Yes, I've just started it. I was hoping to take it on my trip and my library copy is hardcover, so I'm hesitating. Maybe I'll buy my own copy while I'm in...
I pick up my copy today. I read it in college, but, of course, reading something for pleasure is always a different experience. Frank T <XTONTOX@...>...
Get out your maps of Paris so you can follow along the footsteps of our correspondent. And make sure you have a bottle of wine handy so he doesn't have to...
Karen: There's an idea - a book club for banned or challenged books. I don't think we'd have enough time to get through all of them. Chas ... and ... Huck ...
... I am finding that I am extremely fond of this book. I know I read it many years ago, but it is hitting a different cord now. His rambling around the many...
I will be in New Jersey the first half of the month but should still have some access to the network and I'll be back home for the last two weeks so I will...
I will have similar problems in June with computer access as we are moving to Queensland, the Sunshine State, but will try. I would like to nominate: David...
Welcome Deborah, I too am finding the people he talks about fascinating, and definitely want to learn more about Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. FrankT ... it ...
I just finished Mark Twain yesterday. I have three small kids and a full time job, so finding quiet time to escape to the Mississpi isn't easy. I am really...
I nominate Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz . Summary from The New York Times: Palace Walk is the greatest novel of Naguib Mahfouz, the Noble Prize winner for...
I nominate Edith Wharton's Old New York (1924). Summary: Old New York, published in 1924, includes four novellas which Wharton planned as a collection. The...
I nominate Henry James' "Portrait of a Lady," a book I already have in my possession and would love to read with others. I offer this from Mary Whipple, a...
I am also finding this book delightful. I find it very interesting that Hemingway has removed himself from all of the sights and sounds he writes about, to...
My first post-- hello everyone :) I'm in the middle of _A Moveable Feast_ and greatly enjoying it-- I've loved Hemingway since I was a teen even as he has gone...
How about The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. It's a small novel, but quite interesting reading. Here's the review from Barnes and Noble. Annotation Described...
... I suspect it must be... Alice Toklas started living with Stein by 1910... As much as you can trust the Wikipedia, it notes: "Ernest Hemingway describes how...
The nominees are: Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal David Golderby Irene Némirovsky Hadji Murat - by Leo Tolstoy The...
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