tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259513454241506815.post7571139861718821318..comments2023-10-19T03:11:46.484-07:00Comments on Cait O'Connor: BooksCait O'Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04569760764766505179noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259513454241506815.post-53568126416860394652009-08-04T13:02:45.126-07:002009-08-04T13:02:45.126-07:00Gosh, this brings back memories. Around fifteen t...Gosh, this brings back memories. Around fifteen to twenty years back, I used to always bump into Brendan Kennelly when I lived in Dublin. He had someone living in an apartment block where a friend of mine lived and we were always bumping into each other on the stairs. One day, my boss told me to call up Brendan and invite him to lunch in the Westbury in Dublin and I was dying to tell him on the phone 'I'm the girl who keeps bumping into you on the stairs in the Irish Life apartments', but of course I didn't. I always found him very nice. I never did get around to reading his works, I must do so!Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977676093756206414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259513454241506815.post-75126174811958162212009-08-04T10:14:58.519-07:002009-08-04T10:14:58.519-07:00I wonder Cait if you have read The Crock of Gold b...I wonder Cait if you have read The Crock of Gold by the Irish writer James Stephens? It has always been one of my favourites, especially when I am feeling low. It is a magical book, always guaranteed to bring a little sunshine into one's life. Thanks for all these suggestions.Fenniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377814681496294457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259513454241506815.post-8450490143067887332009-08-03T17:57:01.237-07:002009-08-03T17:57:01.237-07:00So many of those writers I don't know, Cait. ...So many of those writers I don't know, Cait. I'm always happy to be sent to a new shelf in the library, so thank you!<br />I've just finished Old Filth by Jane Gardam and World Without End by Ken Follet and am now reading Chasing Cezanne by Peter Mayle - a good summer read.Pondsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02407539138546412482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259513454241506815.post-43986720885484337622009-08-03T00:57:34.558-07:002009-08-03T00:57:34.558-07:00Salley Vickers is a favourite writer, and David Lo...Salley Vickers is a favourite writer, and David Lodge also. And a believer in angels, I have several books on the subject... can I be nosy and ask why you believe, have you been given proof or is it just a feeling?pinkfairygranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09497901949136714254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259513454241506815.post-79662807464957339242009-08-01T17:20:14.320-07:002009-08-01T17:20:14.320-07:00Cait, when you of all people announce a post as .....Cait, when you of all people announce a post as ... Just Books, I immediately have to click in your direction.<br /><br />I always love to see what you are reading, and rejoice every so often to see that you've read something I would recommend (David Lodge's Deaf Sentence.)<br /><br />My library has now got Brooklyn on hold for me. I just might walk across Central Park tomorrow afternoon to grab it. Yet, if I do that, what happens to the two other books I have got underway ... Margaret Drabble's The Garrick Years, and Steve Holtz' A Fraction of the Whole.<br /><br />Lovely to see that Merisi has been to your place. Her place is definitely a place to visit.<br /><br />Cait, one of these days, we will have a cup of tea, or a glass of something, and talk and talk. I know that will happen. xoFranceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259513454241506815.post-58847185296514732532009-08-01T13:41:05.124-07:002009-08-01T13:41:05.124-07:00Interesting about the Angel Answers book, might tr...Interesting about the Angel Answers book, might try and get hold of that. I wanted to say thanks to you putting your 'search this blog' thingie on, I was able to quickly find your version of the What is Dying? poem which I remembered reading on your blog (it was 2007!) and have copied out to read at my mother's funeral on Wednesday. Thanks Cait. xxFaith https://www.blogger.com/profile/04672728248961388984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259513454241506815.post-22822998837854074232009-08-01T08:47:09.941-07:002009-08-01T08:47:09.941-07:00Thanks so much for the reading list. I always lov...Thanks so much for the reading list. I always love hearing what others are reading. I often find favourite books that way. And I share your love of William Trevor. And of Maura O'Connell. And, of course, Yeats.<br /><br />I'm sorry about your weather! And I agree, books are your best escape plan!!<br /><br />Oh, and I just finished The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton and at present I'm trying to decide between Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels and In A Dark Wood by Amanda Craig.Pamela Terry and Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12746603636884819522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259513454241506815.post-42922822792578461282009-08-01T08:44:12.802-07:002009-08-01T08:44:12.802-07:00Good afternoon,
I spied your blog's "Boo...Good afternoon,<br /><br />I spied your blog's "Book" title over at Willow's blogroll and simply had to click myself over. Thank Willow, I did! ;-)<br /><br />I love both William Trevor and Colm Toibin! Hard to say which one of Trevor's novels or short story collections is my favorite. I read one of his older books, "Fools of Fortune", recently, and it may well be the one that I would select as my current favorite.<br /><br />"Brooklyn" by Colm Toibin is waiting by my bedside, to be read next. I can't wait! I have read "The Master" three times in its entirety and go back to it quite often, to reread the one or other passage (I have quoted him several times on my blog - sheer pleasure to remember the one or other line of his). <br /><br />I have read, with pleasure, only one Salley Vickers novel, "The Other Side of You" - I am looking forward to get to know her better.<br /><br />Bernhard Schlink's "The Reader" was an interesting read, but I am not too fond of Schlink's writing and have not tried to read more of his books. <br /><br />I have read several of David Lodge's books, but not his newest one.Merisihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16781937797213521146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1259513454241506815.post-61118534236154195642009-08-01T06:09:00.554-07:002009-08-01T06:09:00.554-07:00Good morning or afternoon more like to you across ...Good morning or afternoon more like to you across the Pond as I type. I'm just beginning to read my 50th Anniversary edition The Lord of The Rings. Paperback, as at the time my budget did not allow for the hardback, but that is alright. I also dip into The Secret Life of Bees often. <br />I will send you some sunshine from the Pacific Northwest where we are slowly coming out of a heat wave. Maybe it's headed your way and by the time it gets there it will be just the right amount of heat. Hope so.<br /><br />I believe in angels too. Yes. Have a wonderful day. :)Kimberlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18367327961235142473noreply@blogger.com