Im trying to make a list of books as in novels, about books, writing bookshops or reading.
84, Charing cross road
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Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach
Id be exctremly grateful for any more ideas thanks
Im trying to make a list of books as in novels, about books, writing bookshops or reading.
84, Charing cross road
Possession As byatt
The reading Group
Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach
Id be exctremly grateful for any more ideas thanks
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Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
This is a very enjoyable book. It's about a group of young women in Iran who got together to read some of the great classics of western literature that were banned under the oppressive regime, at the risk of their lives and freedom. They met in secrecy at a former mutual professor of theirs (Azar Nafisi), who quit/was fired from a university in Tehran for not wearing a veil and insiting to teach books that were conisdered criminal to read, such as Nabokov's Lolita.
It's non-fiction but I think you'd still enjoy it.
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Cakes and Ale - Somerset Maugham
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Voices mysterious far and near,
Sound of the wind and sound of the sea,
Are calling and whispering in my ear,
Whifflingpin! Why stayest thou here?
If on a winter's night a traveller - italo calvino
Northanger Abby - Jane Austen (I haven't read it but I think it is)
I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...
Fahrenheit 451.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
The Hours by Michael Cunningham, The Professor And The Madman by Simon Winchester, and an unmentionable number of Greek and Roman plays continue off each other's stories (Homer's The Iliad --> Virgil's The Æneid, for one example).
The Dante Club, by Matthew Pearl
"... I TAKE ON RESPONSIBILITY. I HIDE MYSELF FROM NO ONE. I AM ON MY PATH... I WON'T LET MY FOCUS CHANGE, TAKING OUT THE DEMONS IN MY RANGE ("The Warrior's Reminder". E.B.)"
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet, a short story by Stephen King, it´s a tale told by the narrator about a writer who became mad, and started to see and listen to "small creatures" who lived inside his typewriter. A very interesting story, that´s what I could remember by now. If I remember other stories, I´ll come back
"It´s our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"
Albus Dumbledore, in HP and the Chamber of Secrets - J K Rowling
My crafts website (in Portuguese): www.terracotabolsas.com
Thankyou everyone, this is all great stuff!
thanks again
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I have this at home, but I have only read until second chapter. Perhaps, you could give a brief review that would encourage me to restart and finish it ?Originally Posted by Bastet
I think your list will end up being rather long, Nightshade.
However, having just read a Philip K. Dick biography, the first novel to come to my mind was Dick's The Man in the High Castle. Without giving too much away, it is set in the early 1960s in a world where the Axis have won the Second World War. One of the central themes of the novel is a novel-within-a-novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, which depicts a fictional world of the early 1960s where in fact the Allies won the Second World War.
Check out Auto-da-Fe by Elias Canetti. It's about a reclusive man who lives for his books and has his world shattered by his inability to balance the mode of his existence and fend off the negative aspects of the everyday world.
Thats ok Im making up a list for the reading group I used to manage as well as a library service.I think your list will end up being rather long, Nightshade.
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The only thing I can think of is this fictional biography I read recently about Henry James called "The Master" by Colm Toibin. It was a quick and enjoyable read, but I really am no authority on whether it had any sort of accuracy to it or not.
Jasper FForde's series about Thursday Next
Voices mysterious far and near,
Sound of the wind and sound of the sea,
Are calling and whispering in my ear,
Whifflingpin! Why stayest thou here?
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