I finally read A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. Everyone kept telling me to read it - I don't know why it took so long. It's beautiful. So beautiful I wrote a blog post about it. (About it and other books we have sitting on our shelves we keep meaning to read.)
I finally read A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. Everyone kept telling me to read it - I don't know why it took so long. It's beautiful. So beautiful I wrote a blog post about it. (About it and other books we have sitting on our shelves we keep meaning to read.)
Yes, there's a wonderful satisfaction to it, when everything ties up at the end. I have read it two or three times but not in years, so that will come off my shelf again soon.
my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
I finally read A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. Everyone kept telling me to read it - I don't know why it took so long. It's beautiful. So beautiful I wrote a blog post about it. (About it and other books we have sitting on our shelves we keep meaning to read.)
"So Anyway", John Cleese's autobiography (or at least, his first autobiography - he has made it clear he is writing another volume, as this one apparently ends just as the Pythons get going). I got a signed copy last night when I went to a reading/interview with Cleese. He's doing a brief US tour prior to his UK tour, so some of you might get a chance to catch him, too. Amusing but not hysterical so far.
my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
there's some great stuff in there.......along with a whole bunch of shitty bands!
If I had known then what I know now...
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Russo is one of my all time favorite authors. Bridge of Sighs is a bit more challenging than most of his others.
If I had known then what I know now...
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
only a couple of chapters in, but.......wow. powerful.
If I had known then what I know now...
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
only a couple of chapters in, but.......wow. powerful.
Very good book. Intense. The author lives nearby and offers memoir-writing classes. I would love to try this sometime, but my schedule never seems to work out for it to happen.
Just started this but I dont know about reading cover to cover. Looks like a sweet 'browser' while I get into something else. Cannot read a book this size in bed before I conk out at night...if I drop it on my face as I doze off it will leave a mark. If I let us fall to the floor it could ruin the beautiful art inside its pages...and there is no room for it on my nightstand. )
Just started "The Billionaire Wins The Game" on my kindle...my first kindle book...I was so excited when I DLed it last night, I know I'm a dork! lol
I completely share your kindle enthusiasm.
I just finished Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. A great book about what life might be like if a pandemic wipes out about 99% of the population; despite that, it's not gory or graphic, as most of the action happens years later. Highly recommended.
my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
Well, The Bachelor Wins The Game was good, The Bachelor's Dance was the next in the series and was OK, it was almost a carbon copy of the first....up until the end then it had a bit of a different ending...now I'll read the rest of the series anyway because I'm invested....lol but I have to wait til I can get it from the prime library next month sooooo...
I just started "Rest For The Wicked" by Cate Dean...it's a supernatural/fantasy type book, not a romance novel, so it's from my favorite genre...
Music is my Religion and Pearl Jam, my Savior! Tattooed Dissident!
2005 - London
2009 - Toronto
2010 - Buffalo
2011 - Toronto 1&2
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
2014 - Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit
2016 - Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Ottawa, Toronto 1 2018 - Fenway 1&2 2022 - Hamilton, Toronto 2023 - Chicago 1&2 2024 - Las Vegas 1&2
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http://mybookclubforone.blogspot.com/2014/10/that-book-sitting-on-your-shelf_26.html
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
only a couple of chapters in, but.......wow. powerful.
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Fantasy books about great houses fighting with both brute and brain in feudal times.
After this I want to read "In the Kingdom of Ice" which is the true account of a failed expedition to the article circle in the 1800's
I've read about 150 pages and love it so far.
Just started this but I dont know about reading cover to cover. Looks like a sweet 'browser' while I get into something else. Cannot read a book this size in bed before I conk out at night...if I drop it on my face as I doze off it will leave a mark. If I let us fall to the floor it could ruin the beautiful art inside its pages...and there is no room for it on my nightstand.
Pretty amazing piece of work!
I just started The Drop by Dennis Lehane, which was recommended by one of my best friends.
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Chicago-07
E.V. Milwaukee-08
Chicago 1 & 2-09
Alpine Valley 1 & 2-11
Wrigley-13
St. Paul-14
Milwaukee-14
Denver-22
St. Paul 1 & 2 - 23
Tattooed Dissident!
I just finished Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. A great book about what life might be like if a pandemic wipes out about 99% of the population; despite that, it's not gory or graphic, as most of the action happens years later. Highly recommended.
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned...
I AM MINE
I just started "Rest For The Wicked" by Cate Dean...it's a supernatural/fantasy type book, not a romance novel, so it's from my favorite genre...
Tattooed Dissident!
2009 - Toronto
2010 - Buffalo
2011 - Toronto 1&2
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
2014 - Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit
2016 - Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Ottawa, Toronto 1
2018 - Fenway 1&2
2022 - Hamilton, Toronto
2023 - Chicago 1&2
2024 - Las Vegas 1&2
And most of this on the way back....slow at times but some of his stories are touching and others are about touching. I love Bob Saget.
under the tuscan sun - frances mayes
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say