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My first kiss from a boy was at the airport and I turned around and ran for the bathroom in embarressment... If you were an author, what book would you write?

This seems to be a complex way of saying that we each bring what we are (who we are - the things and events that shaped us to the thing we are) to each thing we read whether it is a story, novel, newspaper article or poem, etc. It further says that there are as many interpretations to each...

I agree about the flowers being a substitute for love. I feel sorry for all these people. They are poor and have very human failings but they all long for a better world with love and beauty. I think that is why Gertrude is so angry. In her mind, she had another life planned for herself. When...

Stewart - I went right to Barnes and Nobles.com then to Amazon to check out The Scarlet Gospels as I had not heard of it. It is listed as an import and not available to the USA at this point. I will be very curious to know what you think. It makes me crazy to not be able to get a new book by a...

Sturdier is a good way to speak about Library binding books. The paper and boards are just... well... sturdier. It seems strange they would be sending out marketing about Library bound books (unless they have an overstock - ). Those books are generally targeted towarde libraries and schools who...

The woman with the pink velvet poppies twined round the assisted gold of her hair traversed the crowded room at an interesting gait combining a skip with a sidle, and clutched the lean arm of her host. The Best of Dorothy Parker - Arrangement in Black and White

I vote for Uncle Tom's Cabin. I have always planned on reading it. It would be good to have an opportunity to discuss it as well.

My pet peeves: sitting at a stop light next to a car which has music so loud that I can hear it through the vibrations it makes in my car... pedestrians who strole very slowly across an intersection. We have all seen them. It becomes a power play to see how long they can make us sit in our...

Hi, I haven't participated yet in the book discussion but am looking forward to participating. I wasn't familiar with this month's book and did not have a copy of it so decided to wait til the next one. This book group is definately on my "to do" list. I have wanted to find something like this...

From the list that Robert posted, I suggest: 1. Uncle Tom's Cabin 2. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination Make that my vote. :flowers:

Well, so far... I am leaning toward: Wild Nights - Joyce Carol Oates Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriett Beecher Stowe Madwoman in the Attic by Gilbert and Gubar In that order. :flowers:

Weeelll, I am older (I hate to admitt that!) than you at any rate. I am 54 and I think granny was just being human. It is possible that one of the things Life teaches is that it is best to just give folks a break. We never really know what motivates folks. Experience has shown me that if you err...

I don't think the grandmother was selfish... but she was very self absorbed. She is the center of her world, her son's world and her daughter in-law's. She was not the center of her grandchildren's world. I think O'Connor was telling us that the next generation will be entirely different from...

How about Joyce Carol Oates' newest book released in April, Wild Things. I have enjoyed many of her books plus this one is fiction about the lives of great authors. It should be very good. Synopsis below: Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Clemens ("Mark Twain"), Henry James, Ernest...

I agree, a woman author would be great. I would enjoy anything by Flannery O'Connor as I have just read her Complete Stories and really enjoyed them. She would not be a bore, that's for sure. :innocent:

I think I have read everything King has written with the exception of The Dark Tower series. I have this thing about westerns... hate them. I guess it is from the old westerns that used to run all weekend long when I was a kid (in the 50s and60s). I just have not been able to imagine getting...

I am with silverseason and we should definately add Uncle Tom's Cabin in as the next one. That would take care of four months. I have two copies of Uncle Tom's Cabin. One is the first European edition 1852 and the other is an Easton Press edition, so I am ready to go on that one. I have been...

I am currently reading A Feast of Snakes which is very good. It has lots of local color. I recognize folks I knew back in the South in some of the characters. He writes from experience, obviously, as he is from rural Georgia. The book is a relatively short read and he is spot on with his...

I am in Georgia (in the US South) the day before the annual rattlesnake hunt wondering at the age of 22 how my life turned out so crappy and fondly remembering having public sex with the lost love of my life. reading "A Feast of Snakes" by Harry Crews

After finding a few typos in a book I always start thinking about highlighting them and sending them to the publisher with a letter telling them that people notice and we expect much more of them than they demonstrated. I found a really weird series of sentences in an Arthur C. Clark book...