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Wow louiseog, I am impressed with the number of books that you read. How many do you normally read in a year. Hmmm, I don't remember seeing any Pratchett on you list, or did I miss them as I sped through.

Rumor has it that we may have another convert to Terry Pratchett. I hear via the grapevine that perhaps "poppy" may be reading a Pratchett book. If true, I wonder which book she is reading.

Reminds me of Charles Russell...........put er down Charlie before she's gone. the great western painter.

Stop that!!!! Care for a little glass or two or three of wine.

I do recommend that y'all give "Ten days That Shook The World" a try. Like I mentioned, it was a long time ago that I read the book but do still remember that it was very good. Dogmatix, I see that Nabokov mentioned you on page 39 in speak, Memory.

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I had the "$12.99 Valminor - Albarino White Spain" with dinner last night and was dissapointed. It is OK but the similar in style "Nora" wine is much better.

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: