[ebooktalk] Re: Diaries and To Serve Them.
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 08:50:22 +0100
That would be fascinating Alison. I have heard of groups of people who collect
diaries and they are always hoping to find just one more year in a person's
life. I think I could seriously get into reading these. We were recently
reading some of my Dad's diaries that he kept when he was a teenager and they
were so interesting. I wish he had kept them up throughout his life, though we
all suspect there are some dodgy things we will never know about his life on
the sea. I think that's why I enjoyed Nella Last's War so much. It was so
interesting to read about the day to day life of someone living through a
difficult time.
Shell.
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From: "CJ & AA MAY" <chrisalis.may@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 10:32 PM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Diaries and To Serve Them.
> My friend's husband rang san internet business selling Irish literature,
> mainly to university students. As a result she and he would always visit
> charity shops and book shops when visiting a town to see if there was
> anything of interest he could add to his catalogue.
> One day, whilst going through the shelves, they found a set of diaries
> written by an Irish doctor during the first world war. They started when the
> author was around 8 or 9 and carried onto until he was in his seventies.
> They did a lot of research trying to trace him and it became a bit of an
> obsession for a while and although they never did actually track him down,
> they discovered some fascinating facts along the way.
> It seems strange to me that a family would let such diaries out of their
> family but perhaps he didn't have a family and these diaries were just part
> of a house clearance.
> Alison
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> On Behalf Of Shell
> Sent: 05 May 2013 20:27
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> Subject: [ebooktalk] Diaries and To Serve Them.
>
> Hi Elaine,
> I like Michael Palin and would have thought his diaries would be good. I
> would like to read the novel he wrote recently, it sounds quite different.
> I think that if I could see I would buy diaries from Ebay. I often see them
> being sold there, not of anyone famous, just of ordinary people who must
> have died or something and their diaries are now out there on sale. How
> interesting would that be?
> I hope you enjoy To Serve Them. I really loved it.
> Shell.
>
>
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> From: "Elaine Harris (Rivendell)" <elaineharris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 2:59 PM
> To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ebooktalk] What I am reading.
>
>> Having recently finished a rather gritty crime thriller, "Good as
>> Dead" by Mark Billingham, complete with bad language, some grim humour
>> and violence, I am now well in to "Anybody Out there?" by Marian
>> Keyes. Pure escapism.
>> Much to my surprise and delight it appears to be a sequel to "Angels"
>> (Starts about three years of "Angels" finishes) and has already had me
>> laughing out loud. (Is it a series, does anybody know?) Contains throw
>> away one-liners such as "Joe, you brighten every room you leave", but
>> not overloaded with wisecracks like the only Kathy Lette I ever tried
>> to read.
>>
>> In between I tried "The Dress Circle" by Laurie Graham but the
>> ever-present dumbed down language annoyed me and I couldn't get into
>> it.
>> Embarrassingly,
>> although billed as a black comedy, it didn't make me laugh, all of
>> which probably makes me a miserable snob.
>>
>> We have finished the Michael Douglas biography by Andy Dougan, which
>> we found sycophantic, and are embarked on Michael Palin's Python
>> Diaries, 1969-to 79. Am not a huge Python fan though Chris is but like
>> Michael P and love reading diaries.
>> Will let you know how we get on but at this early stage we find him a
>> little immature in some ways for a 26 year old but it is not without
>> interest.
>>
>> Thanks to Trish, am also reading "To Serve Them All My Days".
>>
>> Take care,
>>
>> Elaine
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