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Book Talk » Books from Quebec, anyone? » Set in Quebec
foxed 12 yrs ago | 3 replies
I enjoyed French author Fred Vargas's third Comissaire Adamsberg mystery set in Quebec: it's Sous les Vents de Neptune, translated as Wash this Blood Clean From my Hand (apparently a Shakespeare quote) It was atmospheri…
Book Talk » Saki fans: BBC radio link » Hope you enjoyed it!
foxed 12 yrs ago
With them being out of copyright I now have the complete Saki short stories on my iPad (plus several weighty files of documentation from work - even the Bible (searchable!) on my phone). Technology, eh? Great to have th…
Book Talk » Saki fans: BBC radio link » Yes, the humour shines on..
foxed 12 yrs ago
..part of the enjoyment for me was picking out the original material, and what was added to fit the stories into their contemporary theme. As you say, shame this will vanish into the BBC's archive after a week
Book Talk » Saki fans: BBC radio link
foxed 12 yrs ago | 4 replies
Calling fans of Saki's short stories.. Here's a link to a recent programme featuring adaptations of 5 of his short stories. The setting is a present day gated community of the super-rich, with Clovis now a security guar…
Book Talk » Blood on the boards » Flaming good (?), Simon Brett
foxed 13 yrs ago | 1 replies
There's one by Christopher Fowler, featuring his tec duo Bryant & May (groan!), set in the theatre called Full Dark House. I found it OK, but preferred his Roofworld, about tile-dwelling anarchists and horrors in a well-…
Bugs and Broken Bits Reporting » Suggestions how to give feedback in a useful way for BookCrossing 2.0 Beta » RE: Bug Can't release
foxed 13 yrs ago
Mac OS 10.5.8, Safari 4.0.5, Firefox 3.5.3 I can't release either, but not getting all that computerese. I complete step 4, and then the screen just reloads showing the steps I've completed. Same thing with both Safar…
Book Talk » Have You Come Across Any Interesting Words While Reading Lately? » Ian MacEwan used distal creatively in *Saturday*
foxed 14 yrs ago | 3 replies
'The medical duality proximal/distal is used to evoke emotional distance, as the medic [neurosurgeon Henry Perowne] filters his day's experience through the gauge of a healing life' - from my review at bookcrossing.com/j…
Chit-Chat » Questions for tea drinkers.... » It totally depends on the water!
foxed 14 yrs ago | 1 replies
I agree with swan-scot about Brooke Bond's Scottish Blend (when I lived in Aberdeen) - fab with the local water. My usual fave, Waitrose's Assam just died under local conditions. In Ireland, Nambarrie http://www.tead…
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness » Winner: svoight! Int'l Rabck - Going Rogue by Sarah Palin » Fwiw: Palintologist was yesterday's Word of the Day on urbandictionary
foxed 14 yrs ago
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Palintologist It made me and my sis (a palaentologist for real) smile anyway Enjoy the book!
Book Talk » Michael Palin Books - Anyone Read » I've read New Europe, but not having a telly haven't seen his programmes!
foxed 14 yrs ago
My review at bookcrossing.com/journal/6890666 I read loads of travel books, and enjoyed this one. The pictures really enhance the text, bringing locations and people to life, and I guess if you've watched the series w…
Book Talk » Have you read Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson? » I enjoyed it. As you say, ripples spread after reading
foxed 14 yrs ago
Here's my journal entry: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6682773
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes » Int'l ring: Common Ground: Around Britain in 30 Writers *UPDATE!*
foxed 15 yrs ago | 8 replies
Roll up, roll up! I'm proposing an international ring for this book http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6973984/J_11903934 where 30 British writers, famous and less well known, are explored through their relationship …
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness » Med travel int'l RABCK **UPDATE!**
foxed 15 yrs ago | 12 replies
Inspired by Eric Newby's On the Shores of The Mediterranean www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5917637/J_12023057 I've RABCK'd several Travel books that shared part of the journey (see entry above for info) ******UPDATE!***…
Book Talk » 'Fit Like, Yer Majesty?' (UK-centric) » Cool, I'll have to look out for it! Other Scots books I enjoyed:
foxed 15 yrs ago | 1 replies
I enjoyed The Eejits, Matthew Fitt's translation of Roald Dahl's The Twits into Scots http://www.itchy-coo.com/booktitles/theeejits.html Also Buddha Da, in Glesga dialect: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5828291 An…
Book Talk » Trivia about authors' hobbies (REVIVAL) » How about Nevil Shute - novelist & aeronautical engineer
foxed 15 yrs ago | 5 replies
As well as a string of novels, including A Town Like Alice, On The Beach, Shute worked as an aeronautical engineer, including the R100 airship. Later in life, he moved to Australia, where he settled and went on writing, …
Book Talk » Which dictionary(ies) do you own? » Mostly online now: prev Chambers and a family OED
foxed 15 yrs ago | 2 replies
We managed to convince my parents that they needed a more up-to-date edition when we found this example for usage of the word *tramp* 'She missed the bus home so had to tramp it' :-)
Book Talk » 3rd December - icy and cold in Yorkshire. What are you reading? » Re: Not too hot here in Wigan, and having windows replaced - brr!
foxed 15 yrs ago | 1 replies
> I have visited Tyneham a couple of times, > on days when they open it to the public. > It's a very haunting old Purbeck village. > I've got a feeling that part or all of a > film based on one of Thomas Hardy's…
Book Talk » 3rd December - icy and cold in Yorkshire. What are you reading? » Not too hot here in Wigan, and having windows replaced - brr!
foxed 15 yrs ago | 3 replies
I'm at my sister's, and staving off the icicles reading Eric Newby's On The Shores of The Mediterranean (thanks ronsar!) and Patrick Wright's The Village That Died For England, about Tyneham in Dorset, which was taken ov…
Site Watch » Thrilled by these 3 releases
foxed 15 yrs ago | 1 replies
These were all journalled in the last 24 hrs, books I'd released: in a hospital waiting room: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3827418 at a hilltop picnic site http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5908360 in an ar…

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