Lauren’s Comments (group member since Jun 16, 2009)

Lauren’s comments from the Readerville Veterans group.

Wow, demigio - would you ever consider joining us at bookballoon?

Scrap the Donoghue - huge disappointment.

Oh yes, Moonflower Vine is fantastic.

Oops, That's Frog Music.

I just read the new Emma Donoghue. I thought it was a little repetitive but it's engrossing enough for a bus ride.

Sue, we are trying to get together. Nancy, can you add Sue Ruseell to the list.

Alas, alot of my travel is related to college visits this year but I will try to make this work. My foks are in Boston so that will make it easier.

I actually know someone who has a house in western mass - maybe we could arrange to borrow which would make it cheaper............Wharton, Dickinson, lots of other historic/bookish activties....

Ok, ladies - weigh in.

I forgot to include myself! Senior moment.

Ok, Karen is in Texas, you Canada, me TN, Lisa in NYC, LuAnn in NC, Nancy in Msss.

What is central or kind of central and easy to get to? Chicago?

Oh LuAnn. I am not quite there (53) but I can't sleep through the night or stay awake through the day. I have become the nap queen.

On the other hand, I am as horny as a teenage boy. Go figure.

Girls, I think the five of us really need to meet somewhere for a weekend. We would have so much $%^&* fun.

I didn't love The Luminaries. I was kind of confused by the plot which I thought was my fault and then when I read other reviews of it, I wasn't so sure. Parts of it are great though - there is a villainess right out of Wilkie Collins. I think it's kind of over-ambitious.

Fin and Lady is so sweet and wonderful. I envy Schine for being able to create such effervesence. (am I spelling that right?)

I think DG is reading Pilgrims Wilderness too.

DG loved that but I have to say Fowler's work has always left me cold. Don't have the gene.

I am the library reserve list for Longbourn and the new Donna Tartt.

I thought the Interestings was the best novel of 2013 - so far. To me, she got everything right - - love, marriage, money, motherhood, envy, sex, friendship, aging. An incredible book.

Great! I was hoping you would and that the fact that you didn't receive the books I sent until about, um, February, wouldn't dissuade you.

Look over the lists and send me an email at home fufferdatcomcastdotnet. Make sure you tell me what you've already read!

I think you know the people involved - all the usual suspects.

Lauren

The Second Annual Book Balloon Holiday Guardian Book Swap is about to commence.

Wanna play? It's easy. You just have to commit to choosing a book for someone fromt the following lists: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/... http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/...

Please send me your name and mailing address and a list of titles that you have already read. I will tell you who your recipient will be, their contact information, and what not to get.

Please do not do this if you do not want to give as well as recieve.

Magazines and mysteries.

I am reading Just Kids now and it's sweet and lovely. RL is hard right now and this is magical - a chapter before bedtime.

I am making my way slowly through Making Haste from Babylon - new book about pilgrams and Plymouth. It's engaging but really all over the place - lots of cool little facts but arranged in a circuitious and overlapping way. Also, started new book The Swimming Pool which is getting lots of acclaim but is not very good - rich people with problems on the Cape. It's supposed to be current - cell phones and the like - but reads like it takes place in some not-so-distant past where women don't have jobs outside the home and divorces are taboo. Wierd.

Alderman has a new book out in the UK called The Lessons.

Duh. That's right, Pumper.

It's interesting so far. I love the idea and I'm hoping that I am interpreting the tone right - there are occasional comments by Beatrice's doctors which are critical of her behavior. I am reading them as examples of typical-f-the times misogyny and homophobia, but I could be wrong.