lunababymoonchild

Thank you

Thank you 😃

My latest Bargello wall hanging. The hanging cord was lucetted - not done that in a long time!

Lovely

Soon I will move book blogs marked 2023 to Past Book Blogs.

To accompany The City of Mirrors, I’m reading The Godfather, Mario Puzo

I’ve never heard that one. Brilliant.

Anybody?

I intend to move all book blogs marked 2024 into Past Book Blogs in the near future. So if your blog disappears that will be where it is. Any questions, don’t hesitate to ask

The City of Mirrors, Justin Cronin. Third in the trilogy called The Passage and about vampires, mostly

I’m opening voting for the second group read. As I recall, we had ‘time’ nominated from part one, to possibly carry over, and ‘discovery’ is a new nomination for part two. Any other nominations?

Abandoned The Sun Also Rises. The only other Hemingway that I've read (when I was a teenager) is The Old Man and the Sea and although I did finish it I did not see any symbolism in it. The Sun Also Rises is going straight past me too so moving on to Master Humphrey's Clock by Charles Dickens.

Windswept and Interesting, My Autobiography, Billy Connolly. I grew up listening and watching Billy Connolly and I thought that I knew everything. Clearly not. I did not know, for example, that he didn't write things down before he went on. I knew he rambled a bit but I was too busy laughing to think about it. He dictated this book into his phone and his daughters transcribed it for publication so it's Billy's voice that I heard as I read. What a life he's had! Recommended.

Currently reading The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

I’ve always loved Bagpuss! I loved the others you mentioned too but, like you, don’t remember Noggin the Nog. Didn’t know that about Bagpuss

If it doesn’t breach copyright quoting here. For that matter, where did you get the quote in the first place ? Do yer own research, I say

Completed The Winter List, S G Maclean

Currently reading Windswept and Interesting, Billy Connolly

Hello Nicolas and welcome to the forum. Asking for help with research is against the rules - found here : Rules Perhaps if you bought/borrowed the book you could look it up yourself, otherwise I don’t see how anybody could help you. Unless the post is intended to incite argument (good luck with that) Your friendly moderator

Reading The Winter List, S G MacLean

The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham. Starts with a quote: “Lift not the painted veil which those who live call life” From the sonnet Lift Not The Painted Veil Which Those Who Live by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Which is very beautiful and pretty much the story that Maugham wrote. Maugham states that his story was inspired by the lines that Dante wrote and then quotes and translates them but doesn’t say from which work. This, as I expected, is very well written. It’s also extremely compelling. It’s the life story of the central character, a woman, who makes three life changing mistakes early on in her life, while she’s still very young and how she copes with them, learning as she goes. The book does not end at the end of her life but the reader gets the impression that she will fare well as she goes forward. Maugham’s insights into her character and thought processes are stunning. It doesn’t give a time in history when it’s written but it does describe debutantes and the position of women (who are expected to make a ‘good marriage’ and have children and nothing more, amongst the wealthy). At the end, the main character realises what her parent’s marriage was like from their point of view and the constraints that they were under at the time, despite their wealth. This isn’t a long book - 107 pages, my copy - but Maugham makes his point eloquently without being too brief. His insights into all of the characters at the time period they occupy are acute and, seem to me, to be accurate. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommended it.

Would love that, if you have time.

Thank you @Brian. I appreciate that. I have Wolf Hall in paperback. When I read it at first, when it came out, I had no idea what was going on. The TV series is very good, no problem following that. As for Billy Connolly, I grew up listening to him and knew that he started out in folk music with Gerry Rafferty as The Humble-Bums. I just wondered what his book would be like. I’ll probably read this.

Hi and welcome to the forum

Currently reading History of Vampires by Future Publishing (they say it’s a book-a-zine)