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Darlene M’s last login was Friday, February 4, 2011.
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Haha..thanks! It's been a while. Trust all is going well with you.
You're going to love this:http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/2010/02/16/cutest-photo-of-the-year-so-far/:DNina
That is true, about The Fist of God. I imagine it would have to be updated, because the book was so topical to its time, and had famous people as characters. I wonder if an author has to get permission to use famous living people as plot driving characters in novels. In the case of this particular novel, though, I guess nobody cares what Saddam thought ;-)
And speaking of Watership Down and Traveller, you should add them to your shelf!
BTW, did you finish The Year of the Flood yet? I am curious to see what you think.
I am full of surprises! lol! Actually, I listened to it on cassette years ago, and liked it pretty well. I always thought of it as a little more fantasy than literature, though it seems to fall solidly in the literature section at any book store. I enjoyed it as an epic story, such as The Lord of the Rings. I suppose there is much deeper meaning in there, but it was just enjoying the story for me. I recall I liked the seagull (I think it was a seagull; a sea bird, anyway) best on tape, because the narrator gave him a quirky Russian accent which kept me laughing ;-) I later read Shardik, by the same author, and didn't like it at all. Perhaps it was too allegorical and the meaning was lost on me. Hmmm.
Thanks! Though I don't make much effort online. Here I post in a rough conversational mode. One of the members of a group I belong to jumps all over some of my posts for mistakes or formatting (does he think I'm trying to publish them? :D )Since I'm not a natural writer, when I sit down to write, it comes out more like an outline. Then, over weeks, I rewrite and rewrite ...until hopefully after a few months there is something worthwhile. As to Casper, What a cool cat! I would have loved to wait on the bus stop with him. The bus driver was cool as well. ;D
Check out a story by Reuters on Yahoo News about a cat named Casper
Yes, _Shogun_ was excellent. I also read _Tai Pan_, _Noble House_, and _King Rat_. _Gai-jin_ I didn't finish. I was somewhere between page 100 and 200 and it was still boring, so I gave up on that one. If you haven't read _Tai Pan_, you might try that one which depicts the time when the Hong Kong 99 year lease was signed. Not too long ago I read _Empress Orchid_ by another author. It seems to me it has to be a very fictionalized account of the concubine of a Chinese Emperor in the mid 1800s, but still I enjoyed it. Nina ;D
Love your icon. At one point I liked in your neck of the woods, closer to Charlotte. NinaPS I loved Memoirs of a Geisha
