flight paths discussion

oh how lovely finally to get out and about in the sun with a book.
Had a funny ? experience today though where I was confined by the geography to a grassy verge a bit too close to the road. Two women driving by, one after the other, pulled over and asked me if I was allright. One of them offered me a sandwich!
"i"m fine", I had to assure them, "I was just reading".
"Oh, I never thought of that!" said one
"Oh Really??" said the other. "And you're sure you don"t want a sandwich?"

Love your story! Funny how just appreciating a day is seen as odd. I was once sitting on a tree by the side of the road and someone asked me if I needed to go to the hospital! I guess I was too close or looked too transported! :#

I've been cold all week: it's very gray here in the Bronx.

such heavy times for the month of may. I take it the resounding silence here is because we are all reading whenever we get a break.
had a real struggle with Lauren B Davis and the group read,The Radiant City. I don't feel like getting into it right now, just to say that the opening scene is so harsh just about put me off the book completely. Paradox: had it not been for the group, I would not have carried on, but over the reading I felt restrained by it.
now reading 3 other books, one non fiction, a short story collection, and just started a novel that I already love. I'll post the titles next time when I can give the links.
Hope you are all well especially Ellie and Ice :+)
what are you reading?

I, sadly, am hardly reading at the moment. I'm tackling Pynchon's Against the Day and it has paralyzed me. I can barely understand it and I can't read anything else. Two weeks, 35 pages. I don't know if this is going to work out.

Can't wait to hear the titles of what all you're reading, Magdelanye.

What about you Ice?

horrifyingly, I can't quite remember this book you are reading now, but I think I read it some40 years ago. V was the one I remember loving so much especially when I stopped struggling and just read for the delight.

Magdelanye wrote: "horrifyingly, I can't quite remember this book you are reading now, but I think I read it some40 years ago. V was the one I remember loving so much especially when I stopped struggling and just rea..."

Well, I think the only way for me to read this is to not worry about understanding and just enjoy the ride. Thanks for the inspiration. :)

Timing is crucial, eh, and the best thing is when you can trust yourself and just as well, the author. Sometimes theres odd pressures that influence, especially when the book has a hot rep

I just lost the long comment with list because i am on the library ccomputer and I pressed a wrong key :-( The above is a synopsis and here again, the 3 excellent books I am reading this week:The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by the greatThomas King. It does still make me seriously angry, the litany of systematic abuse of Native peoples.

Another kind of systematic abuse is high school and it seems lately that I have been reading a plethora of books by sassy young women and featuring such outspoken young women, so many I have started a new shelf, 'go girl's.Even before Heather O there is Barbara Gowdy, sarah Mian and now Cordelia Strube.with the delightful Lemon

the short stories...oh you will be thrilled too with new young author [[author:Yasuko Thanh|5171048] and her bookFloating Like the Dead: Stories
she has a novel just out which I already have ordered.

So many books that sound so exciting! I want to read them all.
I'm still enjoying ATD, even if I don't understand it so I think i'll stay with it, at least for now.

@ Ellie. how are you making out with the TP?
progress report please
@ ice. how bout you?

Returned from Yorkshire having completed Vanity Fair. The Library holds the last 2 Wallander books I have yet to read, which interesting are the first The Pyramid: And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries and the last Before the Frost.

Magdelanye wrote: "@ Ellie. how are you making out with the TP?
progress report please
@ ice. how bout you?"

Lol, I am progressing albeit slowly. I think I will finish this but I don't know how long it will take. I'm in a particularly slow place right now; at the same time, it actually makes sense to me. I really want to read this one (for some reason). I like TP very much; he feels important even when I don't understand why.

Ellie: If I remember rightly, it will pick up and take off!

@Ice, I should think that Yorkshire is a perfect venue for vanity fair

Im reading the difficultWhen the Doves Disappeared by the Finnish?Estonian writerSofi Oksanen Its too suspenseful for me to easily bear... the blurbs compare her to Stieg Larsson, of course.

Magdelanye wrote: "Ellie: If I remember rightly, it will pick up and take off!

@Ice, I should think that Yorkshire is a perfect venue for vanity fair

Im reading the difficult[book:When the Doves Disappeared|2326904..."

Another new author!
(Thanks for the hope Magdelanye-I can't wait for it to soar)