Wish List #2

I have spent all of my Saturday facing food poisoning, which perhaps serves me to never take food from a sour waitress ever again. But it was my intention to fix Wish List on Saturdays. So, delayed second Wish List follows, the theme is letter writing and reading.

Letters to Juliet

by Lise Friedman

I was (re)watching Letters to Juliet the other day and stumbled on the extras, which talked about the book. Apparently, it is not the story of a specific couple like in the movie, but a more general approach, trying to find the reason behind writing letters to Juliet, telling the history of the 'Club of Juliet', and transcribing some of the letters. It sounds very interesting. Plus, great reviews at GR. It seems this writer is praised everywhere.

Jane Austen's Letters
by Jane Austen and Deirdre Le Faye
A collection of letters from Jane Austen to her sister, family, friends and editors. Since I'm more than a little curious about how letters were actually written at her time (was it really what it showed in P&P?), I'm eagerly looking for this novel in my trusted bookshops and thrift shops.
Needless to say, great reviews at GR (4 stars), but perhaps that is due to the selected readers (ever heard of anyone who didn't like Austen reading her letters?).
Has anyone read this? It's been a little tricky to find it.

Dear Jane Austen - A Heroine's Guide to Life and Love
by Patrice Hannon
One of the blogs to which I subscribe is The Bennet Sisters and just today they posted a review on this book, and it does sound like a lovely, light read. It made me recall that scene from Jane Austen's Book Club, "What would Jane do?". Plus, it's got more information on her life, which on its own would work for me.
Hoping to become the composed, confident lady of Austen's novels.

The Wednesday Letters
by Jason F. Wright
Admittedly, this is the book I am most likely to forget about in this list (I dislike the "They died in each other's arms", Nicholas Sparks thing), but it poses a nice little notion of sending letters to your spouse. And of immortalizing part of their relationship for their children.
If I ever come across this book, I'll read it.
Has anyone tried it?
Almost 4 stars in GR.


And that was it for this week,

xoxo

Wish List #1

I was cover clicking (I do judge a book by the cover, no matter what they say) on my January picks by GoodReads when I found this: 

The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us 

by Sheril Kirshenbaum

It has such good reviews at GoodReads, and you gotta admit it is a compelling subject. Shame I can only order it for 4 to 6 weeks and pay a small fortune. Am adding it to the When I Go To A Decent Bookstore list.

On the author's site there's an excerpt available (really cute and in Flash, here), which only made me want to read it more.

Has any of you, wanderer of this blog, read it? And looved it? Or hated it?

I had forgotten the name of this book, and in my searching at GoodReads I found several The Art Of Kissing and alikes, which lead to these other cute books I may enjoy reading:

The Art of Kissing 

by William Cane

 

This one seems less scientific and more "practical guide", but it's interesting nonetheless and the reviews are equally good. I mean, who doesn't want to know more about kissing?

Plus, it's available on my thrift store website, and that is goood.

Then there are the books by this Kristen Harmel, who I'd never heard of before, but seems to be a sort of Sophie Kinsella. 

                              The Art of French Kissing    The Blonde Theory

                                                  by Kristin Harmel              by Kristin Harmel

          

          

     Italian for Begginers

         by Kristin Harmel   

Specially like the Kissing one to be set in Paris and this Italian one. (Seriously, you could write the most boring story and set in Italy - I'd read it.) I'm pretty sure it doesn't have much in language, though. I love it when teach you new expressions and sayings. Mum was just telling me the other day "Did you know the French say 'J'arrange' for everything?", and indeed, her not too promising novel had three paragraphs illustrating the French hability to manage unmatching buttoms and cheating husbands by saying that things would work itself out. It's fun. France and Italy based books are filled with stuff like that. Sort of like "Under the Tuscany Sun", "Le Divorceé" and - my favourite of all times - "A Good Year" (are there even books for these films? I know there's a Peter Mayle on the latter, but from what I can gather it's very different from the movie, so I'm a bit eery of reading it).

And this is my kiss-themed Wish List #1!

Gonna go watch Letters to Juliet, which mum so kindly rented for me to celebrate finally being on HOLIDAY. I've waited so long for this day!

 xoxo