There is a shortage of "r"s in Ireland these days???Originally Posted by Niamh
Also added to my list:
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
There is a shortage of "r"s in Ireland these days???
Also added to my list:
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Oops!!!There is a shortage of "r"s in Ireland these days???
Also added to my list:
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
"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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Would have to be some of the volumes of poetry by Thylias Moss.
It is a book about books, about stories, ultimately telling the story of a life. This is metafiction. How can you write about fairy tales without, well, talking about fairy tales?
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
Agreed.Plus, most of those fairy tales were adapted from local oral tales anyway, so it's not like they were original the first (written) time 'round! I read that book only recently and loved it, surprising myself--I skirted around the title for a while until I finally tried it.
'...A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.' --Dr. Mortimer, The Hound of the Baskervilles
Yes but there where things in that book that plageries NON fairytale books. Thats what i mean.
"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
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
"Quartered Safe Out Here" by George McDonald Fraser. Best "memoir-book" I've read from WW2, or at least it's up there with "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa" by E.B. Sledge
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
We Need to Talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver
Hearts in Atlantis - Stephen King
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
About a Boy - Nick Hornby
Currently Reading:
The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Volume 1 - Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Song for Night - Chris Abani
I really haven't read that many books published after 1985, but from the ones I have read I think "Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami is my favorite. I also liked his "Sputnik Sweetheart".
I would have to say Shadow of the Wind.
"So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss, and my heart turns violently inside of my chest, I don't have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way....He loves us..."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5xXowT4eJjY
I not long ago read The Road that would have to be on my list. As well as Across the nightingale floor and to many more to list.
My favourite is "The Queen of South" by Arturo Perez Reverte. I think it's one of the most well written books I have ever read, it combines action and emotion. Good descriptions and nicely developed characters whom I just came to love even if I did not identify with any of them. A one-of-a kind book by a very skillful writer who has the talent to turn common "everyday" characters to something unique focusing in an almost poetic way on every little detail of their psyche. I am highly recommending it....
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