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About meComposer, graduate student, blisfully married. I was born and raised in Texas, but after spending 2 years in Minneapolis, I fancy myself a Minneapolitan. Now living in Manhattan and slowly learning to love it as well. Discovering LibraryThing and moving to my compact neighborhood (with its 4 scholarly bookstores, great library systems (both public and university), and book stalls lining the streets) has created an ever more intractable situation in our little apartment. My husband has recently expressed the feeling that the books are closing in on him--I prefer to think of it as a literary hug. Book recommendations are always welcome--spread the love.
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My literary heroes and heroines include Anne Elliot from Persuasion, the Emersons from A Room With a View, Fanny Price from Mansfield Park, Margaret Schlegel from Howards End, Hank Devereaux, Jr. from Straight Man, Flora Poste from Cold Comfort Farm, Kamiti from the Wizard of the Crow, and the narrator's grandmother from In Search of Lost Time.
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posted by EnriqueFreeque at 4:59 pm (EST) on Nov 6, 2009
posted by Makifat at 9:43 am (EST) on Nov 5, 2009
posted by wisewoman at 2:54 pm (EST) on Oct 27, 2009
I wanted to let you know that my husband and I watched the 1983 JE last Sunday. It was splendid, thanks for the recommendation! I posted more about it here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/72075#.... Tonight or tomorrow we'll probably watch the Welles/Fontaine version (bless my local library). I also found the 1973 miniseries there, so if I can carve out time for that anytime soon we'll watch it as well.
I keep hearing good things about the 2006 version... maybe I should watch it just to be able to criticize it scathingly :)
posted by wisewoman at 11:53 am (EST) on Oct 22, 2009
Regards
Zeno
posted by zenomax at 1:54 pm (EST) on Oct 11, 2009
posted by fannyprice at 10:09 am (EST) on Oct 8, 2009
posted by fannyprice at 9:48 am (EST) on Oct 8, 2009
We share 50 books and I see that you are already well
posted by Macumbeira at 3:55 pm (EST) on Sep 8, 2009
Just saying hi! Hope you have a lovely Labor Day Weekend!
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 12:31 am (EST) on Sep 5, 2009
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 3:14 pm (EST) on Sep 2, 2009
posted by Barton at 9:36 am (EST) on Sep 2, 2009
Hurrah!
posted by tomcatMurr at 11:29 pm (EST) on Aug 30, 2009
haha I hadn't noticed! I think when I get to 1000 I will have to throw an enormous party. Will you come?
posted by tomcatMurr at 11:18 pm (EST) on Aug 30, 2009
posted by tomcatMurr at 10:12 pm (EST) on Aug 30, 2009
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 1:55 am (EST) on Aug 28, 2009
posted by tomcatMurr at 11:12 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2009
I really like your list of heroes and heroines, too.
posted by polutropos at 10:17 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2009
{{{squuuueeeeeeze}}}
posted by LolaWalser at 4:58 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2009
posted by solla at 2:43 pm (EST) on Aug 22, 2009
I still have not read The Longest Journey coz I don't want there to no more Forster books that I have not read, but everything else I have read several times. His books deepen with every rereading. as I said to The Freek, they are deceptively simple and easy on the surface but have great hidden depths. you were very astute about the use of vocabulary in the scene where Maurice and Alec meet for the first time. This is just the kind of thing that Forster borrowed from Flaubert and turned to his own brilliant use. in many ways he has been overshadowed by the other Modernists: Woolfe, Conrad and Ford, but imv he is not less great than them. He just made less of a song and dance about about his great gift.
Get ready. I am going to nominate you to lead the Proust group read next year.
BTW as a composer, I'd welcome your views on Butterworth. check out the Poetry threads.
posted by tomcatMurr at 11:06 am (EST) on Aug 22, 2009
posted by tomcatMurr at 8:06 pm (EST) on Aug 21, 2009
I have been very bad - spending too much time on the Folio devotee site getting green with envy, and then buying. Sprang for quite a few of the sale sets, and bought a second hand copy of the Trollope Barsetshire set and a letterpress Shakespeare on ebay for a very good price. Now I just have to deal with the credit cards!!
Nice to hear from you..
(I am eyeing the liber bestiary with very green eyes too, and want to win the lottery so I can get Night Thoughts - but not for me now.)
Cheers,
Karen
posted by kiwidoc at 11:32 pm (EST) on Aug 12, 2009
Guess who has the #1 Hot Review right now as of 9:50 PCT, Aug. 11, 2009: None other than . . . MEDELLIA!!!
WOOHOO!
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 12:50 am (EST) on Aug 12, 2009
Thanks! (more later)
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 10:48 am (EST) on Aug 10, 2009
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 9:40 pm (EST) on Aug 9, 2009
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 7:42 pm (EST) on Aug 7, 2009
OMG, they red-flagged my beautiful Twilight review too! Why do they hate me so? Are they jealous, because I'm hotter than they? I knew I never should have ammended that Twilight review with "Text Interpretation," but I just thought it was important that everybody, and not just youngsters, understood what I was communicating.
People are mean!
posted by thenaughtyhottie at 12:22 pm (EST) on Jul 17, 2009
I need to reread Agnes Grey as a physical book, not a DailyLit subscription. I imagine it would flow much better that way.
I have to laugh at your husband's feeling of books closing in on him. Mine's the same way! I'll have to tell him it's a literary hug. I can already see the look on his face... :-P
posted by wisewoman at 8:24 am (EST) on Jun 19, 2009
Yes, I thought my old pic was too revealing. And the rude comments I was getting! I'm so sure. And isn't botox amazing for those wrinkles! Woohoo!
Time for shopping! Have a nice day!
posted by thenaughtyhottie at 12:16 pm (EST) on Jun 12, 2009
posted by bobmcconnaughey at 11:35 am (EST) on Jun 11, 2009
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 11:22 pm (EST) on Jun 10, 2009
--BJ
posted by billiejean at 7:02 am (EST) on May 30, 2009
Sorry that I took so long to get back to you! Have been out of town in Austin, Texas visiting my daughter and her boyfriend. I had a wonderful time. Well, I got most of my FS books. Possession was beautiful! The artwork is collages, but I liked them much better than the ones in Daughter of Time. Remains of the Day was also beautiful. The Wealth of Nations is nice, too, but kind of divided up in a funny way, I think. I am sure it was divided that way so the three volumes would all be the same length. I did not get my Screwtape Letters book. This is the second time that I have tried to order this book and did not receive it! I think that it sold out but that they will reprint it. I just read another C. S. Lewis book which was fabulous, so I really want to read this one now. I was thinking of ordering The Chronicles of the Dark Ages and three more books, but I am going on a book buying budget (two kids in college next year), so I think that I need to get Paradiso and finish The Alexandria Quartet so that those two sets are complete. I hope that they are still on sale. I have not been going to the website as much as in the past to kind of curb the temptation. I am glad to here that you like the Gogol. I have been wanting that book as well. I love the Russian authors and try to buy all of them -- except the Limited Editions, which I just can't go there! :) I love my tote bag, too. I have been wanting one of those since rumors erupted last August of their existence. I am scared to even see the Summer Sale and I saw there was an email for me from FS which came while I was gone with new titles! Have a great day!
--BJ
posted by billiejean at 7:00 am (EST) on May 30, 2009
Hey, I'm mainlining Proust at the moment myself, just picked up Swann's Way because I'm in desperate need of something rich, complex, and most importantly, good after several sucky reading experiences, including, yes, that blasted Ulysses.
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 11:11 pm (EST) on May 27, 2009
I'm still waiting for like at least 60 other people to prop that lovely pic too - don't people understand (besides you, of course, I know you do) the great lengths one must go to and endure (oh how I suffer; how I suffer so for cheap laughs!) in order to find that right pic/that right phrase/that right word/that right anything which will, if the stars align & one is lucky, amuse? Do people think that humor just happens (is that possible?) that it can occur instantaneously, like magic, like lightning, out of thin air - a white rabbit - w/a snap of the fingers, w/out even trying? Someday these ungrateful folks will rue the day they dared neglect not only my pics, but red flags on profile pages too...won't they?
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 5:57 pm (EST) on May 27, 2009
Just had to drop by and bug for no good reason
;-)
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 5:18 pm (EST) on May 26, 2009
Oh dear, the poodles are in desperate need of shampooing, I must be off. Scrub scrub. Later. Lunch. XXOO.
Best wishes,
Elaine
posted by thenaughtyhottie at 1:02 am (EST) on May 21, 2009
--BJ
posted by billiejean at 12:12 am (EST) on May 12, 2009
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 12:14 am (EST) on May 2, 2009
Also, I heard a piece on the compositions/music of 17th century cloistered nuns yesterday on NPR's Here and Now program. Thought that might interest you being another female composer and all. http://www.hereandnow.org/
Work hard but not too hard! Missing you around LT...
Best, Lois
posted by avaland at 7:21 am (EST) on Apr 29, 2009
--BJ
posted by billiejean at 8:05 pm (EST) on Apr 27, 2009