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"...fights break out between municipal and state police officers over who gets to rob a group of migrants." Heartbreaking
"...fights break out between municipal and state police officers over who gets to rob a group of migrants." Heartbreaking
#nwc #novelwatchingcrew I enjoy a good frenemy story. Reading how the four held hands to keep from sliding down mud touched my Maleficent cold heart.
For the life of me I can't understand Wolfe's purpose in writing a man's death as he gruesomely did in ch 29. The history of America was weaved through the fabrication of his death. It was very disturbing. #wolferead
Up to ch 31 #wolferead. Reading the part how Libya Hill was affected by the Depression really shook me. I don't know why. I've always known NC was affected too. I think this week I am going to research Asheville during the Depression. It also reminded me of Its a Wonderful Life - except the Building Trust is run by unscrupulous men and the blind judge (Mr. Potter) may be who saves the town through evil, cruel ways.
1. Set in Cade's Cove, Tennessee ♥️
2. Thunderstorms need to leave because it is almost time for our Bigfoot Festival. 50,000 people are expected in our little town.
3. Didn't have one. I had a blind date who took me to the library. On our second, he took me to Barnes and Noble. Been married for 19 years.
4. 2 daughters, 2 cats, 3 dogs, 2 geckos, and a guinea pig.
5. Thank you @AkashaVampie for the tag.
Thank you so much @CBee. What a lovely surprise in my email. 💜
so-soI enjoyed the parts that portrayed how Vanuatu Islanders entwined their belief system with Christianity. Very interesting. I disliked how Montgomery insisted that the beliefs were fictitious. He was insistent that the Islanders prove their black magic worked.
pickI feel like I have gotten a go-ahead. First goal - knit like a fury for Christmas. If successful, I'll really start in earnest.
"For a moment they saw a talking dog...then it switched to a pair of twins who were nothing alike (one was boyish and athletic and the other was sort of a diva, and they both sort of looked like Mal, except with yellow hair..."
I about died. This must mean Disney had already put Dove Cameron in the role before Isle of the Lost was written.
#wolferead Finished Book 2. When the firemen flooded the basement, did the water kill the 500 people who were on the sub? Did the union start the fire just to kill the 2 elevator men who didn't go to the meeting? What does everyone else think?
I'm not done. Did Wolfe write this way to show the rich deserved to fall? Should we not have pity? And Edith declares she is a Socialist because she is a worker. Surely, Wolfe meant to show how insulting that would be to true workers, right? If this is autobiographical, I don't think he cared about keeping friends. Now, I'm done.
#wolferead Up to ch 18 - I have so many thoughts about the party. Wolfe was very clever to remind readers that the Crash would happen shortly after the party. As I read about the characters - Amy, Hirsch, Piggy Logan, I get a sick feeling. Who will survive? Even the crazy scene of Piggy - is it meant to show that they didn't care where their money went? Decadence. Is it true that the rich would invite gay as entertainment -how degrading.
#wolferead Ch 10- I am making a prediction. While reading this chapter how Mr. Jack enjoys his indulgent life, I get the feeling he will fall greatly in the Stock Market Crash that Wolfe very neatly referred.
pickIn the mood for a western? How about a western set in the Amazon? Wow! It was so weird having alligators eat roaming bronchos and monkeys overhead. If you watched The Man who Killed Liberty Valance, you would see certain similarities.1-fighting for the right to fence 2-a lawyer who wants to fight with justice, not violence 3-a friend who kills, but lets the lawyer have the fame 4-menacing villain (but a woman) Differ -native superstitious fetishes
#wolferead Ch 6-7 Aunt Maw's funeral and real estate - I've known so many people like Mrs. Flood. Nosy, knows everything about everyone. I hate how he found about his father wanting his mom buried in his plot and his uncle exhuming her because of a stupid grudge. What is with Appalachia and grudges (Hatfield and McCoy)? How awful would it be to hear such a sordid tale about his mother's exhuming? Nosy people can also be rude.
#wolferead
Ch 5 I dislike the judge immensely. I'm torn over Wolfe's feelings. He clearly thinks people are being used, but he still uses racist words. It makes me think of my childhood. My parents acted like it was a regular word and then say they weren't racist. I know it's the period and the society, at this time, deemed it okay, but it is not okay. I hope the Judge won't be a major character, but I have a feeling he is.
"Their souls we're like the visages of city streets." Ch 4 #wolferead
I liked how Wolfe described NYC's workers. Delivery drivers.
"Each day they faced the perils of the streets with hearts as calm as if they were alone upon a country road."
#nwc #novelwatchingcrew @AkashaVampie @asyouwish great challenge questions.
CHALLENGE 4 book or movie?
Right now, movie, but I'm really enjoying the book.
Is this what you mean - do a different question from each of the challenges every week?
#nwc #novelwatchingcrew @AkashaVampie @AsYouWish I am having a blast with your questions.
CHALLENGE 3 poem
Jocular
Acquisitioner 😋
Youth - Makes me wish I was 15 again.
#nwc #novelwatchingcrew @AkashaVampie @asyouwish thanks for the questions.
CHALLENGE 2 best hair.
I'm in love with Evie's blue/black locks.
#NovelWatchingCrew #nwc @AkashaVampie @AsYouWish great challenges!
CHALLENGE 1 I'm a huge fan of Cameron Boyce. He was my daughter's first crush and his image and voice instantly came to me when he first talked to Evie. You will be missed. RIP.
Check 2-3
I liked how Wolfe showed a young author's insecurities about meeting a publisher for the first time. The book is like a child, already perfect.
But I don't understand Hauser. Why would he go back and forth - not worth publishing then a work of genius? What made him less inclined to share your honest opinion.
Katamoto was such a delightful character. "Trampling." I wish there was more. What was the purpose of this chapter?
pickPlease read this beautiful book. Renee Watson did such a great job showing how a young girl of color changes from a quiet person, who lets events happen, to a powerful woman who MAKES her own opportunities. Just powerful!!
Cringe worthy or brilliant? Webber compares his love affair to Esther to Goethe's drunken man on horseback - reeling, but going somewhere. They are clearly not suited and he wants to keep his bachelor pad to himself, but is happy. ??? Is Esther equally happy? I think she is a cougar and he likes pursuing an older, richer woman.
This book will force us to think. #wolferead @Lcsmcat
I've been wanting to visit Wolfe's home for awhile now. I think I will after I finish reading. I never knew that he was so well known that he was read by Hemingway and Faulkner. I thought it was funny that in the introduction, Gail Godwin wrote it is natural to go back and forth liking and not liking (my words) and I find it to be true. I find I'm cringing then appreciating. #wolferead @Lcsmcat
I wonder how a people's culture, a people's history, becomes a mascot.
I have always wondered too.
#PopSugar2019 49/50 Journey... (Choose your own adventure), Little Men (reread of fave)
#ReadHarder2019 21/24 LumberJanes (comic by LGBTQ creator)
#AroundtheWorld 19/52 Homegoing (Ghana), Passion... (Cuba), People... (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Not a good month for reading, but a smooth start to a new school year. Knock on wood.
I have my copy. When and how do we start @Lcsmcat I didn't know it was a chunkster. 😊
so-soI really want to like this book. I have too many grievances against it though. It jumps back and forth between first and third point of view and I don't see the reason why the author would jump between Carmela's perspective and then a narrator's. It is set during a time period that I have not read or studied - how Fidel Castro became the Communist leader and I really, really want to like this book because of that fact alone.
@BeckyB thank you and your precious T. for making my little girl's day. Those tabs are adorable and she wanted to share with every family member. I'm ashamed to say I coveted them and was happy she offered some to me. LOL! Thank you. #bookmarkswap @LibrarianRyan
pickJust a nice fun romp. Movie is just as good.
I'm in the middle of library checkouts. I finished my last book and I haven't requested my new haul. Why do I feel this way when I have 1000s of books (most are children's books), almost 200 not read. I think I'll reread John Grisham's Skipping Christmas or Passion According to Carmela on my Kindle. Choices. Choices.
pickI spent several months reading this book. Slowly, because of a goodreads forum and I didn't want to jump ahead of everyone and accidentally leave spoilers.
Dina, Ishvar, Om, and Maneck became close to me. Almost similar to watching your favorite couple on a soap opera. I cried with them (and there was a lot of sadness), I laughed with them, I feared for them. And to have it end the way it did - WWHHYYY?
So much violence for those in poverty.
@Robothugs @IndoorDame @Sunraven thank you all for my wonderful bookmarks. You went above and beyond my expectations. Thank you @LibrarianRyan for putting this together. I was one who never needed a bookmark till this swap. Another collection for me.
pickI've always wondered how the international Red Cross overlooked the concentration camps. According to Balson, Theresienstadt was the cover-up whenever a nation wanted to investigate. His books are always so informative and he finds ways to connect obscure facts to today's times.
pickI love, love, love this trilogy. Yes, it is a love story, but neither one is perfect. They fought, they both had stubborn pride, but they loved each other through so much. On the minus - there was a lot of pornography.
I was nominated on Facebook to do 7 days of my favorite books. On my last day, I posted my favorite to read out loud to my classes. I had several students, who are now in their 20s and 30s reply about how much they loved this book in my class. I start my 20th year tomorrow and I think I needed that validation of doing something right. #teachersoflitsy
Participated in my library's reading program and won a gift card. #supprtyourlibrary
Will use for my classroom.
Aahh! The finale of the most wonderful heart-stopping trilogy. Leave me alone for the next few days. 1 to read. 1 to reread favorite parts over and over again. And 1 to savor in my dreams (night and day).
Received some goodies from @IndoorDame and @Robothugs . Thank you both so much. #bookmarkswap @LibrarianRyan
I cannot wait to open.
pickIntertwined themes of cultures impacting each other, of the present interpreting he past, of the past dictating the future. A sacred Hebrew book, created by a 15 c Muslim slave, survives the Diaspora, the Inquisition, and wars. Muslims, Christians, and Jews all have cared for this art piece, protecting it with their lives. Brooks has taken minute details such as a wine stain to create the most amazing stories. The 1 negative - I CAN'T SEE THE MAP.
"It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox."
"I'm a bookworm; not a diplomat, not a spook. And certainly not some kind of commando Ms. Fix-It for Israel."
"For her, my double-honors degrees in chemistry and ancient Near Eastern languages might as well have been a used Kleenex."
I love this book. My daughter wanted to be a paleontologist since 4th grade. Until this year, when she had honors chemistry. I think I finally found a career that I could live precariously through her. Ancient book restoration. How cool!!!!
Can't wait to start. Reminds me of The Weight of Ink which I enjoyed.
It amazes me how Berendt can choose a city with a mystery and become acquaintances and friends with the most interesting people who are natives to that particular city. Not Savannah, but Venice. Not a murder, but an arson. Not voodoo, but centuries old architecture slowly being drowned by rising water. Both cities have the same mistrust of outsiders and a fantastic personality. Where will you take us next?
so-soI enjoyed the story, but the evident discrimination from the time and age of publication left a bad taste.
