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Don't leave without me! I'm getting a copy of Madame Bovary through Bookmooch and hope it comes before the discussion is over. I like Bookmooch and always have plenty of points, but some exchangers are slow. That's one reason I would like to have our BOMC choices well ahead of time.

Too bad other posters can't be as sensitive to your feelings as you are to theirs. Try a little kindness now and then. You may get a reaction to that.

Most of what we believe cannot be proved. Science has faith in the regularity and order of physical laws. Yet, you cannot "prove" that the laws of physics are operative throughout the universe. Or they they won't change tomorrow. Or that what you perceive as laws are not totally random events...

The only authors I have any experience with are Elizabeth Peters and Patricia Cornwell. Peters is good and has written several series, the best being the Egyptian archaeologist couple who solve crimes and have adventures, both ancient and modern. Children of the Storm may be from that series...

Why not choose two or three books and then schedule them so we know what's coming for several months ahead?

You already have the general plot: you are a blind man in your home and someone is stalking you. That plot also contains the themes as you put yourself in the skin of that blind person and react. Are you helpless? Afraid? Maybe your blindness has made you hyper-aware and confident of your other...

Russians? How about Fathers and Sons by Turgenev. I also recommend Villette by Charlotte Bronte.

As soon as you use gender references to God - "he, him, his" - you are defining God as male. If God is a spirit, the spirit is neither male nor female or both male and female or totally unrelated to our concepts of sex. All these discussions run into the sand because the God I do or do not...

Thank you, Stewart. I read the review with interest. I'm going to dance with Powell to the music of time. Let's hope I can keep stepping for the entire 12 books.

After my disappointing with Proust and his lost time, I recently came upon a volume of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. The Dance is a set of 12 related novels set in England from before WWI through WWII. I started in the middle with #6. Now I am going back to the beginning and am...

A variation would be invented stories about how the classics came to me, like the account of Mark Twain stealing Huck Finn from the Danes. But in standard English, please! The other stuff is so hard to read. I, Charlotte Bronte, had an affair with that school master in Brussels. Sorry, I...

Re the page numbers, how you do them depends somewhat on what program you are using,. Usually you insert them, choosing a location and a starting number and the program increments from there. In many programs you can design a graphic frame within which the page number increments.

I'm on for Madame Bovary in April. Here are some suggestions for books to discuss in the future: Charles Dickens, Hard Times A. S. Byatt, Possession (the book not the movie) Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Doran Gray Sinclair Lewis...

I love old magazine covers, especially the older ones - Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal - from the time when the cover size was larger than 8.5 x 11. Thanks for the link.

The "tight little island" is bigger than you think. I have traveled there several times. My best literary experience was going to Haworth, the home of the Bronte's. We stayed in a little hotel just around the corner from the Bronte house. Since we arrived in the late afternoon, the tours were...

I used to drive hundreds of miles to assignments, much of it on the New Jersey Turnpike and recorded books were my reward. Some I got from the local library and some I rented from a company called Books on Tape. (This was before MP3 players and downloaded books.) I learned to avoid abridged...

In the diverse world of literature you are going to find all kinds of sentences, just as in the world of music, you find all kinds of tones and rhythms. Almost any are useful or effective in the right situation, a disaster in others. I suggest you read examples by the great masters in...

Thank you for your positive report. You early users are a big help to people like me who hang back until the price comes down, as I'm sure it will.

Best so far and a real surprize: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. This is a novel set in Nigeria as it comes under colonialism. This is a disaster for traditional tribal ways which the author described firmly, not sentimentally at all.