That sounds wonderful, Jean! All the times I've been to NYC I have YET to get in the Morgan, it's always on my list, I'd like to read about it.
SHRIEK!!!!! Say not so! Are you serious? Peter Pan is dead? How can that be?!!!! Nobody made cream doughnuts like they did, nobody. I can't believe they quit the bakery. Well that saves me taking a cooler the next time I go to NJ.
I always thought it was strange they added the gift shop hahahaa I guess bakeries don't do that well tho you had to fight people to get inside, I hate that. Another old memory gone. Dadgum it! That's depressing!
Cub Fan, let us know if you even like Birmingham, I think Ella actually got him to attend a Bookfest of ours, that is he was willing but I think it was too far, I think he lives out of Chicago now. I used to love his books but I used to love Revolutionary Road and Richard Yates, too. Have any of you seen the movie? I can't see the cast as the people I imagined so long ago for some reason, maybe I need to SEE the movie first and THEN comment!
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What a way to start a new year. A new book/reading web site and a new author. Now I don't care how much it snows!!!
Yes!!! Good quote! Aberlaine had one too: forever!
Ann, OK, I'll bite what IS Mexican Train dominoes ? You always know the best games, what was that one we played at the beach, you all are such killer sharks! I must say I was appalled.
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Here I am, nice, quiet, but at the same time, used to winning, sitting down with killers, and I do include Pedln in that , honestly! What was the name of that thing?
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Pedln, me too,
I was really surprised at the control that poured out of that book.
Really almost puts another strange dimension to the world (we're talking about John Grisham's The Appeal), still reading it, good book. Keep thinking Barbarians at the Gate, (yes, Ella that one's about RJR Nabisco's take over by KKR).
Traude, on the Raj, two weeks ago I guess it was there was a huge article in the NY Times, whole page, on India and it went right back to the partitioning, and how some Muslims were trapped IN India then and what it's like today to be one. I was very surprised to find that Amir Khan whom I admire, an actor (Lagaan) and producer was a Muslim living in India, it's a good article, I put it aside to think about and need to pick it up again, but it's amazing how many modern day events keep relating right back to those fatal days that you're all reading about in Paul Scott's novels.
Ella somewhere you asked about Indian Summer. yes that's the one, supposedly the be all and end all bio of all of them and what really happened: Nehru, Mountbatten and his wife, it's quite interesting, to me. I think it IS the latest somewhat incendiary details that make me rather read it than individual older biographies, tho I expect they would all be good to get the complete picture. It's amazing, biography. Look at Anna and the King.
There are such divided ideas about Anna Leonowens and the King of Siam, it's unreal.
What's the truth? I remember Franklin D Roosevelt and Warm Springs and Sally something? People talked about it for decades before it came out, the Indian Summer is like that.
I'm really getting some great ideas here for reading, everybody here reads such different things! That makes the conversation so alive!