Read a Good Book Lately?'s topics - tribe.net

Shakespeare goes digital (X-post)

feiruz_al-bnefsagia — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:59:45 GMT

Why x-posted? It's Shake-freakin-speare!!!

From Reuters via Yahoo news: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080326/tc_nm/britain_shakespeare_digital_dc

A U.S. and British library plan to reproduce online all 75 editions of William Shakespeare's plays printed in the quarto format before the year 1641.

The Bodleian Library in Oxford and Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC have joined forces to download their collections, building on the work of the British Library which digitized its collection of quarto editions in 2004.

In the absence of surviving manuscripts, the quartos -- Shakespeare's earliest printed editions -- offer the closest known evidence of what Shakespeare might actually have written, and what appeared on the early modern English stage.

The project is designed to make all of the quartos, many of which are only accessible to scholars, available to the wider public.

The process of downloading the quartos will begin next month and take a year to complete.

Online visitors will be able to compare images side-by-side, lay one facsimile on top of the other, search plays and mark and tag the texts.

As well as highlighting more minor differences between copies of the same quarto, the digital database will also make it easier to study the often wide discrepancies between quartos, including some of Shakespeare's most famous lines.

"There will be countless new ways for scholars, teachers, and students to examine the quarto texts, particularly of 'Hamlet'," said Folger director Gail Kern Paster.

"You find out all sorts of things -- about how the copies went through the press, and also about the printing process," she added.

Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays and collaborated on several more between about 1590 and 1613. He died in 1616.

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 0 replies

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

thundersnow — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:40:53 GMT

An amazing novel, and it is unlike anything else I have ever read.

Given the list of books with posts on this tribe, I suspect tha many here might like this novel. The title notwithstanding, the book is tifficult to pigeon hole, not really a mystery, but then again it is. The book has a lot of humor, sublte and obvious. I found out after I'd read it, that it had been one of the NY Times 5 notable novels of 2006.

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 1 reply

Terry Pratchett

feiruz_al-bnefsagia — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:48:57 GMT

FYI

http://www.paulkidby.com/news/index.html

:(

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 0 replies

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 05:29:53 GMT

I just read a GReat book. The story starts in Afghanistan in the mid-seventies and continues as the protagonist emmigrates to America. The story is set in Afghanistan, but it isn't really 'about' Afghanistan. I highly recommend this one.

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 7 replies

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:34:41 GMT

Thomas Pynchon's new book _Against the Day_ looks really good. yey!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_day

if you are planning on reading it and want to discuss with other as you do, check out our new tribe:
http://tribes.tribe.net/againsttheday

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 0 replies

"For Your Own Good" by Alice Miller

Paul — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:45:04 GMT

Subtitle: "Hidden cruelty in child-rearing and the roots of violence." It discusses how violent/abusive child-rearing practices affect children and how common these are. It says that children tend to be profoundly affected by their parents' beliefs and behaviors. It discusses the cases of a child-murderer, a heroin addict, and Adolf Hitler, all raised by abusive parents. Abused children are more likely to abuse others. I strongly recommend this book.

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 0 replies

summer reading?

el_Lobo — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:03:19 GMT

this summer I read Falling Angels by Chevalier and Alchemist's Daughter by Macmahon

I am currently reading Massacre of the Dreamers by Ana Castillo and Malinche by Laura Esquivel

*smiles*

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 19 replies

Reynolds Price

Lesley — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:18:46 GMT

Over the weekend, I started reading The Good Priest's Son, by Reynolds Price. Price has an interesting brand of storytelling and character development that I really enjoy. Of course, the story is set in NC (where I live), and Price is an English prof at the university where I work, so I must admit I might be biased. That said, I think he is quite good.

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 0 replies

"Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:16:46 GMT

Wow, what a great read. I just devoured it on a round-trip flight from Oakland, CA to Austin, TX. It's part msytery, part love story, part gothic tale, part literary commentary.... I highly recommend it.

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 2 replies

what's shakin???

teknomama — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 02:41:20 GMT

how is everyone? what's going on in your literary life?

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 5 replies

Reading a book

Bren-duh-the-highness-of-the-Duh-Club — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:08:54 GMT

I am reading a book that is inside my head yet unwritten.

Today is my birthday. Everyone on tribe should know by now. I am so shameless. Hey, none of my friends threw a party for me so I thought that I would have a tribe party.

Now come get your ballons and hats.....cake will be served in a bit. :)

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 7 replies

The Lovely Bones

Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:08:04 GMT

The Lovely Bones by Alice Seybold(sp?) is a GREAT read!! I read it in one sitting it was so engaging. The first chapter is a bit graphic, but it's necessary to the story and and doesn't get that graphic ever again.

I highly recommend it.

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 2 replies

Jitterbug Perfume

JUSTjoel — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:39:52 GMT

Just starting this book by Tom Robbins, recommended to me by my dear Mona. Anything that starts with "The beet is the most intense of vegetables." has got to be a fun read...

Anyone else read this yet? Thoughts? (but don't give away the ending...)

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 7 replies

??????????

JUSTjoel — Wed, 11 May 2005 19:25:26 GMT

What, no one reading anything this week?

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 17 replies

The Life of Pi

Thu, 12 May 2005 02:42:01 GMT

The Life of Pi by Yann Martel is excellent. The ending turns it into this incredible 'thinking' story. You know, the sort of book where you're reading it and you think it's just a good story and then something happens where it takes root in you and you mull it over and chew on it for days. That's this book.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156027321/104-0409570-3817559?v=glance

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 2 replies

Books that are too intense

Bren-duh-the-highness-of-the-Duh-Club — Thu, 05 May 2005 14:03:51 GMT

Do y'all ever read a book that is well written, the author has your attention but the plot is so tense that you want to put it down but can't? Sort of make ya feel that you are reading against your will?

I just hate books such as those. I am reading one now.

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 5 replies

What are you reading this week?

God Bless You — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:32:38 GMT

Hello, all! Life outside of my computer has kept me from posting recently. I apologize.

I just finished a trilogy by Nora Roberts. The titles are :Key of Light, Key of Knowledge and Key of Valor. Set in modern times, it is about 3 women brought together by destiny to come to the aid of ancient Celtic gods.

The storylines tended to be predictable. However, it was a light read and I enjoyed the series.

Princess P: I am starting The Time Traveler today.

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 45 replies

"The Agony and the Ecstacy" Irving Stone

JUSTjoel — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:55:34 GMT

Finally reading this one (published the same year I was born), the biographical novel of the life of Michelangelo, and I am lost in it. (Don't tell me how it turns out - does he get the Sistine Chapel commission? Does he ever finish his sculpture of David?)

Sculpture, and the artists that create sculpture, have for long been a fascination of mine. Am also reading a biography of Camille Claudel, the famous 19th century French sculptor and "friend" of the even more famous sculptor, Auguste Rodin. She would have prospered in our times, much more than she did in the late 1880's.

Also reading "Green Eggs and Ham", nightly...

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 9 replies

The Time Traveler's Wife by Alice Neffenegger(sp?)

God Bless You — Wed, 04 May 2005 01:48:17 GMT

Just finished this one. It was good, but it took me awhile to get through it. Princess P asked me to tell her if I thought there was something odd about the book to see if it was the same as her.

I felt there were some scenarios that did not jive with what had previously transpired. Kind of a lack of continuity. Since I did not go back and look up details that might be contradictory, I cannot name specifics. There is just this weird sense of "That's not right."

I will pass it on to anyone who wants to read it next. Just pm me.

Peesa-I really will mail the bee book this week. :)

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 2 replies

the ya yas are back!

teknomama — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:14:57 GMT

and there's a contest to win a book
ya yas in bloom

http://www.harpercollins.com/features/bloom_friend/

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 13 replies

Ideal Day?

God Bless You — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:25:08 GMT

Teknomomma gave me the idea for this thread. What is your ideal day?

Mine is a snowy day in the mountains with a roaring fire, a good book, No TV, a bottle of wine and a good sound system.

AAAHH! Sublime!

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 8 replies

Not reading Enviro-Sci!!

Sat, 16 Apr 2005 00:14:26 GMT

But I did finish "The Deep End of the Ocean" - it was good, but not great. I'll give it a B+. My favorite character was the rebellious teenage son.

I also just finished "Drowning Ruth" by Christina Schwarz. Also a B+.

Now starting "The Book of Ruth" by Jane Hamilton.

Someone at my local thrift store is giving up their entire Oprah Book Club Collection, and I am the lucky recipient at $.50 each. And, believe it or not, the woman at the cash register was apologizing to me that they've gone up from $.35 each !!

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 2 replies

Tom Wolfe

Bren-duh-the-highness-of-the-Duh-Club — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:50:27 GMT

How many of y'all enjoy Tom Wolfe's Man In Full?

I keep that book for one reason. There is a scene, where he is showing his friends on his fancy farm, the breeding of his expensive horse.

I have never read anything like that in my life. He said that he put that in the book because he actually witness something to that affect.

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 0 replies

James Patterson

Bren-duh-the-highness-of-the-Duh-Club — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 17:50:07 GMT

How enjoys books about serial killers?

The Big Bad Wolf is a fast read, I suppose because it moves so quickly. This is a story about a newspaper report (woman) who gets caught up with a woman serial killer while trying to do a story on her.

A thriller would be a good discription.

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 9 replies

savannah blues

teknomama — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:28:42 GMT

by mary kay andrews. i read this last week. i hadn't read this author before, but definitely want to read more of her books. bren-duh, i think you'd like this one...it certainly has that "quirky" southern flavour we've talked about! apparently, harper collins publishing has a reader's guide for it, but i didn't look that up, just the synopsis. (below)

http://harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0060519134

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 0 replies

Perfection of the Morning" by Sharon Butala

teknomama — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:27:44 GMT

this book is a long time fave of mine and i have enjoyed everything else by this author that i've read. in "perfection of the morning", she writes so beautifully about falling in love with a land, a landscape and a way of life.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1886913161/ref=sib_rdr_fc/102-9461657-5212140?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S001#reader-page

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 1 reply

Favorite Children's Book?

Thu, 31 Mar 2005 04:47:54 GMT

"Love You Forever" by Robert Munsch is my all-time favorite children's book. I tried to set up a link, but had trouble getting them to work. Try a google search.

This is such a sweet book - I cry every time I read it. It captures a mother's (or father's) love for their child so beautifully.

What about others? Or are we all Dr. Seuss diehards?

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 8 replies

a good book site

teknomama — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:38:34 GMT

i found this while googling an author

http://mostlyfiction.com/index.html

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 0 replies

"The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

God Bless You — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:22:48 GMT

Just finished this one this morning.

The whole time I was reading, I felt like I was there in the shack with the Prices. I could feel the fear, the heat, the rain, hear the monkeys and birds, smell all the different scents.

Adah, the quiet, "backward" one had the clearest outlook of all the Prices. Rachel amused me with her made-up words and phrases and exasperated me with her shallowness. Orleanna I just wanted to take by the shoulders and shake. Telling her, "You do not have to stay with this man!"

As I was just a child when a lot of this was happening in Africa, only bits and pieces were familiar. It does make you examine and question US or any other government motives alot closer. It made me realize how much of what I am told by the media, I accept at face value. Gonna have to stop that, aren't I?

I would definitely recommend this book. Anyone else?

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 2 replies

"The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold

God Bless You — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:50:21 GMT

Teknomomma recommended this one. I would give you the link for the review except I don't know how to do that. DOH! (With her finger and her thumb in the shape of an "L" on her forehead.)

Check out the Welcome thread for the link.
Anyone want to teach an old dog a new trick? I would appreciate it.

Suzanne

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 5 replies

Robert Jordan?!!

mermaid — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:17:35 GMT

I am on book two of the huge series he wrote and am loving it! He combines a little of everything in his books. A little magic..relationships..power...
Can hardly put it down!

mermaid

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 2 replies

Reading 20 minutes a day...

God Bless You — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 04:13:27 GMT

Did you know that by reading just 20 minutes a day, in a year's time, you will have read approximately twenty 200 page books. That is 19 more than the average person reads in a year.

How often/long do you read?

Not including assigned reading and Bible Study, I read 5-6 nights a week for at least 2 hours a night.

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 4 replies

"The Secret Live of Bees" - Sue Monk Kidd

JUSTjoel — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:33:09 GMT

http://suemonkkidd.com/html/reviews.asp

Bought this as a Christmas gift for my wife, who loved it, so I had to read it also - consumed it in less than a week.
Wonderful-wonderful (first novel too). Slightly reminiscent of "To Kill a Mockingbird" (as Tribester Scout might like) - even one of the reviewers mentions this...

"Lily is fresh and funny, a welcome addition to the pantheon of gutsy southern girls from Harper Lee's Scout to Kay Gibbons' Grace." — Carolina Book Review

Also billed as a tale for "mothers and daughters", but as a male who grew up in a sort of "Leave it to Beaver" house, I still found it moving and relevant in other ways.

Just Joel...

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 11 replies

"Perfume" by Patrick Suskind

JUSTjoel — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 01:05:34 GMT

This is one of the strangest, and almost repulsively compelling books I've ever read (and actually have read twice, on purpose, about 10 years apart). Billed as "a story of murder", and it is, yet it is almost a historical drama too, set in 18th century France. Check out the review to get the full story, so to speak.

http://www.scwu.com/bookreviews/h/SuskindPatrickPerfume.shtml

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 2 replies

Welcome

God Bless You — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 02:59:42 GMT

Welcome to Read a Good Book Lately? Here we will discuss what books to read, what we liked/disliked about them, our favorite authors, genres, etc...

I tend to get stuck in a rut reading the same type of book over and over. I can't even remember the titles `coz they all seem to run together. I read two to three books a week.

Can anyone recommend a good book?

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 20 replies

I find it interesting, if not telling...

JUSTjoel — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:27:57 GMT

My mother was Troup Leader to my older (by 6 years) sister's Girl Scout Troup (and my mother was indeed a Girl Scout herself, and that's another story) - so I was often "baby-sat" by this group of girls while at the meetings with them. Here again, 40 or so years later, I find myself the only male in the room, so to speak. This is also true of my office life at work, and this is not the first time in my life this has been so - and this has never been a problem for me. While some (mostly other males) would cast homosexual aspersions my way, this could not be further from the truth. And neither could you call me what I've heard tell of as a "Meterosexual" (as I understand the type), though I do enjoy cooking and fine wine.

Not sure if I'm confessing, tooting my own horn, or what, but just thought I'd share this with you all. I hope, for their own sakes, that a few other of the coarser sex do join our tribe, but I'm comfortable if they don't (kinda enjoy it a bit, actually).

Just Joel...

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 18 replies

i just figured out

teknomama — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:58:38 GMT

what to do with that dumb blog thing on my new profile. i'm going to use it as my reading journal.

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 8 replies

oprah's book club

teknomama — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:55:57 GMT

as loathe as i am to admit it, i have enjoyed every book on oprah's list that i have read. mind you, i'd read many of them years before she ever put on a list. still, it's a good reading list to start with if you like literary fiction.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?SAT=1&userid=Bc4RLd9BmK&WRD=oprah%27s+book+club&SRT=R

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 2 replies

BookCrossing

JellyD — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:39:49 GMT

Has anyone ever heard of this or done this? I thought this was a really cool idea, but have never tried it (or 'found' one of these books) Of course, i live in NYC and as a general rule we don't go around just picking up random found objects.

http://www.bookcrossing.com/

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 1 reply

bren- duh's pick

teknomama — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:50:40 GMT

bren-duh recommended "colony" by anne rivers siddon. here's a review. thanks, b.
Kirkus Reviews
If it's gothic, Siddons (Outer Banks, King's Oak, etc.) can do it, or so it would appear in this latest novel destined for commercial success. In it, she takes her gifts for melodrama and tangling family trees up north, to a summer colony for Boston Brahmins on the coast of Maine, called simply "Retreat." But Siddons's heroine is a southerner, and on her she demonstrates one of her best tricks—her deep intimacy with her leading ladies, which the author shares with her readers from the get-go. Anyway, it isn't easy for sweet young Maude Gascoigne, from a moldering plantation near Charleston, to fit in when her new husband, sterling-silver Peter Chambliss (of a Boston banking family, Princeton, and Retreat), takes her to the summer place. For the first few decades Maude battles it out with her insufferable, hypercritical mother-in-law, the drunken and lecherous husband of her best friend, Amy Potter, and even Peter himself—a depressive, hermetic man who just sails away whenever things get rough. Gradually, though, little Maudie gets some starch and learns to endure almost anything, including: the death of her mother-in-law ("my beloved enemy"); Peter's weird coldness to his own two children, which ultimately sends the younger, Happy, to a sanitarium; the death of a grandson; the return of a bad seed, Elizabeth, Amy Potter's girl, who does her best to break up Maude's son's marriage; and whispers that float on the salt spray every summer about how much Elizabeth looks like Peter. Well, it turns out that Elizabeth's connection to Peter is very much an issue—but we're not telling why. Long-suffering Maude may not be everyone's cup of tea, but this time Siddons gets themelodrama balance just right and shows she's as much at home in Maine as she was in Georgia. Fans will be doing cartwheels, and others will queue up.

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 2 replies

Barbara Kingsolver

JellyD — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:19:21 GMT

Has anyone read any of her books? I hightly recommend her, especially for women. The Prodigal Summer, especially, is a woman's book. If you want to start light, try "The Bean Trees".

posted in Read a Good Book Lately? - 1 reply