Re: What's Everyone Reading?/Welcome Newbies!

I am reading "The Bride's Kimono" by Sujata Massey.  I do like her books and this is the last one unless she is busily writing away and I hope that she is. 

I read "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" a while back and have it back out to read again.  The poets and writers in the Lake District certainly had an interesting life.  Speaking of the Lake District; it is a most beautiful place and it doesn't rain all the time.  God place to visit and to take a bus and just go where it is going.  Making sure that you can get home.  I find this is an important piece of knowledge that comes in handy.  

Sorry, off topic but I do have a tendency to wander.


Irene 

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
                                            Doris Lessing
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Parisa Khaneghah 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 6:25 PM
  Subject: Re: [bookworm] What's Everyone Reading?/Welcome Newbies!


  Hi,
  'Confessions Of An English Opium Eater' was written in the nineteenth century and in it, Thomas De Quincey talks about his real life drug addiction, the effects it had on him, and the events in his life leading up the to drug abuse. It really is a very interesting read.

  Parisa

  Shalanna <[email protected]> wrote:
    Welcome new members, including those from the Dorothy-L list (hi, 
    Irene!)  I know you'll like what you see.

    At 05:39 PM 5/21/2003 -0400, you wrote:
    >The Importance of Being Earnest is my all time fave play by Oscar Wilde

    Oh, yes!  Mine, too.  It's one of my favorite plays.  We used to do one 
    particular scene when I was in drama class in high school, the one between 
    the two ladies who are both engaged (and they think it's to the same man) 
    and have the cat fight while they're on the train.  We took that scene to 
    all kinds of contests and won trophies.

    I've been saying for a while that Austen was rediscovered, Dickens gets 
    rediscovered by each generation, and then we had a flurry about someone 
    else who went all over PBS and miniseries and so forth (I've forgotten now 
    who it is, but it's a venerable person! you'd recognize from the Classics 
    list).  And I've been saying that next we'd see Oscar Wilde.  I predict a 
    movie or two will come out within the next few years of one of Wilde's 
    major works.  Just wait and see!

    "Confessions Of An English Opium Eater' by Thomas De Quincey

    Now that one sounds interesting.  What was it about (other than the obvious 
    title?)  Is it an older book?

    >I LOVED Little Altars and found it to be superior to Divine Secrets of 
    the Ya-Ya
    >Sisterhood, though it is still a good book.

    I have those on my to-be-read queue (TRQ).  Coincidentally, the working 
    title of the book I'm writing now is _Little Rituals_.  It's about the 
    rituals of life (like greetings, birthdays, everything that you do which is 
    guided by convention and ritual) and how they structure our days, and how 
    one woman realizes they affect her.  Well, it's really about her inner 
    ! journey and growth, but the rituals and polite forms that she recogniz es 
    are everywhere play a role.  I wonder if the editors will think that title 
    is too close?  Could be.  We'll see.  My book is actually Chick Lit, like 
    those Red Dress Ink books but a bit more literary, or so I hope.

    >Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Is this one a mystery?  I'll have to look for it.  I confess that I always 
    check the used book stores in this neighborhood before I buy at full price. 
    . . .

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    _Dulcinea: or Wizardry A-Flute_  (e-mail me 4 excerpt)  ISBN 0-7388-5388-7
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