Bina
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Post by Bina on Oct 2, 2006 14:15:31 GMT -5
I just started Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. I like it so far. What is it about?
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Oct 2, 2006 20:43:39 GMT -5
I've decided to tackle a French book, it's been a while... I'm reading George Sand's La Mare au Diable (The Devil's Pool). Needed something good to get over Castle Rackrent...
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agnotis
First poem written for Mother’s Day
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Post by agnotis on Oct 3, 2006 21:34:16 GMT -5
also french.....Swann's Way. I should have read it loooong ago </shrugs shoulders>. Little Miss Sunshine reminded me to pick it up
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Bina
First novel published
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Post by Bina on Oct 4, 2006 6:00:54 GMT -5
I loved interpreter of maladies. Started plainsong today.
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Oct 4, 2006 7:58:56 GMT -5
I picked up The Backwoods of Canada last night, by Catharine Parr Traill. It's a book about early British emigrants coming to Canada and getting used to a new way of life. It's one of those books I had started reading a while ago but put away after a few chapters because I wasn't in the mood. I picked it up again last night and read for 3 hours straight!
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czarval
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
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Post by czarval on Oct 4, 2006 13:14:01 GMT -5
After that, you should read something by her sister, Susanna Moodie, if you haven't already. Its interesting to see how different the two are.
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Oct 4, 2006 18:31:45 GMT -5
I've read Roughing It in the Bush (lol, kinda sounds dirrrty, doesn't it?!), but that was years ago so I don't think I'd be able to compare it with the one I'm reading now... which one did you prefer? I'm enjoying reading an epistolary novel, it's been a while since I've read one.
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bubblegum55
First poem written for Mother’s Day
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Post by bubblegum55 on Oct 4, 2006 21:23:12 GMT -5
im reading little woman.
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Post by Dominique on Oct 4, 2006 22:35:01 GMT -5
is Susanna Moodie the woman Margaret Atwood sort of has a bit of a go at in Alias Grace for being inaccurate or for manipulating the facts or something of that murder case? It was some prominent real life Canadian woman writer or journalist or something... the name sounds familiar.
I'm about 50 pages through The Diary of Anne Frank
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Oct 5, 2006 6:42:21 GMT -5
Yep, she's the one but I haven't read Atwood's novel so I can't really comment on it. I'm adding it to my list of books to read, though!
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Post by Dominique on Oct 5, 2006 6:47:23 GMT -5
it's been awhile since I've read it, I have a copy here I think she drew a bit of her research from Moodie's "Life in the Clearings".
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Post by bookaddict on Oct 5, 2006 13:59:31 GMT -5
For my African-American lit class...i'm reading Souls of Black Folk. I just finished reading Kindred by Octavia Butler. It was a great book! highly recommended. Since i'm in university and have to read to much school work, I haven't had personal reading in a long time. I take summer courses too!
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Oct 5, 2006 14:53:26 GMT -5
For my African-American lit class...i'm reading Souls of Black Folk. I just finished reading Kindred by Octavia Butler. It was a great book! highly recommended. Since i'm in university and have to read to much school work, I haven't had personal reading in a long time. I take summer courses too! You're studying English lit? Which university do you go to? Oh, and welcome to the board Great to see someone else from Quebec on here!
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Post by bookaddict on Oct 5, 2006 16:46:53 GMT -5
"You're studying English lit? Which university do you go to? Oh, and welcome to the board Great to see someone else from Quebec on here!"
I go to Concordia University...i'm studying History too...I'm doing a joint-specialization in English and history
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holliday
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Post by holliday on Oct 5, 2006 22:43:01 GMT -5
I'm currently reading two books from the Rory's book club list, A Confederacy Of Dunces and Fat Land. The latter I'm actually using as a source for a research paper on the blame of the fast food industry in America's rising obesity rate.
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