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Thu, Mar 26, 09 at 10:36
| Dido wrote:
The Convergence of the Twain - Thomas Hardy and now I kick off with: Kiss Kiss - Roald Dahl |
Follow-Up Postings:
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| Confessions of a Frog Kisser - Susan Rose |
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- Posted by deep___roots (My Page) on Thu, Mar 26, 09 at 15:09
| The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County // Mark Twain oh so clever am I. |
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- Posted by connie_in_western_nc (My Page) on Thu, Mar 26, 09 at 19:55
| The Bridges of Madison County...Robert James Waller |
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| The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder |
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- Posted by connie_in_western_nc (My Page) on Fri, Mar 27, 09 at 19:43
| The Bridges At Toko-Ri...James Michener |
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| Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden |
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| Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith |
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| Ramblings of an Aging Gutter Punk - Jeff Ott |
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| Diary of a Super Tramp - W.H.Davies |
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| Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes - Ted Conover |
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| The Railway Chldren - Edith Nesbitt |
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- Posted by lemonhead101 (My Page) on Mon, Mar 30, 09 at 9:59
| Thomas the Tank Engine: The Complete Collection - Wilbert Awdry and C. Reginald Dalby |
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| Wilbert the Forest Engine - Christopher Awdry (Wilbert 'lives' about a mile from us on the local restored railway line) |
Here is a link that might be useful: Wilbert's Home
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- Posted by woodnymph2 (My Page) on Mon, Mar 30, 09 at 12:28
| The Orient Express - Agatha Christie |
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- Posted by lemonhead101 (My Page) on Mon, Mar 30, 09 at 14:34
| The Book of Chinese Cooking -Jasper Spencer |
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| Southern Fried Rice: Life in a Chinese Laundry - John Jung |
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| The Seven Sermons to the Dead - Carl Jung |
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| The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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- Posted by lemonhead101 (My Page) on Tue, Mar 31, 09 at 10:00
| Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder |
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- Posted by phyllis__mn (My Page) on Tue, Mar 31, 09 at 10:44
| A Painted House....John Grisham |
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- Posted by connie_in_western_nc (My Page) on Wed, Apr 1, 09 at 19:54
| The Cider House Rules...John Irving |
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| Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee |
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- Posted by lemonhead101 (My Page) on Thu, Apr 2, 09 at 14:43
| The Essential Wine Book: An Indispensable Guide to the Wines of the World - Oz Clarke |
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- Posted by connie_in_western_nc (My Page) on Thu, Apr 2, 09 at 19:55
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz...L. Frank Baum |
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| The Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Leguin |
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| Earth Fire and Sea - R Bixler |
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- Posted by lemonhead101 (My Page) on Fri, Apr 3, 09 at 12:57
| Planet Earth Book: Companion to the TV series - foreward by David Attenborough |
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- Posted by woodnymph2 (My Page) on Sat, Apr 4, 09 at 10:23
| The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald |
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| Ring of Bright Water - Gavin Maxwell |
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| A Circle of Sisters - Judith Flanders |
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- Posted by connie_in_western_nc (My Page) on Sun, Apr 5, 09 at 19:47
| Moll Flanders...Daniel Defoe |
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| A Dog of Flanders by Louise De La Reme |
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| A House in Flanders - Michael Jenkins (btw a most enjoyable quiet read) |
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| The Lady in the Palazzo - Marlena de Blasi |
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| THE PALACE UNDER THE ALPS by William Bryson (aka Bill Bryson...this was his first book) |
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- Posted by woodnymph2 (My Page) on Mon, Apr 6, 09 at 14:02
| Heidi's Alp: One Family's Search for Storybook Europe- Christina Hardyment |
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| Heidi--Johanna Spyri |
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| Walking in the Swiss Alps - Ernest Hemingway |
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| Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson and Kenneth Blanchard |
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| Octavius O'Malley & the Mystery of the Exploding Cheese - Alan Sutherland |
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- Posted by phyllis__mn (My Page) on Tue, Apr 7, 09 at 11:41
| Mountain Goats Never Say Cheese....Patrick F. McManua |
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| EVERYDAY CHRISTIANITY by Grumpy Smith |
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- Posted by connie_in_western_nc (My Page) on Tue, Apr 7, 09 at 19:40
| Grumpy Old Men...Mark Johnson |
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| Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| Victor Ludorum - Jennifer Chapman |
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| Victory at Sea: Order of Battle by Matthew Sprange |
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- Posted by lemonhead101 (My Page) on Wed, Apr 8, 09 at 10:25
| Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle that Changed the World -- Roy Adkins |
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| What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been... Robert Cowley, ed. |
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| Who Won the Vietnam War? - Mark Woodruff |
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| Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam -- Bernard Edelman |
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| The Well-tempered Sentence: a Punctuation Book for the Innocent, the Eaager, and the Doomed--Karen Elizabeth Gordon |
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- Posted by deep___roots (My Page) on Thu, Apr 9, 09 at 15:06
| The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo) // Sergio Leone, Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni (screenplay): lost my rule book, hope screenplays are eligible |
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| Good Wives - Louisa May Alcott |
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| The Wife of Bath's Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer |
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- Posted by deep___roots (My Page) on Fri, Apr 10, 09 at 15:26
| The Tale of a Tub // Jonathan Swift |
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| Gulliver's Travels--Jonathan Swift |
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| The Little People - Christopher Pike |
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- Posted by phyllis__mn (My Page) on Sat, Apr 11, 09 at 9:17
| Giants in the Earth....Ole Edvaart Rolvaag |
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- Posted by connie_in_western_nc (My Page) on Sat, Apr 11, 09 at 19:57
| Giant...Edna Ferber |
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| Head in the Clouds - Carrie Lewis |
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| The Monk - Matthew Gregory Lewis |
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| Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay - Robert Greene |
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- Posted by lemonhead101 (My Page) on Mon, Apr 13, 09 at 11:45
| Deep-Fry Cookery - Mable Hoffman |
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- Posted by connie_in_western_nc (My Page) on Mon, Apr 13, 09 at 19:44
| The South Beach Diet...Arthur Agatston |
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| Sand in the Sandwiches - Peter Perry |
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| Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich - Adam Rex |
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| The Lock Ness Monster: A Picky Eater - A Flaherty |
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- Posted by lemonhead101 (My Page) on Wed, Apr 15, 09 at 13:57
| The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals - Missy Lapine |
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- Posted by connie_in_western_nc (My Page) on Wed, Apr 15, 09 at 19:57
| Sneaky Pie's Cookbook For Mystery Lovers...Rita Mae Brown |
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| I Left my Sneakers in Dimension X - Bruce Coville |
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- Posted by lemonhead101 (My Page) on Thu, Apr 16, 09 at 15:30
| How to talk Dirty and Influence People - Lenny Bruce |
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| Robert the Bruce: The Realm of Scotland - G W Barrow |
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- Posted by deep___roots (My Page) on Fri, Apr 17, 09 at 11:37
| Rob Roy // Sir Walter Scott ding ding ding....bonus |
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| Ivanhoe--Sir Walter Scott |
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- Posted by connie_in_western_nc (My Page) on Sat, Apr 18, 09 at 19:54
| Ivan the Terrible...Robert Payne |
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| Ivan Kind-Heart: A Russian Fairy Tale - Beatrice Clennell |
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- Posted by phyllis__mn (My Page) on Sun, Apr 19, 09 at 14:41
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter....Carson McCullers |
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| Kind Hearts and Coronets - R Hamer (Hello! Is anyone out there? A wonderfully funny old b&w film made of this) |
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- Posted by woodnymph2 (My Page) on Mon, Apr 20, 09 at 10:39
| Feather Crowns - Bobbie Ann Mason |
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- Posted by woodnymph2 (My Page) on Mon, Apr 20, 09 at 10:56
| Sorry. Now my memory has recaptured the quote: "Kind Hearts are more than Coronets, (I think Sir Walter Scott is the source?) |
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| Peacocks and Feather Dusters - Matt Johnstone Well, you learn something new here everyday! Mary it is actually from Tennyson's Lady Clara Vere de Vere one of his lesser known works . . . or at least, one I had never heard of. ;-) |
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- Posted by lemonhead101 (My Page) on Mon, Apr 20, 09 at 15:28
| The Queen of Clean Conquers Clutter - Linda Cobb |
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| Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity - V Smith (Lemonhead please ask Ms Cobb to call at my house) |
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- Posted by deep___roots (My Page) on Wed, Apr 22, 09 at 17:16
| Filth // Irvine Welsh |
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- Posted by connie_in_western_nc (My Page) on Wed, Apr 22, 09 at 19:23
| God's Little Acre...Erskine Caldwell This isn't my opinion, but I'm in my 60's and when I was "young and impressionable" that's what many opinions were about this book... so when I see Deep Roots posting, that's what first comes to mind :=0))))))))) |
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| God's in His Heaven - John Cole |
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| The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins |
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| So far from God : a novel by Ana Castillo |
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- Posted by lemonhead101 (My Page) on Thu, Apr 23, 09 at 10:22
| I Thought my Father was God - Paul Auster |
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- Posted by phyllis__mn (My Page) on Fri, Apr 24, 09 at 9:07
| Great Lion of God....Taylor Caldwell (I just posted this on another thread that asked for Biblical themes, so I'm ahead of myself this morning!!) |
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| Wizard of Oz--Frank Baum |
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| Witches Brew - Terry Brooks |
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| Tam O' Shanter - Robert Burns |
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- Posted by woodnymph2 (My Page) on Mon, Apr 27, 09 at 8:02
| Lochnivar Luck - Albert Payson Terhune |
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| Oh young Lochinvar has come out o' the west - Anon |
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| The West is on Your Left Hand - Nancy Faulkner |
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| A Leg to Stand On--Oliver Sacks |
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- Posted by woodnymph2 (My Page) on Thu, Apr 30, 09 at 12:00
| My Left Foot - Christy Brown |
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- Posted by deep___roots (My Page) on Thu, Apr 30, 09 at 12:15
| bury my heart at wounded knee // dee brown bonus, but kinda like shooting fish in a barrel, that one was...cheers |
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- Posted by lemonhead101 (My Page) on Thu, Apr 30, 09 at 15:17
| Running Injuries - Gary N. Guten, M.D. |
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| Rabbit Run - John Updike |
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- Posted by phyllis__mn (My Page) on Thu, Apr 30, 09 at 19:53
| The Velveteen Rabbit....Margery Williams |
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| Ration Books and Rabbit Pie - Linda Crust |
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- Posted by woodnymph2 (My Page) on Fri, May 1, 09 at 9:02
| The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Schaffer and Barrows |
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| Comfort Me with Apples--Ruth Reichl |
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| The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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| Footsteps in the Fog - Stephen Thraves |
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- Posted by woodnymph2 (My Page) on Sat, May 2, 09 at 11:16
| House of Sand & Fog - Andre Dubus |
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| The House on the Strand - Daphne du Maurier (extra points) |
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| The Sandcastle - Iris Murdoch (extra points) (am I playing this game on my own?) |
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| I Paced the Lonely Sands - C L Kenney (Dido and I will take our buckets and spades, build castles and hunt for shells all by ourselves) |
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- Posted by lemonhead101 (My Page) on Tue, May 5, 09 at 11:16
| The Sea, the Sea - Iris Murdoch (I'm back. Got busy at work but now it's done, I can play a bit more. Save a bucket and spade for me.) |
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| The Old Man and the Sea--ErnestHemingway |
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- Posted by phyllis__mn (My Page) on Tue, May 5, 09 at 17:11
| Beach Music.....Pat Conroy |
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| On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan |
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| On the Beach-Neville Shute |
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| Annabel Lee - Edgar Allan Poe |
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| Anna and the King of Siam - Margaret Landon |
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- Posted by woodnymph2 (My Page) on Wed, May 6, 09 at 9:07
| The Kingdom by the Sea - Paul Theroux |
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- Posted by deep___roots (My Page) on Wed, May 6, 09 at 13:23
| The river; selections from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau // Henry David Thoreau |
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| The Blue Nile - Alan Moorehead |
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- Posted by lemonhead101 (My Page) on Thu, May 7, 09 at 10:48
| Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog) - Jerome K. Jerome |
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- Posted by woodnymph2 (My Page) on Thu, May 7, 09 at 11:32
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in Nighttime - Mark Hadden |
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- Posted by lemonhead101 (My Page) on Thu, May 7, 09 at 11:52
| Dog is my Co-Pilot: Great Writers on the World's Oldest Friendship - Bark editors |
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| Why we love the dogs we do : how to find the dog that matches your personality by Stanley Coren. |
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- Posted by woodnymph2 (My Page) on Thu, May 7, 09 at 12:12
| Marley & Me - John Grogan |
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- Posted by lemonhead101 (My Page) on Thu, May 7, 09 at 14:47
| A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens |
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- Posted by phyllis__mn (My Page) on Thu, May 7, 09 at 16:02
| We Were the Mulvaneys.....Joyce Carol Oates |
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| A Very Gallant Gentleman: Captain Oates - Louis Bernacchi (When I was a child much was made of Oates' heroic self sacrifice as a member of the ill-fated Scott-led Antarctic expedition. A sentiment largely lost on the modern UK public) |
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| Two Gentlemen of Verona - William Shakespeare |
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- Posted by woodnymph2 (My Page) on Fri, May 8, 09 at 8:41
| Death in Venice - Thomas Mann |
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| Quiet Killers--Robert Baker |
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- Posted by lemonhead101 (My Page) on Fri, May 8, 09 at 11:01
| All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque |
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| Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut |
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| The Magnificent Piano Recital - Marilynn Reynolds |
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| Grand obsession : a piano odyssey by Perri Knize. |
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- Posted by connie_in_western_nc (My Page) on Sat, May 9, 09 at 19:48
| Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr...Stephen Oates |
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| A String in the Harp - Nancy Bond |
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- Posted by woodnymph2 (My Page) on Sun, May 10, 09 at 13:24
| To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee |
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| Who Killed Cock Robin - Paul Henning |
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| Puck of Pook's Hill - Rudyard Kipling |
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- Posted by woodnymph2 (My Page) on Mon, May 11, 09 at 10:00
| The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser |
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- Posted by lemonhead101 (My Page) on Mon, May 11, 09 at 11:00
| THe Red Queen's Daughter - Jacqueline Kolosov |
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| Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey |
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- Posted by phyllis__mn (My Page) on Mon, May 11, 09 at 16:19
| Tea Time for the Traditionally Built....Alexander McCall Smith |
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| The Eat All Day Diet - Helen Foster |
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- Posted by woodnymph2 (My Page) on Tue, May 12, 09 at 10:00
| French Women Don't Get Fat - Mereille Giuliano |
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| Boule de Suif - Guy de Maupassant (double points) |
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| Super Chubby - Neil Ricklen |
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- Posted by lemonhead101 (My Page) on Tue, May 12, 09 at 17:01
| Fit or Fat - Covert Bailey |
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