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hungryghost - 2008-06-12 03:34:47
I just finished "Life of Pi" which I hoped would be enchanting and a good diversion, but it was merely an ok one. I'm now reading an anthology on color theory in art, which is not a diversion whatsoever.
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Wyndspirit - 2008-06-12 03:40:19
I think we mostly had "old" books in the little country library that was my lifeline growing up, and I pretty much read everything in the library. My weaknesses, different though they are... James Oliver Curwood, with pages of lavish description of the Alaskan wilderness, and, oh, yeah, great stories. And I have a weakness for Grace Livingston Hill. Her books are SO campy and moralistic, but I get a kick out of them. I had a writing instructor explain that back in the good old days books were long with all kinds of detail and description because that was people's only entertainment, so the longer the book, the better! Oh, and let's not forget Nancy Drew, a feminist before her time... Oh, I am such a bookworm, don't get me started!!!
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Stephanie - 2008-06-12 04:00:25
Mme. Fifi! I could write forever about books. I would do so if I weren't icing my hands. Yes! :) I will take some photos of my obscure books with little drawings on the covers and funny stories inside about pioneers or fronteirswomen, or just women and men doing their thing. I also liked to pore through the books in the attic or in my mother's and aunts and uncles collection of dated teen fiction! Oh and I heard the greatest radio interview about this the other day. Right now I am deciding what to read next. I really feel like cracking open Ulysses. Or maybe...I dunno...something else! I have so many books to choose from and I can't decide right now. Will see. Thanks so much for that writing about your day and about what you told Biba - it is so true that we can salvage every day! :) You're wise and lovely!
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Mel - 2008-06-12 11:02:42
I loved Edward Lear - his Book of Nonsense is available now at Gutenberg for free - I downloaded it and printed it so my kids could also enjoy it, and they did. :-) Also read books from my mother's and her husband's childhoods. The story of Shug the Pup, and Tom Jones. I also love old medical texts, particularly on childbirth (yes, I'm weird). And dictionaries. I used to read Trixie Belden and Nancy Drew, and Donna Parker and Cherry Ames, and my kids do, too!//No one in the U.S. calls them cockerals any more, although they do talk about the cock crowing. ?? Makes no sense to me.
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soms - 2008-06-12 13:01:55
Oh, I'm all over the trashy supernatural books these days. Something called "Moon Bound" about a female skinwalker who turns into a coyote and hangs with werewolves. And then theres "Unshapely Things" about an injured Druid detective detecting dead faeries. Of course "Odd Hours" by Dean Koontz, about a man who sees dead people. This is the fourth book about Odd Thomas. Reading is fun, fun, fun!!!
xoxosoms
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boXx - 2008-06-12 13:03:49
I'm currently reading Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth. It's a HUGE book (for me anyway) around a 1,000 pages and it is taking me forever to read it. But, I really do LIKE the book and would highly recommend it. But my FAVORITE book? hmmmmm. I'll have to think more about that one. Probably the Power of NOW has been the most LIFE changing book for me.
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Stephanie - 2008-06-12 15:54:23
Fifi...no one else calls them cockerels, but I do. But then again I use all sorts of words that people look at me strangely for...I just love language, particularly formal language. Language is music, non?
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swimmmy - 2008-06-13 03:18:28
Well, two VERY obscure stories can be found right in the archives of my very own diary - my two "Nadya" stories. They are actually in "rough draft" status and I'm not sure I'll ever do much to fix them up. Currently working on #3, although I haven't done anything in a couple months. Stuck on Chapter 10, more for lack of time than anything else. :)
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