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2012-07-03
8:08 PM

Heller, Zoe - The Believers

this was another book from book club this book reminded me of Ordinary people where a family unravels under the strain of losing a loved one. The ordinary every day events creep the past into oblivion, characters revealed, lives transformed. At the core of Litvinoff's family is Litvinoff, a lawyer who takes pride in defending and befriending imbeciles; his wife Audrey, who believes she says things others think; Rosa, is adamant in finding a cause of her own weather it's communism or jewdaism; Lenny, is a druggy floater and Karla, struggles with her weight and her overbearing family. What i liked is how well written this book is. The commentary flows, the language is superb and i had to look things in thesarause yay (now give me a dictionary so i can learn how to spell). I realized that Xorovod came from Bulkan horah. I love those little trivia bits i'll forget in a month. I loved the revelation that Audrey's daily routine of nastiness was originally a defense mechanism in social situations. It has grown into a defining character trait and she feels trapped by it. It is now a reflex and she catches herself not being able to get out of it. Good example is her meeting with Berenice. I entirely sympathize with Karla. I just like her. i don't like the rest for now. since i'm still reading. 8]

2012-03-15
3:18 PM

E. L. James - 50 Shades Trilogy

it is what it is. flower duet - Delibes from Lakme kings of Leon - Sex on Fire

2011-09-19
10:07 PM

Fey, Tina - Bossy Pants


love Tina love her style. a wonderful comedic look into her career and behind closed doors of SNL and 30 rock studio

2008-06-26
12:21 PM

Madame de Lafayette - The Princess of Cleves

This was a required reading by one of my English lit professors. She was an interesting older woman and mentioned that she lived by that book for a very long time. Idealistic a bit

2008-02-14
5:00 PM

Patterson, James - Sam's Letters to Jennifer

tear jerker. easy read. very sad. when her grandma falls in a coma Jennifer discovers the letters addressed to her. while discovering her grandmas big secret Jennifer herself is thrown in a romance of her life time. http://www.amazon.com/Sams-Letters-Jennifer-James-Patterson/dp/B000JGWDTG/ref=sr_1_47?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203026218&sr=1-47

2007-01-25
2:17 PM

Austin, Jane - Pride and Prejudice

I don't think this post wants to be written! i wrote it 3 times already and i keep forgetting to save it .

ugggh


anywho


my new favorite. reasons were given in deleted post .

quotes
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment."
"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"
"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

2006-11-03
11:06 AM

Cato,Nancy and Caughey, Carolyn - All rivers run

i'm rereading Thorn Birds now and another Australian classic sprang up to mind All rivers run... it is not as epic or as classic, never the less it stayed with me.

2006-10-31
12:03 PM

Gregory, Philippa - The Virgin's Lover

this is a historical novel about the rain of Elizabeth the II.

the book is a really easy read, historically acurate (i think), but it's kind of difficult to take Elizabeth's character. I mean she's a strong smart woman of 27. not 18. and she cannot control herself when it comes to Robert Dudley. She's spineless. Kinda hard to believe. Then again she is her fathers daughter. He lost his head when it came to her other Anne Boylin, so she seems to inherit that pationate trait of her father.

dunno. makes me read more into her character though...
so the book is good.

ohh and poor Amy Dudley.

2006-10-10
4:58 PM

Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie

i read it a very long time ago. probably back in highschool. i remembered it now because TMC was showing it last night and i fell asleep watching it and didn't know what the ending was. i just remember that it was dreadful and pathetic. and it was. so stupid you can hit that mother of theirs and drag Laura out of her shell by the hair. can't stand plays like this. too real even though in the begining it claims that memories cannot be reality bla bla bla.

2006-05-09
5:56 PM

Maxwell, Robin - The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684849690/sr=1-1/qid=1147200765/ref=sr_1_1/002-6676441-2738464?%5Fencoding=UTF8

being mostly raised on French history and loving every minute of it English history remained dark in my knowledge of European history. only that was was briefly touched by Dumas and Druon as they weave their own fictional accounts of French history.

i liked it. it's very small and a very easy read.

2005-12-30
1:22 PM

Kundera, Milan - Unbearable Lightness of Being

1968 Check Republic

http://lib.ru/INPROZ/KUNDERA/legkost.txt

01/06 yup yup reading it right now. it's fabulous . in russian since i don't speak Check(?). will right about it later sooo recomended.

fabulous. one of the most beautiful things i have ever ever read.
just read a passage about the idea that this life that we are living is a scetch. Everything is led by chance and the decisions that we are making by this chance because the future and the consequences are unknown to us. This Earth is our first life. First trial. But there is another Earth where we are reborn with a knowledge of our first life. What decision will be made by us based on our previous knowledge. Would we be wiser? And then there is a third earth and we are reborn there as well with the knowledge of the previous 2 Earths. And so on and so forth. Fascinating.


"Она никогда не задавалась вопросами, которые мучат человеческие пары: он любит меня? любил ли он кого-нибудь больше меня? он больше меня любит, чем я его? Возможно, все эти вопросы, которые обращают к любви, измеряют ее, изучают, проверяют, допытывают, чуть ли не в зачатке и убивают ее. Возможно, мы не способны любить именно потому, что жаждем быть любимыми, то есть хотим чего-то (любви) от другого, вместо того чтобы отдавать ему себя без всякой корысти, довольствуясь лишь его присутствием."

"счастье есть жажда повторения."

2005-10-25
11:26 AM

Tsvetaeva Marina

"Мне нравится..."


Мне нравится, что вы больны не мной,
Мне нравится, что я больна не вами,
Что никогда тяжёлый шар земной
Не уплывёт под нашими ногами.
Мне нравится что можно быть смешной -
Распущенной - и не играть словами,
И не краснеть удушливой волной,
Слегка соприкоснувшись рукавами.

Мне нравится еще, что вы при мне
Спокойно обнимаете другую,
Не прочите мне в адовом огне
Гореть за то, что я не вас целую.
Что имя нежное мое, мой нежный, не
Упоминаете ни днём, ни ночью - всуе...
Что никогда в церковной тишине
Не пропоют над нами: аллилуйя!

Спасибо вам и сердцем и рукой
За то, что вы меня - не зная сами! -
Так любите: за мой ночной покой,
За редкость встреч закатными часами,
За наши не-гулянья под луной,
За солнце, не у нас над головами, -
За то, что вы больны - увы! - не мной,
За то, что я больна - увы! - не вами!

2005-09-21
6:18 PM

Wesberger, Lauren - The Devil Wears Prada

Read it a while ago. A very light airplane book about magazine industry. Cute alla 'Bridget Jones'. This girl starts working for a magazine editor and completely gets lost in that world. She survives her horrible boss for a year and then quits. Very intertaining.

2005-06-23
4:42 PM

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins - Yellow Wallpaper

another one i read in an english class

husband (John) and a wife move into the summer cottage so that she can rest. Apparently she has a case of nervousness. She is forbidden to do anything including writting so she obsesses on one thing she hates in the house - yellow wallpaper

2005-06-03
1:28 PM

Schreiber, Flora Rheta - Sybil

this is a true story based on a woman with 16 separate personalities. The book put multiple personalities disorder on the map.

2005-05-12
3:54 PM

Junge, Traudl - Until the Final Hour (Hitler's Last Secretary)

very interesting account by one of the surviving Hitlers secretary about the last days in the bunker. I was inspired to read it after "Downfall"
a bit dry, but seems to be honest
i liked it

2005-03-04
10:55 AM

Golon, Serge and Anne - Angelique

Angйlique, The Marquise of the Angels (Angйlique, Marquise des Anges)
Angйlique, the road to Versailles (Angйlique, le Chemin de Versailles)
Angйlique and the King (Angйlique et le Roy)
Angйlique and the Sultan also known as Angйlique in Barbary (Indomptable Angйlique)
Angйlique in Revolt (Angйlique se rйvolte)
Angйlique in Love (Angйlique et son Amour)
The Countess Angйlique (Angйlique et le Nouveau Monde)
The Temptation of Angйlique (La Tentation d'Angйlique)
Angйlique and the Demon (Angйlique et la Dйmone)
Angйlique and the Ghosts (Angйlique et le Complot des Ombres)
Angйlique а Quйbec (not translated yet)
Angйlique, la Route de l'Espoir (not translated yet)
La Victoire d'Angйlique

one of my absolutely favorite romantic novels loosely based on French history (Sun King and such)

2005-03-04
2:42 PM

Pasternak, Boris

Doctor Zhivago -- have to admit it was a difficult read for me. I started a number of times, dropped it and began again several years later. I did finish it and it's an awesome book, just not my favorite

Poetry -- on the other hand his poems are delicious. I like his ease with words

From МАРБУРГ

Я вздрагивал. Я загорался и гас.
Я трясся. Я сделал сейчас предложенье,-
Но поздно, я сдрейфил, и вот мне - отказ.
Как жаль ее слез! Я святого блаженней.
.......


Любить иных - тяжелый крест
А ты прекрасна без извилин,
И прелести твоей секрет
Разгадке жизни равносилен.

Весною слышен шорох снов
И шелест новостей и истин.
Ты из семьи таких основ.
Твой смысл, как воздух, бескорыстен.

Легко проснуться и прозреть,
Словесный сор из сердца вытрясть
И жить, не засоряясь впредь,
Все это - не большая хитрость.

*****************
Красавица моя, вся стать
Вся суть твоя мне по сердцу,
Вся рвется музыкою стать,
И вся на рифмы просится.

А в рифмах умирает рок,
И правдой входит в наш мирок
Миров разноголосица.

И рифма - не вторенье строк,
А гардеробный номерок,
Талон на место у колонн
В загробный гул корней и лон.

И в рифмах дышит та любовь,
Что тут с трудом выносится,
Перед которой хмурят бровь
И морщат переносицу.

И рифма не вторенье строк,
Но вход и пропуск за порог,
Чтоб сдать, как плащ за Фляшкою,
Болезни тягость тяжкую,
Боязнь огласки и греха
За громкой бляшкою стиха.

Красавица моя, вся суть,
Вся стать твоя, красавица,
Спирает грудь и тянет в путь.
И тянет петь и - нравится.

Тебе молился Поликлет.
Твои законы изданы.
Твои законы в далях лет.
Ты мне знакома издавна.

2005-03-02
12:50 AM

McCullough, Colleen - The Thorn Birds

gone with the wind, thorn birds both belong to the same category of books to be read and reread over and over again.
a classic
movie as well one of my favorites!
"A Coming of age story of a young austrailian girl in a forbidden love affair. "

11/02/06 - rereading it now. some things are just soo classic. now having seen the movie (i actually liked the actors and the direction) i can't help but visualize the scenes from it.

another thought that occured to me like with many other books that i've read as a child. When you reread it later on the meaning of things is so different. YOu pay attention to different things than when you were a child.

Whatever happened to Luke? And Justine. And Frank? Franks character was so well developed in the begining but droped off and never really mentioned him again.

2005-03-02
7:17 PM

Mitchell, Margaret - Gone With the Wind

no introduction needed
a romance novel while historical it's fiction
'frankly my dear i don't give a damn' says it all

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