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Lisa K

Lisa K

I obviously like to read. About 50% of my job entails reading,especially current events and books on the environment. I am a library junkie. My favourite authors are Jared Diamond, Jane Austen, Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould. I also like Margaret Atwood, Alice Munroe, Michael Ondaatje and Geraldine Brooks. As I get older, I much prefer non-fiction.
  • Toronto, ON, Canada
  • member since March 2, 2009

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  • Kelly S

    Kelly S says

    If you found Still Alice interesting, you might be intrigued by The Bird House (Simon & Schuster) which the Library Journal called “a great title for book clubs, and especially fans of Lisa Genova’s Still Alice.”

    Thanks so much – happy to connect on Shelfari if you’re up for it.

    Kelly Simmons

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Gav

    Gav says

    Hey! Welcome to the group All Genres! Please feel free to post to the discussions or start a new one! Please feel free to add books to the shelf. We would love for you to invite your friends to the group. Please note: the calendar for reading the genres and the group rules are located at the top of the page as part of the group description. January Group Reads are: Room by Emma Donoghue, The Road by Cormac McCarthy and The Help by Kathryn Stockett. February Group Reads are: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant and The Other Hand/Little Bee by Chris Cleave. Group reads are voluntary!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Claudia I

    Claudia I says

    PS Realise that the note I just wrote is 'public'. How dull for everyone else! Hmm. Perhaps I'll just email in future.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Claudia I

    Claudia I says

    I guess I'm really not very clever when it comes to using Shelfari cos I've only just picked up your August message with news of camp (and cuts and grazes).
    I'm in a real 'thinking of Canada' phase at the moment. Many reasons. I was sad not to be able to come over this summer (partly money and partly just so many other places to get to know and show the kids). So we ended up going to Scotland, which in many ways reminded me of Canada anyway. And I've just finished reading Canoe Lake (the fact meets fiction account of Tom Thomson's mysterious life and death) and, by coincidence, have been given another book set in Toronto (In the Skin of a Lion). So I'm ever drawn across the Atlantic and SO wish we had the kind of money where we could just pop over for four days and see everybody, but it just isn't so. Humph.
    Trilby has finally started senior school - our local (and exceptionally fabulous) state school, right here in Fulham - and is loving every minute. Both kids are doing a lot of sailing and Trilby's latest plan is to train to become an instructor, as soon as she's old enough. Kind of like being a camp counsellor (but in London?!). And Lachie has decided he wants to go into the hotel business (instead of being a pilot). Meanwhile Philip's weekends are spent madly writing a play he's been commissioned to do by a theatre in Croydon for December-Feb. He is absolutely hating his 'real' job, but sadly, one does not replace the other!! We are all mourning the demise of the summer but kind of looking forward to evenings in front of the fire, board games and comfort food. No, actually, come to think of it, I'd still rather be surfing at the beach!
    Big hugs to all
    And do let us know if your plans ever bring you this way. We'd LOVE to see you
    xxx Claudia
    P.S. Congratulations to you and Matt for grabbing two such lovely 'a deux' weeks of fun, romance and culture over the summer. God, it's been YEARS since we did anything like that. You've inspired me.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • uplandpoet

    uplandpoet says

    Welcome to Better than Starbucks! Look around, make yourself at home, start a new thread or dig up an old one or just read and jump in on the more active ones.

    We are honored to be one of your first groups!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Claudia I

    Claudia I says

    ooh how scrumptious to hear back from you like that!! Cheering to think of you up and at 'em all the way over there as I plunge into the afternoon over here!!
    Yes, well, the Red Tent was a birthday present, and I probably wouldn't be reading it otherwise ... (I was 50 on Monday - eeks - and went to lunch with ten great girlfriends. Most of whom barely knew each other before, but it was such a success that we started a book club there and then, based on the fact that, on my suggestion, they'd all given me books for my birthday. So we're using that as our 'list'!!).
    I see that Red Tent was not your favourite!! It will be interesting to compare notes afterwards.
    I enjoyed Duddy K more than my review suggests cos I love being immersed in a world or time I know little about. I just didn't like Duddy himself very much.
    Really tickled to hear from you. Dashing off to a three hour Photoshop course now. BIG BIG love from this side of the pond.
    xxx C

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • SWR

    SWR says

    My first posting to you. I agree with your thoughts on Three Cups of Tea which I read about a year or two ago and it agrees with my thinking about adult education right now. Educate a woman, educate a family.... I was just starting Greg Mortenson's follow-up book, Stones into Schools to see where the organization is now. See you soon.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Abhi

    Abhi says

    Hi Lisa- Great to read your review on the book Art of Happiness at work...I am also inspired a lot after reading the book. I also have recently visited Dharamshala to know more about life of Buddhist monks. If you come across any such books pls do let me know.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Abhi

    Abhi says

    Hi Lisa- Great to read your review on the book Art of Happiness at work...I am also inspired a lot after reading the book. I also have recently visited Dharamshala to know more about life of Buddhist monks. If you come across any such books pls do let me know.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • ana z

    ana z says

    Btw, it would be wonderful if you could recommend to me any other Canadian authors, besides Ondaatje and Atwood, of who I am a great fan. I live in Serbia and Canadian literature is becoming increasingly popular over here. Thanks in advance.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • ana z

    ana z says

    Thanks for your comments. I appreciate it very much.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Tony Carmine

    Tony Carmine says

    Here is a blurb about my new book—ON THE CREST. Comments welcome: Tige Anderson goes through a series of emotional, physical and psychological adventures in this coming-of-age roller coaster, balancing his life among his romantic trysts, his ambitions, his humanity and his gay best friend. The one thread that connects all of the people in his life is the fact that the cycle of life puts everyone through a series of ups (‘on the crest’) and downs. Whether an individual winds up on top of the wave or under it depends on them. Please let me know if you would like to read the prologue. Tony Carmine.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Ellis K

    Ellis K says

    You should read Sketches!!!!!!!!!!!

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Sierra P

    Sierra P says

    Thanks for your comments. I enjoy the interchange about a book. Especially one as powerful and this.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Sierra P

    Sierra P says

    It has been a year since I read the book and I can still visualize it....the sign of an excellent book; but your comments stirred my memory. Their process of deciding to have a child was disturbing. Did they have the capacity to love a child? The father's love was handled through denial, allowing him to love who he wanted him to be him without dealing with the truth of who he truly was, to the detriment of the little sister. Oh, the little sister, who loved him unconditionally. The mother could see him but....I believe that Kevin's degree of evil was inherent in his being & she struggled to understand. Kevin's pathological thought processes, the havoc and pain they created, the mother watching and trying to understand, formed a book I could not put down.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Sierra P

    Sierra P says

    It say you read We Need To Talk About Kevin. Did you find it as fascinating as I did? It was an incredible journey into the mind of a killer, from birth to the end. Even more fascinating was the journey of the minds of those who lived with him. I don't know that I could say they loved him. Many people will not read the book. I gained insight. I would be interested in your opinion.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )

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