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Post by suze on Jun 22, 2010 18:10:36 GMT
No, Julie, you are clutching at straws with that link/error .. you ARE the only one ..
that sounds good, that indiahn spirituality one ... but I bet you've already promised to lend it to at leat 5 other ppl .. if not, why not bring it up for me to borrow when you come! ? ?!
Meanwhile, I did really enjoy that last one you lent me, A Fraction of The Whole, but being equally as demented and commited to being superficial as you (and FOUR years older to boot) I can scarcely remember it now!
I quite like Alice Munro
oh, last but not least HI SAM .. great to see you with time on your hands for net-messing again!
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jane
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Post by jane on Jun 22, 2010 20:37:29 GMT
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Post by julietilsed on Jun 23, 2010 7:25:15 GMT
no they look nothing alike - and as sue says I may be alone in getting those wires crossed
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Post by anne on Jun 23, 2010 8:43:34 GMT
No you aren't, I knew what you meant (sorry suze!)
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Post by Pauline on Jun 27, 2010 20:00:36 GMT
Today I finished reading 'The Man Who Wrote Dracula' A biography of Bram Stoker, written by Daniel Farson.
It was quite an interesting read. His life does seem to have been touched by a mixture of great talent & a certain amount of tragedy. It appears the author was writing about his great uncle. I feel as if I know Stoker a bit better for the read.
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Post by Mark on Jun 29, 2010 23:43:30 GMT
I have to thank Brigid for the book I am reading now, Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce.
It is a signed copy and I loved the message.
Thanks Brigid it was a great present, and a wonderful story.
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Post by suze on Jun 30, 2010 7:49:52 GMT
It's a good book that, Mark, cos it puts dads in the frame as important to their lids .. .. and we think you're a great dad .. lucky Luke!
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Post by Mark on Jul 4, 2010 1:09:03 GMT
Thank you. No one is perfect, but this is the one bit of my life I make an effort with.
I didn't mention that Cosmic is laugh out loud funny, I love it.
Incidentally, Lucky Luke is a comic strip cowboy. Belgian, like Tintin. So fast he can outdraw his own shadow!
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Post by mumndad on Jul 11, 2010 13:33:43 GMT
Hello at the moment Dads reading the book John and Julie gave him for fathers day, Its Bill Bryson at Home. No need for talking books here Anne. I feel I could go on who wants to be a millionare and win, Im so full of facts and figures. The nearest I get to reading is my Take a break magazine not so much the reading I like the puzzles.
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Post by anne on Jul 15, 2010 9:40:51 GMT
I love Bill Bryson, but haven't read this one yet. Thunderbolt Kid was a great read!
Suze's mum, is that you who doesn't need talking books .. I think I know how you feel sometimes! ;D ;D I'm full of facts about archaeology and ancient history ..
I enjoy puzzles too, especially logic puzzles, the ones you fill in on a grid .. do you know the ones I mean?
My latest audio book is: Observations by Jane Harris - it's written in voice of a young Irish girl who takes up employment with a rather strange lady on a farm outside Edinburgh, I believe it's going to involve the ghost of a previous maid ... very amusing actually, the story narrator has a very bawdy way of expressing herself. Better read out aloud, semi-dialect is rather difficult to read in a book, I find.
Reading a whole pile of books on patchwork and quilting (my latest hobby), also The Art of Abstract Painting by Rolina van Vliet - very interesting, quite a philosophical tone to it.
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Post by Pauline on Jul 16, 2010 9:21:40 GMT
I'm still reading 'Dracula' very slowly. So far, it is mainly diary exerts & letters. But the language is quite refreshing, as I'm not used to the old fashioned terminology. Always a book somewhere to read.
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cathy
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Post by cathy on Jul 23, 2010 18:14:49 GMT
Just finished The Olive Harvest by Carol Drinkwater. She and her husband have an olive farm in Provence . After a horrific car accident , their marriage flounders and husband takes himself off to Paris for some space leaving Carol to soldier on at the farm. Always loyal and true to her wreck of a man , she throws herself into exploring Provencal life and her experiences help alleviate her deep sense of abandonment. Husband does return , healed physically and emotionally and their relationship is reborn.
Some memorable quotes from this lovely book :
The world can be a brutal place , often extreme and random in its cruelty, but there is beauty too, generosity, romance, laughter and, at its core,there is boundless love and the ability to be reborn. Our ability to keep our hearts open to it is what counts,what keeps us liberated and alive. and
When the artist ( Picasso ) lived in Mougins there was an electricity pylon that had been erected within sight of his villa. Picasso fought to have it removed but , getting no joy from the blank wall of officialdom that reigns in these parts , he set about painting it and transformed it into an object of delight.
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Post by bouclette on Jul 24, 2010 6:49:59 GMT
great quotations cathy, thanks
suze impersoating bouclette!
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Post by Pauline on Aug 8, 2010 9:48:17 GMT
Almost finished a fascinating book from the library. I'm not into Politics at all, but it does have baring on this topic really. Truly mind-blowing reading. 'A History of the Sicilian Mafia. Cosa Nostra' by John Dickie.I already knew about some parts like the Pizza Connection, which I have just read of in the last chapter. But reading a book by a historian does add details which may not be widely known. Also, the thought of priests walking about carrying guns is a revelation to me. Historically, that is, rather than present day. The book starts with history from 1860 & ends with modern times. It seems to have all started in the lemon groves. I will never see a lemon in the same light again. Nor will I see a Pizza hut in the same light again. But then again, this is England.
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Post by Pauline on Aug 14, 2010 9:09:05 GMT
Just finished reading 'The Banned Book of Mary' by Ronald F Hock.. A very different sort of reading from my latest topics. It's a Spirituality/Christianity book. The book explores the history of documentation which never made it into the Bible. It also illustrates how the forbidden book has inspired masters in Renaissance art. It's good to read a variety of writings to get a clearer picture of what may have been. It's also good to be a bit of a rebel by reading stuff which the Catholic Church says we shouldn't read. At least that's what we were told as children. But that may have changed now.
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