I have "the right to write" sitting on my table in the massive 'to read' stack. Should I to move it closer to the top?
I must confess that I have never finished 1984. I tried to read it on three seperate occasions before giving up entirely. I love the essays though. Just the other day on the abebook dealers forum somebody posted this great essay about working in the used book trade which could have been written about my own dear store except that it was actually written by Orwell in 1936.
Here's the link. It's so true, especially the part about the paranoiac customers who put stuff on hold and never come back for it. I swear I am up to my eyebrows in paranoiac customers.
Oh, and I love, love that you have historical boyfriends.
In a BBC Newsnight poll that voted the Manics' The Holy Bible as the best album ever, 1984 was voted the best book.
Can you believe that? I can't imagine who would love 1984. I only finished it because I *had* to; I'm not surprised you couldn't.
Thanks for that link. The article was a delight. I laughed out loud at ‘2 doz. Infant Jesus with rabbits’. But who are Ethel M. Dell, Warwick Deeping and Jeffrey Farnol? Warwick Deeping?
Don't we all have historical boyfriends? Who are yours?
And before I stop wittering and go away, I've got a rec for you which I meant to tell you about ages ago: http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/blackbooks.html It will speak directly to you. Bernard, the bookseller, is the paranoiac running the asylum.
Don't we all have historical boyfriends? Who are yours?
At the moment, James Fitzgibbon. I'm heavily immersed in the war of 1812.
Thanks for the link. I want to watch but I don't think it's available in Canada yet. I expect CBC will pick it up eventually, they're having a strike at the moment and thus importing programming like you wouldn't believe. Right now it seems to be BBC world news 24 hours a day.
I looked up James Fitzgibbon. He sounds quite a guy; this was one of my favourite facts:
At one point, he disguised himself as a butter peddler in order to enter and observe an American camp at Stoney Creek.Cool! Reminds me of a Scottish naval commander -- Thomas Cochrane, I think his name was -- who fought in the Napoleonic Wars and was reputed to have gone to a fancy-dress party on a French admiralty ship disguised as a Royal Navy Commander (ie wearing his own uniform
( ... )
Re: click click click click...clicked himself under...rochefortAugust 30 2005, 03:39:22 UTC
Marcovaldo was one of those books where I read the first couple of sentences, and knew *instantly*. I hope you love it when you read it, too.
Series 3 has so many episodes that are the best things I've ever seen on TV. I love Giles. One of my favourite Giles eps was A New Man, in which he's turned into a demon by Ethan Rayne and Spike is the only one who knows. Just fab.
Orwell's great. His humour is dry and his delivery is incisive, whether he's dealing with things that are important or trivial. And all his opinions are based on experience rather than just his own preferences.
Comments 7
I must confess that I have never finished 1984. I tried to read it on three seperate occasions before giving up entirely. I love the essays though. Just the other day on the abebook dealers forum somebody posted this great essay about working in the used book trade which could have been written about my own dear store except that it was actually written by Orwell in 1936.
Here's the link. It's so true, especially the part about the paranoiac customers who put stuff on hold and never come back for it. I swear I am up to my eyebrows in paranoiac customers.
Oh, and I love, love that you have historical boyfriends.
Reply
Can you believe that? I can't imagine who would love 1984. I only finished it because I *had* to; I'm not surprised you couldn't.
Thanks for that link. The article was a delight. I laughed out loud at ‘2 doz. Infant Jesus with rabbits’. But who are Ethel M. Dell, Warwick Deeping and Jeffrey Farnol? Warwick Deeping?
Don't we all have historical boyfriends? Who are yours?
And before I stop wittering and go away, I've got a rec for you which I meant to tell you about ages ago:
http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/blackbooks.html
It will speak directly to you. Bernard, the bookseller, is the paranoiac running the asylum.
Reply
At the moment, James Fitzgibbon. I'm heavily immersed in the war of 1812.
Thanks for the link. I want to watch but I don't think it's available in Canada yet. I expect CBC will pick it up eventually, they're having a strike at the moment and thus importing programming like you wouldn't believe. Right now it seems to be BBC world news 24 hours a day.
Reply
At one point, he disguised himself as a butter peddler in order to enter and observe an American camp at Stoney Creek.Cool! Reminds me of a Scottish naval commander -- Thomas Cochrane, I think his name was -- who fought in the Napoleonic Wars and was reputed to have gone to a fancy-dress party on a French admiralty ship disguised as a Royal Navy Commander (ie wearing his own uniform ( ... )
Reply
Reply
Series 3 has so many episodes that are the best things I've ever seen on TV. I love Giles. One of my favourite Giles eps was A New Man, in which he's turned into a demon by Ethan Rayne and Spike is the only one who knows. Just fab.
Orwell's great. His humour is dry and his delivery is incisive, whether he's dealing with things that are important or trivial. And all his opinions are based on experience rather than just his own preferences.
Mwwwwaaaahhhh!!
Reply
Leave a comment