Good luck in The Big Apple!

Sorry our timeing was off on the bookclub...we're a pretty small group starting out and we would have enjoyed your participation.

Feel free to refer any Seattle readers you know our way...more perspectives and ideas always makes for a livelier discussion.

posted by CarolO at 1:03 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2008

Did you notice that we picked up your thread from April 2007 about a bookclub in the Seattleites group?

Are you interested in joining us?

posted by CarolO at 7:02 pm (EST) on Aug 15, 2008

Hey dude,

I'm the guy you met on the bus who was also reading "If on a winter's night a traveller".

How do you do? First dip into this LibaryThing. Looks interesting, could be more useable?

I just finished "If on a winter's night" and had my moment of zen: an infinite number of things to say (swirling combinations of superlatives mostly) and nothing to say at all. If I were given the ability to choose the very last book I'd read before I died it would probably be this one.

posted by charlieyonder at 3:49 pm (EST) on Jun 27, 2007

Welcome to Books Compared. I enjoyed your reviews, which are delightfully conversational and witty. Alas, you didn't like The Old Man and the Sea, which I keep telling people is the only thoroughly good book Hemingway wrote. (His prose could be brilliant, but he absolutely couldn't get women right, and there aren't any in TOMS.) Hope you'll contribute a comparison review for us soon!

posted by margad at 11:47 pm (EST) on Apr 2, 2007

You asked about the Mazes and Labyrinths book, truth be told I haven't read it. It sounded interesting so it joined the (far too many) unread books on my bookshelves. It's a history of mazes of all varieties, it appears that the book if still in print if you're interested in picking up a copy.

http://store.doverpublications.com/04862...

posted by dougsen at 12:22 am (EST) on Mar 27, 2007

Thanks DarkWater for you advice re: Anna Karenina. I will try it again in a few years, and keep my focus on Levin as you suggest. I hate not finishing a book :)

Happy 2007!

posted by emanate28 at 12:54 am (EST) on Jan 4, 2007

You will be entirely in your element.

2007.

Peace.

posted by HeavyBoxes at 7:32 am (EST) on Dec 29, 2006

Pierre: A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue by Maurice Sendak. I do not currently own it but obviously it made a great impression on me. :)

posted by oakesspalding at 9:14 pm (EST) on Dec 17, 2006

here, have a comment :)

posted by rocketeer at 2:54 pm (EST) on Nov 17, 2006