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  1. Great Expectations

    Having finished off the Sherlock Holmes stories and being too lazy to look up my Keith Laumer books in the Retief series I decided it was time to read a REAL book albeit I had already done this in junior high.

    Great Expecations by Dickens was chosen over David Copperfield and a one page attempt at Waverly by Sir Walter Scoot and a bit of skimming of Ivanhoe to see if the idiot realized REBECCA is the lady he SHOULD have married--nope no change.

    While remembering the ...
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  2. my little vader

    by , 02-22-2012 at 04:23 AM (day in a life)
    today is a big day on the ice, it's Öskudagur (ashwednesday). Every kid dresses up in some costume and sing in stores for candy or something else. My boy went as Darth Vader, he got the costume a year ago but last Christmas his dad gave him a new mask with sound effects. He has never been this quick getting dressed.

    anyway, yesterday he woke up at six in the morning and wanted to make a Doctor who board game. He did, I was very tired all day cause I had been reading the night before ...
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  3. As Things Are Progressing Nicely

    by , 02-21-2012 at 08:41 PM (Barmy Blue's Bland Blog)
    I find myself strangely happy for a change. There's an overall feeling of contentment despite the fact that nothing's really changed since the time I may have felt depresses or just less content. Things are okay.

    Mum's oil draining procedure went well. Apparently they normally discuss the cataract removal by now as well but if the doctors didn't discuss it with her then there's got to be a reason. She has a follow up appointment in 2 weeks, maybe they'll discuss it then. The stitches ...
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  4. Best Books of the New Century

    2008 August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
    2006 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
    2004 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
    2004 2666 by Roberto Bolano
    2004 Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    2004 Wolf Totem by Lu Jiamin
    2003 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
    2003 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
    2002 Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
    2002 The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard
    2001 The ...

    Updated 02-20-2012 at 06:40 AM by mortalterror

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  5. 15th Century Literature

    1405 Book of the City of Ladies by Christine De Pizan
    1420 The Siege of Thebes by John Lydgate
    1424 La Belle Dame sans Merci by Alain Chartier
    1428 Book 13 of the Aeneid by Maffeo Vegio
    1440 Poems by Charles Duke of Orleans
    1461 Ballad of the Dead Ladies by Francois Villon
    1476 Stanzas on His Father's Death by Jorge Manrique
    1480 Manto by Poliziano
    1482 Khamsa by Ali-Shir Nava'i
    1483 Morgante by Luigi Pulci
    1485 Le Morte D'Arthur ...
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