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There are photos of Vyra and Rozhdestveno at Vyra / Nabokov Museum Official Site. Click on "Visit the Gallery".

I was struck by Nabokov's comment on the second page that time is a prison. I'm not sure I agree. Although one cannot escape time; time moves on. In a way, time may be more like a journey on open road without any ability to turn back or turn to the side. While we cannot remove ourselves from...

In Chapter XXXIX, Ms Stowe makes the claim: "No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man." This prefigured a similar statement attributed (falsely, as it turns out) to G.K. Chesterton: "When a man stops believing in God he doesn't then believe in nothing; he believes anything."

Many of us are like St. Clare who "like most men of his class of mind, cordially hated the present tense of action, generally". Ophelia, on the other hand told St. Clare that "now is the only time to do a thing in", and "[i]n the midst of life we are in death". This brought St. Clare up...

In Chapter XXVIII, St Clare recognized Tom's good theology. And so it was. Tom claimed that "the Lord has a work for Mas'r." When St. Calre asked what sort of work it is, Tom responded "why even a poor fellow like me has a work from the Lord; and Mas'r St. Clare, that has larnin, and...

Although I enjoyed the book, I found many episodes to be excessively sentimental or even mawkish. This was especially true for the illness and death of Eva, "whose little hour on earth did so much of good". It also came out when St Clare was under conviction as he walked up and down the...

In Chapter XVI, Ms Stowe looks to the future and comments that "the negro race ... will exhibit the highest form of the particularly Christian life, and, perhaps, as God chasteneth whom he loveth, he hath chosen poor Africa in the furnace of affliction, to make her the highest and noblest in...

Libra - Do you think Ms Stowe was using religion to make a point for her own needs, or rather to make a point for what is right and wrong? Was the abolitionist movement generated by people seeking to satisfy their own needs, or by people who recognized that slavery was an immense wrong?

I'm running a bit behind most of you. I am finding the book to be far better than I expected, and am glad it was selected. One thing I am find interesting is the way Ms Stowe handles the varieties of religious expression. Today, it seems most books that have religious characters either...

I hope my reference to the Australian Aborigines was understood to refer to the discriminatory way they were treated by the European settlers, not vice versa. I don't have enough information to judge whether the Aborigines also practiced discrimination. We usually think of discrimination as...

You must not have run into any Australian Aborigines.

G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday Dorothy Sayers, Murder Must Advertise

I was annoyed by Fitzgerald's habit of introducing characters long before they were given names. I didn't really get into the story until I got past the first few chapters and could connect the characters with names.

Where do you buy the majority of your books from? Neighborhood locally-owned bookstores. Do you regularly order? Only if not in stock. How long would you expect to wait when you order? 5 days. How much impact to blogs and word of mouth influences you in buying books? Minimal. How do...

Star - Welcome aboard. I'm afraid we are not doing too well on our discussion of this month's BOTM. I for one have not been able to find the time to post :sad:. As Libra suggests, it would be great if you would join the discussion. I'm sure you would find it rewarding.

The TOP bookstores in the US are independently owned, not part of a big chain. I shop at Micawber's in Saint Paul.

Kristin Lavransdatter is actually a trilogy. The first book was written by Sigrid Undset in 1920; the last in 1922. It is said to be a faithful portrayal of life in medieval Norway, yet written in a modernist style. I consider it one of the best reads of the 20th century. There was a movie...

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Last month's BOTM, Sons and Lovers, was very tedious to me. But I didn't realize how much it had turned me off until I started reading Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. Before I got to the end of the first page of Fathers and Sons I knew it would be a book I would enjoy. I was not to be disappointed.

I'd opt for Speak, Memory.