Bina
First novel published
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Post by Bina on Sept 21, 2006 12:48:44 GMT -5
I have read it before and I like it very much. You should like references to greek mythology and it is a book you can appreciate more if you try to analyse it. I guess that´s why I liked it when we read it in school.
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czarval
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
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Post by czarval on Sept 21, 2006 12:52:03 GMT -5
Oh, good. I guess I'll get it then. I really books that are worth more than one glance.
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Bina
First novel published
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Post by Bina on Sept 21, 2006 12:56:28 GMT -5
It is. And analysing is very rewarding! Wow, we made page two!
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czarval
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
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Post by czarval on Sept 21, 2006 13:02:41 GMT -5
It's only rewarding when there's something to analyse. We've been looking at short stories for my World Lit class, and I can't help but feel that we're getting more out of the stories than are in there. Yay, page two party!
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Post by Dominique on Sept 21, 2006 18:49:32 GMT -5
I have surfacing at home but I have yet to read it, I'll have to try to get around to it soon
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Paige
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by Paige on Sept 21, 2006 19:51:02 GMT -5
I bought -A widow for one year by John Irving -Death in Venice by Thomas Mann - On the road by Jack Kerouac -Surfacing by Margaret Atwood For 2,50 Euros :-D you'll have to tell me how a widow for one year is. i read the world according to garp...which i think is by john irving too, dont remember for sure. but yea...let me know if you like it!
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Bina
First novel published
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Post by Bina on Sept 25, 2006 12:28:29 GMT -5
I´ll let you know how I liked the books. Hope you´re all still alive by then because I have so many books waiting to be read. I have two to be read until next thursday which is library day. So I´ll end up with new ones and I always buy some used then. I think I´ll start the Irving this weekend and Surfacing later because I want to read the handmaid´s tale first. I want to read Garp, too! And it is by Irving. Are all your book piles starting to crash, yet?
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Bina
First novel published
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Post by Bina on Oct 5, 2006 12:32:55 GMT -5
I couldn´t resist and bought Catherine Carmier by Ernest J. Gaines and out of Africa by Tania Blixen. I was lucky to get them used
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Oct 5, 2006 18:05:40 GMT -5
Well, I didn't buy these, but they're still newly in my possession (and no, I didn't steal them...they were free). I work at my public library and sometimes we accumulate a number of advanced reading copies or uncorrected proofs that aren't for sale, but free for the taking. So I took three from the shelf: The Scroll of Seduction by Gioconda Belli, Jack's Widow by Eve Pollard, and The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson.
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Bina
First novel published
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Post by Bina on Oct 6, 2006 6:08:21 GMT -5
;D That´s so great that you got to just take some. Have to admit that I´ve never heard of these books, though!
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Post by bookaddict on Oct 6, 2006 9:50:47 GMT -5
I read Surfacing, it wasen't a bad book. I didn't like the ending. I have a hard time reading Atwood...i'm not fond of her writing.
The book i most recently bought...are The Bartimaeus trilogy and the two books of Septimus Heap..."Magyk" and "Flyte"
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Bina
First novel published
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Post by Bina on Oct 6, 2006 10:06:26 GMT -5
The septimus heap books have really great covers! I liked the first book the best.
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Oct 6, 2006 14:43:26 GMT -5
I took another few advanced reading copies from work: Kabbalah- A Love Story by Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, The Ruby in Her Navel by Barry Unsworth, and Feather in the Storm- A Childhood Lost in Chaos by Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann. I have many new books!
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neh
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"I live in two worlds; one is a world of books"
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Post by neh on Oct 8, 2006 20:30:41 GMT -5
I was shopping for my sis' b'day last week and "Jane Eyre" was going for $7 - i mean, what's a girl to do?! I AM only human!!!!
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lostgirl
First short story featured in regional newspaper
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Post by lostgirl on Oct 9, 2006 0:04:41 GMT -5
I've decided that for every week I make it through at work I'll stop at the bookstore on my way home on Friday night and treat myself to a book. I bought The Historian las Friday based on a friend's recommendation. I'm only a few chapters into it though because I was reading Avalon by Anya Seton in the meantime.
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