Completely impulse buys from HPB today. 😊 Last ones. Thanks for letting me take over your litsy feed for awhile
jdiehr The Seven Sisters series is so good! 11mo
The Cat's Table | 
Completely impulse buys from HPB today. 😊 Last ones. Thanks for letting me take over your litsy feed for awhile
so-soI am in the middle of this novel and am disappointed. I am reading it for my book club, and was expecting more. The plot is non-existent. It is a series of vignettes about a voyage take by an 11 year old boy from (then) Ceylon to England circa 1950.. Ondaatje‘s writing is good but the novel is too disjointed for me.
Gentle pacing, lovely writing, very little plot, but so many stories. The narrator needs most of his life to contemplate and try to understand the events of a 3 week sea voyage he took as a virtually unsupervised 11-year-old. Fine stuff.
pickThe other day, I just had a craving to read a Michael Ondaatje book. His language is so fluid and memorable. I didn‘t find the plot in this one to be very compelling, but I loved the language and the individual scenes and vignettes of the people from the ship‘s cat‘s table, the least socially significant group of passengers on board.
“But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.”
❤️📚❤️ #michaelondaatje
pickI screwed up a bit with this book. For some reason Id thought it was autobiographical so I was looking forward to reading something quite different. Of course it‘s a novel told in an autobiographical style. There are really thoughtful and subtle depictions of characters - Ondaatje is a master of making you think twice about human nature IMO. But I couldn‘t quite get over my misstep in what I had been looking forward to reading!
“This serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by”
Knowing my books are near makes me feel more serene too. 😊(Well calmer and less chaotic anyway!)
A Canadian classic and Hermione‘s cat Cruikshanks 😸
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#rockinmay (Cats in the Cradle) - The Cat‘s Table
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#Blinddatewithabook I picked up yesterday! I'm looking forward to reading it :)
pickI really enjoyed this book the second time around. Listening to Michael Ondaatje read it was quite enjoyable. A fictional emigration story of an eleven year old boy on a boat bound for England (drawn, in part, from the author's own Susie experience). The boat and everyone on it becomes it own little world full of mystery, intrigue and wonder narrated from the perspective of a precocious and largely unsupervised child.
I let the audiobook expire before finishing this one. Oops. I miss Michael Ondaatje's voice already! So I've turned back to the paper copy to finish it off. 📚
More migraine = more audiobook. This beautiful emigration story has got me thinking about how most people in North America (except First Nations, Inuit) are immigrants. My family came to Canada from Ireland, Germany, England and Scotland. What is your family immigration story?
I'm so sick with migraine right now that I can't do anything! I cancelled my clients and am hiding in bed listening to the audiobook of The Cat's Table - Michael Ondaatje's amazing tale of an 11 year old's immigration from Columbia to England via ocean liner. The book is about the whole universe that is created and exists on the boat. It's a re-read for me - such a great book!
pickFinally finished this fantastic book- right in time for the new books that I hope to find under the chrismastree😊 I can highly recommend the book! It is an exiting story about the 11 year old Michael who experiances adventures, intense feelings and thrilling moments on his ship journey to england. really glad I got the chance to read it!
a good book & tea - because how else would a perfect morning look like :) (well- it would be even better if I didn't have to head to work now....) 🤓📚☕️😴
so far I really enjoy reading this book! I'm glad Vienna chose this one for their One City-One Book Day 😊
starting a new book today! Got it for free on the "one city-one book" day, here in vienna, which is a fantastic idea ?
pickCat's table, get it? Anyway, #Recommendsday: In this wonderful tale, the cat's table is the furthest thing from the captain's table, and thus fit for a young boy traveling alone and the other shipboard misfits. There's mischief, mystery, romance, adventure, and an utterly unforgettable scene of a storm at sea.
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