Comments on: Back to blogging

By: Wanda B. Ontheshelves

Wanda B. Ontheshelves — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:13:34 +0000

Interestingly, at amazon.com, ratings for Wolf Hall are pretty evenly distributed – seems like for most books, the ratings are either top heavy (love it!) or top AND bottom heavy (love it!/hate it!).

I’m looking forward to digging into Pillars of the Earth – Wolf Hall seems like a good followup to that.

Right now, I’m reading translations of Goethe’s poetry – I didn’t know the *cultural behemoth* of Goethe could be so funny! Also Pushkin’s narrative poetry – a host of gender/religious/ethnic tensions at play, beneath the “playful” surface (Pushkin was exiled, after all).

Congratulations on the new addition to your family. I’ll try to refrain from suggesting cute bookworm baby jammies

By: gmf

gmf — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:47:50 +0000

Welcome back! I’m only just recovering from the long series of activities I’ve had to undertake since reading Wolf Hall (wrote a review, watched the entire BBC series “The Six Wives of Henry VIII,” then “A Man for All Seasons,” then worked backwards to read about previous Henrys, and only barely managed to draw line by NOT starting the series “The Tudors”). Looking forward to your 2011 blog posts!

By: EEV

EEV — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:50:50 +0000

Hi Jessica, welcome back. I hope everything have been good for you and your baby, colics aside.
The response from the older brother was classical, my sisters did the same enquire to my mother when I arrived (obviously I’m the last one). They were happy being only two. But they always end loving each other! At least until their teens…
Thank you for letting us know your interests in this moment. It’s a pity that I don’t have what you’re looking for, but again, DGLM is a large house and there’s plenty to query, right?
By the way, a few of you are listed as looking for fantasy. Is it just Urban Fantasy, or there’s a chance for some kind of High Fantasy as well?
Thank you very much!