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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Not sure if I can find much in common between The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller, but here goes:
1) Both talk about the weather and problems it causes
2) Both talk about times of upheaval (civil war, ice ages and ...
64. In Chancery (lit. classique)
65. To Let (lit. classique)
66. The Book of Negroes (lit. canadienne)
67. Advice for Italian Boys (lit. canadienne)
68. The Harlequin Tea Set (nouvelles)
69. Qui comme Ulysse (nouvelles)
70. Extreme Vinyl Cafe (nouvelles - catégorie bouclée
"Which is how we knew she was pregnant again."
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"We're all lovely socialists together now, didn't you know?"
"I'm a jolly good farmer."
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
"Don't you know there's a war on?"
"I'm a jolly good farmer."
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
"Don't you know there's a war on?"
"She is the conversation stopping beauty in our family."
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
"What about Mr. Swift?"
Plowed through Gaia (no pun intended) and am now reading Alexandra Fuller's memoir of her childhood in Africa Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight . Alexandra's family emigrated from England when she was a toddler and struggled to hold on to their farm as Rhodesia became Zimbabwe.
Gaia was a quick read (159 pages) and I'm on to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller.
I'm reading (for the second time actually) Alexandra Fuller's memoir of her childhood in Africa, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight . As immigrants from England, her family struggled to maintain their farm as Rhodesia became Zimbabwe.
I'm reading Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller. This is the story of her life as a white person living in Africa. It opens with a photo of her as a 4 year old loading the rifle her father used to defend his farm in Rhodesia. Chilling.
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
The 2 novels from Alexandra Fuller are historical fiction, but good read about the Rhodesian Civil War: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Scribbling the Cat.
... Dodd
3. Storm of Shadows by Christina Dodd
4. Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon
5. To Let by John Galsworthy
6. Tempt Me At Twilight by Lisa Kleypas
7. Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
8. Imitation in Death by J.D. Robb
9. ...
>24: Pam, I really liked Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight too; I'll check out Mrs. Ames.
>25: MJ, you've got some really intriguing titles in your list. Are they about writing and/or education? I'll have to go check them out. I'm reading Cutting for Stone for sure, but am going to ...
Congratulations on finishing the 999 Bonnie. The best of the best is a great idea, so here are two more:
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight , and an oldie but goodie, E. F. Benson's Mrs Ames.
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268. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller 08/21/09
269. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake 08/23/09
270. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih 08/23/09
FILM: Ron White: You Ca ...
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6. Martin Luther King Jr. by Marshall Brady
7. Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
8. Don't Let's go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandera Fuller
9. Dracula, Prince of Many Faces by Radu Florescu
10. Faith and Betrayal by Sally Denton
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... and you just had to hope someone would clear a runway for you.
It was recommended to me here on LT after I'd finished Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight , so in turn I should mention Twenty Chickens For A Saddle, which is a memoir about life in Botswana in the 1980s and 90s by a New Zealan ...
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight was another great summer read!
Oops! Meant to say Congratulations on reaching 100!
Followed up three volumes of Doris Lessing's Martha Quest series with another African book, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight . It's an autobiography - the author was brought up in Rhodesia in the sixties and seventies during the war and its aftermath - written from the child's perspective. I ...
... I'm searching now for Under My Skin, the first volume of her autobiography, which covers the same years.
Now reading Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight , which is also set in Rhodesia. A biography.
... of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih {8/22}
Uganda - Child of Dandelions by Shenaaz Nanji {8/25}
Zimbabwe - Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller {8/21}
S. AMERICA : 9
Argentina - The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Guevara {7/29}
Bolivia - The Boli ...
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller.
Hello and welcome! You've read some terrific books. I also enjoyed Don't Let's Go , and I second the recommendations for West With the Night. After reading your thread my own wishlist grew... I really enjoy your comments.
Hi and welcome! I read Don't let's Go to the Dogs Tonight a few years ago and loved it. How are you enjoying The Fatal Shore? I read it twice and really enjoyed it (obviously, I guess!).
A book I hated was Don't lets go to the dogs tonight . I think I finished it because my mother and I enjoyed making fun of it. My parents lived in Botswana for 4 years in the early seventies a period covered by this book and I spent 9 months traveling in Africa, so we had some insight on the Rhodes ...
I choose Don't let's go to the Dogs Tonight:an African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller from Sandydog1's library
... it was just as good.
Ditto for The Golden Compass. In fact,several of the books I have in my to read pile are rereads-Don't Lets Go To The Dogs Tonight and Slaughterhouse Five are also on that pile, as well as the entire Tales Of The City series.
... atheist now--and believe me, there was no mention of my great grandfather having multiple wives! If you liked Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight , you might also like West With the Night by Beryl Markham. Will check back in again. Happy reading!
Edited to correct title. ...
... trilogy, but then I discovered the two she'd written in between. This is the first one and it was a good read.
6. Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller. I read a review of this when it was first published, and the name stuck in my mind. It's the story of the ...
... Butcher about the Congo is a serious look at a tragic country
Alexandra Fuller's book about growing up in Zimbabwe, Don't let's go to the dogs tonight : an African childhood and her later book Scribbling the Cat, travels wlith an African Soldier
And, of course, Paul Theroux's Dark ...
... book also (over 500 pages), so it can take you deep into the place with great detail.
I also highly recommend the memoir Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller. It is, like Poisonwood, about a white girl growing up in Africa, but this time it is true. She grew up in then Southe ...
Funny, I saw two lovely newish editions of In Chancery and To Let in my secondhand bookshop trip today, but remembered just in time that I own a less lovely old edition of the whole saga and have had it on the shelf for 3 years now. Nice to hear that you really enjoyed it!
... by John Galsworthy
One occasionally stumbles upon separate editions of The Man of Property, In Chancery, and To Let in used bookstores - along with two connecting interludes they make up this single edition and title. John Galsworthy received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1 ...
... A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates
Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
(..and all these happen to be terrific books too.)
This time from Sandydog1's memoir tagged list , I select "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: an African Childhood" by Alexandra Fuller
... - A Golden Age {8/15}
43. FINLAND - The Egyptian {8/18}
44. ANGOLA - The Book of Chameleons {8/18}
45. ZIMBABWE - Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight {8/21}
46. SUDAN - Season of Migration to the North {8/23}
47. COLOMBIA - Love in the Time of Cholera {8/25}
48. UGANDA - Child ...
I read Don't lets to the Dogs Tonight : An African Childhood , and I'm reading and appreciating Scribbling the Cat : Travel with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller so I think Love in the Driest Season : a Family Memoir by Neely Tucker should fit as a following reading
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Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
Forever by Pete Hamill
Grayson by Lynne Cox
How to be Lost by Amanda Eyre Ward
From Here to Eternity or Don't lets go to the dogs tonight
... by Jan Wong
9. What is the What by Dave Eggers
Biography/Memoir
1. Long Ago in France
2. Unbowed
3. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
4. Crazy for God
5. Loving Sabotage
6. Opposite of Fate
7. I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentiet ...
I really enjoyed Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller.
From Sandydog1's library I shall have to pick Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
... interesting selections. Thus far I've added two books to my tbr pile, they are Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
... at books I hadn't considered that might appeal to me.
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, The Last Magician, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and True North come to mind!
I also read and enjoyed The Liars Club and the loved The Glass Castle. I didn't see Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller mentioned here yet - it's a wonderful story of growing up in Africa.
... the Complications from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time? Better just to Number the Stars and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight ."
Diligence: A Sensible Life Mary Wesley
Humility: The Humbler Creation Pamela Hansford Johnson
Abstinence: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight Alexandra Fuller
Patience: A Very Long Engagement Sebastien Japriscot
Kindness: One Good Turn Kate Atkinson
... to Sky by Gregg Kleiner
Anywhere but Here by Mona Simpson
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
... suggestions are on my September list (in addition to the ones librarygurl mentioned).
Soul Mountain
Anil's Ghost
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Waiting
Wild Swans
I am more than happy to switch my list around if the group wants to start September with any of these...
... of tides
soul mountain
the group
anil's ghost
charms for the easy life
the crimson petal and the white
don't let's go to the dogs tonight
waiting
and i'd still like to read the ones i listed above in message four as well!
From bookmooch today:
The Indian Lawyer by James Welch
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller (on recommendation of an LTer)
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
Also got an ARC:
The White Mary: A Novel by Kira Salak
... native African population? After all -- they did seem to benefit from the best farmland.
For these reasons, I prefer Don't Let's go to the Dogs Tonight
Any thoughts?
... get it locally & it got good reviews, but I didn't care for it.
I'll either start Freefall by JoAnn Ross or Don't Let Go by Marliss Melton.
Wow!! All the touchstones worked! (Well, most of them)
Some clunkers from our book group were:
Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight and
The Memory Keeper's Daughter- this one was way to Lifetime movie for my taste. I couldn't even finish it!
... to see the real Beaver Cleaver - Exposed! but -- you mentioned humor -- in a humane way.
Some favorites of mine are Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight , Glass Castle and If the Creek Don't Rise.
... BIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
1. Rebel Daughter by Doris Anderson
2. A Circle of Sisters by Judith Flanders
3. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
4. Have You Found Her by Janice Erlbaum (Early Reviewer book)
5. Stet by Diana Athill
6. Paradise, Pie ...
Don't let's Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood - Alexandra Fuller
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
An unsentimental, but stirring autobiography about growing up in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. Fuller's measured tone works well to paint pictures of the parents and sister--not necessarily sympathetic characters. She ...
... history of Africa; Central Africa & offshore islands: Out of Africa
968 General history of Africa; Southern Africa: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
973 General history of North America; United States: Assassination vacation
975 General history of North America; Southeastern United ...
... is another one of his South African focused books that talks about a farm girl in the South African countryside.
Don't lets go to the dogs tonight by Alexandra Fuller. I actually haven't read this yet, but plan to.
Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight by, Alexandra Fuller
... - The Translator (review) - Leila Aboulela
Zimbabwe - Don't Let's go to the Dogs Tonight - Alexandra Fuller
Europe
France - Suite Francaise (review) - ...
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
... This is a deeply unsettling, extraordinarily powerful book guaranteed to take you places you've never been before.
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
Alexandra Fuller is white and she is African. Her family has been in Africa for 3 generations, each one ...
No Crystal Stair
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Don't I Know You?
... Name Here the subject is "you" which is understood in an imperative sentence.
Don't I Know You?
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... enjoy Vera Brittain's classic World War I memoir Testament of Youth and, much more recently Alexandra Fuller's Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight , about her unconventional childhood in Africa.
... to do this again, with the "negative" words philosojerk suggested:
No Great Mischief
No Crystal Stair
No Logo
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Con Game
The Dogs of Babel
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Call of the Wild
Last Days of Dogtown
Lady and the Tramp
I finished Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight . It was good but not as resonant as I was expecting. Over lunch I started The Thirteenth Tale based on recommendations here. I haven't read enough yet to offer even a preliminary opinion.
... The characters and settings are so well-done but the mystery just dragged forever. Now I'm devoting my full attention to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight , Alexandra Fuller's memoir of childhood in war-time Africa. It is good but thus far not quite as atmospheric as her other book.
I think I'm going to take a break from Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow and start on Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight . It arrived in the mail yesterday after a very long wait and it looks very enticing.
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller finally arrived today from Bookmooch. I'd been wondering why it was taking so long. It turned out that even though it was marked as sent on May 14, it wasn't shipped out until May 22nd. Boo.
... and Mozambique with a psychologically scarred veteran. Although I haven't read it yet, I think Fuller's own memoir, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight , would be really interesting as well.
I just started Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller, who also wrote Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight . I'm only a couple pages in, but I really like her confident and descriptive writing style.
I just finished Alexandra Fuller's Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight which was fabulous. An autobiography of her childhood growing up as the daughter of a white farmer in Rhodesia (as it became Zimbabwe), Malawi and Zambia. Touching vivid and evocative. Really very good indeed.
... my TBR pile after seeing the author interviewed on TV. I'm glad to hear the positive report!
>52, 53: I really enjoyed Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight also.
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight was a book I really enojoyed, too. The image of a six year old girl taking apart and cleaning a rifle will stay with me forever!
... Sierra Leone's civil war...graphic violence but written in lyrical prose. It reads like a novel.
Before that I read Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller, a memoir of growing up as part of a family of English Settlers in Rhodesia. This one goes on my all time ...
I ended up finishing Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight the day after the book club met. It was alright. I didn't hate it, I didn't love it.
Next up for December is a new genre for us, graphic novels! We're reading Blankets which is a graphic novel as well as a memoir. I'm past the first ...
I listened to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight a couple of years ago and remember enjoying it. I do remember thinking that I needed to brush up on the history and geography of Africa. (I never did it, though, so maybe I need to put that back on my list ...)
... Child
8/20/2006 The Confessions of Max Tivoli
9/24/2006 On Beauty
10/22/2006 The Pale Blue Eye
11/19/2006 Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
... really enjoyed them. If you didn't like Running with Scissors, I would suggest others by him.
My book club is reading Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight , which is our first memoir. We meet on Sunday, so I need to get reading! I haven't started the book yet, but I'm excited about it.
It's not YA lit, but I will be starting Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight today. My book club will meet on Sunday, so I need to get reading! Nothing like waiting until the last minute. Luckily I'm a fast reader, and I'm off work and school today, so it shouldn't pose a problem.
Edited to say ...
... Child
8/20/2006 The Confessions of Max Tivoli
9/24/2006 On Beauty
10/22/2006 The Pale Blue Eye
11/19/2006 Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Our group is in the same position in that we haven't read quite as many works by women.
... to me. I may try to pick that one up from the library.
For November, we are switching gears and reading a memoir, Don't Let's go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood . I haven't started it yet, but I'm excited about it. Typically, I love memoirs.
I especially liked Alexandra Fuller's book too, and have recommended Don't Let's Go To the Dogs Tonight to many folks since it came out, but her follow-up to it Scribbling the Cat wasn't nearly so good and was, for my money anyway, a major disappointment.
Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight was a cracking read, although I heard it abridged on the radio not long before and found it a bit disjointed to read as a result. I should have waited a bit longer to read it.
I'm quite a big fan of 'showbiz' memoirs and biographies - the best one I've read ...
I agree. The Tender Bar was very good. Try The Color of Water by James McBride. It is a totally unforgettable story. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller is also excellent.
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