tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post8792740033496432961..comments2023-11-03T09:09:32.113-04:00Comments on Behind the Stove: “The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.”BabelBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00467487618830618571noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post-86572008590201815502008-07-17T03:32:00.000-04:002008-07-17T03:32:00.000-04:00Well, I thought I might just "pop over" (more Auss...Well, I thought I might just "pop over" (more Aussie-speak) your way and catch up on your blog-life (oh, I've been absent too long) and maybe thought I might mention my current read - Monsters of Templeton - and lo I see you've already read it. I AM LOVING IT! Am having a rather slow fiction year so far and can't recommend much else - maybe Small Island by Andrea Levy.<BR/><BR/>Loving some NF by Carl Honore though.<BR/><BR/>Glad to read that your chugging along just nicely .... oh, and am loving the rather more voluptuous Nigella more and more. She recently visited Australia and was showing us more of her wares ;-)nutmeghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338099206534716993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post-16489664114013303332008-07-10T22:45:00.000-04:002008-07-10T22:45:00.000-04:00I'll be reading a lot of Jim Butcher this summer, ...I'll be reading a lot of Jim Butcher this summer, I think.<BR/><BR/>sshers lists one of my very favorite books- In the Midnight Rain by Ruth Wind.<BR/><BR/>I have both Love Walked In and Belong to Me in the TBR.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17401807675546808620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post-64345753264923367792008-07-10T10:23:00.000-04:002008-07-10T10:23:00.000-04:00This is what I have with me:Bobbie Faye's Very (ve...This is what I have with me:<BR/><BR/>Bobbie Faye's Very (very, very, very) Bad Day by Toni McGee Causey<BR/>Who Let the Dogs In? by Molly Ivins<BR/>If I am Missing or Dead by Janine Latus (probably won't meet the "light" criteria.)<BR/><BR/>I read Chocolat by Joanne Harris -- it was lent to me by my friends I was visiting.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12066257241391122732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post-3452225734530008262008-07-10T05:58:00.000-04:002008-07-10T05:58:00.000-04:00Thanks for the Gulland recommendation. I had to do...Thanks for the Gulland recommendation. I had to do an interlibrary loan request for the first as my local only has it in Italian. (wtf?)<BR/><BR/>Someone up there commenting re Evelyn Waugh made me think of his caustically hilarious book 'The Loved One' which is quick and light and would make a good beach book. Have you read it? It's set in a [human] cemetery and a pet cemetery. In California. <BR/><BR/>Of course.<BR/><BR/>And now I shall bow low to the Book Goddess and take my leave.Susehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14837796439737091649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post-17517877156406408382008-07-09T11:53:00.000-04:002008-07-09T11:53:00.000-04:00A list for the Book Goddess and her readers:This s...A list for the Book Goddess and her readers:<BR/><BR/>This summer I'm into YA books:<BR/><BR/>Chicks with Sticks trilogy (Lenhard)<BR/>Traveling with Pants quartet (Brashares)<BR/><BR/>The Melting Season (a NY Ballet book, yum.) (Conway, unbelievable that it is first novel)<BR/><BR/>Introducing Sasha Abrahamovitz (Halpern, can't believe it is first book for kids, she has the voice DOWN)<BR/><BR/>The Willoghbys by Lois Lowry (makes fun of kids books and she illustrated it)<BR/><BR/>"Adult" books:<BR/><BR/>Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison (in almost one gulp...have Garden Spells in the wings)<BR/><BR/>Dreams from my father (Obama) -- not a beach read--he writes like he talks, you know, using SAT words. <BR/><BR/>The Russert books. Wisdom of our fathers is the kind of book you dip into, because each letter is so heartbreakingly wonderful that you can't read the next one until you process it. Haven't started Russ and me yet but it's waiting in the wings.<BR/><BR/>Chick Lit-ish: Names my Sisters call me. <BR/><BR/>I've just been offered lunch now instead of in eight minutes...or I'd list more. I've been devouring fiction this summer.<BR/><BR/>xo,<BR/><BR/>SLSarah Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00251034210962259082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post-22933719525908258052008-07-09T11:44:00.000-04:002008-07-09T11:44:00.000-04:00How appropriate - Trollope and Galsworthy are both...How appropriate - Trollope and Galsworthy are both in my to-read pile.Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16563414055936087654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post-49510350796774425552008-07-08T21:26:00.000-04:002008-07-08T21:26:00.000-04:00Since the baby popped out I have read The Last Mad...Since the baby popped out I have read <I>The Last Madam</I> and <I>Sin in the Second City</I> (research for my new book), and I have to say if you liked <I>Devil in the White City</I> you will LOVE <I>Sin</I>. Also I finished Jennifer Haigh's newest, <I>The Condition</I>, which I thought was not quite as great as her last two, especially <I>Mrs. Kimble</I>.<BR/><BR/>Now I'm going to try to plow through my big stack of unread New Yorkers. Those early mornings should be good for something.TLBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00528402228927046821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post-36504432562240935052008-07-08T21:18:00.000-04:002008-07-08T21:18:00.000-04:00Thank you!Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -...Thank you!<BR/><BR/>Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -of course<BR/>Vanity Fair - Thackeray, Not yet...<BR/>East of Eden - Steinbeck...unputdownable<BR/>The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy...sitting on shelf<BR/>Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann...ditto<BR/>Can You Forgive Her? - Anthony Trollope..awesome<BR/>Sophie's Choice - William Styron. Sob. Do NOT read whilepregnant.<BR/>Henry and Clara - Thomas Mallon. havent read.<BR/>Underworld - Don DeLillo. HATE DeLillo despite my best efforts<BR/>Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurty. Wonderful.BabelBabehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00467487618830618571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post-13319948082714400262008-07-08T21:15:00.000-04:002008-07-08T21:15:00.000-04:0010 Big Thick Wonderful Books That Could Take You a...<B>10 Big Thick Wonderful Books That Could Take You a Whole Summer to Read (but Aren't Beach Books)</B> -- by Anna Quindlen (from her book "How Reading Changed My Life") <BR/><BR/>(because I happen to have the book sitting here on my shelf):<BR/><BR/><I>Gone With The Wind</I> - Margaret Mitchell<BR/><I>Vanity Fair</I> - Thackeray<BR/><I>East of Eden</I> - Steinbeck<BR/><I>The Forsyte Saga</I> - John Galsworthy<BR/><I>Buddenbrooks</I> - Thomas Mann<BR/><I>Can You Forgive Her?</I> - Anthony Trollope<BR/><I>Sophie's Choice</I> - William Styron<BR/><I>Henry and Clara</I> - Thomas Mallon<BR/><I>Underworld</I> - Don DeLillo<BR/><I>Lonesome Dove</I> - Larry McMurtydeltahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07637032772160291752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post-20700084266093690682008-07-08T18:56:00.000-04:002008-07-08T18:56:00.000-04:00I (sort of) read the new Mary Doria Russell on vac...I (sort of) read the new Mary Doria Russell on vacation - I say sort of because I read 90% of it the day I got HOME from vacation. I need more vacation to get through my summer reading pile - ie, all the books I own but haven't read yet. There are some doorstops in that pile.Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16563414055936087654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post-22173419516067568252008-07-08T18:30:00.000-04:002008-07-08T18:30:00.000-04:00I have been reading a bunch of genre crappe, only ...I have been reading a bunch of genre crappe, only right now I am reading <I>An Instance of the Fingerpost</I> because my dad loaned it to me and he keeps asking me if I've read it. MAN is it long.<BR/><BR/>However. Troost has a new book out about China and I WANTS IT.<BR/><BR/>Also, I think our gal Amanda Eyre Ward's second book (and the first one I read), <I>How To Be Lost</I>, would make a fabulous beach read and fits all of your friend's requirements.Badgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08612452005428621885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post-46910272799366077122008-07-08T17:30:00.000-04:002008-07-08T17:30:00.000-04:00This summer, I have read Little Bitty Lies, Savann...This summer, I have read Little Bitty Lies, Savannah Blues, Hissy Fit and Deep Dish by Mary Kay Andrews. Loved, loved, loved the first three but wasn't very happy with Deep Dish and am now afraid to read Savannah Breeze. Read Love the One You're With and can't decide how I feel about it. Maybe yes, maybe no. Keeping Faith and half of Change of Heart (killing time in B&N) by Jodi Picoult. Typical Jodi. All in all, fairly tasty summer reading. Had to read Founding Brothers to feel better about myself. Read Nell Newman's book about going green. Am on page 121 of Pillars of the Earth. Of course Joke would like GWTW. Who doesn't like GWTW?teachergirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05655615013367705872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post-45773836155695245232008-07-08T13:39:00.000-04:002008-07-08T13:39:00.000-04:00I read Nobody's Fool on a beach in Mexico and was ...I read Nobody's Fool on a beach in Mexico and was dismayed when the sun set and I had to pack up.<BR/><BR/>I'm almost finished with Chris Bohjalian's newest, but it definitely does NOT meet criterion #3 on your friend's list. Next up: When You Are Engulfed in Flames, which should provide more laughs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post-37158239046804464362008-07-08T12:13:00.000-04:002008-07-08T12:13:00.000-04:00One more:The Host by Stephenie Meyer. It's probab...One more:<BR/>The Host by Stephenie Meyer. It's probably not in paperback yet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post-84677919425564009132008-07-08T12:10:00.000-04:002008-07-08T12:10:00.000-04:00I am not allowed to spend all day obsessing about ...I am not allowed to spend all day obsessing about this, but I could ... easily.<BR/><BR/>Here are books in a series that should be read in order. The book I list is the first one of the series.<BR/>A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton.<BR/>One for the Money by Janet Evanovich.<BR/>Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling.<BR/>A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters.<BR/>Until Proven Guilty -or- Desert Heat by J. A. Jance.<BR/>Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.<BR/>Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.<BR/><BR/>Here are some authors whose books don't need to be read in order. I recommend just about any of their books. I put one of my favorites of theirs in parentheses.<BR/>Lisa Scottoline (Everywhere That Mary Went).<BR/>Carl Hiaasen (Native Tongue).<BR/>Anne Lamott (Traveling Mercies).<BR/>Barbara Kingsolver (Poisonwood Bible).<BR/>Tony Hillerman (anything with Jim Chee or Joe Leaphorn).<BR/><BR/>I have only read one book by the following authors, but I really liked the book.<BR/>In the Midnight Rain by Ruth Wind.<BR/>Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.<BR/>The Girls by Lori Lansens (I see she has a new book out that got good reviews called Rush Home Road).<BR/>The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.<BR/>Bel Canto by Ann Patchett.<BR/><BR/>And yes, BB, you are the Book Goddess.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post-29563794720735818492008-07-08T11:40:00.000-04:002008-07-08T11:40:00.000-04:00I read Mistress of the Sun and Garden Spells (on y...I read <I>Mistress of the Sun</I> and <I>Garden Spells</I> (on your recc), and am just starting Evelyn Waugh's <I>Put Out More Flags</I>. According to some old guy on All Things Considered, it should be hilarious, which has me curious, as the only other Waugh I've read is <I>Brideshead</I> which doesn't get anywhere near funny (but would make for several excellent days of beach reading if you like reading about that place and time).<BR/><BR/>I just finished <I>Dispatches from a Public Librarian</I>, which sadly left me feeling a little . . . meh. I wanted to love it, but the guy clearly wanted to please every single reader, which means he will likely please none.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com