Calling Pueo--come in Pueo! Are you all right? We're worried about you!
Hi, estrella...
I like your avatar, too. Very creative!
I checked out a couple of the news site links that Pueo gave us when they had earthquakes in Guam, and the storm doesn't look like it was fun at all. On the front page of the news link that he left above, there is a poll, and it reveals that 78% of the residents on Guam were totally unprepared for the magnitude of this storm. Scary!
Thanks, Matrix. Just before the storm hit, Pueo said he had lamps and all, so I'm hoping he was all prepared--he seemed to be. Probably hasn't regained power yet.
ooooooooohh, I'm nervous too now. Maybe they have a major power outage....
oops, that's what estrella just said. Need to learn to read up.
"Bone Deep" by David Wiltse.
I'm reading "Secret Chamber" by Robert Bauval.
What a weird world of wacky whizkids there are over at those pyramids in giza, Egypt.
Read "Three Men in a Boat" some years ago and really loved it. Still have my copy. Has anyone seen the TV adaptation of it? Michael Palin was one of the men, if memory serves...
Welcome welcome d'artagnan
I KNOW you will love it here.
I sure do
Today I was reading some
of The Prophet
and a little bit from a
textbook titled
Alcoholics Anonymous
(sort of required reading
for sustained sanity)
Thanks, babsatemelia. So far it's been fun, though the options are a bit bewildering. As for current reading, it's a novel by Joseph Conrad, though the title includes a word that probably shouldn't appear in this forum. As with other Conrad novels I've read, he really involves me in the action!
I am reading an excellent book right now: This Thing Called Courage --South Boston Stories. Author is J.G. Hayes.
At the same time, I am reading Karen Armstrong's story of her early years in a convent, Through the Narrow Gate (I think that is the title.) It was written years ago and in a young girl's style, quite a contrast from her scholarly writing in recent years. (The History of God; The Battle for God; Islam...etc.)
When I finish Karen (I feel as if I know her on a first-name basis, having listened to one of her books on tape and having heard a marvelous interview with her on NPR,) I will begin on Michael Collins' novel, The Keepers of Truth or Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters.
The best book I read in the past year is Jamie O'Neill's At Swim Two Boys. Has anyone here read it?
No, but I have read "At Swim Two Birds" by Flann O'Brien. It's a hoot!
D'artagnan,
I am interested that you have read the book. After I finished it last summer, I posted a review at the B & N website. Joe Hayes read my review and wrote me an e-mail, saying that, if I was so taken with Jamie O'Neill's book (he's friendly with O'Neill, it seems,) I might like his own book about South Boston.
I got Joe's book, at last -- orders are slow this time of year -- and read one of the stories, which was quite remarkable. I am eager to get into the other stories. Joe's writing is straightforward and compelling.
Tell me, if you will, how you became interested in At Swim?
I just realized that you are talking about the Flann O'Brien book! So X-out my entire post.
Sorry to go off topic, but for those who don't know already and are interested, pueo finally posted on Misti26's thread Weather or Not?, pages 29 & 30. He's okay, but has left a horrible description of the conditions on Guam.
Aloha Matrix and littlek, I guess a book that would be appropriate at this time would be "Gone with the Wind"
Just got a new Space book from National Geographics press, lots of hubble telescope pics. Just saw LOTR - The Two Towers yesterday, so need to reread the Book II again to get perspective. The movie was great - but, I still think FOTR was better.
Glad to see you haven't lost your sense of humor, pueo!
by golly i am going to read a book someday just so i can post it on here
Hi everyone! I'm reading (very slowly) A Mote in God's Eye - thought I'd read it already.... By Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Also, I'm reading through Asimov's 9 Tomorrows - a colelction of shorts in which he forcasts the future.
