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"The Narrow Road to the Deep North" is quite brilliant.....

The Goldfinch - Donnat Tartt ( Winner of Pulitzer prize for Fiction, 2014) =================================================== **** The Goldfinch, is in every possible way, a novel based on contemporary American Life, although it is integrated with Arts of the Dutch Golden Era. The Goldfinch...

Hi, I haven't read much Shakespeare, and I thought of giving them a read - and I read Henry VIII and also watched the BBC production of it (before that it was "all's well that end's well" - yes, it was not a great start.) Tell me I am wrong, but was Shakespeare playing up to Queen Elizabeth I...

I've read: Howards' End A room with a view Maurice Passage to India , and liked each and everyone of those books. A great Author!

The list is : Babel - Mumford and sons channel orange - Frank Ocean some nights - Fun. el camino - Black Keys blunderbus - jack white That blunderbus is a good album is accepted. Black keys is not that bad, but I fancied their previous effort, brothers - not this one. "channel orange"...

I agree with snowyowl that Norah Jones' Little broken hearts is an amazing album - along with "The idler wheel...." by Fiona Apple and "Privateering" by Matk Knopfler, this threesome probably makes my top three for 2012. Other albums which impressed me: Big Moon Ritual - Chris Robinson...

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQiRfbnvVeo Chris Robinson Brotherhood - Tulsa yesterday; the whole album is amazing!

Exciter - Depeche Mode

fifty in a good year, 30-35 in one where I've got to spend more time at work (i.e. even at home ) :-(

A room with a view - E.M. Forster :stars4:1/2 Maurice - E.M. Forster :stars4: The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad :stars4:

After listening to more than 30 albums, the following managed to attract my attention, more than the other albums did... The Idler wheel .... - Fiona Apple Little broken hearts - Norah Jones Oceania - Smashing Pumpkins the light the dead see - soulsavers Privateering - Mark Knopfler...

Heathcliff - hero or villain I was discussing this book with some people in FB group and the popular inclination is to portray Heathcliff as romantic wronged which results in a very degraded, vengeful, cruel man. However for me, I think Heathcliff had bad streaks by nature. Even before the love...

For me too this was a more difficult book to read - and complete. And once completed it paid put to any more efforts of reading Bellow. This is not to say that it is a bad book - just a trying one

So the gist of the matter is, audio books are, quite an acceptable alternative for actually holding a book in one's hands, given the reader is acceptable, at least to some of us. And we still categorise it as "reading" a book.

I haven't read Joyce ( & hence Dubliners nor Ulysis ) yet. Given the difficulty that people appear to have had with Joyce, am wondring whether a first attempt through an audio book (of either Portrait or Ulysis) could be a better way to approach the book, saving myself a second or a third read...