tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600022529355932646.post7726981595445211139..comments2024-01-29T10:10:55.378+00:00Comments on Bibliofreak.net - A Book Blog: Reading Plan: April 2012Matthew Selwynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00723650905588749638noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600022529355932646.post-54084972549555521682012-04-09T17:15:22.421+01:002012-04-09T17:15:22.421+01:00Ah, that is a romantic idea. I love the thought of...Ah, that is a romantic idea. I love the thought of owning books that you can't find anywhere. In the Amazon age it's even more special and unusual!<br /><br />Hmm, perhaps I would. I've never really read plays outside of education. The idea always strikes me as a bit odd; reading something that was written to be performed. It's probably all linked to my not really reading poetry. Still, I'll put that right someday!Matthew Selwynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00723650905588749638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600022529355932646.post-44486333892316328732012-04-03T11:14:23.081+01:002012-04-03T11:14:23.081+01:00Oh and one more thing! Have you read The Mysteriou...Oh and one more thing! Have you read <i>The Mysterious Stranger</i> by Mark Twain? I think you'd like that too! :)Petrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04105257413922668294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600022529355932646.post-81781329425101881622012-04-03T11:08:40.723+01:002012-04-03T11:08:40.723+01:00Galileo was also on his own! :)
I was just curiou...Galileo was also on his own! :)<br /><br />I was just curious, not many people know this book. The only place where you can get it is eBay and it's only old hardback (!) copies. I got it, and it's kind of romantic to own a book not many people know about. :)<br />I think you'd like Chekhov. I read one of his plays long ago and then I was really annoyed with the characters. But recently I've read other two plays, and loved it. Now I think he's an amazing writer.Petrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04105257413922668294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600022529355932646.post-57569934801493981642012-04-01T10:53:56.438+01:002012-04-01T10:53:56.438+01:00Haha, but you were on your own with that one. Mayb...Haha, but you were on your own with that one. Maybe after <i>Portrait</i> and <i>Ulysses</i>, or maybe I'll be so sick of Joyce by that point that I'll never want to see any of his books again!<br /><br /><i>Bleak House</i> is indeed a very long book - it's the Dickens novel that I've been eying up for a while, that and <i>Little Dorrit</i> - I'd love to do both this year.<br /><br />As for the questions, simple: no and no :) What's made you ask about them?Matthew Selwynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00723650905588749638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600022529355932646.post-18538580473515523912012-03-31T21:19:51.904+01:002012-03-31T21:19:51.904+01:00I still think Dubliners would be a better choice! ...I still think <i>Dubliners</i> would be a better choice! And not only because I've read it, and so I could enrich your life with my valuable and very clever comments! ;)<br /><br /><i>Bleak House</i> is a pretty long book, I was surprised when it arrived! Also, I discovered <i>The Mystery of Edwin Drood</i> while browsing a bookstore. I had no idea Dickens wrote it.<br /><br />Two more things I wanted to tell/ask you.<br />First, have you ever heard about <i>Years of Grace</i> by Margaret Ayer Barnes? I only heard about it while reading another book where it was mentioned. It even won the Pulitzer Prize.<br />And second, have you ever read anything by Chekhov?Petrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04105257413922668294noreply@blogger.com