[bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum Thicket

  • From: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:26:07 -0700

Oh, this one sounds good!

Lori C.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mayrie ReNae 
  To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 4:05 AM
  Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum 
Thicket


  Hi Bob,

  I adore the quote in your sig file!

  Another postapocolyptic book, the only one I've ever read is "Emergence" by 
David R. Palmer.  Bookshare doesn't have it, but I'll see if I can get  a copy 
cheap somewhere.

  Here's its synopsis.

  Book Description:
                 Immune from the effects of a bionuclear war that
                    has destroyed most of humanity, an eleven-year-old girl
                    realizes that she represents a new stage in human
  evolution.
                    Recording her thoughts and experiences in a diary, she
  sets
                    out across a scarred America seeking others of her kind.


  Mayrie
    



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  From: Bob W [mailto:rwiley45@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
  Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 2:31 AM
  To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum 
Thicket


  Hi Lissi.

  I never ever read children's books, never! (I ain't one, I ain't got none, 
and I don't want none.)

  But your description of the "plumb thicket"'s main character and her approach 
to books is so intriguing that I want to encourage you to hurry and get it in 
the collection so I can read it.

  Bob (the grump)


  A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing 
you just did? Don't do that.' Douglas Adams  

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Estelnalissi 
    To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:31 PM
    Subject: [bookshare-discuss] on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum 
Thicket


    Dear  Booksharian Friends,

    Thanks to all of you who contributed to the discussion on post apocalyptic 
books and especially to Bob W. for starting it. The detail in which these books 
were described helps me to decide which to read. I've only read three of them 
of which, The Postman, the book, not the movie, was my favorite. It was 
hopeful, inspiring  and exciting.

    In a few days I'll be checking in The Plum Thicket by Janice Holt Giles. 
'The copyright is 1954 so some of you who enjoy books written then might want 
to check it out. Whether you like her work in general, I think most of you 
might share some of its eight-year-old narrator's views on books and reading. 

    "I stood before the rows of books, undecided, all of their bindings, all of 
their titles, alluring. I cannot remember when I did not have a love for books 
amounting to reverence; my passion for reading is so deep that it is actually 
an addiction, like the drug habit. I would read the telephone directory if 
nothing else were available. But not only is opening a book, any book, any 
time, an adventure which makes my pulse beat faster, I love books also for 
their own sake. I like to hold in my hand a beautiful book, feel its quality 
and texture, smell it and, I can think of no better word, love it. I 
particularly love the old leather bindings, such as those on my grandfather's 
shelves, and I particularly love, too, the heavy, torn paper and the exquisite 
type which many of them had. A beautiful book is truly a work of art.

    What should it be? Scott? Thackeray? Trollope? Brontë? Tentatively I took 
down Madame Bovary. I knew Grandfather greatly appreciated Flaubert But the 
text was in French. Regretfully I put it back. The Dickens shelf was next, and 
with a kind of homing instinct I picked out David Copperfield. I had read it 
twice already, but it was always irresistible."



    Always with love,



    Lissi



    Here is the information from the dust jacket:




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