What about other lentil-based foodstuffs? How you doing djjd?
Just started reading Tulip Fever, by Deborah Moggach ... Interesting so far.
Amsterdam in the 1630s ... A portrait has been commissioned. Of the older husband & his young wife (his second wife) ... a marriage of convenience, which has been working so far ...
The situation, the presence of the artist, is clearly beginning to unsettle the household ...
More later ...
hingehead wrote:
What about other lentil-based foodstuffs? How you doing djjd?
i have much love for the lentils
i'm doing pretty well, busy with work, but that's the story of my life
how's life treating you hingehead
Star maker. I'm about 2/3 through it, pretty amazing piece of literature in scope and detail that's for sure. Arthur C. Clarke on the front cover says:
Quote:Probably the most powerful work of imagination ever written
...and he wasn't kidding !
Re-reading the "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel. Wonderful book...
Also reading "A Secret History of the IRA" by Ed Moloney. Remembering when I saw Gerry Adams in San Francisco some time ago at a convention/fund raiser.
eclectic choices eh?
OK, I took another detour to book three of the inikworld trilogy
I can't recommend Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner highly enough. It is brilliant, engrossing, edifying, breathtaking, humane, chilling and heart-warming at the same instant... did I say 'brilliant' yet? Just finishing the last 20 or 30 pages and I'll hate it when it ends.
Me too! I'm reading The Twits right now. He is one strange cat!
Merry Andrew wrote:I can't recommend Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner highly enough. It is brilliant, engrossing, edifying, breathtaking, humane, chilling and heart-warming at the same instant... did I say 'brilliant' yet? Just finishing the last 20 or 30 pages and I'll hate it when it ends.
Excellent recommendation noted.
I will keep an eye out for it.
Merry Andrew wrote:I can't recommend Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner highly enough. It is brilliant, engrossing, edifying, breathtaking, humane, chilling and heart-warming at the same instant... did I say 'brilliant' yet? Just finishing the last 20 or 30 pages and I'll hate it when it ends.
Seconded by Mrs Hinge who's just finished it, I've just started it so I'll third it. Don't you just love good books....
Tomorrow! I'll try to buy a copy of it tomorrow!
msolga wrote:Tomorrow! I'll try to buy a copy of it tomorrow!
Another victim of peer pressure...
hingehead wrote:msolga wrote:Tomorrow! I'll try to buy a copy of it tomorrow!
Another victim of peer pressure...
Yep.
Sad, isn't it? I just wanna be like the crowd!
I liked Kite Runner, sure, but not as much as I'm liking Peter Robb's Death in Brazil. It's fulminous with history/information I never knew but not delivered in any text book way, indeed the opposite.
Several times I've been not sure what he was getting at, or some definition, and if I just wait, he'll be out with it, it might take a page or more, and, my catching it made sense...the word will have been set up.
He's not an instructional writer, quite the opposite, his texts are in their own way densely narrative.
Ossobuco...have you read "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by the author of "The Kite Runner"? Its about two Afghan women who are married to an abusive husband. I highly recommend it Olga and Osso.
Also want to recommend Susan Jacoby's " The Age of American Unreason." Some may have read an excerpt in the Washington Post called "The Dumbing Down of America."
Thank you, VNN.
Another terrific recommendation. It's going to be hard keeping up! :wink:
Thank you, VNN, I will look for that.
I too want to read Susan Jacoby's book.
littlek wrote:
Me too! I'm reading The Twits right now. He is one strange cat!
have you read any of his adult books or stories
they're interesting to say the least
