http://blog.vromans.com/the-book-i-was-born-to-read Independent Bookstore Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:54:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.vromans.com/the-book-i-was-born-to-read/comment-page-1#comment-15340 John Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:09:54 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=1203#comment-15340 the last time i really felt like that was with the book "ender's game" by orson scott card. it was, and still is, one of my favorite books. the last time i really felt like that was with the book “ender’s game” by orson scott card. it was, and still is, one of my favorite books.

]]> http://blog.vromans.com/the-book-i-was-born-to-read/comment-page-1#comment-15258 Daniel Goldin Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:52:09 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=1203#comment-15258 Patrick, you make me feel so old! I dug out my hardcover copy of "Nice Work", which may or may not have been in the trilogy (they weren't already published as such), and it's over 20 years old. I read it as new as a young bookseller and wound up keeping up with Lodge for about 4 books. I know I read "Changing Places" too, but maybe that was just borrowed. And maybe you should be reading Alison Lurie's "Foreign Affairs" or dare I say it, one of the Barbara Pym academic novels (not all are vicar's wives, you know). Patrick, you make me feel so old! I dug out my hardcover copy of “Nice Work”, which may or may not have been in the trilogy (they weren’t already published as such), and it’s over 20 years old. I read it as new as a young bookseller and wound up keeping up with Lodge for about 4 books. I know I read “Changing Places” too, but maybe that was just borrowed. And maybe you should be reading Alison Lurie’s “Foreign Affairs” or dare I say it, one of the Barbara Pym academic novels (not all are vicar’s wives, you know).

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