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Conventions and Meetings
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Meet-up in Brugge/Belgium, 16 July 2011: CATCHES
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My available books - let me know if you're interested
Xana
12 yrs ago
Hi everyone,
Here's the list of books I'll bring to Brugge if you're interested. First-come-first-get basis, just send me a PM. I'll update the list once in a while to remove the ones already reserved.
Three Men in…
Conventions and Meetings
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Meet-up in Brugge/Belgium, 16 July 2011: CATCHES
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My birthday is also on the 17th :)
Xana
13 yrs ago
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Hurrah! It's good to see some BC activity in Belgium. I'll come from Brussels - anyone else setting out from here?
@Prachitulshan & ApoloniaX: count me in!
@Prachitulshan: I've going to send you my email address by…
Xana
13 yrs ago
Top 10
- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
- Gigi by Colette
- The Tennant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
- The Spring of the Ram (House of Niccolo 2) by Dorothy Dunnett
- Notwithstanding by Louis de Bernieres
- Room …
Xana
13 yrs ago
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Sei que e’ uma procura muito especifica, mas estabeleci como auto-desafio para 2011 saber mais sobre a azeitona e o azeite. Ja' tenho uns livros de nao-ficcao alinhados, mas gostava tambem de ler ficcao sobre o tema.
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Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes
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International Bookring: Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
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RE: International Bookring: Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Xana
13 yrs ago
Please count me in. I'm ok with shipping internationally.
Book Talk
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Classics you loathe?
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RE: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Xana
13 yrs ago
I'm with you on Alice. It's like being trapped in one of those nightmares where you run and run, but never leave the same spot :S
Book Talk
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Classics you loathe?
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RE: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Xana
13 yrs ago
I'm with you on Alice. It's like being trapped in one of those nightmares where you run and run, but never leave the same spot :S
Xana
13 yrs ago
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E' um site muito util para procurar livros sobre/passados num certo local. Vai-me ser muito util a proxima vez que viajar.
Ha poucas entrada sobre Portugal. Tenho andado a aumentar a lista, mas era optimo ter ajuda :)…
Xana
13 yrs ago
Which translates to about 200.
Thanks for this thread, I don't feel as bad for having so many!
Xana
13 yrs ago
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Fiction
- Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel
(followed by Niccolò Rising (House of Niccolò, 1) by Dorothy Dunnett)
and Non-Fiction
- The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel
(followed by The Mitford Girls by Mary Lovell)
Xana
13 yrs ago
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I’m doing a Trans-Siberian this summer and I’d like to read at least one novel from each of the countries I’ll be passing through: China, Mongolia and Russia.
China and Russia are easy, but Mongolia is a bit more tri…
Xana
14 yrs ago
You want to reach somewhere but the normal distances don’t apply, conversations take sudden and unexpected turns, you remember things you’ve forgotten and forget things you knew a few seconds ago.
It was one of the mo…
Xana
14 yrs ago
My favorites were:
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Based on the Book: Books to Movies
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Alice in Wonderland, what a poor excuse of a movie!
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I know what you mean!
Xana
14 yrs ago
It was so disappointing, especially considering the amazing images that were feed to us over the last year(s). I though the story was pure Disney, but of the worst kind - flat, patronizing, forgettable.
And I found th…
Xana
14 yrs ago
They probably didn't meant *real* readers. That doesn't apply to me either, actually, every once in a while I look at my TBR with really critical eyes and if I know that I will never read a book I've been keen on 1 year …
Xana
14 yrs ago
Book Talk
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Looking forward to the publication of any books in 2010?
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The next in the A Song of Ice and Fire series and...
Xana
14 yrs ago
- Solar by Ian McEwan
- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
- Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk
- Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay (please, please, please be a good one, not like Ysobel...)
- A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen…
Xana
14 yrs ago
Quando era miuda e os meus pais me respondiam isto era especialmente irritante. Falta de argumentos ou falta de paciencia para argumentar?
Variacoes: "Porque eu digo." "Porque eu estou a mandar."
ARRGH!
Xana
14 yrs ago
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Sei que as pessoas que dizem isto vezes sem conta querem mostrar-se como muito honestas, mas sempre me pareceu que e' simplesmente uma desculpa para serem rudes, moralistas e descartarem os sentimentos dos outros.
Xana
14 yrs ago
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... Alexandra R no group Bookcrossing (acho que e' o mais facil). Tambem estou nos grupos Portugal e Belgium.
Portuguese - Português
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so uma pregunta duma Bookcrosser Holandesa....
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Um livro interessante: "Mulheres Aventureiras" de Rosário Sá Coutinho
Xana
14 yrs ago
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Tirado deste website: http://bloguilibri.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/mulheres-aventureiras-rosario-sa-coutinho
"Da medina de Marraquexe, colorida pelas especiarias e perfumada pelo incenso, às frias muralhas da praça de …
Xana
14 yrs ago
Yeah, that is probably my biggest reason why some books stay in my TBR-pile too long. Some of what interested me some years ago, do not interest me now.
Every once in a while I carefully go through the shelves and se…
Xana
14 yrs ago
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I'll send it to hema-vert. Perhaps you can then send it to iez?
I'll send you an PM.
Xana
14 yrs ago
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