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1st June 2009, 08:11 PM
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| Which Books Did You Read In May? A Time To Love And A Time To Die-Erich Maria Remarque 4/5 Unwind-Neal Shusteman 4/5 Three Comrades-Erich Maria Remarque 3/5 Viking: Odinn's Child-Tim Severin 4/5  |
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#2
1st June 2009, 11:52 PM
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| Autobiography - Darwin, Charles 3/5 The Remains of the Day - Ishiguro, Kazuo 4/5 The Man Outside - Borchert, Wolfgang 5/5 The Difference Engine - Gibson/Sterling 3/5 Barndomstolen - Nilsson, Ulf Karl Olov 3/5 Apokalypsens gosiga mörker - Bolling, Anders 3/5 The Blind Owl - Hedayat, Sadeq 3/5
__________________ "The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth." (Niels Bohr) Reading list |
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#3
2nd June 2009, 04:51 AM
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| Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko Day Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko Lolita - Nabokov Blood Engines - T.A. Pratt Nuclear Power: Both Sides - Michio Kaku and started Pride And Prejudice And Zombies.
__________________ If you could go back in time..who would you kill?....hitler......wait.......NICHOLAS SPARKS! |
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#4
2nd June 2009, 05:07 AM
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| The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (I loved it) Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell (It was OK) The Shining - Stephen King (I liked it a lot) A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson (I liked it a lot) Spin - Robert Charles Wilson (I liked it)
__________________ "For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." -- Carl Sagan |
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#5
2nd June 2009, 09:07 AM
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| Joane Didion-The year of magical thinking 5/5 Norman Mailer--The castel in the forest 3/5 Andrei makine-Confessiion of a fallen standard bearer 4/5 Ricahrd Stark-the sour lemon 4/5 Menis Koumandareas-La verrerie 3/5 Alberto Moravia-Two-a phallic novel 4/5 Eric emmanuel Schmitt-Ulysse from Bagdad 0/5 Nina Berberova-the accompanist 3/5 Jean Echenoz-Je m'en vais(i'm gone) 4/5 Richard Stark-deadly edge 4/5 David Mitchel-Cloud atlas 3/5 Marguerite Yourcenar-A coin in nine hand 5/5 Evgueni Zamiatine-The flood 3/5 Special mention to Moravia and this very original novel. Jean Echenoz for his different prose. Marguerite Yourcenar,superbe.
__________________ my paintings http://www.thomassaliot.com/ |
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#6
2nd June 2009, 11:36 AM
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| The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro The Septembers of Shiraz - Dalia Sopher The Water's Lovely - Ruth Rendell A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Nectar in a Sieve - Kamala Markandaya Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood I am Legend - Richard Matheson ... and almost half of Shadow Country, by Peter Matthiessen, which has taken forever to get through.... |
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#7
2nd June 2009, 02:14 PM
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| In the Woods, Tana French The Romanovs: The Final Chapter, Robert Massie The Crucible, Arthur Miller Keeping the House, Ellen Baker Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser The Plot Against America, Philip Roth |
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#9
2nd June 2009, 03:12 PM
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| The Way of Shadows – Brent Weeks Civil War Poetry and Prose – Walt Whitman The Jewel of Seven Stars – Bram Stoker The Kouga Ninja Scrolls – Futaro Yamada Shopaholic Takes Manhattan – Sophie Kinsella Ranger’s Apprentice #1: The Ruins of Gorlan – John Flanagan Shopaholic Ties the Knot – Sophie Kinsella Angel of Music: Tales of the Phantom of the Opera – Carrie Hernandez My favorite book from the month of May would be The Jewel of Seven Stars.
__________________ "All the darkness in the world can't extinguish the light from a single candle." ~ Francis of Assisi |
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#10
2nd June 2009, 06:27 PM
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| The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Healing Passion by Sylvie Ouellette La Basquaise-Angel Strand Ibsen-Doll's House,The Wild Duck Strindberg-The Father
__________________ "Open your arms and let me show you what love can be like It is all tears, and it will be 'til the end of your time' Come closer my love' Will you let me tear your heart apart?" |
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#11
4th June 2009, 10:38 AM
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| I'll try to translate the titles of the books I read in German for better understanding  Elizabeth George - What came before he shot her 4/5 Christoph Marzi - Lilith 4/5 Anne Chaplet - Schrei nach Stille ("Scream for silence") 3,5/5 Christoph Marzi - Lumen 3,5/5 Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind 5/5 Volker Klüpfel & Michael Kobr - Laienspiel ("Amateurs Playing") 4,5/5 Viola Alvarez - Die Nebel des Morgens ("The Morning Mists") 4/5
__________________ Medicine, law, banking – these are necessary to sustain life. But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for. (Dead Poets Society) |
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#12
4th June 2009, 01:23 PM
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| The Piano Shop on the Left Bank-Thad Carhart 3/5 Sing Them Home-Stephanie Kallos 4/5 The Radioactive Boy Scout-Ken Silverstein 3/5 The Eyre Affair-Jasper Fforde 3/5 The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society- Mary Ann Shaeffer & Annie Barrows 4/5 The Secret of Lost Things- Sheridan Hay 4/5
__________________ "One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining." — Garrison Keillor |
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