tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942522681264332044.post6789864200267161181..comments2023-03-30T10:05:13.911+01:00Comments on Living the simple life I want: 2013 - The Year in BooksMoonwaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16018956740090192993noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942522681264332044.post-79402831103434760752014-01-11T04:33:59.443+00:002014-01-11T04:33:59.443+00:00Bawdy books are fun in the winter, a good laugh is...Bawdy books are fun in the winter, a good laugh is warming.tesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04162700002626998011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942522681264332044.post-76743104681420154372013-12-31T16:52:50.876+00:002013-12-31T16:52:50.876+00:00Maria: is that supposed to only happen when one is...Maria: is that supposed to only happen when one is elderly? Crap, I'm in trouble so. Fortunately my memory is so atrocious that even if I have glimmers of recognition I can almost always read to the end without actually remembering what's coming next. Plus side being that I can nearly as much enjoyment out of multiple readings of the same book as from the first. <br />I'd really recommend Strumpet City - it's a fantastic snapshot of what like was like during that turbulent time in Ireland. And somewhat distressing to realise how much of the same things are still happening or are happening again 100 years later (and 40-odd years after it was written). <br />How did you find Fanny Hill? I keep thinking to myself if only she didn't take so long to actually say anything, this book might be really getting me going - as it is her "balsamic injections" are more making me giggle than anything else.Moonwaveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16018956740090192993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942522681264332044.post-87016323189089847302013-12-31T16:45:18.774+00:002013-12-31T16:45:18.774+00:00Nikki: I did leave a comment on your post, not sur...Nikki: I did leave a comment on your post, not sure if it got deleted or not. Just so's you know I didn't just link and leave. :-)<br />I really loved The Master and Margarita - halfway through the second chapter I was wishing I was finished already just so that I could start it again. Such a rich, voluptuous use of language (not sure why I thought that word just now but since I did I'll leave it and hope that it's not just 'cos I've been reading Fanny Hill). Really wish I'd stuck with Russian so that I was able to read the original - I'd say that'd be an experience.<br />Transition was a bit weird but overall good. It certainly encouraged me to pick up some of his other stuff. The girl who picked it for book club said that he writes contemporary stuff as Iain Banks and sci-fi/fantasy as Iain M. Banks and that Transition was supposed to be his first cross-over between the two. I didn't really get that - for me it belonged firmly to the fantasy side. I did keep having to go back and forth though to figure out where the story was and I found that more difficult to do on the Kindle than with a paper book. <br />TransisitonMoonwaveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16018956740090192993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942522681264332044.post-89715171659641435172013-12-31T16:25:57.875+00:002013-12-31T16:25:57.875+00:00I've read 16 of them: 2,3,4,6,9,11,12,16,17,19...I've read 16 of them: 2,3,4,6,9,11,12,16,17,19,20,23,26,27,28,31. <br /><br />And something odd? Now that I am elderly, I often find find myself reading a book that I've already read and only realizing it when I am about a third of the way through it. How silly is that? I will be reading and thinking that it all sounds so familiar...and suddenly it will hit me that I already know how it ends...UGH. Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05049511202014141182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942522681264332044.post-12746596669944323742013-12-31T15:14:07.819+00:002013-12-31T15:14:07.819+00:00Funny, we read Master and Margarita in my book clu...Funny, we read Master and Margarita in my book club this year too. Had you read it before? And what did you think? It was already one of my favorite books. So weird.<br /><br />And how was Banks' transition? That is sitting on my to-read shelf right now.<br /><br />Glad to see your list again this year! Here's to a new year of reading. I sometimes have those reading funks where I just can't get into anything, though this year they never lasted long. Guess I needed the escape too much.Nikki (www.bookpunks.com)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03930429409262902365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942522681264332044.post-49754283053154728092013-12-31T14:15:08.567+00:002013-12-31T14:15:08.567+00:00I really enjoyed that - read it in just a couple o...I really enjoyed that - read it in just a couple of days, too. I'd heard a lot about it recently because of the film so when someone gave me Jonas Jonasson's second book (Die Analphabetin, die rechnen konnte) I decided I should just go ahead and get 100-year-old myself. It's quite simple really but very amusing. Another one of those books that made people on the train look at me funny as I struggled to keep my giggling (well, more like snorting really) under control.Moonwaveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16018956740090192993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942522681264332044.post-9912723914941818862013-12-31T14:00:37.094+00:002013-12-31T14:00:37.094+00:00I so need to get The 100-year-old who climbed out ...I so need to get The 100-year-old who climbed out of the window and disappeared. I'm very curious about it. It sounds like something both my grandmothers would have done if they had the chance.Sullivan McPighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15133432350331782496noreply@blogger.com