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| dai Cottomy | Sep 18 2012, 03:33 PM Post #1 |
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tafkaj Today, 2:24 PM Post #1150 The Glass Bead Game, Hermann Hesse. |
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| Caro | Feb 16 2013, 07:27 AM Post #201 |
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Dreams from My Father - a Story of Race and Inheritance ~ Barack Obama |
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| Mobson | Feb 16 2013, 10:00 AM Post #202 |
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Life with Father ~ Clarence Day |
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| tafkaj | Feb 16 2013, 01:41 PM Post #203 |
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One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. |
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| dai Cottomy | Feb 16 2013, 01:45 PM Post #204 |
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The Day of the Triffids ~ John Wyndham |
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| tafkaj | Feb 16 2013, 01:50 PM Post #205 |
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A Bad Day for Sorry, Sophie Littlefield. |
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| becky sharp | Feb 16 2013, 02:34 PM Post #206 |
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Opus Maledictorum: A Book Of Bad Words ~ Reinhold Aman. |
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| waiting4atickle | Feb 16 2013, 04:10 PM Post #207 |
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A Man For All Seasons ~ Robert Bolt |
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| tafkaj | Feb 19 2013, 03:04 PM Post #208 |
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To Serve Them All My Days, R. F. Delderfield. |
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| Mobson | Feb 21 2013, 10:51 AM Post #209 |
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A Field Book of the Stars ~ William Tyler Olcott |
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| dai Cottomy | Feb 21 2013, 12:13 PM Post #210 |
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A Foreign Field ~ Ben Macintyre |
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| tafkaj | Feb 23 2013, 01:01 PM Post #211 |
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Lew Wallace. |
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| dai Cottomy | Feb 23 2013, 01:09 PM Post #212 |
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Sanders of the River ~ Edgar Wallace |
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| tafkaj | Feb 23 2013, 01:12 PM Post #213 |
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The Anderson Tapes, Lawrence Sanders. |
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| dai Cottomy | Feb 23 2013, 01:15 PM Post #214 |
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Krapp's Last Tape ~ Samuel Beckett |
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| tafkaj | Feb 23 2013, 01:17 PM Post #215 |
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The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper. |
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| dai Cottomy | Feb 23 2013, 01:22 PM Post #216 |
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The Last Days Of Pompeii ~ Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton |
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| tafkaj | Feb 23 2013, 01:26 PM Post #217 |
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Vril: the Power of the Coming Race, Edward Bulwer-Lytton. (From which we get the name Bovril.) |
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| dai Cottomy | Feb 23 2013, 01:31 PM Post #218 |
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The Will to Power ~ Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| tafkaj | Feb 23 2013, 01:32 PM Post #219 |
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The Book of Dave, Will Self. |
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| waiting4atickle | Feb 23 2013, 03:34 PM Post #220 |
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The Divided Self ~ R D Laing |
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| dai Cottomy | Feb 23 2013, 04:49 PM Post #221 |
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The Selfish Giant ~ Oscar Wilde |
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| becky sharp | Feb 23 2013, 04:51 PM Post #222 |
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Deleted ...you beat me to it,dai
Edited by becky sharp, Feb 23 2013, 04:52 PM.
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| becky sharp | Feb 23 2013, 05:56 PM Post #223 |
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Giant ~ Edna Ferber. |
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| dai Cottomy | Feb 23 2013, 06:03 PM Post #224 |
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Sorry about that, Becky - I got gazumped three times the other day. Sometimes it feels quite eery how other people seem to post at exactly the same time. Girl With Green Eyes ~ Edna O'Brien |
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| becky sharp | Feb 28 2013, 02:15 PM Post #225 |
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Not this time,dai ..... Tiger Eyes ~ Judy Blume |
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| Caro | Mar 1 2013, 04:34 AM Post #226 |
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The Tiger Who Came to Tea ~ Judith Kerr (Such an odd book, really, to be still in print years after I used to read it to my kids.) |
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| waiting4atickle | Mar 1 2013, 09:07 AM Post #227 |
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul ~ Douglas Adams |
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| becky sharp | Mar 1 2013, 02:20 PM Post #228 |
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Three Cups Of Tea ~ Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. |
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| dai Cottomy | Mar 1 2013, 02:27 PM Post #229 |
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The Three Musketeers ~ Alexandre Dumas |
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| tafkaj | Mar 5 2013, 03:20 PM Post #230 |
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The Codfish Musket, Agnes Hewes. |
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| dai Cottomy | Mar 5 2013, 03:36 PM Post #231 |
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The Da Vinci Cod: A Fishy Parody ~ Don Brine |
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| Mobson | Mar 6 2013, 12:35 PM Post #232 |
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World ~ Mark Kurlansky ....this is a good book! Edited by Mobson, Mar 6 2013, 12:35 PM.
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| tafkaj | Mar 9 2013, 12:36 PM Post #233 |
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So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, Douglas Adams. |
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| becky sharp | Mar 9 2013, 02:04 PM Post #234 |
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Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish ~ Richard Flanagan |
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| Caro | Mar 13 2013, 09:15 AM Post #235 |
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The Twelve Little Cakes ~ Dominika Devy |
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| waiting4atickle | Mar 13 2013, 10:52 AM Post #236 |
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The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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| dai Cottomy | Mar 13 2013, 11:17 AM Post #237 |
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The Prince And The Pauper ~ Mark Twain |
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| waiting4atickle | Mar 13 2013, 11:57 AM Post #238 |
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Never the Twain Shall Meet: Bell, Gallaudet and the Communications Debate ~ Richard Winefield |
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| Mobson | Mar 13 2013, 12:58 PM Post #239 |
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Days of Wine & Roses ~ Owen McCafferty (new version) |
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| becky sharp | Mar 15 2013, 08:43 PM Post #240 |
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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt ~ Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco. |
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| waiting4atickle | Mar 15 2013, 08:56 PM Post #241 |
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Ten Days that Shook the World ~ John Reed |
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| dai Cottomy | Mar 16 2013, 02:43 AM Post #242 |
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Around the World in 80 Days ~ Michael Palin |
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| tafkaj | Mar 16 2013, 01:58 PM Post #243 |
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The Lies of Sarah Palin, Geoffrey Dunn. |
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| dai Cottomy | Mar 16 2013, 02:13 PM Post #244 |
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Tyrannosaurus Lex: The Marvelous Book of Palindromes, Anagrams, and Other Delightful and Outrageous Wordplay ~ Rod L. Evans |
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| Mobson | Mar 16 2013, 03:38 PM Post #245 |
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P ~ Andrew Lewis Conn
Edited by Mobson, Mar 16 2013, 03:39 PM.
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| becky sharp | Mar 22 2013, 10:31 PM Post #246 |
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Life of Pi ~ Yann Martel. |
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| Mobson | Mar 25 2013, 03:26 AM Post #247 |
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Life is a Fork in the Road ~ Don Shapiro |
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| waiting4atickle | Mar 25 2013, 02:08 PM Post #248 |
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The Road To Wigan Pier ~ George Or well |
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| becky sharp | Mar 26 2013, 02:22 PM Post #249 |
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The Dive From Clausen's Pier ~ Ann Packer. (not the runner)
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| tafkaj | Mar 26 2013, 02:24 PM Post #250 |
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Careful no one sees you! *********************************************** The Road to Wigan Pier ~ George Orwell. |
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| Mobson | Mar 27 2013, 01:01 PM Post #251 |
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Hmmmm! .... only you sees me!Pier Pressure ~ Dorothy Francis Edited by Mobson, Mar 27 2013, 01:01 PM.
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| waiting4atickle | Mar 27 2013, 10:51 PM Post #252 |
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The last two posts are rather baffling, but heigh ho! - on with the motley... Gaudy Night ~ Dorothy L Sayers |
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| becky sharp | Mar 28 2013, 04:51 PM Post #253 |
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Little Night Reading: Twenty Tales of Horror and the Supernatural ~ Dave Allen (editor) |
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| dai Cottomy | Mar 28 2013, 08:14 PM Post #254 |
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The Little Prince ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| Mobson | Mar 29 2013, 11:01 AM Post #255 |
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The Saint series ~ Leslie Charteris |
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| Caro | Apr 2 2013, 06:38 AM Post #256 |
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Saint Joan ~ George Bernard Shaw |
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| dai Cottomy | Apr 2 2013, 10:56 AM Post #257 |
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Bette And Joan: The Divine Feud ~ Shaun Considine |
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| becky sharp | Apr 5 2013, 05:22 PM Post #258 |
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Pope Joan ~ Donna Woolfolk Cross |
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| waiting4atickle | Apr 5 2013, 05:27 PM Post #259 |
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The Rape Of The Lock ~ Alexander Pope |
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| dai Cottomy | Apr 6 2013, 08:49 AM Post #260 |
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Essay concerning Human Understanding ~ John Locke |
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| tafkaj | Apr 6 2013, 11:15 AM Post #261 |
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On Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham. |
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| waiting4atickle | Apr 6 2013, 05:18 PM Post #262 |
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Somerset Cricket: The Glory Years, 1973-1987 ~ Alain Lockyer & Richard Walsh |
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| dai Cottomy | Apr 6 2013, 05:38 PM Post #263 |
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The Cricket on the Hearth ~ Charles Dickens |
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| Mobson | Apr 7 2013, 09:23 AM Post #264 |
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Journey into the Heart: A Tale of Pioneering Doctors and Their Race to Transform Cardiovascular Medicine ~ David Monagan and David O. Williams |
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| becky sharp | Apr 8 2013, 02:56 PM Post #265 |
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth ~ Jules Verne. |
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| Mobson | Apr 9 2013, 11:18 AM Post #266 |
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The Incredible Journey ~ Sheila Burnford |
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| tafkaj | Apr 9 2013, 02:01 PM Post #267 |
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The Journeyman ~ Brad Hunt, Daniel Lapaine, Dash Mihok, Willy Nelson. |
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| dai Cottomy | Apr 11 2013, 09:11 AM Post #268 |
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The Royal Hunt of the Sun ~ Peter Shaffer |
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| tafkaj | Apr 13 2013, 11:20 AM Post #269 |
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[Sorry about 267 ]The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy. |
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| dai Cottomy | Apr 13 2013, 12:39 PM Post #270 |
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The Masque of the Red Death ~ Edgar Allan Poe |
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| tafkaj | Apr 16 2013, 02:03 PM Post #271 |
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Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie. |
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| becky sharp | Apr 16 2013, 10:10 PM Post #272 |
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Conspiracy in Death ~ J. D. Robb. |
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| waiting4atickle | Apr 22 2013, 10:39 PM Post #273 |
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Death Of A Salesman ~ Arthur Miller |
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| dai Cottomy | Apr 23 2013, 11:28 AM Post #274 |
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Death In Venice ~ Thomas Mann |
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| tafkaj | Apr 23 2013, 01:23 PM Post #275 |
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Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon. |
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| waiting4atickle | Apr 23 2013, 06:13 PM Post #276 |
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Thomas The Tank Engine ~ Rev W Awdry |
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| becky sharp | Apr 24 2013, 10:29 PM Post #277 |
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The Story of Thomas Alva Edison ~ Margaret Cousins. |
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| waiting4atickle | Apr 24 2013, 11:05 PM Post #278 |
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Cousin Kate ~ Georgette Heyer |
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| becky sharp | Apr 25 2013, 10:08 PM Post #279 |
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The Killer's Cousin ~ Nancy Werlin. |
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| dai Cottomy | Apr 26 2013, 10:13 AM Post #280 |
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Cousin Pons ~ Honore De Balzac |
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| Caro | Apr 26 2013, 10:26 AM Post #281 |
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The Honour of the House ~ E.M. Channon (one of my favourite childhood books and with an excellent review here
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| tafkaj | Apr 26 2013, 02:15 PM Post #282 |
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The House at Pooh Corner, A. A. Milne. |
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| becky sharp | Apr 26 2013, 04:42 PM Post #283 |
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The House of Mirth ~ Edith Wharton |
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| dai Cottomy | Apr 26 2013, 07:21 PM Post #284 |
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English Eccentrics ~ Dame Edith Sitwell |
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| waiting4atickle | Apr 26 2013, 11:08 PM Post #285 |
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English Humour For Beginners ~ George Mikes |
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| tafkaj | Apr 27 2013, 11:15 AM Post #286 |
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill. |
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| dai Cottomy | Apr 27 2013, 01:36 PM Post #287 |
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Speaking with the Angel ~ Nick Hornby |
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| waiting4atickle | Apr 27 2013, 04:17 PM Post #288 |
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A Rumor Of Angels ~ Peter Berger |
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| becky sharp | Apr 27 2013, 10:25 PM Post #289 |
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Where Angels Fear to Tread ~ E.M. Forster. |
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| dai Cottomy | Apr 27 2013, 10:45 PM Post #290 |
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ~ Hunter S. Thompson |
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| tafkaj | Apr 30 2013, 02:00 PM Post #291 |
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State of Fear, Michael Crichton. |
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| Mobson | May 1 2013, 11:14 AM Post #292 |
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State of Wonder ~ Ann Patchett |
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| Caro | May 3 2013, 10:21 PM Post #293 |
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Is it as good as her Bel Canto, which I absolutely loved? Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland ~ Lewis Carroll |
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| waiting4atickle | May 4 2013, 01:28 AM Post #294 |
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A Town Like Alice ~ Nevil Shute |
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| dai Cottomy | May 4 2013, 10:11 AM Post #295 |
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Anna of the Five Towns ~ Arnold Bennett |
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| Mobson | May 5 2013, 10:34 AM Post #296 |
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Not according to this June 2011 review in the New York Times Caro....quotes like "Ann Patchett’s most far-flung yet somehow least exotic book" OR... "Ms. Patchett delivers a homage to the film “Fitzcarraldo” and its director, Werner Herzog, the patron saint of all thrillingly ill-considered voyages into the unknown." ...OR "Perhaps the temptations of the Amazon are overwhelming for any writer with such a gift for animating her surroundings. Perhaps the shadow of “Heart of Darkness” is too long and the allusions to other works too thick on the ground. And “Lost Horizon” for American ovaries?" ... OR "Perhaps Ms. Patchett intends that as the jumping-off point for a moral argument. But it’s a little too loony to be taken seriously. And it’s a horror that would have given even Joseph “The horror! The horror!” Conrad pause." State of Wonder (353 pages) Anyway here's an excerpt from Chapter 1 .... The news of Anders Eckman’s death came by way of Aerogram, a piece of bright blue airmail paper that served as both the stationery and, when folded over and sealed along the edges, the envelope. Who even knew they still made such things? This single sheet had traveled from Brazil to Minnesota to mark the passing of a man, a breath of tissue so insubstantial that only the stamp seemed to anchor it to this world. Mr. Fox had the letter in his hand when he came to the lab to tell Marina the news. When she saw him there at the door she smiled at him and in the light of that smile he faltered. “What?” she said finally. He opened his mouth and then closed it. When he tried again all he could say was, “It’s snowing.” “I heard on the radio it was going to.” the window in the lab where she worked faced out into the hall and so she never saw the weather until lunchtime. She waited for a minute for Mr. Fox to say what he had come to say. She didn’t think he had come all the way from his office in the snow, a good ten buildings away, to give her a weather report, but he only stood there in the frame of the open door, unable either to enter the room or step out of it. “Are you all right?” “Eckman’s dead,” he managed to say before his voice broke, and then with no more explanation he gave her the letter to show just how little about this awful fact he knew. There were more than thirty buildings on the Vogel campus, labs and office buildings of various sizes and functions. There were labs with stations for twenty technicians and scientists to work at the same time. Others had walls and walls of mice or monkeys or dogs. This particular lab Marina had shared for seven years with Dr. Eckman. It was small enough that all Mr. Fox had to do was reach a hand towards her, and when he did she took the letter from him and sat down slowly in the gray plastic chair beside the separator. At that moment she understood why people say You might want to sit down. There was inside of her a very modest physical collapse, not a faint but a sort of folding, as if she were an extension ruler and her ankles and knees and hips were all being brought together at closer angles. Anders Eckman, tall in his white lab coat, his hair a thick graying blond. Anders bringing her a cup of coffee because he’d picked one up for himself. Anders giving her the files she’d asked for, half sitting down on the edge of her desk while he went over her data on proteins. Anders father of three. Anders not yet fifty. Her eyes went to the dates — March 15th on the letter, March 18th on the postmark, and today was April 1st. Not only was he dead, he was two weeks dead. They had accepted the fact that they wouldn’t hear from him often and now she realized he had been gone so long that at times he would slip from her mind for most of a day. The obscurity of the Amazonian tributary where Dr. Swenson did her research had been repeatedly underscored to the folks back in Minnesota (Tomorrow this letter will be handed over to a child floating downriver in a dugout log, Anders had written her. I cannot call it a canoe. There never were statistics written to cover the probability of its arrival.), but still, it was in a country, it was in the world. Surely someone down there had an Internet connection. Had they never bothered to find it? “Wouldn’t she call you? There has to be some sort of global satellite—” “She won’t use the phone, or she says it doesn’t work there.” As close as they were in this quiet room she could scarcely hear his voice. “But for this—” she stopped herself. He didn’t know. “Where is he now?” Marina asked. She could not bring herself to say his body. Anders was not a body. Vogel was full of doctors, doctors working, doctors in their offices drinking coffee. The cabinets and storage rooms and desk drawers were full of drugs, pills of every conceivable stripe. They were a pharmaceutical company; what they didn’t have they figured out how to make. Surely if they knew where he was they could find something to do for him, and with that thought her desire for the impossible eclipsed every piece of science she had ever known. The dead were dead were dead were dead and still Marina Singh did not have to shut her eyes to see Anders Eckman eating an egg salad sandwich in the employee cafeteria as he had done with great enthusiasm every day she had known him. “Don’t you read the reports on cholesterol?” she would ask, always willing to play the straight man. “I write the reports on cholesterol,” Anders said, running his finger around the edge of his plate. Mr. Fox lifted his glasses, pressed his folded handkerchief against the corners of his eyes. “Read the letter,” he said. She did not read it aloud. Jim Fox, The rain has been torrential here, not unseasonable yet year after year it never ceases to surprise me. It does not change our work except to make it more time-consuming and if we have been slowed we have not been deterred. We move steadily towards the same excellent results. But for now this business is not our primary concern. I write with unfortunate news of Dr. Eckman, who died of a fever two nights ago. Given our location, this rain, the petty bureaucracies of government (both this one and your own), and the time sensitive nature of our project, we chose to bury him here in a manner in keeping with his Christian traditions. I must tell you it was no small task. As for the purpose of Dr. Eckman’s mission, I assure you we are making strides. I will keep what little he had here for his wife, to whom I trust you will extend this news along with my sympathy. Despite any setbacks, we persevere. Annick Swenson From “State of Wonder” by Ann Patchett. Excerpt courtesy of Harper, the publisher. Edited by Mobson, May 5 2013, 10:35 AM.
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| Mobson | May 5 2013, 10:37 AM Post #297 |
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Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger Edited by Mobson, May 5 2013, 10:37 AM.
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| dai Cottomy | May 5 2013, 05:20 PM Post #298 |
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Recall: What Is Real? ~ Philip K. Dick |
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| Caro | May 6 2013, 12:33 AM Post #299 |
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The Real Inspector Hound ~ Tom Stoppard. (We watched the first episode of Parade's End last night, adapted by Stoppard who must be getting on a bit by now since I studied The Real Inspector Hound at university in the early 70s. It was pretty solid viewing which I am not good at, usually having something to read on my lap at the same time, or a Sudoku style puzzle to meander through. Thanks for the info and excerpt from the Ann Patchett, Mobson. Hard to tell from a little passage what you will think of a book though.) |
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| Mobson | May 6 2013, 12:06 PM Post #300 |
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Tom Stoppard is 75 - I have seen him a few times, usually at the National Theatre; he's a very imposing man although losing that lovely shock of black hair; he's just penned an original play new play for the BBC to mark the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd's album, The Dark Side of the Moon. I enjoyed Parade's End when it premiered here on the BBC last August...so much so that I bought the series on DVD....the link shows details of the episodes, characters and clips ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m7rn8 The Hound of the Baskervilles ~ Arthur Conan Doyle Edited by Mobson, May 6 2013, 12:09 PM.
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