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hardback or softback novels? Softback because they are easier to carry about. Pen or pencil? Pen. Paper clip or staple? Staple Holding a book in hand or laying it on your desktop? Holding a book. Having a stack of books on the floor or shelving them up correctly? Shelves but I...

Congratulations DS I have just bought Exodus by Leon Uris, Baudilino by Umberto Eco, The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka, and the Hound of the Baskerville by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Congratulations Stewart.:)

Happy Birthday tundra. Have a good day.:)

I don’t mind a book looking as if it has been read more than once. I don’t like to see a book that has been mistreated however.

Happy birthday Agua Have a good day..:)

To Kill a Mockingbird The Good Earth The Colour Purple Gone with the Wind Middlesex

Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland Time’s Arrow - Martin Amis Sophie’s World - Jostein Gaarder Derailed - James Siegel What the Body Remembers - Shauna Singh Baldwin

A friend of mine recommended this book to me. Apparently it takes up to 6 weeks to get it from Amazon, so I have not ordered it just yet. I mean to do so very soon. Let us know how it goes dr!

In July I read Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova The Good Earth - Pearl Buck Out - Natsuo Kirino

If we are going back really far I would say the Anne Of Green Gables books. I read them all as a child and just loved them.

Happy Birthday! Have a great day.:) :) :)

I don’t know if Prodigal Summer is Barbara Kingsolver’s latest novel or not but it does seem to come after Poisonwood Bible. I exchanged another book for it while on holiday recently. The back cover says that ‘It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives...

Recent purchases Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver Empress Orchard - Anchee Min Perfume - Patrick Suskind If nobody speaks of remarkable things - Jon McGregor The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zazon Pomegranate Soup - Marsha Mehran

I have just finished reading The Poisonwood Bible. It is the first Kingsolver book that I have read so I have no other to compare it with. I just want to say that I really enjoyed this one. I think Kingsolver is very good portraying social problems. She must have done a lot of research. I...