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Post by Lu on Jan 4, 2010 16:20:20 GMT -5
I returned 31 Songs last week and I got Shakespeare: the world as stage by Bill Bryson.
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Rubina
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Post by Rubina on Jan 13, 2010 16:34:09 GMT -5
I got: Aunts aren´t Gentlemen (P.G. Wodehouse) Nightwatch (Sarah Waters) Strong Poison (Dorothy L. Sayers)
and a couple of DVDs Weeds season 2 St. Trinian´s Glen or Glenda The Marx Brothers in the opera
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Post by randomgirl on Jan 14, 2010 12:00:56 GMT -5
I got The Picture She Took by Fiona Shaw and Atonement by Ian McEwan. I've been wanting to read Atonement for such a long time now and finally it was available at the library!
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Post by Lu on Jan 23, 2010 8:40:52 GMT -5
I recently got Italia Segreta, Viaggio nel Sottosuolo da Palermo a Torino by Mario Tozzi (An underground travel from Palermo to Torino), it's about catacombs, tunnels and ancient cities, it sounds interesting.
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Post by Rubina on Jan 27, 2010 11:23:32 GMT -5
It does sound interesting! I got as much as I could cram into my bag Books: Pop Co (Scarlett Thomas) Carry On, Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse) The Vesuvius Club (Mark Gatiss) And Now You Can Go (Vendela Vida) Man Walks Into a Room (Nicole Krauss) Olive Knitteridge (Elizabeth Strout) What Was Lost (Catherine O´Flynn) DVDs: The Royle Family The League of Gentlemen- season 2 The Office- season 3 Spooks- season 3
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Post by Lu on Jan 31, 2010 4:22:17 GMT -5
I got as much as I could cram into my bag Books: Pop Co (Scarlett Thomas) Carry On, Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse) The Vesuvius Club (Mark Gatiss) And Now You Can Go (Vendela Vida) Man Walks Into a Room (Nicole Krauss) Olive Knitteridge (Elizabeth Strout) What Was Lost (Catherine O´Flynn) DVDs: The Royle Family The League of Gentlemen- season 2 The Office- season 3 Spooks- season 3 wow I got White Teeth by Zadie Smith yesterday and Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson on Friday
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Post by Lu on Feb 15, 2010 7:50:05 GMT -5
The Uncommon Reader has finally been retuned to library (297 overdue) and I've checked it out.
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Post by Rubina on Feb 21, 2010 9:55:21 GMT -5
The Uncommon Reader has finally been retuned to library (297 overdue) and I've checked it out. Oh yay, hope you like it I checked out Daisy Sisters by Henning Mankell.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2010 2:54:27 GMT -5
I got some really thin book by Tsehov It was called Hepsakka in finnish. The name was so funny I had to get it and some dementia books for my sisters thesis work and some books for my own.
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Post by Lu on Feb 24, 2010 15:49:20 GMT -5
I recently got The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
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Post by Lu on Mar 7, 2010 6:58:57 GMT -5
I got The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend last week.
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Post by Rubina on Apr 9, 2010 14:11:18 GMT -5
Latest library haul (I just got so excited because of finishing all my papers):
The Other Half Lives (Sophie Hannah) Lady Audley´s Secret (Mary Elizabeth Braddon) The Lace Reader (Brunonia Barry) Cider with Rosie (Laurie Lee) Union Street (Pat Barker) The Woman´s Room (Marilyn French) Her Fearful Symmetry (Audrey Niffenegger)
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Post by Rubina on Apr 23, 2010 6:29:29 GMT -5
An Expert in Murder (Nicola Upson) On the Beach (Nevil Shute) A Graveyard for Lunatics (Ray Bradbury) Take the Cannoli (Sarah Vowell) The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam (Lauren Liebenberg) England, England (Julian Barnes)
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Post by Carma on Apr 24, 2010 10:10:12 GMT -5
It does sound interesting! I got as much as I could cram into my bag Books: Pop Co (Scarlett Thomas) Carry On, Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse) The Vesuvius Club (Mark Gatiss) And Now You Can Go (Vendela Vida) Man Walks Into a Room (Nicole Krauss) Olive Knitteridge (Elizabeth Strout) What Was Lost (Catherine O´Flynn) DVDs: The Royle Family The League of Gentlemen- season 2 The Office- season 3 Spooks- season 3 Don't you have a maximum amount of books you can take out? I think I have a 10 books max. bar at my library. I finally took out a book by a Dutch writer! It's Een schitterend gebrek by Arthur Japin. (translated as In Lucia's Eyes) It's about Casanova's first lover, Lucia. It sounds interesting.
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Post by Lu on Apr 25, 2010 15:18:54 GMT -5
I finally took out a book by a Dutch writer! It's Een schitterend gebrek by Arthur Japin. (translated as In Lucia's Eyes) It's about Casanova's first lover, Lucia. It sounds interesting. A book with a Lucia can't help but sounds interesting! ;D I recently got: The Oxford companion to the Bröntes (I thought it might be interesting to find additional informations about Wuthering Heights) Notes from a small island by Bill Bryson Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés Il milione - Quaderno veneziano di Marco Paolini (DVD)
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