Hurry Krishna
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2009 (from Sarria), 2014 from St Jean Pied de Port, 2016 from Porto, 2018 from Le Puy to Santiago.
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You are still allowed 50 people??? Where are you living? Utopia???
You are in Sweden? It’s interesting to see a country try a different way. Why not? May be the herd immunity idea will work
Stephen King's "The Stand" would be a good one right now. Really long too, so it would last ages. I thoroughly enjoyed it the first time around . . . .
Stephen King's "The Stand" would be a good one right now. Really long too, so it would last ages. I thoroughly enjoyed it the first time around . . . .
Oh I think we do!From the thousands of books on my shelves I’m currently drawn to literary environmental texts. Today I’m reading Jean Sprackland’s These Silent Mansions: A Life in Graveyards, which is part social history and personal preoccupation (hers and mine), and a lot less depressing than continuous Covid coverage. It’s the 20th book I’ve read so far this month - some for work, more for pleasure - and I’m sure you don’t want a complete bibliography.
Please.I’m sure you don’t want a complete bibliography.
Our book club just read 1984. What a discussion we had over it. I remembered reading it when it was first published and thinking if that is what the future holds - how awful.I'm reading some of the classic books I read long ago during my school days. Just finished Orwell's 1984 and beginning to read Huxley's Brave New World. Great books to read again !
Yes, I am also making a list!I too am reading Richard Powers' The Overstory. But I was barely into it when I looked at my kindle and realized that I ordered Rebekah Scott's A Furnace Full of God a while back and never read it. I'm devouring it as we speak. She is a great storyteller, but I'm saying this to all of you who probably read this book long ago.
Thank you all for sharing your reading, I'm taking notes.
@Jeff CrawleyProject Gutenberg - thousands of digitised classic that are now out of copyright. The Canadian site is good, their copyright laws are different to ours (UK) so you get more modern books
See section Proposals for extension of copyright term at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_Canada@Jeff Crawley
I have heard, I think on this forum, that the recently renegotiated North American Free Trade treaty has revised the Canadian copyright laws to extend the copyright date to 75 years,
Someone once told me to read a really sensational series of novels starring a detective investigator of the Guardia Civil, and set in grim post-Civil War Spain. Anyone able to name the series or the author? Thanks in advance.
That's about what I thought. Thanks for the reference. However, I heard on the CBC a week or two ago that the agreement had not been officially ratified by the Parliament of Canada when the Parliament closed its sitting because of the pandemic. Although we have a minority government, so any agreement could be rejected by Parliament, I do not anticipate this happening. In any case, my intention is simply to warn readers who liked the previous Canadian copyright law to make their downloads from the Canadian Gutenberg website while/if they can.See section Proposals for extension of copyright term at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_Canada
Interesting question. I usually read A LOT. Proper books, ebooks when walking.... I ‘m always reading something and yet....I cannot read at the moment! I simply cannot concentrate.I wonder what everyone who lives for walking is doing while a new virus has us all under house-detention. Are you reading? What? Just curious
Interesting question. I usually read A LOT. Proper books, ebooks when walking.... I ‘m always reading something and yet....I cannot read at the moment! I simply cannot concentrate.
Anyone else feeling the same? Is it just me ?
Without hesitation it would be The Collected Short Stories of Saki by Hector Hugh Munro - I'm on my third copy. They've all been published in the mis-leadingly named "Perfect Binding" so pages fall out after frequent reading. There are many books I'd miss but this would be THE ONE to take.Yes, I am also making a list!
Two more recommendations: for making you realise the eternal nature of human character read Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations - its like listening to your own self.
For complete delight : P.G Wodehouse’s Blandings novels
What would be your desert island novel? On the BBC radio 4 show Desert island discs (you are a castaway) after choosing 8 records (which illustrate your life’s progress) you get the Bible, The Complete works of Shakespeare plus one book of your choice. So which book couldn’t you live without?
As expected my response was deleted - the front page of Project G is quite political but it seems some of the copyright rules don't come into force just yet and will need ratifying in the HoC and Senate. Binge read while you can@Jeff Crawley
I have heard, I think on this forum, that the recently renegotiated North American Free Trade treaty has revised the Canadian copyright laws to extend the copyright date to 75 years, which is likely to cause the omission from the Canadian site of many more recent books: for example, the works of C. S. Lewis, which I have downloaded from there.. The new law has been agreed on, but apparently not yet signed by Canada, as it was scheduled to be signed recently, when the advent of the pandemic caused it to be put off. You might like to download books which you had assumed would be available to you on the Canadian Gutenberg site. It is possible that the revision of the site has already begun.
I am reading, but not a lot. Too much time on my laptop and iphone has strained my eyes to the point where reading is difficult. I am not attracted to the paper books in my library, and the public library is closed.
I've been watching the Great Pottery Throw-Down but have never throw a pot in my life.I've spent too much time lately with the Great British Baking Show.
I've been watching the Great Pottery Throw-Down but have never throw a pot in my life.
Interesting question. I usually read A LOT. Proper books, ebooks when walking.... I ‘m always reading something and yet....I cannot read at the moment! I simply cannot concentrate.
Anyone else feeling the same? Is it just me ?
Gifted Australian author Geraldine Brooks' brilliant novel from a woman's POV in 1666 as an a Derbyshire UK village self-isolates. "The Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague". Having read it years ago, I sort of have it on a 'maybe' list to re-read.Interesting question. I usually read A LOT. Proper books, ebooks when walking.... I ‘m always reading something and yet....I cannot read at the moment! I simply cannot concentrate.
Anyone else feeling the same? Is it just me ?
Someone once told me to read a really sensational series of novels starring a detective investigator of the Guardia Civil, and set in grim post-Civil War Spain. Anyone able to name the series or the author? Thanks in advance.
Oh I think we do!
Almost finished "Red Sky at Sunrise" by Laurie Lee.
Thank you! Some tasty morsels among that lot!At home, busy cleaning for Passover/Spring, nowhere near enough dust rags or furniture polish. Now on my library shelves, the Spanish –nonCamino – shelf, reading more than cleaning. Just a few of my favorites no particular order, some on Gutenburg most not:
“Andalusia” Somerset Maugham
“South of Granada” Gerald Brenan
“Fabled Shore” Rose Macauly
“The Life and Death of a Spanish Town” Elliot Paul
“Tales of the Alhambra” Washington Irving
“Lorca’s Granada” Ian Gibson
“Gatherings from Spain” Richard Ford
“Homage to Catalonia” George Orwell
“Spain” Jan Morris
“A Romantic in Spain” Théophile Gautier
“A Pilgrim in Spain” Christopher Howse
A bit of History?
“Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain” Joseph F. O’CCallaghan
“Visigothic Spain 409-711” Roger Collins
"Isabella of Castile" Giles Tremlett
Crazy Stuff:
“Local Religion in 16th Century Spain” William A. Christian Jr.
“The Bible in Spain” George Henry Borrow
Happy Passover to all (via Zoom!!??!!)
Happy Easter too.
At home, busy cleaning for Passover/Spring, nowhere near enough dust rags or furniture polish. Now on my library shelves, the Spanish –nonCamino – shelf, reading more than cleaning. Just a few of my favorites no particular order, some on Gutenburg most not:
“Andalusia” Somerset Maugham
“South of Granada” Gerald Brenan
“Fabled Shore” Rose Macauly
“The Life and Death of a Spanish Town” Elliot Paul
“Tales of the Alhambra” Washington Irving
“Lorca’s Granada” Ian Gibson
“Gatherings from Spain” Richard Ford
“Homage to Catalonia” George Orwell
“Spain” Jan Morris
“A Romantic in Spain” Théophile Gautier
“A Pilgrim in Spain” Christopher Howse
A bit of History?
“Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain” Joseph F. O’CCallaghan
“Visigothic Spain 409-711” Roger Collins
"Isabella of Castile" Giles Tremlett
Crazy Stuff:
“Local Religion in 16th Century Spain” William A. Christian Jr.
“The Bible in Spain” George Henry Borrow
Happy Passover to all (via Zoom!!??!!)
Happy Easter too.
You mean these?Thanks for recommended reading. Most of these titles also appear in the Spanish (non-Camino) section of my library - I'll look out for the absentees. To your list I'd add, in no particular order, the various offerings by Michael Jacobs, Gamel Woolsey (wife of Gerard Brenan), Laurie Lee, Walter Starkie, Jan & Cora Gordon, Norman Lewis, Ronald Fraser, V.S. Pritchett, Vita Sackville West, Kate O'Brien. My university's annual second hand book sale recently yielded a few more unconsidered trifles, namely Richard Wright's Pagan Spain, J.B. Trend's A Picture of Modern Spain Nancy Johnstone's Un hotel en la Costa Brava (Spanish edition: good for language practice) and Arland Ussher's Spanish Mercy. I love these fortuitous discoveries - the more obscure and unfashionable, the better. Happy Passover, happy Easter, happy reading!
My library has no audiobooks by Ms Moggach, surprised she has been so prolific! Will re-view "Marigold Hotel". No yard, but a great third floor view of oak tree leaves emerging from bud with astonishing rapidity. I awaken to a spirited bull cardinal's assertions of territorial dominance!Terrific thread Hurry Krishna! Thank you for starting it and thank you everyone for your book recommendations.
For those who’re finding it difficult to concentrate on books at the moment I can thoroughly recommend Deborah Moggach’s book, ‘The Carer’ as an audiobook. It’s an absolute HOOT!! The narrator, Patience Tomlinson, does such a fantastic job with the different voices of the characters in the book - her voices will have you smiling and laughing out loud throughout the book. There are some tender and poignant moments in the book, narrated with such sensitivity, that made my heart swell.
It’s 7 hours and 39 minutes of listening pleasure.
I listened to the book recently whilst doing some gardening here at our house at Culburra Beach on the South Coast of NSW - our poor garden was much-neglected during the drought and then during the bushfires here in Oz because of severe water restrictions. It really cheered me up as I cleared the garden of weeds - those unwanted excellent survivors in any conditions thrown at them.
The audiobook is widely available from local libraries’ online book services. It’s an English book and Forum members might be interested to know that Deborah Moggach is the author of the much-loved ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ book which was made into a film starring a line-up of British acting ‘royalty’, including Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith.
Here is the ‘trailer’ for the book:
James is getting on a bit and needs full-time help. So Phoebe and Robert, his middle-aged offspring, employ Mandy, who seems willing to take him off their hands. But as James regales his family with tales of Mandy’s virtues, their shopping trips and the shared pleasure of their journeys to garden centres, Phoebe and Robert sense something is amiss. Is this really their father, the distant figure who never once turned up for a sports day, now happily chortling over cuckoo clocks and television soaps?
Then something happens that throws everything into new relief, and Phoebe and Robert discover that life most definitely does not stop for the elderly. It just moves into a very different plane - changing all the stories they thought they knew so well.
This book is just the tonic for these strange and challenging times we’re finding ourselves in. I do recommend it.
Cheers from Oz -
Jenny
I have just looked it up on amazon.com, if i can buy it on amazon uk i will. Hats off to you and i look forward to reading it.As this is a Camino forum, I've not felt it appropriate to say anything here about my book (since it doesn't involve the Camino, except for a brief mention). However, as this is a broad thread about books of all kinds, I'd like to share. It has become as if my third adult child, set loose into the world, hoping it will do some good.
The last sentence of the description: "Set against the backdrop of the quest for Kilimanjaro’s summit, Push the Rock is the true story of faith, second chances, and the power of family to overcome life’s greatest challenges."
Push the Rock
My list includes far too much on the subject we are not supposed to post, I have avoided both Thomas and Beevor, was able to get through "For Whom the Bell Tolls" but did enjoy "Death in the Afternoon" (another subject we should not post) and the autobiography of Sidney Franklin - another no no.and Hugh Thomas, Anthony Beevor?
The Malingerer.
Without hesitation it would be The Collected Short Stories of Saki by Hector Hugh Munro - I'm on my third copy. They've all been published in the mis-leadingly named "Perfect Binding" so pages fall out after frequent reading. There are many books I'd miss but this would be THE ONE to take.
Being very curious / nosy i looked at your photo and noticed The Goldfinch on your wall. Ir eally enjoyed Donna Tartt’s novel, have you read it? I am guessing, yes.A picture is worth a thousand words, and this one is 'Unpacking my library' or 'for love of books and bike'. The book of the day is Roger Deakin's Notes from Walnut Tree Farm.
I'm with you on this one, Rebekah. It really opened my eyes to the "great silence". After reading this book, on a subsequent trip to Spain, I made a detour to the Valley of the Fallen, and my experience was very influenced by Tremlett's account.I am re-reading "The Ghosts of Spain," by Giles Tremlett.
"A supervirus leaks from a lab .." The Stand - Stephen King. For part miniseries in 1994. As NYeeah, that's a good one! I hear a new TV series version is coming up… Or was coming up, before the Cinema-and-Entertainment Lock-down!
Four part mini-series in 1994. I used to live in Boulder -- yup, that's Boulder, in essence if not in location.Yeeah, that's a good one! I hear a new TV series version is coming up… Or was coming up, before the Cinema-and-Entertainment Lock-down!
Yes, all of the above, plus Starkie's Spanish Raggle-Taggle and Don Gypsy; Pritchett's The Spanish Temper; Michael Jacobs's, The Factory of Light: Life in an Andalucian Village, and his Between Hopes and Memories: A Spanish Journey and assorted travel guides and books on Spanish art. And as an afterthought, Dan Hancox's fascinating account of Marinaleda, The Village Against the World, and Penelope Chetwode's Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia. Chetwode was married to John Betjeman; the middle-aged ladies are herself and a horse. (I'm omitting any civil war literature for fear of infringing Rule 2.)
"Romance at short notice was her specialty." Still gives me a curious combination of shivers and grins!I have now got this book in my amazon basket to remind me to read it.
Being very curious / nosy i looked at your photo and noticed The Goldfinch on your wall. Ir eally enjoyed Donna Tartt’s novel, have you read it? I am guessing, yes.
Despite all, I am still much more enjoy history and art “Romanesque Churches of Spain” Peter Stafford, “Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews” David Gitlitz, “A Drizzle of Honey” with his wife Linda Kay Davidson, “Galicia a Concise History” Sharif Gemie, “The Gothic Choirstalls of Spain” Dorothy Kraus, “The Basques” Roger Collins again, “Compostela and Europe: The Story of Diego Gelmirez” by Alison Stones, John Williams, Quitterie Cazes, Klaus Herbers fascinating but bewarned it’s a blockbuster size, one last one, non-Philistine, “Selected Poems” Rosalia De Castro. But let’s stop – hard enough to finish these bookshelves as it is!Yes, all of the above, plus Starkie's Spanish Raggle-Taggle and Don Gypsy; Pritchett's The Spanish Temper; Michael Jacobs's, The Factory of Light: Life in an Andalucian Village, and his Between Hopes and Memories: A Spanish Journey and assorted travel guides and books on Spanish art. And as an afterthought, Dan Hancox's fascinating account of Marinaleda, The Village Against the World, and Penelope Chetwode's Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia. Chetwode was married to John Betjeman; the middle-aged ladies are herself and a horse. (I'm omitting any civil war literature for fear of infringing Rule 2.)
Oh the delightful Vera! Just had a moment of panic when I couldn't find my copy until I remembered I'd put a Japanese style book cover on it and it was hiding between the Holy Bible and Revolt in the Desert (Lawrence of Arabia) - strange shelf-fellows indeed."Romance at short notice was her specialty." Still gives me a curious combination of shivers and grins!
Thanks to Johnny Walker’s recommendation “The Shadow of the Wind” and love it!I wonder what everyone who lives for walking is doing while a new virus has us all under house-detention. Are you reading? What? Just curious
You can always live vicariously through camino blogs. See mine from 2018 at https://jacscamino.wordpress.com But you need to scroll down quite a bit to get to the start of it. Or you might find the trip to vietnam or to egypt interesting. They are after the camino. I find reading other blogs helpful in taking my mind off of current events, at least until our weather here in massachusetts usa gets warmer.I wonder what everyone who lives for walking is doing while a new virus has us all under house-detention. Are you reading? What? Just curious
The Stand is a good book if a little dated now. One in a similar theme is White Plague by Frank Herbert set mainly in Ireland. Its a man made plague released deliberately to avenge the murder of a scientists wife and children by the IRA. It is aimed only at women and is nearly 100% lethal.Stephen King's "The Stand" would be a good one right now. Really long too, so it would last ages. I thoroughly enjoyed it the first time around . . . .
I read this recently and enjoyed it immensely.I've just started the latest by Isabel Allende - A Long Petal of the Sea (2020) - a novel about the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.
Just bought this on Amazon UK. Looking forward to reading it.As this is a Camino forum, I've not felt it appropriate to say anything here about my book (since it doesn't involve the Camino, except for a brief mention). However, as this is a broad thread about books of all kinds, I'd like to share. It has become as if my third adult child, set loose into the world, hoping it will do some good.
The last sentence of the description: "Set against the backdrop of the quest for Kilimanjaro’s summit, Push the Rock is the true story of faith, second chances, and the power of family to overcome life’s greatest challenges."
Push the Rock
Thx. I hope it is a good read for you.Just bought this on Amazon UK. Looking forward to reading it.
I've just started the latest by Isabel Allende - A Long Petal of the Sea (2020) - a novel about the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.
I have been following all the fascinating answers from the many many many responses to my question and wondering how long I would have to live to read all of it!! Meanwhile just finished Station 11, an unusually optimist post-apocalypse book. Easy read, page turner, but Criss-crossed with literary and pop culture references if you are that way inclinedI wonder what everyone who lives for walking is doing while a new virus has us all under house-detention. Are you reading? What? Just curious
I have been following all the fascinating answers from the many many many responses to my question and wondering how long I would have to live to read all of it!! Meanwhile just finished Station 11, an unusually optimist post-apocalypse book. Easy read, page turner, but Criss-crossed with literary and pop culture references if you are that way inclinedBooks to read, places to walk...
One thing I love about this forum is that no one uses the phrase: ‘sorry, my bad’- a bizarre Americanism which has started to invade Indian English!What am I reading....... this forum.
Every day.
It's helping me keep my dream alive and I am continually astounded by the level of content.
It's deep, informative, sad, funny and incredibly erudite.
I don't mind at all that it gets a bit heated at times as that makes it more authentic to me
and yet it remains largely respectful and safe place to post.
Thank you all for keeping this alive and relevant.
I sincerely hope to meet some of you one day.
Ooh a Year With Rilke sounds great!Please.
I am reading
Joan Halifax - Standing at the Edge
Laurence Gonzales - Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
And today I thought now would be the perfect time to re-read Anita Burrows's A Year with Rilke
Hafiz would be a wonderful companion right now - he's such a funny bugger!I downsized 3 years ago and only kept my favorites.
My stack of Camino books...kept all.
Quilting books...kept some.
Math textbooks...seriously thinned out.
Of the six remaining uncategorizable books...I just finished A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving and now reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Next, H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald.
So what’s left?
Men of Mathematics by E.T. bell, The Gift poems by Hafiz, and The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky.
And the Why? as in Why did I choose to keep these few...now that’s a mystery!
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