rickl's books from LibraryThing

A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five by George R.R. Martin

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:01:32 -0400

rickl's review: "After looking forward to this, the fifth volume in the series, for so long, I was rather disappointed. I found that I had ceased caring about the characters who hadn't appeared for a thousand pages and several years. While complexity is good, and I'm still prepared to be surprised by the next two volumes tying things together, I agree with many reviewers that the whole saga seems to have gotten out of control. Even though Jon Snow and Arya appear, this has ceased to be about the Starks, and looking back I realize that earlier in the series it was chiefly Eddard, Rob, and Catelyn that kept me anchored and rooting for someone when things were getting confused, although Jaime Lannister was at one time a credible replacement. Another recent and wildly popular seven-part fantasy series has taught us that the fifth volume of such series tends to be too long and a bit boring and that that doesn't have to have any bearing on the final two volumes. I do hope that health, age, and the pressure of other commitments allow GRRM to finish off the series."
Bantam (2011), Hardcover, 1040 pages

されど罪人は竜と踊る 1 ~Dances with the Dragons~ (ガガガ文庫) by 浅井ラボ

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:00:59 -0400

小学館 (2008), 文庫, 456 pages

Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:49:15 -0400

A Marian Wood Book/Putnam (2011), Hardcover, 608 pages

Drama Techniques: A Resource Book of Communication Activities for Language Teachers, Third Edition by Alan Maley

Sat, 14 May 2011 01:50:56 -0400

Cambridge University Press (2005), Edition: 3, Paperback, 256 pages

Pictures for Language Learning (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers) by Andrew Wright

Sat, 14 May 2011 01:49:39 -0400

Cambridge University Press (1990), Paperback, 250 pages

Focus on Form in Classroom Second Language Acquisition (Cambridge Applied Linguistics) by Catherine Doughty

Sat, 14 May 2011 01:48:49 -0400

Cambridge University Press (1998), Paperback, 315 pages

Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach by Joseph A. Maxwell

Sat, 14 May 2011 01:43:32 -0400

Sage Publications, Inc (2004), Edition: 2nd, Paperback, 175 pages

Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics (Oxford Applied Linguistics) by Diane Larsen-Freeman

Sat, 14 May 2011 01:42:45 -0400

Oxford University Press, USA (2008), Paperback, 287 pages

The Ecology and Semiotics of Language Learning: A Sociocultural Perspective (Educational Linguistics) by Leo van Lier

Sat, 14 May 2011 01:40:00 -0400

Springer (2004), Edition: 1, Paperback, 264 pages

Establishing Self-Access: From Theory to Practice (Cambridge Language Teaching Library) by David Gardner

Sat, 14 May 2011 01:36:59 -0400

Cambridge University Press (1999), Edition: 0, Hardcover, 292 pages

Second Language Research Methods (Oxford Applied Linguistics) by Herbert W. Seliger

Sat, 14 May 2011 01:30:00 -0400

Oxford University Press, USA (1990), Paperback, 276 pages

Data Elicitation for Second and Foreign Language Research (Second Language Acquisition Research Series) by Susan M. Gass

Sat, 14 May 2011 01:29:26 -0400

Routledge (2007), Edition: 1, Paperback, 224 pages

Case Study Research in Applied Linguistics (Second Language Acquisition Research Series) by Patricia Duff

Sat, 14 May 2011 01:28:32 -0400

Routledge (2007), Paperback, 248 pages

「フォーカス・オン・フォーム」を取り入れた新しい英語教育 by 和泉伸一

Sat, 14 May 2011 01:27:24 -0400

大修館書店 (2009), 単行本, 287 pages

Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Context and Conceptualization by Michael Levy

Sat, 14 May 2011 01:26:19 -0400

Oxford University Press, USA (1997), Paperback, 320 pages

Understanding Second Language Acquisition (Hodder Arnold Publication) (Understanding Language) by Lourdes Ortega

Sat, 14 May 2011 01:25:34 -0400

Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc. (2009), Paperback, 224 pages

Five Days to an Organized Life by Lucy H Hedrick

Sat, 14 May 2011 01:24:31 -0400

Dell (1994), Hardcover, 161 pages

To Do Doing Done: A Creative Approach to Managing Projects and Effectively Finishing What Matters Most by G. Lynne Snead

Sat, 14 May 2011 01:15:29 -0400

Fireside (1997), Paperback, 256 pages

Understanding Research in Second Language Learning: A Teacher's Guide to Statistics and Research Design (Cambridge… by James Dean Brown

Sat, 14 May 2011 00:58:09 -0400

Cambridge University Press (1988), Paperback, 240 pages

University Language: A corpus-based study of spoken and written registers (Studies in Corpus Linguistics) by Douglas Biber

Sat, 14 May 2011 00:55:55 -0400

John Benjamins Pub Co (2006), Paperback, 261 pages