ok - who? Can you provide more info about Madame?

Should have thought of her…Jackie KO was an acolyte of she and Mme Recamier, she’s credited with introducing romanticism in French literature….and I recall reading her name in your columns once. No Amana side-by-side for me. That was fun!

Jane- Re Madame de Stael http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/madame_de_stael.html http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/SOU_STE/STAEL_MADAME_DE.html http://europeanhistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=e…

“Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (née Necker) (April 22, 1766 – July 14, 1817) (IPA: [stal]), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author living in Paris and abroad. She influenced literary tastes in Europe at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.” (From Wikipedia.) Not surprising this Washington crowd would choose her. Wonderful.

Hello, is anybody listening? Wow women, attention!!!! This is a great idea! A wowowow book club. As to you, Suzanne, you can’t possibly think I would put up with you just sit back and listen! I am absolutely fascinated with what people are reading. I actually accost people at my local Peets coffee and demand to know what they’re reading. A couple of recent favorites were Mockingbird, the life of Harper Lee (thus far), and The Sense of Being Stared At, by Rupert Sheldrake. I also recently reread Jane Wagner’s Search for Intelligent Life (I wonder if she’s found any yet?) and Diane Ackerman’s Natural History of the Senses, an absolutely astounding book. How can we get an on-line wowowow bookclub going?

This is the book I can’t get my nose out of right now: Underworld, by Don DeLillo Excellent writer.

Mugsy, Part Deux. I was in an online book group and really loved it…20 people. What worked best was collections of short stories because everyone has time to read the same story in a week and post their comments on the dealing day, then we had online discussions during the next week and while reading the next story. It’s easy to have a downlink “Book Corner” and makes perfect sense. Could have “Film Corner” too. “Interpreter of Maladies” was one of the books we did. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. I’d read it when first came out…got a lot more out of it reading and discussing it incrementally with a group. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpreter_of_Maladies Just cutting this link and reading the 9 story titles again makes me realize I know each of those stories vividly one year later because we discussed them so thoroughly. Was very interesting dif people’s take on same details. A book really is ‘completed’ by the reading because readers perceptions and experience give it a whole new slant. I was surprised how some in our group were so asleep to the meaning of things, hard on the characters etc. But even thru those disappointing revelations learned a lot. Was really worth it. Also, making short stories allows people to jump in at any spot.