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It goes up weekly here. Last time I filled the tank it was 3.69, but yesterday I saw prices of 3.77 and 3.83. We don't drive much or I would really be in pain. We do eat, however, and that is definitely more expensive.

Thank you for this perceptive review of memorable book. It took me into an unfamiliar society and helped me to understand its tensions. The magic realism was a minor element for me. I have read some of Allende's other books: good, but this one is her best.

It's a picky little point. When scrolling down through a thread, when you get to the end you have to scroll all the way back to the top to return to where you came from. Can you put a set of the three major buttons Home Forums Blogs at the bottom of the thread as well as at the top. Thanks.

Maybe the Talmud should be on your list.

The New Yorker Atlantic New York Times Magazine Consumer Reports various publications from Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy and AARP (marks us as retired tree huggers) We used to take The Nation, but it was making me too depressed so I let the subscription lapse, even though my brother...

Graphic Novels, continued Now I am embarrassed to see that we have an entire "Comics and Graphic Novels" forum. Still, I think the Age of Bronze series may be different from most of the works discussed in that forum. It represents a serious study of the old text and the archeology.

Are you the author? or his brother-in-law?

I always sniffed at the idea of a graphic novel (adult comic book). I didn't need pictures to tell me a story. Now I'm moderating my opinion. The reason? I have started the Age of Bronz series by Eric Shawnower. When complete, there will be 7 books devoted to the Trojan War. The first, A...

I remember reading some Rudyard Kipling stories as a child and being upset by the casual cruelty of Indian life. Later, my daughter at about age 10 read Charlotte's Web and wept because the spider died. I don't think either of us were the worse for these experiences. It made us more aware...

the smell of lilacs in Connecticut in May listening to Pavarotti while walking on the treadmill my husband bringing me the year's first radish from the garden sitting in my easy chair with a book and a cup of coffee

Walden is an American classic, both for the author's love for nature and his independence. As he says, he marches to "a different drummer". Actually, he failed as a hermit. Walden Pond is an easy walk (for a 19th century walker) from Concord where Thoreau had friends and family. The Emersons had...

I for one want to hear what you have to say. Whenever.

I wouldn't mind reading Hemingway again. I suggest A Farewell to Arms, set during World War I. Another American possibility: Main Street by Sinclair Lewis.

Yes, there are the forgettable ones who are, naturally, forgotten. Then there are the really irritating ones we wish we could forget.

Since the runner-up to The First Circle was Farewell to Arms, how about that for June?

Jared Diamond has an article in the current issue of The New Yorker, also based on his New Guinea experiences. He described the revenge culture of a tribe in the absence of a government to avenge on behalf of the victim.

Did you see the TV series based on the Claudius books a few years ago? I saw it in the U.S., but it was an English production with Derek Jacoby as an unforgettable Claudius. The woman who played Augustus' wife was quite outstanding also. The tapes are available in our local library, which...

How serious are you about this love affair? If you like classics, four heroines I love are Alice in Alice in Wonderland Jane Eyre Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice Dorothea in Middlemarch These are not "easy" people, but women of strength and substance - yes, Alice too.

Actually similar systems already exist. Where my daughter lives in the country, there is no rubbish truck. There is the local dump and to take things there you have to buy tickets, one per bag, thus paying them to accept your rubbish.

I too loved the movie, although I found some of the opening scenes confusing because of the time jumps and forth. Ultimately, it did not matter - it was Piaf all the way.