinking.
He could be vicious, insecure, and physically violent.
OTOH, his enthusiasm for writing, playing and recording music was transcendent.
One of the things I really like about the book is that it is an oral history, everyone tells their Zevon tales in the first person. Carl Hiassen, Jackson Browne, and Zevon's kids, Ariel and Jordan, all share their experiences.
I really liked one thing Browne said:
"Warren did not have literary pretensions. He had literary muscle."
Here is the NY Times review
she would probably enjoy this book... does she watch big love on hbo ?YES she does! Do you like Big Love?? I haven't seen it 'cuz I gave up cable movie channels & do Netflix instead. By the way (sorry...off thread)...I just got Pan's Labyrinth and plan to watch it this weekend.
YES she does! Do you like Big Love?? I haven't seen it 'cuz I gave up cable movie channels & do Netflix instead. By the way (sorry...off thread)...I just got Pan's Labyrinth and plan to watch it this weekend.
I must be a bestseller failure. I gave up on "Eat Pray Love"- hated it. I thought it would be introspective and thought provoking and a beautiful story, but it was nothing but one-liners and cliches. So, 100 pages into it and I'm moving on.
Now I'm on "A Thousand Splendid Suns" and it is excellent like I knew it would be----
i watch big love religously (pun intended :roll: ). it's a really good show.
let me know what you think of pan after you watch it.
Pan's Labyrinth...interesting special effects & "framework" for the message...but disappointed overall.
Right now I'm reading A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel. I love it. Paragraphs like this one make me think of all of you for some reason:Oh, I loved that book, NoHall. If you love Haven, I have some recommendations of stuff I bet you'd like. She makes me howl.
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