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Late Nights on Air av Elizabeth Hay
Wide Sargasso Sea av Jean RHYS
The Bonesetter's Daughter av Amy Tan
The Thirty-Nine Steps av John Buchan
Love in the Time of Cholera av Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Mezzanine av Nicholson Baker
Coming Out of the Ice: An Unexpected Life av Victor Herman
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Bibliotek219 böcker — se bibliotek
Recensioner217 recensioner — se recensioner
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TaggarFiction (136), 2007 (128), 2008 (91), Non-fiction (82), Canadian (71), Favourite authors (25), Biography/memoirs (20), Aboriginal (18), Book Club (17) — se alla taggar
GrupperCanadian Bookworms, Canadian Literature, CBC's Canada Reads Fans, Commodity Histories & Micro-Histories, Non-Fiction Readers, Singleton Showcase (Books!)
Om mig I am an avid reader, and like to keep track of what I've read. I belong to three book clubs: (1) The Administrators' Colloquium which reads books on public policy issues. (2) The Rideau Club book club, which I joined with my husband. I read the books aloud to him while he drives us to and from work. (3) A book club we started at work to ensure that, at least once a month, we got away from our desks at lunch hour.
Om mitt bibliotek I am using LibraryThing to list the books I read. I read 128 books in 2007, and am continuing to list books in 2008.
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Medlem sedanDec 14, 2006
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 LynnB resencerade, betygsatta, tillagda:Joan: The Mysterious Life of the Heretic Who Became a Saint av Donald Spoto (läs recension) |
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So, you are one of the few that understand what it feels like when one loses the ability to read. I also had trouble understanding what others said to me, and I could follow a show on the television. It was difficult for me to talk to others. I just couldn't get the words out and have them mean anything. That all didn't bother me as much as not being able to read. If I had the energy I would have cried.
Both my parents weren't "readers". They had a hard time with my always having a book in my hand and at every chance I would read a bit. They even told their friends that they were worried about me. Lukcy then said reading is a good thing and to let me be. They just didn't "get it" either.
When I was living at home I only read in my bedroom. My parents would say either watch tv or go read in your room. You can't do both. So off to my room I would go.
I can understand missing sharing your books with the ones you love. No gift if better than a book. Forget diamonds and gold, forget trips and clothes, give me a book. I never had the change to share what I read. So many times I wanted to talk about my book with someone, anyone.
In highschool, I met a girl that loved to read as much as I did. I didn't own many books (my parents would say read that book again). She would lend me books and it was so much fun. It was what I had wanted to do for such a long time.
We lost touch and after twenty years I met up with her again. For the last two years we have been sharing books. It's been amazing. I would hate to lose it now that I have experienced it.
I always read during the commercials. Wasn't that why they had commercials?
Hope to keep in touch and maybe one day we will be able to share a book. I would really like that.
Jacqueline
inlägg gjort av callmejacx vid 11:41 am (EST) Aug 9, 2008
inlägg gjort av pdebolt vid 11:25 am (EST) Jul 28, 2008
I combined The World's Shortest Stories such that there are now 114 copies. I separated out The World's Shortest Stories : 55 fiction (2 copies), as the Library of Congress indicates this book came out in 1995, while the other (whether or not it has the full subtitle (Murder, Love, Horror, Suspense, All This and Much More ...). It may be that both books have the same stories, but we don't know. 55 is the number of words in each story. You go to the author page, and then from there you go its combine/separate page. To do this right, I went to Worldcat and Harvard Univ Lib as well as LOC. There is also a work titled "The World's Shortest stories of love and death", also by Steve Moss, which may just be an audio book, and left it separate. (47 copies)
inlägg gjort av vpfluke vid 11:43 pm (EST) Jul 8, 2008
"Theatre Of Fish: Travels In Newfoundland And Labrador" by John Gimlette, a Brit whose great-great grandfather traveled with Wilfred Grenfell in that region in the 1890s.
I found it to be a fascinating read, with lots of historical accounts of the cod industry and its eventual destruction, mistreatment of the indigenous population, Joey Smallwood's impact on the islanders, outport life, etc. The author traveled widely though the region.
I'm a displaced Canadian from northern Ontario (married to an American).
inlägg gjort av tropics vid 1:07 pm (EST) Aug 9, 2007
I also read Wide Sargasso sea following your recommndation, and liked it very much. I like that kind of lush, tropical madness. It reminded a little bit of Kate Chopin's [The Awakening]. Have you read that?
What are you reading at the moment?
Best wishes,
Murr
inlägg gjort av tomcatMurr vid 6:11 am (EST) Apr 2, 2007