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Book Talk » Great Unread Books: Which classic are you ashamed to admit you have never read? (article and video link included) » Add me to the group for "Ulysses" and "War and Peace"
Eeyann 15 yrs ago
But like millycat, I should get some points for having read "The Golden Bowl." But then again, it took me five years almost to get through "Vanity Fair." Very shameful. I don't care that much about "Ulysses" but feel b…
Book Talk » Sebastian Faulks trilogy - calling all fans for advice please - UPDATE » Re: Sebastian Faulks trilogy - calling all fans for advice please - UPDATE
Eeyann 16 yrs ago
I'd have to agree with Nu-Knees that it doesn't matter if the books are read out of order. It's not a trilogy in the conventional sense of a single story continuing. "Birdsong" is one of my favorite books of all time.…
Book Talk » So, which Booker Prize winner would you vote for as 'the greatest' overall? » Three-way tie ?
Eeyann 16 yrs ago
The Ghost Road, Possession, and probably edging out those two would be "Remains of the Day." It is a small masterpiece as miketrollstigen said above. Somehow "God of Small Things" never really interested me that much.
Book Talk » Books about dysfunctional families? » This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff and...
Eeyann 16 yrs ago
Stop-Time by Frank Conroy Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg The Great Santini by Pat Conroy The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness » Holiday Gift Giving Thank You Thread 4 ( CLOSED) Please use thread 5 » Re: Mystery Winger: THANKS A HEAP! :)
Eeyann 16 yrs ago
You're welcome, Chubsiewhubsie--I thought it would be nice for us both to fly a bit this month!
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness » Holiday Gift Giving Thank You Thread 4 ( CLOSED) Please use thread 5 » Thanks to Chubsiewubsie!
Eeyann 16 yrs ago | 3 replies
How nice to find your chubsie envelope in with the dull bills and catalogues--love the chocolates and the pretty bookstring, that you made. I'll think of your kindness when I use it.
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness » HOLIDAY GIFT GIVING THANK YOU THREAD III » Re: My Thanks to
Eeyann 16 yrs ago
You are very welcome and I appreciate your gratitude. Happy BXing! :)
Book Talk » What is the funniest book that you can remember reading? » A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Eeyann 16 yrs ago
And "A Dirty JOb" by Christopher Moore--profane, horrifying and hilarious.
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness » Holiday Gift Giving Thank You Thread ... Closed ... Please use Thank You Thread #4 » Re: Thank you, EEyann, for the beautiful yarn.
Eeyann 16 yrs ago
You are most welcome! I'll think of you, fellow-knitter, clicking the needles and listening to the great violinist!
Book Talk » Husbands and Audiobooks » Re: Husbands and Audiobooks
Eeyann 16 yrs ago | 1 replies
Very funny, azuki! My model is similiar to yours, has the audiobook preference upgrade but shorts out when the book choices are few. At the moment, he's blowing a gasket because the tape player in ye olde car won't w…
Book Talk » The longest book you've read is.....? » The Crimson Petal and the White @ 894 pgs
Eeyann 16 yrs ago | 1 replies
Or maybe it just seems like the longest... I'm sure some of the Harry Potter books are longer! And "atlas Shrugged" long ago...
Book Talk » Reading list for October 2 and 3 » Re: "Persuasion" in boofk form and "Orchard" on CD
Eeyann 16 yrs ago
Oops, I boofed--BOOK form is what I meant. Of course.
Book Talk » Reading list for October 2 and 3 » "Persuasion" in boofk form and "Orchard" on CD
Eeyann 16 yrs ago | 1 replies
I'm re-reading "Persuasion", along with my daughter who is reading it for school. I'm enjoying it a lot. "Orchard" is by Larry Watson and I've just started listening to it.
Book Talk » book vs. audio » Readers make a huge difference
Eeyann 17 yrs ago | 1 replies
in the experience. I listened to all of the wonderful Patrick O'Brien books on tape, read by the very talented Patrick Tull, who truly brought the characters to life, without going overboard (so to speak!) with accents a…
Book Talk » WW II Fiction: Recommendations? » "Charlotte Grey" by Sebastian Faulks
Eeyann 17 yrs ago
"The Book Thief" was wonderful! And Elizabeth Jane Howard's Cazalet family novels. "Small Island" by Andrea Levy.
Chit-Chat » How would you have handled the 3 year old who wouldn't eat her hamburger » Oh how awful
Eeyann 17 yrs ago
I would have been upset too, as no matter what the history here or the child's tendencies to possible deviousness or whatever, it was handled by the mother as badly as I can imagine. It sounds as if it was truly creating…
Book Talk » Longest book you've ever read? » "The Crimson Petal and the White" and I listened to "Harry Potter
Eeyann 17 yrs ago
and the Order of the Phoenix." The box of tapes was huge. I'm sure there ought to be some Dickens in that list too...
Book Talk » Dec 26-28:What are you reading? » "Digging to China" by Anne Tyler
Eeyann 17 yrs ago
I love her characters and this one is funny but with some interesting depth to it too. Next up is "The Mermaid Chair" for my book group. Has anyone read that?
Book Talk » Comfort Reading? » When I was pregnant with my first child...
Eeyann 17 yrs ago
and not sleeping well at night, I'd reread "Little Women." Somehow it was enormously comforting. I also like "Rebecca" and "A Room with A View." And strangely, the Marie Killilea books i read as s child--"Karen" and …
Book Talk » What is your nemesis - multiple attempts to read and determined to achieve! » Vanity Fair has been sitting by my bed for three years..
Eeyann 17 yrs ago
I'm two-thireds through it and still slogging at it now and then. I tried to listen to "A Tale of Two Cities" on tape, and fudgy brain syndrome set in immediately and I couldn't go on. Someday i'll try again.
Book Talk » October 16 - 17 What are you reading? » "Heir to the Glimmering World"
Eeyann 17 yrs ago
and "Aloft" on tape. I've jsut started both--hard to begin two at once! Just finished Anna Quindlen's new book, "Rise and Shine." Forgettable but sort of fun.
Chit-Chat » Do you give blood to the hospital? » Yes, I hav done for years, when my iron level is high enough.
Eeyann 17 yrs ago
Often they give away some kind of tee shirt as a thank you, providing nightshirts for my children. Almost all of my other volunteering is for my children's schools, so I do this to give to the larger community.
Book Talk » What book was so emotional that you could only read it once? » "Sophie's Choice" and "Damage" by Josephine Hart
Eeyann 17 yrs ago
"The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink. Just couldn't go through that trauma with those characters again

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