tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680602048847357735.post4465436309584548462..comments2024-03-27T02:51:33.336-07:00Comments on Finding Myself in Hoboken: Retirement Plan: Read Some BooksMary Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01515655542270431289noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680602048847357735.post-48759267622433606822009-10-18T06:00:33.406-07:002009-10-18T06:00:33.406-07:00This sounds like the kind of book I need for my up...This sounds like the kind of book I need for my upcoming flight to Fairhope, Ted. Airplane reads are a different category--page turners that hold your attention without much effort. I know Jeannette Wall's story and it is fascinating.<br /><br />Thanks for the suggestion.Mary Loishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515655542270431289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680602048847357735.post-78380629496242519332009-10-18T05:31:46.505-07:002009-10-18T05:31:46.505-07:00I'm halfway through 'The Glass Castle'...I'm halfway through 'The Glass Castle' a Memoir, Jeannette Walls, 2005. Love it! Is it/was it a winner or do the literate consider it mundane? TedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680602048847357735.post-35171787168960365772009-10-14T08:20:50.931-07:002009-10-14T08:20:50.931-07:00Your choices - Wuthering Heights, Madame Bovary or...Your choices - Wuthering Heights, Madame Bovary or Anna K...<br /><br />Coin flip on either Wuthering Heights or Madame Bovary. Both are very good reads, I would say excellent except that raises a high bar and often to a reader anticipating too much. Different strokes etc.<br /><br />I read Anna K - beginning to end - after several attempts. I have the translated version that became an Oprah pick which from earlier publishings was easier. I found it to be an okay read and a book I would not put on my recommend list.Linda - SE PAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680602048847357735.post-8123922218351959992009-10-14T05:24:39.885-07:002009-10-14T05:24:39.885-07:00calkstGood blog. I could relate easily. Thanks.calkstGood blog. I could relate easily. Thanks.H. Ted Lesherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18332340073667682558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680602048847357735.post-36132343304167217092009-10-13T06:52:10.192-07:002009-10-13T06:52:10.192-07:00I'm thinking Wuthering Heights, Madame Bovary ...I'm thinking <i>Wuthering Heights</i>, <i>Madame Bovary</i> or <i>Anna Karenina.</i> Where to start?<br /><br />I'll ponder <i>Seven Story Mountain</i>, but it's not at the top of my list yet. Any other suggestions? For Ron: I know I have to get to <i>The Jungle</i> soon. There's at least a seven-storey mountain I have to scale here.Mary Loishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515655542270431289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680602048847357735.post-28135915265797604552009-10-12T04:47:19.017-07:002009-10-12T04:47:19.017-07:00Carlo's Bakery is suddenly a bonanza for Hobok...Carlo's Bakery is suddenly a bonanza for Hoboken, altho the locals are discouraged because since "Cake Boss" on television (Buddy Valastro, Carlo's' owner, is a star!) we can't get near the place on weekends.<br /><br />Glad to hear from this anonymous reader, who once haunted my Fairhope blog. Hope you'll join us in finding me in Hoboken again. <br /><br />This little city suits me fine.Mary Loishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515655542270431289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680602048847357735.post-493675215125766912009-10-11T19:55:45.409-07:002009-10-11T19:55:45.409-07:00I was in your fair city this weekend ; we drove al...I was in your fair city this weekend ; we drove all the way up from just outside of Philadelphia to buy a cake from Carlo's Bakery for our daughter's 18th birthday. The cake was good, the trip was better- Hoboken looks like a really interesting place, I'm glad I took the opportunity to visit.<br /><br />As for a book selection, I am going to offer a rather off-beat suggestion. I was thoroughly inspired by Thomas Merton's the 'Seven Story Mountain', I hope that if you haven't already read it you will soon have the opportunity to do so.<br /><br />On a personal note, it is nice to see that you are still writing and thriving in my beloved Garden State. I enjoyed reading your writing once again.<br /><br />T. BeauchampAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680602048847357735.post-12840642867182909802009-10-11T04:19:17.314-07:002009-10-11T04:19:17.314-07:00I have been a fan of Edith Wharton's since 197...I have been a fan of Edith Wharton's since 1971 when I read "The Age of Innocence" on the trains to and from Boston. I have many first editions of her major works because in the early '70s she had not yet become "serious." (That happened in 1975, when the R.W.B. Lewis biography revealed that she had a sex life.) But when I think or talk about Wharton I almost never mention "Ethan Frome." I know how it fits into the other books and into her life, but I find it so atypical of her work that I just oddly shut it out. What is odder still is that this is the one book of hers known to the public at large.New Yorkernoreply@blogger.com