Member: Cait86

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posted by theoldman at 8:26 am (EST) on Nov 13, 2009

Alright, thanks anyway!

Good luck with work. :)

Catey.

posted by fantasia655 at 1:32 pm (EST) on Nov 10, 2009

Hi, Cait

I definitely did not like Under the Ribs of Death! I can't put my finger on it, so it may have just been the mood I've been in. It was sooooo masculine and he was always describing dirt and odours. Yuck. On to Margaret Laurence next, and I expect to like this one.

posted by Nickelini at 4:33 pm (EST) on Oct 4, 2009

Congratulations on your hot review listed on today's home page!

posted by Whisper1 at 10:04 am (EST) on Oct 2, 2009

Oh, and I just finished my first New Canadian Library edition (As For Me and My House). I agree that they're very nice, collectible books and I'll look out for more of them.

posted by Nickelini at 4:14 pm (EST) on Sep 29, 2009

Hi, Cait . . . okay, the list I have is from the Literary Review of Canada http://reviewcanada.ca/ and the document is called Canada's Most Important Books. (I can't give you the direct link because it's a PDF and I'm having probs with PDFs on my computer, but you can find it by searching their site). It's a fairly good list, but has way more non-fiction than I'm interested in. So I'm kinda just making up my own list as I go along. Maybe I'll make it a collection in LT.

I did like Ottawa very much, but I was only there for a day and a bit. Saw some really great restaurants in that day, went to the National Gallery, bought some books. From there we went to Montreal, which was also great.

In England we did London, Bath, Salisbury, Shaftesbury, Cirencester, and Oxford. Then we went to Rome for a few days and then stayed with my husband's family in Tuscany for two weeks. It was a great trip.

posted by Nickelini at 4:12 pm (EST) on Sep 29, 2009

Sorry, I saw that you're from Ontario, and I was in Ottawa last October, and thought I was putting two and two together. My bad. I was in England this past summer, and just love it. Did you? Or you like my husband, and thought it was too much like home? Anyway, I'll have to hunt down my list of The Top 100 Canadian Reads, edited by Margaret Atwood. Unfortunately, it's full of non-fiction lit, so I have no plans to read all 100. Otherwise, I'm on my own, trying to figure out what is hot and what is influential in CanLit. I grew up in Vancouver in the mid-to-late 70s, and we read no Canlit at all in high school, so I'm playing catch up. But it's a fun adventure, and I must say, I like almost everything I've read so far. Do you have any ideas of what makes up the best of CanLit?

posted by Nickelini at 11:01 pm (EST) on Sep 24, 2009

Hey, Cait . . . are you in Ottawa in that picture? Do you live there, or were you visiting (assuming that it is Ottawa, of course).

posted by Nickelini at 3:34 pm (EST) on Sep 24, 2009

Thanks ever so much for your birthday wishes to me Cait. I appreciate your outreach!

Hugs
Linda

posted by Whisper1 at 9:12 pm (EST) on Sep 18, 2009

Just found your library after I kept finding interesting posts from you! I'm doing the Canadian Lit challenge as well - I'm a Kiwi but read more Canadian books than NZ. I see that you've read Mr Pip and feel silly that I haven't...

I was halfway through your list of Canadian books in your library when I had to stop - 2 kids under my feet, argh! - but will come back later...

posted by cmt at 2:17 am (EST) on Sep 18, 2009

I don't think that you can go wrong with any of Trevor's books - 'The Story of Lucy Gault', 'Cheating at Canasta', 'The Boarding House' all spring to mind.

posted by kiwidoc at 5:15 pm (EST) on Aug 31, 2009

Thanks for the note about the Trevor book, Cait. It will be a required purchase - I cannot wait for a library copy to emerge.

Good to see another Canuck on LT.

Cheers,

Karen

posted by kiwidoc at 4:45 pm (EST) on Aug 31, 2009

Hi Cait,

I received an e-mail message from The Book Depository earlier this morning, indicating that it had procured a few copies of The Glass Room by Simon Mawer. I went ahead and ordered a copy, since I haven't seen it in any of the London bookstores so far.

Best wishes,
Darryl

posted by kidzdoc at 2:54 am (EST) on Aug 7, 2009

Congratulations! You have won a prize in the Book Read: Mistress of the Art of Death from Early Summer 2009, The Highly Rated Book Group.

To see what you have won, check this link:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/67256&...

And follow these instructions:

1) Write a note to Vintage Books with your
- real name
- address
- email address
- AND the prize you won.

That's it! Sit back and enjoy your fame and fortune. Congratulations!

vintage_books

posted by vintage_books at 12:28 am (EST) on Aug 5, 2009

Hi Cait,

Thanks for accepting my friend request. I had thought about doing it earlier, but once you mentioned that we shared birthdays, I had to do it!

Regarding the Booker Prize longlisted books, I'm just getting into The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds, which I should finish no later than tomorrow. I'll probably move to the Hall or the O'Loughlin next, unless I can locate a copy of the Mawer or the Scudamore in the next day or two; neither Foyles nor the London Review Bookshop had either book last week.

I assume that you know about The Book Depository; I ordered a number of Booker Prize longlisted titles from this seller last year. I placed an order for Wolf Hall, since I certainly won't read it during this trip. I'll probably order the two unavailable books, the Trevor and the Coetzee, from TBD after I return.

Best wishes,
Darryl

posted by kidzdoc at 3:30 am (EST) on Aug 2, 2009

Hi Cait,

I couldn't help but notice that you have bought many if not all of the books on this year's Booker Prize longlist. I bought four of the books today at Foyles Bookshop (the Byatt, Foulds, Hall and O'Loughlin), and saw your name next to all of them when I looked to see who else had purchased them. There is an active discussion taking place in the Prizes group about the longlist that you might be interested in. I'll start reading one of them this weekend, probably the Foulds or the Hall, and try to read at least two or three before I leave London in a couple of weeks. I'd love to get your thoughts on them as you read them.

Best wishes,
Darryl

posted by kidzdoc at 4:30 pm (EST) on Jul 29, 2009

Hi
Congratulations on your hot review for Cat's Eye!

posted by Whisper1 at 11:57 pm (EST) on Jul 21, 2009

Hi there,
I just finished reading The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny. Since I see that you are interested in Canadian works just thought to mention it. It is a detective/mystery type book and I really enjoyed it.

Hope your having a great day so far.

Patricia

posted by TrishNYC at 1:03 pm (EST) on Jul 19, 2009

Thanks for adding my library to your list of interesting ones. I hope you find some good suggestions! Like you, I read more British than American novels. I saw your note above; are you looking for suggestions in classic American fiction?

posted by Cariola at 5:07 pm (EST) on Jul 4, 2009

Last of Quindlen's lists:

10 Good Book Club Selections:
"Fraud" by Anita Brookner
"Charming Billy" by Alice McDermott
"The Book of Ruth" by Jane Hamilton
"The Rise of Silas Lapham" by William Dean Howells
"The Stone Diaries" by Carol Shields
"Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf
"The Patron Saint of Liars" by Anne Patchett
"Sister Carrie" by Theodore Dreiser
"Paris Trout" by Pete Dexter
"Eden Close" by Anita Shreve

10 Modern Novels that Made Me Proud to Be a Writer:
"The Sweet Hereafter" by Russell Banks
"White Noise" by Don DeLillo
"Martin Dressler" by Steven Millhauser
"Tru Confessions" by John Gregory Dunne
"The Death of the Heart" by Elizabeth Bowen
"The French Lieutenant's Woman" by John Fowles
"Falconer" by John Cheever
"The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
"The Information" by Martin Amis
"Portnoy's Complaint" by Philip Roth

10 fo the Books My Exceptionally Well Read Friend Ben Says He's Taken the Most From:
"Herzog" by Saul Below
"Coming Up for Air" by George Orwell
"Something of an Achievement" by Gwyn Griffin
"Lucky Jim" by Kingsley Amis
"The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats"
"Walden" by Henry David Thoreau
"The Moon and Sixpence" by Somerset Maugham
"Riders of the Purple Sage" by Zane Grey
"Heretics" by G.K. Chesterton
"The Wapshot Chronicles" by John Cheever
addendum:"Now I can't believe I settled for that list. What about William Maxwell's "The Folded Leaf" or Elizabeth Bowen's "The House in Paris?"

10 Books I Just Love to Read, and Always Will:
"Main Street" by Sinclair Lewis
"My Antonia" by Willa Cather
"The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis
"Wurthering Heights" by Emily Bronte
"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte
"The Blue Swallows" by Howard Nemerov (poetry)
"The Group" by Mary McCarthy
"The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
"Scoop" by Evelyn Waugh

and that's it, folks - read 'em and smile.

posted by orangeena at 6:20 pm (EST) on Feb 25, 2009

More.....

10 Books for A Girl Who Is Full of Beans (or Ought To Be):
"Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
"Julius: The Baby of the World" by Kevin Henkes
"Betsy In Spite of Herself" by Maud Hart Lovelace
"Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy Maude Montgomery
"The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
"The BFG" by Roald Dahl
"A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeline L'Engle
"Madeline" by Ludwig Bemelmens
"Catherine, Called Birdy" by Karen Cushman
"The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" by Avi

10 Mystery Novels I'd Most LIke to Find in a Summer Rental:
"An Unsuitable Job for a Woman" by P.D. James
"Gaudy Night" by Dorothy Sayers
"The Beekeeper's Apprentice" by Laurie P. King
"Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
"Get Shorty" by Elmore Leonard
"Dancers in Mourning" by Margery Allingham
"The Way Through the Woods" by Colin Dexter
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle
"Brat Farrar" by Josephine Tey
"The Spy Who CAme in From the Cold" by John Le Carre

10 Books Recommended by a Really Good Elementary School Librarian:
"The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
"Frindle" by Andrew Clements
"My Daniel" by Pam Conrad
"The Houdini Box" by Brian Selznick
"Good Night, Mr. Tom" by Michelle Magorian
"No Flying in the House" by Betty Brock
"My Father's Dragon" by Ruth Stiles Gannett
"Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
"Mudpies: and Other Recipes by Marjorie Winslow
"The Story of May" by Mordecai Gerstein

posted by orangeena at 10:34 pm (EST) on Feb 24, 2009

From Anna Quindlen's "How Reading Changed My Life":

10 Nonfiction Books That Help Us Understand the World:
"The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon
"The Best and the Brightest" by David Halbertstam
"Lenin's Tomb" by David Remnick
"Lincoln" by David Herbert Donald
"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
"How We Die" by Sherwin Nuland
"The Unredeemed Captive" by John Demos
"The Second Sex" by Simone de Beauvoir
"The Power Broker" by Robert Caro

10 Books That Will Help a Teenager Feel More Human:
"A Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
"A Seperate Peace" by John Knowles
"Lost in Place" by Mark Salzman
"Who's Eating Gilbert Grape?" by Peter Hodges
"The World According to Garp"
"Bloodbrothers" by Richard Price
"A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
"To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
"The Member of the Wedding" by Carson McCullers

10 Books I Would Save In a Fire (If I could Only Save 10)
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
"Bleak House" by Charles Dickens
"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
"The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
"The Golden Notebook" by Doris Lessing
"Middlemarch" by George Eliot
"Sons and Lovers" by D.H. Lawrence
"The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats"
"The Collected Plays of William Shakespeare"
"The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton

More later......

posted by orangeena at 4:25 pm (EST) on Feb 24, 2009