posted March 12, 2014 05:06 PM            

Thought you were finished with all that.

(Or was it a reference to the Groucho quote? )

posted March 16, 2014 07:34 AM            

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Originally posted by starfox:
Nicholas Nickelby.

Dickens is always a good read.

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Yes it is!! I've just downloaded Great Expectations to read it again.
So far my favorite is A Tale of Two Cities.

posted March 17, 2014 12:21 PM            

As of Pi Day, Gooberz for the second time around, reading the Canto Reviews as I go.

posted March 20, 2014 03:43 PM            

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Originally posted by Ellynlvx:
My daughter just read that book. I think she's the only one in her class that really does.

As of Pi Day, Gooberz for the second time around, reading the Canto Reviews as I go.

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Does she enjoy it or is she just being serious?
Some books take time, or maturity, or both to be thoroughly enjoyed
I like to be challenged by a book.

posted March 20, 2014 05:22 PM            

Or you would like to?

Both, with my daughter. She was pushed into it (requirements) and now enjoys it.

She just finished "The Great Gatsby" not long after I had made it a part of my past.

Great imagery on that one.

posted March 20, 2014 07:18 PM            

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Originally posted by Ellynlvx:
You did?

Or you would like to?

Both, with my daughter. She was pushed into it (requirements) and now enjoys it.

She just finished "The Great Gatsby" not long after I had made it a part of my past.

Great imagery on that one.

Still wondering about that Ocular Doctor allusion, illusion Whatever.

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I did order it!!
But it's going to take a while before it appears in my mailbox, as it's coming from the US ^^

There are many books I originally was forced to read and ended up loving.
A few I'll probably never get along with too

posted March 29, 2014 05:35 AM            

Good to see you, they were welcoming you in the Brown Owl.

I was talking about that part; yes, Dadoo.

About what I was just reading, it was an Agatha Christie.

Mary Westmacott was her pseudonym, and I picked one up called "Unfinished Portrait."

It was Autobiographical!

If it wasn't the coolest to pick up that Linda Goodman one, I picked this one at the same time.

Do you know what a gift and a treat it is to read and learn about your best-loved Authors by their own hand?

Masterful.

posted March 29, 2014 06:01 PM            

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Originally posted by Ellynlvx:

I was talking about that part; yes, Dadoo.

About what I was just reading, it was an Agatha Christie.

Mary Westmacott was her pseudonym, and I picked one up called "Unfinished Portrait."

It was Autobiographical!

If it wasn't the coolest to pick up that Linda Goodman one, I picked this one at the same time.

Do you know what a gift and a treat it is to read and learn about your best-loved Authors by their own hand?

Masterful.

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I absolutely LOVE Agatha Christie!!
As a sophomore, I read all the library had to offer during summer break.
Something like 50 books in two months
I'd like to read them again in another language for pleasurable practice

posted March 30, 2014 02:58 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
All 50?

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Could have been 48 or 51, definitely more than 45.

First one I read in a week. Second I read in three days.
After that, it was one a day.
My mother was mad cause I wouldn't leave my room.

Life with Mars in Capricon

posted March 31, 2014 05:10 AM            

The official Auto-Biography is called "Come, Tell me how you Live" and is under Agatha Christie.

The one I found is early, unofficial and called "Unfinished Portrait" and the pseudonym is Mary Westmacott.

I know a bit about her life, and recognize her early years, and the time she disappeared and then was found.

Many speculate whether it was amnesia or some other cause.

posted April 06, 2014 06:56 PM            

Will start another Agatha Christie tonight.

That one was in my Agatha Christie boxset (movies) but under a different title.

Oh, ha!

They just went a little farther along in the quote

"Taken at the Flood."

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There is a tide in the affairs of men

Brutus:
There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
Julius Caesar Act 4, scene 3, 218–224

Brutus and Cassius are discussing the final phase of their civil war with the forces of Octavian and Marcus Antonius. Cassius has been urging that they group their forces at Sardis and take advantage of the secure location to catch their breath. Brutus, however, advocates heading off the enemy at Philippi before Octavian can recruit more men. Brutus's main point is that, since "the enemy increaseth every day" and "We, at the height, are ready to decline" (lines 216–217), he and Cassius must act now while the ratio of forces is most advantageous. "There's a tide in the affairs of men," he insists; that is, power is a force that ebbs and flows in time, and one must "go with the flow." Waiting around only allows your power to pass its crest and begin to ebb; if the opportunity is "omitted" (missed), you'll find yourself stranded in miserable shallows.

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"Can't Get it out of my Head"
(Electric Light Orchestra)

Midnight, on the water
I saw the ocean's daughter
Walking on a wave's chicane
Staring as she called my name

And I can't get it out of my head
No, I can't get it out of my head
Now my old world is gone for dead
'Cause I can't get it out of my head

Breakdown on the shoreline
Can't move, it's an ebbtide

Morning, don't get here tonight
Searching for her silver light

And I can't get it out of my head
No, I can't get it out of my head
Now my old world is gone for dead
'Cause I can't get it out of my head

Bank job in the city
Robin Hood and William Tell
And Ivanhoe and Lancelot
They don't envy me
Sitting 'til the sun goes down
In dreams the world keeps going 'round and 'round

And I can't get it out of my head
No, I can't get it out of my head
Now my old world is gone for dead
'Cause I can't get it out of my head

Jeff Lynne- in response to his father's lack of faith.

(Sabian for the Day)

LIBRA 17
A RETIRED SEA CAPTAIN WATCHES SHIPS ENTERING AND LEAVING THE HARBOR

It's time for quiet recollection. You may feel that the stormy, unpredictable emotional life is something you can leave behind - you can opt out. But like the sea captain, there will always be the frustration in the desire to return. An objective and calm understanding of life's experiences is available now.

Memories and peaceful contemplation. Writing one's memoirs. Being a spectator rather than a participant.

The Caution: Copping-out, escaping from reality. Relying on past experiences.

posted April 07, 2014 03:42 AM            

One of the earlier Agatha Christies; don't think I mentioned it on here, was called "The Secret of Chimneys."

The one I picked up tonight is:

"The Seven Dials Mystery."

Strangely enough, they are about the same house and the same family members.

Don't remember her repeating characters like that much. Except for the main ones like Poirot and Miss Marple.