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Sarah wrote: "I know, Jeannette, DJ is a real book connoisseur (I had to look that word up!). Send us a link to that edition so we can see what it looks like, DJ.

I am so glad we are doing a group read here
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Hi Sarah,
I will ask Husband on Su day to look it out for me(now you understand "Husband has Hidden" shelve in my library..LOL!)so that I can see if there is a code.....
I'm at Bookshop on Saturday so I might ask George. If the Polio Collection. Has its own website.....except he might worry about what I might be buying.....
And I think I might possibly ha e news to post October 29th after my 10th Wedding Anniversary.........
I will post here Sunday about Folio Edition.

Here's a list of books written in the 1920's, perhaps some for future reads:

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/39...

I've got the book and it has to go back by October 13. I guess I'll have to take notes!

Thanks for the list Rochelle! I'm going to check it out. :)

Yes, thanks, Rochelle!

I picked up the book! I am enjoying The Pursuit of Love. Lucky me, it is a double volume with Love in a Cold Climate. I have it until October 13. :)

Jeannette--Does your library allow online renewal?

Rochelle wrote: "Jeannette--Does your library allow online renewal?"

I have this one on inter-library loan -- but I just looked and it is from a local library. I can renew it! I'll have to return it and then go to the other library, but it's doable. Maybe I'll start Love in a Cold Climate first. I'm glad you thought to ask, Rochelle!

You can get used copies at Amazon, Alibris, Abebooks, Barnes and Noble. They ship within 3 days. I buy most of my books used.

I finally joined the local library, so hopefully they have The Pursuit of Love in stock.

Cheers for that list, Rochelle :-)

Jeannette wrote: "Rochelle wrote: "Jeannette--Does your library allow online renewal?"

I have this one on inter-library loan -- but I just looked and it is from a local library. I can renew it! I'll have to retur..."

Love in a Cold Climate is the first to read. I love Nancy Mitford!

I really enjoyed the first chapter of Pursuit of Love -- it was funny. I like those family stories full of quirky characters.

I have read a few pages into it, and really like the style too, Jeannette. This may be a good one! ha ha

I'm going to hold off, because I hate discussing a book too many weeks after the fact. I tend to forget the details. :)

I agree with you there Jeanette...I will probably wait and pick it up around the 10th and just fall into it!

I recommend Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. I'm reading this now (about fifty pages to go).

I am struggling with Love in a Cold Climate. I just can't get into the pace of it; it just seems like a lot of time goes by with nothing much happening. And I feel that the humor is a bit contrived, almost like she's trying to be clever. I hope The Pursuit of Love is better.

I hope The Pursuit is a good one too. But maybe these things you are seeing will make good discussion points either way, Jeannette.

Ivan, Rebecca is just a novel like no other for me. One of my earliest grownup books I read as a young teen.

I may just abandon Love and move on to Pursuit. I thought the little bit I read from the first book was better, but I'll give the current book a couple more days before deciding.

I hope to read Rebecca someday. Is the book better than the Olivia de Haviland movie adaptation?

Rebecca is fabulous, Jeannette. I'm a huge fan of du Maurier, and I guess she inspired me as well. None of the movie adaptations I've seen of any of her stories match the books. Even her short story, "The Birds", was so much more powerful and creepy than the Alfred Hitchcock movie.

Ivan told me how creepy her short stories are. :) I'll keep Rebecca on the list.

It was Joan Fontaine, Olivia's sister, in Rebecca, -- I am only correcting because I really loved her and it was an inspiring movie to me, again when I was very young, but it started making me understand cinema I guess.

Sarah wrote: "It was Joan Fontaine, Olivia's sister, in Rebecca, -- I am only correcting because I really loved her and it was an inspiring movie to me, again when I was very young, but it started making me unde..."

Thanks, Sarah! I was only guessing that it was Olivia -- I was too lazy to look it up. ;)

Jeannette wrote: "I may just abandon Love and move on to Pursuit. I thought the little bit I read from the first book was better, but I'll give the current book a couple more days before deciding.

I hope to read R..."

The movie version of Rebecca is fantastic - but the book is better!

Oh I can't stand the Hitchcock adaptation. He turns it into ridiculous melodrama.

In agreement about the book though.I love it and will hopefully reread it someday.

I watched the movie a long time ago and didn't like it all that much. But, I might see it differently now. I'll give the book and the movie a try one of these days.

I have trouble with a lot of old movies - some are just great, others have dated so badly, the dialogue sounds stilited and forced, totally unnatural, and so many of the "acclaimed" performances seem histrionic (to say the least). I didn't hate the film of "Rebecca," though the book is proving to be far superior. One plus about the film is that it features one of my favorite actors...no, no, not Olivier, but George Sanders; just loved him in "All about Eve" and "Village of the Damned."

Jeannette - I'm so sorry that the Mitford book is letting you down. I truly loved it. Though I'll confess that the first time I tried to read it I couldn't get into it either, and then I just kept coming across comments about them and finally saw the BBC mini-series with Rosamond Pike as Fanny. Then I went back, picked up the book (I have the two-in-one volume too) and thoroughly enjoyed them. Having seen the film (and it's quite faithful) it was as if I were handed the key - suddenly, I got "it." I especially enjoyed the relationship of Lady Montdore to cousin Cedric - just wonderful. About midway into "Love in a Cold Climate" something happend regards to Polly which may spark your interest, events become highly charged. For this reason, I'd recommend sticking with it.

My book group is meeting on the 12th to discuss du Maurier's "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now." I chose them in honor of halloween. "The Birds" is terrifically scary (not at all like the film) and "Don't Look Now" is a great ghost story (remember the film with Julie Christie? Takes place in Venice - just love Venice!).

FYI: Olivia de Havilland did star in du Maurier's "My Cousin Rachel" (1952) with a young Richard Burton.

Well one person's ridiculous melodrama is another person's lifetime inspiration. I guess we can handle differences of opinion that great within one discussion. And Jeanette knew there was an Olivia de Havilland in there somewhere! I'm glad, because now I would like to see Cousin Rachel.

Ivan, do you know, to this day I cannot re-watch The Birds? Would I ever be able to handle the novel? Did you write a review of it? I would love to read it, unless the review itself would scare me too badly! Not your writing mind you, but the subject matter:)

Nice posts from both of you! :) I am not generally frightened by Ivan's reviews, so I think you're safe Sarah. lol

I want to re-watch Rebecca, Sarah, because I remember thinking that Pride and Prejudice was boring the first time I read it! (Hard to believe, I know.) I do agree with Ivan about some of the classics. I watched Olivier in Wuthering Heights a few months ago and hated it! Same with Kate Hepburn in Little Women. Histrionic is very apt!

I will stick with Love in a Cold Climate for a chance to watch Rosamund Pike as Fanny. She is such a lovely actress. And, I wanted to mention George Sanders, too. I love him especially in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. Such a smooth-talking, bad guy! And, of course, he was excellent in The Jungle Book!

Sarah wrote: "Well one person's ridiculous melodrama is another person's lifetime inspiration. I guess we can handle differences of opinion that great within one discussion. And Jeanette knew there was an Oliv..."

I hope I haven't offended you in some way? :/ I must admit I'm not a great movie watcher, so I don't know much about cinema from that period. Perhaps as a film in its own right it has a certain charm but it is wildly different--the characters, the tone, etc.--to the original book.

Great to have you over here, Ivan :-) Histrionic is correct. the 1946 Great Expectations springs to mind, but of course the book is no less so.

Lauren, I was just commenting on our remarkably different views of the movie Rebecca.

Sarah wrote: "Well one person's ridiculous melodrama is another person's lifetime inspiration. I guess we can handle differences of opinion that great within one discussion. And Jeanette knew there was an Oliv..."

"The Birds" is only a story (fifty pages at most), but it is terrifying. Really, truly, much more potent than the film. I loved it, one of the best stories I've ever read.

Lauren wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Well one person's ridiculous melodrama is another person's lifetime inspiration. I guess we can handle differences of opinion that great within one discussion. And Jeanette knew the..."

Oh, but that film offers us a rare opportunity to see the great Martita Hunt as Mrs Havisham, just loved her.

Jeannette wrote: "Nice posts from both of you! :) I am not generally frightened by Ivan's reviews, so I think you're safe Sarah. lol

I want to re-watch Rebecca, Sarah, because I remember thinking that [book:Pride ..."

Jeannette, the mention of these films is certainly adding to my movie list too. Some I would love to rewatch and I haven't seen Love in a Cold Climate at all. I'll brave that short story some day too, Ivan. And I do want to see The Great Expectations 1946 too.

It was great how Hitchcock could scare you with some of his movies, back before all the blood and gore and sfx we have now. The Birds, and Psycho......

I wonder how many of these actors (Olivier, for example) struggled with the difference between the big gestures of the stage and the intimate feel of film?

Jeannette wrote: "It was great how Hitchcock could scare you with some of his movies, back before all the blood and gore and sfx we have now. The Birds, and Psycho......

I wonder how many of these actors (Olivier,..."

There have always been three kinds of actors - movie stars, stage stars and that rare breed - those that are both. People Like Henry Fonda and Anne Bancroft and Maggie Smith and Olivier (and so many more) moved back and forth with little or no effort. You get movie stars who try the stage and don't have the discipline or know about stage craft and/or stage etiquette; or stage stars who make a film but their gestures and facial expressions are too broad and exaggerated - as if they're playing to the second balcony. Those that do both are a special breed.

I loved those older horror films that didn't feature torture and blood and guts and gore. "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Haunting" were great scary films that didn't have any blood or gore - just suspense. I brought up George Sanders in "Village of the Damned", that was an alien picture where no creatures melted you with acid or burst from your stomach cavity, and yet it was creepy and felt somehow real and plausible.

You will not get me to watch Village of the Damned, Ivan. Movies like that don't just scare you, they keep on scaring you for a long time.

But, speaking of movies and stage actors, I just received the movie version (on dvd) of The Pirates of Penzance with Kevin Kline and Angela Lansbury. It took a couple of viewings, but now we love this movie!

Thanks, Gabriele, for letting us hijack this thread! :) *sorry*

Jeannette wrote: "You will not get me to watch Village of the Damned, Ivan. Movies like that don't just scare you, they keep on scaring you for a long time.

But, speaking of movies and stage actors, I just receive..."

Not at all! Conversations go off in interesting directions.

Shouldn't we be voting on our Nov selection? We need time to buy it.

We haven't been doing monthly group reads, only every few months. I, for one, haven't even finished the current book. And with Christmas coming, I'd say we have the next one in January.

You're all welcome to suggest a book that you want to read now, and ask if anyone is interested in joining you.

Sarah and I posted a side read for November, if anyone cares to join us.

I must admit January would suit me better as I'm starting to get caught up in the Christmas per organizing(and this is with me cutting back LOL).

I just want to say that As I am doing my year of reading from home best year I will not be nominating any books as I will only be reading books I already own and the only books that I will be allowing myself to buy ate already written on my Wish list which will close on December 31st any other books that I find I want will be put on a list for the following year....

Also my house computer is I think fading from this mortal coil and so I will need to just stay in touch via my Blackberry and so I beg your indulgence for any typos or grammatical errors....
Happy Per Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it :-)

Rochelle wrote: "Shouldn't we be voting on our Nov selection? We need time to buy it."

Rochelle, do you think you will be discussing any more of the Nancy Mitford books as a side read maybe?

DJ wrote: "I must admit January would suit me better as I'm starting to get caught up in the Christmas per organizing(and this is with me cutting back LOL).

I just want to say that As I am doing my year of r..."

I hope you keep typing on that Blackberry, DJ, because we need to hear from you. And maybe there is something among your shelves that might fall Between the Wars!

SarahC wrote: "Rochelle, do you think you will be discussing any more of the Nancy Mitford books as a side read maybe?"

No, I've moved on to another book.

Hi Sarah,
Never fear I will keep typing away.....
I sincerely hope that I will be able to participate with some of the reads and with the amount of books I have I would be surprised if I don't manage at least a couple..
It was with this in mind that I had asked for suggestions to add to my wish list earlier this year if you recall?
Are we still planning on reading WIVES AND DAUGHTER together or am I out of sync?
I am excited about my reading from home....

And if anyone does think of anything that might be an idea to add o my wish list for next year PLEASE let me bow...

Happy Reading to everybody