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The libraries in the UK are woefully underfunded a...

2008-07-31T12:56:00.000-07:00

The libraries in the UK are woefully underfunded and never have books from the same decade as the one you find yourself living in. You can get yourself on a waiting list for new books but by the time you get it, you probably won't even remember that you wanted to read it.

I just want to read the chapter about our poster anyway.

Buying books you hate? Don't y'all have them than...

2008-07-31T12:35:00.000-07:00

Buying books you hate? Don't y'all have them thangs we call "liberrys" over thar?

Thanks for leaving that comment. I threw the book ...

2008-07-31T08:44:00.000-07:00

Thanks for leaving that comment. I threw the book away in disgust years ago so now I can't go back and re-read the chapter on you to see what it said. What did she write that you really disagreed with? Oh no, I'll probably go have to order another copy now because I must know what she said about you, but then I'd be buying her book again and thus furthering her writing career, and we don't want that! Thanks for writing.

I have only read the chapter on me, The Amazing Ta...

2008-07-31T07:59:00.000-07:00

I have only read the chapter on me, The Amazing Tarquin, I didn't agree with a lot of what she wrote so I assume the rest was just as bad

If you enjoy Age of Innocence, try one of her le...

2008-04-29T07:41:00.000-07:00

If you enjoy *Age of Innocence,* try one of her lesser-known novels, *The Glimpses of the Moon.* Wow! I can't believe Merchant/Ivory (are they still around?) never made a period-piece movie based on that one. My daughter tried to interest me in *Custom of the Country* but for some reason that one didn't grab me---maybe it was the main character's name that put me off---Undine Spragg. Right up there with Ayn Rand's Dagney Taggart in The Ugly Heroine Name department.

I agree. Edith Wharton is depressing me as I could...

2008-04-28T14:21:00.000-07:00

I agree. Edith Wharton is depressing me as I could never write like her. She should be more famous. I'm really enjoying the Age of Innocence.

Thanks for the recommendation (caveat?)! Now just...

2008-04-28T06:12:00.000-07:00

Thanks for the recommendation (caveat?)! Now just me personally, I LOVE Execrable Writing---the worse the better! I mean, when one reads Tolstoy or Jane Austen, one gets irritable and depressed, thinking, "I could never write like that if you put a gun to my head!" But snuggle in bed with a glass of wine and a good ol' stinkbomb like Ms. Flook's oeuvre, and life looks bright again! "Hey, if SHE can get pubished, I bet I could be the next John Grisham!" one thinks happily. (The fact that these ambitions are never undergirded by anything so practical as, say, actually sitting down and writing a chapter is irrelevant.)

Elizabeth, your ever-thoughtful bro once sent me a novel he'd bought at the Vicksburg library booksale. Well, it wasn't exactly a book with covers---it was just the manuscript on typing paper. I don't remember the title nor author, but he/she had a line I loved: "She was this poor boy's lustful fantasy, and also a rich fella's wife."

So, filled with inspiration, I decided I'd write something. Not a whole book---oh gracious think of all the time that'd take!---but a country-western song. Those lyricists can make good money!

I'll send it to you in a private e-mail if I can find it in the cobwebby catacombs of my 'sent' file. And if some impresario in Nashville should happen to see it, and offer me a big contract, why, I'll buy you all the Indian beer your little tum-tum can handle!

Thanks for a delightful morning post.