tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post4666238452220676832..comments2024-01-01T20:33:52.554-08:00Comments on a moon, worn as if it had been a shell: Tolstoy at the bookstoreElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-83981472778324350582011-09-17T10:57:10.862-07:002011-09-17T10:57:10.862-07:00Love it. The trip, the story, the observations. Al...Love it. The trip, the story, the observations. All of it.kariohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10150537989886423212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-37166913641905135052011-09-17T10:41:56.385-07:002011-09-17T10:41:56.385-07:00Andrea -- Fixed! Thank you for that!Andrea -- Fixed! Thank you for that!Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-17480823960714603812011-09-17T09:35:44.869-07:002011-09-17T09:35:44.869-07:00The genie in her bottle makes some magic yet again...The genie in her bottle makes some magic yet again. Beautiful writing, Elizabeth.Noanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01300868872496481473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-47755942442313096112011-09-17T09:25:50.289-07:002011-09-17T09:25:50.289-07:00So understandable and vivid and so funny. If Tolst...So understandable and vivid and so funny. If Tolstoy would ever descend (or possibly ascend) for an earthly moment to check in on anybody, surely it would be book-loving you.<br /><br />(Elif Batuman,maybe? Not Brautman? If we are thinking of the same Russian crazed author.)Andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07247877396600721769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-79877346201488977562011-09-16T21:58:21.582-07:002011-09-16T21:58:21.582-07:00Look at Indaba. It will make you smile :)
xo,
Noel...Look at Indaba. It will make you smile :)<br />xo,<br />NoelleNoelle Clearwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15879264907115107737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-78468174407924713672011-09-16T21:57:01.073-07:002011-09-16T21:57:01.073-07:00It sounds like you were simply taking care of your...It sounds like you were simply taking care of yourself. I don't see anything wrong with that at all! You deserve a break and then some darling. Take two!<br />xoxo,<br />NoelleNoelle Clearwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15879264907115107737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-86976914177175186212011-09-16T21:14:04.517-07:002011-09-16T21:14:04.517-07:00omg: you are a good writer.
I could read 500 pa...omg: you are a good writer. <br /><br />I could read 500 pages. Not kidding, except that I'd keel over from lack of oxygen.<br /><br />Yeah. MsMoon is right. We've been there. And I am giggling a little bit... why do we always head out for the bookstore?Laura Paine Carrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05062656101856415850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-60088727729613421832011-09-16T16:20:28.700-07:002011-09-16T16:20:28.700-07:00Please don't tell me you are thinking about ju...Please don't tell me you are thinking about jumping in front of a train?? It's bad on some days, isn't it and you know Barnes and Noble would be the place I would go to escape as well but damn if I wouldn't find myself in the kids book section and then feel guilty as hell and go home, far before I should have.<br /><br />Perhaps we need a date ASAP. Or maybe not. We might pull a Thelma &Louise and that wouldn't be good. Except for the Brad Pitt part. That might be wonderful.Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04209967185741239050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-49819076196669346472011-09-16T15:16:29.380-07:002011-09-16T15:16:29.380-07:00Don't think I haven't been there and every...Don't think I haven't been there and every mother/wife who has ever lived. Believe me- we have all been there. Now- do I mean in a bookstore, having had ALL WE COULD TAKE or in the shoes of someone who thought about, well, things...which may or may not be legal.<br />I will not dignify that with an answer.Ms. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-23991153247369657962011-09-16T15:05:57.827-07:002011-09-16T15:05:57.827-07:00Believe it or not, I don't think I breathed wh...Believe it or not, I don't think I breathed while reading your amazing (and totally understandable, I've been there myself) post.<br /><br />Many thanks. That was good, I mean, really, really good. IN fact I probably enjoyed it more than War and Peace. :-)<br /><br />Greetings from London.A Cuban In Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16423293358605007539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-27378417245395983232011-09-16T14:48:53.002-07:002011-09-16T14:48:53.002-07:00I hope you were rejuvenated by that trip to the bo...I hope you were rejuvenated by that trip to the bookstore. It sounds like a great scene to put IN a book. <br />I hope things are better today. xoxoxoGbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08895779471612397202noreply@blogger.com