Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

MK wrote: "I'm bad with names, so can't recall. But I'll ask him in just a little while. I'll get back to you on that ;-) "

Hah, don't bother. It's him. :-)

Thanks for the links to the free Kindle books above ! I just got them for mine . :)

Tytti, I just checked, yep, that's the player. NHL will go on break for the Olympics, but not quite yet. Chara will miss the last two games before the break. But, carrot g the flag for it country in the Olympics is a pretty good reason :-).

Tytti wrote: "MK wrote: "I'm bad with names, so can't recall. But I'll ask him in just a little while. I'll get back to you on that ;-) "

Hah, don't bother. It's him. :-)"

Oops, didn't see this til after I posted :-p

Anne wrote: "Thanks for the links to the free Kindle books above ! I just got them for mine . :)"

Anne, do you mean for the Whispersyncs? If so, don't miss the audio books, they're also free :-)

Thanks, MK
I didn't get the audiobooks, just the Kindle ones . I found a site on Youtube that has lots of free audiobooks, which I've been trying to use at night before bed. Problem with me trying that is that they make me fall asleep ! It's like someone is reading me a bedtime story . :)

MK wrote: "Tytti, I just checked, yep, that's the player. NHL will go on break for the Olympics, but not quite yet. Chara will miss the last two games before the break. But, carrot g the flag for it country i..."

Yes, I know. I follow NHL and I am Finnish. But all this talk about Bruins brings back memories from 2010... What a great series! (Though not for the Bruins, of course. :-P) Oh, I have to go to watch another clip.

My husband is scratching his head ... oh! He's saying ... Ohhhhh that's when they crashed to Philadelphia.

He had a hard time unlocking that memory, it looked like ;-).


He says you're right tho, that was a good series.

OLYMPICS!

Opening Ceremonies starting to air on the east coast of the US :-))

MK wrote: "My husband is scratching his head ... oh! He's saying ... Ohhhhh that's when they crashed to Philadelphia."

I can understand why he might have blocked that from his memory: Maple Leafs 1942, Islanders 1975 and Flyers 2010. I was wearing this http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=9sfrl... for the most of the postseason. (I had broken my thumb.) I think I got rid of it just before the Finals...

MK wrote: "OLYMPICS!

Opening Ceremonies starting to air on the east coast of the US :-))"

waitttt …… they're showing snowboarding. I thought it was going to be opening ceremonies :-(

Tytti wrote: "

I can understand why he might have blocked that from his memory: Maple Leafs ..."

Ouch! Cute cast tho :- D

MK wrote: "waitttt …… they're showing snowboarding. I thought it was going to be opening ceremonies :-( "

I don't think they will have them in the middle of the night... The snowboarding started this morning, so it's a rerun.

Opening Ceremony is on tomorrow (Friday )night here .(Eastern US )

Tytti wrote: "
I don't think they will have them in the middle of the night... The snowboarding started t..."

Yes, I was just checking broadcast schedule. Tomorrow night, for opening ceremonies. And yes, all of our tv coverage is on tape delay, sadly :-(.

Anne wrote: "Opening Ceremony is on tomorrow (Friday )night here .(Eastern US )"

They actually start at 11 am in Eastern US time if my calculations are correct.

Anne wrote: "Opening Ceremony is on tomorrow (Friday )night here .(Eastern US )"

Yes, you're right. Opening Ceremonies are so great - looking forward to it!

MK wrote: "And yes, all of our tv coverage is on tape delay, sadly :-(."

Heh, funny. Here they show everything live, no matter what time it is. Some reruns in the evening if necessary. Probably will be on two channels on most days and other sports are online. I remember following maybe three sports at the same time during the summer olympics. :D

One of them was the modern pentathlon where we didn't have a participant (but I've always liked it) and while watching the first sport I picked one that looked like a winner, without knowing anything about him. And what do you know! He was one of the best in every sport and won the whole thing. (Okey, he was quite pleasing to the eye, too.) :-P

The way you get to see it is MUCH better.They started canning and packaging it for us about a decade or so ago. Boo!

Ps wooohooo and, lol! on the last part :))

MK wrote: "The way you get to see it is MUCH better.They started canning and packaging it for us about a decade or so ago. Boo!"

Finns would protest if they ever tried to do that. Probably the ratings are that good that there is no reason to even try.

And I like to think I have a good I for spotting winners, so much of it is self-confidence. I am no athlete but Modern Pentathlon would be the sport I'd like to compete in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxdPR... Probably comes from the fact that it's a military (cavalry) sport and I even thought about serving. (We have a conscription army but it's been possible for women since 1995.)

I think you have to be a damn good athlete for that one, Tytti ;-)

I gasped, at the Korean horse riding part. I wonder at spooked the horse so badly!

MK wrote: "I think you have to be a damn good athlete for that one, Tytti ;-)

I gasped, at the Korean horse riding part. I wonder at spooked the horse so badly!"

Heh, but unlike in most other sports, you don't have to be the world's best in one of them. You just have to be very good in five different ones. It would make it more interesting while training.

I don't remember/know what happened, I think I missed the beginning of that.

Good point, on not having to be a specialist.

Oooo these Olympics are distracting! Okay, I'm gonna spend some time reading ... :)

I just saw Russian skaters Trankov and Volosozhar skating, even though it was muted, and I was trying to read, I had to watch. They looked beautiful together!

The opening ceremonies of the Olympics were wonderful! They (finally) aired last night in the US. Still immersed in Dr Zhivago, I found myself appreciating the stylized historical surveys portrayed by the performers :)).

Also, Happy Chinese New Year, a bit belated, to any who celebrate! Just got back from a Chinese New Year Celebration. The dance performances were so cute! One of the smallest decided it was naptime, and laid down near the end of their classes' short performance, up n the stage =). So cute!

Gong Xi Fa Cai!!

(Happy New Year!)



(Year of the horse.)

Pretty! Year of the Wood Horse, I learned today. Extra lucky, they said. :)

Btw, do you know any Internet memes about books? I just did one (it was old) in FB and thought it might be fun to do it here, too. But it would be better if I didn't have to translate it. In the one that I am thinking you answered questions with the titles of books in your bookself.

Tytti, Finland broke my husband's heart yesterday! ;-)

Bounced the US out of the medals in the bronze medal hockey game, total shutout! He did say Finland played so well, alot of pretty goals.

Well, I belong to the school of thought that thinks that a bronze medal (game) in ice hockey is unnecessary. The medal is nice but the goal is to win the tournament and after you've lost in the semis, there is not much to be won anymore. They might as well give the bronze to both.

He says, This is true :)

Me and my pile of books have a date tonight. I'm out. :)

My friend just saw a play based on The 39 Steps, though she said it was a comedy. (I've seen the old movie myself.) But I was checking some info about it when I noticed this:

"...and murder on the eve of WWI. When a neighbor is killed in his flat, Richard, suspected, decodes the journal, runs to the wilds of his native Scotland in disguises and local dialects, evades Nazis and officials."

And the book came out in 1915. So Nazis in 1914..? No one has thought of correcting that?

Then again, I just had one American telling me that she used Nazis and Soviets interchangeably when talking about the same people (they were Soviets) because they are taught in school that they and Hitler, Stalin etc. were "all on the same team". My reaction: WTF?

huh! That's weird! They fought each other. I think your friend tangled it up in her memory. And, I can't figure what the book thing was about.

I think whoever made that entry on goodreads just screwed it up, too. Here's a description from one of the Amazon editions:

*Illustrated

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the British author (and future Governor General of Canada) John Buchan, first published in 1915. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous habit of getting himself out of sticky situations.
In May 1914, Europe is close to war and spies are everywhere.

Richard Hannay has just returned to London from Rhodesia in order to begin a new life, when a freelance spy called Franklin P. Scudder calls on him to ask for help. Scudder reveals to Hannay that he has uncovered a German plot to murder the Greek Premier and steal British plans for the outbreak of war. Scudder claims to be following a ring of German spies called the Black Stone.
http://www.amazon.com/Thirty-Nine-Ste...

MK wrote: "huh! That's weird! They fought each other. I think your friend tangled it up in her memory. And, I can't figure what the book thing was about."

Well, she isn't my friend, I just commented her review. And of course USA was Stalin's ally for most of the war, so I don't really understand how they explained that. The book was about the deportations of Lithuanians, by the Soviet Union of course, and to Siberia where the only Nazis were prisoners themselves, if there were any. But apparently she still thinks it's okey, it's just taught that way in the US. I am just a foreigner so who I am to argue...

And yeah, someone screwed it up but it's strange that it's still there and on the most popular edition. I haven't read it so I don't like making changes to books I don't know.

It's definitely wrong. I'd change it ...

MK wrote: "It's definitely wrong. I'd change it ..."

I changed it to "Germans", it's close enough and everything is correct in the Internet again.

yay! (and, lol)

I'm trying to figure out why some of my books come up with a date read and others don't. If there is no date read they don't count toward my reading goal. Anyone know how to change that setting.

Connie wrote: "I'm trying to figure out why some of my books come up with a date read and others don't. If there is no date read they don't count toward my reading goal. Anyone know how to change that setting."

Sure :). If you click on your books, then on the left menu, choose just your 'read' shelf. Under the date read column entry for each book, there is an edit link. Click that, and you can edit the dates read. (Start and finish, both).

I think you might also be able to do it from the edit review screen, too.

MK wrote: "Connie wrote: "I'm trying to figure out why some of my books come up with a date read and others don't. If there is no date read they don't count toward my reading goal. Anyone know how to change ..."

Thanks MK. I managed to get them changed. I had to change to the list view instead of cover view but it all worked now. I appreciate the help.

Ahhh, okay. Glad you figured it out :)

There is a small independent bookseller at the end of a clean, wood-paneled, narrow hallway, off of a main street, in a residential neighborhood not far from where I am currently staying. Yesterday I went in to look around.

There happened to be a wonderful collection of books from different parts of the world. I limited my purchase to two books (and it was tough) as the books were a little bit pricey. But I found . . .

a book by Jón Kalman Stefánsson (Icelandic author) entitled "Between Sky and Earth." (in French) And, a book by Rachid El-Daif, a Lebanese author.

I'm thrilled!

sounds like a great bookstore, Daisy!

Yesterday at a pub quiz they asked who was the author of The Scarlett Letter (+ a couple of other clues). I suppose there were only a couple who remembered that and I was one of them. I am so proud of myself! :-P (He/it is not that well known here.) I wonder what's next, a couple of weeks ago they asked about the Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Next time they're going to ask about Jane Eyre. :)

I think it's too well known... Though remembering which one of the sisters wrote which book might me more difficult. And it seems she's concentrating on American authors at the moment. Last week the answer was Faulkner and we answered Hemingway. (The clues were an American author, the year of birth and death and the year he won the Nobel prize so we were very close.)