tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post7081212134648513229..comments2024-03-27T18:28:32.102-07:00Comments on Rose City Reader: There are the 2009 Books!Gilion at Rose City Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18080293172467000794noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-54169307502132371232009-01-21T08:29:00.000-08:002009-01-21T08:29:00.000-08:00Oh, no -- i really LOVE Sometimes a Great Notion. ...Oh, no -- i really LOVE Sometimes a Great Notion. Like I said, it was long and slow, but in a GOOD way. It completely absorbed me. I finished it this morning. It is going in my Top 10 list as well (although I don't know what it will bump).<BR/><BR/>You are absolutely right about the rain and the damp. The book captures Oregon.Gilion at Rose City Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18080293172467000794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-33659429617486373462009-01-21T07:03:00.000-08:002009-01-21T07:03:00.000-08:00Surprised you didn't like Sometimes a Great Notion...Surprised you didn't like Sometimes a Great Notion. Spending a few years of college in Eugene, I loved the descriptions of rain. I thought you could actually feel the dampness. This, possibly as I read a good portion of the book at our log cabin at the base of Mt. Rainier. Damp only begins to describe the cold and wetness. The movie, on the other hand sort of ruined it for me. I'd still count theAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13095592929553558027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-80019414832035535312009-01-20T14:08:00.000-08:002009-01-20T14:08:00.000-08:00UPDATE: I am "this close" to finishing Sometimes a...UPDATE: I am "this close" to finishing Sometimes a Great Notion and good thing too -- book club is tomorrow night. <BR/><BR/>I seem to make no progress with Mists of Avalon. No matter how much I listen to it, it still has the same amount left. What had felt like "real time" now feels like "faerie tyme" -- like when Morgaine goes off to stay with the faerie folk, thinks she is only there three Gilion at Rose City Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18080293172467000794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-25782180309056445012009-01-20T14:05:00.000-08:002009-01-20T14:05:00.000-08:00Well, at just shy of 800 pages, I imagine DROOD w...Well, at just shy of 800 pages, I imagine DROOD will take a while! I am very interested to know what you think of it, since with my recently revived interest in Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is sitting on my TBR shelf.Gilion at Rose City Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18080293172467000794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4508267865632365231.post-85371514537337146512009-01-19T07:38:00.000-08:002009-01-19T07:38:00.000-08:00I've finished quite a few books this year, but I'm...I've finished quite a few books this year, but I'm reading DROOD right now and while it's great, it's long and intense, so it will take me a while.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com