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House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III, about 100 pages in looks very good. Saw the move with Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley. Story is a divorced, recovering addict, woman living alone in a house that was willed to her loses it by ignoring back taxes due. Kingsley plays an immigrant, ex-Colonel in the Iranian military who snaps up her house at an auction for a song.
Really like the style of this novel. The narration goes from the woman's first person to the Colonel's first person, the kind of book I'm so glad I started reading it, I can't wait to pick it up again.
This is one of my favorite books of all time. Some think it will be a classic. It's also only one of 2 movies I've seen where the movie adheres pretty closely to the book. It's such a different topic. Who ever would think of writing a book on that subject matter ? I mean besides Andre Dubus, It's amazing.
I just started "Earth Abides" by George R. Stewart and I can tell it was written in the late 40s because the writer refers to a couch/sofa as a "davenport."
I have not heard that word since the 50s. All kinds of memories flooded my brain.
In my hot little hands I now have: (amazon loves me)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (which I am afraid to start)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Horse Soldiers
Without Warning
The Heretic's Daughter
and about 10 others that I'm too lazy to round up.
Maybe they are under the davenport.
Haha. I've only read 1 of those listed: The Heretic's Daughter. I hope you like it. I went to Hastings tonight. I don't like short stories, but I couldn't pass up a Joyce Carol Oates book of short stories on sale," The Female of the Species." I also got "A Hundred and One Days ". a Baghdad Journal from a reporter.
Okay i have a few I have read that I forgot about that are just wow out of this world : Saving Fish from drowning by amy tan , the weight of silence , How to be lost by Amanda Eyre Ward , Vinegar Hill by A manette mansey , Blue water by mansey as well , Time is a river by Mary alice monroe , Those are just the few that really stick out in my mind as being totally awesome book so I am onto Half broke horses .
Okay i have a few I have read that I forgot about that are just wow out of this world : Saving Fish from drowning by amy tan , the weight of silence , How to be lost by Amanda Eyre Ward , Vinegar Hill by A manette mansey , Blue water by mansey as well , Time is a river by Mary alice monroe , Those are just the few that really stick out in my mind as being totally awesome book so I am onto Half broke horses .
I like almost everything Amy Tan has written. "The Joy Luck Club" is my favorite. "Saving Fish from Drowning" was good and the ending was very interesting.
I finished "Earth Abides" last night and immediately started ".....Henrietta Lacks." I was afraid of this one. Now I know there was no reason to be. It's not graphic, it's not a complete downer. It is simply a genius work. It's one of those that I can hardly put down. I'm so glad I am retired.
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immediately started ".....Henrietta Lacks." I was afraid of this one. Now I know there was no reason to be. It's not graphic, it's not a complete downer. It is simply a genius work. It's one of those that I can hardly put down. I'm so glad I am retired.
I was afraid of it, too. I agree: it's a genius work. I even forced my husband to read it.
Just finishing up "The Last Mrs. Astor" by Frances Keirnan. It's about Brooke Russell, Marshall, Astor whose last husband was Vincent Astor. There is another name that comes in just before Marshall - her very first husband - but I can't recall it right now. He was the father of her only son, Tony, who took on the last name of Marshall. Tony is the one that tried to have her will changed but was challenged by one of his twin sons, Phillip Marshall, and Tony was not able to do so. It is very interesting the life she lived. I had seen her once back a few years ago when she was probably in her 90s as she and a group of women friends were boarding her leased huge boat in Northeast Harbor, ME where she had her summer home. If you have ever been interested in NYC society and benefactors of some of the great New York institutions you would like this.
Northeast Harbor is a great place for spotting the rich and famous. Since that time when we saw Mrs. Astor we have seen Martha Stewart out on her "picnic" boat. This is a very much smaller and more modest boat than Mrs. Astor's. We were on a very small tour boat at the time and called over to her - Martha that is - and waved but she just turned her back on us. That was before her year in prison. I think she is a bit more friendly now.
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Just finishing up "The Last Mrs. Astor" by Frances Keirnan. It's about Brooke Russell, Marshall, Astor whose last husband was Vincent Astor. There is another name that comes in just before Marshall - her very first husband - but I can't recall it right now. He was the father of her only son, Tony, who took on the last name of Marshall. Tony is the one that tried to have her will changed but was challenged by one of his twin sons, Phillip Marshall, and Tony was not able to do so. It is very interesting the life she lived. I had seen her once back a few years ago when she was probably in her 90s as she and a group of women friends were boarding her leased huge boat in Northeast Harbor, ME where she had her summer home. If you have ever been interested in NYC society and benefactors of some of the great New York institutions you would like this.
Northeast Harbor is a great place for spotting the rich and famous. Since that time when we saw Mrs. Astor we have seen Martha Stewart out on her "picnic" boat. This is a very much smaller and more modest boat than Mrs. Astor's. We were on a very small tour boat at the time and called over to her - Martha that is - and waved but she just turned her back on us. That was before her year in prison. I think she is a bit more friendly now.
Yes one can only hope so huh ? i mean she does not have much to be stuck up about these days does she . Yes the astors have been known since Astor coffee and John Jacob Astor being on the titanic and all the scandal he caused marrying a much younger woman after divorcing his wife (which simply was not done in those days ,as my grandma would say). Yes that astor bunch is quite interesting and they also had alot of political ties .
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