Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 296000 times)

hats · « **Reply #680 on:** March 18, 2009, 09:13:45 AM »

(The) Book Thief

by Zusak

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Gumtree · « **Reply #681 on:** March 18, 2009, 09:34:36 AM »

Finn and Hengest

by J R R Tolkien ed Alan Bliss

This is Tolkien's interpretation of the Anglo Saxon poems - not for light reading before bedtime

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Frybabe · « **Reply #682 on:** March 18, 2009, 09:57:41 AM »

The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells

on T from Hengest

hats · « **Reply #683 on:** March 18, 2009, 10:01:11 AM »

Even The Stars Get Lonesome

by Maya Angelou

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Frybabe · « **Reply #684 on:** March 18, 2009, 12:24:12 PM »

Marjorie Morningstar
by Herman Wouk

from the M in Lonesome

JudeS · « **Reply #685 on:** March 18, 2009, 01:16:42 PM »

On MorningstaR

Romeo and Juliet
by
Shakespeare

PatH · « **Reply #686 on:** March 18, 2009, 02:16:13 PM »

The Tale of Genji

Lady Murasaki, on JulieT

GinnyAnn · « **Reply #687 on:** March 18, 2009, 03:01:56 PM »

If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him

Sharyn McCrumb

Working on The Tale of Ginji

hats · « **Reply #688 on:** March 18, 2009, 03:13:27 PM »

Moon And Sixpence

by Somerset Maugham

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PatH · « **Reply #689 on:** March 18, 2009, 07:06:29 PM »

Close to Critical

Hal Clement, on SixpenCe

niecie · « **Reply #690 on:** March 18, 2009, 07:26:04 PM »

Ladies of Liberty

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Cokie Roberts

JoanK · « **Reply #691 on:** March 18, 2009, 08:09:10 PM »

(The) Yellow Wallpaper

GinnyAnn · « **Reply #692 on:** March 18, 2009, 08:43:20 PM »

The Rosewood Casket

by Sharyn McCrumb

R of Wallpaper

mabel1015j · « **Reply #693 on:** March 18, 2009, 08:59:06 PM »

a;e we allowed to comment?

I love that title "If I'd Killed Him When i Met Him!" ........can soooo identify.

Ladies of Liberty was a great book, love Cokie Roberts.............

Oh! Youngblood Hawke and Marjorie Morningstar........loved them the first time i read them, but read them a few years ago, and...............not so much!........jean

lucky · « **Reply #694 on:** March 18, 2009, 09:10:30 PM »

The Rosewood Casket

Posting on T

Ten Little Indians ( Agatha Cristie)

Gumtree · « **Reply #695 on:** March 18, 2009, 09:40:31 PM »

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy

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Such a lot of really good titles coming up all the time - obviously we all like good books.

JoanK · « **Reply #696 on:** March 18, 2009, 09:47:26 PM »

Loving Frank

pedln · « **Reply #697 on:** March 18, 2009, 10:16:54 PM »

Kane and Abel

by Jeffrey Archer

posting on Frank

Fran · « **Reply #698 on:** March 19, 2009, 10:05:14 AM »

The Lucky One

by Nicholas Sparks

L. from Abel

PatH · « **Reply #699 on:** March 19, 2009, 04:11:11 PM »

Needle in a Timestack

Robert Silverberg, on ONe

lucky · « **Reply #700 on:** March 19, 2009, 04:28:41 PM »

The Lucky Ones

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Saphira And The Slave Girl ( Willa Cather)

niecie · « **Reply #701 on:** March 19, 2009, 04:33:08 PM »

Stones for Ibarra

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Harriet Doerr

PatH · « **Reply #702 on:** March 19, 2009, 05:14:32 PM »

Ake: the Years of Childhood

Wole Soyinka, on IbarrA

JudeS · « **Reply #703 on:** March 19, 2009, 05:19:44 PM »

A from Ibarra

At Some Disputed Barricade
by Anne Perry

This is the forth of the five part series on WW 1.It's the best of the five. Each one is great though. Impossible to put down

Thetitles in order are:
No Graves as Yet
Angels in the Gloom
Shoulder the Sky
At some Disputed Barricade
We Should Not Sleep

lucky · « **Reply #704 on:** March 19, 2009, 06:13:32 PM »

At Some Disputed Barricade

Posting on E

Ellery Queen mysteries

PatH · « **Reply #705 on:** March 19, 2009, 07:00:57 PM »

(The) Devil in Velvet

John Dickson Carr, onBarricaDe

PatH · « **Reply #706 on:** March 19, 2009, 07:10:42 PM »

"The Devil in Velvet" is a better book than it sounds. It's a time-travel detective story in which the protagonist goes back to the time of Charles II to solve a mystery, and since Carr loved that period, it's full of details.

PatH · « **Reply #707 on:** March 19, 2009, 07:12:42 PM »

Gumtree, is Finn and Hengist good non-light reading for someone who reads sagas for pleasure?

JoanK · « **Reply #708 on:** March 19, 2009, 07:48:45 PM »

Three Cups of Tea

by Mortensen

We're proposing a discussion for May of "Three Cups of Tea". I've started the book, and had a hard time putting it down. It's the story of a "climbing bum", who got lost coming down from a failed attempt to climb K2, and wound up in a Pakistani village so small, it wasn't on the map. When he left, he promised he would come back and build a school. He wound up building over 100 schools for girls, in the area controlled by the Taliban.

If you're interested, come let us know in "Proposed discussions" or here:

http://seniorlearn.org/forum/index.php?board=57.0

PatH · « **Reply #709 on:** March 19, 2009, 08:18:29 PM »

Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne, on TeA

PatH · « **Reply #710 on:** March 19, 2009, 08:28:12 PM »

After Verne wrote his book, which hinges on a bet as to whether this was possible, Nellie Bly, an investigative journalist, went around the world in 72 days. She was quite an interesting character--among other things she exposed conditions in an insane asylum by feigning madness to be shut up there.

JoanK · « **Reply #711 on:** March 19, 2009, 08:39:21 PM »

(The) Stranger

by Simmel

"I talk not of the stranger who is here today and gone tomorrow, but of the one who is here today and still here tomorrow".

Now in the days when we all deal with immegrants, and people from other countries and cultures, it's a shame more people don't read this old essay.

lucky · « **Reply #712 on:** March 19, 2009, 09:15:34 PM »

The Strasnger

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The Red And The Black ( Stendahl)

lucky · « **Reply #713 on:** March 19, 2009, 09:32:09 PM »

The Red And The Black

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Kristenlavrensdater ( Sigrid Unset)

This a wonderful saga pf medieval Norway. I believe that Sigrid Unset won a Nobel prize in literature for this work.

GinnyAnn · « **Reply #714 on:** March 19, 2009, 10:04:20 PM »

Rivers End
by Nora Roberts

from R in Kristenlavrensdater

JudeS · « **Reply #715 on:** March 20, 2009, 12:46:19 AM »

D on EnD

Darkness at Noon
by
Koestler

Frybabe · « **Reply #716 on:** March 20, 2009, 02:07:03 AM »

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich

on N from Noon

Gumtree · « **Reply #717 on:** March 20, 2009, 02:26:31 AM »

Quote from: PatH on March 19, 2009, 07:12:42 PM

Gumtree, is Finn and Hengist good non-light reading for someone who reads sagas for pleasure?

Not really. It's an rather erudite scholarly study -Here's a little from the cover Blurb -

Tolkien's most significant contribution to Anglo-Saxon studies is to be found in his lectures on the story of Finn and Hengest, two fifth-century heroes in northern Europe: the story is told in two Old English poems, Beowulf and The Fight at Finnesburg, but told so obscurely and allusively that its interpretation has been a matter of controversy for more than a hundred years. As elucidated by Tolkien the story is a classic tragedy of divided loyalties, of vengeance, blood and death...

The story of Finn and Hengest is covered by what Tolkien refers to as 'The Fragment' and 'The Episode' from the poems . They are very short extracts -the Fragment lines 1-48 from the Fight at Finnesberg and Episode Beowulf lines 1063-1159 . Both are enigmatic to say the least ...

Naturally, Tolkien references lots of other texts - poems like Widsith and historians eg Bede et al. Some I know but many I don't.

I bought the book by chance years ago when I saw it on a remainder stack and though it is rather too scholarly for me I go back to it from time to time and perhaps glean a little more from it. Now I've taken it down from the shelf I'll probably browse it tonight and then put it away again - til next time.

Gumtree · « **Reply #718 on:** March 20, 2009, 03:43:04 AM »

PatH I meant to add that if you have a strong background in Anglo-Saxon language and literature Finn & Hengest could be just what you'd like. I find the digressions into the possibilities of meaning within specific Anglo-Saxon words rather trying but there are lots of cross references to other works and a good glossary of characters and their possible connections - as well as Tolkien's erudite interpretation of the particular lines of the Fragment and Episode.

niecie · « **Reply #719 on:** March 20, 2009, 09:03:15 AM »

Angela's Ashes

on AmericA

Frank McCourt

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