i started reading the book on alan turing called enigma i think-he invented computer -he was gay

books by peter ackroyd

i read chatterton and started english music

i like 1984 and hesse i guess

Hi clouds.
If you like Hermann Hesse you might also like Paulo Coelho's books.
Over the years I've found some really great online libraries. Heaps of them these days. Here are just a few.

http://www.readprint.com/
Numerous authors

http://emerson.thefreelibrary.com/
Emerson

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/
Shakespeare

This is a site you might enjoy although you may have seen it before.
http://www.bl.uk/
British Library

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
Online gallery from British Library where you can browse and look at the details of original books. It's really neat.

ok thanks lara

how are you?

im going through weird day back or lumbar? problem

i could hardly stand up

maybe the sugar and tea helped

orial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Ackroyd's rich imagination and literary inventiveness have never been showcased so deliberately and provocatively as in this impassioned paean to English culture--but not with complete success. Perhaps the book's liability is the tone of lassitude and melancholy that permeates protagonist Tim Harcombe's narrative of his strange life with his healer/magician father during the days following WW I in London. Tim's recollections alternate with third-person accounts of his visions, dreams in which he encounters some of the dead masters of English literature, music and art and enters into their works and worlds. In this fashion, Tim comprehends the intellectual heritage that binds Britons through the centuries, and also the cyclical nature of human existence, the inheritance of family characteristics from generation to generation. Ackroyd's rendering of Tim's fugue states ranges from the charming and whimsical to the heavily didactic. In the best of them, he captures the surreal quality of dreams while cleverly adopting the style of the writers to whom he pays homage: Dickens, Blake (he has written biographies of both), Lewis Carroll, A. Conan Doyle. In other cases, where he tries to convey the essential characteristic of music (Henry Purcell) or of art (Hogarth, Gainsborough, Constable) the conceit can wear thin. The artifice of the plot device--Tim must fall into his trances at regular intervals--becomes too predietable, and the constant repetition of the theme of cultural heritage somewhat overwrought. Yet the novel remains intriguing, and certainly enlightening. Illustrations.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Library Journal
Outside the hall in 1920s London where Timothy Harcombe works nightly with his father, a sign reads, "Clement Harcombe. Medium and Healer." But it is Timothy who seems to have the greater power. Periodically falling into dreamlike states, he enters into "English music"--here signifying all the great accomplishments of English culture--where he encounters various literary figures, becomes part of a Gainsborough painting, and is instructed in music by William Byrd. Fearful of his son's gift, the father ships him off to his maternal grandparents in the country. But ultimately Timothy rejoins his father--for "everyone belongs somewhere"--and discovers the true extent of his miraculous powers. Ackroyd suggests that we all belong to culture. His book is both charming and ambitious, but it is more successful in concept than in execution. The transitions between Timothy's real and imagined worlds aren't seamless, and Ackroyd's lovely prose is sometimes weighed down by his message. Still, this work is more intriguing than much contemporary fiction and should appeal especially to those who appreciate the art Ackroyd celebrates.
-Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Product Details

http://www.amazon.com/English-Music-.../dp/0345376137

G'day clouds. That's awful..
Did you do some lifting or something that hurt your back?
Hope you're feeling better fast.

I just read some very fascinating information about Alan Turing.
says
-----"The modern concept of the digital computer is owed to Turing, the contributions of Babbage and Lovelace not withstanding. This book, now sadly out of print, serves as the definitive biography of one the most significant characters in the history of computer science.""

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/

i feel better today and went out for 8 hours

Thanks, clouds.
Hey, I'm really glad to read you say you're feeling better. That's great news. Keep well

hi

now i need a root canal or get the tooth pulled i guess

Well, can't do much today... with this virus. But it is also the Book Sale weekend at our library! So I swallowed a bunch of pills to get going...and my husband
helped me. I could not get Sarum at the library..I had it on hold, and it never came back..so I thought this sale might be good. And it was beyond all my expectations.

We bought $28 worth over 2 days. Today was .50 for softcover, 1.00 hardcover and they were all NEW copies!
I got
Sarum
The Forest
The Princes of Ireland (Dublin saga)

A hardcover James Herriott (the vet) anthology with drawings/pictures of Yorkshire

Several PD James
Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods
A book called Hauntings in Michigan --for our summer library collection of Michigania! LOL

3 Ann Rule including the Ted Bundy one, and The Green River Killer

the new Micheal Critchon book on an air plane disaster

Several misc mystery things (one Patterson, some Kellerman, some new authors I haven't seen)
Shadow of the Wind in trade paper for my husband...since he hasn't read it yet. --going to give to my son eventually
A gardening book for a friend at work
Dan Brown's Digital Fortress ( a computer SciFi thing) also for my son eventually.

All in all some wonderful stuff this year. People donate used books to the library which sells them off the $$ .. I buy them, read them usually in the summer and give to our small local library up North. They sell duplicates off and keep what they want from donations. So all in all 3 systems benefit! I like it like that too.

I want to thank everyone on this thread for the great ideas! This might be the best reading summer YET! LOL

wow! that sure is a great book haul, mrsD