Comments on: books I’m reading in 2008

By: nursemyra

nursemyra — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:18:43 +0000

I´m reading something about mothers…..

By: Daisy

Daisy — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:57:41 +0000

Half-way through Isabel Allende’s “The Sum of Our Days” — so funny, sad, gossipy, entertaining, and oh so Latina.

By: nursemyra

nursemyra — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:25:39 +0000

I think you’d like “In Transit” as well

By: Mick Sowry

Mick Sowry — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:58:52 +0000

On being Grumpy… now that sound like my kind of reading.

By: nursemyra

nursemyra — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:01:46 +0000

If you can get your hands on Janet Frame or Robert Drewe, I’d recommend starting with those. I’ve lent someone my copy of The Shark Net but will post it to you when I get it back if you’re interested

By: twin

twin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:57:01 +0000

Damn! I almost always have 3 or 4 books going at once….but always have to take January through April off. (tax season) But….your list….impressive, to say the least. Going to have to check out a few of those.

By: nursemyra

nursemyra — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:46:05 +0000

daisy I think you’d like the library book I started last night - Age of Dissent by Michele Hanson. It’s her columns from The Guardian, about being over 50 and having her 89 year old mother move in with her. hilarious stuff!

By: Daisy

Daisy — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:37:19 +0000

So of course I had to get one or more of those books from the library — those that I hadn’t recommended to you in the first place, that is! I am now up to page 65 of “Cry of the Damaged Man” and he’s absolutely right: a restricted life can reduce gaiety, physical pleasure, imagination — and I only have one painful knee, am not exactly in a body cast. So my mantra now is: “Healing is simply a matter of casting aside restraints, and then accepting those which remain.” Acceptance, adjustment and activity …

By: nursemyra

nursemyra — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:52:33 +0000

hey headbang8, welcome to the gimcrack! have you checked out Renal Failure? he’s hilarious. and tetherdcow is a talented artist and composer in his non-blogging life. you can check out his other stuff at perpetualocean.com

Patrimony is so NOT blokey. not as aussies understand blokey anyway. I loved that book. Also loved Skinned Alive by Edmund White. have you read that?

By: headbang8

headbang8 — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:42:59 +0000

You are the first woman I know of, who liked “Patrimony”. Most find it ponderously blokey.

By the way, that’s a rather electic link list you have assembled at the right. I’ve discovered a couple of gems.