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user-inactivated  ·  3610 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Literary Thing – The Spokening

Haha, I've read all of these except for Candide and whatever Jitterbug is. So pop me down for Candide? You're awesome.

EDIT: we're still doing the thing where we pass them along to people, right? I am excited.





Meriadoc  ·  3610 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Candide is one of my all time favorites. You can't go wrong there.

user-inactivated  ·  3610 days ago  ·  link  ·  

S'long's'it's in English.

Meriadoc  ·  3610 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh my lord it took me two hours to decipher this hahaha

lil  ·  3610 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I loved Jitterbug Perfume. It was a wonderful book - totally spoke to me when I read it -- which was long ago in a province far away.

_refugee_  ·  3607 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, sigh. I read it for book club and hated it, although it did inspire the book club to go to Maine so we could eat at Bandaloop.

lil  ·  3607 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Maybe it was of a time and age.

I also loved Robbins' Still Life with Woodpecker but picked it up again 10 years or more after I first read it and was completely bored.

People have insisted I read Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, saying that I'd love it - but I didn't get very far. Same thing with Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, even though I tried and tried.

Books have their moment in an individual life and it's hard to know when exactly that moment comes.

thenewgreen  ·  3607 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Books, like music, certainly have their moment. I loved both Still Life with Woodpecker and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, but I read them around the same time in life. They were recommended to me by a girl I was smitten with, that probably helped my enjoyment.