tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10129853.post111762826486345037..comments2023-10-23T13:01:12.765-05:00Comments on Four Obsessions: perpetually shifting between cooking, reading, knitting and writing: RecoveryKatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03113130840039776447noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10129853.post-1117760770263665472005-06-02T20:06:00.000-05:002005-06-02T20:06:00.000-05:00Great! Collected Stories is on the hold shelf at ...Great! Collected Stories is on the hold shelf at the library for me, and when we get to Larry's Party, I'll keep it next to the rocker in Camila's room so I won't be tempted to read it all in one sitting (as if I would ever have that much uninterrupted time!). I'm so looking forward it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10129853.post-1117712499918948622005-06-02T06:41:00.000-05:002005-06-02T06:41:00.000-05:00Oh a read-along sounds fun! Especially since I don...Oh a read-along sounds fun! Especially since I don't think my book group would appreciate my current feeling that we read <I>only</I> Shields' books till we have read them all. Let me know when you finish the short stories and I'll do the same for <I>Unless</I> and then we can start <I>Larry's Party</I> together. Just to warn you, I probably won't be a speedy reader right now since most of my reading time is taken up with the Greek Compositions.<BR/><BR/>Obviously, if anyone else wants to join us, the more Shields' readers the merrier!Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03113130840039776447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10129853.post-1117681081037194002005-06-01T21:58:00.000-05:002005-06-01T21:58:00.000-05:00Okay, I must read Shields's Collected Stories righ...Okay, I must read Shields's Collected Stories right now. Maybe we could read Larry's Party together?<BR/><BR/>I would love a blue bedroom or bathroom, a steely sky sort of blue. But that would require my painting, wouldn't it? I think I'll just admire your blue room from afar!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10129853.post-1117646774013553352005-06-01T12:26:00.000-05:002005-06-01T12:26:00.000-05:00I second that about Larry's Party. I loved "Unles...I second that about Larry's Party. <BR/><BR/>I loved "Unless," too, and you've distilled Shields just right with that excerpt. One more reason to love Carol Shields is that she created a lovely body of writing while raising five kids. "It was my knitting," is how she explained finding time to write during those years. (Which I guess means she didn't knit; oh no!) She died about two years ago; we lost her too soon. <BR/><BR/>I had a blue room growing up. My older sister chose the color, perhaps as compensation for being forced to share a room with me. It was a very powder-puffy blue, a shade I just know you'll have the good sense to avoid for the office.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10129853.post-1117638071416097352005-06-01T10:01:00.000-05:002005-06-01T10:01:00.000-05:00Kate - I can recommend Larry's Party if you are on...Kate - I can recommend Larry's Party if you are on a Carol Shields run.Edward Vielmettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07421049499752624699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10129853.post-1117633334034551922005-06-01T08:42:00.000-05:002005-06-01T08:42:00.000-05:00To quote my friend and your neighbor Nancy, peach ...To quote my friend and your neighbor Nancy, peach is never the right answer.<BR/><BR/>And to quote Lorenz Hart:<BR/><BR/>"We'll have a blue room, a new room, for two room, where every day's a holiday, blah blah blah..." Just don't wear your trousseau or get little blue chairs, or it could get scary.<BR/><BR/>I got a million of 'em.freddyknitshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05509022952708939879noreply@blogger.com