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I have a couple bottles in my cellar. i enjoyed the wine.

Yes, i am interested. Please let us know how you enjoyed the wine. I assume it is a red wine since it has a ruby color. it sounds a bit unusual for a red to have tastes of vanilla and coconut.

You have good taste. Congratulations. Let us know how you enjoy the book, perhaps in the Jasper Fforde topic.

My wife read The French Lieutenant's Woman years ago and enjoyed the book. We just donated it to the library along with 176 other books.

We sometimes vacation in Bar Harbor, Maine and usually dine several times at this restaurant. The food is excellent. Check the menu, prices are in U.S. $$$ of course. http://www.barharborinn.com/menu.html

I'm not familiar with it. Is this the one you mean? Link Yes, that is the book. I thoroughly enjoyed the book although it has been many years since I read it. This is the Amazon.com review: Amazon.com The situation in St. Petersburg was growing more and more tense. The People's Revolution had begun by overthrowing the corrupt Tsarist regime in March 1917, but the workers and the peasants felt the revolution had much farther to go. Tired of fighting a war that meant little to them, the soldiers also grew restless: "When the land belongs to the peasants, and the factories to the workers, and the power to the Soviets, then we'll know we have something to fight for, and we'll fight for it!" Lenin pressed the Bolsheviks to seize power. On the night of October 24, an organized mass of workers, soldiers, peasants, and sailors stormed the Winter Palace. On the following day, at the opening of the second Congress of Soviets, Trotsky announced the overthrow of the provisional government. Counterrevolutionary forces marched on the capital, but the Revolutionary Army triumphed. After all, "[t]his was their battle, for their world; the officers in command were elected by them. For the moment that incoherent multiple will was one will." In Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed tells the story of Red October and the Russian revolution from a unique, firsthand perspective. Reed, an American journalist, was on assignment in Russia for The Masses--then the principal radical journal in the United States--and spent his days walking the streets, reading and collecting handbills, newspapers, and posters, and talking to people. As a result, Ten Days crackles with energetic immediacy. At its best moments it reads like a novel: Reed recounts conversations and arguments, details political machinations, and speculates on personal motives. Though this is no mere piece of propaganda, Reed's enthusiasm for the revolution infuses the text (some readers may be put off by Reed's florid prose), casting each counterrevolutionary act in a negative light. Helpful notes flesh out the background for those less familiar with the preceding events and render this a solid work of history. Ten Days That Shook the World is a stirring account of a stirring event. --Sunny Delaney

This reminds me, did any of you read the book "Ten Days That Shook The World". I forgot the author but remember that it was a great book that I enjoyed and I think I still have the book.

To the basement with you. And you would laugh. I just knew it.

dogmatix, Go back and re-read everything. I am just starting chapter two and you are ahead of me already. :oops:

Favoritism, favoritism!!!! Michelle gives you a gentle nudge while she always gives me a swift kick in the butt.

One thing I have noticed while reading the book is that Nabokov's mother was a very perceptive woman. Everyone seems to talk about Nabokov and his father but the mother seems to be quite a woman, at least from the little that i have read so far.

I sometimes use http://www.epicurious.com/ and they have a recipe box for storing recipes you like.

Thanks Sarahrob and Maureen.

Go slow now. I don't want to be the one to turn out the lights.

OK, what in the world is all this stuff: And also this stuff:

What??? You don't enjoy wine. Only kidding. It sounds like you really didn't like that book.

And now pontalba has me reading an autobiography. :oops:

Keep posting y'all. I am through the intro and about a dozen pages into the book. I do enjoy reading the posts even though I am not up to speed.

I really enjoy the wines from Spain. Both the reds and whites. Oh heck, I enjoy wines from all over the world. Try some of the Spanish wines from the Tempranillo grape.

Yes, I did mean that I probably will be out of comission for a while during and after the move in November. And for the nomination of books that are newly released, I will bow to Michelle's recommendation.

Lisey's Story by Stephen King will be released late October. If I am still around I would like to nominate it as a book for the Reading Circle in November.

I have the Vintage International Edition dated 1989. It is from the library which brings up a problem. I will have to return the book probably while the discussion is going on and will not be able to refer to the book. Oh yeah, another potential problem. What if I don't like the book.

The great yearly wine sale at my favorite store for buying wines does not start until, I think, October 16th. The store itself is little more than a hole-in-the-wall. However, it is one of the greatest sellers of wine in Washington, DC and has good wine experts. The prices are usually very good, especially when buying wines on sale that week. The exception, for some reason, is the Nora wine which has the highest price of any store that I buy from. I always do my shopping on their website and then stop in at the store and the wine is ready for pick-up. I usually only buy what is on sale, with exceptions of course. http://www.wineaccess.com/store/calvertwoodley/shop.html

John Grisham and Stephen King are going to appear together at a fund raising event for one of our politicians in our small town. They are both going to talk and take questions from the audience. I will pass on the event as the least expensive tickets are $100 each, although it is for a good cause.