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OK, if you change your mind, let me know .
Wait to go to Germany until the US$ gains again, if you can, this year everything will be extremely expensive. Which will make it a lot easier to resist buying things I don't really need.... I hope your daughter will enjoy being there, if she goes! The world is getting smaller all the time, or so it seems!
One interesting thing in Germany is that books are all available at a set price, which is keeping the smaller bookstores in business, at least for now. They only mark down, damaged books, or "remnants". But new books are sold for the same price everywhere. Not sure how long this will last though and if it changes, no doubt that will be the end of many independent book stores.
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ~Henry David Thoreau
Yes, the dollar is pretty low these days and not the best time to go to Europe w/o Euros in the bank. Until EAB went under I kept some funds in the bank in Amsterdam; not anymore.
As for the daughter, she did a project with some landscape architects from Germany last year and I believe they invited her to consider joining them. It wouldn't be immediate, but she appears to love Germany.
It's interesting about book pricing and how that influences booksellers. I always found paperbacks in Amsterdam the same price, but I had so many excellent friends who read, we often just traded and I kept the florin in my pocket.
If they change the pricing in Germany, it will affect and have an effect on the independents...sadly.
And, no I'm not going to change my mind. I wanted some Schmincke--very expensive here--but I can live without it.
I finished The Wall just a few days ago. Initially, I just sort of mull-over what I've read -- have these "little conversations" in my head (the voices speak to me ) -- and then I can put together my impressions, thoughts, and feelings.
So, now I'm ready, but the Forum isn't. LOL. So, I'll save it.
In the meanwhile, I will try again to get my hands on a a copy of The Road since ontheroad and others have alluded to the two works lending themselves nicely to a joint discussion. I may just have to order Cormac McCarthy's work.
You Guys had also mentioned a discussion of Reading Lolita in Tehran? I read it several years ago, too. What have you thought? I loved the opportunity of seeing the women in the burkas for themselves, how much like us, even, they are. Which looks 'funny' here in print, like what did I think they were? behind those burkas?
In the book Confederacy of Dunces, Ignatius Reilly has a heart condition, and repeatedly refers to his "valve."
Snippet: "sight of his mother in full regalia always slightly appalled his valve"
Thanks. I do believe on your recommendation I bought Dunces...it's waiting impatiently to be read.
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Originally Posted by BlueWillowPlate
In the book Confederacy of Dunces, Ignatius Reilly has a heart condition, and repeatedly refers to his "valve."
Snippet: "sight of his mother in full regalia always slightly appalled his valve"
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