tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post5855431698986515272..comments2024-03-27T13:32:06.780-02:30Comments on The Other Side of Eighty: Nuala O'FaolainWisewebwomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-50922501722609649962008-05-11T00:56:00.000-02:302008-05-11T00:56:00.000-02:30I was devastated to hear of her death earlier. I'm...I was devastated to hear of her death earlier. I'm still processing.<BR/>What a special lady, anon, you are lucky to have met her. I never did.<BR/>XO<BR/>WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-64261268416767840212008-05-11T00:25:00.000-02:302008-05-11T00:25:00.000-02:30I loved her honesty. I met her at a book signing ...I loved her honesty. I met her at a book signing and she was so compassionate and in touch with her audience. Her death is the loss of a great soul, a greatly open and compassionate honest woman.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-29359951099748123292008-04-19T13:42:00.000-02:302008-04-19T13:42:00.000-02:30I think you'll enjoy her, Irene, she's a great wri...I think you'll enjoy her, Irene, she's a great writer on the human condition, damaged and still hopeful.<BR/>XO<BR/>WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-74744466296347223292008-04-19T01:34:00.000-02:302008-04-19T01:34:00.000-02:30I just checked the library website and reserved "A...I just checked the library website and reserved "Are you Somebody" and "My Dream of You." Unfortunately, those were the only two they had. If I end up liking these a lot, I'll have to buy the others. Maybe I can get them used, I hope so!What an exciting prospect, a new writer to me!Irenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05043376053971475659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-41609769780067270702008-04-18T22:29:00.000-02:302008-04-18T22:29:00.000-02:30Oh Irene:You will so enjoy them, she writes from t...Oh Irene:<BR/>You will so enjoy them, she writes from the heart.<BR/>Glad to see you up and chugging around the blogs again.<BR/>But you changed your name to "bitter sweet". That sums up your recent turmoil.<BR/>Aren't our lives made up of mixed tastes, though? Some awfully sour.<BR/>I'm so sorry about your son, I can't imagine the pain you have suffered.<BR/>XO<BR/>WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-69600105832349499282008-04-18T20:49:00.000-02:302008-04-18T20:49:00.000-02:30I had never heard of her, being Dutch after all, b...I had never heard of her, being Dutch after all, but now I am very curious, not because she is dying. My own son died of cancer at a young age and it is never good to see a promising human being being taken away from us by it. I must read her books because of your description of them and because of the covers on the books. They appeal to me. They sound like books that will haunt you.Irenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05043376053971475659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-65053658438924246552008-04-18T13:43:00.000-02:302008-04-18T13:43:00.000-02:30WWW: i read a transcript on the Irish Times site.i...WWW: i read a transcript on the Irish Times site.<BR/><BR/>i will listen to her voice say those words when i get home from work.<BR/><BR/>i wish i could tell her how much i loved her books--the way she thinks, her stark and honest and clear-eyed view of life.<BR/><BR/>and now of dying.<BR/><BR/>oh so sad.lauriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055442432266567561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-17148927442504333182008-04-18T12:54:00.000-02:302008-04-18T12:54:00.000-02:30Nick:As Hemingway put it, we never know for whom t...Nick:<BR/>As Hemingway put it, we never know for whom the bell tolls. No exemptions but some seem awfully unfair.<BR/>Laurie:<BR/>Be prepared it is an incredible and powerful interview and she sounds so frail.<BR/>T:<BR/>The painful sad deaths affect us the most. My mother had a dreadful form of cancer too. Nuala's death is a reminder that our choice of nice and peaceful and elderly doesn't happen in most cases.<BR/>XO<BR/>WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-91474484118673706082008-04-18T12:04:00.000-02:302008-04-18T12:04:00.000-02:30I wept. For all of us frail humans. For the death ...<I>I wept. For all of us frail humans. For the death that waits around the corner with our ticket out of here clutched in its skeletal fingers</I><BR/><BR/>Shiver! (Beautifully put!)<BR/><BR/>I don't read a lot these days, WWW, but my husband loves reading female writers' first novels (don't ask me why - he has foibles!) I shall direct him to this lady's first novel. Thanks.<BR/><BR/>So sad that she now suffers. My Mum died from the same type of cancer. Devastating.Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-61819178766650425542008-04-18T08:39:00.000-02:302008-04-18T08:39:00.000-02:30what? waht? what? she has cancer? oh my god you a...what? waht? what? she has cancer? oh my god you are devastating me, WWW! i love nuala, and like you i have read all of her books. oh my god i am so sad to hear this.<BR/><BR/>i have not yet dared to click on the interview link. but i am crying just reading your post.<BR/><BR/>i will never forget the scene in "are you somebody" when she is walking across the burren with her dog on christmas eve....lauriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055442432266567561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14874528.post-86821920824491250912008-04-18T07:09:00.000-02:302008-04-18T07:09:00.000-02:30I've read a couple of her books and enjoyed them. ...I've read a couple of her books and enjoyed them. Very sad that she's been struck down like that. Unfortunately death doesn't spare anyone, even the richly talented, the beautiful or the big-hearted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com