Comments on: Kim’s Nightstand

By: liz Seraphin

liz Seraphin — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:56:48 +0000

Just wanted to say Hi and that I’m glad you’re “out there”. I got your website from your mother-in-law, Cheryl, with whom I had lunch the other day. She said you might have suggestions on joining a book club?

By: Dennis maloney

Dennis maloney — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:41:20 +0000

Hi, we are a nonprofit literary publisher of literature in translation. Please send me a snail mail address and I will send you some books.

Dennis

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:02:20 +0000

The Swimmer is definately a story that I understand differently as I age so that each time I read it, it’s a new story.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:17:11 +0000

The Swimmer by John Cheever is also my favorite short story. If your readers haven’t read it yet, they must! I haven’t read it in several years. Think I’ll pick it up again. His journey never ceases to yield something new to me!

By: Claire

Claire — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:18:09 +0000

Tillie Olson wrote what’s possibly my favorite book in the whole world, TELL ME A RIDDLE. It makes me cry like a baby–the main character reminds me so much of my grandmother–but it’s a beautiful, brilliant, heartrending book.

By: Roberta Poster

Roberta Poster — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:19:44 +0000

I love this idea. Thanks for starting it.
The best and most interesting book that I read this summer was OLIVE KITTERIDGE by Elizabeth Strout. It is a novel told in short stories, and each story adds information into this title character. This book is very well written. My caution is that it often is so depressing that it is hard to believe anymore could happen. However, you keep learning about this character in so many interesting and unexpected ways, and without giving anything away, it ends positively. It is well worth reading!

By: ljbabbler

ljbabbler — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:11:25 +0000

APPLAUSE SOUNDS for Claire and Kim! This is just great. You make me think of my godmother going to the Book Shelf in Memphis (sadly shuttered) to get me my special birthday book every year, the wrapping, the gold sticker with the stamped name on it. The last time I got to go there I found a paperback my mother recommended VOODOO IN NEW ORLEANS by Robert Tallant. Tonight, I will look at the PROUST collection on my bedside table, sigh, and pick up SCARLETT’S WOMEN: THE FEMALE FANS OF GONE WITH THE WIND, having just read GWTW for the first time and thinking, THAT journalist could write fiction — I want to too! Thanks for such a highbrow site to go to. Laura

By: MudslideMama

MudslideMama — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:54:13 +0000

What a beautiful new blog! …Alright, I”ll play. Right now, on my nightstand is Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx. I’ll give a dollar to whoever can tell me how to pronounce one of my favorite author’s last names, by the way.