Indeed, but I shall stick to my original question for I would love to hear his reply...Originally Posted by Niamh
his witty banter amuses me a great deal.
Indeed, but I shall stick to my original question for I would love to hear his reply...
"Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day"
Oscar Wilde [The Picture of Dorian Gray]
Oh i've heard it before.
Went something along the lines of how do you know i'm not a woman yada yada yada.... He'll then try to convince you he is but it wont work. Just mention Madhuri Dixit.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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Hahaha he won't be quite so pathetic as to use that argument again, specially now he has met his match when it comes to online-warOh i've heard it before.
Went something along the lines of how do you know i'm not a woman yada yada yada.... He'll then try to convince you he is but it wont work. Just mention Madhuri Dixit.
"Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day"
Oscar Wilde [The Picture of Dorian Gray]
I am in love with J K RowlingAwwh Lote, a fellow Harry Potter nerd
Deathly Hallows - Snape's Redemption through unrequited love I think is very touching but I love them all just as I love J K RowlingWhich one is your favourite though?
A boyfreind? No. I have loads. Don't you?I'm sure they do have girlfriends/boyfriends...
Do you have a boyfriend Lote?
With your "Book Whacking Syndrome" perhaps not I guess? ;-)
But I love women. You can argue with them and they will not rip your head off! Then again perhaps I have found one that whacks you with a book when she loses
I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell :"
Blog: Rubaiyats of Lote-Tree and Poetry and Tales
Hey Lote, which Murakami books have you read so far? I got book tokens off my Mum for my birthday and am finally going to purchase Sputnik Sweetheart (grr, it's never in the library!) which is one of the few Murakami books I haven't yet read. I know you've read this one - have you worked your way through any of the others yet?
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You are the extremist of bookworms and you still you have nothing to do!Hah.
I have boyfriend and friends, I go out and that going out is not limited to weekends (au contraire...
Even though when all written down this sounds like I am busy, I constantly have a feeling of dolce far niente in my life, and of spending too much time essentially doing nothing and hanging in pubs with my friends. Life is good.
Ah I see. But still thats a one looooooooooooong reading list. Even in my best years as student I could not have managed thatBut then again, I never study, and I bring books to read to school instead of listening to lectures, so that might be the reason why I manage to read a lot.
I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell :"
Blog: Rubaiyats of Lote-Tree and Poetry and Tales
I'll post my reading of this past year later when I can dig ouot my list, but I must say I'm in awe of the extent of the reading some of you have listed above. And so far all ladies. My list will be quite humble. Great reading ladies.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
This year I didn't read as many books as usually, but then I had my matriculation examinations last spring and in the autumn I started my studies in university and moved to another town, so I've had pretty much to do besides reading books.'
Books I read in 2007 in the order I read them:
Anu Jaantila - Jenkkivuosi
Anu Jaantila - Dear Sanna
Anu Jaantila - Love, Sam
L. M. Montgomery - The Blue Castle
Jane Austen - Kasvattitytön tarina (Mansfield Park)
Astrid Lindgren - Peppi Pitkätossu (Pippi Långstrump, Pippi Longstocking)
Louisa M. Alcott - Naamion takana - Kootut kertomukset (short stories)
Rhian Tracey - Neljän tytön kirjakimppa
Max Barry - Jennifer Valtiovalta (Jennifer Government)
Marilyn Kaye - Kloonisota (War of the Clones)
Marilyn Kaye - Amyn Kohtalo (Amy on Her Own)
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sergeanne Golon - Kreivitär Angelika (Angélique et le nouveau monde, The Countess Angélique)
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter och Fenixorden (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)
Michelle Magorian - A Spoonful of Jam
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter ja puoliverinen prinssi (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
Anya Seton - Green Darkness
William Golding - Kärpästen herra (The Lord of the Flies)
Tracy Chevalier - Pudonneet enkelit (Falling Angels)
Patrick Süskind - Parfyymi - Erään murhaajan tarina (Das Parfum - Die Geschichte eines Mörders, Perfume - The Story of a Murderer)
Tuija Lehtinen - Laura, sua kaipaan
Jane Austen - Neito vanhassa linnassa (Northanger Abbey)
Tuija Lehtinen - Siivet varpaiden välissä
Caroline Courtney - Päävoittona rakkaus (A Wager for Love)
Paula Havaste - Kymmenen onnen Anna
Paula Havaste - Kotasavun Marja
Lewis Carrol - Liisa ihmemaassa (Alice in Wonderland)
Dan Brown - Enkelit ja demonit (Angels and Demons)
Donna Woolfolk Cross - Paavi Johanna (Pope Joan)
Daniel Defoe - Ruttovuosi (A Journal of the Plague Year)
Paula Havaste - Lapinmaan Nilla
Isabel Allende - Zorron tarina (El Zorro, comienza la leyenda, Zorro)
Sergeanne Golon - Angelikan kiusaus (La tentation d'Angélique, The Temptation of Angélique)
L. M. Montgomery - Sininen linna (The Blue Castle)
Torey Hayden - Hiljaisuuden lapset (Twilight Children)
Jane Austen - Uskolliset ystävänne - Kootut kertomukset (short stories)
Paulo Coelho - Zahir (O Zahir, The Zahir)
William Shakespeare - Macbeth
John Fischer - Tule takaisin, Ben (Saint Ben)
Ann Brashares - Girls in Pants
Ann Turnbull - No Shame, No Fear
Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony
William Shakespeare - Mitta mitasta (Measure for Measure)
Torey Hayden - Auringonkukkametsä (The Sunflower Forest)
Madeleine Brent - Tuulentavoittelijan morsian (Moonraker's Bride)
Ilmari Kelo - Tulta ja tuulta
James Houston - Aavekettu (Ghost Fox)
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Michelle Magorian - Hemlängtan (Back Home)
Jane Austen - Järki ja tunteet (Sense and Sensibility)
Caroline Courtney - Naamioitu rakastettu (Love Unmasked)
Sophia Kinsella - The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
Ann Brashares - Neljä tyttöä - Ikuisesti ystäviä (Forever in Blue - The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood)
Sophia Kinsella - Shopaholic Abroad
Anni Polva - Kelpaanko sinulle?
L. M. Montgomery - Tiedän salaisuuden (short stories)
Tuija Lehtinen - Ikkunaprinsessa
Anni Polva - Älähän pyristele, kultaseni
Tuija Lehtinen - Ruusunnuppu
Ted Dekker & Frank Peretti - House
Anni Polva - Odotahan, mokoma!
Roald Dahl - Helppo nakki (short stories)
Frances Hodgson Burnett - Den hemlighetsfulla Trädgården (The Secret Garden)
Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was golden as the sun's rays and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes.
Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
Greetings
The following are the works I read in Dec. For some odd reason this site will not let me post in the same format as my index.
jeff
December Reading
Novels
TITLE AUTHOR WHERE READ RATING
Out of Their Minds Clifford D. Simak HC, LB 8
The Accidental Time Machine Joe Haldelman HC, LB 9
Mount Dragon Preston/Child SC, LB 8
Go Tell It On The Mountain James Baldwin HC, LB 9
Nine Princes in Amber Roger Zelazny HC, LB 8
SHORT FICTION
Split Cherry Tree Jesse Stuart OL, SSOTD 8
Bliss Katherine Mansfield OL, SSOTD 5
The Gift of the Magi O. Henry OL, SSOTD 9
The Devil and Tom Walker Washington Irving OL, SSOTD 8
To Build a Fire Jack London OL, SSOTD 9
The Man Who Loved Islands D. H. Lawrence The Complete Short Stories Volume 3, SC 8
Delivered with Feeling Lawrence A Perkins Analog, July 1965 7
Forest Of Evil John Murray Reynolds Weird Tales, April 1938 8
The Mockingbird Ambrose Bierce OL, SSOTD 9
How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar Bret Harte OL, SSOTD 8
The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe OL, SSOTD 9
The Outcasts of Poker Flat Bret Harte http://www.americanliterature.com. 8
Charley's Partner Murray Leinster Short Stories, Dec.10th 1935 7
The King Of The Sharks Captain J. M. Ellrich Short Stories, Dec.10th 1935 7
A Burglar's Christmas Willa Sibert Cather OL, SSOTD 7
Was it Heaven? Or Hell? Mark Twain http://www.americanliterature.com. 8
A Burlesque Biography Mark Twain http://www.americanliterature.com. 8
Rocking-Horse Winner D.H. Lawrence OL, SSOTD 9
The Toys of Peace H.H. Munro (SAKI) OL, SSOTD 8
The Living Eyes Justin Dowling Weird Tales, May 1953 7
The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allen Poe OL, SSOTD 9
Regret Kate Chopin OL, SSOTD 9
soupstone Gordon R. Dickson Analog, July 1965 8
The Piece Of String Guy De Maupassant OL, SSOTD 9
Ethan Brand Nathaniel Hawthorne OL, SSOTD 7
The First Christmas Tree Henry Van Dyke OL, SSOTD 8
Thank You, M'am Langston Hughes OL, SSOTD 9
The Beggar Anton Chekhov OL, SSOTD 7
Shooting an Elephant George Orwell OL, SSOTD 10
In The Light Of Further Data Christopher Anvil Analog, July 1965 8
Though A Sparrow Fell Schott Nichols Analog, July 1965 6
The Gay Old Dog Edna Ferber OL, SSOTD 10
The Ransom of Red Chief O. Henry http://www.americanliterature.com. 10
The Hiding Of Black Bill O. Henry http://www.americanliterature.com. 8
The Higher Abdication O. henry http://www.americanliterature.com. 8
The Christmas Wreck Frank Stockton OL, SSOTD 7
The Knocker Zane Grey http://www.americanliterature.com. 7
The White People Arthur Machen http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/whtpeopl.htm 7
The Shadow Out of Time H.P. Lovecraft http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600031h.html#10 8
Bertie's Christmas Eve H.H. Munro (SAKI) OL, SSOTD 7
Job Security Joe Haldeman None So Blind, HC LB 8
The Unnamable H.P. Lovecraft The Lurking Fear And Other Stories PB 8
The Outsider H.P. Lovecraft The Lurking Fear And Other Stories PB 9
The Phoenix On The sword Robert E. Howard King Conan HC 9
Reginald's Christmas Revel H.H. Munro (SAKI) OL, SSOTD 9
A Troublesome Visitor Anton Chekhov OL, SSOTD 7
The Story of a Poker Steer Andy Adams OL, SSOTD 7
The Egg Sherwood Anderson OL, SSOTD 7
Prize Money W. W. Jacobs OL, SSOTD 7
THE SCREAMING OF THE FISH Vincent W. Sakowski http://www.bizarrocentral.com/fictio...sp?fictionID=5 8
TOREADOR... D. Harlan Wilson http://www.bizarrocentral.com/fictio...sp?fictionID=7 8
THE MET ARE ALL FOR THIS Steve Aylett http://www.bizarrocentral.com/fictio...sp?fictionID=8 6
"Lennie said, "I thought you was mad at me, George."
"No," said George. "No Lennie. I ain't mad. I never been mad, an' I ain't now. Thats a thing I want ya to know."
Greetings
It came out better then I thought It woukd it woud be.
SSOTD=Short Story Of the Day, this is a great service, a story a day via email or home page. To check it out visit the following.
http://www.amlit.com/
Enjoy the new year.
Jeff
"Lennie said, "I thought you was mad at me, George."
"No," said George. "No Lennie. I ain't mad. I never been mad, an' I ain't now. Thats a thing I want ya to know."
Poor Jessica... You heartbreaker!I am in love with J K Rowling
I totally agree, I loved reading about Snape's past and really felt for him - unrequited love is hard. Plus Neville became the herbology teacherDeathly Hallows - Snape's Redemption through unrequited love I think is very touching but I love them all just as I love J K Rowling
They will not rip your head off? Hmm... an interesting concept.A boyfreind? No. I have loads. Don't you?
With your "Book Whacking Syndrome" perhaps not I guess? ;-)
But I love women. You can argue with them and they will not rip your head off! Then again perhaps I have found one that whacks you with a book when she loses
Hahaha Lote, I never lose my friend and if I ever should I would accept it gracefully
"Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day"
Oscar Wilde [The Picture of Dorian Gray]
My love is like the Ocean...Poor Jessica... You heartbreaker!
But where is your reading list? It's OK Mr. Men books can also be listed
I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell :"
Blog: Rubaiyats of Lote-Tree and Poetry and Tales
Hahahaha! Very funnyBut where is your reading list? It's OK Mr. Men books can also be listed
Okay I shall post my reading list just to satisfy you...
Julia Quinn
The Bridgerton Series
The Duke and I
The Viscount Who Loved Me
An Offer From A Gentleman (x2)
Romancing Mister Bridgerton
To Sir Phillip, With Love
When He Was Wicked
It's In His Kiss
On the Way to the Wedding
The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever
J.K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (x3)
Ian Mcewen
Atonement
On Chesil Beach
Cecilia Ahern
P.S. I love you
Suzanna Phillips
Miss America
Mary Shelly
Frankenstein
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Northanger Abbey
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (well it was Christmas...)
Alexandra Potter
Me and Mr. Darcy
Currently Reading...
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
(That is from what I can remember anyway :S)
"Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day"
Oscar Wilde [The Picture of Dorian Gray]
Where do you people find the time?!!! I'm really impressed by some of the lists I've looked at (which is excellent, because I can now get titles from to add to my ever expanding 'to-read' list!
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain
Hahahaha! Very funny
Okay I shall post my reading list just to satisfy you...
Mary Shelly
Frankenstein
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (well it was Christmas...)
Currently Reading...
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
(That is from what I can remember anyway :S)
Good ones there LadyW I have read them all off course!
I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell :"
Blog: Rubaiyats of Lote-Tree and Poetry and Tales
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