"Les iles" by Jean Grenier

"Everything is Illuminated" by Jonathon Safran.

This movie was recommended to me by a good friend. Then the Amazon review said "it is not easy to make a movie of a cult novel." My first reaction was "A cult novel and I missed it?" So I bought both. I watched the DVD first and I am glad it did. The novel was much more convoluted. It is about a Jewish young man who goes back to the Ukranine to find the woman who saved his grandfather's life during WWII. Really beautifully done; both the movie and the book. The other characters are the worst kind of eastern Europeans; coarse, crude, violent and vulgar. As the story progresses sensitivity and gentleness emerges in them. It is really beautiful.

"Grammaire italienne"

baci,

MVER XXX

I'm re-reading Darcey Steinke's "Suicide Blond" and I also have Melissa Banks' "The Wonder Spot" that I'm reading. I typically read fiction at the same time and non fiction at the same time. I like reading 3 or 4 books at the same time and just alernating between the books depending on my mood.

I am re-reading Temple Grandin's "Animals in Translation". This book is terrific. Temple is a high functioning autistic person. She has a PhD in Animal Science. She thinks that animals think the same way she does. In pictures and extremely sensitive to contrast  and movement in those pictures. She has designed most of the feed lots in this country and although she wishes people didn't eat animals she thinks that if we do eat them then they should have a reasonable quality of life and a quick, painless, fearless death when the time comes. What is extremly interesting is what she says about current research in animal learning.

I can't praise this book enough.

I am in the middle of reading Nightwatch by Sergei Lukyanenko

I have just finished reading Without Consent by Kathryn Fox. Which I must say was a I cant put down book absolutely brilliant! I am now going to start Harry Potter and the half blood prince, and then the final one again!

Oh I love Harry Potter! But I'm going to be pissed if Harry doesn't do the martyr thing.
I'd like to see him have to sacrifice himself to kill Voldie or something along those lines. I think he'd be better remembered as a tragic hero.
Not to mention I can't stomach 'happily ever afters'.

The hidden book I am reading is the autobiography of Christine Jorgensen with introduction by Susan Stryker. I also am reading the New Revised Standard Version of the Student Bible which is not hidden. 

I was born in the same town as Christine and Dr. Harry Benjamin gave Christine credit for Dr. Benjamin's publication.  Christine looked like a pretty boy and I think she was a pretty girl.

I am happy to have found Susan's Forum but for whatever reason that thought made me cry.

Am reading:

Mona Simpson "Anywhere But Here"

Joan Didion "The Year of Magical Thinking"

Am planning on reading:

Jumpa Lahiri "Interpreter of Maladies"

ciao,
Gina M.

Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy
Red Lightning by John Varley
Red Thunder by John Varley

Methinks there be a pattern here though none intended and instead merely the whims of high Olympus.

Beverly

Quote from: Kiera on July 30, 2007, 09:33:32 PM

Quote from: Wendy on July 30, 2007, 07:18:51 AMI was born in the same town as Christine  . . .

Wasn't that the Throgs Neck area of the East Bronx Wendy? (only later did she move to LI). Driven by there a million times since & kept my boat at the Shea Stadium Marina adjacent the Worlds Fair Grounds. Small world indeed.

Kiera, I was not far from the Throgs Neck Bridge.  I visited the 1964 World's Fair many times.  I was a Yankee fan and I used to watch Micky Mantle and the other Yankee greats.  We have a number of other events in our lives that are similar.  We will chat about this stuff in private so that we keep our families safe.

Christine Jorgensen was very dynamic!

I'm most of the way through "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde.

Megan

Am reading Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky. Very sad but wonderful.

ciao,
Gina M.

out of the dark by linda caine and robin royston. very interesting. i began to read it as my mum went through something similar when i was a child.

For this summer I have chosen Stephen King : Dark Tower.

First 3 of them read already and now I'm starting up the IV Wizard & Glass....

Quote from: Alice on June 20, 2006, 04:24:14 PM
I am reading 'Middlesex' by Jefferey Eugenides. It is about a girl who transforms into a man. It is very long (I have been reading it for months) and I am just getting to the part where he talk about his life. It does not say so but from what I have read of the book he was born intersex.

Alice

i already read that (in 2 1/2 days!!!)....its a BEST SELLER (here in Greece), i suggested to everyone, but  u have wrong she/he's hermaphrodite!!!!!

Also u can search for "Shanghai Tango" by Jin Xing, its a thrilled biography of a extraordinary MtF person, a path from the chinese army to the recognition in the world of balet, DONT LOOSE THAT BOOK.

http://www.amazon.com/Shanghai-Tango-Jin-Xing/dp/1843546329/ref=sr_1_1/105-4282550-8748432?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187471704&sr=1-1

now im in "The Swarm"    (A Novel by Frank Schatzing)

i just read 'england, england' and 'arthur and george' both by julian barnes. I preferred the first, the story is tighter although the writing itself less flamboyant and enjoyable.

i may read 'monsignor quixote' by graham greene next, or the second gormenghast book or jane eyre.... not sure yet. to be honest i want to write the next great book rather than read one.

The Latest Adventures of Eddie, a Famous Pigeon Goes to France
By Pauline Hyde


I haven't read it all yet, but it is certainly a "must read"

tink

Quote from: evelynaGR on August 18, 2007, 04:18:55 PM

Quote from: Alice on June 20, 2006, 04:24:14 PM
I am reading 'Middlesex' by Jefferey Eugenides. It is about a girl who transforms into a man. It is very long (I have been reading it for months) and I am just getting to the part where he talk about his life. It does not say so but from what I have read of the book he was born intersex.

Alice

i already read that (in 2 1/2 days!!!)....its a BEST SELLER (here in Greece), i suggested to everyone, but  u have wrong she/he's hermaphrodite!!!!!

Also u can search for "Shanghai Tango" by Jin Xing, its a thrilled biography of a extraordinary MtF person, a path from the chinese army to the recognition in the world of balet, DONT LOOSE THAT BOOK.

now im in "The Swarm"    (A Novel by Frank Schatzing)

And swallow "The Secret" in a day!!!!!!! It was sticky in my hand!!!! LOL
If you read it maybe you change your way of thinking and living, its a "must read".