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... Robert Hicks
10. Generations:The History of America's Futureby Neil Howe
11. Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
12. Property by Valerie Martin
Now the challenge allows a list of 12 alternates (in case the fancy doesn't strike to read from the first list) so here are my alternates:
1 ...
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Describe yourself -- The Help
How do you feel? -- Lush Life
Describe where you live -- Property
If you could go anywhere, where would you go? -- Small Island
Your favorite form of transportation -- The Red Convertible
Your best ...
... James Brown
June:
Fiction: Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Non-fiction: nothing
July:
Fiction: Property by Valerie Martin
Non-fiction: The Sun King by Nancy Mitford
August:
Fiction: a tuffie - there are 3 candidates, but I will settle on - Blindspot ...
... Road by Helene Hanff 4
19. Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World by James Chace 4 1/2
18. Property by Valerie Martin 4
17. The Time we Have Taken by Steven Carroll 2 1/2
16. Thinks... by David Lodge 3 1/2
February
15. Agent Zigzag by Ben Mac ...
... are my absolute favorites of 2009:
Housekeeping vs. Dirt - Nick Hornby
A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews
Property - Valerie Martin
The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway
Ex-Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman
The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael ...
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53. The Cold Moon by Jeffery Deaver
52. The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips
51. Home by Marilynne Robinson
50. Property by Valerie Martin
49. Tamarind Mem by Anita Rau Badami
48. The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
47. Murder in E Minor by Robert Goldsborough
46. To Kill ...
... to your or laytonwoman3rd's thread to defend a book--no, that was Special Topics in Calamity Physics I think. I loved Property ; now I'm going to have to go searching for that discussion.
Kambrogi, I accidently started too far back on your thread today and ended up adding two more books ...
>154,155: same thing can happen to me through discussion on these threads. Earlier this year I read Property and didn't particularly care for it. That sparked a lot of discussion on my 75-book thread and now I'd almost like to re-read it because I think I might actually like it!
Louisiana - Property by Valerie Martin. I read this earlier this year and really enjoyed it.
... oup.
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Larry's Party by Carol Shields
When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
Property by Valerie Martin
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
Paradise by Toni Morrison
The Hundre ...
... George Washington, Joseph J. Ellis (Kindle)
53. In the Kitchen, Monica Ali (ER)
52. 26a, Diana Evans
51. Property , Valerie Martin
50. Dear American Airlines, Jonathan Miles (Kindle)
49. Breath, Tim Winton (Kindle)
48. The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth ...
I've not read Home nor Property , though one is due in the post and the other is on my list. But I think all of us know an "Olive"; we may even have one in our families (I actually do) and I totally know what both of you mean. She was that kind of a fit for me as well.
... o....sha'n't.
#211 I know exactly what you mean about "liking" characters, Bonnie. I've just read two books (Home and Property ) with characters I wouldn't want in my family or at my dinner table, but they were certainly wonderful to read about. And Olive Kitteridge was in that category ...
No. 58 - Property by Valerie Martin - Enjoyed this one very much. It seemed so very real - not like those highly unrealistic representations of life on an antebellum plantation. It was grim, a little depressing and thoroughly entertained me. I liked Martin's way of writing and mean to look ...
I am way behind with everyone's reading, for good reasons of course, but still... So glad you enjoyed The Hero's Walk and Property .
I read Property earlier this year, and I agree that it's not nostalgic of the mythical, paternalistic ante-bellum period. It's not Gone with the Wind for sure.
Add me to the group of To Kill a Mockingbird fans. It's one of my all time favorite books.
Just got caught up with your thread, Chris. We've read a couple of the same books this month---Property and The Hero's Walk. I popped back into Laura's thread from your link to re-read all the discussion there of Property . I thought it was a very powerful book. One point I don't recall ...
Am reading Property by Valerie Martin.
1. Where did you get this book?
amazon - used
2. How much did it cost?
Around $4.-
3. Why did you pick this book to read NOW?
Another random choice - just went for the bottom TBR shelf, extreme right hand side, top book
4. How long has it ...
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Property by Valerie Martin
The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley
Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum
City of Refuge by Tom Piazza
LOUISIANA
Property by Valerie Martin--an excellent novel about life on a Louisiana plantation in the 1800's focusing on the wife of a brutal slave owner, and her relationship with a slave who has a child fathered by the husband. This was an Orange Prize winner.
City of Refuge by Tom ...
... by Alan Brennert
12. Idaho
13. Illinois
14. Indiana
15. Iowa
16. Kansas
17. Kentucky
18. Louisiana--Property by Valerie Martin; City of Refuge by Tom Piazza; Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum
19. Maine
20. Maryland
21. Massachusetts
...
50. Property by Valerie Martin Wickedly good character study of a heartless woman who is not only a product of her circumstances, but perfectly suited to survive them. Set before the U.S. Civil War, this story explores the hard realities of life in a slave-holding society, without ...
I was about to type that I really enjoyed Property but that's the wrong word... but I couldn't stop reading.
HOAYS is sitting here waiting for me too, bonnie.
Another Orange book Property read. A very profound novel.
82. Property by Valerie Martin
7. Property by Valerie Martin
Manon Gaudet is the unhappy wife of a property owner in America's south. She is childless, yet her husband has fahered two children with Sarah, a slave. The book is set during a time when the slaves are in revolt. There are uprisings and murders and cruelty ...
... books. I just added The Hero's Walk and Dear American Airlines to my wish list. Also want to add that I really liked Property . I read it right after The Book of Negroes, and even though it was a much smaller book, and so much more narrow in scope in terms of the story it tells, I ...
Wow, nice to get caught up on your reading! I like your assessment of Property (uncomfortable, thought-provoking).
is anyone interested in Property by Valerie Martin or Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire? Both are like-new with unbroken spines (somehow I ended up with duplicates so these were never read). Let me know and I'll reserve for you on BM...
Property by Valerie Martin
Manon is a slave owner in the U.S. south who is trapped in a loveless marriage and enraged by her legal lack of control over her own life and money, without ever seeing the injustice of slavery from which she benefits. An uncomfortable book with a deeply unlikeable ...
... Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach, 4 Stars
49. The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton, 3 1/2 Stars
50. Property by Valerie Martin, 3 1/2 Stars
51. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, 3 Stars
52. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznic ...
Of the short list/winners I've read I really liked:
Fugitive Pieces
Hotel World
Property
The Colour
Small Island
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Old Filth
Evening is the Whole Day
The Wilderness
Of those that I've read that I wouldn't particularly recommend:
The Inher ...
...
37. A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews (4/06/09)
38. Dreamers of the Day - Mary Doria Russell (4/08/09)
39. Property - Valerie Martin (4/10/09)
40. Someone Knows My Name or The Book of Negroes - Lawrence Hill (4/12/09
41. Lush Life - Richard Price (4/17/09)
42. The ...
... :
The White Tiger
Special Topics in Calamity Physics A re-read
Housekeeping vs. Dirt
A Complicated Kindness
Property
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Ex-Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Mudbound
The Help
Bonnie- I haven't read Property . The Book of Negroes was such a door stopper, it's probably the only slave narrative I'll read for a while. On a slightly related theme, I've also got Through Black Spruce on my bookshelf waiting for me to get up the courage.
A Fraction of the Whole is ...
... The Book of Negroes as well, especially for the depth and breadth of information imbedded in the story. It's funny, but Property , a simpler book about slavery, bothered me more--have you read it?
I really want to read The Flying Troutmans since reading A Complicated Kindness by Toews, ...
... Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach, 4 Stars
49. The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton, 3 1/2 Stars
50. Property by Valerie Martin, 3 1/2 Stars
51. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, 3 Stars
52. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznic ...
... 3 1/2 stars
35. The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch
36. The Whisperers by Orlando Figes 4 1/2 stars
37. Property by Valerie Martin 4 stars
38. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett 3 stars
39. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby 4 stars
40. The Chameleon's ...
BOOK 50 Property by Valerie Martin
193 Pages
This little 193 page book packs quite a punch. The narrator is Manon Gaudet, the bitter and selfish mistress of a sugar cane plantation in Louisiana, and wife to a sadistic and domineering husband whom she detests. Manon is every bit as much his " ...
... it.
Two more books added to my library today:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (I can hardly wait to read it!)
Property by Valerie Martin
My list of books to look at/buy is now in my library under, appropriately enough, Wish List.
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37. A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews (4/06/09)
38. Dreamers of the Day - Mary Doria Russell (4/08/09)
39. Property - Valerie Martin (4/10/09)
40. Someone Knows My Name or The Book of Negroes - Lawrence Hill (4/12/09
41. Lush Life - Richard Price (4/17/09)
42. The ...
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Will find my copy of Reading Lolita and reply to 50, 51, and 52 asap. :)
ETA: read while sick a short novel called Property by Valerie Martin. Finished it in a single NyQuil haze of an evening... it struck me as being something like Edna Pontellier (The Awakening) meets Uncle Tom's C ...
... little crazy here, because I thought I already responded to your Whisperers... review? Definitely going to read it!
Property had a similar effect on me as well, primarily because of the author's choice of narrator. It's a much more concentrated/focused story than some of the others we ...
>186. Another great review, aruba. Property does sound like a difficult book. I think you owe yourself a nice, happy, fluffy read.
... Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Headhunter by Timothy Findley
The Insulted and the Injured by Dostoevsky
Property by Valerie Martin
This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar ben Jelloun
37. Property by Valerie Martin (2003) 193 pp
For personal reasons, Property was a very difficult book for me to read. My mother's family has deep roots in Louisiana, and her direct ancestors were slave-owning plantation owners in West Feliciana Parish near St. Francisville, where this ...
I finished The Whisperers by Orlando Figes and Property by Valerie Martin, and took a short detour with the delightful The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby before starting Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov.
... though I don't know how accessible it is.
I had set aside a number of books for the Reading Globally Slavery Theme: Property by Valerie Martin, The Known World by Edward Jones, Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks, Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather, Miss Ravenel ...
Hi Bonnie--Yes I will be going for lightness in May--after I finish Property --probably tonight. Next books I plan to read are Pnin by Nabokov and Naoko by Keigo Higashino. Also will try to read some Katherine Mansfield stories for Monthly Author reads, and a couple of Polish books (I ...
I am finishing up Property by Valerie Martin for the slavery theme at Reading Globally for April.
... comments on Someone knows my name - thanks! Now I have to read it... I haven't read that much on slavery, but after Property am keen to fill the gap. I know the Reading Globally group's doing a slavery theme read at the moment too.
... Bookshop - Lewis Buzbee (1/23/09) :( touchstone
American Rust - Phillip Meyer - (3/04/09, an ER)
Property - Valerie Martin (4/10/09)
Someone Knows My Name - Lawrence Hill (4/?/09) :( touchstone
The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe (4/19/09)
Spare Roo ...
... enthusiastic recommendation. I have read The Namesake by her, which I liked very much.
Bonnie-- I am still reading Property , which I like very much too. The problem is that I am reading a long library book, The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch, which came highly recommended, and ...
... of Maladies is one of the best collections of short stories by a single author.
arubawoman, have you talked about Property yet?
Excellent review on Property . Very thought provoking. I wasn't familiar with Valerie Martin but I sure am now! Thanks!
Amazing review of Property . I so agree with you that there were things in the past that we clearly see as wrong now, but that wasn't so clear in the past. I wonder what things future generations will look back and think "how could they have done/believed that"?
... on my bedside table, I am in antebellum New Orelans with the recently widowed Mrs Gaudet, helping her take stock of all her Property . What an incredibly apt and subtle title for the book as it deals with "property" on so many levels -- not only the matter of women's rights as property owners (dow ...
Great review of Property ! Are you going to read her other books? I saw Mary Reilly in a bookshop the other day and didn't buy it (just because I am out of control on buying Virago Modern Classics right now, and trying to hold off on other books unless I know they'll be great.)
... because it has helped me to realize how I go about choosing books. Reading Someone Knows my Name now. I'm glad I read Property first.
... I was going to describe why, but I've spent way too much time trying to write out just a few of my thoughts regarding Property , and am now exhausted . :-) You might want to read some reviews of Sparrow. There were some very disturbing parts--I loved it, but others couldn't get ...
34. Property
37. Property
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* An Accomplished Woman by Jude Morgan (Heyer/Austenesque)
* In Lucia's Eyes by Arthur Japin (a novel of Casanova)
* Property by Valerie Martin (Orange Prize-winning historical fiction)
* The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow (picaresque historical fiction)
* bonniebooks in 999 Challenge : APRIL 2009: What Are You Reading? (Apr 10, 2009, 2:26pm)
Just read A Complicated Kindness and loved it! Reading Property now and am loving that book as well. I've got Somebody Knows My Name coming up next, so feel like I'm on a winning streak. The one thing I'm failing to do is think about filling up my 999 categories as I'm choosing books, thus ...
Bonnie, I liked a thread of graceso much more than Dreamers of the Day. I haven't read The Sparrow yet.
Property was excellent but disturbing. My online Aussie book group's reading Someone knows my name next month and I must remember to reserve it from the library - will be good to ...
... think about what I want to say... In the meantime, picked up two books that I heard about on LT and am excited to read: Property and Someone Knows My Name. Thanks you-all!
36. Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell. Not so good, darn it! (Will write more later--maybe.) But got Property and Someone Knows My Name today, so I'm happy.
Edit to fix #
... very quick read.
The Bernini Bust by Iain Pears - another of his art history mysteries, and one of the best so far
Property by Valerie Martin - unsettling novel about the wife of a plantation owner in 1820s Louisiana.
Details of the clunkers are on my thread!
... Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach, 4 Stars
49. The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton, 3 1/2 Stars
50. Property by Valerie Martin, 3 1/2 Stars
51. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, 3 Stars
52. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznic ...
... The Cold Moon by Jeffery Deaver
52. The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips
51. Home by Marilynne Robinson
50. Property by Valerie Martin
49. Tamarind Mem by Anita Rau Badami
48. The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
47. Murder in E Minor by Robert Goldsborough
46. To Kil ...
... ."
For April, my reading will concentrate on the theme of slavery for Reading Globally. I have accumulated these books: Property , The Known World, Cloudsplitter, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, Miss Ravenel's Conversion From Secession to Loyalty, The Marrow of Tradition and maybe a ...
... World Made By Hand
19) My Mortal Enemy
20) Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather
21) Water for Elephants AUDIO
22) Property
23) Glad News of the Natural World
24) The Uninvited: The True Story of the Union Screaming House
25) Celia, a Slave
26) The Hippopotamus Pool AUDIO
27 ...
... slavery theme, I really want to stick to fiction. I think I have it might have it narrowed down now to Sweetsmoke, Property , or Song Yet Sung. If I can find another insteresting, but more obscure novel, I might try something else.
... running round like a chook when you're at home. There's a bit of Bay of Pigs material in Acheson.
Laura, I bought Property mostly because of all the discussion on your thread. It's the type of book that in pre-LT days I'd have bought then not read, or not bought because I often find "s ...
... biography, but you've make me interested enough to add it to my "political pile." I'm really looking forward to reading Property though. Love your comments!
>88: enjoyed your review of Property !!
Book 18: Property by Valerie Martin
4 stars
I finished this a week ago, but wanted to let it stew in my mind before I wrote anything. I had read quite a few reviews on it, including the discussion on Laura's thread, so knew what it was going to be about.
I liked it very ...
#32 Wookie, that sounds interesting - I'll keep my eyes out for it.
I've just started Property by Valerie Martin. I've read lots on here about it (i think it was on Laura's thread in Club Read...) and it's already making me uncomfortable, but I'm enjoying it too.
>46 Glad you liked A Mercy. I know I mentioned this somehow in connection with Property but I've forgotten what led my thoughts from one to the other (other than the obvious - slavery).
#209 I've read a ton of books about slavery in the last year or two as well, including Mercy. Property sounds very interesting. I've added it to my TBR pile.
... a slew of books on slavery this year for some reason. I think it was way, way upthread that you inspired me to read Property after I had already read A Mercy --and then I just happened onto a copy of Mudbound, which I also recommend. Whew! Enough name dropping. :-)
... reading Willa Cather. She is one of those quiet, contemplative authors who does great descriptions.
>65: Yes, I read Property and A Mercy by Toni Morrison last month. I enjoyed both of them and recommend them highly.
... of Saphira and the Slave Girl. The Reading Globally Group is doing a month on slavery, and I was planning on reading Property by Valerie Martin. Saphira sounds like it might have similar themes, so I'm going to try to read it too. Have you read Property ?
.Property by Valerie Martin
Fiction
193 pages
I can't say that I enjoyed reading this book, for enjoyment at what I was reading was never an issue. I did, however, respect the point that Ms. Martin wrote about. I'm ...
I am reading Property by Valerie Martin it is a winner of the Orange Prize in 2003.
... a Mockingbird Audio book; Pulitzer Prize 1961
2. All Mortal Flesh Gumshoe Award 2007 Best Mystery
3. Property by Valerie Martin Orange Prize for Fiction 2003
4. Home by Marilynne Robinson Orange Prize for fiction 2009
5. The Road Home by Rose Tremain Orang ...
>129: kiwi, I would never ban anyone! As with the discussion of Property earlier, this dialogue makes the thread more fun.
>130: Joyce, as the thread landlord I'll weigh in & say otogenarians are welcome here, and contrarian octogenarians too!!
... still have not read A Fine Balance which is shocking considering that he is Canadian. Must do it. Also motivated to read Property now - thanks for the inspiration. Elizabeth Taylor is not so appealing to me, although don't tell.
Hi, I just found out about the Property discussion here, from a Girlybooks thread (thanks, lindacl) and will add my two cents.
The author did a great job of getting inside the mindset of someone who feels she is entitled to own black people and yet chafes at the law that says that she and her ...
... Schwartz, Russell Banks, Elizabeth Gaffney etc., etc. I picked up some books to read this summer: Metropolis by Gaffney, Property by Valerie Martin and Very Old Bones by Kennedy along with a couple of treasures from a remainder bookstore: Rushdie's Satanic Verses and Edgar Allan Poe and ...
2008 thread
Property by Valerie Martin. Incisive short novel form the p-o-v of a plantation owner's wife in pre-Emancipation Louisiana. Manon Gaudet is royally pissed off because her husband turned out to be a dull, money-squan ...
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I read this one for Orange January . It was good, but I've read better Orange books (e.g., Property , The Idea of Perfection, Fault Lines, etc.) Perhaps I had built up my expectations too much, seeing it was both a Orange and a Booker nominee.
3.5/5 stars
Book #7 : Property by Valerie Martin. I'm so very glad I caught the discussion on lindsacl's thread about this book. It was a very dark take on a different angle of slavery. I can see how people can be so divided in their feelings about it. I gave it 4 stars. My review is
You have good taste in books, Laura. A Fine Balance is one of my all-time favorite books. Plus, I have just started Property , and it has grabbed me from Page One.
... interaction between Queequeg and Ishmael, and also the description of the church, the sermon.
>>>avaland, I haven't read Property . I've picked it up in bookstores occasionally, but always put it down in favor of something else.
This weekend, I went to my local Barnes and Noble to pick up ...
citygirl, janeajones ... I read Property recently and there were things I didn't like which sparked a very lively discussion on my 75 Book Challenge thread . I have a different level of respect for it because of that ... stop by and join the ...
citygirl -- I heard Valerie Martin read last week at the Key West Literary Festival, and she inspired me to buy Property -- in what she read the voice of the narrator sounded like a chilling, rather nasty soul -- anxious to hear what you think about it as I probably won't get to the book for ...
... Tale by Mark Helprin. LOVED the writing but, not being a fantasy lover, the story was a stretch for me.
Next up is Property by Valterie Martin, a book about slavery that won the Orange Prize in 2003.
Property by Valerie Martin.
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Torontoc
Thanks for the great review re. Property . This sounds like a very interesting book.
Where do you find such good ones?
... for that very reason (I'm trying to remember where I read that - it wasn't on LT. But they also used Valerie Martin's Property as a good example).
... go blind- the reviews alone make me want to read this one
Sorry by Gail Jones - a fictional account of con-joined twins
Property by Valerie Martin - a novel of women as slave owners,set in the American South
Thank you everyone. I have so relished reading this discussion of powerProperty makes it onto my (about to topple over) Mt tbr.
>74: Oh yea! We're back to discussing Property !!! You wrote, very interesting in light of her own treatment . Inspired by this conversation, I made a similar comment about that in #50. That's an interesting irony isn't it? I have to say the more we talk about it, the more I am ...
i just finished Property by Valerie Martin and am about to start The Outlander by Gil Adamson.
I just finished Property by Valerie Martin and am about to start The Outlander by Gil Adamson.
I just finished Property . I found the portrayal of the wife ( Manon) and her prejudices very interesting in light of her own treatment. The writing was very economical and said so much to me about the times and attitudes.
9. Property by Valerie Martin. This is an excellent book that was awarded the 2003 Orange Prize. The story is narrated by a woman , Manon Gaudet, who is married to a Louisiana plantation owner in 1828. She is not happy with her life as her husband has had a child with her servant, ( or slave) ...
9. Property by Valerie Martin. This is an excellent book that was awarded the 2003 Orange Prize. The story is narrated by a woman , Manon Gaudet, who is married to a Louisiana plantation owner in 1828. She is not happy with her life as her husband has had a child with her servant, ( or slave) ...
#199, Laura: Haven't read Property so can't comment. However, I read the discussion on your thread and re the part about the way you liked character-driven novels: what's really interesting, then, abut this non-fiction work is the immense amount of material you get from hundreds f women. They ...
>193: Mothers of Invention sounds really interesting Joyce. I might get more out of this than Property , which I just read this past week.
Oh, my, now I will have to read Property , too! What Joycepa said. And it's not at the library.
ETA: Woo-hoo! Got it for $3.52 (shipping, too) at Betterworld.com. Love those people.
... with you. I know what you mean about a book that is "meant to be." Is there such a thing as Book Predestination? Btw, Property is now waiting for me at the library due to your review and the discusssion that followed on your thread.
Along the same subject of slavery...I recommend a book ...
... And just today an LTer recommended it to me, since I also recently read/reviewed another book about women & slavery (Property ). Then I read your excellent impressions! And I was surprised to find there isn't a long queue for A Mercy at my library ... I think it's meant to be. I have ...
Can't wait to read everyone's thoughts on Property ! Thanks, Laura, for being a gracious hostess for this discussion - and for your compliment of my review!
Naturally all this discussion has intrigued me to the point that I have added Property to my TBR list.
I found this discussion on slavery and the differing views on Property fascinating. I enjoyed both reviews. Guess I'll just have to read the book for myself! I just finished reading A Mercy, which also gives an interesting slant on slavery and its beginnings in America.
... posting updates here, although I have done so on the Orange January thread. I finished The Road Home and moved on to Property . Now reading When I lived in Modern Times. All 3 are Orange winners.
Fascinating discussion of Property . Laura, when you say "tacit approval of slavery" are you implying that the author approves of the institution? Because surely the white characters involved would "approve" of it as a matter of course at the time. I think it must be difficult for a ...
Laura, I hope it's okay to do this. Property is a book that I loved (five stars), and I thought some of you who haven't read it may want a review that shows a different perspective. Here is my review , if you are interested. Please know that ...
#41,Interesting review, Laura. My copy of Property is lurking at the bottom of Mount TBR and it looks like it may remain there for a bit longer. I'm not in the mood for characters I don't care for at the moment!
#45, I felt the same about Miss Pettigrew, Tiffin. As Kiwidoc says, there are ...
I just read Valerie Martin's Property . I started out really loving it but by the end I was a bit disenchanted. Here's my review .
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From my review: Set in the 1830s, Property is the story of Manon, ...
I'm now on a sugar plantation in the Southern US during the 1830s, with "my" Property .
... it (correct touchstone won't load). Here's my review . Next up: Property .
#51 - Property (Valerie Martin)
... Road by Helene Hanff 4
19. Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World by James Chace 4 1/2
18. Property by Valerie Martin 4
17. The Time we Have Taken by Steven Carroll 2 1/2
16. Thinks... by David Lodge 3 1/2
February
15. Agent Zigzag by Ben Mac ...
... by Shauna Singh Baldwin
9. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood January
alternate: Property by Valerie Martin July
Afterwards by Rachel Seiffert July
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
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Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier (audio)
READ TO DATE:
53. In the Kitchen, Monica Ali (ER)
52. 26a, Diana Evans
51. Property , Valerie Martin
50. Dear American Airlines, Jonathan Miles (Kindle)
49. Breath, Tim Winton (Kindle)
48. The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth ...
... Road Home - review
2. Property - review
3. When I Lived in Modern Times - review ...
... Given Day by Dennis Lehane
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss
Property by Valerie Martin
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
The Right Hand of Sleep by John Wray
The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett ...
... won't get to all of them, but I'll do my best! These are on my Orange prize TBR shelf:
Ursula Under
What I Loved
Property
The Bonesetter's Daughter
When I Lived in Modern Times
Fall on Your Knees
Amy and Isabelle
Old Filth
The Inheritance of Loss
Caramelo
I ...
I'm in, too! I am planning to read three Orange Prize books: The Road Home, Property , and When I Lived in Modern Times.
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37. A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews (4/06/09)
38. Dreamers of the Day - Mary Doria Russell (4/08/09)
39. Property - Valerie Martin (4/10/09)
40. Someone Knows My Name - Lawrence Hill (4/12/09
41. Lush Life - Richard Price (4/17/09)
42. The Translator: A Tribesman ...
... shelves.
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
The Locked Room by Paul Auster
The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian
Property by Valerie Martin
The Collector by John Fowles
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
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Child of God by Cormac McCarthy (Tennessee)
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Illinois)
2008
Property by Valerie Martin (Louisiana)
... jarringly cutesy and lacking in subtlety. I felt the characters and the story called for more than that. (4 stars)
Property was quite dark and powerful. It was a quick read but covered a weighty subject—slavery, ownership, and freedom. It was very short (200 pages) and the story ...
Two bought on recommendation (for my Orange July): The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville and Property by Valerie Martin
55. The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
56. Property by Valerie Martin
... kambrogi! I am also reading Half of a Yellow Sun and We Need To Talk about Kevin for Orange July. I just finished Property a few weeks ago and loved it. Best of luck with your Orange reads and keep us posted on your progress!
... my two current books by July) I will read:
The Road Home
Half of a Yellow Sun
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Property
The Idea of Perfection
When I Lived in Modern Times
Can't wait!
... Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
# The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
# What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
# Property by Valerie Martin
# The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
# Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
# When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuk ...
From a wonderful moochy friend:
Property by Valerie Martin
from Abe Books:
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton - the Virago edition.
and from the library:
Gibson Girls and Suffragists: Perceptions of Women from 1900 to 1918 (Images and Issues of Women in the Twentieth Centu ...
... inette
Slammerkin or Life Mask by Emma Donaghue--feminist; 17th c England
I second the recommendations above for Property , The White, Alias Grace, and anything by Rose Tremain.
I read Loving Frank. It was OK. Focus is more on Mamah Cheney as a "feminist" (put in quotes ...
... n)
The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman (Victorian England)
The White by Deborah Larson (18th century, Pennsylvania, USA)
Property by Valerie Martin (19th century, Louisiana, USA)
As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann (17th century England)
Mr. Wroe's Virgins by Jane Rogers (1820s England)
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37) Property by Valerie Martin ( review )
... America by Ethan Canin - overall, not too impressed but I bet the critics will eat this one up.
Will be starting Property by Valerie Martin today and really looking forward to it.
#59, 60 - amandameale - I have to second LouisBranning's compliment of The Painted Veil - a ...
>70 You know wandering_star, I was just reading a Salon.com review for Property by Valerie Martin and it talked about this very thing. The 'bad' example they gave was Ahab's Wife where the wife was inexplicably given 20th century sensibilities. The 'good' example was the Martin novel. I agree.
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I also thought Property was a wonderful novel . . . but of the list above, I'd have chosen When the Emperor Was Divine. I can't believe it didn't even make the short list.
I've also read The Lovely Bones (a little too "pop" for my taste); The Autograph Man (a disappointment after ...
Property is an excellent novel. I thought it made for an interesting read along with The Known World and one other that was out about the same time which I can't quite remember at the moment, for offering fresh perspectives on a subject (slavery in America) much written about. The Martin book ...
... Kimmel The Solace of Leaving Early
Shena Mackay Heligoland - shortlist
Valerie Martin Property - winner
Edna O’Brien In the Forest
Julie Otsuka When the Emperor was Divine
Alice Sebold The Lovely Bones ...
... Us, Thrity Umrigar
Books by Toni Morrison
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
White Teeth, On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Property by Valerie Martin
... Ali
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
England's Mistress: the infamous life of Emma Hamilton by Kate Williams
Property by Valerie Martin
Katherine by Anchee Min
Inheritance by Lan Samantha Chang
Vindication by Frances Sherwood (fiction)
Vindication by Ly ...
... sisters and the girls' subsequent attempt to reach their grandparents' home. Flawed, but thematically worth a read.
4. Property by Valerie Martin. I enjoyed this and thought it was extremely well-written.
5. The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson. I always enjoy Ibbotson's books. She' ...
... by Hari Kunzru--my all-time favorite contemporarily written historical novel.
The Observations by Jane Harris
Property by Valerie Martin--Civil War era
Vindication by Frances Sherwood--actually late 18th century; based on the life of Mary Wollstonecraft
Fair Exchange by M ...
... Butler
The History of Love, Nicole Kraus
Brick Lane, Monica Ali
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Property , Valerie Martin
We Need to Talk about Kevin, Lionel Shriver
Rape, a Love Story, Joyce Carol Oates
Several of these, of course, are award-winner ...
... Adam Hochschild;
The Well of Loneliness by Radcliffe Hall;
A Lost Lady and My Antonia by Willa Cather;
Property by Valerie Martin;
The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History by Angela Carter;
The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth Von Arnim;
Latecomers ...
Looking at the winners for the past six years - On Beauty, We Need To Talk About Kevin, Small Island, Property and Bel Canto - I would say that all are accessible. None are what I would describe as 'difficult'.
Excellence: all I can offer is my own opinion that they were all very well ...
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Manon Gaudet is the unhappy wife of a property owner in America's south. She is childless, yet her husband has fahered two children with Sarah, a slave. The book is set ...
.Property by Valerie Martin
Fiction
193 pages
I can't say that I enjoyed reading this book, for enjoyment at what I was reading was never an issue. I did, however, respect the point that Ms. Martin wrote about. I'm ...
