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Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Always fun to escape into an Austen novel. I've read them all...
Henry James failed to appreciate Jane, and Virginia Woolf's estimate that she lacked realism is mistaken.
I am very much enamored of this English rose and deeply appreciative. :eusa_clap
Pretty Boy.
Autobiography of old style British East End gangster, Roy Shaw(Deceased).
Like most of these gangster autobiography's by so called celebrity criminals, the book is probably 'Ghost written' and it shows. I will probably read it to the end as I finish most books I start but a one word review here is in order. Crap!
Though I still would not like to have met Mr Shaw on a dark night if he knew I wrote this
J
Currently, I'm reading Bag of Bones, a mid 1990s Stephen King I missed first time around. I love King's work - I've read about half of his oeuvre and yet to find one I didn't like. I do beleive he deserves much more respect as a writer, but alas genre authors are rarely afforded the respect they deserve in their lifetime.
This is well said. :eusa_clapAlways fun to escape into an Austen novel.
This is well said. :eusa_clap
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few days ago I went and had my hair cut - and that reminded me of "Bernice Bobs Her Hair".
I've decided to read it again, and started posting chapters on my blog
Biggest problem I find with a lot of those is that they all want to retrospectively recast themselves as being bigger than the Krays, and twice as stylish... I've read a few fascinating books on, by and around the Krays, though. Couple of years ago, I read "Reggie Kray's East End Stories", which was not quite autobiographical (though there was an element of that), but more about people he knew, "East End Characters". The thing that really sticks in my head is that one of Reggie and Ronnie's grandmothers was a teenage girl in the East End in 1888, and remembered well the atmosphere of the area at the height of the Whitechapel Murders. Wouldn't it be something to have her on tape? If only!
I've also got a whole pile of great books that have come in over Christmas to add to my reading pile. Hopefully I'll find the time after I go back to work on Monday....
:thumb:That and "Diamond as Big as The Ritz" are two of my favorite Fitzgerald short stories.
Harp, Woolf said that?
Thomas Pynchon's "Inherent Vice"
"The San Francisco Earthquake" by Max Morgan Witts and Gordon Thomas. Published in 1971, this is an excellent minute-by-minute narrative account of the Great Disaster of 1906.
"The San Francisco Earthquake" by Max Morgan Witts and Gordon Thomas. Published in 1971, this is an excellent minute-by-minute narrative account of the Great Disaster of 1906.
One day in 1972, while walking home from school across the parking lot of an abandoned gas station, I found this book lying there on the gravel -- and I felt a sudden visceral horror at the idea of a book, any book, being left outside at the mercy of the elements. So I picked it up and took it home, and it's been on my shelf ever since -- thru childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, and on into middle age. It was the start of a lifelong habit of bringing home discarded or abandoned books, and I've never forgotten it was the first one. And only now, nearly forty-three years later, am I finally getting around to reading it.