What book are you currently reading?

[Anthea]

Holiday at the end of the day !

Beside celebrations, I need fun and relaxing literature : let's start with Hamish Macbeth Omnibus, 1-4.

I hope that you find someone kind and loving next year

[Piling]

In one respect, perhaps, Mr Elton's manners are superior to Mr. Knightley's or Mr Weston's. They have more gentleness. They might be more safely held up as a pattern. There is an openness, a quickness, almost a bluntness in Mr Weston, which everybody likes in him, because there is so much good-humour with it–but that would not do to be copied. Neither would Mr. Knightley's downright, decided, commanding sort of manner, though it suits him very well; his figure, and look, and situation in life seem to allow it; but if any young man were to set about copying him, he would not be sufferable. On the contrary, I think a young man might be safely recommended to take Mr. Elton as a model. Mr. Elton is good-humoured, cheerful, obliging and gentle. He seems to me to be grown particularly gentle of late.

Emma, Jane Austen.

So, don't trust 'good-humoured, cheerful, obliging and gentle' young men and trust the elders who have 'an openness, a quickness, almost a bluntness' and/or 'downright, decided, commanding sort of manner'.

In French we say ' Trop poli pour être honnête' ; we could say also 'too gentle for being trustable'.

But I wonder what Emma would have said if Darcy if they would meet each other…

[Anthea]

Are there any modern day writers who will remembered in 200 years time?

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Are there any modern day writers who will remembered in 200 years time?

I.

[Anthea]

Are there any modern day writers who will remembered in 200 years time?

I.

I shall rephrase that question

Apart from the beautiful and famous French author Sandrine Alexie, are there any other modern day writers who will remembered in 200 years time?

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I wonder what people living in Austen's time did answer when they were asked the same question, and even what Austen did or would have answered.

[Anthea]

I'm currently reading it and am--- speechless.

Did you finish reading the book yet?

If so what were YOUR conclusions?

[Anthea]

I wonder what people living in Austen's time did answer when they were asked the same question, and even what Austen did or would have answered.

Sadly probably none

Nobody recognises true greatness until long after the person has died

[Anthea]

An excellent book by Lisa Gardner

Heart-racing suspense and irresistible characters from the bestselling author of TOUCH & GO, CATCH ME, LOVE YOU MORE and many others.

If your family are killers, what are you?

They say family means everything. But Dr Adeline Glen cannot accept that. When you're bound by blood to a father who slaughtered prostitutes and a sister who followed in his sociopathic footsteps, how can you?

But now Boston Detective D.D. Warren needs Adeline's professional help to recover from a brutal attack by a psychopath. A murderer who knows too much about Adeline's dead father, and is someone her imprisoned sister claims she can help catch.

With the Rose Killer focused on D.D., will Adeline be able to put aside her personal nightmares to help her? All she knows is if she is going to survive what's to come, Adeline will have to...

Fear nothing.

[RomaMater]

Early Gentile Christianity And Its Hellenistic Background.

[Qamishlo]

Beyani Bash everyone,

I've now " A thousand splendid suns" with me. I borrowed it from a friend of mine.
Has anyone read this before? If yes, do you advise me to read it?

Best

[Piling]

Better to mention the author to identify the books


Early Gentile Christianity And Its Hellenistic Background by A. D. Nock, 1964.

A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini, 2007.

[Piling]

I've tried to read the Celestine Prophecy, by James Redfield but I could not read more than 3 pages : badly written (écrit avec les pieds) and as so much as I can guess of the story, it is very very 'couillon' . Worse than Paulo Coelho, that's something.

[RomaMater]

Did you finish reading the book yet?

If so what were YOUR conclusions?

I am done and am kind of aghast.

I really can't say..

The 'assassination' of President Kennedy is one of the great unknown mysteries of America, like the 'assassination' of President Lincoln.

From reading this book I have been convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald was a patsy and that there was indeed some kind of conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy. He was the only Catholic President of the U.S. in 200+ years. I suspected this a long time ago, that some kind of internal coup killed President Kennedy rather than commies or whatever.

[Anthea]

I am done and am kind of aghast.

I really can't say..

The 'assassination' of President Kennedy is one of the great unknown mysteries of America, like the 'assassination' of President Lincoln.

From reading this book I have been convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald was a patsy and that there was indeed some kind of conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy. He was the only Catholic President of the U.S. in 200+ years. I suspected this a long time ago, that some kind of internal coup killed President Kennedy rather than commies or whatever.

I am sure you are right about Lee Harvey Oswald and that President Kennedy was assassinated by internal forces

Did you find out why his brain was removed?