Der Glaspalast (English, The Glass Palace) by Amitav Ghosh.

I picked it up at a bookstore in Vienna. It's one of those great multi-generational sagas, beginning in 1885 Burma.

One book that changed your life:

As a young person:
Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl.

As an Adult:
Hmm...very, very hard to say. Probably Good-bye to All That (Robert Graves), with Testament of Youth (Vera Brittain) somewhere behind it. War is hell.

One book that you've read more than once:
Only one? Okay, Brideshead (members of the ( Read more... )

Right now, mine are Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves, and WB Yeats.

Who are yours?

Well, the others have gone to Mississippi. It's just Mom and I at the house. I have to have another spot removed from my back tomorrow. The siblings and Dad will be back on Thursday evening. Right now, I'm watching NewsRadio episodes that I taped from their ridiculously late time on Nick @ Nite ( Read more... )

Am reading the Patrick Leigh Fermor book which Dad recommended so highly...and I can see why. I'm little more than a third of the way through, but the encounters he's had so far and the wonderful prose have forced me to commit to reading the rest of Fermor's writings.