flight paths discussion

Hey all

Just a little update to let you know that the professional facets of my life have been consuming an unusually huge amount of time over the last few months. Haven't had much time for me. I think the workload is trending back to normal so I should be around more regularly.

I miss Goodreads so much. And I'm looking forward to being my pesky self in Flight Paths. I hope to return to my duties of group library upkeep soon, bot will understand if you need to replace me.

Soon. Soon.

Also, we need another flight for the return of the light!

Melissa
The prodigal librarian

The flight is open ended and waiting for GR technology to catch up.

A piece of 'fatted calf' anyone ?

Melissa wrote: "Hey all

Just a little update to let you know that the professional facets of my life have been consuming an unusually huge amount of time over the last few months. Haven't had much time for me. ..."

Hey Melissa, Sounds like a familiar complaint.
Just feel free to drop by our lounge any time and keep your saucy comments coming.

@Ice Bear: these comments are a bit arcane for me.
Certainly "fatted calf" sounds suspiciously sacrificial and not on my culinary to do list

Magdelanye wrote: "@Ice Bear: these comments are a bit arcane for me.
Certainly "fatted calf" sounds suspiciously sacrificial and not on my culinary to do list.."

When the prodigal daughter returned, the family killed the fatted calf to celebrate her return to the fold...

Yes, please pass the vegetables, pass them to someone else !

I have some sympathy for the dutiful 'stay at homes'. My rebellions are quieter in nature.

Okay Ice, I like a fatted lamb, myself. However, since I am the prodigal librarian, not the daughter. . . perhaps a "fatted" something isn't the right word . . . hmm.

We can just call it a celebration and make up menu's in our head.

Meanwhile its lunchtime and this pilgrim is hungry..... open draw.....take out book !!

:-D

putting my comment here, as it is dangerously close to the time I am booked to return to Canada.
Due to the theft of my bag,I have been grounded again.
All the places I wanted to go...will have to remain for next time.
I will be lucky to get out of Barcelona with my wits intact,and the crazy thing is,although I have been stung,I still love it here.
But I am rather hungry.

placing this comment here as it seems appropriate place to comment on the delightful problem just handed me by he library system that delivered to me,after months on hold, both Goldfinch and rhe new Murakami.
Actually i picked up goldfinch first but was curiously put off by the lage print version. then the murakami came available and lo!
while still at checkout counter i was pulled in. hard decision not so hard then...and it was basically the format that influenced me here.i am returning the unweildy goldfinch and postponing that pleasure till i get the regular edition and guzzling HM

Is the new Murakami Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage or his most recent one (which has not yet come out in the US). Or his short story?

I liked the Goldfinch but didn't love it so not the biggest loss. It is long but doesn't actually take that long to read.

OMG there is something else already newer than CTT?!!

That man is so prolific

Magdelanye wrote: "OMG there is something else already newer than CTT?!!

That man is so prolific"

Yes, he apparently has a new book about to come out and a short story. ( found this information about it: "His next novel, the 96-page The Strange Library, tells the story of a boy who stops at his local library and encounters an old man who holds him captive and forces him to read books, planning to eat his brain in order to absorb his knowledge. With his fellow captives, a girl with some unusual talents and a sheep-man, the boy tries to escape. It will be translated from Japanese by Ted Goossen and published by Knopf."

Not to bore you or anything!

ellie you are never boring
i still have to finish my review of TT. it appears that true fans of hm are now differentiating from some who i believe are merely trendy and fickle now complaining. Have you noticed this?

Magdelanye wrote: "ellie you are never boring
i still have to finish my review of TT. it appears that true fans of hm are now differentiating from some who i believe are merely trendy and fickle now complaining. Hav..."

Yes, I have. I've been surprised by some of the reactions. I think you're correct and people who jumped on his band wagon are jumping off. TT is an excellent example of Murakami, I think. Maybe not his very best but a good book. I enjoyed it very much, anyway. Most of the people criticizing have probably only read 1Q84.

Or so I think.

I've missed this group. I'm playing hookie (sp?) from lesson planning this weekend because I'm so beyond burnt out I needed to return to GR and reading.

I won two books from LibraryThing and I have to get to work on those. One of them is a bio of the new pope which is kind of long but interesting so far. Of course, I'm only 20 pages into it so...

I'm also doing a reread of Anthony Trollope's The Small House at Allington which was supposed to be part of a read for a Trollope group I belong to on FB but I fell too far behind to do my part. :(

However, I am following the discussion and am quite hooked on the book. For once (probably because of lack of time) I'm really only reading the one book and trying to start the Francis.

I miss the summer. I really am a summertime girl!

How's everyone else's reading going?

is that last question still open? I am thrilled of course to be reading outdoors again, and relieved to have just finished a harsh book which we will be discussing at our book club meeting this afternoon
what sent me here now is the circumstances around this. the book was originally suggested by Janise, and when she wasn't at the last meeting one month ago, we held off discussion of whether to carry on with it as everyone was having a rough time getting into it.
Janise wasn't at the meeting because two days previous she was hit by a car and died.
haven't been able to share this before now but today I needed to

I'm so sorry about your friend. That's a horrible shock, so sudden. My condolences.

thanks Ellie

not sure where to place this. just learned about Richard Wagamese's death. I'm not sure why its hitting me so heavy, other than that bond we share with authors we love .Maybe because I cried at his books
I know Petra and Mary Anne know who I'm talking about, maybe Ellie and Ice don't...but I believe he should be available for your discovery. His poetry enhanced his fiction

I immediately looked up Wagamese after reading your post and am sorry I have not (yet) read any of his works.

I'm also sorry Magdelanye for your feelings of loss. I know how hard it hits when a favorite author dies.

its strange, I would not exactly say that he was so much a favorite author as beloved kin.
this may be slightly pathological, extreme over identification, but as RW said in his introduction
From the moment we enter this physical reality to the moment we depart again as spirit, we are energy moving forward to the fullest expression of ourselves....In this we are joined. We are one. in the end we are one story, one song, one spirit, one song

Beautiful

His death is hitting me harder than most, too. I've only read Medicine Walk and found it absolutely wonderful. I'm sad that he's no longer with us.
Magdelanye, thank you for the quote. I hadn't read that before. It's beautiful.

apparently he had just finished a sequel to Medicine Walk, which was my first RW too Petra, tho by now I've read most of his work.
I spent some time on his fb page. I learned he had a new book Embers that came out in September.

It's always fun to rediscover this thread and I feel brighter having read it through.
It does seem that this is the thread for woes and bits that don't fit anywhere else.
Just got home from a quick trip to Vancouver for the women's memorial march. What's really amazing to me has been watching how each year it's better organized.
Today we were blessed by sunshine and eagles as well as many prayers by the elders.
It's a different experience too coming in to the city rather than living in the most misunderstood neighbourhood in the country.
I have not yet found a new place. Not much available.
AND as if this weren't depressing enough, my other group that gave me so much joy has me in the corner with dunce cap, for expressing an opinion I felt strongly.
I don't dis. But I am in danger of feeling woeful and if I just avoid this unpleasantness that's my pattern, storming off, no one will be hurt but me. Not sure if I'm making sense but the crux of it is, I'm breaking old patterns and instead of fleeing or fighting I'm going to stand my ground. There are few things I yet hate more than hypocrisy and the only thing I value more than truth is empathy.

I'm glad you had a good time at the memorial march, Magdelanye.

I'm waiting to hear that you found a new place. My fingers are crossed for you.

I think a difference of opinion should be allowed to be expressed in respectful tone, which I'm sure you have done. There shouldn't be hard feelings, should there? It is, after all, an opinion, which are by definition individual and worthwhile.

Don't be down. Smile today.

Magdelanye wrote: "It's always fun to rediscover this thread and I feel brighter having read it through.
It does seem that this is the thread for woes and bits that don't fit anywhere else.
Just got home from a quick..."

It's awful looking for a home. I hope you find something soon. My thoughts are with you.

I think we should feel safe to disagree within a group. Otherwise, I think the group can wither, if everyone has to agree all the time. We're not that fragile. I hope.

I'm off now to the airport and then to Santa Fe. I was so sick earlier this week (may be vertigo, I was in the hospital but they're not sure) that I wasn't sure I could go so I'm especially grateful and excited!

well Ellie I'm glad you had such a good time in Santa Fe!
I'm coming here with a question for you mystery affeciados, from a woman I met today while I was working on the library.
She can't remember author or titles, but she is searching for a series that sounds quite fun with a British spy who retires to become a pastor I believe or maybe an Anglican priest. He gets involved with a local witch and I think there is a murder for them to solve, and then they marry and he goes back to being a spy.
Ring any bells?

It definitely sounds tantalizingly familiar. I'm going to ponder this one and hope it comes back to me. I seem to remember the part of becoming a priest.

G.M. Malliet and Max Tudor series??

MaryAnne I think that's it
just looked it up and it seems to be a match.
Thanks....Marnie will be over the moon

LOL! a bit more exploring revealed that Ellie gave the first bok 4 stars!

@MaryAnne: good for you. I love Malliet but it's clearly been a while since reading.