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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (88850)	11/19/2004 8:02:17 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I tried to read the Tine Traveler's Wife. I couldn't get in it either. I took a crate of books with me when we left in the summer, and I read all the books except for Time Traveler, and Making the Mummies Dance- which I found just really boring. The highlights of my summer reading were: Balzan and the Little Chinese Seamstress (it's also a good movie) Toast- the story of a boy's hunger Buddha Da Popular Music (a Scandinavian book- really excellent) Scoop- by Evelyn Waugh All the books of Carl Hiassen, whom I had never read, and whose books were just marvelous (I think Sick Puppy is my favorite) And I love the Number One Ladies Detective series- so I read another series by the same author- The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs and also Portugese Irregular Verbs. I found the send up of academia quite delightful- it's a lighter sweeter send up of professors than Moo was. The Lecturer's Tale also covered the same ground but in a creepy Faustian way- I really liked that book too. I also read Isla Dewar and Ellen Gilchrist over the summer- and liked everything of theirs I read. I read some not so good books, but no sense in discussing those. Rambi and I often talk about our ever growing piles of books. I read a ton of books this summer- but I hardly made a dent in the stacks of books in the house. So I know exactly what you mean. I have to FORCE myself not to look at the books for sale at our local library. We have a million book groups in this area and they all donate to our library, so you can get incredible books there. I got all four volumes of A Dance to the Music of Time at our library, and I only paid five dollars.