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VR, to me marriage, divorce, and relationships in general are profound. One never knows what is happening behind the scenes, often times, even the people involved in the relationships themselves!!
With regard to change, I've never thought of it exactly the way you put it, but I do believe people can change. The passage of time certainly as you stated, but a major defining personal experience (such as life threatening disease, death of a loved one, divorce etc), I think, can precipitate this in an instant. In the book, there was nothing to make to us think this happened for Lucy, and not that much time passed...
I like what you said about Begley's reason's for leaving the ending out. He knows how it ended, at least I think he did because I'm certain he would have easily have been able to put himself in the same position.
Should we belabor this some more
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Hello Dear Readers...:)
Has anyone read Mary Coin by Marisa Silver? It has a 1930's Depression Era famous Time magazine photo on the back of the book. The photo is significant to the story.
We have just started reading it for our book club.
Thanks
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wen ... I would like to think we can change... I think we can learn from experiences, but our nature and personalities are as ingrained as the color of our eyes...IMHO.
Just finished Hitler's Philosophers. Now I have homework ahead of me.... The book gave me a lot to think about and digest.
Started Ethical Chic. Love it! Oy how I wish I could read day and night ...0 -
You mean you don't? (surprised face and wink face)0 -
Ruth - I think Voracious is more diligent than I am. I admit I read day & night. I admit & don't mop the floor & wash the windows & dust the tables, etc .... I read. I sometimes read all night & sleep all day. I do stop while I'm driving to doc appointments - but only in the car - and I stop to play Chickenfoot once a week (a new mindless pleasure with new friends for my old age). Color me guilty!!0 -
I had some minor dental surgery yesterday....they laid me back, shot me up with Novocain, and left while it took effect. When the doctor returned, I was sitting up on the side of the chair reading the book I brought along....hate to waste a minute0 -
Lindsey Davis fans!! The last Marcus Didius Falco book was published in 2010. I was getting antsy for a new one, so checked fantasticfiction and found, not a new MDF, but a first in a series about Falvia Albia, his adopted daughter. It was with great trepidation that I reserved and then picked up The Ides of April at my local library. It takes place about eleven years after Nemesis, the last MDF. Albia is 28 years old and is an informer like her dad. I am happy to tell you that Helena and Falco are very much alive but in the background. It was a very good read, literally couldn't put it down at points.0 -
Just finished Dan Brown's Inferno....it was for my Book Club. Not my favorite genre, but had lots of plot twists and turns so I was surprised by the ending.0 -
Went to one of our local Indie book stores (Murder by the Book) last week since I was early for a doc appointment. Out in front they had tables filled with used paperback books - all for $1.00. WOW. I needed a good stock for the new chemo I'll now be doing before rads. I managed to hold myself to 24 books, only because I ran out of free time. What a find.0 -
Minus how awesome, now thats a find. Lucky you.0 -
minus...I'm drooling....
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Ethical Chic...The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love. Interesting book. Kind of made me see how serious environmentalists take serious their purchases....Boy oh boy are they REALLY serious. Got a taste of it when I met former New York Times column writer, Randy Cohen, when he led a discussion of his book, Be Good. Bottom line for VR...She's not that serious, nor is she that good when it comes to living an "ethicly chic" life. Living in a technically advanced modern world requires a lot more intellectual energy than VR has to seek out ways to make her life that much more environmentally "correct". AND, most of what we think is environmentally "correct".... IMHO isn't. Reminded me also of the charming, hilarious novel... Where'd You Go Bernadette?0 -
violet, I really enjoyed Mary Coin.....I thought it gave a great description of what life was like back then. In the middle of reading The Husbands Secret which I didn't like in the beginning but now I can't put it down.0 -
Planet,
Thanks! I'm soooo much more partial to nonfiction, that it takes me a bit / LOT of MOTIVATION to begin our bookclub selections each month...;)
We are reading The Wedding Gift next...???
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violet, is it by Marlen Suyapa Bodden? I hadn't heard of it before so I looked it up. That sounds right up my alley, I am going to check it out.0 -
Planet,
Yes.
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violet,
I have about three books I need to read first so you might read it before me. Please let us know how it is! Thanks0 -
I just finished reading a really good book--The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons. If you like Downton Abbey, you will probably enjoy this one.0 -
I found 5 old William G. Tapply mysteries w/attorney Brady Coyne at a used book sale and have been devouring them one after the other. What a treat !! Set in Boston & his practice is wealthy clients. He loves to fish - fresh & salt, lake & stream - from MA north to Maine and out to Montana & Idaho. Not only are the books out of print, Tapply is deceased. Check out his web site. His wife has released a bunch of them for e-books.
He also collaborated with Philip R. Craig on several books. Craig's books are set in Martha's Vineyard and his protagonist if a retired cop who loves to fish (and cooks most of the meals). Also good reads.0 -
if you want to laugh, I highly recommend Amazing Disgrace by James Hamilton-Paterson, the second in his series about Gerald Samper, ghost writer to athletes, inventive cook, opera aficionado and British ex-pat living in the mountains of Tuscany. In this second in a series of three, the first being Cooking with Fernat Branca, Gerry is putting the finishing touches on his biography of Millie Cleat, an obnoxious one armed solo-around the world yahtswoman. very well written and very very funny.0 -
Mom read Memories of a Marriage. Her spin on it was ABSOLUTELY NOT!
She's now reading Hitler's Philosophers and is enjoying it! I highly recommend watching the DVD Sophie Scholl after reading the book. She and her brother are mentioned in the book and the film about their incident with the Nazis that cost them their lives is well documented in the film.0 -
VR, You couldn't talk her out of it?0 -
wen! Nope! I know when to keep my mouth shut!!!! AND.... I know when to pick my battles! AND.... I didn't learn that from reading a book !0 -
PlanetBananas,
About 1/3 through Mary Coin book. It's actually pretty good. ..the writing is what captures me. The author can turn a phrase like Nobody's Business. ..:)
Almost finished with The Emporer of All Maladies...fabulous book. I'll be sad when I finish it...;) I'm on a slowed-down reading pace for me because I have sooo much going on in my life right now; planning my Mum's 75th SURPRISE B-DAY PARTY & MY BEAU IS IN PROCESS OF MOVING TO MY TOWN...
Good things, but hectic. I'll report back on Mary Coin book soon.
Vi
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Breezing through Malcolm Gladwell's new book, David and Goliath. Tickles the mind. Page 149..."Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all."
Also reading This Town. Jaw dropping and hilarious. Reminds me of Julia Philip's You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again.0 -
Violet,
glad to hear you're enjoying Mary Coin. I was also sad to finish the Emperor of all Maladies, it has been my favorite book about cancer so far. Would love to hear your final review and report on Mary Coin.0 -
Went to a local indie book store - Murder by the Book - yesterday to hear Sara Paretsky. What fun. She is 66 and her husband is a physicist & 90. There is a character in the new V.I. book who was a woman physicist before WWII. Paretsky has an advantage since her husband actually fought at Normandy and personally knew all the physicists working on nuclear fusion or fission before ' the bomb'. (guess you can tell my age by the quotes).
It's really nice to meet & hear author's speak about their characters, their motivation and their process. Someone ask her how long she would keep writing books in the series. She quoted Aaron Copeland at age 90. He was asked why there were no new compositions in the last 10 years & he said the music quit coming. Paretsky said she wasn't sure what she would do with her life if the ideas quit coming.
I made it to hear Susan Whittig Albert a few months ago. She was a VP at Cal Berkley before she started writing fiction. What an interesting lady. Sorry to say I missed JA Jance.0 -
minus!!! It sounds like you had such an interesting time meeting Paretsky. Married to a physicist! Even more interesting!!! My little guy is an aerospace and nuclear engineer, so I've had the pleasure of meeting through him a few theoretical physicists.They really are the most interesting people.
Reading Hitler's Philosophers, I was reminded of all the German scientists who abandoned Germany and ultimately worked on the Manhattan Project and then the race to the Moon. Those scientists were the lucky ones who got out of Nazi Germany and were able to find work in the field of their dreams. The philosophers were not as lucky. Those who survived found it difficult to secure academic positions. Some, who were forgotten, need remembering.0 -
Ruth!!! Looks like In the Garden of Beasts is being made into a film starring Tom Hanks as the ambassador. Natalie Portman is rumored to be in the film... Perhaps playing the daughter??? Hmmm...0 -
Came in late to this thread but have been following it for some pages. Must go back to the beginning to see what I have missed. I've ordered some of the books you have mentioned. Slightly backlogged with my reading at the moment. Had to jump in because I am currently reading Garden of Beasts. So far I am thoroughly enjoying it.0
