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Ruth.....were we separated by birth?
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Very possibly!
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The ending of my favorite:
I will be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one least traveled by;
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
And the one that I memorized in HS:
Ah, what light through yonder window breaks.?
It is the east, and Juliette is the sun.
Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon ,
who is already sick, and pale with grief,
that thou her maid, art far more fair than she.
Shakespeare
And the best part is when we had to recite it, our teacher had made a mistake and really wanted us to memorize the "Whats in a name, a rose by any other name twould smell as sweet" speech. LOL
I am reading just Highland romances lately. Still having trouble reading for long periods of time so reading extra light. That is if I can take my eye off the covers.... LOL
Want o read Grafton X too. And JD ROBB will be out with the new one in September.
Much love.
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I also love Maya Angelou's poems, especially her poem, "Phenomenal Woman"
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Both my brother & I had the same old battle-ax English teacher in 10th grade. She must have been awfully effective though because we can both recite, word for word, this Sir Walter Scott poem she forced us to memorize (our relatives shudder and say, "Oh, no, not again" as we begin out 'impressive' rendition):
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no Minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung.
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Ruth- an impressive rendition indeed! I think we should have coffee and poetry every weekend morning!
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Who knew poetry could be so much fun! VR, that e.e. cummings was great.
Ruth, I am halfway through Giants in the Earth and agree I wouldn't want to be a pioneer.
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Coffee and poetry sounds like a good combination to me!
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Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters - epitaphs spoken by the dead themselves - I don't even remember how I came across it, but I read it constantly when I was fifeen - such bitterness!
I am reading Second Hand Souls, Christopher Moore's long awaited sequel to A Dirty Job. So this is the first sentence in the 12th Chapter " In a turnout on Interstate 80, about forty miles east of Reno, the hellhounds had killed a Subaru and were rolling in its remains as two horrified kayakers looked on." you never know what is going to happen next with Christopher Moore.
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tried to post on this earlier got sidtracked I guess. as a constitutionalist marnarchist I've just finished the biography of lady diana cooper. she worked in a charity hospital in ww1. she was reputedly a duke's daughter but was actually fathered by her mother's longtime lover who had even more royal ancestry. the man she wanted to marry was unacceptable to the duke & her mother: he drank, had many women lovers gambled, but diana finally prevailed. when asked didn't she mind about the women she said she minded when duff had a cold. they were for a time ambasadores to france in paris. she had a son with duff, there's a book of her letters to him I've not read. she was uneducated, but read extensively. she wrote many many letters. her autobiography is unavailable except for the early years which I have read
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Jelson- loved that quote! One sentence like that will make me check that book out of the library!
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Interesting article regarding sexism in publishing: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/06/catherine-nichols-female-author-male-pseudonym?CMP=twt_gu
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Wow Lilac. Thanks for posting that link. What a sad and depressing review of how women authors are treated. Makes me want to spit!!!
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Female authors have always been treated as if they were second-class because we were always told that our roles in life were only to fall into the more accepted view of wife and mother.
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M0mmy - yup, but I thought we had made some progress. It appears not - on every front.
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VR - another study needed!!! Although of course all of us readers know the truth - hell yes we have beefier brains.
Just finished reading Dicken's Great Expectations. I had only read Tale of Two Cities in high school & Christmas Carol w/my Mom each year. I don't think Dickens ever once came up in 4 years of college classes as a English major. I enjoyed the book. Pip held my interest & I was able to ignore the previous owner's highlights & squiggles on some of the pages (obviously someone who only read the beginning & the end). Good list of TOR Classics in the back to remind me what else I need to read or re-read from the past.
Next in line on my night table is a 1950 Modern Library copy of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. I know I re-read this at some point in time after my "Russian period" in the 60's but recently found my brother's copy. We'll see if it's been long enough for me to re-consider yet. I find it so interesting how an author's writing & philosophy & view point & message change as I age. Couldn't be me, right???
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Minus- my favorite Dickens is Our Mutual Friend. Not quite the tome as some of his others. It was his last and some consider his most sophisticated. I just liked reading it.
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Thanks Jack, I'll add it to my list.
Does anyone else re-read? I'm fascinated by my different reactions at 20 & 40 & 60. I'm always finding things that I didn't understand at all when I as younger, or didn't even know there were questions or issues.
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Minus I can't think of a book I've re-read on purpose. Sometimes I forget I've read a book, check it out from the library, take it home, get a little way in and say dang this is familiar. Have I read this already? Read a little more and say yup, read it. If I don't remember the ending I'll sneak a peek but it's usually on to the next book in the TBR pile.
That pile currently includes a Spenser novel by Ace Atkins: Wonderland, a Jesse Stone novel by Michael Brandman: Damned if you Do, the new Jennifer Chiaverini: Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule, and the new Stephen King: Finders Keepers ("an instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader"). Happy reading!
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Reading The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagergrantz. It's the continuation of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series.
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I absolutely devoured that series. Let us know! I'm not clear if it's posthumous publishing or if someone else picked up the thread
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Someone else is authoring this book. My understanding is that it is with the family's approval.
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Our Sunday paper had a review of Clive James Latest Readings, along with some others under the heading "What do we expect from artists late in life?" I love this thought.
"The anticipation of death ultimately clarifies life. As he puts it: 'If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do'."
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I just finished The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George, a sweet book; as a review says, "The Little Paris Bookshop is a love letter to books, meant for anyone who believes in the power of stories to shape people's lives."
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thanks Ruth! Love books. Love Paris. Just got on the list for it at the library.
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I'm on the list for that one too.
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just got Philippa Gregory's book "The Taming of the Queen". Its about Henry the VIII's last wife. Can't wait to read it, when I finally get to it.
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See that Louise Penny has a new book out. Also a new one by Lee Child, for one of our poster's DH!!
Currently reading "Purity" by Jonathan Franzen, and am ambivalent so far..
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I lived in Paris for 9 years and it is magical. Thanks Ruth, and I'll look for,The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George.
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