tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post2403098722676244466..comments2024-03-26T00:10:40.751-04:00Comments on Reggie Darling: Reggie's Bedside ReadingReggie Darlinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04044215790585354363noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-42806414146738301122013-05-12T13:06:55.859-04:002013-05-12T13:06:55.859-04:00Please do tell us more about your city apartment, ...Please do tell us more about your city apartment, it's furnishings, art, and decorative arts!Jed Wallnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-92190011107299220762010-05-21T14:02:09.665-04:002010-05-21T14:02:09.665-04:00I have recently discovered Dominick Dunne. I wish ...I have recently discovered Dominick Dunne. I wish I had paid more attention to him while he was alive!<br /><br />I love this blog and check it every day.<br /><br />JimJimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04121369363802702146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-71453854763294345212010-05-20T02:24:22.340-04:002010-05-20T02:24:22.340-04:00Dear Readers:
Thank you for your comments, and all...Dear Readers:<br />Thank you for your comments, and all of the marvelous suggestions of what you are reading. This is a treasure trove, indeed!<br />ReggieReggie Darlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04044215790585354363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-46346178074040871842010-05-19T22:44:07.940-04:002010-05-19T22:44:07.940-04:00Good news! Vintage is re-issuing Haywire next Spri...Good news! Vintage is re-issuing Haywire next Spring. I am just working on the cover design now, with lots of heretofore unpublished family snaps.Megan Wilsonhttp://www.mybookcovers.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-64824486986416183472010-05-18T12:16:01.166-04:002010-05-18T12:16:01.166-04:00Late Entry from Your Brother Frecky: The War Lover...Late Entry from Your Brother Frecky: The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst and the Rush to Emore, 1898, by Evan Thomas (A period of interest generally and also given our great grandfather's service in the Army Medical Corps during the Spanish-American War and the Phillipines Insurrection); Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts (a bit of a leap of faith based on the strong recommendation of our local independent bookseller's staff); The True History of Chocolate, by Sophie & Michael Coe (Professor Coe taught a wonderful course on Meso-American archeology that I took during my Bright College Years); Krakatoa, by Simon Winchester (whose excellent tome on the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 I devoured with pleasure); The Double Comfort Safari Club, by Alexander McCall Smith (the latest installment in the delightful No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series); Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri (a recent collection of short stories by the 2000 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction); and The Fifth Woman, by Henning Mankell (my next visit with the morose Swedish police detective, Kurt Wallander, to whom I was introduced last year by Sister.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-72699654473277564962010-05-14T00:22:43.337-04:002010-05-14T00:22:43.337-04:00Dear Readers:
I cannot thank you enough for your c...Dear Readers:<br />I cannot thank you enough for your comments and wonderful reading suggestions. Thanks to you my order book with my local book dealer is, indeed, overflowing with marvelous opportunities for late nights of page turning and past-my-bedtime reading. I do so enjoy our dialogue, andd thank you for it!<br />ReggieReggie Darlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04044215790585354363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-89212823684768812942010-05-13T20:49:04.627-04:002010-05-13T20:49:04.627-04:00Mad World is terrific!
In my To Be Read pile:
T...Mad World is terrific!<br /><br />In my To Be Read pile:<br /><br />The Lady in the Tower by Alison Weir<br />The Surprising Life of Constance Spry by Sue Shephard<br />Miss Buncle's Book, by D.E. Stevenson<br />Howard's End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home, by Sue Hill<br />No One Would Listen, by Harry MarkopolosBookishNYChttp://www.bookishnyc.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-27493320108922656192010-05-13T15:52:21.087-04:002010-05-13T15:52:21.087-04:00I loved Mad World. I shall be ordering Dead End G...I loved Mad World. I shall be ordering Dead End Gene Pool and Haywire to add to my ever increasing 'to read' pile. Thank you for the recommendations xxChristina @ Fashion's Most Wantedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06583201549332262341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-36125315077900057702010-05-13T15:31:08.147-04:002010-05-13T15:31:08.147-04:00I can recommend The Help. It's wonderful.
And...I can recommend The Help. It's wonderful.<br />And I'm very intrigued by the Wendy Burden book, as well as the one on Evelyn Waugh... thanks for the suggestions.<br /><br />On the top of my stack at the moment...<br /><br />Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese<br /><br />The Woman Who Walked Into Walls by Roddy Doyle<br /><br />Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II by A.N. WilsonPamela Terry and Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12746603636884819522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-43204956655223870462010-05-13T14:11:51.379-04:002010-05-13T14:11:51.379-04:00Great choices! Read and loved The Help, Haywire (a...Great choices! Read and loved The Help, Haywire (as a teenager) and will be ordering Dead End Gene Pool.<br /><br />A weeklong house party in Tuscany sounds like heaven.Patsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02840629057159581688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-88621590116106781502010-05-13T13:32:59.344-04:002010-05-13T13:32:59.344-04:00On my bedside table are
Billy Baldwin: An Autobi...On my bedside table are <br /><br />Billy Baldwin: An Autobiography. A reread after many years.<br /><br />The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages. Arm-achingly heavy for reading in bed but absolutely gripping. <br /><br />A pile of yet-to-be-read back issues of The New Yorker. <br /><br />I used to prefer the long narrow green Michelin guides and I agree that the Eyewitness guides are good, but the iPhone has taken the place of bothBluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-934689061976730892010-05-13T10:48:38.975-04:002010-05-13T10:48:38.975-04:00Ah, my bedside table, which is currently teetering...Ah, my bedside table, which is currently teetering and about to fall, sending an avalanche of papers and words across the room. I get nervous if there are not enough books to keep me company as I head off to sleep.<br /><br />Gardenias, Faith Sullivan. A sequel to The Cape Ann, which I read in the last century and loved. The author does not leave the reader questioning, but brings us along, weaving the past into the present as we follow 9 year old Lark, her mother and aunt, from MN to San Diego in 1942, shortly after Pearl Harbor. They move into the "project" and start building a new life while Lark tends to her mother's sole gardenia.<br /><br />Green Mama, The Guilt-Free Guide to Helping You and Your Kids Save the Planet, Tracey Bianchi. While the target audience is moms with young kids and what simple things they can do to be "green", there are many applications for the rest of us. It makes a lovely baby shower gift and, oh,yeah, though I'm now a granny, Tracey is a friend.<br /><br />Chocolate Cake with Hitler, Emma Craigie. I first discovered this book at bookssnob.wordpress.com/, a great blog of book reviews from a gal across the pond. Based on a true story, it tells about 12 year old Helga Goebbles and the last days of her life in Hitler's bunker at the close of WWII. I'm saving this for I think I will need courage to read this small book. <br /><br />Silent Spring, Rachel Carson. . . because it is so important.<br /><br />The Help, Kathryn Stockett. You all know why and it is a future book discussion group read.<br /><br />The House at Pooh Corner, A. A. Milne, in which Tigger gets his bounce back. My copy is as old as I - and in much better shape.<br /><br />Caught an interview of Michael Lewis and will probably pick up The Big Short to add to my pile when I run out later for Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, which I am supposed to be reading for a discussion next week. <br /><br />Ahhhh, I so enjoy your blog and appreciate all the fine places you take us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-70499789179531515522010-05-13T10:36:33.890-04:002010-05-13T10:36:33.890-04:00What a great group of books. "Haywire" ...What a great group of books. "Haywire" is excellent, I read it at least 20 years ago, and "The Big Short" is fantastic. The Wendy Burden book is on my future reading list.Belle de Villehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14045827018848979761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-21682478741521195062010-05-13T09:07:15.270-04:002010-05-13T09:07:15.270-04:00Like you, The Big Short is next after I finish 13 ...Like you, The Big Short is next after I finish 13 Bankers which is excellent. If I have the stamina will go on to Lowenstein's book, The End of Wall Street but this might be an overkill. <br /><br />I don't usually read fiction but Isabel Allende (The House of the Spirits)new book Island Beneath the Sea about a slave in the island of St. Domingue (Haiti) is on the nightstand for a respite from CDOs, synthetics and CDS. I often read two books at a time, particularly when one is on the heavy side.<br /><br />The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice by Michael Krondl is fascinating and highly recommended.<br /><br />...and of course, a zillion cookbooks!<br /><br />Thanks for the tip on The Help and Dead End Gene Pool for good summer reads by the lake. Mad World was already on the list!lindaraxahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15721286284279902181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-52461880045117007912010-05-13T08:59:52.188-04:002010-05-13T08:59:52.188-04:00Grabbed 2 books on the way through
Pittsfield on ...Grabbed 2 books on the way through <br />Pittsfield on Mothers Day - <br />One historical fiction "The White Garden a novel of Virginia Woolf" ,<br />Stephanie Barron. <br />" Ranger Confidential...",Andrea Lankford. National parks are irresistible. <br />Of course there is " The Horse Boy..." Rupert Isaacson. Can't pass up healing and horses.<br />Several poetry books, a Meditation book <br />" Give Her This Day", Lois S. Edgerly.(sits on the dining table)and E.V. Lamberts "Tugging on a Heartstring"<br />( tugboats) is in the bath along with several<br />others- Art & gardening...izzyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06379007428464069723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-71066325970032564442010-05-13T00:18:38.556-04:002010-05-13T00:18:38.556-04:00I live amongst a clutter of books from which I con...I live amongst a clutter of books from which I continually graze, with probably about 400 in my bedroom alone. The three books on top of my nearest pile have some age on them and are:<br />(1) In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner, by Elizabeth George, because I enjoy mysteries<br />(2) The Constance Spry Cookery Book, by Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume, because I see it has a different viewpoint from which I can learn something, especially now that I have my own copy, and because it was recently discussed in "The Aesthete Cooks" and sounded interesting<br />(3) Alice in Quantumland, by Robert Gilmore, because I like to read the occasional Physics text (my degree), whether a scientifically rigorous work or a more popularized treatment – After 30 years, I confess the more popularized Physics treatments predominate.<br />Best -<br />- MikeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-82644677799202969272010-05-12T22:51:59.776-04:002010-05-12T22:51:59.776-04:00I too, always get the eyewitness travel guides for...I too, always get the eyewitness travel guides for any city i plan to visit. They're concise and the images really help me decide what I'd want to see. <br />I also just recently read 'the help' at the insistence of a coworker and while admittedly it did take me a few chapters to get into it, I was hooked by chapter 5 and read the entire thing in 2 evenings! Enjoy; would love to hear what you think of it.ArchitectDesign™https://www.blogger.com/profile/01481754380363676771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044541580633294348.post-64950297417834574492010-05-12T22:42:07.217-04:002010-05-12T22:42:07.217-04:00Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz. On page...Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz. On page 157. Now I understand why my friends have been suggesting this book to me for years.<br />Parisians: an Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb. Recently well reviewed in the NYT, it sounded like a book I would enjoy.<br />The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stiegg Larsson. The first book was right up my alley so I am continuing with the series.<br />The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe, somehow never previously read and now lent to me by Davinia when I was in New York.<br />Of the books on your night table - listening to The Help got me through several days of a very boring job. And The Big Short was excellent.Cate Fitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12835720513248934609noreply@blogger.com