I'm back, and intensely interested in the info here on the ipad, the itouch and everything else. I tried to at least read here while in Europe, and nearly threw the Blackberry away when at last it began to cooperate, I have no idea why. Almost impossible to post tho you don't have any edit buttons, or a lot of other things. Still, you can read and keep up.
Everywhere I went was WiFi, on trains, buses, boats, you name it, just turn it on and it works. Astounded me, we feel here (perhaps I am in the boondocks) that we're lucky to find a Barnes and Noble or Panera's for WiFi.
Wonderful conversations here. Mrs. Sherlock, loved the NPR recommendations, ran right out, they were sold out of Dead Gene Pool so I ordered it (am still sending books to prisons, in fact the same one where Wally Lamb volunteers, so every book goes to a good home)...but did get The Three Weismanns one and it looks super.
Also got Zoo Story, which is highly recommended about...guess..zoos, not an expose, supposedly a great book.
Carried Gentlemen and Players everywhere with me and brought it home which I never do, every ounce counts, but will never let it go. LOVED it. One of the pleasures of being in England is they have books often before we do, she (Joanne Harris, also author of Chocolat and Five Quarters of the Orange) has a new one out, Blueeyed Boy, which is the closest she says to Gentlemen and Players. Had to have it. They don't have it here but they did in London, snapped it up, hardback and all. Then Zafon has a new one out, came out in May, ghosts, snapped it up, bag became in need of a camel to hoist on the train, I didn't care: BOOKS!
Blueeyed Boy is about the internet and the question of identity. How people create themselves in this medium and the consequences. I think it's an intriguing premise and knowing her I know it's well written. Can't wait to start it.
While gone I read an article on summer reading and the Best Plane Books and they mentioned Open or something like that by Andre Agassi. I don't particularly like Agassi or tennis. I can't play well and didn't know much about him but I gulp got it in the airport in hardback..no other choice.... and couldn't put it down. Wow.
Every father needs to read that one about pushing their children into sports. He hated tennis. Absolutely hated it, but as a prodigy as his father pointed out, he had only an 8th grade education, what else was he suited for? Turned pro in his teens. It's about winning and losing.
At 36 he has to sleep on the floor, even standing up is a major feat, he's destroyed physically, has to bandage his feet till they were the size of casts just to play. It's an eye opener. He's founded a college prep academy for underprivileged children which he's very proud of and he and his wife Stephanie Graff (which she prefers to be called) have decided their two children will not play tennis at all.
It's something else, I do recommend it. Lovely conversations here and in the Non Fiction area, congratulations, Mabel (Jean) on your coming series of lectures. I know nothing of that subject, how exciting. I hope somehow you'll share some of that with us.
Zeitoun which a lot of people are talking about is a super book, too.
What's everybody reading? I get the best ideas here!
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