Henry James, The American. Have had the book for years., never read it.
Well, I'll say I haven't stopped reading it yet, despite temptation.
I read it a couple of years ago. A bit dated, but still an interesting tale and one that illustrates the distinct self images of Americans (at least upper class east Coast types), compared to European views of them.
The only other book I've read of his is his travel commentary, "Italian Hours".
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ehBeth
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Mon 2 Mar, 2009 09:14 pm
Still working on the Groucho Marx letters book. It's not at all what I expected. I knew he was more than a creater of quips, but I'm really marvelling at some of the correspondences. His exchanges with t s eliot were particularly, well, sweet.
Meantime, I'm just starting Machiavelli's Florentine Histories.
I don't know if I'll make it through, as the translator's introduction almost did me in.
I was curious to know what she meant to our northern American folk. Obviously she's pretty important!
It sounds like you're experiencing a reading fest right now! Good when that happens, isn't it?
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ossobuco
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Sun 8 Mar, 2009 10:50 am
@msolga,
She was a food writer for.. I think it was Gourmet magazine.. who also wrote novels, every one of which I enjoyed, with various themes about relationships/marriage. Can't remember if she also had a book of short stories. Anyway, she died young, I think in her late forties, of an aneurysm. I remember being crushed to hear it.
I liked her like I like Alice Munro and a few others, but she wrote differently than Munro.
More Home Cooking is a collection of essays. About food, but more about life and people and relationships. Another night-table Laurie Colwin. She's definitely a read-again author. I already have two of her books at my bedside as well as an Elizabeth David. You can just pick them up and start reading anywhere.
I think Elizabeth David is terrific, too, EhBeth. Very interesting woman, say nothing of a well-before-her-time cooking writer!
Laurie Colwin I am definitely going to check out. I'll now consider her "highly recommended"!
Thanks, too, osso & VN!
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George
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Sun 8 Mar, 2009 03:49 pm
I was paging through the "graphic novel" The Watchmen last night.
Not my cup of tea.
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wertyiu102
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Fri 13 Mar, 2009 07:22 pm
I don't have a book to read right now. I've read all of the interesting ones in my house. Some of my fave series have a book coming out in May or June.
Just finishing Sophie Cunningham's (Oz writer) novel, Geography. An account of an obsessive relationship with an older man, places, travel & the distances between people. I'm not good about reading about other people's obsessions so it'll be a wee bit of a relief when I've finished.
Waiting to be read next, is This is All - The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn.
Have any of you read it?
so it'll be a wee bit of a relief when I've finished.