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The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History av Linda Colley
In a Summer Season (Virago Modern Classics) av Elisabeth Russell Taylor
Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties av Mike Marqusee
Native speaker av Chang-rae Lee
Flesh and Blood av Michele Roberts
Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form av Marina Warner
On Living in an Old Country av Patrick Wright
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GrupperAll Books Africa, Amateur Historians, Arabic, North African and Middle Eastern Literature, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Atwoodians, Can you recommend....., Cheese!, Chinese American History, Cinebooks, City-Related Books — visa alla grupper
FavoritförfattareMargaret Atwood, Elizabeth Bowen, Angela Carter, Sarah Caudwell, Jenny Diski, Patricia Duncker, Michael Frayn, Linda Grant, Gish Jen, Andrew Miller, David Mitchell, Haruki Murakami, Jeff Noon, Victor Pelevin, Salman Rushdie, Jane Stevenson, Sarah Waters (Delade favoriter)
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Om mig 
Om mitt bibliotek I started using Bookmooch as a way of noting down all the books I read this year. Then it got addictive... first I started adding books in my permanent collection (I tend to give books away, unless I really like them); then books on my wishlist; and then books that I could remember reading, but have given away. On the positive side, I can't think of any more categories of books which I could add (and if you can, please don't tell me!)
My rating system:
5* or 4*, would happily recommend
3* and 2.5, I enjoyed - wouldn't recommend but wouldn't warn you off either
2*, I didn't think much of, definitely wouldn't read again
1*, hated
Currently part way through:
Scar Vegas by Tom Paine
Perfection Salad by Laura Shapiro
The Mammaries of the Welfare State by Upamanyu Chatterjee
Next up:
The Solitude of Thomas Cave by Georgina Harding
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin
Peacemakers by Margaret Macmillan
Shake Hands With The Devil by Romeo Dallaire
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gary
inlägg gjort av paladin vid 2:50 pm (EST) Sep 7, 2008
You are a member of some really interesting groups, a few for me to check out, and I thought I'd already found all those that I'd like.
inlägg gjort av reading_fox vid 11:19 am (EST) Sep 3, 2008
inlägg gjort av Kizzie vid 4:06 pm (EST) Sep 1, 2008
I'd highly recommend Southern Fried Rice is you have an interest in a memoir of a man who grew up in a Chinese laundry in Macon, GA, mid-20th century. As I said, I'm working on a history of Maine's Chinese and I found this memoir of a person who grew up Chinese far away from a Chinatown or cohesive Chinese community interesting both in itself and as a comparison to the situation here in Maine.
gary
inlägg gjort av paladin vid 3:55 pm (EST) Aug 31, 2008
gary w. libby
inlägg gjort av paladin vid 11:09 am (EST) Aug 30, 2008
I read Alms in the order published, the order, that is, the order in which they are printed in the three volume set, and didn't find it to be a problem at all. I'm not sure anything would be gained (or lost) by reading them in chronological order.
Best,
David
inlägg gjort av dcozy vid 7:01 pm (EST) Aug 1, 2008
inlägg gjort av sussabmax vid 11:12 am (EST) Jul 13, 2008
Would you mind terribly if I took you up on your offer of a paper copy instead?
As far as where to send it, I can send you the address, but I don't think I can accept packages there until September. Maybe I should message you when the date gets closer?
I feel this is all getting rather complicated. Let me know what works for you.
~Mona
inlägg gjort av monarchi vid 6:18 pm (EST) Jun 21, 2008
I'm glad to hear it comes so highly recommended.
~Mona
inlägg gjort av monarchi vid 1:47 pm (EST) Jun 20, 2008
inlägg gjort av thetometraveller vid 12:57 am (EST) Jun 20, 2008
Do you still have the copy of Running in the Family listed on your Book Mooch account? I fell in love with Ondaatje when I read Anil's Ghost a few months ago...I'd love to read more.
I'm heading to the post office today. I think it should take 6-10 business days for the book to get to you.
Enjoy!
Mona
inlägg gjort av monarchi vid 12:12 pm (EST) Jun 16, 2008
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6201...
I see a "wanderingstar" on BookCrossing who lives in Sri Lanka. I'm thinking that is not you!
inlägg gjort av SqueakyChu vid 6:37 pm (EST) Jun 8, 2008
I'm in the US but would be glad to send it along anywhere it needs to go, please add me to the list! Thank you!
Carey
inlägg gjort av thetometraveller vid 10:48 pm (EST) Jun 5, 2008
inlägg gjort av sussabmax vid 6:35 pm (EST) Jun 5, 2008
I would be interested in The End of Mr Y. I'm not a member of bookcrossing, so let me know....
Carey
inlägg gjort av thetometraveller vid 10:36 pm (EST) Jun 4, 2008
Thank you! I'll start adding them in now.
inlägg gjort av InigoMontoya vid 7:56 am (EST) May 19, 2008
inlägg gjort av avaland vid 9:24 am (EST) May 17, 2008
inlägg gjort av InigoMontoya vid 8:49 am (EST) May 9, 2008
inlägg gjort av Irisheyz77 vid 10:22 am (EST) Apr 12, 2008
inlägg gjort av megwaiteclayton vid 6:07 pm (EST) Apr 6, 2008
inlägg gjort av avaland vid 8:33 am (EST) Mar 23, 2008
inlägg gjort av avaland vid 8:30 am (EST) Mar 23, 2008
I'm happy to elaborate on Mary Butts' work to the best of my ability. I can certainly see how my rather gnomic pronouncement on her Taverner novels might have left you wondering whether she's an author worth checking out or one better avoided at all costs! ;-)
I did end up adding 'Armed with Madness' (but not the second Taverner novel, 'The Death of Felicity Taverner') to my year-end top 10 and, while I can't unequivocally recommend it to every reader (those who don't like modernism, literary landscape-painting, or Grail mysticism are best warned off), I think it's a remarkable work, one of great beauty and great strangeness, albeit annoying and exasperating as all hell.
Virginia Woolf termed 'Armed with Madness' "indecent", not because of anything explicitly sexual or socially unseemly in the book, but simply because it was so over-the-top: heavily laden with swoony Grail mysticism, just barely suppressed male-male desire and XX exclusionary homosociality, childishly naive and viciously ugly theories of culture and class (embodied more explicitly and less acceptably in the second Taverner novel, where genuine anti-Semitism is rife), and many long passages elaborately painting landscapes of an idyllic Southern England that never was. The book begins with stand-ins for Adam and Eve (and their friend, Steve ;-)), sunning themselves by the sea, naked, sexless and without sin, and ends with a quite literal crucifixion. It's some seriously weird stuff-I certainly get where Woolf was coming from. But 'Armed with Madness' is also occasionally exquisitely written and compulsively readable. As annoyed as I often was (and was I ever!), I found I couldn't put the book down and had to keep reading to the end.
I'm not sure how illuminating the novel will be if you're only seeking to understand a rural, Southern England long gone (you may want to check out Butts' memoir of her childhood and youth, 'The Crystal Cabinet', instead), but if you enjoy high modernism, lush language, and a curiously hard-eyed, very 20th century pagan sensibility, than I think you might like Mary Butts and even 'Armed with Madness'.
Kind regards,
MT
P.S. If you like historical novels of any kind, but especially those given to introspection in the vein of Broch's 'Death of Virgil' and Yourcenar's 'Memoirs of Hadrian', as well as Lagerkvist's work, I highly recommend reading Butts' two late historical novels: 'The Macedonian' (about Alexander the Great) and 'Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra'. They're both truly superb and I really wish she'd written more like this.
inlägg gjort av marietherese vid 1:09 am (EST) Mar 9, 2008
Cheers,
Karen
inlägg gjort av kiwidoc vid 10:55 am (EST) Mar 2, 2008
I recently joined the All Books Africa Group. As a publisher who has just released a novel about the Angolan Civil War, I thought it might be worth bringing to your attention. Ondjaki's Good morning Comrades has just been released (indeed, i'm not sure amazon has changed it status yet). Ondjaki is a Lusophone writer of international reputation, and our edition of Good morning Comrades introduces him to an English speaking audience for the first time. It will not be the last: Aflame Books in the UK is set to release his fable The Whistler, and I know New Directions is also looking at publishing something by him soon. We expect he will become one of the most celebrated African novelists of his generation.
Anyway, if you would like further information on Comrades, you can chcekc out our website at www.biblioasis.com. It is also available online on amazon and elsewhere, and available through any good bookstore.
Thansk for your time, and I do hope that this was not too intrusive. (We're a small literary press based in Canada, and we're just trying to do whatever we can to let potential readers know about the book.
Best wishes,
Dan Wells
inlägg gjort av biblioasis vid 10:04 pm (EST) Feb 29, 2008
Cheers,
Karen
inlägg gjort av kiwidoc vid 11:29 am (EST) Feb 20, 2008
inlägg gjort av poetontheone vid 9:19 pm (EST) Feb 14, 2008
-kate
inlägg gjort av library_kate vid 10:23 pm (EST) Jan 3, 2008
Thanks for your comments about Virginia Woolf's the Waves. I'm putting it aside to read at the end of next term (I'll get to it in mid-April, I hope). From what you said, it sounds totally intriguing.
inlägg gjort av Nickelini vid 6:36 pm (EST) Dec 27, 2007
inlägg gjort av library_kate vid 12:13 am (EST) Dec 19, 2007
inlägg gjort av library_kate vid 4:54 pm (EST) Dec 18, 2007
Happy holidays,
É.
inlägg gjort av elenasimona vid 2:35 am (EST) Dec 18, 2007
inlägg gjort av Bookful vid 2:50 am (EST) Dec 7, 2007
inlägg gjort av Bookful vid 2:41 am (EST) Dec 7, 2007
inlägg gjort av elle.wilson vid 9:04 pm (EST) Dec 3, 2007
inlägg gjort av varielle vid 10:01 am (EST) Nov 8, 2007
inlägg gjort av avaland vid 7:18 pm (EST) Oct 29, 2007
Have you started your own 'read around the world' thread on Reading Globally? Could be fun! I'm not really committed to reading a book from every country so that's why I haven't bothered to start one. Perhaps at some later date.
Best, Lois
inlägg gjort av avaland vid 5:50 pm (EST) Oct 28, 2007
inlägg gjort av _Zoe_ vid 12:08 pm (EST) Oct 28, 2007
I haven't read The Guards yet, so I can't comment on it. I enjoyed London Bridges though and that led me to Simon Raven, as a blurb on the cover compared the two, but I can't say that I saw the similarity, except perhaps in Roses of Picardy. I think Andrew Taylor's MacDougal books have a little of the same vibe.
inlägg gjort av quartzite vid 12:08 pm (EST) Oct 27, 2007
In response to your suggestions of Funny Boy, well, it's funny that you mention it. I keep picking it up at the bookstore, but I'm trying to buy fewer books, so it keeps getting back on the shelves somehow. I have Cinnamon Gardens, by the same author, packed in my suitcase for my upcoming trip to Maui. I like to read books set in the tropics when I'm in the tropics.
Thanks for your message.
inlägg gjort av Nickelini vid 12:19 pm (EST) Oct 4, 2007
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Gerald
inlägg gjort av botanica vid 3:16 am (EST) Sep 24, 2007
Botanica
Gerald
Sintra, Portugal
inlägg gjort av botanica vid 5:37 pm (EST) Sep 21, 2007