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Making Sex Work: A Failed Experiment with Legalised Prostitution by Mary Lucille Sullivan
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Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan by Sally Armstrong
The Theban Plays (Classics) by Sophocles
Ma Folie Francaise ( My French Folly) by Marisa Raoul
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About meI have three passions in my life: reading, yoga and Latin! I'm in my last year of a BA, majoring in Latin and Medieval and Early Modern History - I really enjoy learning, and especially with Latin, can't get enough of it! Due to frequent relocation on my part and current lack of space, I don't own many books: I get most of my reading from various libraries.
One day I will have my own place and it will have walls, floors, tables and chairs covered in books :o)
About my librarySo far I've added only books that I've read or that I'm reading. I'd like to add every book I've ever read... but that's a Herculean task if there ever was one!
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Currently readingLatin For People by Alexander and Humez Humez, Nicholas
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Making Sex Work: A Failed Experiment with Legalised Prostitution by Mary Lucille Sullivan
Ma Folie Francaise ( My French Folly) by Marisa Raoul
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Those who love Georgette Heyer tend to be passionate about it. Check out some of the fan sites, such as http://www.georgette-heyer.com/. They are romance-driven comedies of manners, modelled on Jane Austen, and the best of them have large casts of characters that Heyer can use to display her talent for character comedy. At her best, her characters can reach almost Shakespearian heights of foolishness. There are maybe a dozen of them I could read again and again. My favorites are perhaps "The Unknown Ajax" (the poor relation has more to him than meets the eye), "The Grand Sophy" (dashing young woman turns her cousins' lives upside down), "Arabella" (country girl's social conscience turns fashionable young man's life upside down), and "Cotillion" (Bertie Wooster type shows he's not just a fashionable fribble). Heyer's Georgian romances are in a different category, denser and more adventure-driven, but also very satisfying. My favorite of those is "These Old Shades," in which the corrupt English aristocrat the Duke of Avon becomes involved in the affairs of a French family, which include dastardly abductions and heirs switched at birth. Ah, I was in love with the Duke of Avon at one time, too.
posted by Winter_Maiden at 4:15 am (EST) on Jul 31, 2009
posted by Winter_Maiden at 12:01 pm (EST) on Jul 29, 2009
Welcome to LT! I'm very excited to see you here! I'm in Cape Town, South Africa, and have a very good friend in Syria called Aula. Where are you based?
I look forward to seeing your library!
Happy reading!
posted by akeela at 2:25 am (EST) on Feb 5, 2009