Just bought Sister Bernadette's etc.

Thanks for the tip Paula. What a delicious book.
Pam

Paula says...

Hi Everyone! I have not had much time to pay attention to the books because we were out of town and now have out-of-town company. I'll check back in as soon as I can. I am currently reading Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog -- a discussion and history of diagramming sentences. Okay, now that you've stopped laughing -- I always loved diagramming and parsing and still love words and language. It's a pretty interesting book; but, never fear, I'm not suggesting it for our "read"!

Talk to you soon, xxPaula

Post v. Comment

There are two choices: you can make an original Post or make a Comment on someone's else's Post. My last entry was a comment on Doug's comment on large page counts. It's confusing. But I've never used a blog before. Hope this helps.

the other night Doug tried to say that..

“While both books sound interesting, both are over 500 pages and I wonder if it’s good to start out w/ something that daunting.”
Doug



Pam's note. He got frustrated trying to use blogger.com and didn’t want to spend the time to figure it out. Although he noted that Fox seemed to have no trouble.

About Oil!

From Library Journal
Sinclair's 1927 novel did for California's oil industry what The Jungle did for Chicago's meat-packing factories. The plot follows the clash between an oil developer and his son. Typical of Sinclair, there are undertones here of socialism and sympathy for the common working stiff. Though the book is not out of print, this is the only paperback currently available.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The New Republic
"He does his little bit of muck-raking. . . but the glorious story of the oil man and his son rushes on. It is a marvelous panorama of Southern California life. It is storytelling with an edge on it."


Oh yeah, all books nominated should be easily available, right?
Pam

Oil! by Sinclair Lewis

I don't think this book is considered one of his best but it might be interesting. And timely sort of, because of the movie version "There Will Be Blood."

If we actually do this book club thing I suspect I'll be skimming a lot of books to finish in time. I'm a slow and undisciplined reader.

Also, I asked Ed to help me find a list of books available in both English and Hebrew since Shula reads books/novels exclusively in Hebrew. I doubt if either my nomination or Larry's fits into that category.

Pam
(I suggest that we get in the habit of signing our names to our posts.... unless we want to be anonymous, which would be odd, don't you think?)

Little, Big url

The url in my post does not work. Just search for the book on Amazon.

And yes, I think a blog works well for this.

Successfully got here.

Hello all

I think I have accessed the blog correctly. I am going to nominate Little, Big by John Crowley. Here's what Amazon has to say about it:

John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in a house that is many houses on the magical border of an otherworld. It is a story of fantastic love and heartrending loss; of impossible things and unshakable destinies; and of the great Tale that envelops us all. It is a wonder.

Here is the url:

http://www.amazon.com/Little-Big-John-Crowley/dp/0061120057/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203375676&sr=8-1

Fox

Day 1

Do we* want to have a book discussion group? If so, do you think we could use a blog to have discussions?

Opinions sought.

Pam

*Larry D, Larry F, Ed, Doug, Greg, Natalie, Camy, Shula, Pam, and Paula.