Author Topic: Blanko! (Read 512715 times)

Frybabe · « **Reply #5080 on:** January 19, 2014, 03:26:19 PM »

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marjifay · « **Reply #5081 on:** January 19, 2014, 04:22:21 PM »

fiction?

Frybabe · « **Reply #5082 on:** January 19, 2014, 05:01:33 PM »

Yes. New, foreign, based on a real event.

marjifay · « **Reply #5083 on:** January 19, 2014, 10:06:26 PM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #5084 on:** January 20, 2014, 07:43:06 AM »

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PS: I just found Twenty Years at Hull House on manybooks.net for free in case anyone wants to read it.

marjifay · « **Reply #5085 on:** January 20, 2014, 08:16:58 AM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #5086 on:** January 20, 2014, 08:25:46 AM »

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marjifay · « **Reply #5087 on:** January 20, 2014, 09:27:09 AM »

jane · « **Reply #5088 on:** January 20, 2014, 10:08:30 AM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #5089 on:** January 20, 2014, 12:01:43 PM »

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marjifay · « **Reply #5090 on:** January 20, 2014, 12:20:15 PM »

BEFORE I BURN

Frybabe · « **Reply #5091 on:** January 20, 2014, 12:56:45 PM »

Winner, we have a WINNER!

Yes, Marg. That's it.

I hope to read this in a month or so. My library has is on order.

Publisher Weekly's short review: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-55597-661-3

Here is a more lengthy review from Arts Fuse: http://artsfuse.org/98205/fuse-book-review-before-i-burn-a-true-crime-story-transformed-into-art/

marjifay · « **Reply #5092 on:** January 20, 2014, 03:50:02 PM »

I see my library also has it on order. Looks like an interesting book!

Marj

marjifay · « **Reply #5093 on:** January 20, 2014, 04:03:54 PM »

Ready for another one? Here it is:
Nonfiction. One of my favorite books from the 1970s.

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Frybabe · « **Reply #5094 on:** January 20, 2014, 04:08:21 PM »

marjifay · « **Reply #5095 on:** January 20, 2014, 04:24:00 PM »

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jane · « **Reply #5096 on:** January 20, 2014, 06:10:03 PM »

JoanK · « **Reply #5097 on:** January 20, 2014, 07:48:28 PM »

I found "Twenty years at Hull House" fascinating reading when I read it years ago. Written at a time when immigration was so fast, the US population doubled in ten years, at the same time as the frontiers were closed and new land was gone. Every city, including Chicago where Addams lived was bursting at the seams. Hull House and the settlement movement were attempts to give the immigrants somewhere to go to learn English, get some education and social services.

(I also love her description of visiting Count Leo Tolstoy in Russia, and experiencing his wooly headed version of social organization. His wife, the countess, organizes this banquet for Addams, complete with linen, silver, servants etc. and Tolstoy and his faithful daughter show up eating peasants brown bread and drink.

Addams goes home musing "Yes, I really should bake my own bread, but when would I find the time?")

marjifay · « **Reply #5098 on:** January 20, 2014, 08:10:30 PM »

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Frybabe · « **Reply #5099 on:** January 21, 2014, 09:04:27 AM »

A title that left an impression, even though I never read the book

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I forget who wrote it.

marjifay · « **Reply #5100 on:** January 21, 2014, 09:28:20 AM »

AND THE WINNER IS FRYBABE!!!

ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Persig.

Really a memoir of a trip with his son across country, with a lot of philosophy discussed by Persig. It's been quite a while since I read it.

Marj

Frybabe · « **Reply #5101 on:** January 21, 2014, 10:29:27 AM »

The last time I looked, this book was a long time out of print (a 1910 bestseller). However, both Amazon and Project Gutenberg now have it in ebook form. Also, it has just last year been reprinted. Unusual reading for me, it is a romance novel.

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jane · « **Reply #5102 on:** January 21, 2014, 02:49:59 PM »

JoanK · « **Reply #5103 on:** January 21, 2014, 03:19:28 PM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #5104 on:** January 21, 2014, 04:54:08 PM »

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marjifay · « **Reply #5105 on:** January 21, 2014, 08:37:58 PM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #5106 on:** January 22, 2014, 07:35:27 AM »

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jane · « **Reply #5107 on:** January 22, 2014, 09:52:21 AM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #5108 on:** January 22, 2014, 12:04:29 PM »

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marjifay · « **Reply #5109 on:** January 22, 2014, 12:27:10 PM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #5110 on:** January 22, 2014, 12:49:05 PM »

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marjifay · « **Reply #5111 on:** January 22, 2014, 01:28:59 PM »

jane · « **Reply #5112 on:** January 22, 2014, 05:07:07 PM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #5113 on:** January 23, 2014, 07:35:31 AM »

More good choices. Can you guess it yet? A best seller in its day.

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jane · « **Reply #5114 on:** January 23, 2014, 08:08:33 AM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #5115 on:** January 23, 2014, 08:13:01 AM »

More good choices. Can you guess it yet? A best seller in its day.

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marjifay · « **Reply #5116 on:** January 23, 2014, 08:55:03 AM »

THE KINGDOM OF SLENDER SWORDS

Frybabe · « **Reply #5117 on:** January 23, 2014, 07:37:22 PM »

Winner!

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Right, Marj. The romance story is set in Japan, but it mostly stays in the confines of the American quarter and the embassy. It has been out in print again since January of last year as best I can tell. One of 1910's best sellers, it was written by Hallie Ermine Rives who married to Post Wheeler (journalist and diplomat) in Japan in 1906. This Kindle edition shows the cover of the book I have. http://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Slender-Swords-Hallie-Erminie-ebook/dp/B00C3HF9RC/ref=sr_1_sc_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1390523425&sr=1-2-spell&keywords=The+Kingdon+of+Slender+Swords , though mine is very faded compared to the picture shown.

marjifay · « **Reply #5118 on:** January 23, 2014, 11:58:22 PM »

Wow, Frybabe, you sure can pick 'em. Are you going to read it?

A story from a Japanese author I do plan to read is CONFESSIONS OF A MASK by Yukio Mishima, an author I've heard of but not read. The book was recommended in another literary book discussion group by a member who said it was one of her favorite reads of 2013. (Mishima chose a rather gruesme death at age 45 - death by seppuku, per Wikipedia.)

Marj

Frybabe · « **Reply #5119 on:** January 24, 2014, 08:13:06 AM »

Read it long ago and wanted to use it here but never did until now because it was an out of print book. I am happy to see it in print again. Maybe I will even reread it - if I ever get through the pile of unread books I have.

One of which is The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe.

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