Comments on: In The Pipeline + Keep on Walkin’

By: Alison

Alison — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:47:17 +0000

In reply to John Evans. Thanks John. I will look for that one next. He is hysterical!!

By: John Evans

John Evans — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 16:06:06 +0000

“Notes from a Small Island” is one of my favourite Bill Bryson books too, though it’s getting a bit long in the tooth now (no British Rail anymore for example). You might like his more recent book about England, called “At Home: A short history of private life”. He uses each of the rooms in his Norfolk home (a mid-19th century vicarage) ” to consider how the ordinary things in life came to be.” For more, see http://www.billbryson.co.uk/index.php/at-home-illustrated-edition/#uk

By: Alison

Alison — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 08:36:28 +0000

In reply to GirlMeetsGlobe. You too! Such gorgeous shots of Prague!!

By: Alison

Alison — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 08:36:07 +0000

In reply to Barb. Yes! You are buried there so just soak up the time to read! :) Spring will arrive eventually! :)

By: Alison

Alison — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 08:34:40 +0000

In reply to Loura. I love this comment!! And I love the book recs! Keep 'me coming! So glad you're enjoying Whit's love stories too! They're brilliant!!

By: Alison

Alison — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 08:33:30 +0000

In reply to Suzy. Thanks so much Suzy! I will look for it for sure! Somewhere in Aberdeen I bet there is a library that has it. :)

By: Suzy

Suzy — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 04:59:22 +0000

I loved your and Taido’s letters to each other. Your love for one another comes shining through in those words.

As for books, I just finished one for our reading group: “Still Alice” by Lisa Genova, a fictional account of a woman who has just turned 50 and is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. She’s a Harvard professor of cognitive psychology specializing in linguistics who travels the world lecturing on her topic of expertise. So it’s particularly ironic and excruciating to watch the disease tighten its stranglehold on Alice and her family. (Also, Alice is my age – I turned 51 a couple of months ago.)

What I find compelling is that this is written from Alice’s perspective. You observe the world through her eyes – the world as she knows it, slipping away bit by bit.

Well, now I’m stealing from myself – I haven’t written the review yet – so I’ll stop here.

Get the book. Check with your library first (even my small-town library had it in the stacks), but if not there:

http://www.amazon.com/Still-Alice-Lisa-Genova-ebook/dp/B001NLKXK2/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391835284&sr=1-1&keywords=still+alice

By: Loura

Loura — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 23:34:00 +0000

Thanks for including me! I am so loving this #48Walks project.

+ Whitney’s love stories have been so amazing. What a clever and beautiful idea. I love all of them.
I’ve been re-reading favorites this Winter. I Capture the Castle was the last one I finished.
I am reading Roadside Picnic at the moment. It is a bit dark, which may not mix well with Winter for me, but I can’t imagine reading it in another season.

This one looks pretty cool and I might read it next. Set in the Hebridean isles.
http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Sea-House-Elisabeth-Gifford/dp/1782391118

I completely agree that Winter is for reading. The only thing that compares to snuggling up with a good book by a fire in Winter is reading a book in warm sunshine accompanied by some iced tea and giggling children playing around you. Not too far to go now!
The Road looks interesting.I will keep that one in mind. I didn’t realize it was a movie too.
Whoa long comment! Gotta rein it in 🙂

By: Barb

Barb — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:59:34 +0000

I too, loved “The Road.” Quite a page turner… Lots of reading in Vermont this winter – what else, really, can we do? Been too cold to walk much and am jealous of those out rambling… But spring will come. Yes, it will!
In the meantime:
I just finished, “Tell the Wolves I’m Home.” Great read!

By: GirlMeetsGlobe

GirlMeetsGlobe — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:26:24 +0000

Thanks for the shout out!! =) Have a great weekend!