Sunday, May 04, 2014

Reading Week - Books Edition



As Reading Week draws to a close here on Infomaniac, we'd like to know what you're reading, what you've recently read and can recommend, and what you're looking forward to reading.


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  1. Anonymous10:42 AM, May 04, 2014

    I'am reading :
    Hubert WOLF: Die Nonnen von Sant'Ambrogio, 1. Auflage, München 2013.

    I was reading :
    Peggy GUGGENHEIM: Ich habe alles gelebt / Out of this century, Bern und München, 3. Auflage 1980.
    I can recommend it.

    Don't know what will be next, I have no reading plan.

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    1. Anonymous10:42 AM, May 04, 2014

      Oh sorry: YAY - first !

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    2. The Mistress11:26 AM, May 04, 2014

      MAGO: “The Nuns of Sant'ambrogio”… A true, never-before-told story of poison, murder, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth century convent-discovered by the world's leading papal scholar in a secret Vatican archive.

      Thank you! I must read this book.

      I’d also like to read “Le Vatican indiscret” by Caroline Pigozzi. I can’t find a German translation. Here’s a French link.

      It must be difficult to read that biography while you’re wearing your Peggy Guggenheim sunglasses

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    3. Anonymous12:01 PM, May 04, 2014

      Interview with her.
      I only have MsScarlet's papermache version, extra large so that I can wear them over my real glasses ...

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    4. The Mistress9:10 PM, May 04, 2014

      MAGO: Thank you for the interview link with Caroline Pigozzi.

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  2. Topher10:42 AM, May 04, 2014

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    1. Anonymous11:07 AM, May 04, 2014

      It's a "Unentschieden", we were there in the same minute.

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  3. Anonymous10:43 AM, May 04, 2014

    TA !

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  4. Topher10:45 AM, May 04, 2014

    right now I'm reading The Sportwriter by Richard Ford and recently finished Under the Net by Iris Murdoch. I recommend Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

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    1. The Mistress11:27 AM, May 04, 2014

      TOPHER: You have eclectic tastes!

      I’m still hoping to read another book that you recommended, previously: “Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them.”

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    2. normadesmond11:21 PM, May 04, 2014

      i sent a friend request to salman & he has ignored it. sigh.

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    3. The Mistress9:50 AM, May 05, 2014

      NORMA: He hasn’t returned my calls either.

      Don’t go fishing for a reply. It’s hard to get salman on the line. Geddit?

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  5. Mistress Maddie2:35 PM, May 04, 2014

    Between reading newspapers, having sex and reading the Infomaniac who has time to read books? No, the last book I read was about a month ago- Quentin Crisp's The Naked Civil Servant- an entertaining read.

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    1. The Mistress3:19 PM, May 04, 2014

      MISTRESS MADDIE: With lines like, "As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb ... I realized that I had made a mistake."... it's a page-turner.

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    2. Mistress Maddie6:44 PM, May 04, 2014

      And with lines like " I never bought newspapers, for fear that people might think that I liked what went on in the world, and long ago given up listening to the radio the moment that I realized that it was always going to be jolly without ever being witty" Some days I agree with that.

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    3. Jon8:42 PM, May 04, 2014

      My mantra for life: “Without knowing it, I was acquiring that haughty bearing which is characteristic of so many eccentrics. What other expression would you expect to find on the face of anyone who knows that if he turns his head too quickly, he will see on the faces of others glares of stark terror or grimaces of hatred? Aloofness is the posture of self-defence.”
      Jx

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    4. The Mistress9:11 PM, May 04, 2014

      JON: We need to do a post on mantras and mottos.

      Or Quentin Crisp…actually, didn’t YOU post about him not too long ago?

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    5. Jon9:24 PM, May 04, 2014

      Not recently - but here and here... Jx

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    6. Mistress Maddie9:42 PM, May 04, 2014

      God love Quentin.


      "An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing."

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    7. The Mistress9:47 PM, May 04, 2014

      I wish I'd been there for the Quentin Crisp look-alike contest.

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    8. normadesmond11:23 PM, May 04, 2014

      mj: you weren't there?
      and here i thought you'd won.

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    9. The Mistress9:51 AM, May 05, 2014

      NORMA: Just because I can rock an ascot doesn’t mean I look like Quentin Crisp.

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  6. designing wally4:24 PM, May 04, 2014

    An author friend of mine, Dale Allen, has a book out that I still haven't read. It is doing quite well both by sales and reviews. It's titled "A Prayer for the Devil", I really need to read it to save me from the social embarrassment I'll reap if I do not...!

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    1. The Mistress9:11 PM, May 04, 2014

      WALLY: Speaking of the Catholic priesthood…

      Hop to it or you'll have to do penance.

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  7. LẌ5:16 PM, May 04, 2014

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

    PS: May the 4th be with you!

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  8. Mitzi 6:37 PM, May 04, 2014

    I've been downloading books onto my kindle for my forthcoming sojourn, The Queen And I by the recently departed Sue Townsend, mocking the royal family is always a great hoot, a couple of Beryl Bainbridges (very gossipy) some H E Bates and the works of Frances Hodgson Burnett. I hope nobody feels intimidated by my highbrow reads.

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    1. Jon8:53 PM, May 04, 2014

      We all guessed you were "A Little Princess"... Jx

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    2. The Mistress9:13 PM, May 04, 2014

      MITZI: All British authors.

      I raise my teacup.

      I don’t see why you need a Kindle for your voyage instead of packing your steam trunk full of novels. Isn’t that what your maid Carmen is for?

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    3. Mitzi 6:12 AM, May 05, 2014

      A Lady Of Quality, if you please, Jon.

      Not all British MJ, I have a few Brendan O'Carrolls stored in the cloud.

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    4. The Mistress9:52 AM, May 05, 2014

      MITZI: Thanks to a recommendation by you previously, I’m reading my way through Brendan O’Carroll’s “Agnes Browne Trilogy.”

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  9. mrpeenee7:43 PM, May 04, 2014

    Don't any of these people have towels that can put down?

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  10. normadesmond11:31 PM, May 04, 2014

    i'm about done with a crappy hotel memoir, "heads in beds." another recently taught me that averell harriman founded sun valley ski resort and a david susskind bio wasn't all that bad.

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    1. The Mistress9:54 AM, May 05, 2014

      NORMA: Thanks for the heads-up about the “Heads in Beds” book as I was undecided about whether or not to read it, based on mixed reviews.

      Usually I like industry tell-alls such as "Kitchen Confidential" but this one sounded iffy.

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  11. Ms Scarlet9:48 AM, May 06, 2014

    I am stuck with a Rosie Thomas book [Strangers]... the beginning was good... but now I'm wondering if I'll bother finishing it... I loathe this sort of conundrum.
    Sx

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    1. The Mistress11:10 AM, May 06, 2014

      MISS SCARLET: Put the book down NOW!

      My guideline is that if the book hasn’t intrigued me by the end of Chapter 2, I put it down.

      I am about to read “Look Who It Is! Alan Carr: My Story.” I am in need of a larf and who better than the “Chatty Man” to give it to me.

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  12. Ms Scarlet12:30 PM, May 06, 2014

    I think I need the Chatty Man as an antidote! This Rosie Thomas book is rather gloomsome.
    Sx

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