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blueangel
The Doolally One
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Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:18 pm |
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Tell us about what books you are reading and your favourite authors... |
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dragonpoe
Wide Awake
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Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:49 pm |
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VC Andrews had always been one of my top authors. I read the very newest book April Shadows and wrote a review on it on my stumble pages.... Disappointing.
Tried a Peter Straub book of short stories, can't get through the first one, very bland and boring.... I need to spice things up and go to the library and find some really fascinating books!!
Any suggestions??
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blueangel
The Doolally One
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Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:59 pm |
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Try this one, Poe....Wild Swans (Three Daughters of China) by Jung Chang
I haven't read it yet ....my friend Marie just lent it to me, so I'll let you know what I think...It's a very thick book so will take me till next Decembruary to finish it!!
"Published two years after the 1989 demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, Jung Chang's family memoir, following the lives of three generations of women through China's terrible 20th century, arrived at just the right time to satisfy a readership hungry for information about this unknown country. For many in the west, Wild Swans was their first real insight into life under the Chinese Communist party. Now, with her long-awaited second book co-written with her husband, the historian Jon Halliday, Chang aims to expose the true character of the man responsible for so much misery - Chairman Mao. "He was as evil as Hitler or Stalin, and did as much damage to mankind as they did," Chang says. "And yet the world knows astonishingly little about him."
(From an online review)
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dragonpoe
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Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:54 pm |
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Oooh that sounds exciting. I am trying to read more books about different cultures, true or not, to get a more worldy taste in literature and life.
Thanks, Snowy... Oh that is just too hard to get used too!
I'll still call you Doolally!!
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blueangel
The Doolally One
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Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:38 pm |
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Reading Jilly Coopers "Wicked" at the moment....will do a thingy when I've finished!!
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dragonpoe
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Sat Sep 29, 2007 9:02 am |
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Are you done reading and if so.. where's your thingy?
I am reading The Bourne Identity.. Well trying to, having given up Stephen King's Lisey's Story and Bag Of Bones.... I'm in a reading funk...... Need something good, something different. |
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blueangel
The Doolally One
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Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:13 pm |
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That's interesting....I've never read that particular Stephen King book. I'll see if I can get hold of it!
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dragonpoe
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Sat Sep 29, 2007 1:55 pm |
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It's not bad.. it's just overdone. Bag O' Bones and Lisey's Story are too similar for me. My dear Mr. King is starting to show his age!!!
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blueangel
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Sat Sep 29, 2007 5:36 pm |
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Haven't read either so I'd better get cracking on the other 50,000 books I have waiting upstairs!!!!
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