A biagraphy of Camille Claudel
Kara, that was Kitchen Confidential - I loved that too. I've read a few others by him, that is, a few others about cooking and travel. He has also written a couple of mysteries that are, well, not like Agatha Christie mysteries.
Camille Claudel: I haven't read the book but did really like the movie.
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Camille Claudel: I haven't read the book but did really like the movie.[/quote]
I remember reading another biography years ago.
Never seen the movie, though!
Bohne wrote:[quote="ossobuco"]
Camille Claudel: I haven't read the book but did really like the movie.
I remember reading another biography years ago.
Never seen the movie, though![/color][/quote]
I liked the movie but it was pretty depressing. That beautiful actress who starred has made a career of playing troubled women.
just received a pickup notice from the library .
"bloodletting and other miraculous cures" by vincent lam is waiting to be picked up ;
i'll make sure to stop and pick it up . i've been on the waiting list for three weeks !
hbg
Quote:Lam is a Toronto ER physician with the quick insights typical of his trade and the more subtle, dark humours that come from having to do your best when other people are often at their worst.
should be a good read
"Crossroads" by Beverly Lewis
Kara wrote:littlek,
I tried and tried to read Running with Scissors. Finally gave up before getting halfway through. It stopped being funny and just seemed contrived.
I have to agree with you there on that book. I finished it, closed the book and just looked at it. I was disappointed also.
I am currently halfway through 'A Confederacy of Dunces' (saw others recommending it on this thread and got it). Hate to say it, but I'm not caring much for this one either. Maybe I was over-psyched to read it!
I finished The Contortionist's Handbook.
Grim, but fascinating.
Crises of Memory and the Second World War by Susan Rubin Suleiman. It's not really history but it is more than historical analysis, which, I think, makes it philosophy.
Susan presented her book under the aegis of the Humanities Center at Harvard with a panel of respondants which included new president Drew Gilpin Faust in her first public appearance as president.
Just finished John Thorne's w/ Matt Thorne's Pot on the Fire.
I struggled at about a third to half the way through as his perfectionist search for how to cook things started to drive me nuts. Why, I'm not quite sure, as I like other food writers like Russ Parsons' efforts to find the best way to do this or that. Anyway, I perservered and by the end decided it was one of the more important food books I've read.
Just finished "Moving House" by Pawel Huelle. It's a compilation of some of his short stories. I liked them, very intense. According to the back cover, he's a critic, editor, teacher, writer, and journalist, born in Gdansk, Poland. By now he's about 50, was about 34 when the book was published.
The book was published by Harvest in Translation; in the back of it, there is a list of twelve other authors they've published - making me curious to see those books too.
Starting Smart Exercise by Covert Bailey
A German Book called Die Wanderhure (the travelling whore)
I'm in the midst of
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford.
Fascinating stuff... here's an article in the LA Times about Genghis Khan and the Mongols as it relates to the war in Iraq... written by Weatherford, who teaches anthropology at Macalester College, St. Paul, MN.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-weather29dec29,0,2536448.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail
Hmmm... I'll put that on the "to be browsed" list for my next foray to B&N.
I'm reading Moby Dick.
A book about a giant white dick--obviously fiction.
kickycan wrote:I'm reading Moby Dick.
A book about a giant white dick--obviously fiction.
Are you feeling ignored, kicky?
I never did read Moby Dick...
did I say that already?
