06-27-2005, 12:37 PM | #301 |
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Master & Commander, by Patrick O'Brian.
For some long car rides ahead I have Jimmy Carter's "Memories of a Rural Boyhood," Five Days in London by John Lukas, and some Jeeves (by Wodehouse).
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06-27-2005, 05:07 PM | #302 |
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I'm heading off to Borders in a few minutes to get some reading for the plane trip to Ecuador - oh, so many books! so little suitcase space ...
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
06-27-2005, 08:52 PM | #303 |
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back from Borders - got two new read-alouds for the family (Edward Eager's "Seven Day Magic" and "Charlie and the choc. factory") and I found Dorothy Sayers' translation of Dante's Divine Comedy! Yay! Perfect for the Ecuador trip.
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
06-28-2005, 01:39 PM | #304 |
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Jane Austen's "Sanditon, Lady Susan, and The Watsons" just came in the mail for me. One uncompleted novel and two short ones.
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06-28-2005, 06:36 PM | #305 |
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oh, her uncompleted novels are so FRUSTRATING!!!! You're just left hanging ....
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
06-29-2005, 05:22 PM | #306 |
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I'm working my way through the Harry Potter books.
For the fifth time. |
07-02-2005, 08:02 PM | #307 |
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I'm in the middle of Reading Lolita in Tehran and am about to start the Potter books again in anticipation of The Half-Blood Prince.
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07-05-2005, 12:47 AM | #308 |
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I'm reading three books right now: Candide, A Confederacy of Dunces, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I like the middle one, but the other two are kind of boring.
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07-14-2005, 12:45 AM | #309 |
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A Confederacy of Dunces is a great book!
Just recently bought A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn. My (other) best friend Cornell, who died a few months ago r.i.p., used to rave on and on about this book, and urged me to read it. Well, he'd be happy to see me finally read it!
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07-14-2005, 09:35 AM | #310 |
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I'm reading:
"Persuasion" by Jane Austen "The Most of P.G. Wodehouse" (a very large collection of Wodehouse stories) And am waiting for the library to get "Post Captain" by Patrick O'Brian and "Harry Potter and the HBP."
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07-14-2005, 01:13 PM | #311 |
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Oh, Wodehouse is SO much fun!!!
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07-14-2005, 01:42 PM | #312 |
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I'm reading the appendixs in ROTK...very cool stuff
Note: I found a place here in town (the big book stores are already sold out with pre-orders) that is just selling them off the rack...a local drug store so I'm going to be there at 9am sharp saturday morning and get my book! Oh, and they accidently sold a book already to a local kid, hehe, but they asked that he return it...I'd be unavailable I think to return it...sheesh....it's just a story, these publishers act like it's nationial treasure (gold bricks)...uhmm, I guess they are worth money, but I've heard there's been talk of sueing because some books got sold accidently.....makes me sick, Just trying to keep perspective...
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07-14-2005, 01:45 PM | #313 |
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I'm just finishing up The Godfather. I'll probably finish today. It's funny, my copy is so old. It's probably from 1969. I was reading it one day when the book literally fell into two pieces in my hands. That was about the last thing I was expecting. It's in three pieces now, not counting the front or back covers or the random pages that have fallen out. ^^;; Good book though.
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07-14-2005, 01:52 PM | #314 |
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Katya, if you're into The Godfather, i really recommend reading the original screenplay, as well, then re-watch Coppola's Godfather. You can get a free copy of the play on this site:
oh, rats. Hold on a sec, lemme find it...
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Quote:
The lines in my signature are Wodehouse
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07-14-2005, 03:22 PM | #316 |
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I'm reading Ray Bradbury's "I Sing the Body Electric!" and other stories again. IT was an excellent book, but I'm only reading the ones that are useful for ideas.
I love that book, though.
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Here you go, Katya - The script 4 The Godfather circa 1972, by Mario Puzo & F.F. Coppola
http://www.jgeoff.com/godfather/gf1/...ranscript.html
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07-14-2005, 06:15 PM | #319 |
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Thanks Lotesse.^^ I finished the book by the way.
I'm on the third chapter of the Silmarillion now. I'm feeling pretty good about it this time. Yeah. I'm going to make it all the way through. |
07-14-2005, 10:36 PM | #320 |
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I have now acquired Senator Rick Santorum's new book "It Takes A Family: Conservatism and the Common Good." My mom actually does work for the publishers, ISI (Intercollegiate Studies Institute), and picked it up for me today.
see www.isi.org or www.ittakesafamily.com
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