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LOVED the Seamstress!!
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Thanks Mcsushi! I just downloaded the Seamstress and I will now be off to bed
I actually read Great Gatsby again after I finished Double Bind. I'm so glad you are enjoying it!
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bless my beloved hoarding husband. .. the one who has 6000 books which drive me bats (having had to pack and unpack them twice).
The library doesn't have any Pearl Buck books (they can borrow a few from other libraries) but dear hubby has 13 downstairs! - This is the most I've loved him ever.
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I recently re-read Great Gatsby. Now Apple has me inspired to read The Good Earth again. I have my Mother's copy from 1944. Apple - really 6000 books? I've had to leave portions of my books every time I moved and it's most painful.0
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For Kindle readers, would like to recommend a site called Pixels of Ink. You can sign up for a daily email that sends suggestions/descriptions of FREE and/or inexpensive books! Reading is my greatest escape, so needless to say, have been reading a lot since my diagnosis. I'm not always up for the library, so Pixels of Ink has saved me a lot of money in books!
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Alright group, I finished The Weird Sisters and am looking for a new book.. I liked it but it revealed my Shakespeare ignorance. Also, I couldn't really identify with the motivations of any of the characters. I'm going to look at The Seamstress . Keep up the suggestions!
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Uhuru - Robert Roark - he writes stories from Africa - there are several by him that are superb (I;ll return with titles)
A Fortunate Life - F. B. Facey... really a remarkable book
another author I follow is James Michener.. he writes superb historical novels. if you are interested in a part of the world, chances are that he has written about it... they span centuries, political movements, generations.
My daughter persuaded me to put down the Good Earth and read the Hunger Games.. very intriqueing actually. I am not one to GO to movies.. theatres are kind of smelly in a corny way to me.
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Apple! Ahhhhhh....Michener! I'm CERTAIN that way, way, way back on this thread I mentioned him because he is one of the handful of fiction writers, which includes Meg Wolitzer....that I LOVE! I guess I enjoy his writing because it is HISTORICAL fiction....like Pearl Buck!!!
So, when you're finished reading one of his novels, you not only feel like you've visited the country that is central to the novel, but you feel like you received a history lesson as well. His most topical book, still in print is Caravans and it is about Afganistan.Here's a blurb from The New York Times:
"In this romantic adventure of wild Afghanistan, master storyteller James
Michener mixes the allure of the past with the dangers of today. After an
impetuous American girl, Ellen Jasper, marries a young Afghan engineer, her
parents hear no word from her. Although she wants freedom to do as she wishes,
not even she is sure what that means. In the meantime, she is as good as lost in
that wild land, perhaps forever....
An extraordinary novel....Brilliant."http://www.amazon.com/Caravans-James-A-Michener/dp/0449213803
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I feel so shallow....all of you reading classics and prize winning authors and I just finished up the 3rd in The Hunger Games series and guess I should be ashamed to admit it, but I liked the books.
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Marybe...If it would make you feel any better....I somehow missed out on studying Shakespeare while in school and have been trying to catch up ever since!
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I have too much to catch up on. I made it to page 60 and have so many books requested at the library I had to stop for the day.
sweetcorn. I LOVE our local library system. We keep them in business, support every millage. It is such a quality of life issue for us I wouldn't move anywhere that didn't have as good a system.It is awesome.
Just finished Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts. Couldn't put it down.
So apple, Im finally getting started on Soldier of the Great War. I've been waiting for a chance to get into it.
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The Seamstress that I read was by Sarah Tuvel Bernstein, a Holocaust memoir. It was a gripping account of a woman's experiences before, during and after the terrors she endures. But now I am interested in reading the Peebles book, too. Sounds good, too.
Jane
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Dear ladies,
Could you tell me if in USA exist the book Alabama song from Giles Leroy in English version?
Thanks and greetings!
Usha
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It looks like it does exist. Here is mention of it on the Goodreads website:
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Maybe I picked up the wrong seamstress book by accident? I will look into the other one!
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Okay... Here is a topic we haven't discussed much. Short stories. Of course I've mentioned EB White and Geoff Dyer... But now I am reading Guilt, by Ferdinand vonSchirach. He is a German defense attorney and writes short stories that have a twist. Many of his stories are based on true cases that he was involved in. Amazing.
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Short stories - Joyce Carol Oates. Borrowed a collection from the library recently & now can't remember the name but it was very thought provoking.
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KMMD - The Soldier of the Great War is rather dry or so the first 50 pages.. they meander, they set a pace and them.. bam !!! the story begins.. so if you don't like it, skim for a while.
Minus TWO - Joyce Carol Oates.. boy, she kind of sets me on edge.. she has an ability to draw you in and make you shudder. To tell you the truth, i am so easily spooked and often just put a book down if I sense there is a stranger behind the door, or even a tornado so they NEVER get read. .. We do have Sourland in the basement.. I think I'll go find it, but no guarantees.
I really got angry with the Good Earth, when the very moral, hardworking farmer degenerates into a harlot lover and ignores his lovely (yet ugly) wife.. so I put it down to hurry thru The Hunger Games for my daughter. (I really don't like how the book ends, setting you up to read book 2). but say la vee. The book was GREAT.
USHA - i see Alabama Song published in French and Italian at Amazon, but not English.
The best part of having cancer is being able to set aside time to read and not feel guilty. I turn the tv on lopw, lay down, cover myself up with covers in my cool house and read. When I was single I always read a couple hours a day - more in the winter.
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Reading the Grief of Others and liking it very much. I still am chuckling over my reading the "wrong" Seamstress. Just ordered the other one with the Holocost theme.
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I chuckle how I confused the film Absurdistan with the book Absurdistan! Totally different stories!!!!! I LOVED the film more than the book:
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BTW...Joyce Carol Oates turned me on to Geoff Dyer. I was watching her on BookTV...(yeah, I know, Hahaha,) and she mentioned that one of the funniest books she had ever read was Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage... Never read anything by her...but have been Geoff's groupie ever since!
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For short stories, my absolute, all-time number 1 is Flannery O'Connor. "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Good Country People" are a couple of my favorites. Second to O'Connor in my book is Hemingway.
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OY MY GOSH - why am I just now discovering this thread???!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE to lose myself in good books....just looking at the first few pages and I have a wonderful list of books to look forward too
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I'm reading The Weird Sisters right now and I really like it. The quotes can be a little annoying but I do like the sisters aspect and how each reacts differently in the same situations. I have 3 sisters myself and we're all very different but also very alike.
I've got Wild by Cheryl Strayed on request at the library. It looks like a good one, non-fiction.
Mcsushi - I also read Double Bind on Laurie's recommendation. Let me know what you think. I was on a Chris Bohjalian streak for a while. Did you ever start Blood, Bones & Butter?
I have heard only good things about Soldier of the Great War and In the Garden of Beasts. I'll have to add them to my TBR list.
Gina
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Hi,
thanks ladies,
I knew it's in French and Italian - as well translated into my language too, but I expected it will be in English, because it's about life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald.
Greetings,
Usha
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wait a minute.....I am reading the wrong Seamstress too?????? Which one is the author with the Holocaust theme? I thought it was the wrong one but figured I was confused. Wouldn't be the first time 0
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ginadmc- Did you like Doublebind?0
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Ginadmc: I finished The Double Bind last night and enjoyed the twist ending. Overall, I liked it. Haven't gotten around to reading Blood, Bones and Butter yet, but like you, everyone I know who has read it has really liked it.
Laurie08: I'm guessing you're reading the wrong Seamstress and it's my fault! The author I gave you is for the Brazialian story, not the Holocaust. Sorry! I haven't read it yet, but the Brazilian one is supposed to be really good. I hope it's not a wasted purchase.
I just started The Empire of the Summer Moon. Has anyone read Kitchen House or Mudbound?
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I know wenweb read Mudbound and liked it I think?
I am enjoying this Seamstress so far so not a wasted purchase
I'll let you know when I am through what I thought. But so far it's interesting. Better than the last couple of books I have read!So who is the author of the Holocaust one I wonder?
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I haven't actually read Mudbound yet. I downloaded it onto my Kindle a while ago. It was either free or $1.99. I have read that others on this site have enjoyed it. I also have Kitchen House on my to read list, so if mcsuchi or anyone does read it, let us know what you think.
Re: The Weird Sisters, yeah, the quotes got annoying after a while. I was relieved to find that the father could actually speak normally if he chose to
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