tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510773540672751770.post2632757228111419083..comments2023-11-05T20:00:17.853+11:00Comments on A Tranquil Townhouse: what I read in january 2012Kerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01762326830724357881noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510773540672751770.post-86729671584130279292012-02-12T17:47:59.434+11:002012-02-12T17:47:59.434+11:00Hi Kerry, I'm super duper impressed aussie wr...Hi Kerry, I'm super duper impressed aussie writer and journalist Charlotte Wood. The first book was The Children, then the second was Animal People. I luffed "Animal People'' as I get a bit upset about people who are obsessed about animals but aren't very kind to people, and it unpicks at that a little. Hope all is well. Haven't got back to "love'' yet. Might have to pick it up Valentines Day!Paddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13358212499943373892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510773540672751770.post-47745048674737690592012-02-08T19:16:50.711+11:002012-02-08T19:16:50.711+11:00How about Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre? And I kn...How about Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre? And I know it's an Austen but the Penguin Threads version of Emma is so very pretty! ( and their The Secret Garden too for that matter ).<br />Do you think you have to start at the beginning with the lynley series or can you jump in anywhere?<br />P.S I can happily wait for the top ten if that first teaser is anything to go by. What a great room. Don't work too hard! xxAmanda (Small Acorns)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04090007601440404545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510773540672751770.post-43442411921375171162012-02-07T23:14:31.911+11:002012-02-07T23:14:31.911+11:00oh you are good! a classic a month?! i have three ...oh you are good! a classic a month?! i have three sitting here waiting for me (and have been for the last 3 years!!)<br /><br />what about mrs dalloway? That's one that i feel i've read, but i know i havent.jules @ The Diversion Projecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18261889891875232983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510773540672751770.post-34622448264056137012012-02-06T21:20:32.254+11:002012-02-06T21:20:32.254+11:00Hello Kerry:
Well, although we do dabble in detect...Hello Kerry:<br />Well, although we do dabble in detective fiction, we have yet to discover Elizabeth George. On your recommendation, we shall investigate here further!!!<br /><br />Have you read Mrs Gaskell? We think that you might enjoy her.<br /><br />Hoping that your week goes well.Jane and Lance Hattatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16831890261259302647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510773540672751770.post-61312431023200591132012-02-06T18:59:54.370+11:002012-02-06T18:59:54.370+11:00WOW six books! You are doing better than I, I thin...WOW six books! You are doing better than I, I think I read four, and that was in one week, the rest of the month I didn't touch my books (isn't it funny how occasionally you read a series that you just can't put down!)<br /><br />:) HazelHazel Loves Designhttp://www.hazellovesdesign.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510773540672751770.post-81773306200282632782012-02-06T14:11:39.052+11:002012-02-06T14:11:39.052+11:00Trollope would keep you going for a while - and my...Trollope would keep you going for a while - and my favorite, George Eliot? Dickens is too much all in a lump, but if you surrendered to audiobooks they suit him.Tricia Rose Rough Linenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04677751031571089563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510773540672751770.post-54134705893304414942012-02-06T14:01:12.764+11:002012-02-06T14:01:12.764+11:00The Elizabeth George book looks inviting...I love ...The Elizabeth George book looks inviting...I love a series!<br /><br />A book is being passed around my family members called The Book Thief. As I haven't read it yet, and I am next in line, I can only say that it gets five stars and is said to transform your life. See if you can find it and then maybe pass it around.<br /><br />Hope your mother is doing well. I have missed a few posts.<br /><br />XO,<br />JaneBlondie's Journalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12988377413260331618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510773540672751770.post-17566762221494244042012-02-06T12:45:37.786+11:002012-02-06T12:45:37.786+11:00Huckleberry Fin and the Arabian Nights and Dickens...Huckleberry Fin and the Arabian Nights and Dickens, Our Mutual Friend is one of my favourites and anything by Emile Zola and can I forget Les Miserables. Heavens I had forgotten all these and there they sit on my library shelves unread for years!!! The classic that is constantly by my side in all it's variations is Don Quixote. I love both the story of the writing and the story itself the best version is a 2003 Penguin classic translated by John Rutherford and then there is War and Peace, Last you have to include Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Oh Kerry you should never have got me started.Juleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510773540672751770.post-38467507535124147562012-02-06T10:47:34.314+11:002012-02-06T10:47:34.314+11:00Oh Kerry, you've been so "industrious&quo...Oh Kerry, you've been so "industrious"!<br />A Hundred Years of Solitude, Moby Dick, The Man Who Would Be King.Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04735148155885016692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510773540672751770.post-13364376230859761282012-02-06T10:13:03.623+11:002012-02-06T10:13:03.623+11:00Oh, I love your book list!
Great recommendations...Oh, I love your book list! <br /><br />Great recommendations, Murdoch is wonderful, my particular favourite is "The Black Prince", not exactly an Austen-style love story :)<br /><br />I've read quite a few classics, mostly British, but what came to my (yarn-inflamed) mind is (buckle up, please) Dante and Shakespeare. <br />I've read Dante while staying at my grandma's house one summer and I LOVED the Hell part. Paradise was boring. But Hell was great, so many observations about mankind! <br /><br />Shakespeare has been my particular obsession since I was a teenager, I don't know why exactly, but I always read his plays with great pleasure. Your kids are grown up, you say? These two do demand some concentration...Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04240786473118483922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510773540672751770.post-17949421485571857132012-02-06T08:12:36.114+11:002012-02-06T08:12:36.114+11:00Kerry I am not one to recommend the classics. My l...Kerry I am not one to recommend the classics. My last few books were a Trueblood one, a Janet Evanovich and one called Hedge fund wives. No literary classics there. I did have some giggles though. Happy Monday.The Moerkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12052384345158012756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510773540672751770.post-65085215153110255812012-02-06T07:18:24.425+11:002012-02-06T07:18:24.425+11:00My recommendations are:
1) W Somerset Maugham'...My recommendations are:<br />1) W Somerset Maugham's 'Of Human Bondage'<br />2) Iris Murdoch's 'The Sea, The Sea'<br />3) Hemmingway's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' or 'The Old Man and the Sea'<br />4) 'All's Quiet on the Western Front' by Erich Maris Remarque (I think). Tragic.<br /><br />Those are classics. You know sometimes you can forget a book and its plot after a while? Those five books will stay with me forever.xoMakeminemidcenturyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15304535583168822160noreply@blogger.com