Welcome to bookchat where you can talk about anything...books, plays, essays, and books on tape. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us.
My Guy Noir attempt with apologies to Garrison Keillor:
It was a dark evening and the lonely lady who sat at her computer was bored to tears. The book lover realized that the early morning book talk diary by plf had long ago gone cold and the threads were dead. As she looked out the window, she saw in the light from the garage that snowflakes…snowflurries…were falling already and it was only the second week of October. Too soon! Too soon for snow in the Thumb of Michigan. Determined to reach out to the world, she turned to her computer. Somewhere in Kos Land there must be other book lovers who were night owls. Thus, Bookflurries-Bookchat was born.
It has been a hard year since we lost hubby’s mom and four other friends. Bookflurries every Wednesday helped so much to get me through the hard times. Thank you!
I was given a scholarship for life so I don’t get the ads here and I have been so grateful for that. Whoever gave me that gift…thank you!! It is very much appreciated!!!!
The commenters here do such a great job! I have learned so much and I have a wish list that is huge. Thank you!
To my faithful friends who come by every week, to my past friends who have been absent, but who I hope will duck in again as they are able, to new people, to lurkers who are very kind to read and to rec…A huge THANK YOU!
To writers here at Daily Kos and to writers everywhere, thank you! I love to read and without writers where would I be?
Everyone is welcome here. I treasure the discussions we have. I am glad we don’t all like the same books or authors because what would we talk about?
I am about to choose two more books from my To-Be-Read pile so let me know in the poll which ones I should choose, please.
Have a fun time sharing titles and authors. I enjoy coming back for a few days and seeing that my posters keep talking to each other. That is so cool!!
So which two books should I choose to read next?
Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams by Lyle Leverich (A hat tip to Limelite who mentioned this book earlier).
Middletown, America: One Town’s Passage from Trauma to Hope by Gail Sheehy. I bought this used at the library and it has been sitting on the pile for a long time.
This Hallowed Ground by Bruce Catton. I read the Catton books as a child so a re-read is really needed.
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre. (A hat tip to my friend, Jeanette, who praised this).
The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean by Paul Theroux. I keep looking at this one with itchy fingers. (A hat tip to No Exit and others).
Letters to a Fiction Writer by Frederick Busch. My friend rosamundi used book credit to get me this lovely hardback book. I do need to jump start my writing, too.
Albert of Adelaide by Howard Anderson. A far out fantasy.
Inventing Memory by Anne Harris. A novel.
… Shula is a slave in fabled Sumer---until Inanna, Queen of Heaven, appears before her. Chosen by the Goddess for reasons she cannot begin to fathom, Shula is freed from bondage and set upon an uncertain path toward a new and mysterious destiny. But the attention of the gods is a dangerous thing, and Shula may have cause to regret the day she first laid eyes on the Holy Inanna.
Wendy Chrenko, former high school misfit, is now an overworked graduate student, researching her dissertation "Remnants of Matriarchy in the Ancient Sumerian Inanna Cycle." Still smarting from the painful wounds of a failed love affair, Wendy is bound and determined to prove that men and women once lived together in perfect equality, even if it means volunteering for a bizarre and dangerous scientific experiment.
Separated by millennia, Shula and Wendy appear to be two very different women, leading completely separate lives.
Or maybe not.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A friend gave me this book. I have heard a lot of good things about it.
Cast in Peril in the series Chronicles of Elantra by Michelle Sagara. I have been waiting for this one as I like the series a lot.
Son of Heaven, Chung Kuo 01 (re-release of a series) by David Wingrove. (A hat tip to barbwires).
Wonders of the Invisible World (short stories) by Patricia McKillip
The Tainted City, Book II of The Shattered Sigil by Courtney Schaefer (A hat tip to Ellid)
I accidentally typed “hap tip” and smiled because that is what these tips are for me.
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith. More Precious!
Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce
What is on your TBR pile that you are itching to read?
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