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| Well my friends, sounds like many enjoyed the last book yet few decided
to post their comments. No fear, we all have hectic schedues, I just
like to have the opportunity to share and suggest books to read.
To involve our minds is to enrich our life and perspectives. So
here is a fiction novel filled with great written descriptions.
The Canal House by Mark Lee. Not
only is this novel an eloquent and
original story about three characters and their intense internal
evolutions, but it's also a riveting adventure story. The sections set
in Africa and Italy in particular just blow me away -- the descriptions
of the land and the people were so vivid and detailed I could
practically smell the breezes and feel the dirt under my feet. Lee is a
journalist himself, and has obviously been to all these places and
shared some of these same experiences. He tells his story using words,
but it immediately became a living, breathing entity for me -- no small
feat in fiction. Enjoy my friends and when you dohave a chance to read
it let us know what you impressions were for we all would like to know. Snorri23
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| wickedgood here.
The suggestion of In a
Sunburned Country was an excellent one for me for a few reasons.
The first being that I love Bill Bryson and the second being that my
daughter has been bugging me about traveling to Australia and I
figured I'd better learn something about where to visit.
I hadn't even finished the first chapter and I was already recommend the book to anyone who would listen. I love the easy-going writing
style of Bryson. He always makes me smile, even laugh out loud. I made the 'mistake' of
reading a passage aloud about the dangers of some of the animals, and
now my 13 year old son has decided to read that part aloud to every passer by. I
told my daughter that if we ARE going to go there, she should take a
look at this book as well. Now there are several dog-eared pages
for me to look at again in depth.
The first thing that struck me
is that he is so right about the world not knowing about the
Australians. Even the white inhabitants don't seem to have a
sense of their own history. I admit that my knowledge of the country wasn't all that much. I really enjoyed the movie Rabbit Proof Fence.
That and I had a friend whose daughter lives there, so she's visited,
but other than a few pictures I don't have much of a sense for the
place. In a Sunburned Country gave me not
only lots of historical tid-bits, but I also got a tour of all the
cool (and not so cool) out-of -the way places to visit.
Now, I have a confession... being that I read non-fiction in a much
slower fashion than fiction, I have not quite finished this book.
Rather than not have anyone write about this fun book, I decided that
despite not having read the last 50 or so pages yet, I would
assume there were no suprise endings and get my review in here.
Thanks for the suggestion Snorrie23! I hope some others choose to
review here as well, and I hope that someone takes up the ball for the
next suggested title.
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| wellI guess it is a go then. the book by Bill Bryson In a
sunburned country. So this is the reading assignment for sept. Enjoy.
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| Well it has come to my conclusion that one needs to take a step in to
get this rolling. Thus I will suggst a book. A fiction book titled In a
sunburned country by Bill Bryson. So let me know if you are
willling to continue with this group and read this book. Snorri23
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