tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post3701363709635221340..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: I Laughed, I Criedzmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-74799726932489419912011-10-04T15:48:17.244+02:002011-10-04T15:48:17.244+02:00And after I'd finished it, I liked thinking ab...And after I'd finished it, I liked thinking about the sad bits and feeling poignant again - like prodding a healing wound (or is it - have I ever actually done that and, if so, have I ever got pleasure from it? I can't actually think of an occasion when I have. But it seems right in contemplation at least [can you tell I just stepped off a plane and should really be asleep?])zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-37815263963367934732011-10-02T03:35:12.366+02:002011-10-02T03:35:12.366+02:00I just read it and also couldn't put it down. ...I just read it and also couldn't put it down. I thought the parts with Ian were some of the funniest, so won't risk seeing him badly portrayed in the movie. I also loved the scene of Dexter playing the game with Sylvie's family. It reminded me of another great meet-the-family scene with Woody Allen meeting Annie Hall's family. All very entertaining, I agree, with great dialogue. Thanks for the recommendation.Pollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291941714980391853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-73133671124144114342011-09-11T10:09:56.644+02:002011-09-11T10:09:56.644+02:00Nurse, If these examples from the start of the boo...Nurse, If these examples from the start of the book make you laugh, and you feel like countless more similar, I'd advise putting your other books off (this one won't take long, if you get as glued as I did): the main female character, after university, is stuck at home, unemployed, with a mother who asks daily, 'But you've got a double first. What happened to your double first? ...as if Emma's degree was a super-power that she stubbornly refused to use' and, when Emma goes to stay with much richer and more stylish semi-boyfriend she manages to shout at his father about Nicaragua and call him a fascist so that later she lies 'in the guest bedroom, dazed and remorseful, waiting for a knock on the door that clearly would never come, romantic hopes sacrificed for the Sandinistas, who were unlikely to be grateful.'zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-58958469352870419682011-09-11T09:38:52.706+02:002011-09-11T09:38:52.706+02:00Hmmm.... You've made me want to read it. Troub...Hmmm.... You've made me want to read it. Trouble is I just bought 4 kindle books yesterday and have three more "real" books beside the bed. I guess it will just have to go on the Christmas listAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-40465671858847512962011-09-11T02:43:25.665+02:002011-09-11T02:43:25.665+02:00The odd thing is, I bet Nicholls will never be ask...The odd thing is, I bet Nicholls will never be asked to the Sydney Writers' Festival: he does that dreadful thing called entertaining, oh dear me.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-57230378243444235362011-09-11T00:36:45.073+02:002011-09-11T00:36:45.073+02:00Magnificent story. I haven't been this enthusi...Magnificent story. I haven't been this enthusiastic about a book in so long. That ending, so many tears. I was reading it in Goulburn, and I had to bring it to work to read in breaks.ABhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15995207696420647025noreply@blogger.com