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Friday. 9.7.07 11:06 pm
Remember when I told ya'll of Twilight? And a number of ya'll loved it? Made me so happy and giddy. XD Anyway, I have another one.

The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson


A very good book. Please, please, check it out. Just finished it today. I was incredibly dismayed when my mother arrived at Barnes & Nobles and made me leave. She doesn't understand the power of books, the magic of words. If she really knew me, she'd know better than to disturb me when I was reading, working, etc., just like I don't like to be disturbed when I practice piano. Not that I practiced much back when I was taking lessons, but when I did, I got into it. ^-^ Heh. =P I have two pianos at home. And she didn't understand the DO NOT DISTURB ME for piano, either. >.>

I am very very thristy right now. *gasp* Water...orange juice...anything...*cough* I'm...struggling...to...breathe! *faint*
theDot

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Best Review of the boom above that I read on Amazon: From Kirkus Reviews--

The Sachertorte romances by Ibbotson (Madensky Square, 1988, etc.) have resisted a firm categorization. The narration is too witty and waggish for the average lathering romance, and the plots too drenchingly sweet and contrived for a Fay Weldon-style satire or a Malcolm Macdonald chatty comedy. Here, the publishers have wisely allowed the author her own directive for her work: ``for the intelligent woman with the flu.'' Just so. Ibbotson's latest offering concerns the career of clever, enormously learned, and bouncy Ruth Berger, daughter of an eminent zoology professor and an excessively good mother whose house in Vienna also shelters an anthropologist aunt, alarmingly clumsy in all but her seminal work on obscure tribes, and a sad little uncle with a romantic past. Also, on the eve of WW II, another of the Bergers' summer visitors is Quinton Somerville, a young Englishman, a comer in paleontology, and the brilliant boy pianist Heini Radek. During the scholars' vacation in the mountains, Quin loves the Bergers, and the child Ruth adores just slightly older Heini. Eight years later, after the Nazis grab Vienna, Quin returns and, via a ``paper'' marriage to Ruth, rescues her so that she can join her family in a seedy section of London. The refugee colony makes do in tacky digs while Ruth, keeping secret the marriage to Quin, anxiously awaits the arrival of her fianc‚ Heini from Hungary. Meanwhile, she attends the college where Quin is the stellar lecturer, and with a group of students sees for the first time the Northumberland homestead where reigns Quin's fierce spinster aunt. Among Ruth's new acquaintances: dim-to-devoted schoolmates; dazed intelligentsia and an eccentric or two soldiering on; and, spearheading a sizable contingent plotting to wed Quin, a upper- caste student of terrifying perfection and the mien of a Roman senator. There will be misunderstandings, crossed paths--and, of course, happy endings. A bedtable joy.
-- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
7 Comments.


OKay.. I'll go check it out whenever possible. What is the story about dotty dear?

You have 2 pianos at home? Nice.. my only one has things stacked on top of it.
» Nuttz on 2007-09-08 12:09:16

Maybe she's just one of those people that always needs to be in someone else's business. :P

I'm glad my parents leave me alone most of the time when I'm doing something.
» randomjunk on 2007-09-08 01:06:24

my mum never left me alone. when i said i don't want anyone to step into my room after 10 pm it means "pls come in as often into my room because i dont need privacy".
» renaye on 2007-09-08 07:34:42

GAR
All I've been wanting to do is play the piano lately and everyone in my family whines and cries because "it's too loud" or "I repeat things too much." Sorry for trying to learn songs, jerks!

Ahem. Anyways. Haha you read books inside the book store? Not very conventional, but good cost savings :)
» The-Muffin-Man on 2007-09-08 02:13:00

ooo ill look into it ^^
ive read some books by the same author too ^^
» crz4manga on 2007-09-08 03:43:04

Stop with the flattery. You'll make me blush.. *Hides* But thanks.
» Praetorian on 2007-09-12 06:02:38

You figured it out haha
thankk you and i know he is the sappiest...but he's also the best :)
» PinkPanther08 on 2007-09-12 06:03:25

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