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Hello B

I've been luring at the atelier (F38024?thread=459053&skip=1196&show=20)

If you're still interested in books to chill out with:

- 'Buddha Da' by Anne Donovan
(http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/2003prize/shortlist/donovan.shtml /
http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/2003prize/shortlist/donint.html)


- 'The Last Samurai' by Helen DeWitt
(Chatto & Windus, 2000, £16.99, ISBN 0-7011-6956-7, hbk
Vintage, 2001, £6.99, ISBN 0-09-928462-6, pbk)


Both of which I'm quite sure you'd enjoy; I sure hope both authors will write more!


I also liked very much:

- 'Fugitive pieces' by Anne Michaels (not exactly a story to chill out with. But beautifully written - she comes from poetry...)
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/michaels/pub.htm

- 'The wig my father wore' by Anne Enright


Not quite sure about the latest one I read; it didn't make me laugh as much as 'promised' on the back of the book - but now I find the story lingers in the it back of my head. It's set in the book publishing business, so maybe that aspect makes it interesting for you:

- 'Foul Matter' by Martha Grimes


best wishes

sunny

Long time no type, sunny - how are you?

Deliciously enough, my ex has just sent me an Amazon voucher...!



Ben

good timing!


I'm fine, thanks. Apart from not having enough holidays - and as long as that's my only complaint I don't think I should be complaining..

And you? Planning to work abroad again?

Hoping to, but nothing definite.

I bought "Buddha Da" because I used to hang out with the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order in Glasgow, and it looked fun. Thanks for the recommendation.



Ben

If I had to chose one of the five for you, it would have been this one. And then Samurai..

Good luck with everything!


sunny

(and then the others in that order )

(your local library might have them btw.)

Any particular place you'd like to go to?

You have an atlas handy? Open a page at random. Left a bit! Yep! Right there!

Europe is the most practical of course, and I prefer northern Europe and the German/Scandi languages to southern Europe and the romance languages. But it is in the lap of the goddess.

Ben

reminds me of the picture you used to have on your page: the feet with the map ...


good luck!