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The book received much praise when it was first published but then died a quiet death; but much like the Cinderella story contained in the book, in an extraordinarily ironic twist of fate the author, Winifred Watson, a year before her death in 2002 at the age of 96, lived to see her book...

Simply dis-GUST-ing .... but I've seen worse *LOL*

Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day by Winifred Watson tells the story of Gunievere Pettigrew, a 40ish spinster who is down on her luck. Her background includes parents who were very straight-laced and proper and she had been raised as a girl to believe that virtually everything that puts a smile on...

Hi Devin ! I am new here too so don't feel you're alone. There are some wonderfully well-read people here and I think you will enjoy their company as I do and benefit from their insights and recommendations.

All of the Fford stories involve living INSIDE the world of books where characters from one book sometimes appear in another. I was harassed into reading The Fourth Bear which was presented as a detective story about Goldilocks (who is a sumptuous blonde) and the Three Bears. The story does...

Having just read and posted a thread on Mann's The Magic Mountain I thought it perhaps appropriate to weigh in on this one as well. Buddenbrooks was indeed everything mentioned in the above, very well-written description. The book opens by plunging us into the lives of the very wealthy, and...

Finished The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg 1924), by Thomas Mann yesterday. This book, as well as Buddenbrooks was instrumental in achieving for Mann the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929. This is quite a tome: my copy weighing in at 900 pages. Part of the reason for this is that Mann, like...

I'm an American and I think they should leave the Man Booker Prize as it is. The U.S.A. does not allow for people outside the U.S.A. to win Pulitzers so why should the Man Booker be made available to us? Perhaps a good compromise would be to allow ALL books from ALL countries to be eligible for...

Definitely T Rex Prefer very hot outdoor temps or very cold? (Not to worry the Velociraptors will eat the muffling stumps .... they'll eat anything.

One cup doesn't do a thing for me. First thing in the morning I make about a half a pot of coffee, drink it, and then say things like ... 'I'M AWAKE!!! I'M AWAKE!!! AND CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHY IS THAT MOSQUITO BUZZING SO LOUDLY???' Once, a long time ago, I was snowbound for a few days...

Howdy Wootton !!!! I will trade you 4" of snow for a month of your denuded-tree-summer-season. Comes with sleet, howling wind, icy streets, and frozen toes at no extra cost .... [8- ) ..... I'm practicing to be a salesman for the time when my boss finally realizes that I'm not worth what I'm...

Why .... pecan ... of course. [:- o ... [:- ) Second only to pumpkin pie smothered in whipped cream Now that I think of it I also like coconut custard pie And and and .... cherry pie with vanilla ice cream

Last thing = Chilli Con Carne Worst thing = braunshweiger (I hate it with every fiber of my being) Worst thing honorable mention = rhubarb pie

I have never maintained that humans have paranormal abilities, only that perhaps after many, many generations of natural selection the day may come when they will. The thrust [that part] of my argument is that science will not examine the possibility that the vestiges of such abilities may be...

Radio waves cannot be observed. They can be artificially monitored through the use of instruments which were developed precisely for the purpose of validating a theory. These instruments were developed because someone took the time and effort to investigate with an open mind. Had they not done...

Oh, I totally agree with you on the point of personal responsibility, but I also believe that we are motivated by primal urges which date back through our development (I do subscribe to the theory of evolution). This does not free us from our responsibility to act in accordance with the laws...

When the first book came out all could think was ~~~Teen Lit ~~~~ UHHHH !!! I expected it to be pretty lame. But then I kept hearing the hype everywhere I went so one day I saw it, (The Hunger Games), in the library on DVD. I figured I'd check it out. After all a movie doesn't take nearly as...

Well, we totally DO agree on this, regardless of our position on evolution... "We have spent the last 50 years making excuses for people's behaviour." - Judge Judy

If you mean The Pirates Of Silicone Valley*, yes. It was originally an HBO TV movie but I own the DVD. It is a great movie. I'm sure you can get it at any rental place or possibly even from the library. Here's the trailer *(there is another movie called just ... The Pirates)

Meadow, Thank you so much for putting me straight on the function of the appendix. I had here-to-fore thought that it was in fact an obsolete organ which was at one time used for the production of enzymes to help break down chlorophyll for digestion dating to the time men consumed leaves like...