Comments on: About http://astripedarmchair.wordpress.com A twenty-something writes about books, reading, and how it all affects her life. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:24:05 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Sharon (thesunlitdesk) http://astripedarmchair.wordpress.com/about/#comment-10448 Sharon (thesunlitdesk) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:04:43 +0000 #comment-10448 Hi Eva Just wanted to say I'm really enjoying your blog. Keep up the good work. Hi Eva
Just wanted to say I’m really enjoying your blog. Keep up the good work.

]]> By: Zoya http://astripedarmchair.wordpress.com/about/#comment-9845 Zoya Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:25:11 +0000 #comment-9845 hey i've been following your blog since the last few months and thanks to your blog could find new books to explore. Delighted to note that you love Jane Austen!! And your blog is very interesting with all the notes and also the wide variety of book reviews that you put up here. I'm new to blogging and my fav topic ofcourse is books...but I haven't covered as many as you have et all. hey i’ve been following your blog since the last few months and thanks to your blog could find new books to explore. Delighted to note that you love Jane Austen!!

And your blog is very interesting with all the notes and also the wide variety of book reviews that you put up here. I’m new to blogging and my fav topic ofcourse is books…but I haven’t covered as many as you have et all.

]]> By: Harvee http://astripedarmchair.wordpress.com/about/#comment-9136 Harvee Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:03:16 +0000 #comment-9136 Don't forget to pick up the award i gave you at www.bookbirddog.blogspot.com my website. Don’t forget to pick up the award i gave you at http://www.bookbirddog.blogspot.com

my website.

]]> By: susan http://astripedarmchair.wordpress.com/about/#comment-6619 susan Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:23:37 +0000 #comment-6619 Why haven't you ever joined any discussions at Shelfari? So glad I have found my way to your blog. Why haven’t you ever joined any discussions at Shelfari? So glad I have found my way to your blog.

]]> By: regularrumination http://astripedarmchair.wordpress.com/about/#comment-5727 regularrumination Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:55:31 +0000 #comment-5727 Never met another Charles DeLint fan! I haven't read anything of his in a long time, but one of his books is on my newest Challenge list. I'm L! You have a nifty little corner of the web here, and I look forward to reading it. Let's be friends. Never met another Charles DeLint fan! I haven’t read anything of his in a long time, but one of his books is on my newest Challenge list. I’m L! You have a nifty little corner of the web here, and I look forward to reading it. Let’s be friends.

]]> By: tuesday http://astripedarmchair.wordpress.com/about/#comment-5177 tuesday Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:09:18 +0000 #comment-5177 Hi, is it okay if I steal these questions for my own blog? I'm too lazy to think up my own =] Hi, is it okay if I steal these questions for my own blog? I’m too lazy to think up my own =]

]]> By: Sunday Stealing Edition No. 6 | Colloquium http://astripedarmchair.wordpress.com/about/#comment-5123 Sunday Stealing Edition No. 6 | Colloquium Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:57:23 +0000 #comment-5123 [...] — and invite everyone to play along. This week, “The Aging Meme” comes from Eva at A Striped Armchair.  She was tagged by [...] [...] — and invite everyone to play along. This week, “The Aging Meme” comes from Eva at A Striped Armchair.  She was tagged by [...]

]]> By: Ann Darnton (Table Talk) http://astripedarmchair.wordpress.com/about/#comment-4599 Ann Darnton (Table Talk) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:19:01 +0000 #comment-4599 Eva, I hope you don't mind, but I've made my way over here from Litlove's blog and your comment about starting grad school and being worried about wanting to hang out with new friends and knowing what that's going to do to your vital routine. To start with, I know where you're coming from because I'm a fellow sufferer. I produce adrenaline at a rate of knots and became so ill two years ago that I had to take early retirement. But, the point of my writing is this. Before I retired I was a University Lecturer and six years ago we had a girl join the class who put everyone's backs up immediately. She would never agree to join a group that had to meet outside class time unless they chose the time that she suggested, even then she would often fail to show and when she did she often hadn't completed the work that she should have done. If anyone challenged her about these issues she flew off the handle. She told everyone that she had a job and a boyfriend who were far more important than her work was. And yet she clearly had a good brain and seemed to want to do well. What I eventually discovered (after having had the entire class up in arms in my office about this) was that she had such severe ME that her doctor had advised her to use a wheelchair and yet she refused to do so and was struggling in for class when at times she could hardly stand. My problem here was that this information was confidential and I couldn't tell the other students. Telling them had to be her decision and she wouldn't/couldn't do that. She lost so much because that crowd were really good kids and if they had known they would have done everything they could to make it possible for her to be part of the group without putting any extra pressure on her, but they needed to know. Eventually she came out with a reasonable degree, but her time at Uni was so miserable and it could have been one of the most supportive experiences of her life. So, if you don't mind a bit of advice from someone who knows this from both sides, be absolutely open with your fellow students about your condition and the needs that it imposes on you. I'm not suggesting you make a song and dance about it, I'm sure you wouldn't want to be provoking pity, I know I wouldn't, but most students are really great and kindly people and if they know what the score is they will help you get the best out of the experience without feeling that you've missed out on too much. If they don't know they can't do that. Please excuse me if I've been presumptuous, but every time I think of that girl I weep inside and I would hate to see it happen to anyone else needlessly. Eva, I hope you don’t mind, but I’ve made my way over here from Litlove’s blog and your comment about starting grad school and being worried about wanting to hang out with new friends and knowing what that’s going to do to your vital routine. To start with, I know where you’re coming from because I’m a fellow sufferer. I produce adrenaline at a rate of knots and became so ill two years ago that I had to take early retirement. But, the point of my writing is this. Before I retired I was a University Lecturer and six years ago we had a girl join the class who put everyone’s backs up immediately. She would never agree to join a group that had to meet outside class time unless they chose the time that she suggested, even then she would often fail to show and when she did she often hadn’t completed the work that she should have done. If anyone challenged her about these issues she flew off the handle. She told everyone that she had a job and a boyfriend who were far more important than her work was. And yet she clearly had a good brain and seemed to want to do well. What I eventually discovered (after having had the entire class up in arms in my office about this) was that she had such severe ME that her doctor had advised her to use a wheelchair and yet she refused to do so and was struggling in for class when at times she could hardly stand. My problem here was that this information was confidential and I couldn’t tell the other students. Telling them had to be her decision and she wouldn’t/couldn’t do that. She lost so much because that crowd were really good kids and if they had known they would have done everything they could to make it possible for her to be part of the group without putting any extra pressure on her, but they needed to know. Eventually she came out with a reasonable degree, but her time at Uni was so miserable and it could have been one of the most supportive experiences of her life.
So, if you don’t mind a bit of advice from someone who knows this from both sides, be absolutely open with your fellow students about your condition and the needs that it imposes on you. I’m not suggesting you make a song and dance about it, I’m sure you wouldn’t want to be provoking pity, I know I wouldn’t, but most students are really great and kindly people and if they know what the score is they will help you get the best out of the experience without feeling that you’ve missed out on too much. If they don’t know they can’t do that.
Please excuse me if I’ve been presumptuous, but every time I think of that girl I weep inside and I would hate to see it happen to anyone else needlessly.

]]> By: Rosy Thornton http://astripedarmchair.wordpress.com/about/#comment-3020 Rosy Thornton Tue, 06 May 2008 10:07:29 +0000 #comment-3020 Psst, Eva! Cough. It's awkward when bloggers don't seem to have an e-mail address and the only way you can contact them is in public like this.... especially when what you want to say is something toe-curlingly self-publicizing. But I saw your comment today on Dorothy W's blog that you were 'coveting' a copy of my campus novel, 'Hearts and Minds' - and wondered whether I might possibly send you a copy with my compliments? (Not sure it's available in the US yet, except at vast shipping costs.) Psst, Eva! Cough. It’s awkward when bloggers don’t seem to have an e-mail address and the only way you can contact them is in public like this…. especially when what you want to say is something toe-curlingly self-publicizing. But I saw your comment today on Dorothy W’s blog that you were ‘coveting’ a copy of my campus novel, ‘Hearts and Minds’ – and wondered whether I might possibly send you a copy with my compliments? (Not sure it’s available in the US yet, except at vast shipping costs.)

]]> By: Eva http://astripedarmchair.wordpress.com/about/#comment-2748 Eva Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:36:10 +0000 #comment-2748 Hi Deborah! I read the first Maisie Dobbs, and although I expected to love it I didn't. I think maybe I went in w/ too many expectations, though, so I'm going to try out at least the second one as well. Have you read Laurie King's Mary Russell series? I love it! As far as Hermione Lee, I just adored her biography of Virginia Woolf, and I can't wait to read her new one of Edith Wharton. I know it seems silly to put her as a favourite after reading just one book, but it was so good I couldn't help it. I felt like I was a fly on the wall in Bloomsbury! Hi Deborah! I read the first Maisie Dobbs, and although I expected to love it I didn’t. I think maybe I went in w/ too many expectations, though, so I’m going to try out at least the second one as well. Have you read Laurie King’s Mary Russell series? I love it! As far as Hermione Lee, I just adored her biography of Virginia Woolf, and I can’t wait to read her new one of Edith Wharton. I know it seems silly to put her as a favourite after reading just one book, but it was so good I couldn’t help it. I felt like I was a fly on the wall in Bloomsbury!

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