The Year of Living Bibically by A.J. Jacobs
It was funny and interesting. Not one of my favorites, but still a good read. I owe 3$ because of it.![]()
The Year of Living Bibically by A.J. Jacobs
It was funny and interesting. Not one of my favorites, but still a good read. I owe 3$ because of it.![]()
'The Devil to Pay in the Backlands' (Grande Sertão: Veredas) - Guimarães Rosa
I'm almost finishing, but I can say already, this is one of the better books I've ever read.
''The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.'' - Aristotle
Ive got 32 out at the moment, sadly not a single one was any goodIm just having a bad book couple of weeks...
oh wait no I lie the 2 hendee people vampire/elf series is good...I read all of that over the last few weeks, just waiting for the next one to come out, then I also reade Kelley Armstrong's No Humans involved and exit strtegy...which annoyed me because it was really good and then shes not writing the second one till next sept.
OH Jullliet Marilliers's Wildwood Dancing finally manged to sit down and read that, good too.
SO maybe not so much that all the other thiings Ive got out are bad its just Im in a scifi/fantasy mood and Ive read almost everything we stock..
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"The time has come," the Walrus said,"To talk of many things:
Forum Rules- You know you want to read 'em
|Litnet Challange status = 5/260
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Daisy Miller and other stories by Henry James. I actually have my own copy but it's back there at my mother's house which is some 11,000 km away!
Ususally if I borrow from the library, it's to listen to books on cd while I'm driving. Right now, I'm listening to 1776 by David McCollough. It's extremely interesting. I'm learning tons about the Revolutionary War that I never knew before and it gives me a new perspective on it.
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,/Þeodcuninga þrum gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,/ monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,/ egsode eorlas, syððan ærest wearð/ feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,/ weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,/ oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra/ofer hronrade hyran scolde,/gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!
I popped into the library today and borrowed three books.
1. "Postcards from the Bed" - by Marian Keyes
2. "The Lovely Bones" - by Alice Sebold
3. "1984" - by George Orwell
- Slow Man ~ J M Coetzee
- A long, Fatal Love Chase ~ L M Alcott
- All Things Bright and Beautiful ~ James Herriot
Calvin: You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic.
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"The time has come," the Walrus said,"To talk of many things:
Forum Rules- You know you want to read 'em
|Litnet Challange status = 5/260
|currently reading
Today I went to the library and got Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee.
im sad to say that i dont really check out the library for its full potential-- i jknow what genre i like and go straight there without checking anything else. last book i got was "i'd tell you i love you, but then i'd have to kill you". it was cute... next time i go, ill probably get a whole stack of vampire books. i feel deprived of vampires.
Death plucks my ear and says,
"Live---- I am coming."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
I currently have checked out:
Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Sold by Patricia McCormick
My Brother's Keeper by Patricia McCormick
Cut by Patricia McCormick
Natasha-so many books, so little time
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Its been two years since I've been back to the library... I took out a book about The History of Japan and Renaissance/Baroque Art. Vague, but hey it was two years ago..
Today I took out:
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Soie (Silk) by Alessandro Baricco