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Favorite authorsChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, W. H. Auden, Sarah Caudwell, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Anne Fadiman, J.G. Farrell, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Paula Fox, Mavis Gallant, Vasily Grossman, Shirley Hazzard, A. E. Housman, Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth, James Salter, Victor Serge, Vikram Seth, Jane Smiley, Rebecca Solnit, Leo Tolstoy, Honor Tracy, W. B. Yeats (Shared favorites)

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Member sinceJul 14, 2006

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Thanks for the comment in the group "What are you reading now?" I am thoroughly enjoying Revolutionary Road, I can't put the book down. I think I have about 45 pages left. Yes, most movies don't measure up to he book. But if the movie is an academy award potential, I want to have read the book. The language is so rich, and flows so smoothly.
Glad you liked it!

The other relatively short novel that I am currently raving about is The Story of a Marriage. Have you read it? Doesn't have the humor o DAA, but it every word counts and it has great insights into human nature. Also has some unforeseen plot twists...
Well, I have Netherland too, so I will move it up based on your rec.
Rebecca,

Have you read Dear American Airlines yet? I see it is in your library. If you haven't, I urge you to go start reading it NOW. It will have you laughing out loud and getting teary eyed all in the smae book. It is short, but I think very well done. To me, this often means that every word written is given consideration.

What you have read and loved lately? The other book I am trying to spread word about is The Story of a Marriage. Highly recommend.

N
Hello--I love your library! A good mix of things I know and things I don't. On one of the talk threads I saw you recommend "The Straight and Narrow Path"--I found a copy on Bookmooch and am looking forward to it.
Rebecca -

A publicist at Random House receommended The Story of Forgetting to me last week so I found a galley and started reading it immediately (don't know how I missed it on LT until now, but...) It is amazing. I saw that you were thinking about picking it up after Terri and Louis were talking about it. It goes on sale today - I urge you to get a copy and strt it right away. You won't regret it!

Nancy
Just got a note from Terri (teelgee). She is taking our rec.

Nancy
Rebecca,

I agree about "What's for Dinner?" I saw teelgee's request for you to tell her more, but I am not sure how to discribe this book. I think hse would trust the two of us if we said just read it, don't you?!

Anwyay, did you get it from their moving sale? I picked up a few books there, but more from our bookstore. I haven't looked at your library to see if you have read Troubles yet. I have The Summer Book, which should be out soon, if it is not already, and of course about 10 more of the series to read. I just love (and trust) them.
Rebecca,

I saw you just finished What's for Dinner? I read it a few weeks ago and have found that is has really stuck with me. I guess that is why NYRB Classics republished it. Glad you liked it too.

I stil have the Mary Swan book on my TBR pile and I think of you everytime I look at it. Haven't heard from anyone else who has read it yet.
Rebeccanyc - I hope that you enjoyed The Radetsky March. I remember it started slowly, but once I got into it, I found it delightful.
Hi Rebecca. I'm kath...
I noticed a post of yours about how your childhood affected your reading...I could have written it! So I thought I would pop in and say hello.

You have some library! I doubt that my own listing will ever be up to date here, as I tend to wander off to read . sigh...

So Hello and take care
kath
Rebecca- it took me a long time to get through Savage Detectives...actually the structure, the short oral histories, allowed me to go back to it, after intervals, without too much distraction. In the end it was a great read, quite different from much that it is now written, although it did remind me of a book by Kerouac- Desolation Angels. I loved that the main characters were poets, "on the road" exploring themselves, literary ideas and the world.
FYI- i just did a review of Roth's Exit Ghost...have you read it yet?

How are you finding Savage Detectives?
hi rebecca- i was just clicking around and I saw you recently added [Savage Detectives]- I really loved it and will be curious to hear what yopur reactyions are to the book. happy reading-
Bert
Rebecca, Thanks very much for the Haiti book recommendations!
Thanks for the message. Its all over with regards to Emma's mum, she passed away a couple of weeks ago. We are getting back to normal here, but also keeping an eye on her Dad, making sure that he is doing okay. As I'm sure you have found, its a weird time when you have spent a lot of time and energy looking after and worrying about a someones illness, that when its all over you are expected to just pick up your life where you left off. Anyway, thanks for asking.I have been a bit quiet wrt to LT of late, but I am sorting some things out and hope to re-engage fully in the New Year (hopefully with lots of new books in tow).
Cheers,
Andy
Rebecca,
I understand what you mean about the sympathy. As regards my partner's mother, everyone wants to help or say the right thing, which is lovely, but there really is nothing that anyone can say to make a difference at the moment. We just have to get on with doing what we are doing.
Anyway, next time you feel like talking to a bunch of nameless, faceless strangers about books, we will all still be here.
Andy
Sorry to hear that you are having family problems. My partner and I are currently nursing her mother throught the last stages of breast cancer, so I have some sympathy with what you are going through. Our situation is actually making me read more, because I am spending an enormous amount of time on trains betwen Bristol and Manchester (sometimes 4 times a week). Anyway, looking forward to the time that you can fully engage with LT again, and hope things are okay in the meantime.
Andy
Hi Rebecca,
I thought I'd get in touch as I haven't seen you in the reading globally group for a while. I am emulating your championing of 'Half of a Yellow Sun' by recommending Patricia Grace's books, particularly 'Potiki'. I think quite a few people have taken it up, so i thought I would recommend it to you too, hopefully as a way of repaying you for pushing me in the direction of Adichie's book.
Cheers,
Andy

PS I'm beginning to feel the pressure of being responsible for a lot of other people's reading time. I don't know how you put up with it.
Thanks, Rebecca--I put both Salter titles on my Bookmooch wishlist.
Hi, Rebecca,

In the What Are You Reading Now? thread, you say James Salter is one of your favorite authors. Since I don't think you've steered me wrong yet . . . which book of his would you recommend starting with?

Regards,

Chris
just looked at CriticalMass blog and the critic Edmund White listed 5 must books in a reviewer's library...i thought of you:

Roberto BolaƱo's The Savage Detectives, which I read just this last spring, is a book that renews my faith in fiction. Written by a Chilean author who lived in Mexico and Spain, it is bursting with narrative energy and that most elusive and seldom-mentioned of essential qualities: charm.
Rebecca, I really enjoyed your maps section.
Tiffin
in my head i edit the last message:

strike worldwind to whirlwind/worldwide "romp"...oh to care about words and what they mean.
Hey Rebecca- I am thoroughly enjoying Savage Detectives...the best word i have come up with to describe it is that it is a worldwind :"romp" of a tale about 2 crazed poets and the encounters they have through the years...the structure- mostly oral histories...allows for one to pick it up, put it down and still come back to it in full stride...Bolano certainly speaks to that part of me that was nurtured ion the 60's.
Hi, Rebecca. Thanks very much for your note. Indeed, "The Plot Against America" and "American Pastoral" were combined in error. Thanks for catching it. Great library! -- Brian
Thanks for your comment about the Magic Mountain.

David Perrings
Thanks for visiting my photoblog and especially thanks for liking it. I can see you love New York City by your nice collection of New York books. Makes me newly ambitious, in an acquisitive sort of way.
Did you, or are you, enjoying Kapuscinski's 'Travels With Herodotus'? I see you are the only other reader here to have it in your catalog.

~Sean-Paul
The July issue of Vanity Fair is focused on Africa and included a photo spread and a general article highlighting Africa literary stars - including our fave, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She is so beautiful, so talented. Did you know she lives in a house that Achebe used to live in? I don't read many magazines, but I happened to see this in the pharmacy yesterday, and since I'm studying Africa at the moment, I picked it up. Loving the Red Room although its exhausting (and not helping my studying either). Best, Lois
The Orange Prize is announced tomorrow. Cross your fingers!!! - Lois
Hi Rebecca. I recently started reading Omnivore's Dilemma, and find it gets a little dry very early on. I will finish it, because I bought it, but I'm wondering if you can tell me if it gets interesting again.
Carmen
Rebecca, I just started Half Of A Yellow Sun and really am enjoying it. It is an amazing book. I saw your recommendation and others and decided to check it out of the library.
rebeccanyc
Finally got around to reading Half of a Yellow Sun, and it is an outstanding book. Just wanted to thank you for pointing me in its direction (despite my teasing). Its definitely one of the best books I have read this year.
Sorry about the New/New York Times Cookbook. I don't think I saw the two News - too much looking at book information, probably. The eyes could have probably used a break! (I actually do have the (older) book, but I haven't cataloged any of my cookbooks.)

Thanks for the reminder to be more careful.
hello again,

i read The Road a few weeks ago and i,too, was compelled to read on and while it is grim i found it somewhat touching also- the relationahip between father and son and i was not dissappointed with the ending.

ciao, bert
Hi, Rebecca ~ I decided to respond privately to your last post to me on the What You're Reading the Week of 27 January 2007 thread: ("Storeetllr, if your ancestors came before 1892 (as mine did), and they came in through NYC, they came through Castle Garden, not Ellis Island -- it didn't open until 1892. Castle Garden is at the southern tip of Manhattan, also called the Battery.")
How interesting about Castle Garden ~ and what a romantic name for what must have been anything but a romantic place. I've been to the Battery, but I never knew it was a point of immigration. Anyway, my grandparents came in about 1910, although I'm not exactly sure what year. It may be somewhere in my papers, which are in storage at this time, but I know it was after 1907.
BTW, my grandparents' names were Kazimir Barkauskus (Charles Birkitis) and VERA KUBILIUTE (Vera Kubilis). I vaguely remember hearing that they came from in or near Vilnius. Vera moved to Scotland sometime around 1907 where she married her first husband, Juozas Karpinskas (Joseph Carpson), and had two or three children. Later, they emigrated to the U.S., where Juozas was killed in a mining accident in Harrisburg, IL. She then married my grandfather, who also worked in the mines in So. Illinois.
Where in Lithuania did your folks come from? (I don't recall whether you mentioned that or not ~ sorry.)
I'm sorry, my mistake. I fished around until I found the original post - mentioned by marietherese on the magazine thread in "what are you reading now." The magazine did seem interesting when I checked it out online, so I subscribed. The current issue features Irish literature, a fair amount of poetry, reviews (including a review on ...can you guess...Half a Yellow Sun!), a few other pieces.

I just picked up McCann's Zoli so the Adichie must wait a little longer. And I have a little left to go on Auster's Travels in the Scriptorium but it was giving me intellectual vertigo, so I needed a breather.

I do have you on my watch list; however, I've noticed that recently added books is not the same as recently read books. You have a voracious appetite for literature! I think I may have slowed down a little since the bookstore. It's probably a good thing.
Best, Lois

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