tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post7833874021216165756..comments2021-09-18T16:22:00.148-07:00Comments on the style saloniste: Books, Books, and More Glorious Books: Part TwoDiane Dorrans Saekshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02259292681678952448[email protected]Blogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-15824735534163724092013-11-05T12:09:47.548-08:002013-11-05T12:09:47.548-08:00My dear Diane,
Hello. I'd like to say how muc...My dear Diane,<br /><br />Hello. I'd like to say how much I am inspired by this beautiful post. I've always been very lucky to follow your recommendation especially I start to browse for Christmas shopping very early. Since I have a lot of friends who love reading (like you), I appreciate your suggestion as I know I can rely on your idiosyncratic choice in books. <br /><br />I would definitely look into "AERO: Beginning to Now by Thomas O’Brien" and "Breakfast with Lucian Freud".<br /><br />I also love reading the story about your books. I absolutely agree with you when you say "Books do make a room. Books do make a life." <br /><br />Gerard Manley Hopkins - I absolutely adore his poetry ("Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend...Send my roots rain" is one of my all time favourites). <br /><br />Lesley Blanch - Alas, I only have one book by her on my shelf. It's the biography she wrote: "Pierre Loti: Travels with the Legendary Romantic". I greatly admire her travel writing. It makes me smile when I read one of her interviews in which she said that one book that she must have whenever she travelled is the memoirs of Russian writer, Alexander Herzen's "My Past and Thoughts", translated by Constance Garnett. Herzen was one of the greatest Russian writers who is very much underrated these days, sadly.<br /><br />The Times - I do miss the highbrow period when the Times was the broadsheet newspaper. The critical literary analysis and the book reviews in those days were very much in depth and very scholarly. Those were the days....<br /><br />Wishing you the best possible week, Diane and thank you once again for sharing your fascinating reading list.<br /><br />Best wishes, G. <br />A Super Dilettantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02640893790909916004[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-51209741746735738212013-11-05T12:08:01.269-08:002013-11-05T12:08:01.269-08:00My dear Diane,
Hello. I'd like to say how muc...My dear Diane,<br /><br />Hello. I'd like to say how much I am inspired by this beautiful post. I've always been very lucky to follow your recommendation especially I start to browse for Christmas shopping very early. Since I have a lot of friends who love reading (like you), I appreciate your suggestion as I know I can rely on your idiosyncratic choice in books. <br /><br />I would definitely look into "AERO: Beginning to Now by Thomas O’Brien" and "Breakfast with Lucian Freud".<br /><br />I also love reading the story about your books. I absolutely agree with you when you say "Books do make a room. Books do make a life." <br /><br />Gerard Manley Hopkins - I absolutely adore his poetry ("Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend...Send my roots rain" is one of my all time favourites). <br /><br />Lesley Blanch - Alas, I only have one book by her on my shelf. It's the biography she wrote: "Pierre Loti: Travels with the Legendary Romantic". I greatly admire her travel writing. It makes me smile when I read one of her interviews in which she said that one book that she must have whenever she travelled is the memoirs of Russian writer, Alexander Herzen's "My Past and Thoughts", translated by Constance Garnett. Herzen was one of the greatest Russian writers who is very much underrated these days, sadly.<br /><br />The Times - I do miss the highbrow period when the Times was the broadsheet newspaper. The critical literary analysis and the book reviews in those days were very much in depth and very scholarly. Those were the days....<br /><br />Wishing you the best possible week, Diane and thank you once again for sharing your fascinating reading list.<br /><br />Best wishes, G. <br />A Super Dilettantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02640893790909916004[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-35117943467711827462013-11-05T09:28:48.047-08:002013-11-05T09:28:48.047-08:00Dear Diane,
As a fellow Fermor-ophile, I was deli...Dear Diane, <br />As a fellow Fermor-ophile, I was delighted by a travel story for a book collection. And then, when the books departed from Woolloomooloo in a merchant ship my mind said, "Kipling too, amazing"! Thank you for your generosity in The Style Saloniste.<br />Beth Scanlonhttp://www.scanlonapparati.com[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-65423311882188510052013-11-05T09:27:42.724-08:002013-11-05T09:27:42.724-08:00must have that Vreeland book + i am off to buy the...must have that Vreeland book + i am off to buy the book + great post. xxpeggybraswelldesign.compeggybraswellhttp://peggybraswelldesign.com[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-13039678411058417162013-11-05T01:16:30.589-08:002013-11-05T01:16:30.589-08:00Will there ever be another DV?
The biggest mistake...Will there ever be another DV?<br />The biggest mistake of my life was to turn down the call to be an assistant/goffer to HRH DV...Parisbreakfastshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03558314043814894010[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543457325368639597.post-69652001686893558902013-11-04T22:25:10.588-08:002013-11-04T22:25:10.588-08:00From your written words to God's Eyes...or whi...<br />From your written words to God's Eyes...or whichever higher power rules this Universe of Energy! You've inspired MANY lives with your EYE, honed by Beauty, polished by Time and brilliant as a Diamond. Kudos in exposing the plight of the vanishing dwellings of OUR Dear Friends - The Local Bookseller!The Swanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159724663060240920[email protected]