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Trilby · 07-01-2009, 06:49 AM

Just finished Kate Atkinson's Scenes from Behind the Museum - brilliant! Loved every minute of it!

Time Traveler's Wife - left me cold. It was about 200 pages too long. *sorry!*

I know a lot of you loved it. I found the characters shallow and the author waaaay too eager to show off her vast hipness-factor (Punk rock! Art! Obscure artists! French phrases! GERMAN phrases! A rich girl with maids and a Mama and they dress for dinner!) And I felt like I'd lived all of this before. Then, I remembered: I had!

TV show Quantum Leap

"Theorizing that one could travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator, and vanished.
He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al; an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so, Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap, will be the leap home." -from the show's intro.

Now on to Yiddish Policeman's Union - Chabon.

a special thankee to the Dwellar who so kindly sent these books along!

07-01-2009, 06:49 AM	#12
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Just finished Kate Atkinson's Scenes from Behind the Museum - brilliant! Loved every minute of it! Time Traveler's Wife - left me cold. It was about 200 pages too long. sorry! I know a lot of you loved it. I found the characters shallow and the author waaaay too eager to show off her vast hipness-factor (Punk rock! Art! Obscure artists! French phrases! GERMAN phrases! A rich girl with maids and a Mama and they dress for dinner!) And I felt like I'd lived all of this before. Then, I remembered: I had! TV show Quantum Leap "Theorizing that one could travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator, and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al; an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so, Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap, will be the leap home." -from the show's intro. Now on to Yiddish Policeman's Union - Chabon. a special thankee to the Dwellar who so kindly sent these books along! __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum Last edited by Trilby; 07-01-2009 at 07:32 AM.