Reading for pleasure! What are you reading now?

President Camacho · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 8:07 am Post subject:

Great Penelope! I think Amazon.com has some copies. Ophelia has already created a thread. Smile

Penelope · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 8:56 am Post subject:

Oooh I love Edith Piaff too - I wish I could sing like that.....I do try when everyone is out......rrrrrolling my RRRRs - it worries the cat terribly......

Ralph, it costs around about £20 to go to the Lowry in Manchester, it has three theatres in the building, one of which is a small studio.

It was more expensive when they did the Magic Flute with a full opera company....but well worth it and it was full.

The only time I was really cross and felt as though they should have paid me to go and see it....was an evening of Samuel Beckett. Still, I know now that I never want to see anymore Samuel Beckett, or theatre of the absurd. Definitely not.....

Norman, reckons it costs about £25 to go to the Palace or the Opera House, also in Manchester. We are in a rural, farming area here and I live in a large village, but we are well placed for going to theatres in Liverpool or Manchester and it is quite easy to go by train to London, although the theatre prices are extortionate in London.

We usually go down to London to see an exhibition at The Tate or Tate Modern. The last one we went to see was at the National Portrait Gallery.....called 'Below Stairs' and it was portraits of servants. That was excellent.

I have just remembered that in Northwich (our nearest town) where we have just lost our cinema, we have a Salt Museum (because this is where all the salt mines are) anyway, I have just remembered that they have opened a little cinema there, but we have never been. Still I think it is very enterprising of them.

Audrey · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 10:38 pm Post subject:

Citizen Girl by Emma McLaughlin
Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller

Saffron · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 11:43 am Post subject:

Saffron · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 11:46 am Post subject:

A side note to the post I just made about A Midwife's Tale. The actress that plays Martha Ballard in the movie will be in a one woman show, based on the life of Rachel Carson, just miles from where I live.

Ophelia · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 4:10 pm Post subject:

Saffron · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 4:47 pm Post subject:

Ophelia · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 5:14 pm Post subject:

"I really enjoyed this book until the end. I'd love to know what you think of the way Geraldine wraps this book up."

Saffron

OK I'll open a thread for this book and I can also mention the two other books I've read about the plague in England.

ralphinlaos · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 12:34 pm Post subject:

Not much reading this week, but I just started reading A Stained White Radiance by James Lee Burke. I'm twenty pages into the book, and I THINK I'VE READ IT BEFORE! Not the first time this has happened - probably not the last.

Ralph

Penelope · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 12:45 pm Post subject:

tis sooooooo good to have you back.

It is 'summer' here.....weather hot and sticky....we are having a barbecue - Aberdeen Angus Steak and Salad.......because we have to catch the warm weather before it goes away again.

We mark whether it has been a good summer by the number of barbecues we get in.

Explode


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