tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958492963483272678.post506400204710418375..comments2024-03-28T11:17:43.586+00:00Comments on Read-warbler: Bookish meanderingsCathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06371069000185280668noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958492963483272678.post-31754009120726206442011-11-18T15:05:14.196+00:002011-11-18T15:05:14.196+00:00Yvonne: You're so right about the vastness of ...Yvonne: You're so right about the vastness of the USA. I think it takes a while for that fact to sink in when us Europeans are over there. What looks like 5 miles on the map often turns out to be 25!<br /><br />Well, that's certainly a different kind of ponderosa!! LOL.<br /><br />Thank you, Nan, I feel better now. <br /><br />Yes, I'd like to think Prince Philip calls the Queen 'Old Girl' too. In fact it's become so much part of a sort of urban myth that I wonder if he actually does call her that and it's based on fact. I hope so.Cathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06371069000185280668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958492963483272678.post-77037300356729461132011-11-17T19:15:59.276+00:002011-11-17T19:15:59.276+00:00Oh, and I meant to say that I have the UC, and so ...Oh, and I meant to say that I have the UC, and so look forward to it. I hope that Philip really does say 'old girl.' Somehow those two words have such love in them. May the two of them live a long, long time.Nanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15547916206007733970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958492963483272678.post-26723295884390552462011-11-17T19:13:56.863+00:002011-11-17T19:13:56.863+00:00Don't feel ashamed - not one bit! I live here ...Don't feel ashamed - not one bit! I live here and I didn't know any of those things. It's a big, big, big place. I don't even know all the things in my own little state.Nanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15547916206007733970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958492963483272678.post-82415270465716100812011-11-15T22:22:35.409+00:002011-11-15T22:22:35.409+00:00Hi Cath,
What a great post, almost information ov...Hi Cath,<br /><br />What a great post, almost information overload, I shall need to go back and read it all a couple of times before it all sinks in, and follow up on some of the great links.<br /><br />The most noticeable thing about the US, is the sheer vastness of it all. So mant different cultures and environments to explore, you could spend a lifetime and still not get to understand it all.<br /><br />There was one item in your post that I did follow up on and I came across a link that you just need to take a quick peek at, I am still chuckling away to myself at the very thought of it .... Like yourself, I had only ever thought that 'Ponderosa' was the ranch in 'Bonanza' and was intrigued when you flagged that it was also a variety of pine tree. I checked it out on Wikipedia and came across the ultimate 'Ponderosa' ... see what you think!!!<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponderosa_%28Sheffield%29<br /><br />You sound like you are having a blast with this challenge, enjoy!!<br /><br />YvonneYvonne @ Fiction Books Reviewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14821114534056290177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958492963483272678.post-88537261860027020952011-11-15T10:29:06.977+00:002011-11-15T10:29:06.977+00:00Elaine: A gem is right. I love the idea of her hav...Elaine: A gem is right. I love the idea of her having a reading friend like Norman. I wish Alan Bennett would write more novels like this. <br /><br />Silsbee: I hope so too as I think you would love it.<br /><br />Pat: Look forward to your thoughts on Flavia and the puppets. I liked that one better than the first book.<br /><br />Ohhhh, so they made many log cabins from ponderosa pine? See? I never knew that.<br /><br />lifeonthecutoff: I hope you find it. It's worth the search. Very subtle humour and done with no nastiness whatsoever.<br /><br />Simon: I'd heard of Ivy C-B before but, like the book suggests, had also heard she was a difficult read. I will certainly try her one of these days. <br /><br />Kay: I think I've fallen a bit in love with that corner of Texas. LOL. *So* beautiful. I put up that first pic I used, of Shumard Canyon, as my new wallpaper. My husband saw it and was immediately smitten too. I wonder if Texas is going to be included in the itinery of our next US roadtrip?<br /><br />Glad you're enjoying my bookish wanders. I sat here last night reading stuff on the internet about the Guadalupe mnts. I'm wondering if every book I read is going to have this effect. I do love Track of tha Cat very much... that scene where she fell off the trail into the canyon had me on the edge of my seat!<br /><br />Jo: I actually thinked I enjoyed it more the second time around. <br /><br />Thomas: I looked up Walnut Grove on the net last night and saw pictures of it. Also saw a map where the prairie is in MN, although I gather a lot of it is no longer there. I didn't realise that the TV series was meant to be Minnesota... I always thought it was somewhere like Kansas. No wonder you got confused as a child!Cathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06371069000185280668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958492963483272678.post-31234403462813563592011-11-14T21:22:18.251+00:002011-11-14T21:22:18.251+00:00As a child we visited Walnut Grove and I have actu...As a child we visited Walnut Grove and I have actually seen (the rather muddy)Plum Creek. The TV series Little House on the Prarie took place in Minnesota. As a kid growing up there I could never understand why the TV show (shot in California) had mountains in it when the real Minnesota didn't.Thomas Hogglestockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14284352537015457974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958492963483272678.post-24651026409609473892011-11-14T20:44:29.926+00:002011-11-14T20:44:29.926+00:00I only discovered The Uncommon Reader this year an...I only discovered The Uncommon Reader this year and I loved it, an easy reread as it gives insight through imagination of really what the Queen might do!<br /><br />As you say I would recommend it for Christmas Presents as well.Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17356433191383783293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958492963483272678.post-40019785597680200372011-11-14T20:14:47.050+00:002011-11-14T20:14:47.050+00:00I'm so excited that you're starting out a ...I'm so excited that you're starting out a lot of your trek across the US in my part of the world. Yes, Anna Pigeon begins her series in far west Texas. It is a beautiful place, stark and full of shades of all kinds of colors. Very, very dry. <br /><br />Glad you like the name of Donis' first book. It's a doozy of a mystery. And, yes, there is a ponderosa pine that the Cartwright family named their spread after. I'm having a good time already hearing about your adventures. :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958492963483272678.post-50611449467184888892011-11-14T14:49:07.566+00:002011-11-14T14:49:07.566+00:00I loved The Uncommon Reader - I have been planning...I loved The Uncommon Reader - I have been planning a little re-read myself. I also love Ivy C-B and find that a lot of people first heard of her through Bennett's book!StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958492963483272678.post-18888588382985903852011-11-14T14:28:22.948+00:002011-11-14T14:28:22.948+00:00Wonderful post and wonderful reviews and off I go ...Wonderful post and wonderful reviews and off I go in search of The Uncommon Reader.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958492963483272678.post-58618686026754137072011-11-14T13:30:59.883+00:002011-11-14T13:30:59.883+00:00I have about 80 pages to go to finish Flavia's...I have about 80 pages to go to finish Flavia's Puppet book... it sure sounds like you have been reading up a storm!<br /><br />I have to admit I knew Ponderosa was a tree..but ONLY because I have always wanted a log home and when I used to look them up most were made of Ponderosa Pine! lol..DesLilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02582481597658080464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958492963483272678.post-40856686875387925712011-11-14T12:52:24.044+00:002011-11-14T12:52:24.044+00:00The Uncommon Reader is going onto my TBR list NOW....The Uncommon Reader is going onto my TBR list NOW. I hope my library has it. ;)Silsbeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01940536816657452705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958492963483272678.post-77236939215658222902011-11-14T12:25:43.016+00:002011-11-14T12:25:43.016+00:00I think the Uncommon Reader is a gem of a book. T...I think the Uncommon Reader is a gem of a book. The idea of the Queen sitting up in bed and reading Proust is a very beguiling one!Elainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17739410242766153431noreply@blogger.com