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Hello- I couldn't resist a hello when I saw the Icelandic-which is so rare-I teach basic Icelandic and learned it as a child listening in to my parents conversations. I read Crime&P with my book club and enjoyed it-Bros. K is on my TBR.

I just finished a fictionalized autobiography of Coetzee and loved it. "Boyhood" is an emotional believable description of his youth in South Africa 4/5

Hello ; I am new at this, not sure how to start a thread and also when I made a comment on one of the discussions, I had to have made 15 others before it was allowed although I am a member, HELP

I agree that some are better reads than others. I loved We were the Mulvaneys and hated Do With Me What you will. On my shelf and TBR list are Middleage and the Gravediggers daughter.

Hello -I love to cook currys-I made a chicken Rendang from Malaysia with galangal,lemongrass,star anise and cinnamon sticks yesterday-much like a curry but a delightful flavour! What do you like to cook?

Yes, it is a Penguin book, $2.99 at a local bookstore in paperback. I makes me cringe in shame being a Canadian-but that was the mentality in the 40's when we were at war. A quote from The Globe and Mail "Obasan's power comes from the beauty of the writing,the stark imagery and vivid...

I'm reading Obasan by Joy Kogawa and am in the BC interior in 1942 with other Japanese Canadians in detention camps.

Hello; I loved "Mr Golightly Takes A Holiday" Sally Vickers-lots of characters at the pub "the Stag" in Dartmoor. You learn a great del of the inner workings of the locals through what they say and do.

BooKs that I have not finished I didn't finish Sophie's World-very boring, yet know nothing about philosophy so think I should start up again-I just checked, I'm at page 346, so did persevere! Another two which I didn't finish was Love In the Time of Cholera and Madame Bovary but as we are...