Member: pamelad

I see some interesting new additions to your shelf. I loved Amanda Lohrey's 'Camilles Bread'. I heard a program this week on Radio National's Bookshow featuring Patrick White and The Solid Mandala and I am looking for a copy of that one myself. I notice you also have The Twyborn Affair in your library. What is your experience of reading White? I have only read The Tree of Man which I found quite dense and difficult at the time.

Enjoy your weekend.

~Jenny~

posted by jeniwren at 8:44 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2009

Pam,
Thanks for your note. I thought I had sent you a reply a month ago, but apparently I didn't. I expect I'll learn more from your library than you will from mine, but happy browsing, nonetheless!
Brive

posted by brive at 8:10 pm (EST) on Aug 4, 2009

Hi Pam

Scribbling the Cat is a follow up to DLGTTDT where she goes back to Africa and strikes a freindship with a war veteran of the Rhodesia conflict and they retrace his steps and visit places and people he met during his time fighting. The title comes from her father warning her to steer clear of this man. "Curiousity Scribbled the Cat" is what he tells her. The latest book is set in Wyoming so a completely different setting for this one.

I am not using this 'Wishlist' feature here but I do have an extensive wishlist on Bookmooch which is running into the hundreds The Book Depository is the best I agree and it is hard to beat for value and service.

Jenny

posted by jeniwren at 5:53 am (EST) on Aug 4, 2009

Hi Pam

Noticed your rating for the Fuller and I agree with you. This is a wonderful book and her follow up to this one 'Scribbling the Cat' is worth reading too although not as good as DLGTTDT. I have just added her latest 'The Legend of Colton H Bryant' to my shelf.I do enjoy her writing style.

Small Island is another great read too and I have to agree with you re The Great Fire.........so much so that I didnt even finish it.
I have just received an email re the Booker Longlist and pleased to see both Brooklyn by Colm Toibin and The Childrens Book by A S Byatt both nominated as I have these on my bedside ready to start.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/...

Enjoy your day

Jenny

posted by jeniwren at 7:06 pm (EST) on Jul 28, 2009

Pam,

Thank you for the note of approval that will nudge me from a long-desired acquisition into actual reading of it! It looks wonderful.

I hope you're keeping well?

Julie

posted by Eurydice at 8:36 pm (EST) on Jul 20, 2009

Hi Pam

Yes I am looking forward to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and I have purchased it recently and now I only wish I had time to read it. Being a member of two bookgroups make it difficult to pick up those books you would like to read. I also have a copy of Brooklybn which is a recent addition of yours and have heard very hight praise for that one.

So will you be reading the next in the trilogy by Larsson? I think the final book is due for release very soon. Oh so many books ,so little time LOL

~Jenny~

posted by jeniwren at 3:00 am (EST) on Jul 15, 2009

Dear Pam
Your thoughts on The Slap were interesting. I definitely want to read it. Good luck with the Creswick venture.
My hands are perfectly fine, but I'll have to have the LH surgery later in the year.
Amanda XXXXXX

posted by amandameale at 9:06 am (EST) on Jun 21, 2009

Good Evening

Yes I think The Slap readers are divided into two camps where you either like it or hate it! Did you hear that is now to be a television series?

Yes Embers was a bit slow re plot but thankfully only short and as I had signed up for a bookring on Bookcrossing I wanted to finish for the sake of the owner who went to the trouble of organising the ring.

Your latest additions are all unknown authors to me although the Kate Summerscale does ring a bell??

Very cold here at the moment and temperature didnt get above 10 deg today. We havent seen much of the sun for almost a week now.

posted by jeniwren at 3:20 am (EST) on Jun 13, 2009

You're right - it was very gothic and I did feel that it came apart at the end. Gentlemen and Players is next on my list - I have an entire Joanne Harris category.

posted by VictoriaPL at 7:05 am (EST) on May 18, 2009

Hey Pam! I finished Coastliners. What'd you think?

posted by VictoriaPL at 8:48 am (EST) on May 17, 2009

Are those the snakes that are eating alligators? I think I saw that article. I'm about halfway through Coastliners. I couldn't sleep last night so I read quite a bit. I probably won't get as much read tonight.

posted by VictoriaPL at 8:33 am (EST) on May 14, 2009

Hey Pam! So, where are you in Coastliners?

posted by VictoriaPL at 7:32 am (EST) on May 13, 2009

Hey! I'm also reading Coastliners for my 999 Challenge. I was wondering when you were planning to read it. If you like, I can work it in so that we can compare notes. I haven't read Gentlemen and Players yet but it's also on my list. Hope you're having a great day!

posted by VictoriaPL at 12:03 pm (EST) on May 11, 2009

Do you know of Robert Barnard? (donnish Englishman) Am reading 'Death of an Old Goat'. Am Wondering if Innes Wrote something set in Australia; both worked about the same time teaching there.

posted by frdiamond at 2:09 am (EST) on May 6, 2009

Do you know Robert Barnard? (Another Donnish mystery type) Am reading 'Death of an Old Goat'. Has Innes written anything that is set in Australia do you think?

posted by frdiamond at 2:05 am (EST) on May 6, 2009

You mean... most people have more than one?

posted by MrAndrew at 12:35 am (EST) on Apr 24, 2009

Hi pamelad, I just read your review of Mondegreens, a subject that has always delighted me. My favorite mondegreen of all time is the from the Creedence Clearwater Revival song "Bad Moon Rising", where they don't sing "there's a bathroom on the right"! I'll have to see if I can get Mondegreens from the library. Thanks!
Maggie

posted by MaggieO at 10:15 am (EST) on Apr 22, 2009

Not familiar with Crispin... I used to like Elizabeth George is that ok?

posted by frdiamond at 2:38 am (EST) on Apr 13, 2009

Hello

Just reading your review for Christine Falls and I am interested to give him another try after finding his Booker winner writing as John Banville very difficult.
The Spare Room was excellent I agree. Have you read Joe Cinque's Consolation?
Are you enjoying a relaxing Easter weekend? I am having a lovely time reading and have just finished The Easter Parade by Richard Yates and have just picked up Moon Tiger by Penelope Fitzgerald which won the Booker in 87.

Jenny

posted by jeniwren at 7:33 pm (EST) on Apr 12, 2009

I like your English crime focus! But shocked you haven't any Innes?

posted by frdiamond at 12:17 am (EST) on Apr 12, 2009