It was supposed to be a quick and easy summer read, but I found it quite depressing. Our meeting tonight, however, was most enjoyable. We really have a great bunch of people!
Hi, Maya - I like the glass of wine with a book! I belong to 2 book clubs - reading A Sudden Country for one of the now about a movement West on the Oregon Trail. Really well written, but the language is so poetic that it's taking me forever to read. I never did read The Valley of the Dolls, I'm glad I got your input on it. Thanks for the tip on the creativity book. I didn't even think of just getting the book & now I will.
We've had far more difficult books, but the group decided they wanted to do some lighter reading for now. Your book sounds good!
I think the Artist's Way has been updated since I read it and did the exercises. I was lucky and was not working when my cousin and I did it together. I think it might have been harder to do while working (but I'm not a morning person and you have to do your writing first thing in the morning).
We tried to start a book club here with the women in our dinner group, but it never quite took. It's ironic really because Washington, D.C., has the highest reading, er, readership in the country. That said, though, I can recommend The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and Night Watch by Sarah Waters.
I'll have to look into the first book. I've never heard of it. The second is already on my wishlist. I've read Tipping the Velvet and seen the movie Fingersmith and am looking forward to this book as well!
I still need to read Waters' other books. Night Watch was a gift from a friend and I loved it! Another fun and smart read is Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters. Here's the dust cover description:
Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
Now Ella find herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island's Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is both a hilarious and moving story of one girl's fight for freedom of expression and a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere.
This book is like George Orwell's 1984 meets Midnight in the Garden of Good Evil, but without being as dark in either case. If you've ever visited the south, especially places like Savannah or Charleston, you'll really enjoy this book for its southern eccentricities and its high intellect. I highly recommend it!
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Hi, Maya -
I like the glass of wine with a book! I belong to 2 book clubs - reading A Sudden Country for one of the now about a movement West on the Oregon Trail. Really well written, but the language is so poetic that it's taking me forever to read. I never did read The Valley of the Dolls, I'm glad I got your input on it.
Thanks for the tip on the creativity book. I didn't even think of just getting the book & now I will.
We've had far more difficult books, but the group decided they wanted to do some lighter reading for now. Your book sounds good!
I think the Artist's Way has been updated since I read it and did the exercises. I was lucky and was not working when my cousin and I did it together. I think it might have been harder to do while working (but I'm not a morning person and you have to do your writing first thing in the morning).
We tried to start a book club here with the women in our dinner group, but it never quite took. It's ironic really because Washington, D.C., has the highest reading, er, readership in the country. That said, though, I can recommend The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and Night Watch by Sarah Waters.
I'll have to look into the first book. I've never heard of it. The second is already on my wishlist. I've read Tipping the Velvet and seen the movie Fingersmith and am looking forward to this book as well!
I still need to read Waters' other books. Night Watch was a gift from a friend and I loved it! Another fun and smart read is Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters. Here's the dust cover description:
Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
Now Ella find herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island's Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is both a hilarious and moving story of one girl's fight for freedom of expression and a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere.
This book is like George Orwell's 1984 meets Midnight in the Garden of Good Evil, but without being as dark in either case. If you've ever visited the south, especially places like Savannah or Charleston, you'll really enjoy this book for its southern eccentricities and its high intellect. I highly recommend it!
I read that years ago, still depressed! They should have a warning on that book! :)
d.c.: That book sounds awesome! I'm putting it on my wish list now!
sherry: I agree! At least I would have been better prepared for what I was getting myself into!
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