tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194311577077217097.post3347707055119667646..comments2023-05-30T01:11:11.657-07:00Comments on Patti's Pen & Picks: My Answers to the Cool Questions from Shelf AwarenessPatti Lhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00460326906159795642noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194311577077217097.post-9391152341556209142008-08-10T14:36:00.000-07:002008-08-10T14:36:00.000-07:00Hi Patti, this isn't related to your post here, b...Hi Patti, this isn't related to your post here, but I just read your post on DorothyL about The Yiddish Policeman' Union and I was so tickled. I know that sounds terrible, but I was glad to finally encounter someone who was disappointed with it. You did much better than I did. I was listening to it on audio and gave up after disc 5. I thought the same thing...how did it earn so many awards? <BR/><BR/>Thanks for sharing that!Jen Forbushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13325129568512353951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194311577077217097.post-87556750596797405952008-08-09T17:21:00.000-07:002008-08-09T17:21:00.000-07:00On your nightstand now: The Lace Reader, The Bour...On your nightstand now: The Lace Reader, The Bourne Sanction and about a dozen others.<BR/><BR/>Book you've "faked" reading: Funny how I can't even recall the titles--probably because they didn't interest me. But I do remember skimming through, just so I could have a gist. <BR/><BR/>Book you've bought for the cover: Can't recall. I know I've picked up books because of the cover, but doubt I would buy it on that. I have *not* picked up books due to bad covers, then found out later they were good, and wished I hadn't let the cover sway me.<BR/><BR/>Favorite book when you were a child: A Secret Garden<BR/><BR/>Book that changed your life: Barbara Taylor Bradford's A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE. If ever I had a chance to thank her personally, I would. <BR/><BR/>Favorite line from a book: "If I had seen the body fall past the window, I wouldn't have taken the job." Quoted by Em Hansen in Sarah Andrews' A FALL IN DENVER.<BR/><BR/>Top five favorite authors: right. Only five?<BR/><BR/>Books you recommend as regeneration when people say, "I'm bored by almost all contemporary American writers.": Tolkien<BR/><BR/>Book you can't believe that everyone has not read and loved: Tolkien's trilogy, or GONE WITH THE WIND.<BR/><BR/>Book you are an "evangelist" for:<BR/><BR/>Book you most want to read again for the first time: Tolkien's trilogy and GONE WITH THE WINDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194311577077217097.post-85910366568203501032008-08-09T16:16:00.000-07:002008-08-09T16:16:00.000-07:00Too tough to make choices, but as you said, here a...Too tough to make choices, but as you said, here are my answers, subject to change. I'm stealing this idea, but I'll give you and Shelf Awareness credit!<BR/><BR/>On your nightstand now: My Lady of Cleves by Margaret Campbell Barnes, The Richest Season by Maryann McFadden, Killer View by Ridley Pearson and Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann<BR/><BR/>Book you've "faked" reading: Remembrance of Things Past: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust<BR/><BR/>Book you've bought for the cover: Can’t thing of any I bought, but I certainly picked up Forcing Amaryllis by Louise Ure and Sarah Addison Allen’s Garden Spells because of the cover.<BR/><BR/>Favorite book when you were a child: Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan<BR/><BR/>Book that changed your life: A Thread of Blue Denim by Patricia Leimbach<BR/><BR/>Favorite line from a book: "He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." – Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini<BR/><BR/>Top five favorite authors: On Aug. 9, 2008 (because they may change) – Louise Penny, Chris Grabenstein, Patricia Leimbach, Sandra Dallas, and…<BR/><BR/>Books you recommend as regeneration when people say, "I'm bored by almost all contemporary American writers.": The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas<BR/><BR/>Book you can't believe that everyone has not read and loved: The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas<BR/><BR/>Book you are an "evangelist" for: King Con by Stephen Cannell, The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas<BR/><BR/>Book you most want to read again for the first time: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, The Persian Pickle Club, and Gone with the Wind.Lesahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12946133849271512083noreply@blogger.com