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« Reply #585 on: April 17, 2012, 11:04:46 PM » |
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So proud of my parents' former neighbor and good friend who is nominated for a literature prize in Denmark for her novel "Brigitte's War." It is semi-autobiographical and her first novel.
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« Reply #586 on: April 18, 2012, 10:13:58 AM » |
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Congratulations for your friend, TLLK!  My book club has decided that next month we will be reading a book that has been adapted for the big screen. Any obscure suggestions please? |
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“The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.”
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« Reply #587 on: April 20, 2012, 02:55:53 PM » |
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Congratulations for your friend, TLLK! My book club has decided that next month we will be reading a book that has been adapted for the big screen. Any obscure suggestions please? A few months ago I read Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. It is a beautifully written book. The themes of the book delve into issues of class, culture, World War Two politics, and even to a degree the fall of aristocracy. The book has been adapted into the big screen. And had Emma Thompson had one of the leading roles. I also remember that Hugh Grant also had a minor role. I saw the film many years ago, although it was different to the book, it was excellent. |
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« Reply #588 on: April 20, 2012, 03:52:41 PM » |
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Congratulations for your friend, TLLK! My book club has decided that next month we will be reading a book that has been adapted for the big screen. Any obscure suggestions please? I read P.S. I Love you a couple of years before it was made into a movie I cried my eyes out reading the book and the movie just ruined it for me!!  |
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« Reply #589 on: April 20, 2012, 03:58:35 PM » |
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Anyone read the "50 Shades of Grey" triology? My friends are obsessed with the series and I was informed that I absolutely must read them as soon as possible. Downloaded the first one but haven't had a chance to tackle it yet.
I've read it's Twilight fanfic so if you liked that series you may like the adult version. I hadn't heard it was Twiligt fanfic. I'm only about 40 pages into it but so far everyone is human. I can see the resemblance between the relationship tho, powerful elusive gorgeous man attracted to innocent plain Jane. It's not a literary masterpiece that's for sure. So far the author has used the words "flushed" or "blushing" for what seems like the millionth time.  No sparkly boyfriend with a a private island. Must be boring!!??  |
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« Reply #590 on: April 20, 2012, 06:43:17 PM » |
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Thanks Paddy and winx for the suggestions. Although I've already read both of them!  I cried when I read "P.S." so I don't think I could go through that again. "The Remains of the Day" is a definite contender though.  |
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« Reply #591 on: April 20, 2012, 09:13:45 PM » |
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Congratulations for your friend, TLLK! My book club has decided that next month we will be reading a book that has been adapted for the big screen. Any obscure suggestions please? Thank you! She's in her early 80's now and really enjoying the response from the book. She was invited to speak yesterday at one of the synagogues in Napa, CA where she still lives. She was honored as a righteous Gentile for her work with the Danish resistance when she was a young teen in Denmark during WWII. |
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« Reply #592 on: April 22, 2012, 02:41:21 PM » |
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Congratulations for your friend, TLLK! My book club has decided that next month we will be reading a book that has been adapted for the big screen. Any obscure suggestions please? Thank you! She's in her early 80's now and really enjoying the response from the book. She was invited to speak yesterday at one of the synagogues in Napa, CA where she still lives. She was honored as a righteous Gentile for her work with the Danish resistance when she was a young teen in Denmark during WWII. What a lovely story, TLLK.  It just goes to show that you can never be too old to embark on a new career. In your friends becoming a author. It also sounds like a very interesting story. Is your friends book in English or Danish ? Or both ? |
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« Reply #593 on: May 03, 2012, 10:45:10 PM » |
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Congratulations for your friend, TLLK! My book club has decided that next month we will be reading a book that has been adapted for the big screen. Any obscure suggestions please? I hope it's not to late : Divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood from Rebecca Wells Pigs in Heaven ; The Bean Trees from Barbara Kingslover. |
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« Reply #594 on: May 03, 2012, 10:52:42 PM » |
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Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage by Huge Brewster about the Titanic's first class passengers and their world this passage on page 268 was stunning, considering the times we live in, a century later  "America and the world were changing. Deference for wealth and privilege was on the wane, and the Gilded Age excess was out of fashion---for the time being at least. Labor unrest, suffragette marches, waves of immigrants---all were harbingers of a modern world struggling to be born. |
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"I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies." Pietro Aretino
I would rather be hated for something I am, than loved for something I am not. -Bob Marley
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« Reply #595 on: May 04, 2012, 10:23:28 AM » |
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Congratulations for your friend, TLLK! My book club has decided that next month we will be reading a book that has been adapted for the big screen. Any obscure suggestions please? I hope it's not to late : Divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood from Rebecca Wells Pigs in Heaven ; The Bean Trees from Barbara Kingslover. It is a little as we seem to be going for "The Hunger Games". Thanks for the suggestions. I'll keep them in mind for next time! |
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« Reply #596 on: June 28, 2012, 11:21:55 PM » |
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Anybody here into audio books? I found librivox.org and they have recordings of many classics for free download. Being a Jane Austen fan, I downloaded some like P&P, Sense & Sensibility etc. There is a dramatized P&P recording that is umm... interesting...Ugh! The reader who read Caroline Bingley is awful!!! I think (my IMO) she's of Russian or Eastern European origin and as you can imagine, this does not bode well for someone reading an English classic! She has Caroline's snobbish attitude right, but her voice, and the recording itself is just  Mr Colins is hilarious in the recording( idiotic and self-important as in the book), and so is Wickam( the voice is ver funny). My favorite characters so far in this version when it comes to the readers are Jane, Lizzy, Bingly & Mr Bennet. I guess when you do public recordings by volunteers , you'll get such kind of problems (quality of the recording, accents etc) Luckily, librivox has a fantastic P&P version by Karen Savage . She's also read Sense. |
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“Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold” Mark Twain
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Ghandi.
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« Reply #599 on: July 04, 2012, 08:09:36 PM » |
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Thanks Geta!  I know about audioooks.com, the quality of some of their free downloads is terrible. I have an audible account which I am yet to use. Regarding the dramatized librivox recording of Pride & Prejudice, I finished listening to it. I really enjoyed the parts with Eliza & Lady Catherine + the offer from Darcy scene as well as the letter. The last chapters with Darcy's visit after Lady Catherines had been to see Lizzy are also fantastic. The readers who voiced Darcy & Eliza got it perfectly. Jane was also perfect, but at times the quality was poor due to echoes.I hated Mrs Gardners voice. I find the mix of different accents(American, suppossedly English etc) distracting. For pure comic relief, Mr Colins & Wickam are perfect(tho I dnt think that Wickam was intended to be a funny character) |
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