Hi Helen:

Thank you for your welcome.

The E.F. Benson books are new to my library. I''ve been wanting to read his work for some time. I'm half way through Miss Mapp, a delightful book. Perhaps I'll join the group as I progress - and become more familiar with LT.

Yes, our reading interests are similar. I particularly like Angela Thirkell, her novels are witty and observant - hard to find around here though.

Best wishes,
Jayne

Lähettänyt: mrspurdy 9:18 am (EST) Apr 10, 2008

Not a problem! I was getting a little nervous about three books sent from the UK by surface mail, but they showed up eventually, so I know to be patient.

Deborah

Lähettänyt: Cariola 8:27 am (EST) Apr 9, 2008

Excuse this intrusion, but I thought you might like to be made aware of the new E.F.Benson group. Please join - the more the merrier!

Lähettänyt: guyfs 7:30 am (EST) Feb 28, 2008

Hi just introducing myself today because Im a new member learning about LT.. found the home-maker by canfield on your list which made me smile because I have never met anyone else who read that. I remember reading it yrs ago as a young mother and was just enchanted. we have a few books in common but many are the special ones to me

Lähettänyt: kateblu 3:23 pm (EST) Feb 15, 2008

Dear Helen,

The post was fast! So glad you like it!!

Have an excellent weekend!

Cate
xx

Lähettänyt: bleuroses 3:04 pm (EST) Feb 1, 2008

Hello, Miss Read !
Actually, I added some of the books from my " to buy " list : they're under the " to buy list " tag, and I'm afraid The Dud Avocado is one of them, i.e I have yet to buy and read it. I'm doing that to force myself to buy things from my lists and not books which are not on them. I'm completely new to Virago/Persephone/Humour/Obscure British Literature by Women, so I have next to nothing yet but I'm making some significant purchases each month and right now I'm focusing on them ( my copy of Cold Comfort Farm was shipped yesterday by Amazon ).
Thanks for stopping by !

Lähettänyt: Sibylle.Night 6:27 am (EST) Jan 27, 2008

It will go in the post this week!

Enjoy!

Cate

Lähettänyt: bleuroses 6:36 pm (EST) Jan 23, 2008

Dear Helen,

I have a few more duplicate Viragos to 'mooch' but, as I always seem to think of you
whenever I come across the 'Miss Read' series in the bookshop, I thought I'd check
your library first. I noticed that you don't have Kay Boyle's "Year Before Last".

If you're interested, I'll be happy to post it. Just say the word and it's yours!!

Kind regards,
Cate

Lähettänyt: bleuroses 9:44 pm (EST) Jan 21, 2008

I lived in various places: Gano Street, Angel Street, Carrington Avenue, and Bel Air Avenue. I left Providence in 1990, but my little sister moved there about ten years ago to work as a social worker. She lives in North Providence. If you were there until '03, I'm sure we must have passed on the street at some point! So, now you're in Wales? I wanted to visit Wales while we were in England last year; I often wanted to escape to a place where people wouldn't always be laughing at my "ginger" hair!

Lähettänyt: rbhardy3rd 2:33 pm (EST) Jan 16, 2008

Delighted you like it. I seem not to have managed the secret aspect of being a Secret Santa very well.
Tom

Lähettänyt: tomroper 10:30 am (EST) Dec 20, 2007

Helen - just read your review (on your LJ site) and felt compelled to write and say how much I agree with you. There was some lovely writing, scene setting etc but as a whole book it was unsatisfying. An interesting take on Biju but I think you are right. Having read a wide range of Bookers I was disappointed. BTW I am juliette07 on LT !

Lähettänyt: juliette07 3:55 am (EST) Dec 20, 2007

I noticed your name on the secret santa page today. Miss read is one of my favorite authors. i checked the books we have in common, but didn't have time to look at your whole library. Please check out the works by D. E. Stevenson - she fits your wish list requirements to a "t". (the books are out of print - i hope you have access to a library that hasn't culled their books from the 40's, 50's and 60's)

Lähettänyt: jrbeach 10:09 am (EST) Dec 10, 2007

Hi
Did you take the name "Miss Read" from the author of the books about Thrush Green, a village in England? Everytime I see your name, I wonder. I used to work in our local library & the Miss Read books were very popular with a group of upper-middle class women who were probably born in the 1930's, perhaps 1940's. We didn't have all of her books. However, British women writers have been very popular. There was another series, the "My friends--"can't remember the author's name, but she was from Scotland. Now, in my old age, I am discovering British authors. It started with the Ellis Peters mysteries (tho I'm not a mystery reader) but she's such a good writer & Wilkie Collins, DuMauier, my mind grows blank== Edna O'Brien, Anita Brookner, Elspeth Huxley, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark , well a whole new world. I've never been to the British Isles, I'm too old & disabled now to leave Ohio (not that I want to leave) but I'm discovering a last, late pleasure & I appreciate it.
MarianV.

Lähettänyt: MarianV 8:44 pm (EST) Nov 28, 2007

Hi Helen, I think you are probably right, his system would only work properly if other people did the same thing. Also if other peole catalogued only one book per author, it would have to be the same book too. The thing that I have most enjoyed about cataloguing books myself, is getting recommendations for books in genres that I enjoy, that I would probably never have otherwise thought of.

Regards, Giselle

Lähettänyt: BlueEyedRascal 7:24 am (EST) Sep 3, 2007

Thankyou for the explanation, I hadn't looked in enough depth to realise what your decade tags actually meant,I had at first glance assumed it was the decade in which the books were written. I'm afraid my own tags are terribly dull but might be useful to others looking for reading ideas in a particular genre. My husband also LibraryThings, his ID is craic4hal. He has had the interesting idea of only cataloguing one book per author, no matter how many books that he has read by that author, as he feels this makes his overlaps with other people more meaningful. Sorry, probably haven't explained that very well! :)

Happy reading, Giselle

Lähettänyt: BlueEyedRascal 12:43 pm (EST) Aug 29, 2007

Hello & thankyou for the welcome! I added you to my interesting libraries as you have a wide collection of children's literature & your tags for decades make searching your library both interesting & easy. I'm always on the lookout for long-forgotten childhood favourites of mine & peeking into other people's libraries is a great way to rediscover them!

Regards, Giselle

Lähettänyt: BlueEyedRascal 8:13 am (EST) Aug 28, 2007

Rather than respond to last week's topic thread, I thought I'd post here regarding Joanne Harris's "Blackberry Wine." Overall I enjoyed the book, but I selected it specifically because I really wanted to read something rather sappy but not quite grounded in reality, which is how I tend to categorize her books. At first I found the talking wine bottles both annoying and amusing, but since we've been on a wine buying kick recently in my house, I decided to just go with the flow (literally and metaphorically). I definitely believe one needs to want to read works by Joanne Harris to have the patience and openness to enjoy them, hence why I read her infrequently: I *always* want to enjoy what I'm reading, regardless of my mood or patience level!

Lähettänyt: grkmwk 1:28 pm (EST) Aug 27, 2007

Hello!

Our similar taste in "driving songs" (isn't that a fun thread?) made me check out your library. Wow. It's going to take me some time to work through all this. May I add you to my interesting libraries?

Anne

Lähettänyt: amancine 11:15 am (EST) Aug 22, 2007

Hi Helen

You're right, it was the perfect job but I couldn't make enough money to justify the time and expense of running the site. I had 8,000 cookbooks on it from the UK, Australia and New Zealand. I didn't hold any stock, just forwarded my orders to a distributor in each of those countries. My mark-up was the difference between the distributor's price and my selling price. Unfortunately I couldn't compete with amazon's massive discounts so I never got the volume sales I needed to make it profitable. I loved doing it though and the site was great - I had three sample recipes from a lot of the books, nice search features, but not enough sales. I did get sent lots of books by publishers though so there was one compensation.

We've been in the US eight years - living outside Boston. I love it here and we're probably going to stay for ever. I do enjoy coming home to visit (we were there for 19 days in June/July) but the weather (it rained almost every day), the traffic and the expense of everything would put me off returning. I did come back with a huge box of books - both my parents are retired and work at different charity bookshops so they have my wishlist (about 100 books long) and pick me up for pennies anything they find. I then also had to buy a few books by authors I thought I might not find in the US. So my piles next to my bed are even more out of control. LT isn't helping to reduce the piles either.

Jane

Lähettänyt: janeekelly 2:53 pm (EST) Aug 16, 2007

Hi Helen

I'm delighted that you added my library. My collection of cookbooks is partly my own collecting and partly books I was sent by publishers when I had a website selling cookbooks. I still buy new ones, even though I can't really justify it - I just try to be a bit more discriminating.

As you can maybe tell from my books (both cooking and fiction) I'm a Brit who now lives in the US. I still try to buy cookbooks by Brits in the UK as I much prefer weighing ingredients to measuring them out in cups.

Our libraries have some similarities though only one favourite author in common, Ian McEwan. I haven't listed very many so far - I'm really only listing my absolute top faves.

Stay in touch!
Jane

Lähettänyt: janeekelly 4:14 pm (EST) Aug 14, 2007

Hi on this very hot day -

I'd meant to comment earlier on your very lucid and balanced review of the Rachel Trezise. She has just published another book, non-fiction this time, on her travels with a pop group. A friend, who I passed the book onto thought it was very well written - but found a few stories enough before she to passed it on. I'm normally fairly balanced in my response to books - and feel that I over reacted to the Trezise - I'm getting old, clearly.

During July I've been reading the Richard Ford trilogy, 'The Sportswriter', 'Independence Day' - and lastly 'The lay of the Land'. I should finish this last one next week. Initially I found Frank Bascombe quite difficult - but the penny (cent) dropped half way through the second instalment 'Independence Day'. I'm finding the last volume the best of all - I shall miss Frank's Bascombe's take on life - but I've just realised that's not true - it'll add another skin to my own onion self!

Best,

Peter

Lähettänyt: peterbrown 10:31 am (EST) Aug 5, 2007

Hello, thanks for asking me to be your friend! I'm enjoying looking through your library.

Lähettänyt: tara35 4:29 pm (EST) Aug 3, 2007

thanks (on both accounts)! I look forward to perusing your library for women authors..i only have two, and have really only ever read literature by two! a bit sad, i know.

Lähettänyt: GypsyDale 4:15 pm (EST) Jul 31, 2007

Hi Helen

Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries list. I'm looking forward to having a look through your catalogue.

Can you recommend any female Welsh writers?

Charlotte

Lähettänyt: charbutton 1:40 pm (EST) Jul 30, 2007

Helen, good to find a PG Wodehouse fan.

I think I will use this new friendship to prompt a change in tack - in the last few months have been focusing on literature and on holocaust books. The latest of these is 'Sophie's Choice'. Perhaps time to switch to some fun - humour and entertainment. I will pick up a PG Wodehouse.

I did see the Hugh Laurie book - did the two page read test and put it back down. It was not my fare - and as you can see I have thousands of others to read.

I also love Sarah Waters writing - she is a natural storyteller. Any other favs???

Karen

Lähettänyt: kiwidoc 5:26 pm (EST) Jul 29, 2007

Helen -just took a look at some of your reviews which were very interesting. Commonality + ??

I also love The Secret River, Saki, Du Maurier, etc.

Have received The Caryles at Home and now inspired to read it.

Will avoid the Hugh Laurie book - which sounds like a letdown.

Nice to meet someone who enjoys the humour in books - have you read any P,G, Wodehouse??

Cheers,
Karen

Lähettänyt: kiwidoc 11:22 am (EST) Jul 29, 2007

Hello again Helen,

Thanks for inviting me to be 'your friend' - it is such flattery!!!

Nice to connect with like minded readers and great to have the tip about the groups - will undoubtedly end up with more books in the piles waiting. Cheers. Karen

Lähettänyt: kiwidoc 10:02 am (EST) Jul 29, 2007

Indeed! I think a lot of people are not using 'Favorite Authors' yet, it was not available in the beginning. Glad you like Hijuelos in far-away Wales, part of why I like him is because I grew up in the neighborhoods he writes about and I get a very strong sense of 'Dejavu' when I read him.

Denton

Lähettänyt: denton 10:54 am (EST) Jul 28, 2007

I think it must be this:
Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution by Randal Keynes. At least I can't find anything else relating to his daughters. My brain must've turned the memory of it into a plural! There is more about it here (sorry if I haven't put the link in properly):

http://www.aboutdarwin.com/literature/Re...

Lähettänyt: artymiss 4:12 pm (EST) Jul 27, 2007

Thank you!

I saw a book on Darwin's daughters a while ago, can't remember the details, and very stupidly left it on the shelf. It had gone when I went back. Boo.

I've enjoyed reading your reviews. I too am partial to Saki.

Lähettänyt: artymiss 2:39 pm (EST) Jul 27, 2007

I found them in a charity shop last year. I read them as a child and love the illustrations in them. I see you have one of my favourite books - Period Piece.

Lähettänyt: artymiss 1:13 pm (EST) Jul 27, 2007

Hi Helen,

Thanks for the note.

I just recently discovered Persophone books from a group on LT and ordered two immediately. 'The Carlyles at Home. and 'The Montana Stories'. Both sitting patiently on my TBR pile.

I will certainly look at the two groups mentioned. I love the two I received.

Nice to hear from you.

Karen

Lähettänyt: kiwidoc 12:29 pm (EST) Jul 27, 2007

Thank you for adding me to your interesting libraries list. I'm very flattered. Life's been a little hectic and I haven't had time for browsing on LT recently, so haven't quite got round to getting to grips with all these new features.

I never caught up to find out how your trip to the Hay festival was. Did you do lots of buying? And whom did you enjoy most? I am off to Hay again in a few weeks. This time I plan to actually get a bit more bookshopping in. Last time I spent so much time at the festival I never managed anything else! A L Kennedy was one of my highlights, as was Tony Benn!

Lähettänyt: finebalance 12:30 pm (EST) Jul 25, 2007

I have never been to Hill Top or England, for that matter. It is a dream of mine to visit there someday. I have the book "At Home With Beatrix Potter," which shows Hill Top inside and out. I can see why she loved it so. Have you ever been there?

Lähettänyt: cozynestcottage 12:11 pm (EST) Jul 20, 2007

I have been a huge Potter fan for many years. Have you seen the "Miss Potter" film starring Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor and Emily Watson? It's quite charming.

Lähettänyt: cozynestcottage 3:58 pm (EST) Jul 19, 2007

Thanks for the comment. Your library is wonderful! I see many titles that are on my wish list. I'm sorry to say I haven't read Period Piece by Gwen Raverat. I will put it on top of my to be read next pile. I am currently enjoying Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear, Grace (Eventually by Anne Lamott and The Cape Ann by Faith Sullivan.
-Kat

Lähettänyt: cozynestcottage 6:33 pm (EST) Jul 18, 2007

Hello again - I've just been looking at your very interesting review and 'conversational' snippets re. Jem Poster. A couple of questions: Have you read the first part of this Victorian tale: 'Courting Shadows'? I note it's not in your library list (yet?). I finished it a couple of weeks ago and was very impressed - just as much as with 'Rifling paradise'. I was struck by the similarity of parts of the subject matter (a fairly quick descent into atavism) with J L Carr's 'A month in the country' (& also William Golding's 'The Spire').

I note that you were at the Hay Festival and I wondered if you went to Jem Poster's talk? Apart from being interested in what he said I wondered if he said anything about a third volume in this fascinating exploration of Victorian Values via his C20th lens?

My friend was unable to complete the Rachel Tresize - however she did think it very well written.

Lähettänyt: peterbrown 12:26 pm (EST) Jul 3, 2007

miss_read, how lovely to spend the weekend at the Hay festival! Does it get very crowded? Of course, to be surrounded by other bookish people would be a treat.

I am currently reading Boris Akunin's Death of Achilles (have read the first 3 of the Erast Fandorin series and truly enjoyed them) and it is off to a good start. You will enjoy it, certainly. In the US, so far only the first 4 Fandorin books are released. Apparently there are 11 in Russia, so we have many more to look forward to.

Lähettänyt: bookladykm 10:08 am (EST) May 30, 2007

Miss_read, leave me a few books to buy! And have a great time. I'm very jealous of you're getting to hear David Mitchell and Kiren Desai. We also have a full schedule - including in our case Tony Benn. I wonder what he'll have to say about Gordon Brown?! I look forward to comparing notes...

Lähettänyt: finebalance 7:34 am (EST) May 23, 2007

Miss-read, I shall be sorry to miss you at Hay, but hope you have a wonderful time over the bank holiday weekend. I look forward to reading about what you buy, and hopefully hearing a bit about what you see as well. I seem to have booked far too many things (I'm there from Wednesday onwards). I always get over excited when the programme arrives, and then remember afterwards, that I want time to trawl the bookshops as well....

Alison

Lähettänyt: finebalance 2:13 am (EST) May 21, 2007

Yes you are quite right I think - taken all together is just too much - one at a time over a few weeks would be better - actually 'Chickens' stands out as the one not in quite the same despond as the others -let me know eventually.

My favourite short story collection this year so far has been David Constantine's 'Under the Dam' - not all brilliant - but always good and 2 or 3 were outstanding. Favourite short story this year was Alice Munro's very first one 'Walker Brothers Cowboy' - the first story in 'Dance of the happy Shades' - so good I couldn't go on to the next. Something about the short stories that really work well do so in an almost magical way - sleight of hand - you're not quite sure how the author did it!

Happy reading, Peter.

Lähettänyt: peterbrown 6:06 pm (EST) May 13, 2007

I started reading the "rachel trezise" at lunch time yesterday - and finished it just now - lunch time today. Ah ha - because it was so enjoyable I just couldn't put it down? No I just wanted to get the experience over with. I'm afraid this collection did nothing for me at all. Yes it raised a smile, every so often, but the relentless 'lostness' of all souls got me down - young people mired in a slough of despond. Comparisons to James Joyce are ridiculous - and Peter Florence's "Laugh-out-loud funny" must be irony - this was a deeply sad portrayal of a generation destroyed!

Sorry if this puts you off - I'll be passing the collection on - so you may be the only copy! Very interested to know what you think. Peter.

Lähettänyt: peterbrown 8:07 am (EST) May 13, 2007

re your comments on "a wrinkle in time" -- l'engle:

i didnt know it was a children's book. i enjoyed it as a 64-year-old mugwump, hermetic male and it was quite a discovery! i plan on reading more of her. what i wanted to tell you, having been there (1960s) and having written about it (A Candle in the Rain -- Panther Press, 1990). No. they did not say "jeepers" in the 1960s or "dames." That is 1950s language, which I also wrote about (Another World; Another Time -- Panther Press, 2005). In the 1960s they would have said "groovy" or "far out" for the former, and "birds" or "chicks" for the latter.

Lähettänyt: andyray 11:23 am (EST) May 11, 2007

Ooh, I love your library, too. Even just looking at the children's, you have the Orphelines, and Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, and Alison Uttley books that aren't Traveller in Time. Sweet!

When I was little, my mum bought me the Queen Who Came to Tea and the Silver Jubilee colorforms set. It was awesome.

Lähettänyt: jadelennox 11:31 pm (EST) May 8, 2007

Ethan Frome "tie-in" edition is just a Signet (I think) version that has the movie poster on the cover to "tie-in" with the theatrical release from ten or twelve years ago.

Lähettänyt: ccase 7:12 pm (EST) May 8, 2007

You're welcome. I hope you're going to continue with author pictures. There's so many of them and really only a few of us working on getting them. Good hunting!

Lähettänyt: alibrarian 11:31 am (EST) May 6, 2007

Hi, thanks for your welcome - I will look out for the Persephone group. Miss Pettigrew is marvellous and right up there with my favourite comfort reads - like The Pursuit of Love and the Diary of a Provincial Lady.

Lähettänyt: catalpa 7:25 am (EST) May 6, 2007

Hi,

Sorry it took a few days to reply. Finding author pictures that LT can use can be a problem. It's been a learning curve for me after a lot of early mistakes. LT users can use a picture as long as it's either public domain (out of copyright) or with permission. Any picture on the web (whether or not anyone claims copyright) has an implicit copyright. What you have to do is figure out what the status of the picture is.

I've mined a bunch of sites that are pretty much public domain (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division; National Archives and Records Administration; etc.) But even there you have to check the information they provide to make sure there are no restrictions on use of the individual picture.

Flickr has been a good source for people. The pictures posted there include a license status. Many Flickr users allow others to use their photos and put that information up front. If the Flickr users say it's a share alike status and don't forbid commercial use, you can use the picture. Just pay attention to the credit to the photographer (always a good idea whether or not they put that in as a condition of use)

LT is a commercial operation. This blocks us from using pictures only available for non-commercial use (unfortunately a lot of pictures on Flickr). It also blocks us from claiming "fair use" like Wikipedia. A commercial use (LT) is almost always automatically outside the "fair use" boundaries. "Fair use" is a legal concept defined in the copyright law and almost always only allows personal use or educational use. The "fairness" is not to us, but to the copyright holder.

But Wikipedia is another good source for pictures. You just have to click on the picture and check the license to see if it is usable by LT. However Wikipedia is also notorious for badly documented pictures. Their users frequently make claims that are not true if you doublecheck the source they cite.

There are pictures on the web that are in themselves probably public domain for the original picture. Anything created or published before 1923 is usually public domain in the US. But museums, art galleries, and libraries will still forbid use of their digital images of pre-1923 pictures or photos (National Portrait Gallery, London; New York Public Digital Libary; etc.) You have to check their terms of use usually linked on the first webpage. But there are some museums and libraries that will allow you to use the pictures (University of Texas was an early case we discovered). Read their fine print.

Having said all that, you can always ask for permission. When you find a picture, there is usually someplace on the website that says something about the copyright and use status. Current pictures are almost always under copyright. But you can ask for permission to use the picture. The website usually has a contact link.

Author websites are actually pretty good in this way. I've used the basic LT permission letter available in the green box on the right of the LT page when you click on add picture on an author page. Some people don't respond, but the overwhelming majority do and give permission (It's publicity for them and I don't think they see LT as a real commercial danger to them. We're only illustrating the author page, not selling t-shirts and mugs with their pictures)

You can ask in other situations. I just ran into some nice pictures on Flickr but the photographer did not allow commercial use. I e-mailed him and he gave me permission to use any of his pictures on LT as long as he was credited and I inserted his website URL. I've found that photographers, authors, and even at times publishers, are often glad to give permission and even go to lengths to help.

Basic drill I guess is: Find picture; Check for license or copyright status; If missing or not for use, look for contact; Ask for permission

If you have any particular question that I missed or mangled above, let me know.

Lähettänyt: alibrarian 12:43 pm (EST) May 5, 2007

I've received in the post today 'The Daphne Du Maurier Companion', Virago [2007] published last Friday. This reprints Sally Beauman's afterword with a large number of other critical essays of which five deal directly with Rebecca - this would be better value than buying the Virago edition - though your local library would obviously be able to provide either.

I have the Sall Beauman sequel reserved as a talking book so will let you know.

Lähettänyt: peterbrown 12:59 pm (EST) May 2, 2007

Hey, thanks for the compliment !

The particular Capote story moved me a lot for some reason and started a lifelong love (uh, well, I'm only 23 now, hehheh) for chameleons for me. I've been planning to have a tattoo of Truman with some art nouveau-style chameleons on my arm but I haven't found a suitable picture yet. I think the famous Other Voices, Other Rooms promo shot (where Capote is lying on a couch) is divine but might be a bit too hard for a tattoo artist to copy.
I have a small Oscar Wilde tattoo on the back of my neck, it's pretty cool too.

Lähettänyt: MusicForChameleons 10:23 am (EST) May 2, 2007

Hi,
I've always believed that there is no such thing as too much Wodehouse. With Benson I've never go much further than the Mapp and Lucia stories. Funny to see from the list of books we share that we both have The Diary of a Nobody in both Penguin and Folio Society editions. Probably for the same reason - it's exactly the sort of book where you feel it's worth getting a nicer edition when one comes along.

Lähettänyt: thorold 7:15 am (EST) May 2, 2007

Oh dear it's also on my pile(s) of books to read - I'll read it next, let you know and post a review.

I've read your review of 'Rebecca' - I was inspired to read it last week by an article in the Observer a couple of weeks ago. I only knew the story from the Hitchcock adaptation. The new(ish) Virago edition has an excellent introduction by Sally Beauman which picks up on some of your points - I note you have an earlier edition. Apparently Du Maurier was 'aware' of the writings of Freud and Jung. I'm still thinking about 'Rebecca' and have yet to resolve my conflicting feelings about the characters - all damaged in a variety of ways. I felt an intellectual and emotional conflict in my reading of the text - I was partly picking up on the Maxim de Winter/Bluebeard parallel in as much as I somehow wanted Maxim & the new Mrs de Winter to win through [a Jane Eyre reading] but intellectually aware that Du Maurier was pointing up the utter sterility of their relationship - the subject matter for the first two chapters.

Great book for a reading group!

Lähettänyt: peterbrown 5:55 pm (EST) May 1, 2007

Hi miss-read!

I'm not part of the "Brits" group so I couldn't make a post - however, I thought I'd drop you a line about the Hay Festival....don't forget to wear LT buttons!

Recently, at the NYC Persephone Tea, aluvalibri, suge and I proudly wore our buttons and didn't we meet two more LTers....rec and jillmwo! It was so much fun!

Many of us will be thinking of all you Brits enjoying the Hay...give us an update when you get back!

Lähettänyt: bleuroses 11:23 am (EST) May 1, 2007

Thank you for your welcome, I am about half way through listing my books on this site. I see you also have some of my favourite authors: Margery Allingham, Jerome K. Jerome, P. G. Wodehouse, Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey, etc. I especially enjoy well-written books from the first half of the 20th century.

Lähettänyt: hinkley 1:08 pm (EST) Apr 13, 2007

Hi! Thanks so much for your welcome -- I only just discovered LT recently, and am still finding my way around (being "cyber-challenged"), but already I'm completely hooked.

Yes, I think Sedaris is terrific -- not too long ago I had the chance to see him speak in Cleveland, and I don't think I have ever laughed so much in my life. What an amazing talent!

Wow -- you have a wonderful collection of British literature! Great inspiration for me, as I hope to keep expanding my library in that area! :-)

Lähettänyt: pmowrey 8:39 am (EST) Apr 13, 2007