Re: Sewing room comment...

Our living room has walls of shelves, but filled with CDs. Books do have a
dedicated room though, and we aren't rich :-)
Roberta in D

"DrQuilter" <mvignali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>I actually think it is very weird to enter a house and NOT see bookshelves
>in the living room. I always hope they are filthy rich and have a dedicated
>room for books.
>
> We have tons of books, DH collects his science fiction books, I tend to
> read fiction - I do enough of the other kind of reading at work. My
> favourites used to be Erica Jong and Jong Irving, also some latin american
> authors like Isabel Allende, Jorge Amado and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
> Currently I am reading Arturo Perez Reverte's "La reina del sur' which
> very appropiately I bought in Mexico. I also liked Joyce Carol Oates but
> now I find her dense. What I like are stories about relationships, be it
> romantic, social, or family, but interesting, not your run of the mill
> love story. My problem is that I have trouble identifying authors I am
> going to like, unlike DH who is always looking for the same names (in
> particular he collects Jack Vance).
>
> I have an absolute requirement that the book has to be well written, but
> it cannot be so gramatically exquisite that it detracts from the story, if
> you know what I mean. For example, I thought the writing in the Da Vinci
> code was awful. I usually do not enjoy best sellers - they look to me like
> they are written quickly, while on the other extreme, books that are too
> pompous bore me.
>
> Any reccomendations based on that? Nann? Maybe I can ask for your
> professional opinion in private email.
>
>
>
> Bonnie Patterson wrote:
>
>> Sounds like us, we've just put in new shelves in the living room.
>> About 120 feet on two walls, it wasn't enough so we added another 40
>> feet in the dining room. They are full and those are for the hard back
>> books, there are over 1000 paperbacks in the basement.
>
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