The link above should take you to a PDF – it outlines how to upload a picture into a post .
Also, running total for bookclub #1:
The Sun also Rises: 5 points
Franny & Zooey: 4 points
Bright Lights, Big City: 3 points
Silence of the Lambs / The Naked and The Dead: 2 points
The Ambassadors: 1 point
Hi guys – don’t know what you reckon but I was walking home last night, and passed a sign that just said “CAT VET”. It got me thinking about whoever must have started this practice – is it that they really dislike dogs, or do they just get cats, in that special way?
I thought we could maybe each take a photo of a home, shop, business or whatever, upload them here and then someone else could write a character study of whoever may work/live/play there? Just 300 words or so. Unfortunately I didn’t get a snap of the cat vet.
I’ve uploaded a piccie anyway – firstly to see if the “upload image” feature works, and secondly to gauge if this is something we’d be interested in? If it works, I’ll upload a PDF thingee in a bit, outlining how everyone can put a picture in their post.
If anyone’s keen, I was thinking we could each assign a 1st, 2nd & 3rd preference from the list, tally the votes and go from there? Open to any other suggestions.
From the list, my top 3 would be: The Sun Also Rises, Silence of the Lambs, The Ambassadors..
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Musashi – Eiji Yoshikawa
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
The Accidental Tourist – Anne Tyler
Breathing Lessons – Anne Tyler
Earthly Possessions – Anne Tyler
The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
Mildred Pierce – James M. Cain
The Count of Monte Christo – Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse
Siddharta – Hermann Hesse
The Glass Bead Game – Hermann Hesse
The Naked and the Dead – Normal Mailer
The Spy who Came in From the Cold – John le Carre
Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heartburn – Nora Ephron
The Essence of the Thing – Madeleine St John
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkein
The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkein
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
The Ambassadors – Henry James
Bright Lights, Big City – Jay McInerney
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
The Bonfire of The Vanities – Tom Wolfe
A Man in Full – Tom Wolfe
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Scoop – Evelyn Waugh
Silence of the Lambs – Thomas Harris
Die Trying & The Killing Floor – Lee Childs
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J.K Rowling
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Shantaram – Gregory Roberts
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Hard Eight – Janet Evanovich
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
The Firm – John Grisham
Ice Station – Matthew Reilly
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Trilogy) – Stieg Larsson
Just starting to trial a couple new formats for our site/blog. PLEASE let me know if anyone is having difficulty viewing or editing. You should be able to “comment” on posts, and leave a name without logging in – From previous experience, I reckon there will be something go wrong, but I guess we should start somewhere.
For anyone with any experience, you can log in to this account as an administrator (I think it will probably work best if we all act as administrators, rather than just commentators) at http://www.afterstudiohours.wordpress.com using the username: afterstudiohours & password: vonnegut
Eventually, I’ll post instructions so that everyone can log in as an administrator – probably by the end of the weekend.
If you’re keen on joining the conversation(s), please, whenever you feel good and ready, leave a comment to this post – even if it’s blank, and we’ll start ironing out the bugs.
Cheers,
Tim.
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