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ABC, your avatar is intriguingly obscure, is that an owl in a fez?:eek: I love it!

There was a video documentary on PBS a few years ago called Shoah that I found really informative and wrenching. It was mainly interviews with survivors intercut with images of the concentration camp locales as they were at the time of the documentary - onsite, and the local environs, including...

That's true, it was a NY Times non-fiction Book of the Year. It would appear this thread is mis-placed. Mods? To the non-fiction!

hyperbole and tickets taken

I like anything well-written. I do however prick up the ears on depression era and prohibition. Also reconstruction era. As for world history, I enjoy Tokugawa period in Japan and Meiji--Showa. Also, India from 1899 through approximately 1950's. I'll just shut up!:D Oh, I forgot Vietnam...

I also tried to read this book some years ago, when I was twentyish. It was impossible to read! Two or three paragraphs into a chapter and it was pure bogment. He simply wasn't a writer, just a disgruntled, pissed off guy with VERY long-winded explanations of his early days ... Truly, I can...

Faith Ringgold's "Tar Beach." It's full of busy, colorful, lively scenes up on the roofs of New York. Her quiltwork is pretty neat. Also, my daughter suggests "Who Will Comfort Toffle?" by Tove Jansson. It's apparently simply "cute, cute, cute. Sweet." She suddenly also emphasizes its high...

Thanks, Still, she's now on my TBR. As is the next installment of this little gem, novella.:cool:

My youngest little dickens responded with CNN. We have no TV, so it's either a dim memory or she just knows things. She's twelve.

Wow, I play this seasonally and VERY informally. My youngest and I began a short spate of games last week, but I was so out of shape I thought I had permanently wrecked my racquet arm. It's better now and I'll work up to it next time. What I like about it is that I feel like a cat after a...

, marshmallows stolen from the

As long as we're exposing our ages, I read Tintin comics in those little half size booklets! And they were in black and white. Just a few though, I mean I was an eight year old GIRL and all -didn't like many comics.:D

Good Night Moon was nice. My daughter thought that the little pink folded blanket at the foot of the bed was a folded ham slice. It was cute. She said "hammy?" I had some fabulously illustrated ones, the names of which evade me. I'll post them if I can drum them up.

burnt up folks, forests

Though this is not the sort of book I generally prefer, there were good things about it, too. The author has a wonderfully perverse sensibility. See the partial paragraph, "... He had shaved himself with no very high degree of skill and here and there on his face two or three coarse black hairs...

Where There's a Will - John Mortimer The World of Nagaraj - R. K. Narayan Songbird Journeys - Miyoko Chu Money for Nothing - P. G. Wodehouse The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco Must reread Candide!

way across the universe.

The link in the initial post of this thread provided an interesting analysis of Wodehouse's misadventure in Germany. Most interesting, I found, was how foreign readers were supposed to have found his writing to be anti-British! I have never read him that way at all. I feel fortunate that such a...

We saw it in the theater, being big fans. Then my family just watched it again this weekend. I really want a dog like Grommit to get me out of jams. Plus, he's quiet, quick-thinking -- what a dog. That, with Wallace's enthusiasm and "creativity," makes a compelling team.:)

I keep thinking I can speak spanish, but the poor victims of my misapprehension just keep smiling and jollying me along. The thing is that my accent is fabulous and I sound like a native speaker to start -- but then -- zounds! A question is asked of me. Mas despacio, por favor! Esa palabra ...??!:p