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GroupsBBC Radio 3 Listeners, Book Nudgers, Crambo!, E. F. Benson, Girlybooks, LTers with dogs, Naturalists, Science!, Trollope lovers unite or fight, What Are You Reading Now?

Favorite authorsMargaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Robertson Davies, George Bernard Shaw, Anthony Trollope, Barbara W. Tuchman, E. B. White, P.G. Wodehouse (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresPowell's City of Books

About meSometime in the last few years my relationship with the novel changed and I don't know if this is inevitable or even if it has any message, but I am reading less exultantly and heedlessly. I do not sink into the novel as I used to, becoming characters or living in the time and space of the book. I am now more of an observer. I don't think the change has been as gradual as the other age related changes. While not sudden, it has been fast and has taken with it many of my other flights of fancy.

About my libraryThe house is full of books, even after a serious weeding for a new library that appealed to me for a starter donation. My budget blown for books. I am mad for lit and good fiction, have a taste for history and science, but then there is the thing with mystery, science fiction/fantasy and humor. There is the garden section, the travel section and an entire bookcase of cookbooks. The camper has field books on natural history.
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Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope by Emmanuel Guibert

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The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman

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Out Stealing Horses: A Novel by Per Petterson

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For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend by Patricia McConnell

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When Will There Be Good News?: A Novel by Kate Atkinson

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The Self-sufficient Life and How to Live It by John Seymour

Noticed you liked The God of Small Things, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also about a grief-stricken family. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Here's a link to a summary (and a sample chapter)in case you'd like to read more about the novel before you commit:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 10:15 pm (EST) on Sep 13, 2009

Good review of Two Marriages. Intriguing.

Just reading 'The Story of a Marriage' along the same theme lines - quite good so far (half way through). This is by the guy who wrote 'The Confessions of Max Tivoli'.

Cheers,

Karen

posted by kiwidoc at 9:57 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2008

Regarding covers: edit the book in your library and on the left-hand side of the screen you'll see "change cover." From there you can choose covers from Amazon or ones uploaded by members.

posted by lindsacl at 8:53 pm (EST) on Aug 15, 2008

I just want to let you know that I have scanned and uploaded my cover for The Constant Nymph, and since you have the same edition (same ISBN) as mine, I thought you might want to know that a correct cover for the Dial Press edition is now available.

Enjoy
Laura

posted by lindsacl at 3:08 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2008

The X in your prose is delightful. Provides character.

I will be using your argument with zeal to my hubbie!

However, the problem of square footage required for storage can offset the investment potential. I am happily continuing an expansion of my library without the requisite bookshelf space!! My eyes are bigger than my brain, so to speak!

Great to be linked on our pages.

Cheers,

Karen

posted by kiwidoc at 12:42 pm (EST) on Aug 9, 2008

Rebecca - thanks for the link to the article. It is funny to read. I especially liked the Lies translation to Untruth #3. You can see why the translator is as important as the writer!!

Do you mind if I bookmark you as a friend? - I think I need to have a link to your profile and would like to keep in touch!!

Ta.

Karen

posted by kiwidoc at 10:22 pm (EST) on Aug 8, 2008

Rebecca - reading your profile it seems that I have a similar addiction and book dilemma problem to you (science and history and gardening books all have their own sections in my house, too).

My hubbie has made me swear that I do not buy any more books until every one in the house is read (HA HA I think to myself).

I have taken to devious means, sneaking in bags, leaving them in hidden places until the opportunity unfolds to access them onto my TBR pile.

posted by kiwidoc at 2:28 pm (EST) on Aug 6, 2008

Funny article, Rebecca. I will have to see if I can find it online as I don't remember seeing it. Was it recent - ie in the last 3 months?

posted by kiwidoc at 1:52 pm (EST) on Aug 6, 2008

Rebecca - luckily I had not been searching too hard for the 'Light Snow title yet!!

Interesting comment about translation. I always worry that I am missing the essence of language and cultural intonation when I read translated works. I am too old to learn Japanese, though.

Cheers, Karen

posted by kiwidoc at 11:59 am (EST) on Aug 3, 2008

Thanks for the recommend of Light Snow. I will look into that one.

Cheers,

Karen

posted by kiwidoc at 2:37 am (EST) on Aug 2, 2008

Hi Rebecca -Yes, Shaw's wonderful acerbic wit is always a pleasure, I love the way he excoriates the English for singing the Messiah with passionless restraining reverence. He wanted some real musicians to sing it - about twenty instead of 1000, who would really understand the words and sing them as if they meant them. I am reminded of the early music groups that have been abounding for years like joshua Rivkin, and John Eliot Gardiner, and Christopher hogwood, and the dutch harpsichordist and conductor whose name I think is koopman.
Of course there are many more, but I know shaw would have a wonderful time comparing them and being disgusted all over again because of their restraints and inhibitions. LIKE MY GRANDMOTHER WOULD SAY IN YIDDISH, ON ZALZ, ON SCHMALTZ UND ON FEFFER MEANING NO TASTE- NO SALT, NO CHICKEN FAT AND NO PEPPER.
I confess to loving Joshua Rivkin's Bach performances and prefer them to the ones with soloists who are really italian opera singers, who throw in a lot more emoting.

posted by almigwin at 10:50 pm (EST) on Jul 31, 2008

Hi Rebecca,

Nutmeg and Macey appreciate your kindness, well at least they look pretty relaxed content on the couch right now. I read Heart of Darkness before reading King Leopold's Ghost. But, KLG put HoD in a completely different light, so now I'm rereading HoD.

By they way, somehow I came across some of your reviews and really enjoyed them (one was "The Movies of My Life" which I own but haven't read. The other was "Curious Incident ..." which I have read.) That was what inspired me to add you to my interesting library list.

Cheers,
d

posted by dchaikin at 3:49 pm (EST) on Jul 13, 2008

So glad you're enjoying Portland. And a trip to Norway sounds wonderful. It's so beautiful there, I visited there oh, 30 some years ago!

Yah, I didn't much enjoy the triple digits on Saturday but it's sure great today. Except it looks like we're getting smoke from California's fires. They always send us nasty stuff! ;o)

posted by teelgee at 11:20 am (EST) on Jul 1, 2008

H. Rider Haggard is fun if you can overlook the political incorrectness. For 1885 I imagine he was considered sensitive. A good yarn with interesting details of the times that I've not encountered before, i.e. how to innoculate your ox team against certain African diseases and what kinds of guns and supplies to take on safari.

posted by varielle at 3:20 pm (EST) on Jun 29, 2008

Welcome home, Rebecca! Where are you working? We should make a date at Powell's after you get settled.

Thanks re: the photos. I've been having lots of fun taking photos this spring (I've discovered the close-up setting on my camera! Can't get enough of it!)

Hope your move goes well.
Terri

posted by teelgee at 12:42 am (EST) on May 22, 2008

You have a flat? Are you British? ;o) 21st and Johnson is really in the heart of NW Portland -- years ago I lived at 21st and Everett. Now I'm in the Southeast quarter - Hawthorne district. I love it there. When do you move??

posted by teelgee at 5:21 pm (EST) on May 16, 2008

Hi Rebecca -- yeah for moving to Portland! Where will you be living? Let me know when you land!
Terri

posted by teelgee at 8:49 am (EST) on May 15, 2008

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