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Listen to the Warm by Rod Mckuen
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Palladian (Virago Modern Classics) by Elizabeth Taylor
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
The Thirties by Edmund Wilson
Three by Flannery O'Connor (Signet Classics) by Flannery O'Connor
A HOUSE AND ITS HEAD by Ivy Compton-Burnett
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CollectionsYour library (749), Wishlist (89), Currently reading (9), To read (23), All collections (749)
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Tagswishlist (85), children's books (75), biography (55), domestic fiction (48), mysteries (35), Muriels (33), Sylvia (32), poetry (25), short stories (25), Virago (24) — see all tags
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Groups20th Century British Realism, 50 Book Challenge, Awful Lit., British & Irish Crime Fiction, BritWit, Charity Shop Swap - UK, Children's Literature, Graham Greene, King's Dear Constant Readers, Loitering with Intent — show all groups
Favorite authorsMargaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Anita Brookner, Lewis Carroll, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Barbara Comyns, Jennifer Dawson, J.P. Donleavy, Isobel English, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Penelope Fitzgerald, Janet Frame, Stella Gibbons, Graham Greene, Olivia Manning, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath, Barbara Pym, Saki, Muriel Spark, Dorothea Tanning, Elizabeth Taylor, Kurt Vonnegut, Evelyn Waugh, E. B. White, Laura Ingalls Wilder (Shared favorites)
About meI like books. All kinds. Biographies. Cookbooks. Children's books. First edition books. I like Norton Critical Editions. I like Virago Press. I would marry Virago Press if I could. Except I can't. Because I'm already married.
Books I've read for 2008 (so far):
Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days (Jared Cade)
A Murder is Announced (Agatha Christie)
The Rules of Engagement (Anita Brookner)
Our Spoons Came from Woolworth's (Barbara Comyns)
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
My Next Bride (Kay Boyle)
Open to the Public (Muriel Spark)
The Juniper Tree (Barbara Comyns)
Hospital Wedding (Jennifer Dawson)
Sisters by a River (Barbara Comyns)
Mr. Fox (Barbara Comyns)
Who was Changed and Who was Dead (Barbara Comyns)
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (Jennifer Lynch)
Salem's Lot (Stephen King)
The Skin Chairs (Barbara Comyns)
House of Dolls (Barbara Comyns)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Joan Lindsay)
The Hearing Trumpet (Leonora Carrington)
Between Lives (Dorothea Tanning)
Mad Puppetstown (Molly Keane)
A Touch of Mistletoe (Barbara Comyns)
Palladian (Elizabeth Taylor)
Chasm: A Weekend (Dorothea Tanning)
The Hundred Dresses (Eleanor Estes)
Emily the Traveling Guinea Pig (Emma Smith)
The Curate's Wife (E. H. Young)
Scented Gardens for the Blind (Janet Frame)
The Bookshop (Penelope Fitzgerald)
The Carpathians (Janet Frame)
Owls Do Cry (Janet Frame)
Living in the Maniototo (Janet Frame)
Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
The Lagoon and Other Stories (Janet Frame)
The Lost Flower Children (Janet Taylor Lisle)
State of Siege (Janet Frame)
The Lifted Veil (George Eliot)
Offshore (Penelope Fitzgerald)
Farmer Boy (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
On the Banks of Plum Creek (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Frost in May (Antonia White)
Strawberry Girl (Lois Lenski)
The Mennyms (Sylvia Waugh)
Poison Blood (Philip E. Ginsburg)
Einstein's Monsters (Martin Amis)
The Edge of the Alphabet (Janet Frame)
The Beginning of Spring (Penelope Fitzgerald)
The Devastating Boys (Elizabeth Taylor)
Hotel Du Lac (Anita Brookner)
Muriel Saves String (Dorothy Waugh)
The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
Mennyms in the Wilderness (Sylvia Waugh)
Miss Lizzie (Walter Satterthwait)
Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room (Janet Frame)
Everybody was so Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story (Amanda Vaill)
About my libraryMost of the novels I own/read are by British authors, particularly women writers. Most of my non-fiction books are biographies and criticism. I'm particularly interested in the silent film era and am currently trying to add books about this topic to my collection.
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Currently readingBetween Lives: An Artist and Her World by Dorothea Tanning
Mood Indigo by Charlotte Vale Allen
Hitty Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann
Sisters by a River (Virago Modern Classics) by Barbara Comyns
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I tried House and it's Head about 5+ years ago and it was difficult getting past the first pages. I think I'm ready to give ICB another try but want to do it with the right book.
Thanks!
Astrid (Tuppy)
posted by tuppy_glossop at 3:53 am (EST) on Oct 17, 2009
Sorry for the shameless self-promotion, but I thought you might be interested in my new novel, Dirty Little Angels, since it's set in New Orleans (I'm actually from New Orleans, though I teach at LSU in BR). Here's a brief summary:
Set in the slums of New Orleans, among clusters of crack houses and abandoned buildings, Dirty Little Angels is the story of sixteen year old Hailey Trosclair. When the Trosclair family suffers a string of financial hardships and a miscarriage, Hailey finds herself looking to God to save her family. When her prayers go unanswered, Hailey puts her faith in Moses Watkins, a failed preacher and ex-con. Fascinated by Moses's lopsided view of religion, Hailey, and her brother Cyrus, begin spending time down at an abandoned bank that Moses plans to convert into a drive-through church. Gradually, though, Moses's twisted religious beliefs become increasingly more violent, and Hailey and Cyrus soon find themselves trapped in a world of danger and fear from which there may be no escape.
Here's a link to the first chapter in case you're interested:
http://christophertusa.com/blog/?page_id...
Thanks,
Chris
posted by cmtusa at 7:07 pm (EST) on Mar 16, 2009
I have a renewed interest in LG due to the horrid (13degrees) weather here. I was bored & perused my lost generation books where I came upon "Found Meals of the Lost Generation", by Suzanne Rodriguez-Hunter. When I purchased the book, I must admit I looked at the recipes & ignored the accompanying text. In reading it through, I am finding it a delight. Neat little thumbnail sketches of the time with recipes for foods they served/may have served in Paris. The book is dotted with post-its & my Amazon cart has some new things to read, e.g., "Nightwood" by Djuna Barnes.
Am looking forward to some news from our members as to what new relevant books you've read or really, anything to do with the time. Thanks, Judie
posted by passy at 11:06 am (EST) on Mar 1, 2009
posted by Ganeshaka at 2:58 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2009
thanks again for the great choices and have a great 2009!
Emma
posted by millwheel at 9:35 am (EST) on Jan 13, 2009
Cheers!
posted by tuppy_glossop at 1:29 am (EST) on Oct 14, 2008
Thanks for the note.
Tim
posted by timspalding at 4:55 pm (EST) on Sep 23, 2008
I see you are the only person on LT who owns a copy of Rhododendron Pie by Margery Sharp. Lucky you! It is on my wish list, and it seems to be a very difficult title to come across.
Happy reading and happy hunting for Viragos!!
Paola :-))
posted by aluvalibri at 8:10 am (EST) on May 28, 2008
Thanks for assuaging my curiosity,
wunderkind
posted by wunderkind at 1:36 am (EST) on Apr 23, 2008
posted by connor_chauveaux at 8:53 pm (EST) on Feb 23, 2008
posted by wunderkind at 5:22 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2008
Thanks for educating me!
Cheers
Sue
posted by thewordygecko at 7:41 pm (EST) on Feb 3, 2008
posted by marise at 1:49 pm (EST) on Feb 2, 2008
Thank you for your invitation to be your friend. Looking through our shared books, I noticed The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson- it's been a while since I read that one. Not a novel you hear much about, but an interesting one. What did you think of it?
Cheers
Sue
posted by thewordygecko at 6:36 pm (EST) on Jan 30, 2008
I'm trying to join Loitering With Intent, although I haven't shown up as a member for some reason. And I wrote a New Topic remark (about The Comforters) as well, which I'm not sure why it's not appearing, either...maybe LT is too busy right now, a Sunday evening.
posted by SaintSunniva at 9:12 pm (EST) on Jan 13, 2008
Thanks for inviting me to the group. Look forward to joining in to discussions.
Sue
posted by thewordygecko at 8:05 am (EST) on Apr 10, 2007