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Annie
The series of Tintin comics because
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Mole has asked me the following so:
of books I own
- Enough that shelf space has become an issue. And difficult to
count because I have started lending books again. It’s a sure way of never
seeing them again and it clears space for the next round of purchases (I have
considered bookcrossing
but in my usual procrastinating fashion I have not got around to doing it yet).
And I have no idea how many are in boxes in my parents’ house. So I suppose
quite a few will have to do as an answer
book I bought -John
Gribbin’s In
Search of Schrodinger’s Cat. I have not made it past chapter 2 yet.
book I completed -
That is a difficult one. I tend to start books and abandon them for a bit and I
think quite a few have been scattered about recentlty and I can’t remember for
sure when I last finished a book. I’ll hazard a guess an say it was probably Girl
with a Pearl Earring which was marginally better than the film but
still made me cringe a number of times.
books that mean a lot to me –
they remind me of the time spend at my paternal Grand-Parents as a child. My
cousins and I read the entire collection over and over. Because the books had
been bought when my father and uncles were children, they were the unedited
politically
incorrect versions. My favorite one was “The Shooting Star”.
Hundred Years Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez I read it in the
French translation version and I have no idea as to whether the words flow
quite as nicely when translated in English. I just like it and it is one of the
rare books I would be happy to reread.
Voile Noir by ex-actress
Annie Duperey. The book touches on subjects which are uncomfortably
familiar. If you fancy reading an extract there are a few translated paragraphs
in this
old post.
Gunmother by Daniel Pennac because it is funny and dark and the Paris it describe may be unreal but it does not
suffer from Amelie
Poulain sanitization.
quelqu’un m’attende quelque part by Anna Gavalda. My best friend gave it to me
as a birthday present with other books of short stories a few years back
because we had spoken of my shortening attention span since The Boy had reached
toddlerhood. The book fit the bill “I tell her that my heart is like a big
empty bag, the bag is strong, could hold a whole load of mess and yet, there’s
nothing in it.”
shall I tag next – Whoever fancies being tagged. Just link it in the comments when you
are done.
11.9.05 02:17
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Annie - London Underground Blo / Website (11.9.05 16:04) Cheers Helene - perhaps I should borrow The Girl with the Pearl Earring from you. I thought the film was really good. Also I've already mentioned my love of magical realism, so yep Garcia Marquez is one of my favourit authors and I thought 100 years of Solitude was brill. |
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(11.9.05 19:43) Tintin RULES! I have a bunch of the old, hard-cover ones. I found them at my Mexican grandma's house when I was a kid, and I have NO idea why she would have had Tintin books at her crib in Berkeley. Hmmm... Anyway, now my nephew has robbed me of half my library of Tintin books and I'm pissed off. He denies they're mine, the little shit. |
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(14.9.05 15:09) Tintin yeaaar I love him, and snowy. Books are door into other realms you can never have too many |
