I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited September 2011

    Erskine's books are long too.  I read the other two long ago as well.  Actually Ray and I just finished listening to Anna Karenina in the car a few weeks ago.  He downloaded it for me on my MP3 since I can't read much nowadays!

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited September 2011

    Sunflowers, for all the admonishing we get for reading certain things you'd think some would take their own advice and leave us alone.  I'm so happy the Canadian Geese do what they do best, where they do it!  How can anyone use these cute little things against us, a whole Country!  How Rude!

    This is a very popular thread even though it is hidden to appease delicate sensibilities.  After all, we don't all live in the real world, because if they don't win the argument then we're the bad guys.  And we don't discuss politics because we don't want to.  It's all been said before and quite frankly am sick of it.  Blah, blah, blah Obama.....blah, blah, blah, Palin....Obama has 65 million hair follicles on his head, how dare he! blah, blah, blah, ad nauseum.

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  • CherrylH
    CherrylH Member Posts: 1,077
    edited September 2011

    Blue, I raise my glass of ginger ale to you. Tempted to get something stronger, but tummy is a bit dicey.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited September 2011

    Hope you're feeling better Cherryl.  We finished off the ice wine....it was gooooooood!

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited September 2011

    Linda, those were good ones you saw at Stratford.  I just love the town itself and if we go on Monday, we won't be seeing any Plays, just visiting the town, and the Geese, Swans on the lake there.  (Can you tell I'm trying to get caught up on my reading here  LOL!)

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  • rosemary-b
    rosemary-b Member Posts: 2,006
    edited September 2011

    Blue

    Aren't they Canada Geese? The way I was told to remember the name was that they aren't Canadian because they don't need passports. So whoever is dumping on the geese and Canada doesn't know what they are talking about.

    Edited because I still can't type.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited September 2011

    Yep, I guess I should have put Canadian in quotes.  My bad!

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  • 208sandy
    208sandy Member Posts: 2,610
    edited September 2011

    Jancie:

    How funny, we "graduated backward to Grisham" I read War and Peace when I was in my late teens, also read Atlas Shrugged, Che Guevera's Diary (both the same month - I was searching for something apparently) also read all of Michner(sp?) but honestly "Poland" was awful - DH gave it to me for Christmas the year it came out and everyone at work got the book and so help me it was a garage sale staple - you could tell the books were never read past the first chapter they were in mint condition!  On my bedside table right now are Diarmid MacCulloch's "First Three Thousand Year of Christianity" and Ted Kennedy's True Compass - both too heavy a read for me in the summer - I mean heavy in that I can't just tuck them in my bag - they're too heavy.Laughing

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  • YramAL
    YramAL Member Posts: 1,651
    edited September 2011

    Sandy-How about Michener's Hawaii? I totally forgot about that book until I saw your post. I remember my mother-in-law had a copy of Michener's Space in the back seat of her car for years. The cover finally faded into oblivion. I guess it wasn't very good. Foot in mouth

    I just finished The Help last week, and I went to see the movie this week. I don't go to movies much, but I really liked this one. Liked the book too.

    Mary 

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  • 208sandy
    208sandy Member Posts: 2,610
    edited September 2011

    Mary - yes, I read Hawaii a long time ago and quite liked it I think.  Space was another garage saler I didn't even bother to read it.  One of my neighbours read the Help and went to the movie last week and said she enjoyed it - glad you did too.

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  • jancie
    jancie Member Posts: 2,631
    edited September 2011

    Other Michener novels Alaska, Iberia - I have both of those in my personal library.

    My absolute favorite is James Patterson novels.

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  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited September 2011

    Does anyone remember the John Jakes novels -- The Kent Chronicles, North and South?  I liked the Michener novels too -- so much info packed into them.

    I read all the Ayn Rand novels in high school -- they were so intense, I was both exhausted and sad after a chapter and had to put it aside.  So much selfishness in the name of independence -- and then she depended on Medicare/medicaid during her final years.  What a hypocrite!

    Am halfway through Confession, and The Emperor of All Maladies.  I'm so hoping The Confession has a happy ending.  As for The Emperor -- well, I'm waiting!  And my DH loves James Patterson.  Apparently he has a stable of writers writing under his name -- a $45M/year industry! 

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited September 2011

    I'm awake - I can see the loch out of the window. DH still snoring :)

    We'll see how breakfast goes and we might dump this place. The bed is way too small - good excuse to leave. We met a guy in a pub yesterday who does B&B - lovely bloke - he has vacancies. We haven't given them any money yet or cc details - they only take cash anyway. Don't like being restricted to our room only - not what B&b is all about.

    I read the Confession - sorry already forgot the ending

    Sue

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  • lewing
    lewing Member Posts: 1,288
    edited September 2011

    Susieq, any monster sightings yet?  (Hope you're feeling better, but agree with the others that you should get this checked out, even if it's a drag.)

    Blue, isn't it amazing the way the swans, ducks and geese at Stratford all get along?  I love watching the adolescent swans - still gray and fuzzy like cygnets, but big and gangly.  I give the grown-up swans a wide berth, though.  (At Stratford, do you ever go to that truck in the municipal parking lot that sells those great fries?)

    So glad the temperature here has dropped.  It was actually comfortable sleeping weather last night.

    L

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited September 2011

    Morning all. DH's band was awesome as usual and the weather was cooperative. They had said 50% chance of rain but nothing! It was cloudy so it was cooler. After, we stopped at Dockside Dave's for a grouper sandwich and I am getting ready to eat my dessert I brought home...chocolate-graham cracker crust key lime pie. It is the absolute best!

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited September 2011

    Lindasa, I read north and South too.  That whole era intrigues me!

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  • apple
    apple Member Posts: 7,799
    edited September 2011

    i'm a big fan of LOOOOONG books and think I've read anything Michener wroter.  King (STephen) certainly has 'longevity'.. i loved the Stand.. Sometimes his books are too horrific and fanciful but he is such a wonderful writer.

    If you can concentrate (and concentrate you must) Dickens is excellent.

    Right now I am reading an excellent collection of James Herriot.. what a hoot and a darling personality too.

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  • rosemary-b
    rosemary-b Member Posts: 2,006
    edited September 2011

    I love Michener. I really don't like Stephen King. For light reading I like Sandra Brown's mysteries but not her romances. Elizabeth Peters is good. Mary Kay Andrews is a hoot. She also wrote some books as Kathy Hogan Trocheck and I like those better but only because I prefer mysteries.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited September 2011

    I haven't read any of her work, but an author that really intriques me is "George" Sand.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited September 2011

    ttyl Ray is getting impatient and wants to start cleaning.  What a gem.  Who needs a house cleaner, they never really clean to my standards and usually break my valuables.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited September 2011

    Have you ever wondered what happened to Scarlet after Rhett told her he didn't give a damn.  I read the sequel, not written by Margaret Mitchell, but by Alexandra Ripley.  It's a good read but nowhere as good as the original.  She's written a few good ones!

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited September 2011

    I haven't been reading lately.  I have the concentration span of a gnat.  I am still wading through Karen Armstrong's "The Battle for God, a History of Fundamentalism."  Good read, just can't concentrate.

    Blue .. those geese are so cute.  Too bad they are so messy!  I'm about to force myself to vacuum.  Tim should be home soon and I'm pretending to be a domestic diva.  Love it that Ray is head of the cleaning coalition at your house!

    Barbara .. glad the weather held up yesterday .. I enjoyed the videos on FB.  Sounded like a great time!

    Hope everyone has a great day!

    Bren

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited September 2011

    I LOVE long books too.  Have read almost all of Dickens - can't get thru Pickwick Papers ( yet)

    I even read Pamela.  Have Clarissa ( in paperback) will be reading that one for the rest of my life, no doubt about it, can't possibily read more than a few pages at a time.  But I do just love powing thru that kind of writing.  Didn't when I was younger, but do now.  Even reread War & Peace ( for fun!) the Norton Critical Editions of books are wonderful - fabulous footnotes, and lots of supporting information: letters, essays, commentary.  One of my favorites in Walden, is the "review" of it be George Eliot.   giggling to see how this will be "attacked" "youknowwhere."

    LOVE the Canadian Geese, Blue.  Tho tooooo many in one place, can get a bit, uh, ah, messyKiss

    eta: now watching Nadal at US Open - fantastic graphic in today's New York Times explaining his swing, and how he gets so much topspin.

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  • jancie
    jancie Member Posts: 2,631
    edited September 2011

    I am a touchy feely type person when it comes to books.  I want to hold them, turn the pages, etc.  I don't want to read books off the internet, I don't want a Kindle.  Am I just too old fashioned?

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited September 2011

    Jancie .. I don't think you're old fashioned.  Something about the touch, feel and smell of a book that is so wonderful.  I'm partial to hardbound books and used to have quite a library.  Most all of my books are gone now.  sigh.

    hugs,

    Bren

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  • jancie
    jancie Member Posts: 2,631
    edited September 2011

    Bren - glad you understand!  I would much rather have a hardback book versus a paperback but then sometimes I see such great deals on the paperbacks that I go ahead and purchase them. 

    A couple of weeks ago dh and I decided to start using Costco.  Ooops....they have great deals on books there and of course I couldn't resist and that is why I bought the John Grisham novel for $5.99

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited September 2011

    I brought 2 books with me and have read 3 pages.

    Well we had a wonderful day. First we went to Glen Affric - drove right to the end of it - gorgeous!!! we found a little pub in the middle of nowhere for lunch - lovely food and atmosphere. Then we came back to the loch and did a cruise - only 1 hour - plenty of time. Then we drove up a road to a place where you could walk in to a waterfall - I DID IT!!! I'm so proud of myself. Leg a bit better today - no pain to speak of, but numbness in the toes of that foot. I figured if I did a little bush walking it might help.

    We decided to stay at the B&B - too much trouble to move and we're off to the coast tomorrow. I called ahead and told the wee man we're still coming.

    I still love Scotland!!!

    Sue

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  • kira1234
    kira1234 Member Posts: 3,091
    edited September 2011

    susieq58,

    Oh how I would love to tour Scotland. I'm first generation American, and almost all the relatives still live in Scotland. I've seen so many pictures of the country side through the years. It looks to e such a pretty country.

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited September 2011

    Susie .. so glad to hear you are enjoying Scotland .. sounds like a wonderful place.  Good to hear that your leg is doing better too.

    Jancie ... I used to have a Costco membership and could never leave the store without a new book! 

    Hi Kira .. good to see you!

    Tim will be home in a half hour.  I'm so happy!  We're going to bbq dinner in a little while.

    hugs,

    Bren

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited September 2011

    I hope we get Costco soon in Oz - I do know they are going to open stores, but not sure where.

    Kira - you should try to go one day - it's well worth it!!!

    Sue

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