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What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home, April 2009 #2		160	elliepotten, May 12
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading The Week of 1 November 2008		163	Sean191, November 2008
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Non-Fiction Readers : October 2008: What non-fiction are you reading?		104	SqueakyChu, November 2008
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What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the Week of 20 September 2008		216	mckait, October 2008
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What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? SEPTEMBER, 2008, Part 2		224	cameling, September 2008
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What Are You Reading Now? : Classic sequels		17	Booksloth, August 2008
Art is Life : Lines from works that you love.		74	hemlokgang, May 2008
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Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Your Top Five for 2006		104	momom248, January 2007

... look!) but at approximately 50p each from the charity shop Rats and Gargoyles by Mary Gentle (looked interesting) Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres (this was on my wishlist) Complete Nonsense by Edward Lear (so was this!) and The Little Book of Calm by Paul Wilson (well ...

... look!) but at approximately 50p each from the charity shop Rats and Gargoyles by Mary Gentle (looked interesting) Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres (this was on my wishlist) Complete Nonsense by Edward Lear (so was this!) and The Little Book of Calm by Paul Wilson (well ...

Birds Without Wings - Louis de Bernieres (read 2006)

... ? Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres.. and yes Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (I'm not sure how I left that out the first time. 24) Play? I haven't read/seen ...

Birds without Wings by Louis de Bernières. There are few things humans are more dedicated to than unhappiness.

Jan #8 I loved Birds Without Wings. Hope you enjoy it too. A little long, but worth it.

... new books! There is absolutely no room left on my book cases. Received the following from amazon.co.uk yesterday: Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières The Reluctant Widow The Grand Sophy Bath Tangle (last three by Georgette Heyer).

>12 I also listened to Birds Without Wings and enjoyed it. Alas, my days of audio books seem to be in the past. I've no long commute anymore:-(

Yes, I did listen to Birds Without Wings--but I really didn't care for it.

John Lee is one of my favorite readers--I have purchased audiobooks because of him. Have you listened to Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres? I enjoyed both the book, and Lee's reading of it, very much.

#88 - I felt the same way about Birds Without Wings, it was such a struggle to finish it. Later I am going to start The Fire Gospel by Michel Faber, really looking forward to getting stuck in.

I am rushing through Birds Without Wings for a discussion on Wednesday. I find the writing tedious. There are about 100 other books I want to be reading right now, including the three that came today. Robert

>>91 I hope you survive rdurick. A good non-fiction read together with Birds Without Wings might be Twice A Stranger.

I finished The Gulag Archipelago, volume 2 last night, and now I have to read a novel, Birds Without Wings, by Wednesday for a book group. No non-fiction until well into November! It is uncomfortable. Robert

... that I'm taking a chapter every few nights. Part of this non-fiction compulsion is a matter of avoiding reading Birds Without Wings for my Church's book group in a week and a half. Robert

Cheese! Don't seem to have seen you for ages! No, it's not Birds Without Wings. Profound apologies to Anne-with-an-e. I haven't actually read the book (Shame! Shame!) and just copied from januaryw's post.

Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres? Edited to add, Anne with an e would be rolling in her grave right now if literary creations had graves.

#131> My wife read Birds without Wings last year and found it entirely engrossing. To each his/her own, I guess, but she sure did like it.

I am supposed to be reading Birds Without Wings for my church book group. A month or so ago I read the first chapter, found it tedious, and set it aside. A week or so ago I reread the first chapter and on to about 25 pages; I lacked enthusiasm. Usually, once I open a novel, I'm good for a ...

My next 3 books that I will be reading are:- Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernieres Kingdom Come by J.G. Ballard The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

I read Louis de Bernieres' Birds without Wings, he is a remarkable story teller. I knew a little of the history and visited some of the places he talks about, but this made it all so much richer - and blacker. Then my first Ian Rankin, by chance also his first Rebus book Knots and Crosses ...

... Any Given Doomsday will be here soon. I'm going to have to blend reading it with reading Kristin Lavransdatter and Birds Without Wings; what a fortunate problem to have. Robert

From BookMooch Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres

... recommended in The Chapel of the Abyss. Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres -- for the book group at church. I also have a minor curiousity about Turkey. This book prompted the book order. No Plot? N ...

... be by way of prequels. The one I most wanted to know about was Drosoula, and L de B very kindly gave us her back story in Birds Without Wings. I could happily read at least a million more pages about the early lives of Father Arsenios, Carlo and Doctor Iannis. Such wonderful characters - I ...

The Bird Artist by Howard Norman Birds without Wings by Louis de Bernieres Crow Country by Mark Cocker Counting My Chickens: And Other Home Thoughts by The Duchess of Devonshire Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler

... distributor didn't have it in stock, it wasn't certain that it would arrive in time. So, I bought Louis De Bernières' Birds Without Wings as a gift instead, since it was on the shelf. I want to support my local small town bookstore. I always special order new books from them rather than ...

... to the SMGF project.} Dervishes by Beth Helms {I visited Ankara when I toured Turkey in 2005, and enjoyed reading Birds without wings } I am willing to write reviews for any one of these, or for all three.

... maar tegelijkertijd diepe wonden heeft geslagen, vind je in Twice a stranger van Clark. Ook in De Bernieres' roman Vogels zonder vleugels kun je hierover lezen, en dan vooral ook over hoe de Grieken en Turken voor "de scheiding" met elkaar leefden, maar dat verhaal speelt zich af op de ...

... by Joy Dettman. >120 and I agree with you lydschmidt about Louis de Bernieres. He is a great author, however, Birds Without Wings for me, was one of his worst. I just got lost in the middle of it, kept counting how many pages were left.

Sloth has been inspiring. I seem to rememeber it was sloth who used Birds Without Wings in the first line game which made me go and buy it the very next day to read again. And in hardback too!

... Lessing Brighton Rock by Graham Greene Girlfriend In A Coma by Douglas Coupland Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres Lord Minimus by Nick Page Britain In The Middle Ages by Francis Pryor Fish of the Seto Inland Sea by Ruri Pilgrim A Pass ...

Meanwhile, you have reminded me booksloth to go and buy a copy of Birds Without Wings. I read it while I was living in Japan, and it was so thick I couldn't justify the weight to bring it back. But it was such a great book I'd love to have a copy of it to read again. Sigh. Another book for the ...

... before someone cracked it. Your line sounds familiar booksloth but I'm not sure if I can place it. I'm going to say Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres with no hope of it actually being right.

... love Alas, Babylon! I read it last year for book group and it was one of the few we all LOVED! Stuff I got today: Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle The Emancipator's Wife by Barbara Hambly ...

#188 momom248 & #189 booksloth: I went right out an ordered a copy of Birds without Wings per your recommendations. When I'll get a chance to read it, I don't know!

#177 & #178, I loved Birds Without Wings. Even a little long, it was a great read. I still have Captain Corelli's Mandolin in my TBR pile axiously awaiting to be read.

... of 'the confluence of cultures and faiths in and around Constantinople/Istanbul', have you tried Louis de Bernieres' Birds Without Wings? Set at the time of the population exchange between Turkey and Greece. I love his books anyway but I do think this is a particularly interesting point ...

... are my favorite fiction books for 2007 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie Birds without Wings by Louis de Bernieres Fortunate Son by Walter Mosley Ship Made of Paper by Scott Spencer

... on writing... it really doesn't get much better. There are a lot more that I absolutely love: Half of a Yellow Sun, Birds Without Wings, The Kite Runner and Middlesex ... but there would be far too many to name.

... of what must be done, and an understanding of the direction in which the world must go." Louis de Bernieres - Birds Without Wings

... NOT! I also quit after a few chapters, although I still have it and may get back to it someday. #5 I got through Birds without Wings but wasn't very impressed with it.

Had to put down As Meat Loves Salt. I just don't think I can finish it. Picked Birds Without Wings back up. We'll see.

I would read Birds Without Wings. I love Louis de Bernieres.

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien Birdy by William Wharton The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

For me a recent favorite is Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres. It is a tale of love and tragedy during the time of the Ottoman Empire's collapse and the beginning of the modern state of Turkey - a time when the Greek-Christian population was displaced and when World War One utterly ...

These three stand out for me in 2006 for various reasons Birds without wings by Louis de Bernieres ( I visited Turkey in 2005) Children of the day by Sandra Birdsell ( I've visited Manitoba and S. Russia ) Treading Water by Anne DeGrace interesting comparison to the Yangtz ...