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Extended Profile
Mai 2011: Desolée les amis - j'ai honte de ne pas avoir posté depuis si longtemps! J'ai quitté la Fance mais je n'ai pas oublié mes amis BC.
The image on my bookshelf (courtesy of the BBC) is a mural painted on a blast wall in Baghdad.
Some books I've enjoyed in the last couple of years (in no particular order):
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
Red Dust - Ma Jian
The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde
Through Siberia by Accident - Dervla Murphy
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
English As She Is Spoke
Something Rotten - Jasper Fforde
War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy (thanks to the Readalong)
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
Extremes Along the Silk Road - Nick Middleton
Magic Bus - Rory MacLean
Riding the Iron Rooster - Paul Theroux
Treasures of the Snow - Patricia St. John
Patricia St. John Tells Her Own Story - Patricia St. John
The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom
Tuesday's War - David Fiddimore
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
Invisible World - Stuart Cohen
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
Middlemarch - George Eliot (thanks to the Middlemarch Readalong)
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary - Simon Winchester
Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov, tr. George Bird
The Heavenly Man - Brother Yun with Paul Hattaway
Salamander - Thomas Wharton
The Lady and the Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier
Mike & Psmith - P.G. Wodehouse
Psmith in the City - " "
Psmith Journalist - " "
Leave it to Psmith - " "
Diary of a Nobody - Grossmith
Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers
Busman's Honeymoon - Dorothy L. Sayers
Fire and Hemlock - Diana Wynne Jones
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
The Grand Sophy - Georgette Heyer
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde (I'd have bought this one just for the title!)
The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde
Otherland (quartet) - Tad Williams
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination - Helen Fielding
The Blue Bird - Maurice Maeterlinck
The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Possession - A.S. Byatt
The Man in the Brown Suit - Agatha Christie
Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
Dragon Rider - Cornelia Funke
Take One Young Man - Vivien Kelly
A Great Deliverance - Elizabeth George
The Children of Men - P.D. James
When the Wind Blows - Raymond Briggs (it breaks your heart)
Anne of Avonlea - L.M. Montgomery
Anne of Windy Willows - L.M. Montgomery
Livres lus en français:
Les lettres de mon petit frère - Chris Donner
Le Bouchon de Cristal - Maurice Leblanc
L'Aiguille Creuse - Maurice Leblanc
813 - Maurice Leblanc
L'Île aux Trent Cerceuils - Maurice Leblanc
Le Comte de Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Au Bonheur des Ogres - Daniel Pennac
Le Rosier de Mme Husson et autres nouvelles - Guy de Maupassant
La Petite Ecuyère A Cafté (Le Poulpe Tome 1)- Jean Bernard Pouy
Et si c'était vrai... - Marc Lévy
Le Grand Cahier - Agota Kristof
La Preuve - Agota Kristof
Le Troisième Mensonge - Agota Kristof
'y a d'autres maintenant mais j'ai la flemme...
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