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Om mig I was English born, a New Zealand teen, now working on being a Canadian adult (for over 20 years).......
My 2008 reading list follows and is also discussed HERE on my 50 book challenge thread
BOOKS READ 2008.
Twelfth Night by Shakespeare(audio)
Deceived With Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood by Angelica Garnett
Siegfred by Harry Mulisch
MacBeth by Shakespeare (Audio)
Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
The Forger by Cioma Schonhaus
The Master' by Colm Toibin
In the Dutch Mountains by Cees Nooteboom
The Devil's Footprints by John Burnside
Henry V by Shakespeare (audio)
The Slave Ships by Marcus Rediker
In the Blood - a Memoir of my Childhood by Andrew Motion.
Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir by David Rieff
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. (Audio)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Martin Birck's Youth by Hjalmar Soderberg
The Gathering by Anne Enright
Mozart by Peter Gay
The Invention of Dr. Cake by Andrew Motion
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Imagining London by Anne Quindlen
'Shutterspeed by Erwin Mortier
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The Observations by Jane Harris
The Carhullan Army' by Sarah Hall
The Great Man, by Kate Christensen
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Rough Crossings by Simon Schama
The Man Who Turned Into Himself by David Ambrose
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg.
Agent Zigzag by Ben MacIntyre
The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
The Palace of the Snow Queen by Barbara Sjoholm
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
Six Impossible Things before Breakfast by Lewis Wolpert
Nothing to be Frightened of by Julian Barnes.
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Bachelor Brothers Bed and Breakfast by Bill Richardson
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Master Bedroomby Tessa Hadley
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Swann's Way by Proust
The Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Smoking Diaries by Simon Gray
The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Nixon and Mao by Margaret Macmillan
Modernism' by Peter Gay
Netherland by James O'Neill
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
Cold Cream by Ferdinand Mount
The Lemur by Benjamin Black
Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
The Story of A Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll
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So here is a comment to you that I mistakenly deleted, so if it is a repeat read, please forgive me. Also please forgive the missing letter from my keyboard that I have replaced with an x. I am too cheap to replace my laptop because of one missing key! It will only be there when spell check doesn't work, so it will be a sort of weird puzzle.
I have a theory on book purchases. I believe I am saving for retirement by creating a library for my leisure years. I am buying with my current income so that they will be there when I am trying to make a tiny pension stretch. So the stockpiling is prudent! What do yox think about that argument? Hah!!!!!
skrevet af owenre kl. 10:56 am (EST) den Aug 9, 2008
Kia ora from Aotearoa. I've just finished The Road Home and then I read your review. It says it all. Wonderful!
Rick
skrevet af hasprintwillread kl. 7:27 am (EST) den Aug 8, 2008
I can't understand people from Long Island, so this gave me a giggle.
skrevet af owenre kl. 8:18 pm (EST) den Aug 5, 2008
The Makioka Sisters has a Japanese title Sasame Yuki which, I am told, literally translates to Light Snow. It seems like a better title, more oblique and yet revealing, than the English title. I wish I were brilliant with languages and read in the original because of these revealing glimpses into translation irregularities. Instead I read in English and hope for the best.
skrevet af owenre kl. 11:04 am (EST) den Aug 2, 2008
Just visiting! I'm new to LibraryThing and I picked up that you share a large proportion of my fledgling library.
Here's something for your amusement:
The English Language
Have you ever wondered why foreigners have trouble with the English Language?
Let's face it
English is a stupid language.
There is no egg in the eggplant
No ham in the hamburger
And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple.
English muffins were not invented in England
French fries were not invented in France.
We sometimes take English for granted
But if we examine its paradoxes we find that
Quicksand takes you down slowly
Boxing rings are square
And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
If writers write, how come fingers don't fing.
If the plural of tooth is teeth
Shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth
If the teacher taught,
Why didn't the preacher praught.
If a vegetarian eats vegetables
What the heck does a humanitarian eat!?
Why do people recite at a play
Yet play at a recital?
Park on driveways and
Drive on parkways
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy
Of a language where a house can burn up as
It burns down
And in which you fill in a form
By filling it out
And a bell is only heard once it goes!
English was invented by people, not computers
And it reflects the creativity of the human race
(Which of course isn't a race at all)
That is why
When the stars are out they are visible
But when the lights are out they are invisible
And why it is that when I wind up my watch
It starts
But when I wind up this observation,
It ends
skrevet af sainsborough kl. 10:32 am (EST) den Aug 2, 2008
No thespian I, I'm afraid but my two daughters dabble in amateur dramatics. Sarah was recently in "The Importance of Being Earnest" and Rachael is soon to be in "The Shell Seekers". Living in the West Midlands means London is only a two hour drive away and Shakespeare's home town, Stratford, is only a skip and a jump. So we are pretty lucky theatrewise. We're off to Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival in August where I've got any number of plays lined up to see.
I see you read Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast. I attended a talk by Lewis Wolpert at the Cheltenham Book Festival a year or so ago. While I fully agree with his science based philosophy I do find the dismissive attitude to religious experience of Wolpert and Dawkins a little disconcerting.
I've also got Julian Barnes "Nothing to be Frightened Of" on my want-to-read list (the Suspicions of Mr Whicher, too!).
Of books I've read recently I'd recommend "Kalooki Nights" by Howard Jacobsen, a amusing Jewish read and "Day" by A.L.Kennedy about a WWII gunner. I've given Henry James a go. Boy, should someone introduce him to the full stop. I counted 134 words in the first two sentences of "The Turn of The Screw"! Hard work reading but very rewarding. Some super stuff but not one to read after a glass of wine or when sleepy.
Have a good summer, Cheers Kevin.
skrevet af dylanwolf kl. 2:44 pm (EST) den Jul 27, 2008