Thanks alot! yeah, that book really hit home I'm glad that you share the same opinion, it definitely doesn't get the respect it deserves I'm afraid.

posted by CstSnow at 12:40 pm (EST) on May 9, 2008

I'm good- thanks for swinging by to say hi! Glad you nabbed a new read. Any chance you'll try to submit some stuff to ODE? If so I'll keep my fingers crossed for ya.

posted by twacorbies at 12:31 am (EST) on May 8, 2008

I also enjoyed The Tender Bar very much. I have been rereading Wislawa Szymborska, who has become my favorite poet, displacing Auden and Akhmatova. I just finished 'Fire in the Blood' by Irene Nemirovsky. The missing chapters were found by her biographers. (She died in Auschwitz and her daughters carried her papers around for years without being able to look at them). They published Suite Francaise to great acclaim in France and here also.

posted by almigwin at 10:10 pm (EST) on May 6, 2008

argh- i know what you mean... haven't been reading at all recently. maybe a break isn't so bad though.

posted by twacorbies at 1:16 am (EST) on Mar 7, 2008

very nice.

thank you.

posted by tcw at 11:44 am (EST) on Jan 31, 2008

Your library is pretty groovy too... Let's see, I've read "Sons and Lovers" and "Lady Chatterley's Lover." I read the former during my commutes when i used to live in Chicago, so now my memory of that book is completely intertwined with flashes of being on the El. I haven't read as much philosophy as I should have! I've got lots of stuff I haven't "gotten around to" yet, but needed to own nonetheless :) I need to get back into reading more poetry: I started reading "Lives of the Poets" as kind of a way to kick me into spending more time reading poetry. You've got a cool favorite authors section- all of mine seem run of the mill. It's been years since I've read Ackerman, but you're right- she's quite good!

posted by twacorbies at 5:18 pm (EST) on Dec 18, 2007

I finished Christ the Lord today and the ending left me in tears. Some parts of the book were a bit dull, but if you've read any Anne Rice you will know that if you don't stick with her books, you miss the best parts because she packs all her punch at the end. I enjoyed it. Check it out.

posted by raggedtig at 2:16 pm (EST) on Dec 14, 2007

Thanks. I liked your poem a lot, too. (I'm assuming that clm are your initials.) Only one very minor demurral. Brown is my favorite color, and I'm not really a hateful person. Rotten, perhaps, but only through age. Actually, a friend of mine explained the deep meaning of color preferences to me once and it made me blush when I heard what liking brown meant. Something very freudian.

The color of love? For whatever reason, I think of it as the color of rich cream. I have no idea why. Something freudian, probably.

posted by jburlinson at 4:16 pm (EST) on Nov 20, 2007