books, and more books

[dolique]

if I posted abt LJ on Facebook, my status would be "had to go back to skip=280 on her friendslist"; I don't, though, so I'm marking the occasion here. come to my arms, my beamish internet!

it has been... an ungodly amt of time since my last confession post, & I actually refuse to check how much. recent happenings include my becoming an employee of

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[quiteparadise]

I stopped reading the Hornblower series at Atropos, I think. It's been more than a couple years and I was a library patron back then, so I can't consult my collection to check. But Wikipedia is a friend of mine, and it has informed me that Hornblower in the West Indies actually takes place... after the Napoleonic wars.

And that's just wrong.

[dolique]

exactly! you can imagine my confusion & woe. :D

(and my apologies for the late reply, i've been without internet so long i got to skip=340 on my flist last night!)

[themis]

I think I spoiled myself by reading the Aubrey/Maturin books before I read Forester (also, I'd watched the TV series first and was wondering where all the homoerotic tension had gone). They are just so excellent...anything similar suffers by comparison.

Plus, I am a big Forster fan and I resent anyone who makes life difficult for him because of similar last names.

[dolique]

(...sorry for the late reply, i have been alternatingly internetless & away at work, alas!)

i too am an ENORMOUS forster fan, although my love is based solely on room with a view and maurice. (i keep starting howards end and failing to make it over the hump, to my shame, and have never tackled passage to india.)

also, I'd watched the TV series first and was wondering where all the homoerotic tension had gone

ahaha SO TRUE. ioan gruffydd is so utterly perfect as hornblower! plus jamie bamber is beautiful at whatever age. :D

[themis]

Howards End is tricky at the beginning. There are always a few chapters where I'm like "...and?" and then I go "HOLY CRAP" because it is so...like, I find his humanism incredibly compassionate but at the same time he doesn't let anyone off the hook. Also, he writes women so well (which is funny, considering the way he ended up feeling about them) and his look at class is just Great.

I don't know if you've read On Beauty, but a lot of that is a tribute to Howards End. When I read it, I spent most of my time wishing for Forster, as talented as Zadie Smith is. (Perhaps is the references hadn't been quite so obvious, it would have hurt less.) A Passage to India is difficult. Chewy. I've only read it once.

[faeriemaiden]

I have just discovered that you have friended me, because, lo, I am distracted. So, welcome to the fold, fellow bookstore employee!

I don't suppose your store has the lending-out benefit that mine does? We employees can borrow two books at a time for a duration of two weeks, so long as we return them in saleable condition. Unfortunately I do not get this benefit for another two weeks. The Management says that it wants us to keep abreast on literature in general, and since inter-library loan in my town is slow like dial-up internet (ONLY WORSE), I am overjoyed, if somewhat overwhelmed with options.

[dolique]

hee, hello! i am something of a lurker, which is probably why, but i read and adore your every entry.

and we supposedly do have something of the sort! at least, it was mentioned in the information packet they gave me, but i've yet to hear anything abt it on-site. i am going to have to inquire, i think. but it is such an exciting prospect!

(my own quote-unquote woe is that the library branch i go to is a whole TWO STOPS away on the subway, which in my book (see what i did there?) makes it a capital-t trip & thus not one to be undertaken all that frequently, esp. as it necessitates a repeat excursion to return things.)

...and i have totally talked too much, as i am prone to doing on the internet, and will be shutting up now. :D