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Miriam Q

Miriam Q

I'm a writer, a cat lover (this is a picture of my cat Dumpling), movie lover and reader. I love British fiction, Booker Prize winners, contemporary American and Canadian novels, literature by Indian, Chinese and Japanese writers (in English). I also like to vary my reading with some mysteries and fantasy. I'm a young(ish) widow raising two kids... more »
  • MN, USA
  • member since March 14 2008

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  • Emeraldeyes

    Emeraldeyes says

    She appears quite elegant and regal in her photo. How old is she?

    posted 5 hours ago. ( send a note )
  • Emeraldeyes

    Emeraldeyes says

    Dumpling is gorgeous!

    posted 13 hours ago. ( send a note )
  • Daisy Barksby-Pryce

    Daisy Barksby-Pryce says

    Happy Thanksgiving! Eat lots of pie (even if it ISN'T strawberry rhubarb!) ; D

    posted 3 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    A very happy Thanksgiving to you, Penny, dear.

    posted 3 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Denis L

    Denis L says

    Hello Penny, my dear, I'm so pleased we are chums. I can see Cookie is a rather distinguished looking fellow. Riley is also a splendid fellow. On the Darnhem estate we have young Daggers, a scrappy little chap, but very young much to learn. But then, don't we all.
    More anon my dear
    Daggers

    posted 10 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Denis L

    Denis L says

    Rather liked Bleak House. Reading Christmas stories by himself right now, they sound much better idf read outloud with a glass of port in hand.
    Best
    Daggers

    posted 11 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    Rigaud was, though, apparently based on a real French murderer, who was reportedly even more flamboyant than our Rigaud Lagnier Blandois. It's an oddly constructed novel; it speeds up and slows down tremendously at different points; some of its people (Wade, Tattycoram, Rigaud, even Mrs. Clennam) seem somehow misplaced in the narrative, or created to work out plot difficulties; the novel as a whole is a shade less assured than "Bleak House" or "Our Mutual Friend": a little less sure, I think, of what it's trying to say. I did like it very much, though, and if Miss Wade is a small psychological failure, Mr. Dorrit is a magnificent success. And I love Flora.

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    I finished, and I couldn't say with any certainty what Tattycoram's trouble is; I think Miss Wade's part of the story sticks out oddly anyway; are we just meant to assume they both have "unhappy dispositions"?

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • bulphan

    bulphan says

    Good luck with the books. Most of my reading is in the thriller/mystery/crime/suspense area - I enjoy the puzzles too!

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • bulphan

    bulphan says

    Greetings Shelfari friend!

    Haven't been around much recently, too busy with life!

    How are things with you?

    Read anything good recently?

    I'm on my 75th book so far this year!

    Hope all is well...

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • JudithAnn

    JudithAnn says

    Hi Miriam, didn't realise it was a series. I bought the book cheaply at a bookfair, and didn't investigate it any further. Luckily, the library has both books you mention so I'll read them in order. Thanks for the tip!

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • JudithAnn

    JudithAnn says

    Hi Miriam, How are you? Just checking your shelf and saw that you'd just finished The Last temptation. I bought it recently, so wondered what you thought of it. Should I move it to the top of my pile?

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    I've been held up a bit, and haven't read much yesterday or today, but I will say that LD will be hard pressed to outdo "Bleak House" in the number of subplots and minor characters.

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    No, I haven't seen the BBC miniseries, but oddly enough I had already cast a black actress as Tattycoram in my mind's eye as I was reading, before you told me that. Maybe it's because I don't yet see what's bothering the poor child -- though I have vague ideas -- and I'm making up provisional reasons for her to feel isolated; it's instant stereotyping, I guess. But you're right, so far there's nothing to suggest it in the text, and I can't see Dickens failing to make something like that explicit.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    Didn't you read Little Dorrit earlier this year, Penny? I've just started -- or actually, I'm about one-third of the way in. Mrs. Affery's dreams have been all I've thought about these last two days: I can't for the life of me imagine what's going on!

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

    Halie says

    I want thank you for your kind comment on the "age" post. It really made my day!

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    Yes, and ditto with the reading blitz.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    (faints with relief)

    I think that Gerald Durrell was my first love; I remember reading The Bafut Beagles that summer, utterly entranced. I thought he was in his 20s still.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    I really am morified at the misunderstanding. I honestly didn't mean to sound snide, I was laughing at myself !

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )


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