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Those Who Trespass Against Us: One Woman's War Against the Nazis by Karolina Lanckoronska
Footfalls in Memory: An Anthology by Terry Waite
Rosetta by Barbara Ewing
Wise Words and Quotes: An Intriguing Collection of Popular Quotes by Famous People and Wise Sayings from Scripture by Vernon K. McLellan
No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean Rhys
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TagsVirago (41), tbr (39), 888 (35), library (23), education (15), french (12), book award (11), Newbery library (10), Newbery (9) — see all tags
Groups1001 Books to read before you die, 50 Book Challenge, 888 Challenge, Book Lovers Who Love Fountain Pens, Clarissa's Cottage, Early Reviewers, Girlybooks, Group Reads - Literature, Newbery Challenge, Reading Globally — show all groups
Favorite authorsAnita Brookner, A.S. Byatt, Sebastian Faulks, Nadine Gordimer, C. S. Lewis, Michael Morpurgo, Alan Paton, Leo Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresThe Invicta Bookshop
About me I live in lovely house overlooking the downs, am in education, wish to read more books than I have time for, am a francophile, speak french, love language, love music especially choral singing, have a son who lived in Recife Brazil up to two days ago! He has flown half way across the world to Dubai and will be there for the next three years, I have two delightful daughters, one grand daughter Aimee, a house in la belle france, write with a parker 51 fountain pen, usually with purple ink, get every excited about learning ..... and sign up for reading challenges ....
About my library Just finished
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Books read 2008
The Giver Lois Lowry
Surviving with Wolves: The Most Extraordinary Story of World War II Misha Defonseca
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
When The Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka
I Have Lived A Thousand Years Livia Bitton-Jackson
Snow Orhan Pamuk
A Thread of Grace Mary Doria Russell
A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf
Woman at Point Zero Nawal El Saadawi
The Lying Days Nadine Gordimer
The Reader Bernhard Schlink
The Man Booker Prize 1969-2003 The Booker Prize Foundation
Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom by Sulima and Hala
Pilgrim Road A Benedictine Journey Through Lent Albert Holtz
July's People by Nadine Gordimer
Our Longest Days: A People's History of the Second World War
by The Writers of Mass Observation
The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseini
The Tenderness of Wolves by Steff Penney
The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry by Assia Djebar
Gents by Warwick Collins
When The Bough Breaks by Julia Hollander
The Children of Belsen by Hetty Verolme
A Stricken Field by Martha Gellhorn
The Return of The Soldier by Rebecca West
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Time to take stock as we journey on through 2008 … here are my five top highlights so far as at the end of June.
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
The Road by Bernhard Schlink
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
The Lying Days by Nadine Gordimer
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posted by zenomax at 1:26 pm (EST) on Jun 20, 2008
I had to come over and check out your Virginia Woolf mug. I covet that! I also covet your Age of Innocence edition. I haven't seen that cover before. Lovely.
posted by Nickelini at 1:11 am (EST) on Jun 18, 2008
Librivox is available world wide. I'm not very computer literate but have worked out my own way of burning CDs and putting audio onto my ipod from Librivox. I'm happy to help if you need it. I've listened to the first three chapters of Age of Innocence and the reader is excellent unlike some I've listened to. Another plus is that it's the same reader for the whole book. I think Edith Wharton lacks Tolstoy and Eliot's wit and humour which made Middlemarch and War & Peace such wonderful books. But I shouldn't judge on just three chapters.
Jenny
posted by socialpages at 6:17 pm (EST) on Jun 8, 2008
Tomorrow is the last day of school for the boys and then they'll be off for a couple of months for the summer break. They are very excited! I am excited to not have to worry about homework for awhile, but I can't believe that I will be the mother of a third- and first-grader!
Sending love to you and yours!
Jill
posted by mrstreme at 6:28 pm (EST) on Jun 3, 2008
posted by englishrose60 at 5:45 pm (EST) on May 31, 2008
I find your posts very thoughtful and intelligent and
so therefore, after a brief browse through your lovely
library, it was confirmed. Smart lady, small books. Your
life and family are very interesting, too!!
I'll be starting a new job at the local Barnes & Noble
in their Children's section. I see that you have The Higher
Power of Lucky. She's been on my list, among a zillion
others in the YA department.
We also share a love for A. S. Byatt. I've read her Frederica
series twice through. I had the good fortune of meeting on her
Possession tour when I lived in San Francisco.
It's been great fun in the VMC group with wonderful new members
arriving almost daily. It is more than inspiring on many levels!
Hope you're weekend is sunny!!
Warm regards,
Cate
posted by bleuroses at 5:19 pm (EST) on May 31, 2008
~Deborah
posted by Cariola at 5:55 pm (EST) on May 26, 2008
It's looking like being a lot of fun.
posted by Jodyreadseverything at 5:09 am (EST) on May 10, 2008
Maybe I felt that way because of having lived in the middle east. I am always trying to make sense out of why there cannot be more moderate Muslims - or even why moderate Muslims are heard less. Perhaps because they don't make exciting evening news items.
The theme of secularism versus fanatacism in religion pervades most religions. I think that is why Snow particularly appealed to me. I felt that it had a universal theme which struck my concern about the world as a whole. I very much worry about extremism and its implications for mankind. :(
posted by SqueakyChu at 3:06 pm (EST) on Mar 29, 2008
I stayed up very late one night to finish it even though it was a long book. I thought the "snow" part of it was beautiful. I read it as a satire (although there is nothing funny, especially these days) about the struggle between the secular forces and religious forces who are trying to control the Turkish government.
I have this book circulating as a BookCrossing bookray. The book is even in UK now (Leicester, to be exact)! If you want in on it, I'll slip in quickly (before the book leaves the UK). Just let me know.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5573...
posted by SqueakyChu at 1:23 pm (EST) on Mar 29, 2008
posted by Marensr at 11:43 pm (EST) on Mar 27, 2008
I am still avoiding W&P, but don't mind a bit of irony, wouldn't want to drop it on my foot though! so I'll be very good next time I post at 1001!
Your reading list for this year is very impressive. I have only read Schlink's The Reader and followed it up later with Homecoming. Both make you think.
It's Homecoming's fault that I'm in the classics. It uses the Odyssey as one of it's structural themes and my previous book the Australian Landscape of Farewell references the Iliad, which encouraged me to pick it up again, but I've diverted myself with The Golden Ass instead.
Good reading!
posted by merry10 at 12:41 am (EST) on Mar 26, 2008
Thanks for the invite Friend!
posted by oh2read at 11:36 am (EST) on Mar 8, 2008
posted by bostonbibliophile at 9:58 pm (EST) on Mar 7, 2008
By the way, nohrt4me and I have been having discussions on our profile pages about the religion theme. Feel free to drop in. Sometimes I just think it's better to keep that type of chat smaller and personal. Case in point, one thread I was on went totally out of control on the subject of kids/no kids. I think some folks who started on that thread got a little disgusted and left us.
Just my opinion. Again nice to meet you.
posted by oh2read at 11:55 am (EST) on Mar 6, 2008
posted by bostonbibliophile at 11:57 am (EST) on Mar 5, 2008
posted by bostonbibliophile at 10:17 am (EST) on Mar 4, 2008
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