tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1483877654474162845.post4030631571115337504..comments2023-07-10T01:17:13.383+10:00Comments on Brona's Books: Six Degrees of SeparationBronahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11110584237325026052noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1483877654474162845.post-23971567653236493822016-10-06T10:13:06.985+11:002016-10-06T10:13:06.985+11:00I love your links here, Brona, although I've n...I love your links here, Brona, although I've never heard of <i>Slap</i> or the <i>The Ladies of Missalonghi</i>. It's too bad that the beginning of <i>The Life of Pi</i> couldn't grab you. It really is such an excellent book.Debbie Rodgershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15630059470408161434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1483877654474162845.post-88790736970495182232016-10-04T14:07:03.305+11:002016-10-04T14:07:03.305+11:00If you've read & enjoyed The Blue Castle, ...If you've read & enjoyed The Blue Castle, then I feel sure that you read and enjoy The Ladies of Missalonghi. One is set in Canada, one in Australia, but they are very very similar. <br /><br />I also enjoyed McCullough's Roman series, although I was reading them as she wrote them, & I stopped after about the fourth book. Thorns Birds annoyed me from start to finish, I failed to find the romance in it at all as a teenager. <br /><br />The philosophical conundrum at the end of the Life of Pi is one we still discuss with the boys. But I believe the movie version left it a little more open ended than the book did....but I will probably never know that for sure :-)Bronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11110584237325026052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1483877654474162845.post-26737904969583784792016-10-04T13:49:45.871+11:002016-10-04T13:49:45.871+11:00The Life of Pi and The Blue Castle are the books y...The Life of Pi and The Blue Castle are the books you've mentioned that are familiar to me. The latter I really loved. It really is a cozy novel for rainy days, isn't it? I've never felt any inclination to read The Life of Pi, though. It threatens a philosophy that will likely leave me exasperated. <br /><br />How exactly is The Ladies of Missolonghi? I've read a couple of McCullough, and like her writing. However, the last of her books I read was The Independence of Mary Bennet, and I was so disappointed at the ridiculousness of the whole plot and the characterisation. The one I read before that was Caesar's Women which I throughly enjoyed.Songhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09707280327803432082noreply@blogger.com