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Not Just Kindles!

Hello and you are right...I have kindle reader system but found this book on Lulu as hard-copy. Nice DC-3 on front of!
 
A Woman of Bangkok

By Jack Reynolds, a great read about a guy who came to BKK from UK, fell in Love and all the Thai/ Farang problems that arise from it, very well written and voted in the top 10 Thailand Fiction books.
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...and never hamstringing one's self by reading in just one language.

One may find themselves on a liberating plateau, when picking up a book and reading it in the language originally intended (Victor Hugo's Les Miserables is a good example that comes to mind); in English, the Rouse translation is one of the better "conversions" but still cannot hold a candle to the book in French.
 
So true. A translation is like an aquarelle rendition of an oil painting. Beautiful in its own rights, but a different kind of beauty from the original.

But ...much better to read translations than live in a one silo universe.

Every evening my wife and I watch feature films from other cultures. It is a wonderful experience. Brilliant actors, screenplays designed for adults and not 12-year olds, etc.

An recent oustanding example : a Jordanian production Captain Abu Raed.
What a delight to discover the incredible main actor we had never heard of. And the charming, very talented children actors who were recruited from a nearby refugee camp that we will never hear from again most likely. I will never forget this film and the characters.
 
I recently purchased and am reading the iBooks version of Richard Wright's "Black Boy." There is a Yale University open course, "The American Novel Since 1940" that is available for free from iTunes University and this is the first reading. The reading list looked interesting and so I thought I'd give it a go.
 
cheshire said:
I recently purchased and am reading the iBooks version of Richard Wright's "Black Boy." There is a Yale University open course, "The American Novel Since 1940" that is available for free from iTunes University and this is the first reading. The reading list looked interesting and so I thought I'd give it a go.
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Hmm, how does that course work?
 
Abecedarius said:
Hmm, how does that course work?
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Well, you can just go to iTunes and download the lectures (they're free) and play them on your computer or iPad. It's not interactive or anything fancy like that, and of course you don't get graded. But you can go at your own pace and can stop at any time. You could even pick and choose and only read the books and download the lectures that you want. Like I said, I'm only on the first book so far, but I've watched a couple of the lectures and I like the instructor. :)
 
Ordered The Gallow's Curse by Karen Maitland.
Requested Fires In The Dark by Loiuse Doughty & Legacy Of Hate by Alan Savage.
 
cheshire said:
Well, you can just go to iTunes and download the lectures (they're free) and play them on your computer or iPad. It's not interactive or anything fancy like that, and of course you don't get graded. But you can go at your own pace and can stop at any time. You could even pick and choose and only read the books and download the lectures that you want. Like I said, I'm only on the first book so far, but I've watched a couple of the lectures and I like the instructor. :)
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That's cool. Thanks, I might look into thatr.
 
To Tempt a Knight - Gerri Russell
Rejar - Dara Joy
Stolen Heat - Elisabeth Naughton
Sunrise in the Garden of Love and Evil - Barbara Monajem
Erinsong - Diana Groe

Borrowed from the library:
Madame Tussaud - Michelle Moran
Wolf's Trap - W.D. Gagliani
Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
Beauty Tempts the Beast - Leslie Dicken
Star Wars: Fatal Alliance - Sean Williams
The Lost Hero - Rick Riordan
 
Non Fiction:

Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (I am loving this one!)
God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene
River out of Eden by Richard Dawkins
Punctuate It Right by Harry Shaw

Fiction:

A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (1)
A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin (2)

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Pontiac said:
Non Fiction:

Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (I am loving this one!)
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Someone JUST recommended this to me and I'm excited to read it. Its supposed to be in at the library tomorrow. Same guy suggested the Four Agreements to me as well. I haven't searched that out yet.
 
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