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Leslie E

Leslie E

I've been a reader lifelong and can't imagine a world without books. The joy of curling up with a book and going where the author takes me--there's nothing like it. Many of the books on my shelf I read years ago and I probably couldn't put together an intelligent discussion about them. I just remember the emotional wallop that each gave me,... more »
  • Silver Spring, MD
  • member since January 18 2008

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  • jane v

    jane v says

    Dear Leslie, Whoops. Forgot to ask you...do you like "The Guernsey"? And sorry, I see you already added the Kingsolver. I have to look at people's pages BEFORE I ask them questions! Best, jane

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • jane v

    jane v says

    Hi Leslie. Glad you liked the Atwood. I knew those hymns would get you! This past week I have read "Await your Reply" by Dan Chaon, which I liked but is very dark, "Her Fearful Symmetry" by Audrey Niffenberger, which is a bit pedestrian for my taste, and "Empire Falls" by Richard Russo. I want to read "Lit" by Mary Karr too, all this time I thought it was Literature but I think it is slang for being under the influenece of alcohol, ha!Also want to read the new Barbara Kingsolver, do you like her?

    Aren't you headed out of the country soon? All is well in my little town, the leaves are amazing! Thanks for staying in touch, for some reason I haven't been dropping by Shelfari as much. I feel lucky to have met you, though! Best, jane

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Dave M

    Dave M says

    PS--Loved Doris Kearns Goodwin's Wait 'Till Next Year.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Dave M

    Dave M says

    I love your opening sentence about trying to imagine a world without books. You didn't like the Great Gatsby as much as me, I can see. I just started The Year of the Flood and like it so far. At any rate, have a great day. Dave

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • jane v

    jane v says

    Hi Leslie! You will love "The Year of the Flood" I am sure.....There is a good article about it in "The New York Review of Books" by Diane Johnson that analyzes Atwood's previous work, if you can find it you'd love that too. Atwood has hymns she created from the Gardeners, a religious group in the book....and on the book tour they are played, and she has an actor protraying one of the characters, Adam One. Seh has a gift for changing the literary game. If she comes to the Bay Area, I think I must go!

    Do you think you would like "Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel about Cromwell? I think I may get that one next, been reading about it a lot.

    Funny, I was just half dreaming about the alley behind my house when I was a child - a child's world can be so vast and yet so small.I can still see it so clearly! I fantasized about visiting that little town again (literarily named Red Lion after a pub that was there) and decided against it, my psyche can't take it, ha!

    Are you going to read "Empire Falls?" I like Russo, not his last two so much...I am going to read it again with the group.

    Glad you are back and talk to you soon!

    Best, Jane

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
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    The Artist FKA Hoopidy Fly Pimp Mac Daddy Re-Kleiner O-19er Coming In For A Landing Boy He's A Hella Fresh Taco Bell Connoisseur says

    EMPIRE FALLS!!! Come back to the club!!! Hooray!!!

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  • The Artist FKA Hoopidy Fly Pimp Mac Daddy Re-Kleiner O-19er Coming In For A Landing Boy He's A Hella Fresh Taco Bell Connoisseur

    The Artist FKA Hoopidy Fly Pimp Mac Daddy Re-Kleiner O-19er Coming In For A Landing Boy He's A Hella Fresh Taco Bell Connoisseur says

    EMPIRE FALLS!!! Come back to the club!!! Hooray!!!

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  • Madhurima

    Madhurima says

    Hi Leslie,

    I'm sorry couldn't reply back earlier, as usual reasons being nearly the same :(

    But the monsoons are just over, and the festivities are also nearly complete- I was fairly occupied all this time. Is it winter already at your side?

    I'll try out the book you mentioned, sounds interesting, thanks! So what's new on your reading list now?

    I've started reading "Life on the Mississipi" by Mark Twain. Should have read it a lot earlier, I suppose, but better late than never :)

    Hope you are doing well. Take care and keep writing!

    Regards,
    Madhurima

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • jane v

    jane v says

    Hi Leslie, did you like Divisidero? I like Ondaatjie but haven't tried that one out.....I used to drive down the street is SF every day, so I will have to check it out.

    You and Jim have been on a Roth kick, sounds good.....I loved the one about Lindbergh being President, that alternate reality one, sorry, forgot the name! It was a great read.

    I am holding out for Atwood's newest at the moment. I love the Ghost Road Trilogy also. What is the one you are most dying to read right now?

    On a personal note, Italy sounds great, and I love that you are taking lItalian essons. March isn't very far away, really......lucky you.

    Hope things are good with you.......all the best, Jane

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • James K

    James K says

    That's ok.

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • jane v

    jane v says

    Hi Leslie, thanks for the welcome back! I'll be writing more soon, I hope.....best, Jane

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jim H

    Jim H says

    Well, I don't quite know how to rate Indignation. It was a fast read and an interesting read. It had momentum. But in the two novels by Roth that I've read lately -- the other being Everyman -- Roth does an awful lot of kvetching.

    What do you think?

    Also, I noticed that you rated The March three stars. What about it did you not like as well as the other Doctorow novels that you've read?

    Jim

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jim H

    Jim H says

    Leslie,

    I'm twenty pages from finishing Indignation,, and I don't know how it's going to end. I think I will go ahead and read Exit Ghost while I'm at it, since you mentioned it.

    I'm glad you enjoyed the Ghost Road trilogy. I wouldn't mind reading them again.

    I am reading The March, by Doctorow. Although it's well written, I haven't found it compelling, hence the recent diversion with Indignation. I'm also plodding through Tumult and Silence at Second Creek. After hearing it alluded to in Truth, by Ellen Douglas, I got it through inter-library loan, but can read it only in the Georgia Room at the central library, so have been going there several times a week and reading a few pages (when I'm not nodding off to sleep).

    Yes, I think I will check out To Siberia in the next several days and start reading it. We've had a cold snap.

    Good to hear from you. Hope you have a pleasant trip.

    Jim

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  • Jim H

    Jim H says

    Not yet. Was just getting into The March, then got waylaid by an urge to read poetry.

    Jim : )

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  • Jim H

    Jim H says

    I see you are reading Regeneration. I really enjoyed that one, and the other two in the trilogy (Eye in the Door and Ghost Road).

    Jim H

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    The Artist FKA Hoopidy Fly Pimp Mac Daddy Re-Kleiner O-19er Coming In For A Landing Boy He's A Hella Fresh Taco Bell Connoisseur says

    Leslie,

    Thanks for the note. I will definitely check that book out (I am still on my "sabatical" - a neverending desire to devour civil war/reconstruction era history, esp. as it relates to emancipation and civil rights.)

    Sorry to hear about your mother. I wish you and her all the best.

    Talk soon,

    Matt

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jim H

    Jim H says

    Hi, Leslie.

    Yes, the new Doctorow book sounds interesting. I heard a blurb about it on NPR the other week. Interesting that we both recently added a Peter Taylor novel to our bookshelves. Didn't Summons to Memphis win the Pulitzer? And, no, I haven't read anything by him.

    All is well. We've finally gotten some decent rain, and it's turned cooler. Looking forward to September. Let me know (eventually--no hurry) which of the stories in My Father's Tears are your favorites. I loved Personal Archaeology. I rank that one up there with Interpreter of Maladies (by Lahiri; such a beautiful story).

    I too want to read some early Updike stories (probably Pigeon Feathers) soon.

    Good to hear from you.

    Jim

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Madhurima

    Madhurima says

    Hello Leslie,

    I'm back again after a long gap. How've you been. and everyone else in your family?
    My work is as usual, but I am getting to do some reading in between anyway. i 've started out with Harry Potter books, I was only watching the movies till now.

    I picked up Twilight quite late myself, I wasn't sure if I'd enjoy reading fantasies. but it wasn't bad. So you must've read quite a few books... which ones did you particularly like?

    Our festival season's hardly a month away, so everywhere people are busy with the arrangements. So there's a lot of shopping to do for friends and family, and a bit for myself too :) But presently the monsoon is in full force here, so the preparations will pick up pace once the intensity of the rains decrease a bit...

    Do let me know what's up on your side...

    Take care and keep writing..

    regards,
    Madhurima

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Audiodoc

    Audiodoc says

    No I didnt know I could do this from FB. I used this to do my 15 fav books.. and figured while I was here I would update LOL

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
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    The Artist FKA Hoopidy Fly Pimp Mac Daddy Re-Kleiner O-19er Coming In For A Landing Boy He's A Hella Fresh Taco Bell Connoisseur says

    Still chugging through "In Hovering Flight." It started to lose me when they were all sitting around the cottage talking with Lou about her abortions... but I am happy to say I am enjoying it again. Definitely not something I would have picked up on my own, but I like the storytelling (not a huge fan of the dialogue) and the building of the story through the many different layers of the characters relationships.

    I don't like the word "visceral" that much anymore, however. I am sure it was done knowingly and for an artful purpose but I just find it to be repetitive and desire to purchase the author a thesaurus.

    I love the bird references (last one was to the american bittern - which i first saw in NJ before a business meeting when I stopped off at a local NWR). I also like the references to the Jersey shore and laughed at the comments about Cape May (by cynical Addie) of being the disneyland of the NJ Shore (or something like that) as I am planning a trip there in October with my wife.

    All in all, I am looking forward to finishing the book as my TBR list is growing and I can tell that I am not all that into it since I haven't had to urge to read it (until today - I like the part I am at). How about you?

    And, thanks for the note on "Tree of Smoke." I will look forward to reading that when I am ready to dive into another large book.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )


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