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Oh gee. I forgot to ask you to write a little more about Gene Wolfe. I've only heard the name.......

posted by LizzieD at 6:18 pm (EST) on Nov 21, 2009

"Patrick O'Brian, (the Jane Austen of the sea)...." TOO funny!
Thanks!
Good evening!
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 6:40 pm (EST) on Nov 19, 2009

That underline in the previous post was my attempt to put in a helpful html example. It didn't work, and I don't know what to do to make the system accept it. Sorry.

posted by LizzieD at 11:27 pm (EST) on Nov 9, 2009

Kermit, I don't know whether I'd be offended ----- I did teach high school for years so I'm inured to filth, but I think the context was the same: my library. I have catalogued a copy of *SG* too, nor is it where I said it should be. That leads me to believe that I actually saw some connection and DID something with both books. (I will hustle right on over to google SG, and while I may not be offended, I may be so embarrassed that I never speak to you again.) (Meanwhile, I'm happy to have provided you with some passing amusement.)
Josh/Feicht will be totally chuffed to hear your comments about his journal. My Roman history outside the very narrow bounds of teaching classical Latin is pretty pathetic. I had never wondered who wore the last toga. I seem to remember that for a while they got bigger and more elaborate. Humans being what they are, I'd assume they went the way of whalebone corsets in about the same time frame. On the other hand, we continue to wear some pretty stupid stuff now...... I'm just babbling. I'll stop. As to history, I have found some interesting titles from 30,000 Feet and people who prefer non-fiction. I haven't read any Mary Beard although I have added a couple of things to my wishlist at pbs - or I hope I have. Something else to track down.
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 5:34 pm (EST) on Nov 5, 2009

I can't remember the right tag, so I'll just put the url here for you:
http://feicht.livejournal.com

Pictures and all!

posted by LizzieD at 10:40 pm (EST) on Nov 4, 2009

What a comfortable person you are! Pamela/Flamena indeed!
Now I am going to have to take that wardrobe apart to see whether I can find my *Siege.* I've heard of Singapore Grip in some other context - I may even have it squirreled away somewhere. Always more stuff to read! ---- which means "more stuff to buy."
If you are at all interested in the Romans in Germany, look through the old ? thread (I'll have to hunt it up and let you know) for Feicht's journals from this summer when he followed the limes. I wish I were still teaching so that I could send some students there.
I shall return.
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 10:37 pm (EST) on Nov 4, 2009

Flavia/Pamela? Poor old brain; I do mean the one who married Widmerpool and that is Pamela, isn't it. I think you should hurry to read Paul Scott; he may be a better writer than Powell. (I have a copy of Siege of Krishnapur that I can't find. A friend here was reading it after I told her that I thought it looked good, and now I've done something with my copy. Poor old brain again. Is this one of a trilogy or are there more?) I thought that the Granada production of Raj was wonderfully well done, but it didn't approach the books in depth and perception.
Yes, sigh, to the lending books. I should know by now not to lend anything that I am not content to lose. My copy of The Sparrow is gone to a woman who said, "Oh, I returned that to you." She doesn't know how attached I am to my books. She may have returned it, but not to me.
I haven't mentioned the "History at 30,000 Feet" group that is one of my mainstays here. You might enjoy it - might not, but it's worth a look.
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 4:50 pm (EST) on Nov 4, 2009

Well-met indeed! I've read only *Ball Rollilng* but also enjoyed some of his lesser - in quantity, anyway - fiction. (I passed around my copy of *Dance* to friends back when I was lending books and called a friend one day just to chat. "What are you doing," I asked. "Oh, I'm Widemerpooling.")
If I could write, I'd arrange a way for Flavia to meet Ronald Merrick from Paul Scott's *Raj Quartet,* another great favorite.
(I would do better to lurk than to post; I'm just too stupid to realize it.)
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 9:52 am (EST) on Nov 4, 2009

hmmmm. I see that you have all of the *Dance to the Music of Time,* an all-time favorite series. That's more commonality!
(I browsed at "Vowell Shift" but didn't join. Do you post there often?
Peggy Again

posted by LizzieD at 10:38 pm (EST) on Nov 3, 2009

Thank you for thinking that my library is interesting, especially with all the trash in it. I think it's good trash, but I do know the difference. On the other hand, we share, for the most part, books that I'm proud to own and even to have read. It's also a treat to meet another reader from North Carolina. I've found a few of us but not many in Lumberton, my home. Well met!
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 10:35 pm (EST) on Nov 3, 2009