Membre : scribulous

Oh! You own a guide to Mozart chamber music!!!! Some of my favorite stuff......go away humming the tunes and all that!

écrit par LizzieD à 10:46 am (EST) le Mar 11, 2010

New pictures! Either could be my most idyllic landscape. I love the ocean and the mountains, but a river and meadow knock me out.

écrit par LizzieD à 8:59 pm (EST) le Mar 7, 2010

Yay!

écrit par LizzieD à 7:58 pm (EST) le Mar 2, 2010

(I just traveled to my "friends" list to come back here quickly so that I could look more closely at Rembrandt's Eyes, and you aren't on it. That's so wrong. Fix, please.)

écrit par LizzieD à 10:58 am (EST) le Feb 12, 2010

I neglected to say that a person who has enthusiasms and the time and money to pursue them has the possibility of being the happiest person in the world.
And about reading ---- a woman said to me today that she loves to read but doesn't have time. I bet that she might list reading as a hobby. Obviously, she's not a real reader.

écrit par LizzieD à 10:18 pm (EST) le Feb 3, 2010

I neglected to thank you for withdrawing the scurrying. A woman of my years, elegance, dignity, and height does not scurry. (!) I'll be grateful to step out briskly any day now.

écrit par LizzieD à 4:43 pm (EST) le Jan 26, 2010

ooops. Did you notice that I added In Defense of Women to my Kindle - and for $1.05?
Also, I have graduated to a cane today. I'll be hobbling out in style.

écrit par LizzieD à 3:28 pm (EST) le Jan 25, 2010

Thank you. Knee is responding to pampering although Graham may be exhausted by the time I'm back in action. I will be soon if it continues to improve at this pace. (And I was in the gymn at church, hence the heels. And I was only walking.)
I don't think I've known any twins, now that I review my acquaintance from youth. Your cousins sound like characters in a Southern novel, and I don't say that in any condescending way even though that's how it sounds. I'm sure they are lovely relations. That sounds condescending too. Forgive me. Maybe you should read Barbara Pym instead of Georgette Heyer.
I've read a lot today too - Wolf Hall continues to be good, but not great for me. For Love Alone by Christina Stead from 1945 continues to call me back to it even though I don't like the writing or the characters or anything much about it. Calls for some analysis. And I read one percent of Infinite Jest every time I pick up my Kindle, and that treatment doesn't seem to hurt the experience. Oh! And another CL. Did you know that "spadrille" is the ace of spades?
Good night! And thank you for taking back the ear curse if that's what it was.
Peggy

écrit par LizzieD à 10:52 pm (EST) le Jan 18, 2010

Redoubtable! Restrained! ----but I am the better woman.

écrit par LizzieD à 6:24 pm (EST) le Jan 2, 2010

The Merriest of all Merry Christmases, dear new friend, to you and your family!

écrit par LizzieD à 10:30 pm (EST) le Dec 24, 2009

The main reason I came was in thanks for the L. Beebe quotation - most apt, most appreciated!
Thank you!

écrit par LizzieD à 4:11 pm (EST) le Dec 20, 2009

You are exactly right. Bonhoeffer was arrested in April of '43 according to Wikipedia.

écrit par LizzieD à 10:45 pm (EST) le Dec 2, 2009

Oh gee. I forgot to ask you to write a little more about Gene Wolfe. I've only heard the name.......

écrit par LizzieD à 6:18 pm (EST) le Nov 21, 2009

"Patrick O'Brian, (the Jane Austen of the sea)...." TOO funny!
Thanks!
Good evening!
Peggy

écrit par LizzieD à 6:40 pm (EST) le Nov 19, 2009

That underline in the previous post was my attempt to put in a helpful html example. It didn't work, and I don't know what to do to make the system accept it. Sorry.

écrit par LizzieD à 11:27 pm (EST) le Nov 9, 2009

Kermit, I don't know whether I'd be offended ----- I did teach high school for years so I'm inured to filth, but I think the context was the same: my library. I have catalogued a copy of *SG* too, nor is it where I said it should be. That leads me to believe that I actually saw some connection and DID something with both books. (I will hustle right on over to google SG, and while I may not be offended, I may be so embarrassed that I never speak to you again.) (Meanwhile, I'm happy to have provided you with some passing amusement.)
Josh/Feicht will be totally chuffed to hear your comments about his journal. My Roman history outside the very narrow bounds of teaching classical Latin is pretty pathetic. I had never wondered who wore the last toga. I seem to remember that for a while they got bigger and more elaborate. Humans being what they are, I'd assume they went the way of whalebone corsets in about the same time frame. On the other hand, we continue to wear some pretty stupid stuff now...... I'm just babbling. I'll stop. As to history, I have found some interesting titles from 30,000 Feet and people who prefer non-fiction. I haven't read any Mary Beard although I have added a couple of things to my wishlist at pbs - or I hope I have. Something else to track down.
Peggy

écrit par LizzieD à 5:34 pm (EST) le Nov 5, 2009

I can't remember the right tag, so I'll just put the url here for you:
http://feicht.livejournal.com

Pictures and all!

écrit par LizzieD à 10:40 pm (EST) le Nov 4, 2009

What a comfortable person you are! Pamela/Flamena indeed!
Now I am going to have to take that wardrobe apart to see whether I can find my *Siege.* I've heard of Singapore Grip in some other context - I may even have it squirreled away somewhere. Always more stuff to read! ---- which means "more stuff to buy."
If you are at all interested in the Romans in Germany, look through the old ? thread (I'll have to hunt it up and let you know) for Feicht's journals from this summer when he followed the limes. I wish I were still teaching so that I could send some students there.
I shall return.
Peggy

écrit par LizzieD à 10:37 pm (EST) le Nov 4, 2009

Flavia/Pamela? Poor old brain; I do mean the one who married Widmerpool and that is Pamela, isn't it. I think you should hurry to read Paul Scott; he may be a better writer than Powell. (I have a copy of Siege of Krishnapur that I can't find. A friend here was reading it after I told her that I thought it looked good, and now I've done something with my copy. Poor old brain again. Is this one of a trilogy or are there more?) I thought that the Granada production of Raj was wonderfully well done, but it didn't approach the books in depth and perception.
Yes, sigh, to the lending books. I should know by now not to lend anything that I am not content to lose. My copy of The Sparrow is gone to a woman who said, "Oh, I returned that to you." She doesn't know how attached I am to my books. She may have returned it, but not to me.
I haven't mentioned the "History at 30,000 Feet" group that is one of my mainstays here. You might enjoy it - might not, but it's worth a look.
Peggy

écrit par LizzieD à 4:50 pm (EST) le Nov 4, 2009

Well-met indeed! I've read only *Ball Rollilng* but also enjoyed some of his lesser - in quantity, anyway - fiction. (I passed around my copy of *Dance* to friends back when I was lending books and called a friend one day just to chat. "What are you doing," I asked. "Oh, I'm Widemerpooling.")
If I could write, I'd arrange a way for Flavia to meet Ronald Merrick from Paul Scott's *Raj Quartet,* another great favorite.
(I would do better to lurk than to post; I'm just too stupid to realize it.)
Peggy

écrit par LizzieD à 9:52 am (EST) le Nov 4, 2009

hmmmm. I see that you have all of the *Dance to the Music of Time,* an all-time favorite series. That's more commonality!
(I browsed at "Vowell Shift" but didn't join. Do you post there often?
Peggy Again

écrit par LizzieD à 10:38 pm (EST) le Nov 3, 2009

Thank you for thinking that my library is interesting, especially with all the trash in it. I think it's good trash, but I do know the difference. On the other hand, we share, for the most part, books that I'm proud to own and even to have read. It's also a treat to meet another reader from North Carolina. I've found a few of us but not many in Lumberton, my home. Well met!
Peggy

écrit par LizzieD à 10:35 pm (EST) le Nov 3, 2009