Lazy Ways to Make a Living
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Amazon's description:
'Have you ever seen The Thomas Crown Affair? Faye Dunaway (sugar pink lips, fabulous nails, playing Black) utterly destroys Steve McQueen (blue eyes, playing White). It's a dazzling performance ...That film made me get out the chess set I'd abandoned three years earlier. It made me search through East Anglia for a blue-eyed boy suffering from wealth-ennui. I never found one, but my chess and my nails were outstanding for a thirteen year old.' Lexicographer, chess master and hedonist, Rose is down on her luck when she meets Jamie, a guy she beat at chess twelve years previously who has never recovered from losing the game or forgotten the sight of Rose's perfectly manicured nails poised to strike over the chess board. She's destitute, he's loaded and terrified of losing her again. They strike a bargain: in return for chess he will keep her. What is it like being a kept woman in the 21st century? Rose is about to find out. She's also about to learn that disguising your moves in chess can lead to victory, but doing the same thing in love leads to disaster.
My own experience with this book:
I found this little book in a youth hostel in Edinburgh, a fact that I found quite amusing, because the story is set in Edinburgh, too. I liked that I could recognize the places in the book I just had visited myself. I quite enjoyed reading it, being in a holiday mood, this light, undemanding and entertaining book was the right thing for me at that moment.
'Have you ever seen The Thomas Crown Affair? Faye Dunaway (sugar pink lips, fabulous nails, playing Black) utterly destroys Steve McQueen (blue eyes, playing White). It's a dazzling performance ...That film made me get out the chess set I'd abandoned three years earlier. It made me search through East Anglia for a blue-eyed boy suffering from wealth-ennui. I never found one, but my chess and my nails were outstanding for a thirteen year old.' Lexicographer, chess master and hedonist, Rose is down on her luck when she meets Jamie, a guy she beat at chess twelve years previously who has never recovered from losing the game or forgotten the sight of Rose's perfectly manicured nails poised to strike over the chess board. She's destitute, he's loaded and terrified of losing her again. They strike a bargain: in return for chess he will keep her. What is it like being a kept woman in the 21st century? Rose is about to find out. She's also about to learn that disguising your moves in chess can lead to victory, but doing the same thing in love leads to disaster.
My own experience with this book:
I found this little book in a youth hostel in Edinburgh, a fact that I found quite amusing, because the story is set in Edinburgh, too. I liked that I could recognize the places in the book I just had visited myself. I quite enjoyed reading it, being in a holiday mood, this light, undemanding and entertaining book was the right thing for me at that moment.
Took it out of Agrippine314's Englische Urlaubsbuchbox BookBox. Errr ... all the books I took out of the box were registered by Tali2. Thanks a lot, Tali2!
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
On its way to tiger-kuh-katze.
On its way to tiger-kuh-katze.
Arrived at my new workplace last week and I will enjoy it hopefully soon. Thanks for sending!
seit september für Urfin reserviert, (nebst anderen)
heute geht das buchpaket zur post
heute geht das buchpaket zur post
One of four books that arrived as RABCK. Thanks a lot, tiger-kuh-katze :o)
Started reading today,
and just finished The Opening, now pausing for the JE, and then comes The Middle Game :o)
Finished The End Game as an after-midnight-read on Monday night.
"My mother ... believed that if you were going to marry anyone, you should marry a fair-minded, kind and rational individual. A loyal companion who valued your work, shared your interests and tolerated your foibles. Alternatively, you might find someone who tolerated your work, valued your interests, and shared your foibles. All permutations were possible in a 'marriage of true minds'." (p.221) - Shakespeare?
Reading suggestions:
Kipling "The Cat that Walked by Himself"
Bunyan "Pilgrim's Progress"
Mitford "Love in a cold climate"
P.G.Wodehouse: Jeeves books
Gefährliche Liebschaften
and just finished The Opening, now pausing for the JE, and then comes The Middle Game :o)
Finished The End Game as an after-midnight-read on Monday night.
"My mother ... believed that if you were going to marry anyone, you should marry a fair-minded, kind and rational individual. A loyal companion who valued your work, shared your interests and tolerated your foibles. Alternatively, you might find someone who tolerated your work, valued your interests, and shared your foibles. All permutations were possible in a 'marriage of true minds'." (p.221) - Shakespeare?
Reading suggestions:
Kipling "The Cat that Walked by Himself"
Bunyan "Pilgrim's Progress"
Mitford "Love in a cold climate"
P.G.Wodehouse: Jeeves books
Gefährliche Liebschaften
Journal Entry 8 by 
Urfin
at Bücherwald Prenzlauer Berg (OBCZ) in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin Germany on Friday, July 22, 2016
Urfin at Bücherwald Prenzlauer Berg (OBCZ) in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin Germany on Friday, July 22, 2016
Released 7 yrs ago (7/22/2016 UTC) at Bücherwald Prenzlauer Berg (OBCZ) in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin Germany
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Left today at Bücherwald in Sredzkistr.
