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To: Poet who wrote (487)	8/21/2001 6:23:38 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51717

I come back from Chuck E Cheese and there are 19 posts here!!!!!!!!!!!!!! agh. Such action. And they mostly seem to involve poison oak. Which I would never have thought to be an inspiring topic.

To: Poet who wrote (487)	8/21/2001 7:55:58 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51717

Yes. Beautifully written, classic Americana. Sarah Orne Jewett lived from 1849 - 1909, and if your library has anything by her on tape, take it out. It translates well to audio. (Some books don't; for example, Arundati Roy's The God of Small Things.) Willa Cather wrote of Jewett's fiction, "Almost flawless examples of literary art." Someone might conceivably think the stories are a mite heavy on charm and sweetness, but they are period pieces, and I adore them just as they are. You also could NOT not enjoy Memoirs of a Geisha, which is on tape and is satisfyingly long. It's a very well researched and fascinating novel about the lives of Geisha in the 1920's, 30's and 40's, written as though dictated (to a translator) by a retired Geisha, a woman who had been one of Japan's most famous Geisha in her day, having become a Geisha after being sold into slavery by her father when she was nine. Her story begins while she still lives in her village with her parents. It was hard to click the off button, i would have liked to listen from start to finish without stopping to eat or sleep! Since I discovered them, I never get in the car without a book on tape. Or cook or do dishes, either. They are great to lessen the boredom of the treadmill at the gym, too. Our library has a decent collection and will order tapes from other libraries in the county if requested.