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Originally Posted by pinetreelover
To Dawn and other fellow lovers of Crossing to Safety - I recently saw that this book has been picked up for a movie deal. No director or cast mentioned.
I know, I know - this could go so horribly wrong...
I heard about this! A friend of mine who's in "the biz" mentioned it on Facebook, but I got distracted (by work! ) and never went back to click on the link. I will likely not see the movie -- nothing good (or, rather, nothing better) can come of it. I do hope that it's good, though. The book was exquisite.
I decided to finish Such Good Girls before reading The Children's Blizzard. It's about three girls during WWII. I don't know why I gravitate towards those stories but I do. Even though terribly uncomfortable reading about how horribly human beings can treat other human beings it is a well told story though it took me some time to get into it.
I did search our library on-line. There are two copies of The Children's Blizzard available but since I am housebound by a blizzard of my own I purchased it from Amazon and will start reading it as soon as finish Such Good Girls.
I decided to finish Such Good Girls before reading The Children's Blizzard. It's about three girls during WWII. I don't know why I gravitate towards those stories but I do. Even though terribly uncomfortable reading about how horribly human beings can treat other human beings it is a well told story though it took me some time to get into it.
I did search our library on-line. There are two copies of The Children's Blizzard available but since I am housebound by a blizzard of my own I purchased it from Amazon and will start reading it as soon as finish Such Good Girls.
I wonder if Amazon saw an increase in downloads because of the blizzard.
I wonder if Amazon saw an increase in downloads because of the blizzard.
Glad you are surviving it!
Probably not. There were a lot of power outages & likely landline outages caused by the storms. With enough dense cloud formation, swirling winds, snow flying, wireless & radio propagation are also affected. & although the cold would be good for the equipment (up to a point), without power - to the cellphone towers, infrastructure, routing switches, etc. - you wind up with so many dead links that even packets would be difficult to reassemble - especially if the surviving nodes were flooded with traffic all @ once.
If Amazon can plot orders & downloads against a map of the affected areas over time during the storm, that would be interesting. It would tell Amazon how much excess capacity they might need for surges in orders, a good statistic to have, if you're in charge of Customer Satisfaction.
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I finished My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout and I don't know how I feel about it. No, that's not true. I *do* know how I feel about it: I didn't like it. I'm not even sure that I fully understood it. The style of writing was pure stream of consciousness, which is a style that I dislike tremendously. If it hadn't been written by Elizabeth Strout, I wouldn't have bothered to finish it. I'm disappointed. I've liked all her books, but this one... no. I find it hard to believe that it was written by the same person who gave us Olive Kitteridge.
Okay, so my day of not reading didn't last long. At lunch I realized I did have a library book here, but my husband was reading it -- on the last pages. So, while he wasn't reading it, I started "The Goldfinch." I know a number of you have read it, but don't recall how it was received. DH seemed to think I will like it.
Also, I've started listening to "Rules of Civility" by Amor Towles; read by Rebecca Lowman.
Okay, so my day of not reading didn't last long. At lunch I realized I did have a library book here, but my husband was reading it -- on the last pages. So, while he wasn't reading it, I started "The Goldfinch." I know a number of you have read it, but don't recall how it was received. DH seemed to think I will like it.
Also, I've started listening to "Rules of Civility" by Amor Towles; read by Rebecca Lowman.
I gave up on the Goldfinch a week or so ago after the story moved to Las Vegas. I enjoyed the first part which took place in NYC. After it moved to Las Vegas, I was bored and found it repetitious. I very much liked Tarrt's two previous books.
I loved Rules of Civility. I just downloaded the sequel, Eve in Hollywood.
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) and never went back to click on the link. I will likely not see the movie -- nothing good (or, rather, nothing better) can come of it. I do hope that it's good, though. The book was exquisite.
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