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In My Mother's House and Sido, Colette plays fictional variations on the themes of childhood, family, and, above all, her mother. Vividly alive, fond of cities, music, theater, and books, Sido devoted herself to her village, Saint-Saveur; to her garden, with its inhabitants and its animals; and, especially, to her children, particularly her youngest, whom she called Minet- ...more
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Two novellas written seven years apart. Both composed of short chapters/vignettes where Colette--in her 60's or 70's--writes about her mother Sido, her father (her mother's second husband, the ex-soldier with one of his legs amputated), her mother's first husband and her three siblings, all of them dead already except one brother.
Every family has its own story and I am sure that given the same talent for writing as that of Colette each of these stories can be as interesting as these novellas. Bu ...more
Every family has its own story and I am sure that given the same talent for writing as that of Colette each of these stories can be as interesting as these novellas. Bu ...more
May 15, 2013 Beth rated it 4 of 5 stars
Shelves: 20th-century, france, memoir
"Any writer whose existence is long drawn out turns in the end towards his past, either to revile it or rejoice in it." This is Colette's comment in the preface to this beautiful book, which is her own thoughtful gaze into the past. Reading it felt somewhat like flipping through a verbal photo-album: a series of images, each describing a separate moment of her past. Ordinary moments of joy, surprise, humor, confusion, but which together make up the fabric of her childhood.
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Dec 21, 2012 Elisabeth Watson rated it 5 of 5 stars
An excellent edition, and very nice to have the two memoirs in the same volume. The magic of Colette's evocation of motherhood--and of her mother--is that she builds it by also evoking what it is like to be someone's child, someone's sibling. As much as Sido is the undisputed chief of this family pantheon, no one and no EXPERIENCE (even a pet's) is granted anything less than reverence.
It was in this book that I started "understanding" one of the mechanisms by which Colette is able to render a t ...more
It was in this book that I started "understanding" one of the mechanisms by which Colette is able to render a t ...more
May 19, 2007 ifjuly rated it 5 of 5 stars
so this is her masterpiece apparently, and it was one of the last things i got around to reading by her. it makes sense it is--the best thing about colette is her vivid description of sensory experience and little daily luxuries, and such descriptions abound here and are very strong, even for her. also makes me understand why proust admired her--the best things he does with the sensual aspects of memory she does here. a truly pleasurable read.
Jul 18, 2012 Carol rated it 5 of 5 stars
Shelves: favorites
This is one of my all time favorite books. I rarely re-read a book, but I have read this book many times. This is writing that Colette did for herself, unlike Cheri and other books that she wrote at her husband's request. This is a personal memior as seen through her eyes as a child. Magical stuff!
Nov 04, 2008 Wayne rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Shelves: french-classics, re-reads, memoirs-biography, clearly-colette
This would have to be one of my very favourite Colette books.
Sido was Colette's very earthed, very wise,very "french" Maman.Its some years since I read it which is why I have put it in my re-reads. But to savour their rustic village life again is like renewing an old acquaintance.
Sido was Colette's very earthed, very wise,very "french" Maman.Its some years since I read it which is why I have put it in my re-reads. But to savour their rustic village life again is like renewing an old acquaintance.
Jan 02, 2009 Beth rated it 5 of 5 stars
Even if you only read a vignette or two from this book, it's worthwhile. Colette's recollections of her childhood, and her parents in particular, is amazingly rich, both in style and emotional substance.
Jun 08, 2013 Elise rated it 5 of 5 stars
I thoroughly enjoyed this memoir, especially Colette's lush and sensual descriptions of the rural village in 19th century France where she grew up under the care of her unconventional and fascinating mother (Sido) and her father, the Captain, who was passionately in love with Sido (his nickname for his wife Sidonie). When I picked this book up, I was already reading another novel, but I figured I could read both at one time since "My Mother's House" reads like a collection of vignettes that woul ...more
Jun 05, 2008 Rachel Smalter Hall rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Shelves: french, dreamy-adolescence, shivers, memoirs-and-bios
Some books, like The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death and Pippi in the South Seas, appeal to my childlike love of mischief and weirdos. My Mother's House & Sido took me to a different place from my childhood, completely dreamy, sensual and romantic. I loved Colette's love for the provinces, with their basket-fulls of suckling kittens, hyacinths and foxgloves, and melted chocolate for breakfast. I loved her strange siblings who read books in trees and made up epitaphs for fun. And then ...more
Mar 20, 2010 Florence Penrice rated it 5 of 5 stars
Several years ago I visited St Sauveur en Puisaye, Colette's childhood home, on the strength of reading this. From reading Judith Thurman's excellent biography, Colette seems have been a flawed person in many respects (like all of us) and, to a certain extent 'Colette' was a fiction that she created that may not have always been true to reality, but I always read her autobiographical work with the sense of resuming a conversation with a old, wise, friend.
Mar 31, 2013 Amy rated it 5 of 5 stars
I loved this book! It's a collection of memories, musings, and descriptions of the author's childhood home in a small French village. The writing was lovely and made the far off time and place of someone else's life seem immediate and tangible in the way only the best writing does. I have never read anything by Colette before, but I will definitely be seeking out some more of her books. I only wish this one had been longer!
Apr 23, 2009 Brigid rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Somehow, perhaps because of her extravagant history, I didn't expect Colette to be such a very, very good writer. These little vignettes about her childhood in the country are delightful because her love for her mother, her animals, the nature surrounding her, is so strong and real and so scrupulously and passionately observed. This is the kind of writing that connects you to life rather than providing an escape from it.
May 25, 2011 Dana Susan rated it 5 of 5 stars
Loved this beautiful memoir told thru child's eye, wonderful evocation of provincial French life, and the enviable love between her parents, told with an economy of words. Strange to realize that Colette's scandalous adult life including her distant relationship with her own daughter was so different from the life she knew in her mother's house.
Aug 03, 2012 Carol rated it 5 of 5 stars
Oh, I loved reading about Colette's mother. The richness of her life and her love for her daughter.
It's been decades since I read it, but it was wonderful. Was some of it fictional, pehaps. I can't recall. But what a delicious book.
It's been decades since I read it, but it was wonderful. Was some of it fictional, pehaps. I can't recall. But what a delicious book.
Dec 26, 2012 Rachel marked it as to-read
Reading this one in the bathroom...when I'm not reading something for school...have been reading for the last few months, I think its going to take me a few more to finish. Each story in the book is like a little gem, so its nice to take it slow.
Aug 19, 2010 Jasmine rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition
My first real encounter with Colette, and it was absolutely beautiful. This brought back memories of growing up in the countryside, of finding excitement and curiosity in the smallest details. Something to savour.
Jun 21, 2010 Mel rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition
This book is a reminder of the beauty of a life well-lived and nurtured by nature. This is a deceptively simple collection of Colette's musings about her mother and the rest of her family in their country estate.
Sep 21, 2012 Tracymarksseglin rated it 2 of 5 stars
Had never read Colette before. Some lovely, simple, timeless mother-daughter stories hidden in lots and lots of imagery and adjectives. Grew tired of trying to find them, and didn't finish the whole book. :)
Dec 11, 2008 Arwen rated it 5 of 5 stars
Shelves: comfortbooks, thecanon
I read this or Earthly Paradise every fall. Somehow it seems like the right time to fall into Colette's meditations on childhood and family and tramping through gardens and over fences into fields.
Jan 14, 2013 Iris rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition
beautiful memoir of the author's childhood in burgundy, france -- all the sights and smells and naturalness of animals and fully-alive persons. must read for the francophile.
Jan 16, 2009 Susan Greve rated it 4 of 5 stars
the genius of child--pre-socialization bliss. this collection makes my yearn to find the beauty in a ball of string and/or a hollowed nut. my citified feet are ruined.
Apr 20, 2011 Maureen M rated it 3 of 5 stars
I read this just before visiting Colette's childhood region of Burgundy. I loved My Mother's House bu found Sido too much of an interior monologue.
Her descriptions even in translation are exquisite. The writing is so good I would just stop and savor a scene because I could see it so clearly!
May 31, 2011 Ma'lis Wendt rated it 4 of 5 stars
Colette's remembrances of her mother and the rest of her family --especially the stories of her childhood were very touching and vivid.
Apr 07, 2008 Catherine rated it 5 of 5 stars
Such a beauty! I'll probably read this book once a year now when I need some life in me.
Aug 02, 2013 Jill rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Swift, evocative. Collette casts a wistful eye upon her charmed childhood.
Sep 13, 2009 Obisbooks rated it 3 of 5 stars
Shelves: fiction
Beautiful, lush writing, little vignettes of her childhood.
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MLB umpires are terrible. They have turned into a running joke. Instant replay is a mandatory now, this non sense can't continue.
This is the ol Left Hander rounding third and heading for home.
DocRed (06-05-2013), redsrule2500 (06-05-2013)
Regardless of whether the game was over, act like a donkey's rear end, you probably deserve to be run even if it's meaningless. Complaining about a meaningless gesture seems as bad as the gesture itself.
The announcers are acting like idiots anyhow, like they're so perfect they'd never miss a call.
Frankly, I think the complaining about umpires has gotten far worse than the actual umpiring.
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The player might get fined... cha-ching. Ejections sometimes involve more than having to leave a game/dugout.
Small market fan... always hoping, but never expecting.
Announcer called him a clown. Didn't Marty and Joe get called to MLB for complaining like that about umps? Whether its a bad call or not, there is no place for announcers to editorialize about it that way. It does no good.
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everyone that complains about umpires, let me ask you this......would you rather see robots out there making calls and getting everything 100% correct? and you cant tell me that a MLB batter will not question a robots call, they will say that computers can be tampered with, they will say computers can be wrong too....
one of the reasons that sports are so fun to watch, at least according to me, is that humans play the game and humans moderate the game.....there will be mistakes on a nightly basis but the simple fact that these umpires get it right 90% of the time is amazing to me.....when a tv crew puts a play at the plate or at first base in slow motion and we see that the umpire truly got the call correct, I usually sit in amazement at how he got that right......umpires normally get the "bam-bam" calls right.......
I umpire kids games and slow pitch softball from time to time and I will admit to the teams before the game that I will give it 100% effort and they can get on my if I am not hustling to a play or not getting myself in correct postion to make the call but dont argue a close call that I make because I will not change my call.....and you will be correct from time to time, I will mess up a call....its not easy making a call at first when the difference in ball hitting glove and foot hitting bag is so minute that I dont even know if I am making the right call or not......
I agree that umpiring has been bad this year and I agree that maybe more teaching and more replays should occur.....but to argue a call such as the one in the video is meaningless, how can Mike Aviles argue that call thinking that he would have not called the exact same thing? the commentators on TV act as if that was the worse call they have seen in long time.....looked pretty close to me.
I was watchign the Miami Heat and Pacers the other night and the ball goes out of bounds off one of the players......I could have swore it hit a guy in the hand and the replay showed it hitting a guy in leg......there is almost no prefect way to call that in real time, thank god they have replay but in real time how can anyone expect those guys to be 100% on those calls?
Like I said, I am amazed at how many times i see a replay and admit that the umpire was in fact, correct when I sat in my recliner and would say that he missed that call by a mile.
Randazzo is a jerk. He kept the argument going when he should have just ignored the player and walked off the field. He should be suspended not for just a horrible call but for keeping the flames of the argument going and well past what it should have been. Someday MLB will wise up and have replay. But since MLB moves at glacial speed on any change I doubt I will live to see it.
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I prefer human umpires in all of these sports because of the element of skill and deception that goes in to feathering an outside corner to get a called strike, the drama it creates in discussing what might happen in a game based on umpire trends, and the fact that it holds people accountable. Right now we have a thread talking about replacing umpires with robots, but also recently had a thread about how the increase of cursing in MLB is concerning. Having automated umpires won't solve the problem of players acting like divas or arguing with one another or people getting their feelings hurt in a game. And it isn't outside of the realm of possibility that instead of CB Bucknor getting known as the horrible umpire, the computer in Atlanta will be known as the one that is always a little out of whack.
The problem is that accountability for umpires at the MLB level is very low, IMHO. I think the solution should involve fixing umpires and getting them better at their jobs before it involves removing umpires and having computers dictate all calls in a game that is significantly more fluid than maybe we are giving credit for.
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Also the umpire has jurisdiction over the field the minute he is on it to the minute he is off it. He was totally in his right to eject the player because if the precedent is set that players can act however they wish with no repercussions even if the game is over then there will be many problems.
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Again, I'm not fan of umpires who don't have thicker skin. I think this ump blew the call. He could have mitigated the situation had he given some clearer indication that he believed it was a strike. Finally I agree with those who have said, MLB needs to do a much better job of policing their umpires. There are too many that are really rummies, IMO.
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Just tell me what I oweon March 27, 2013 @ 6:02 am (Updated: 7:30 am - 3/27/13 )
I still do my own taxes. I used to order the long form instruction book, and fill out the paper forms by hand.
But as the forms have gotten more complicated, and grown to ten, 20, sometimes 30 pages - I understand completely how Mitt Romney felt.
And I've often wondered - why can't the IRS just send me a bill?
The power company sends a bill, and I have no clue how they figure it out, but I pay. None of us understands how doctors or cell phone companies come up with all those fees - but we pay them - so why not taxes?
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Recently, during a quiet moment, I sat musing about four different words: Aloha, Ojala, Insh'Allah, and Hallejuah. What struck me about these four words were not only how similar they sounded, but how the definitions of each of these words had something to do with God.
Aloha is from the Hawaiian language and means "hello, goodbye" and "love." (Yes, I know Aloha means love, but since I believe all real love comes from God, I included it in here.)
Ojala is from Spanish and means a strong desire or hope for something to happen, often referred to as "God willing."
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Hallejuah is a Hebrew term meaning to "praise God."
How did four such different cultures come up with a similar word that is essentially used as a reference to love or God? I know there are many historical and linguistic reasons why this occurs, but I am not going to go into that subject as my knowledge is woefully inadequate in that area. I do know, though, that at one point on this earth, we were all one people. Is it really so odd then to think that there would be similarities in language, even spread across the earth? Let's ponder those similarities for a moment…
Can you imagine what this world would be like if we all realized, that as human beings, we are essentially seeking the same thing? At some point in our lives, we have all felt fear, hunger, pain, anger, sadness, pleasure, happiness, and joy. We all wanted to be loved and accepted. And most likely, at one point, we all looked up into the skies above and hoped for something better.
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Oh, my friends, if only the countries of this earth could do the same now, what an amazing world this would be! But in my small way, doing my part, I will reach across the boundaries and say "Aloha, Ojala, Insh'Allah, and Hallejuah!"
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select * from german_affirmative join cooking_vessel; select * from nuts where anaphylaxis = 'sexually transmitted'; select * from olde_english_the join males; select * from elements where atomic_number = 47; select * from programming_languages where able_to = 'influence PL/SQL'; select * from places (more...)
Mastering Oracle ADF Bindings: Advanced Techniques
My Oracle OpenWorld presentation "Mastering Oracle ADF Bindings: Advanced Techniques" is now available for download from the OpenWorld web site. In this presentation, I talk about
- Reading the Bindings tab
- Bindings in the ADF lifecycle
- Working programmatically with bindings
- Getting the binding from a component
- Working with dynamic bindings
- Creating a binding programmatically
If you are interested in creating bindings programmatically, you should read Eugene Fedorenko's blog post on this. He also makes (more...)
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Oracle 12c: Temporal Validity, multiple on one table – Part Deux
One of the most wonderful things of Oracle Open World are the Demo-Grounds. When you want to learn more about a certain feature, this is the place to go to. The actual developers and product managers are there to answer your questions and more!
In a previous blog I had written about Temporal Validity in Oracle 12c and whether it would be possible to have multiple validity periods on one table. You can read that (more...)
PL/SQL Challenge Roundtable
Trouble is, sometimes it's hard to decide how to structure your packages - particularly in an APEX project. Over at the PL/SQL Challenge website run by Steven Feuerstein and friends there is a page dedicated to roundtable discussions.
I submitted my question not so long ago and hope to get some interesting responses. Why don't you give the site a visit and contribute? The discussions usually last for about (more...)
Making it Easy to do the Right Thing
I was just in Stockholm visiting a customer, and I noticed a new feature in my Volvo rental car: You could set the cruise control to a speed limit.
(apologies for the blurry picture, it was taken by my Narrative shirt pocket camera)
You drive the car as you would normally do, but when you approach the set speed, the car does not go any faster when you press the accelerator further. Unless you kick (more...)
Say "Big Data" One More Time (I dare you!)
Code can be scary when you simplify it
Disclaimer: I'm not posting to make me look better, we've all written code that we're later ashamed of, and I'm no different!
This is some code from a system I was maintaining some time ago. I've kept it since then because it illustrates a number of things NOT to do:
FUNCTION password_is_valid (in_password IN VARCHAR2) -- do NOT copy this code!!! ... RETURN VARCHAR2 IS l_valid VARCHAR2(1); l_sql VARCHAR2(32000); CURSOR cur_rules IS SELECT REPLACE(sql_expression ,'#PASSWORD#' ,'''' (more...)
ADF Archtitecture Practice – JDeveloper Silent Install
This article describes how to standardize your JDeveloper Installation as requested in Planning & Getting Started – Team, Skills and Development Environments. It is part of the ADF Architecture Practice lessons and describes the installation with examples for windows.
Version 12.1.x
In this version the Oracle Universal Installer allows the silent installation of JDeveloper. All what you need is the installer file for your platform (e.g. jdev_suite_121300_win64.exe) and a response file. You (more...)
ADF Archtitecture Practice Series
From now on I will create a series of lessons to implement the knowledge of the ADF Architecture Course from Oracle ADF product management. Here you can find the videos and the presentations. This post will be the index of this lessons, so bookmark it for further use!
- Planning & Getting Started – Team, Skills and Development Environments
- Developer PC's
- JDeveloper
- Silent Install
- Silent Patch
- Silent Install of Extensions
- JDeveloper
- Developer PC's
- …
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Oracle Mobility Spotlight: Join Us At ODTUG Mobile Day!
Now that the chaos of Oracle OpenWorld and the craziness of Kscope15 abstract submissions are behind us, it's time to get into the nitty gritty of where your Enterprise systems are headed. Mobile development plans are at the forefront of everyone's minds right now, and if it's not on your agenda then it's time to get to work!
The statistics of mobile adoption are STAGGERING; Gartner says that 40% of the workforce (more...)
Optimierung für pg_dump und pg_restore
- Parallelisierung über die -j multiprocess Option (für pg_restore und seit 9.3 auch für pg_dump).
- Komprimierung des Dumps bei der Erstellung.
- Deaktivierung der Binär-Replikation im Zielsystem während des Imports.
- Anpassungen der postgresql.conf des Ziel-Clusters zur Unterstützung einer schnellen Wiederherstellung. Die Wiedergabe der genannten Optionen erspare (more...)
iPhoto movie export
What happens when iPhoto doesn't export movies? One of two things, you re-install iPhoto and risk losing the movies and photos; or you drop down to the Terminal level and move the files manually before re-installing iPhoto.
Option one is easy, you open iPhoto, choose File from menu, and Export… from the File menu list. When you get to the dialog, change it Kind value to original. If everything is working, you should be (more...)
Apex substitution strings in reports, not always replaced with their values, guess why?
Read Privileg in 22.214.171.124 (ohne Select for Update)
Latest Oracle allows SELECT without SELECT…FOR UPDATE
You all know that when you grant SELECT on a table to a user, they can do a SELECT FOR UPDATE, locking records in the table and preventing other updates or deletes. [Some client tools may do that in the background. ]
Well finally Oracle (more...)
How many page views can Apex sustain when running on Oracle XE?
Submit from jQuery modal causing session state protection violation
Don't you hate those nagging issues where you attempt a few fixes in vain, waste hours of your life, and then suddenly the issue just resolves itself? What's worse than an issue that won't go away is one that just resolves itself and you don't know why. You don't know if it is just hiding, waiting to reappear at some inconvenient time later (e.g. when the app goes live in Production).
I added the (more...)