Well now... Here's someone who's much worse off than I am in her 'puter woes. Me, I can post -- just have to do it on faith, which is strengthening with every confirmation of received messsages I get. But Allison, poor thing, *can't post at all*. For me, it would be like biting my tongue constantly; not something I want to even contemplate, hence the subject line :)
So, I'm taking my ability to post on trust again, and am forwarding Allison's message. Since I've read (and liked) one of the books she recommends (Chocolat), I'll be looking forward to my next trip to the library with the list in hand; I never had trouble trusting *people*, it's only having to trust *machines* that has my innards in a knot...
From: "Allison E. Moss-Fritch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat Jul 19, 2003 19:41:58 US/Eastern To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: the list--I see you!
I think? that the list is just being quiet Tamara!
I do see your posts….and a plethora of spam—although I do not seem to be able to get my items to post to the list even though I have un and re subscribed now for a third time.? I am going to cut and paste some really nice book selections that you might enjoy—can you post them to the list if and when the ‘puter is working?
Here were my reading choices:
For suggested reading, I really liked Barbara Kingsolver's "The Bean Trees"; and even better than that is a rather newly published book by Susan Monk Kidd, "The Secret Life of Bees".? Both are uplifting in their overall message, although the protagonists do go through a variety of travail before finding their nice endings!? I?heartily agree that there are all too many downers in modernist reading and I?see enough of that in the news!?
I am also reading "Honey in the Horn" by Harold Lenoir Davis.? The latest review of it I have seen on Amazon states, "This book was impossible to put down. It is an absorbing novel set in (apparently) early 1900s Oregon. It is well researched as to the history and conditions prevailing in a country always hard to live in. And it is a rollicking good story." That is accurate from what I enjoyed!?
Of Course, "Five Quarters of the Orange" and "Chocolat" by Julie Harris are very good also.? I am hoping that some of the others on the list will tell us what they are reading.? I just finished the Phillip Pullman Trilogy, The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and the Amber Spyglass".? It is a profoundly good read for sci-fi fantasy; really well written and all too close to home in its comments about society!
Allison E. Moss-Fritch
In VERY HOT, MUGGY and sunny Santa Clara, CA
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