Comments on: The Reptile Garden http://lindsaytrapnell.com/2008/02/the-reptile-garden/ Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:48:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Lindsay http://lindsaytrapnell.com/2008/02/the-reptile-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-448 Lindsay Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:54:00 +0000 http://lindsaytrapnell.com/cms/?p=233#comment-448 Amanda, I'll have to check those other works out. I'm about to start this book called The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz that I am pretty excited about, but I'll add them to my own to-read list. Now I'm also intrigued as to their personal history, so I'll look into that as well. Thanks! Amanda, I’ll have to check those other works out. I’m about to start this book called The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz that I am pretty excited about, but I’ll add them to my own to-read list. Now I’m also intrigued as to their personal history, so I’ll look into that as well. Thanks!

]]> By: Anonymous http://lindsaytrapnell.com/2008/02/the-reptile-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-446 Anonymous Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:18:00 +0000 http://lindsaytrapnell.com/cms/?p=233#comment-446 Hi Lindsay,<br/>Came across this post after your dad said to look at your new sunglasses (love them, by the way :)<br/>I was a fan of her ex-husband, Michael Dorris's writing, and came to enjoy Louise's through reading him. I'm not sure if you've done any research into their story, but it's interesting and sad. The Broken Cord is on my to-read list. I especially enjoyed A Yellow Raft in Blue Water.<br/>Now, I'll have to see if I have that issue of the New Yorker floating around here. . .<br/>Kudos on finding a new author you enjoy; I love when that happens. Gives me an itch to go read everything they've written.<br/><br/>Amanda (LeFranc) Hi Lindsay,
Came across this post after your dad said to look at your new sunglasses (love them, by the way :)
I was a fan of her ex-husband, Michael Dorris’s writing, and came to enjoy Louise’s through reading him. I’m not sure if you’ve done any research into their story, but it’s interesting and sad. The Broken Cord is on my to-read list. I especially enjoyed A Yellow Raft in Blue Water.
Now, I’ll have to see if I have that issue of the New Yorker floating around here. . .
Kudos on finding a new author you enjoy; I love when that happens. Gives me an itch to go read everything they’ve written.

Amanda (LeFranc)

]]> By: Erin http://lindsaytrapnell.com/2008/02/the-reptile-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-429 Erin Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:13:00 +0000 http://lindsaytrapnell.com/cms/?p=233#comment-429 I think you might like Love Medicine. It's similar to Hundred Years of Solitude in the fact that it concentrates on a family (well--more like two rival/connected families) through the ages. It shifts perspectives and you won't know all the relationships until the end. It helps if you have a book with a family tree. My copy was the only one if the class without that essential part. I was forced to make my own family tree which had statements like this: LULU --> lots of boys I think you might like Love Medicine. It’s similar to Hundred Years of Solitude in the fact that it concentrates on a family (well–more like two rival/connected families) through the ages. It shifts perspectives and you won’t know all the relationships until the end. It helps if you have a book with a family tree. My copy was the only one if the class without that essential part. I was forced to make my own family tree which had statements like this: LULU –> lots of boys

]]> By: Lindsay http://lindsaytrapnell.com/2008/02/the-reptile-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-428 Lindsay Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:44:00 +0000 http://lindsaytrapnell.com/cms/?p=233#comment-428 Sorry. To correct that last comment, I saw that a woman with the same last name recently had a reading there. If it was a woman with her same name (Louise Erdrich), I would assume it was her, not her sister. Sorry. To correct that last comment, I saw that a woman with the same last name recently had a reading there. If it was a woman with her same name (Louise Erdrich), I would assume it was her, not her sister.

]]> By: Lindsay http://lindsaytrapnell.com/2008/02/the-reptile-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-427 Lindsay Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:41:00 +0000 http://lindsaytrapnell.com/cms/?p=233#comment-427 Let me know what you think of the short story if you read it. So would you say Love Medicine is worth reading? <br/><br/>I noticed on the bookstore website that a woman with her same name just had a reading there...I assumed it was her sister. Does she have two sisters who are writers? Hmmm...<br/><br/>Do you think we could take them? Let me know what you think of the short story if you read it. So would you say Love Medicine is worth reading?

I noticed on the bookstore website that a woman with her same name just had a reading there…I assumed it was her sister. Does she have two sisters who are writers? Hmmm…

Do you think we could take them?

]]> By: Erin http://lindsaytrapnell.com/2008/02/the-reptile-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-426 Erin Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:31:00 +0000 http://lindsaytrapnell.com/cms/?p=233#comment-426 I know who Louise Erdrich is. I read her book "Love Medicine" for Modern Fiction. She also came to Minneapolis recently with her sisters who are also writers. I didn't LOVE "Love Medicine" (which is funny considering its name) but it was an okay book. I know who Louise Erdrich is. I read her book “Love Medicine” for Modern Fiction. She also came to Minneapolis recently with her sisters who are also writers. I didn’t LOVE “Love Medicine” (which is funny considering its name) but it was an okay book.

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