tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post3270009461377662655..comments2024-02-18T06:21:45.375-06:00Comments on ~<i>The Three Prayers</i>: If You Can Bear to Be Seen Reading a Book That Looks Like ThisJanet Cupohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037555111680888247noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-9806215964979467082012-05-08T14:34:00.235-05:002012-05-08T14:34:00.235-05:00Actually, it's more boyish. I had this book wh...Actually, it's more boyish. I had this book when I was about 12 or 13. I really liked it. I even remember that the plot involved redirecting an asteroid by setting off nuclear explosions on its surface. I think I got it for Christmas--at any rate I have some vague association of Christmas with it. I found it at my parents' house 10 years or so ago when they were moving out and it may be at home somewhere now, or I may have decided holding on to it was silly.Machttp://lightondarkwater.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-74713654137751492122012-05-07T12:36:38.632-05:002012-05-07T12:36:38.632-05:00Oh yes, that's very manly.
AMDGOh yes, that's very manly.<br /><br />AMDGJanet Cupohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01037555111680888247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-257431714521621022012-05-07T09:53:55.078-05:002012-05-07T09:53:55.078-05:00I know what I want mine to look like:
http://g-e...I know what I want mine to look like: <br /><br />http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/52/5b/9ff3828fd7a0534451455110.L.jpgMachttp://lightondarkwater.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-78973794417399976792012-05-06T14:38:00.511-05:002012-05-06T14:38:00.511-05:00True. I was thinking they were all pretty girly. I...True. I was thinking they were all pretty girly. I'm sure we could find a manly version somewhere online-maybe something in brown paper.<br /><br />AMDGJanethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09069018443486415173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-42733649595935700632012-05-06T14:23:45.525-05:002012-05-06T14:23:45.525-05:00Mind you, some of those Hide-a-Books are pretty aw...Mind you, some of those Hide-a-Books are pretty awful too. Do they not make any with spacemen on them?Craighttp://cburrell.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-83657222067017230742012-05-06T11:51:44.121-05:002012-05-06T11:51:44.121-05:00She was a really popular author. Two of her novels...She was a really popular author. Two of her novels, <i>Captains and the Kings,</i> and <i>Testimony of Two Men</i>, were made into miniseries.<br /><br />I'm pretty sure I must have read something by her in the past, but I'm not sure what.<br /><br />Craig--Maybe if we all got together, we could buy those covers in bulk and save some money. Then we could read whatever we wanted. My copy of one of my favorite novels in the world had a cover like that, but then it fell off and I was happy.<br /><br />AMDGJanet Cupohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01037555111680888247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-21475984041941966932012-05-06T11:15:13.587-05:002012-05-06T11:15:13.587-05:00I believe I can remember that author's name on...I believe I can remember that author's name on the covers of thick airport type books in the late 1960s or early 1970s. By thick of course I mean large :) or heavy weight :)grumpynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-14283826411105649692012-05-05T19:57:48.846-05:002012-05-05T19:57:48.846-05:00I would need the Hide-A-Book!I would need the Hide-A-Book!Craighttp://cburrell.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-17224951834992556842012-05-05T12:59:29.907-05:002012-05-05T12:59:29.907-05:00I knew there was something else I wanted to say bu...I knew there was something else I wanted to say but I was very busy yesterday, and I just remembered it: I've often speculated about how Flannery O'Connor would have fared in the '60s (later '60s). And '70s. It seems unlikely, but I can't help wondering if she might have gone the way of people like Rosemary Radford Reuther, who, if I'm not mistaken, was not always a nut.Machttp://lightondarkwater.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-60385284667678971452012-05-04T12:53:23.518-05:002012-05-04T12:53:23.518-05:00As I mentioned in email, I had some sort of simila...As I mentioned in email, I had some sort of similar "this can't be good...wait, this is pretty good" experience with something by Taylor Caldwell, but am now totally unable to recall what it was. I'm pretty certain it wasn't a novel. Maybe some sort of essay in a collection by Catholic authors..?..I don't know. I'm sorry to hear she left the Church. <br /><br />Interesting stuff in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Caldwell" rel="nofollow">the Wikipedia bio</a>. Those last years were very grim, it seems.Machttp://lightondarkwater.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.com