...behind which they....
of course
― lxy, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 05:09 (sixteen years ago) link
for fans of Mary Norton's The Borrowers series, or Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle, or Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm:
Mistress Masham's Repose is a must-read!
― lxy, Saturday, 7 July 2007 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
so after being reminded of them, i reread I Capture the Castle and Cold Comfort Farm. satisfying.
now i'm reading a dippy Kate Fansler mystery. may not finish it.
― lxy, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 03:31 (sixteen years ago) link
hi old thread, old friend. i've read a lot of stuff since last we visited.
currently am reading Old School by Tobias Wolff. thus far noteworthy for this passage:
"Always on the scout for new venues, I smoked in freezers and storage lockers and steam tunnels. I joined the Classical Music Club so I could smoke in the bathrooms of the concert halls we visited, and went out for cross-country so I could smoke while running in the woods."
― lxy, Friday, 24 August 2007 02:34 (sixteen years ago) link
A Walker in the City -- Alfred Kazin
"Nowhere but on Belmont Avenue did I ever see in Brownsville such open, hearty people as those market women. Their shrewd open-weather eyes missed nothing. The street was their native element; they seemed to hold it together with their hands, mouths, fists, and knees; they stood up in it behind their stands all day long, and in every weather; they stood up for themselves.
― lxy, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 01:30 (sixteen years ago) link
oh no. one of my favorite mystery novel detectives died. that's not supposed to happen.
― lxy, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i've been reading old articles from various magazines and newspapers, lots of them on the topic of architecture. they make me want to go everywhere.
― lxy, Friday, 4 January 2008 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
today i finished flow my tears, the policeman said. it's actually the first fiction book i've read in a really long time!
― Lingbert, Saturday, 5 January 2008 04:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i am trying zadie smith's white teeth. we will see
― jergins, Saturday, 5 January 2008 04:37 (sixteen years ago) link
just read Middlesex, kind of loved it.
now i'm finally reading Sweet Thursday. here's something from it that made me laugh:
"It was his observation that when women had access to money they got nervous. To his mind, a healthy woman was a broke woman. A dame with money was a kind of a half-assed man. She stopped working at being a woman, and, as everybody knows, the finest thing about a woman is that she is a woman."
― lxy, Saturday, 19 January 2008 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
would like to read or look at this
A Century of Olympic Game Posters
― jergins, Thursday, 19 June 2008 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
nr: bangkok 8 - john burdett
gonna read at work in a few minutes!!!
― jergins, Thursday, 19 June 2008 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
look who finally finished a book and held a job at the same time
― jergins, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 06:45 (fifteen years ago) link
ball four jim bouton
― jergins, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Shantaram book about 4 hours ago from txt
― newjioke (jergins), Monday, 19 January 2009 06:20 (fifteen years ago) link
eugenides middlesexsitting next to bed but yet to be read.
― tehresa, Monday, 19 January 2009 06:24 (fifteen years ago) link
was tearing through this but now haven't made much progress in over a week. will return to it today.http://i39.tinypic.com/qs0ab8.jpg
― harbl, Monday, 19 January 2009 12:49 (fifteen years ago) link
new colson whitehead
― max max max max, Monday, 19 January 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
guess who finished an actual not very good book? for the record: jamaica kincaid "a small place"
― jelky (jergins), Monday, 29 June 2009 05:59 (fourteen years ago) link
book FOR you coming from DL
― jelky (jergins), Monday, 29 June 2009 06:01 (fourteen years ago) link
:)))
― lxy, Monday, 29 June 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link