What Are You Reading? Part 2

That thread was way too long.

Pirl, in case no one else has warned you, stay away from Joyce Carol Oates' "We Were the Mulvaneys." It probably would be too painful for you.

No, I have never read anything by Espy, but he certainly sounds appealing.

hahaha, this thread IS alot shorter. I'll repeat my post from Part 1....I'm reading Jean Auel's Shelters of Stone. I cracked it open about 4 months ago and haven't read it since. Its a read in progress. lol

Judy, is that book part of the Clan of the Cavebear series? I loved that book.

Edited because I just noticed that you are a new member. Welcome to DG!

Edited again because I remember now that I met you on your "I'm new here" thread. I'm a little slow sometimes, but eventually I do remember. :)



This message was edited May 3, 2005 10:44 PM

Thank you! Yes, it is the Earth Children Series. I have read, Clan of the Cavebear, Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters and Plains of Passage. You'd think I'd finish Shelters of Stone. lol

Don't worry, I'm slow too, now and then. I think we're entitled. lol I do most of my forgetting when my kids ask for money. Money? What's money! hahahaha

Boy, I'm way behind on that series. I read Clan of the Cavebear and loved it. I just recently bought the movie. I read about half of the Valley of Horses, and I can't remember why I didn't finish it. Most likely because I can't remember where it is. I'm going to put that series on my reading list for next winter. Right after I remember where that list is. LOL I think I need to take some Ginko biloba so I can remember stuff.

Money? That's the green stuff you get when you write a check for cash. LOL Mom has no money? Just write a check. Or better yet, go to the bank and get some. :)

Valley of the Horses was actually my favorite book in that series. I get lost in those books. I love them. Supposedly, Jean Auel is working on another book. What I want to happen is Ayla meeting up with her son Durk again. How fascinating. Creb was my favorite character. I have the movie version of Clan also. Very good, but not near as good as the book. But since when are movies as good as the book. lol

Oh, THATS what money is. By the way, this money tree, does it exist? hahahaha

I know it's not hardy to zone 4. LOL

I need to find the rest of those books. I think I packed them up when we moved and never gave them another though. Has Ayla been gone in all the rest of the books? No, don't tell me, I need to find them and read them. :)

hahahaha, apparently this green foreign plant material is hardy in zone 9a. lol I just haven't found it yet!

Oh man, I was just going to tell you too. Mum's the word! You MUST dig them out. They just keep getting better and better. Ok, now I'm inspired to finish reading Shelters of Stone.

Dinu, I hope you have found the new thread. The Gandhi book sounds fascinating. The cricket book--not so much. I'm afraid I'm completely indifferent to sports of any variety. I was a gymnast in my youth and I'm still resentful of the things I had to do to keep my standing in that community. From conversations with other former athletes and dancers, I have learned that almost all of us share the same anger and disillusionment.

Pirl, another good book on the decline of literacy is John Simons' "Paradigms Lost." He was primarily a film critic, but his criticism consisted mainly of jabs at his fellow critics' grammar. He was terribly pedantic, but he was always right, so his books are fun to read. His own English was impeccable, but that's because he was from Yugoslavia and was particularly wary of sounding like a foreigner.

Zuzu, yes, I know cricket is not that much of a fancy amongst the great majority of our friends here, but am sure people have heard the name of Gandhi. He was a great intellect and one has to read about him to know the real person. He is so down to earth in his writings that one cannot help adoring his almost 'godly' qualities. He led by example and never he wavered. Whenever he did a mistake, he admitted. Whenever he felt he was correct, he fought for it. Those were great attributes.
http://www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/gandhi_experiments.html This is the introduction to his book. http://www.mouthshut.com/product-reviews/My_Experiments_with_Truth_-_M_K_Gandhi-925040751.html some reviews.

Judy - glad to know there is another Clan fan!! I didn't read them, but I listened to them on tape. I used to have quite a long commute every day and it was great passing the time. The narrator was a woman with a British accent. But I couldn't get through the last one though because the narrator was changed to an American and she pronounce all the names different and wasn't a very good narrator. So I read that one. I think.

Anyway, good series. I'll look forward to the next one....

Reading "Hardscrabble Chronicles" now. I hope Clan of the cave bear book was better than the movie. It was kind of like Raquel in One million B.C. Frank

I just finished "The Kite Runner." I was excited to read it, because I'd heard so many good things about it. It certainly lived up to they hype! It was an excellent story and very well written-- highly recommended.