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About meI was born in the ice age. I taught high school English in the Chicago public schools and, in a effort to escape, I also wrote bodice rippers in the 1980's.
After four books, I realized I could make more money bagging at the local supermarket as a second job, so I stopped writing professionally. I'm a decent writer, but not a driven writer, and I had to force myself to sit at the typewriter after school. I realized that I would much rather read than write.
After a bout with breast cancer (15 years cancer free!!!), I decided to take early retirement from teaching.
My husband took me to London for the first time in 1968. He figured he would shut me up because all I talked about the first year we were married was going to England. London in 1968! WOW! We stayed at Hadden Hall B and B, right around the corner from the British Museum for 3.50 pounds, including full, English breakfast. We saw Vanessa Redgrave live at the Shaw Theatre for one pound and then saw her film Mary Queen of Scots for 1.50 pounds! Our first Shakespeare was the RSC's Much Ado About Nothing with Alan Howard and Janet Suzman. Helen Mirran played Hero and two minor actors named Patrick Steward and Ben Kingsley played
Conrad and Borachio.
We both fell in love with England and have been back about 30 times. In 1987 I got an NEH grant to study with the RSC in Stratford for the summer. And so we fell in love with the Cotswolds and Stratford. If we go to Stratford for more than a month we rent a flat on Avenue or in Welford-on-Avon. If we go for a shorter time we impose on our friends on Bull Street in Stratford or in Loxley.
We are native Chicagoans who had short stays in New Mexico and Virginia. As far as NM is concerned, you either love the desert or you hate it. There is no middle ground. We did not fall into the love category. Williamsburg VA is breathtaking. I urge anyone who can, to visit. The spring is a magic kingdom. Every twig in the woods seems to sprout flowers.
We moved back to Chicago in the spring of 2005 and have a condo on Lake Shore Drive by Navy Pier. On July 3, 2005, I was in Millenium Park and the orchestra was rehearsing the Independence Day program so I sat down to listen. Part of the program was Copeland's A Lincoln Portrait. Our recented elected junior senator was reading Lincoln's words to me and about five other people in the audience. At the end of the rehearsal he asked the six of us if he came across okay. So I was able to tell Barak Obama that he had great stage presence!
About my libraryAt one time I had over 10,000 books. I am a compulsive list maker and if I liked an author I had to have every book by said author. So I had every Agatha Christie, Patricia Allingham, J. J. Marric, Charles Dickens, Barbara Tuchman.
After moving four times, I have cut the down to probably 2000 books. (Ha! It is growing again!) I have a bookcase of medieval history; one of British history from the Conquest to the present; one of Roman history; s bookcase of Bloomsbury authors; lots of art and folklore books.
My fiction library is pretty much literature as opposed to pop fiction. If I want to read a best seller (Drood, for example) I now get it from the library. I used to devour mysteries like popcorn, but that part of my reading life seems to have ended and I now concentrate on the classics like Austen, Dickens, James, Waugh, Huxley etc. I stopped reading Twain but cannot yet part with my collection of his books. I joined Library Thing because of my interest (obsession?) with the green covered Virago Modern Classics.
Last year I decided to read or reread all the Pulitzer Prize novels and completed the first 20 award winners. Unfortunately, so many of them were really lousey that I have slowed down my goal. My next read on the list is Grapes of Wrath. This will be a very good reread.
I don't ever plan to die. There are too many books to read to leave this life.
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posted by Heaven-Ali at 12:44 pm (EST) on May 15, 2013
A Woman of my age - arrived today, thanks so much for sending it to me. :)
posted by Heaven-Ali at 4:24 pm (EST) on May 14, 2013
posted by Heaven-Ali at 12:18 pm (EST) on May 8, 2013
Let's arrange something nearer the time?
Simon x
posted by Stuck-in-a-Book at 12:51 pm (EST) on Apr 29, 2013
Off the top of my head, I can't think of any that I've seen, or know people have used - except The Randolph, which I imagine might be a little over the top (think The Ritz, in Oxford.) My parents always stay with their friends in Oxford, and anybody visiting me just sleeps on the sofa... so I'm not going to be very helpful.
The hotel or b&b (not sure which it is) on Bath Place has always looked nice, and is very central... might be worth investigating?
Hope you find somewhere great!
Simon
posted by Stuck-in-a-Book at 11:26 am (EST) on Apr 29, 2013
posted by LizzieD at 4:49 pm (EST) on Apr 22, 2013
posted by LizzieD at 10:27 am (EST) on Apr 19, 2013
I'll try to get these mailed to you this week!
posted by LizzieD at 9:37 am (EST) on Apr 18, 2013
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 10:41 am (EST) on Apr 4, 2013
posted by LizzieD at 9:55 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2013
posted by LizzieD at 9:54 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2013
posted by LizzieD at 9:54 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2013
B
posted by romain at 9:09 am (EST) on Apr 2, 2013
I do miss you when you're not around.
posted by LizzieD at 9:28 am (EST) on Mar 6, 2013
With gratitude! -- Jen
posted by outrageoussocks at 3:03 pm (EST) on Feb 4, 2013
Just a note to say that the book arrived safely today in its jolly Disney mailer! Thank you *so* much - it is a lovely book and looks fascinating. I am sure I will enjoy it and I will pass it on to Simon when I have read it.
Thanks once again,
Karen
posted by kaggsy at 12:24 pm (EST) on Jan 28, 2013
Thanks *so* much for sending the book! I have had a bit of real life this week with snow and work issues and my first cold of the winter - so this will give me something to look forward to! Thanks again for sending it.
All the best,
Karen
posted by kaggsy at 12:03 pm (EST) on Jan 19, 2013
posted by kaggsy at 4:37 pm (EST) on Jan 7, 2013
posted by Lake_Claremont_Press at 7:43 pm (EST) on Dec 19, 2012
The Blotting Book arrived today and I thank you so much.
Reading the back of it, it looks quite interesting and I
liked miss_read's review of it. I think I will be reading
it after I finish my current read and the E.T. of the month,
Blaming.
Again I thank you. These little mysteries are just the thing
to relax one when you are running, running, running.
love,
belva
posted by rainpebble at 8:17 pm (EST) on Dec 3, 2012
posted by rainpebble at 9:49 am (EST) on Nov 15, 2012
Hope you get to read a lot. You do have something good, don't you?
posted by LizzieD at 10:03 am (EST) on Oct 30, 2012
Stay safe!!!
posted by LizzieD at 7:11 pm (EST) on Oct 29, 2012
Thanks so much
Laura
posted by lauralkeet at 8:29 pm (EST) on Sep 24, 2012
posted by romain at 2:44 pm (EST) on Sep 18, 2012
posted by romain at 6:02 pm (EST) on Aug 6, 2012
posted by highland65 at 5:55 pm (EST) on Aug 4, 2012
posted by lauralkeet at 4:31 pm (EST) on Aug 4, 2012
The weather had improved - but is not great today, Hopefully the sun will come back.
Ali
posted by Heaven-Ali at 9:43 am (EST) on Jul 31, 2012
I can hardly wait for #3!!!
posted by LizzieD at 4:36 pm (EST) on May 29, 2012
I can't wait for your review.
posted by LizzieD at 9:04 am (EST) on May 21, 2012
Hope you are well and enjoying!
posted by LizzieD at 10:41 pm (EST) on May 17, 2012
posted by LizzieD at 8:09 pm (EST) on May 12, 2012
posted by LizzieD at 8:39 pm (EST) on May 11, 2012
Do you have yours?
posted by LizzieD at 4:29 pm (EST) on May 11, 2012
The books arrived this morning, and I can't wait to read them all and can't start even one of them just yet, but I think the diary will be the first.
Thank you, Elaine! You make me very happy.
Love,
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 2:01 pm (EST) on May 7, 2012
THANK YOU, Elaine.
I'm glad that you were able to find *Stress* at the library. They let you keep books THREE months???? I might be willing to borrow on those terms! Hope you enjoy it when you try it.
posted by LizzieD at 7:24 pm (EST) on May 3, 2012
posted by kaggsy at 4:26 am (EST) on May 3, 2012
And of course, I'm off to look at PBS.......shameless.
posted by LizzieD at 9:48 am (EST) on May 1, 2012
Hope all is well with you! Heresy has come, but I had already started Sansom's Revelation - too much of a muchness.
posted by LizzieD at 9:14 am (EST) on May 1, 2012
posted by LizzieD at 1:35 pm (EST) on Apr 24, 2012
On the other hand, Prophecy is already here from the UK, and it looks good....book design an obvious ploy to cash in on the S.J. Sansom books which I love.
I finished Foreign Bodies this morning and was underwhelmed. It's my first C. Ozick, so I don't know where it ranks in her overall opus. I'm going to squeeze in a quick M. Spark, continue Dickens's Pictures of Italy, and then start another Orange, The Song of Achilles. I have high hopes for all of these and another one or two hovering in the background being seductive.
Hope you're escaping severe weather this week. Today, we've been beautiful.
Off to swim my laps.
posted by LizzieD at 1:50 pm (EST) on Apr 23, 2012
Hope you're having a good weekend.
posted by LizzieD at 11:05 pm (EST) on Apr 20, 2012
*beam*
posted by LizzieD at 9:39 am (EST) on Apr 19, 2012
posted by laytonwoman3rd at 5:34 pm (EST) on Apr 17, 2012
Of COURSE I'm interested! I looked hard at that one, but I generally ask for only the one I want most. I swore that I wouldn't ask you for another book, but if you haven't unloaded *Image of Women in Antiquity* and the John Thaw bio, I would be glad to give them a home and not read them probably for years and years.
I'm enjoying Hide Me Among the Graves.... Don't I remember that you had an experience at Highgate Cemetery? We spend a chapter or two there....both above and under ground. First, though, you should read The Stress of Her Regard which deals with Shelley and Byron. Do you know the premise? The Nephilim from the OT are very powerful left-overs, sort of psychic vampires although a bite here and there figures in too. They are very, very possessive of the humans that they love and quick to kill any human rivals, and Powers is a past master at inventing ways of dealing with them. This book does concern the Rossettis and their uncle John Polidori, whose ghost is controlled by one of the Nephilim. Then there is a vet, the son characters from *Stress* and a young woman whom Christina met in her work with wayward women. Oh. Trelawny and Swinburne figure pretty prominently too. The deal is that these poets receive increased talent from their association with the N - one of whom also inhabited Boadecia back when. Interested? I'll be delighted to lend you my copy when I finish - maybe tomorrow, but I would like it back........ My copy of *Stress* was a stripped book, so I think you wouldn't want that.
I trust that you're getting along well. I am already summer-lazy. It's great.
Love,
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 7:32 pm (EST) on Apr 15, 2012
posted by Heaven-Ali at 1:58 pm (EST) on Apr 12, 2012
I am not going to the festival never have been at festival time - is a bit beyond my budget. Maybe one day : )
posted by Heaven-Ali at 1:56 pm (EST) on Apr 12, 2012
posted by miss_read at 12:36 pm (EST) on Apr 12, 2012
posted by LizzieD at 12:26 pm (EST) on Apr 12, 2012
thanx,
b
posted by rainpebble at 3:36 pm (EST) on Apr 10, 2012
It's overcast here but looks like it will clear off.
b
posted by rainpebble at 10:25 am (EST) on Apr 10, 2012
posted by janeajones at 12:40 pm (EST) on Apr 9, 2012
posted by janeajones at 7:08 pm (EST) on Apr 6, 2012
Just checking in and hoping that everything that is going on with you is basically pleasant. I'm VERY happy to see that you loved A View of the Harbour, my favorite E. Taylor. I'm off to read your review again. I think I read it once and starred it.
posted by LizzieD at 11:18 pm (EST) on Mar 24, 2012
I so rarely intensely dislike a novel - sigh.
cheers,
Suzanne
posted by Chatterbox at 2:28 am (EST) on Feb 13, 2012
posted by romain at 9:02 pm (EST) on Feb 9, 2012
Much love
Barbara
posted by romain at 8:05 pm (EST) on Feb 8, 2012
posted by romain at 3:11 pm (EST) on Feb 3, 2012
See you next time maybe?
Ali
posted by Heaven-Ali at 8:34 am (EST) on Jan 29, 2012
posted by LyzzyBee at 8:16 am (EST) on Jan 16, 2012
Love,
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 2:34 pm (EST) on Jan 15, 2012
posted by LyzzyBee at 2:27 pm (EST) on Jan 15, 2012
Phone is still 0121 444 3747 - but if you let me know that's OK today then we can book that in.
Liz x
posted by LyzzyBee at 2:25 pm (EST) on Jan 15, 2012
posted by romain at 8:39 pm (EST) on Jan 13, 2012
The weather has been very mild just recently but is turning a lot colder today - it could turn wintry!
posted by Heaven-Ali at 12:04 pm (EST) on Jan 12, 2012
posted by romain at 4:38 pm (EST) on Jan 6, 2012
posted by romain at 7:43 pm (EST) on Jan 1, 2012
posted by LizzieD at 6:12 pm (EST) on Dec 2, 2011
Happy My Mother's Birthday to you!! Hope you're well and get to something better than DSD today!
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 9:10 am (EST) on Nov 15, 2011
posted by libraryhermit at 10:10 pm (EST) on Nov 12, 2011
xoxo
posted by rainpebble at 3:04 pm (EST) on Sep 22, 2011
Much love
Barbara
posted by romain at 4:12 pm (EST) on Sep 13, 2011
Thank you for your kind offer of All Passion Spent. My copy is a green edition with that very same cover, so I am happy with it. I'm sure another group member would give it a nice home! Thanks for thinking of me.
Laura
posted by lauralkeet at 6:02 am (EST) on Sep 13, 2011
I should have done it a few days ago, when I received, but I hope you forgive the delay and bear with my forgetfulness.
Paola :-))
posted by aluvalibri at 7:48 pm (EST) on Sep 2, 2011
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 8:47 am (EST) on Sep 2, 2011
posted by romain at 4:44 pm (EST) on Aug 29, 2011
I do!!
Thank you again. When do you get home, I wonder. Be safe in the air. I'll be glad to see you back here!
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 8:00 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2011
posted by Heaven-Ali at 2:52 pm (EST) on Aug 21, 2011
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 8:28 pm (EST) on Aug 15, 2011
posted by drmarymccormack at 12:26 am (EST) on Aug 1, 2011
Lizx
posted by LyzzyBee at 9:51 am (EST) on Jul 29, 2011
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posted by romain at 8:54 pm (EST) on Jul 28, 2011
posted by LizzieD at 10:59 pm (EST) on Jul 20, 2011
I noticed that you have reviewed 'The Night Circus' by Erin Morgenstern, and was wondering if you had any questions about the book for the author? I work for a book supply company in the United Kingdom, and we often do an author interview, asking questions about the book, inspiration etc. If you would like to submit a question, I will try and include it, or merge it with others that may be similar.
Thanks, Fiona.
posted by djfifitrix at 5:37 am (EST) on Jul 11, 2011
posted by NancyKay_Shapiro at 7:36 pm (EST) on Jul 6, 2011
BTW- I live in Downers Grove, in the southwest suburbs!
Mark
posted by msf59 at 5:43 pm (EST) on Jun 18, 2011
And regarding "Roman Fever"..........yes, that blew me away. I totally wasn't expecting it and it was so "in your face" for the lady's gentle personality. I really liked that story. What an author. She is just wonderful!
posted by rainpebble at 11:29 pm (EST) on Jun 14, 2011
posted by LizzieD at 7:17 pm (EST) on Jun 14, 2011
Peggy back again
posted by LizzieD at 8:56 pm (EST) on Jun 4, 2011
posted by LizzieD at 4:31 pm (EST) on Jun 4, 2011
And I still haven't watched Mosely - not sure why --- something about time watching as opposed to time reading. You will let me know if you need him back immediately, won't you? I did finish the letters in a readathon last weekend, so that was good. I think I can leave them alone for a month or two.
I'm beaming!
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 4:30 pm (EST) on Jun 4, 2011
Thank you.
hugs,
belva
posted by rainpebble at 3:07 am (EST) on May 27, 2011
posted by LizzieD at 10:10 pm (EST) on May 22, 2011
I wish I hadn't seen the diaries. I have already overspent for May in April although that probably won't make a lot of difference when it comes down to it.
posted by LizzieD at 3:19 pm (EST) on May 2, 2011
posted by LizzieD at 11:12 am (EST) on May 2, 2011
I just had to pop over to say that I'm in admiration of the books you've just entered!
Splendid and inspring! Are these recently acquired? I have Anne Chisholm's bio on
Francis that I've been dipping into. She's an interesting woman but I'd much rather
read diaries over biographies - well, in most cases!
C
posted by bleuroses at 7:30 pm (EST) on Apr 26, 2011
posted by bookwalter at 11:48 pm (EST) on Apr 18, 2011
posted by LizzieD at 2:45 pm (EST) on Apr 10, 2011
posted by Kasthu at 6:28 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2011
Thank you so much (and I am glad you found that the message had not gone to me).
I hope you are doing well.
Maren
posted by Marensr at 9:09 pm (EST) on Mar 28, 2011
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posted by romain at 3:45 pm (EST) on Mar 24, 2011
Your postcard arrived this morning! Thank you!!! I'm delighted to have a small piece of London in my mailbasket. And if the Persephone Store is small, it looks proportionately charming.
I love being remembered!
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 12:02 pm (EST) on Mar 21, 2011
Barbara
posted by romain at 10:45 am (EST) on Mar 19, 2011
posted by LizzieD at 10:26 pm (EST) on Mar 17, 2011
B
posted by romain at 6:45 pm (EST) on Mar 15, 2011
I wait impatiently to hear even a little about your wonderful time!
posted by LizzieD at 10:04 am (EST) on Mar 15, 2011
sellers over them when possible. I've only JUST received three books ordered via Amazon Market place on
December 29th and in fair condition. I'm assuming the import/export laws changed with the new year
because I don't recall having such delays before. Ah, the risks we take for our fair Viragos.
posted by bleuroses at 12:47 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2011
posted by bleuroses at 1:35 am (EST) on Feb 18, 2011
posted by romain at 8:09 pm (EST) on Feb 10, 2011
posted by LizzieD at 4:03 pm (EST) on Feb 6, 2011
Julie
posted by juliette07 at 9:00 am (EST) on Feb 6, 2011
Best wishes - I will now go off to find The Saplings !
Julie
posted by juliette07 at 9:00 am (EST) on Feb 6, 2011
posted by LizzieD at 10:55 pm (EST) on Jan 25, 2011
I'm not in any immediate danger of flooding, that's up north I live in the south, thanks for your concern.
posted by errata at 6:34 pm (EST) on Jan 11, 2011
hugs,
belva
posted by rainpebble at 2:21 am (EST) on Jan 7, 2011
big hug,
belva
P.S. And truly......no rush. Am just finishing 'The Solitary Summer' and then it is off to 'Emma'. My introduction to the world of Austen. I so hope I will love her.
posted by rainpebble at 6:46 pm (EST) on Jan 6, 2011
posted by SignoraEdie at 8:26 pm (EST) on Dec 29, 2010
posted by errata at 4:12 am (EST) on Dec 29, 2010
You are a Rock Star!~!~!
luvs n hugs,
just,
me
posted by rainpebble at 6:39 pm (EST) on Dec 27, 2010
I am not brazen or anything, but when you get your new copy of "Sleepless Nights", might I have your tattered copy? Please???????????????/
(on my knees) hee hee
hugs n luvs,
belva
posted by rainpebble at 2:33 pm (EST) on Dec 27, 2010
posted by LizzieD at 12:07 pm (EST) on Dec 27, 2010
That's not even a question since the answer doesn't make much difference. I have a feeling of surfeit at the moment, but it doesn't prevent my wanting more as greedily as ever. And I'm reading so slowly these days! Never mind. We'll both do the best we can.
posted by LizzieD at 10:18 am (EST) on Dec 8, 2010
posted by LizzieD at 10:28 pm (EST) on Dec 7, 2010
posted by Marensr at 7:44 pm (EST) on Nov 28, 2010
Maren
posted by Marensr at 7:10 pm (EST) on Nov 28, 2010
I am looking forward to The Moonstone too. Maren
posted by Marensr at 5:21 pm (EST) on Nov 11, 2010
posted by aluvalibri at 8:22 pm (EST) on Nov 6, 2010
I do agree with you about the diminishment of others' interest in our knitted products. Neither Jim nor either of our sons wears sweaters, so I've always made them for myself. I'm currently enamored of small shawls knit with sock yarn; I just conquered lace knitting recently and, as usual, am somewhat obsessed by my new find. I knit poorly when I knit for other people, so I knit for myself then, eventually, give away my creations. I do my best work on Arans and ganseys. Might you take up knitting again?
posted by manyknits at 2:07 pm (EST) on Nov 6, 2010
posted by manyknits at 1:07 pm (EST) on Nov 6, 2010
We remain mystery sisters although my list would be in a somewhat different order, and I'm too immature to give up most of them yet - even the dross. If people wanted them on PBS, I would probably yield to that temptation. I still keep one going a lot of the time, but that's not how I used to read them.
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 11:45 am (EST) on Nov 4, 2010
posted by hjelliot at 9:43 pm (EST) on Nov 3, 2010
Laura
posted by lauralkeet at 8:00 pm (EST) on Nov 3, 2010
posted by lauralkeet at 5:02 pm (EST) on Oct 29, 2010
posted by LizzieD at 10:23 am (EST) on Oct 28, 2010
posted by sibyx at 9:48 am (EST) on Oct 28, 2010
posted by LizzieD at 10:33 pm (EST) on Oct 27, 2010
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 5:01 pm (EST) on Oct 20, 2010
I'm also waiting eagerly to see how much you like Celia. It's been on my wish list for awhile, but it's too expensive at AMP (and shipping is not available now anyway....and what's that about?) and not available at Awesome Books or ABE or Alibris. Oh well.
I'm happy to learn that a well-mended ceiling is stronger than one that is just beginning to crack.
posted by LizzieD at 9:04 pm (EST) on Oct 18, 2010
Love,
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 3:39 pm (EST) on Oct 18, 2010
posted by LizzieD at 4:38 pm (EST) on Oct 12, 2010
:-)
posted by rainpebble at 10:43 am (EST) on Oct 6, 2010
And I love listening to you. That's what it feels like when I read your posts; that I am listening to you talk.
I love your theory and am going to read it over again later, as dinner is ready and on the table. There is a lot there. (not food but to think about) and I think a lot of rehashing to be done on this one yet.
hugs,
belva
posted by rainpebble at 9:35 pm (EST) on Sep 28, 2010
You told my story so much better than I ever could have. You understood what I was saying perhaps even better that I. Your review was very "out there" and titillating; blunt and very much to the point. It helped me to understand why you had the thoughts and feelings you did as you read and as you completed the book.
This is only the second Eliot that I have read. I have previously read "Silas Marner" many odd years ago. But I have on my shelf awaiting me: "The Mill on the Floss", "Adam Bede", "Daniel Deronda" and of course "Middlemarch". I will be anxious to see what these books turn out to be like for me as I found "The Lifted Veil" to be nothing like "Silas Marner".
This was a wow of a group read. You really got us talking and coursing through this one. I have been doing group reads all year (59 of my reads thus far have been group reads) and this has by far been the most controversial discourse of any of them.
Good job Elaine. It never would have happened if you had not hated the book and it not been drivel to your mind. I thank you. We certainly did not all agree in several areas of the book but what fascinating conversation came out of it. And I was so happy to see a group read here in our own little Virago group.
Thank you Elaine.
hugs,
belva
posted by rainpebble at 6:35 pm (EST) on Sep 28, 2010
I will do that. I am going now.
hugs my dear lady,
posted by rainpebble at 5:59 pm (EST) on Sep 28, 2010
You are really something, my friend. To that quickly reason that there could be two ways of looking at a book that you feel as strongly about as you do "The Lifted Veil" is pretty amazing. I love your brain girlfriend.
And thank you for your comments. I do appreciate them. I just came from a different place in my mind upon reading the book than the rest of you. That's all.
hugs,
belva
posted by rainpebble at 8:36 pm (EST) on Sep 27, 2010
posted by LizzieD at 7:41 pm (EST) on Sep 23, 2010
posted by LizzieD at 9:10 pm (EST) on Sep 20, 2010
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 6:40 pm (EST) on Sep 20, 2010
posted by lauralkeet at 5:37 am (EST) on Sep 15, 2010
posted by lauralkeet at 8:45 pm (EST) on Sep 14, 2010
*Hideous Progeny* is a pretty good title for that menage. I started Muriel Spark on Mary but have put it down with the weight of too much going on in real life. (Did I say that my aunt died last week? We had dealt with physical illness and dementia for some time --- She was kicked out of Hospice House twice before she died. I conclude that genes for longevity are not necessarily a blessing. She was a dear and lovely woman though.)
I hope you settle to something soon. I need to try to finish one thing before my ARC of Trespass shows up. I'm excited! I also got a copy of 2666 today. Excitement of a totally different kind! Have you ventured into those waters?
Off to read!
Peggy Again
posted by LizzieD at 5:48 pm (EST) on Sep 13, 2010
Thank you yet again!!!! And another thank you on top of that! I'm not only pleased to expand my wave of green, but I think that I'll enjoy this one if the blurb on the back is anything to go by. At least it's not calling anybody "splendid."
Did I say thank you?? Thank you! (Oh...the book arrived today.)
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 1:00 pm (EST) on Sep 13, 2010
:-))
posted by aluvalibri at 7:58 pm (EST) on Aug 31, 2010
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 8:41 pm (EST) on Aug 24, 2010
Barbara
posted by romain at 2:01 pm (EST) on Aug 24, 2010
I'm still laughing at the review.
Time to feed the animals! (I once taught a special ed. kid in 11th grade when everybody was mainstreamed, who carefully kept a journal for me. Every day he would write, "I come home. I feed the screw." I was too young and timid to inquire who or what the screw might be. He also wrote about the prom, "Them all grank ack hall." Just thought you might enjoy....)
O.K. No ack hall for me.
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 11:57 am (EST) on Aug 24, 2010
Bawden --- I skimmed Poor Cow - not my cuppa or half-pint or whatever the liquid equivalent might be.
But I love Elizabeth Taylor! Her zingers in passing make me laugh out loud! (The sound of school children quarreling: "It's my Jesus book, you little liar!")
Happy Week, yourself! Our children go back to school Wednesday; I don't!!!!
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 10:18 am (EST) on Aug 23, 2010
Talk soon!
Paola :-))
posted by aluvalibri at 1:46 pm (EST) on Aug 22, 2010
I hope you have a great day.
hugs,
posted by rainpebble at 2:22 pm (EST) on Aug 20, 2010
I wish that I thought that it was satire, but I don't see is except in the sense of "If this is what the reading public wants, I'll shovel it to them." And I'm not sure that I believe even that. Awful! Awful! Awful!
I was so eager to get to the end that I didn't understand what Arnold was talking about when he said that his wife was enraged because he had lent her property. Did he mean himself? That's crazy.
E. Taylor here I come!
posted by LizzieD at 4:21 pm (EST) on Aug 18, 2010
I own another EAR, but I'm certainly not curious enough to read it any time soon.
I am looking forward to cleansing my palate with E. Taylor!
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 10:09 am (EST) on Aug 18, 2010
I am still looking for the Summer House Trilogy. I can't believe you found it or had a duplicate of it. I would love to have it. Thank you ever so much. One day I will be able to find something that you want and gift you back.
You are a doll.
Thank you so much.
hugs,
belva
posted by rainpebble at 8:37 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2010
Grant
posted by europhile at 7:40 am (EST) on Aug 13, 2010
posted by Liz1564 at 10:47 am (EST) on Aug 5, 2010
posted by lauralkeet at 10:19 am (EST) on Aug 5, 2010
I started *4FFs* and have since put it down to try to push to the end of Shelley and read some light summer stuff. Patience!
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 10:39 am (EST) on Jul 30, 2010
So I have started reading *4FP* - absolutely no self-control (but lots of self-a-steam, as an honors English student put it). I don't have them off the boat yet, but I'm enjoying the writing and the premise.
Have you gotten into *Cutting/Stone* enough to love it rather than like it? It took awhile for me.
Hope you're staying cool.
Peggy
P.S. I succumbed to an offer at pbs and have Stead's A Little Tea, a Little Chat coming. If I don't like this one, I'll say no to the rest.
posted by LizzieD at 10:42 am (EST) on Jul 24, 2010
posted by rainpebble at 4:23 pm (EST) on Jul 18, 2010
Well, I have to say that I loved loved loved Benny & Shrimp!! I'm compelled to pass on the love
and will send it off to another friend to enjoy!
Thanks so much for this little gem!
Cate
posted by bleuroses at 3:17 pm (EST) on Jul 15, 2010
Just admiring your acquisitions.... My current V/B Traveller is by Dora Birtles, and it's a pleasure because she was a journalist and so, can write better than some of the personal journalists in the series. I'm not in love with her style, but I recognize it as being good of its kind.
I'll be interested to see what you make or have made of Christina Stead. I understand that the one I read with 'Love' in the title (suppression at work) is not her best. I devoutly hope that it was her worst....All for Love?
Anyhow, good for you! "Read on, my friend, read on!" (That's what I said to my mama when I had measles and mumps at the same time and lay in darkened state unable to read for myself.)
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 4:32 pm (EST) on Jul 14, 2010
Corelli as a younger woman was quite presentable and bears a striking resemblance to my sister. As an older woman she got very fat and given that she was also very short the effect was not very appealing. I have never read her works but my sister who is an antiquarian book dealer specialised in her books long before we found out about the (possible) family connection.
Must go walk my dog now it's cooled off somewhat. Hot weather is both invigorating and debilitating.
Barbara.
posted by romain at 8:36 pm (EST) on Jul 12, 2010
Benny and Shrimp arrived this morning in EXCELLENT condition! After I finish
The Little Stranger (which will be in the next day or so), I'll start right in.
Thanks much!
Have a Happy 4th and a Chicago Hotdog for me!
Cate
posted by bleuroses at 1:20 pm (EST) on Jun 30, 2010
posted by bleuroses at 8:46 pm (EST) on Jun 21, 2010
I've been pretty good lately about NOT buying more Viragos, but I think my will is beginning to weaken, especially as Belva's
All August, All Viragos approaches. I love Abe for VMCs and have had great luck with their sellers.
By the way, I couldn't help but notice that we share nearly 300 titles! Off to have a browse. I'm sure your library will
no doubt add more weight to my shopping carts!
posted by bleuroses at 6:47 pm (EST) on Jun 21, 2010
My edition of Love Child does have Hermione Lee's 1980 introduction. ISBN is 0 86068 168 8.
Perhaps you can drop a note to the seller? I've done that before on many occasions when ordering
Viragos.
Cate
posted by bleuroses at 3:11 pm (EST) on Jun 21, 2010
We never saw Brooks' MND, unfortunately -- heard fantastic raves about it though.
My medieval bent was more toward drama (the cycle plays) and romance(particularly the Arthurian stuff) than the ecclesiastical side -- though the history of purgatory does sound intriguing.
We're crossing our fingers and toes about the oil, but most of the local restaurants have already stopped serving Gulf seafood. I don't know why they can't stop the damn thing, and they should be doing lots more clean-up. It's affected everyone with a kind of unending malaise.
posted by janeajones at 8:49 am (EST) on Jun 17, 2010
posted by Marensr at 5:40 pm (EST) on Apr 21, 2010
Cheers, Maren
posted by Marensr at 9:52 pm (EST) on Apr 19, 2010
You are.
I am finally coming to the point that I can give up some things - never read; never will be read - but it's hard to an acquisitive soul like me. Finding that I could own more than one or two books which were given me at Christmas was a revelation whose consequences have never ended.
The medieval archaeology books sounded fascinating until you got to the part about maps and charts........(What's wrong with me?)
I'll hope to luck into something you will adore. Maybe it will come around.
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 12:05 pm (EST) on Mar 18, 2010
I am working on The Farnsworth Invention (Aaron Sorkin's play about the invention of Television) at Timeline and at Lifeline on their adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. They are wildly different but should both be really good/interesting productions. I am sad to say I missed MacBeth and an old friend was playing LadyM so shame on me but I started a new job at U of C so I have been a tad busy. Let me know if you see either production.
Cheers, Maren
posted by Marensr at 11:46 am (EST) on Mar 18, 2010
Best wishes
Patricia
posted by mrspenny at 10:14 pm (EST) on Mar 17, 2010
Best wishes
Patricia
posted by mrspenny at 7:49 pm (EST) on Mar 17, 2010
I think I just demonstrated my "computer ludditeness" - I forgot to take off the bold facility .
Sorry
P
posted by mrspenny at 7:20 pm (EST) on Mar 17, 2010
I have a copy of All My Days by Kathleen Dayus and by the format it looks as if it should be with the Virago Pioneers category - The list on the Collection Tracker is the list of the Virago Modern Classics and doesn't include other categories of Virago publications. The list on the Tracker was always on the Virago original website and sadly was removed when Virago changed its website. We have managed to continue adding to the list by advice from Virago Commissioning Editors as to latest releases of VMC's.
I'm sorry I cannot help regarding amendment to the descriptions no to indicate there is a description as my techie knowledge is only now expanding - perhaps the best place to post the query is on the technon strand on the Virago Board which is "things every woman (and man) should know - it has been a great help to me in the past and somebody (probably Christina) will respond.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Patricia (mrspenny)
posted by mrspenny at 7:18 pm (EST) on Mar 17, 2010
I'll make a pact with you to be very, very careful in our walking and climbing from here on out!
(Have you read any Christina Stead? I'm not particularly liking For Love Alone, but I can't stop reading it.)
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 10:34 pm (EST) on Jan 18, 2010
Love,
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 11:34 am (EST) on Jan 16, 2010
posted by romain at 11:33 am (EST) on Jan 16, 2010
posted by LizzieD at 11:20 pm (EST) on Jan 11, 2010
posted by LizzieD at 6:26 pm (EST) on Jan 11, 2010
Anyway, thank you for the added information. I'll look forward to my new book.
I did finish Drood and very much wish I had waited to buy it as a used paperback. Oh well.
posted by LizzieD at 6:25 pm (EST) on Jan 11, 2010
I'm not sure whether it's better to read Ulysses at a ball game or with a guide in hand, which I did to "improve" myself. I guess it should go on the reread list too. (I don't think I was much improved.)
I suspect your pleasure with black Dell will far exceed your pleasure with current Virago (I assume your new copy is a Virago). I never read it and think I will forego that experience. Now I feel like Jim and Huck giving up crabapples and persimmons.
I am at least about to finish Anathem which is becoming my favorite Neal Stephenson. I don't suppose that you read science fiction.?? I've come to it late but enthusiastically. AND I'd love to finish Drood before the new year, but I doubt that will happen.
More than you wanted to know! Sorry.
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 7:42 pm (EST) on Dec 29, 2009
posted by LizzieD at 10:14 am (EST) on Dec 28, 2009
P.
posted by LizzieD at 7:54 pm (EST) on Dec 27, 2009
Such richness, indeed!
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 7:52 pm (EST) on Dec 27, 2009
Your post on the "What I'm Reading" thread has decided me to begin The Other Elizabeth Taylor before I read the fiction that was part of my Virago SS package. I will doubless be far behind since I can't discipline myself to read only one book(or two or three) at a time, but I do enjoy commenting on a work in progress to somebody who is reading it at the same time. Hope you don't mind!
Such richness!!
Merry Christmas!!!
Peace,
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 6:39 pm (EST) on Dec 23, 2009
You are certainly entitled to your fine haul and more. Hope you enjoy every one of them. I am awaiting my Secret Santa package eagerly. Just so long as it arrives eventually, this is better. I don't know that my character is strong enough not to open it should it come early.
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 9:58 pm (EST) on Dec 14, 2009
You are so very wonderful. Slip a not in with and I will send you postage, etc.
Thank you ever so much. I am still celebrating Thanksgiving!~!
hugs,
belva
posted by rainpebble at 3:20 pm (EST) on Nov 28, 2009
So very strange. (do do do do, do do do do)--(the Jaws theme)
"Wrestling With the Angel" arrived today and I got your post today as well. Weird, huh?
Thank you ever so much. It is a real tome of a doorstopper, isn't it? Tell me what you thought of it. Did you appreciate it? I am excited to get into it, but have so many reading commitments on my plate for the remainder of the year that I know it will be 2010 before I can dig into her.
Thank you again for having such a sharing heart. Our group is so wonderful that way.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving with your family and we will do the same here.
big hug,
belva
posted by rainpebble at 6:57 pm (EST) on Nov 16, 2009
I'll have to give Americans some thought. Meanwhile, I seem to remember that Barth thought that God simply sang in Mozart's ear, and *Lives of the Cell* Lewis thought that we should beam Bach into outer space - except that the aliens would think that we were bragging.
I'd add Dickens to the list for his beautiful writing except that he had so many perverse flaws.......maybe he was a half-breed????
Cheers!
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 10:46 am (EST) on Nov 10, 2009
1564........I seem to remember that date even though I taught American Lit my last 8 years or so!
I'm gratefully in your debt.
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 11:02 pm (EST) on Nov 9, 2009
Koki and I have started a conversation at Almack's, but I haven't read any Heyer lately, so we would more than welcome you too.
posted by LizzieD at 1:58 pm (EST) on Nov 5, 2009
Peggy Again
posted by LizzieD at 5:17 pm (EST) on Nov 4, 2009
I do enjoy Heyer, who is also having a ressurgence of interest right now, I think. You should talk to Kokipy who has devoted most of this year to buying and reading all of them, regencies and mysteries both. In fact, is there a GH group here???
Illyrian Spring charmed me completely - light and lovely. My hardback copy is so sweet that I don't even covet a green-spined Virago (much). Speaking of which, I'm off to catalog my two Virago/Beacon Travelers (well, one says "Travellers") right now! Lovely!
Peggy
posted by LizzieD at 5:02 pm (EST) on Nov 4, 2009