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Revealing myself as a LOTR nerd
September 24, 2008
Good answers! I love that everyone has such intelligent reading habits. I mean, no one answered "Fat Diamond Dynasty" by Danielle Nickel or anything. (Ha Ha, get it? Nickel?)
I love it that Jennifer listed a Gene Stratton Porter book! And The Horse and His Boy. Excellent. I think my late mother-in-law met Toni Morrison at some point or other (she was a journalist with the LA Times) and I need to read The Giver. Love Little Women (it was one of the books that I shipped with our books from home) and Little Men and Jo's Boys are good too. Barbara Kingsolver is the bomb. I've never read the Tom Robbins book, and I started to read A Fine Balance, but couldn't continue because I was pregnant and my husband was far away in another country, and I just knew something terrible was going to happen and I couldn't handle it. But I know I will read it one day.
Ummm. 101 Recipes for Babies' Noses? Never read it. And that's disturbing. You'd better find someplace else to live, Renee.
As for me... it's true, how can you pick? I love My Name is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok. Maybe one of the genius books of the world. And for Indian lit, The God of Small Things is amazing and beautiful and heartbreaking. I'm a sucker for The Lord of the Rings, although in some ways I wish I'd never watched the movies because now the actor's faces are in my head and I'm not down with all the casting. (Not down with Elrond, not down with Aragorn... although I love Viggo... not down with Faramir. The hobbits are okay.)
Also, while we're in the fantasy realm, Robin McKinley is rather wonderful. And I cannot for the life of me remember any other books that I've ever read. Ever. Why does that happen? It's like going to the video rental place.
The fraud issue is a matter of signing an affadavit that I haven't received, since FedEx couldn't locate my house here. Non existent address. Although it DOES exist, I'm sitting right here. So they took the money back and it was quite a bit and these are the frustrating things about being far from your origins. I'm hoping they'll work it out for me. I've had to be quite firm. Which is not easy for me. I'm more likely to pick the fly out of my drink and go on drinking it than mention it to the poor harried fast food worker in the food court.
It apparently is not "done" to drive with your light, or lights on in the day here. Which is fine, I can dig it. But wouldn't it be awesome if people reacted the same way when your fly was down? Imagine it, a whole group of people yelling "Fly! Fly!" as you sauntered past.
And the hat thing. We definitely don't go out in the sun, yet, (by "we" I mean, Solo and I) so I can only assume it is one of the strict rules that exist around here about newborns. I've run into a few.
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And on a completely different note...
Chessia wrote to me lately to let me know that her organization has been nominated to be one of the top 25 in an effort American Express is putting together. Their project, "Saving the Lives of Malnourished Children," could receive funding of $1.5 Million, allowing them to feed a lot of hungry children, saving a lot of lives in the food crisis around the world right now.
I can barely keep breathing when I start thinking about children being hungry, and so it was a good thing to find Chessia's letter in my inbox, with such a simple way to help them gather funding. You can read more about the project here, (scroll down) and vote for them here, the only hurdle being that you have to be an American Express cardmember to vote. The voting ends on September 29th, so go for it, AmEx cardmembers!
I love it that Jennifer listed a Gene Stratton Porter book! And The Horse and His Boy. Excellent. I think my late mother-in-law met Toni Morrison at some point or other (she was a journalist with the LA Times) and I need to read The Giver. Love Little Women (it was one of the books that I shipped with our books from home) and Little Men and Jo's Boys are good too. Barbara Kingsolver is the bomb. I've never read the Tom Robbins book, and I started to read A Fine Balance, but couldn't continue because I was pregnant and my husband was far away in another country, and I just knew something terrible was going to happen and I couldn't handle it. But I know I will read it one day.
Ummm. 101 Recipes for Babies' Noses? Never read it. And that's disturbing. You'd better find someplace else to live, Renee.
As for me... it's true, how can you pick? I love My Name is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok. Maybe one of the genius books of the world. And for Indian lit, The God of Small Things is amazing and beautiful and heartbreaking. I'm a sucker for The Lord of the Rings, although in some ways I wish I'd never watched the movies because now the actor's faces are in my head and I'm not down with all the casting. (Not down with Elrond, not down with Aragorn... although I love Viggo... not down with Faramir. The hobbits are okay.)
Also, while we're in the fantasy realm, Robin McKinley is rather wonderful. And I cannot for the life of me remember any other books that I've ever read. Ever. Why does that happen? It's like going to the video rental place.
The fraud issue is a matter of signing an affadavit that I haven't received, since FedEx couldn't locate my house here. Non existent address. Although it DOES exist, I'm sitting right here. So they took the money back and it was quite a bit and these are the frustrating things about being far from your origins. I'm hoping they'll work it out for me. I've had to be quite firm. Which is not easy for me. I'm more likely to pick the fly out of my drink and go on drinking it than mention it to the poor harried fast food worker in the food court.
It apparently is not "done" to drive with your light, or lights on in the day here. Which is fine, I can dig it. But wouldn't it be awesome if people reacted the same way when your fly was down? Imagine it, a whole group of people yelling "Fly! Fly!" as you sauntered past.
And the hat thing. We definitely don't go out in the sun, yet, (by "we" I mean, Solo and I) so I can only assume it is one of the strict rules that exist around here about newborns. I've run into a few.
***
And on a completely different note...
Chessia wrote to me lately to let me know that her organization has been nominated to be one of the top 25 in an effort American Express is putting together. Their project, "Saving the Lives of Malnourished Children," could receive funding of $1.5 Million, allowing them to feed a lot of hungry children, saving a lot of lives in the food crisis around the world right now.
I can barely keep breathing when I start thinking about children being hungry, and so it was a good thing to find Chessia's letter in my inbox, with such a simple way to help them gather funding. You can read more about the project here, (scroll down) and vote for them here, the only hurdle being that you have to be an American Express cardmember to vote. The voting ends on September 29th, so go for it, AmEx cardmembers!
Reader Comments (12)
I missed yesterday or my computer did not bring it up, but my favorite books are the Anne of Green Gables Series and all the sequels, and I too love To Kill a Mockingbird. I love the Silver Chalice, Roots, Queen, and John Grisham books.
As to color of Solo's hair - whose to say - he has two red headed grandparents - one on each side of the family and none of you went red, so it might pop out! Wouldn't that be fun!
I love that I am giggling while reading this post and making little comments to you in person just before I comment on your post, and I can vouch for you that this house does indeed exist.
i LOVED God of Small Things too.
There are so many good books out there and so little time!
I have heard Toni Morrison speak and am off to see her chat about her new book next month, very exciting!
abs x
You simply MUST finish A Fine Balance one day. Yes, awful things happen but it's the attitude of the protagonists that makes it all so amazing. And wonderful things happen too. I promise.
(I think the headlights thing is that it's distracting to other drivers).
OK, I'm dorky enough to be excited you want to read my favorite book. I'm a librarian I read A LOT. The Giver is a great book. I love that it's intended audience is tweens. The perfect age for a book with such deep meaning, those starting to think about the world around them.
Ok, I didn't play yesterday with the questions. But I love to read and I find it difficult to pick one. So I won't. Why settle for one when there are so many wonderful stories. Tiffany, I love tween book's too, and the Giver certainly is excellent. As is "Number the Stars" by Louis Lowry and I also liked, "Bridge to Teribithia" by Katherine Paterson. I also have read C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia many times. My favorite is the last one in the series, "The Last Battle". I am overly sentimental, so my choices sometimes are a bit much, but I have also reread, "Christie," by Catherine Marshall. This is about her mother's experience teaching in Appalachia. A non fiction book I adored was, "The Simple Faith of Mr. Rogers." I love Barbara Kingsolver too and Annie Dilliard and Sue Monk Kidd's book, "The Secret Life of Bees" is excellent. I also like John Steinbeck. My favorite of his is, "East of Eden". Ok, that is enough. I read, I read, I read. Someday I will read a book by a lady named Rae, Yes?
I forgot to say yesterday when i posted - have you all tried Bookmooch?
Take a look, it is lovely;
www.bookmooch.com
basically it is world wide book swapping, i have sent all over the place and recieved too!
abs x
I just got the nickel joke - wow it took me a whole day!
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