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  1. Balmy Westwind

    Which do you prefer?

    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...
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    Recently Purchased/Borrowed

    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.
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    Welcome Stewart, O Senior Moderator

    Congratulations Stewart.:)
  4. Balmy Westwind

    Happy Birthday tundra

    Happy Birthday tundra. Have a good day.:)
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    Are you picky about the condition of your books?

    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.
  6. Balmy Westwind

    The Big Four-O

    Happy birthday Agua Have a good day..:)
  7. Balmy Westwind

    Which Pulitzer winning novels have you read?

    To Kill a Mockingbird The Good Earth The Colour Purple Gone with the Wind Middlesex
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    Recently Purchased/Borrowed

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

    Donna Woolfolk Cross: Pope Joan

    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!
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    July Reads

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

    Best series you read.

    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.
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    Happy Birthday theoptimist!

    Happy Birthday! Have a great day.:) :) :)
  13. Balmy Westwind

    Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible

    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...
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    Recently Purchased/Borrowed

    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
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    Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible

    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...
  16. Balmy Westwind

    June 2006 Reads

    I only managed three books in June. I have been on vacation and there were just too many distractions. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver We Need to Talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver
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    Recently Purchased/Borrowed

    Recent purchases High Wind in Jamaica – Richard Hughs The Haj – Leon Uris The Covenant – James Michener The Accidental – Ali Smith The Sea – John Banville The Peoples Act of Love- James Meek Empire of the Sun – J G Ballard The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurt Express Tales –...
  18. Balmy Westwind

    How's the weather where you live?

    Our power did go off this afternoon. The weather has been pretty good (As good as it gets in Scotland), but it looked a bit like thunder. It has cleared up now and it is a beautiful summer evening.
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    May Readings

    The books that I read in May are Baghdad Burning – Girl Blog from Iraq The Falls – Joyce carol Oates The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
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    Everything Wine

    Dogmatix and Muggle The Portuguese wine last night was very different from anything we have tried before. It was from the Beiras region of central Portugal, and was from a grape variety that we have never come across before - Touriga Nacional. It says on the label that it is “A powerful...
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