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Book Talk » "Why didn't anyone tell me?" What great writer(s) did you recently discover? » Anthony Powell
goatgrrl 17 yrs ago | 4 replies
I'm currently reading the ninth volume of his 12-volume "A Dance to the Music of Time" series ("The Military Philosophers"), and it's wonderful, as were all the earlier books in the series.
Book Talk » What are your favourite nautical/oceanic tales? » Re: I liked English Passengers by (I think) Matthew Kneale.
goatgrrl 17 yrs ago
Here's another vote for "English Passengers", which I loved -- and everyone to whom I've recommended it in the past year has loved it too!
Book Talk » Book set in the city where you live » Re: Book set in the city where you live
goatgrrl 18 yrs ago
Timothy Taylor's "Stanley Park" is set in my home town of Vancouver, Canada. Better yet, the protagonist lives in the Stanley Park Manor, an apartment building on Haro Street where I lived between 1999 - 2001. A highly…
Book Talk » To read..you need book marks, chocolate..? OR... » Re: Post-it's
goatgrrl 18 yrs ago | 3 replies
A big "me too" for post-it notes. I always have a few tucked inside the front of whatever book I'm reading, in case I need to make a note about something I've read. Funny thing, Philistyne, the last line of our bookshe…
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes » ISO:: Babybee » Re: ISO:: Babybee
goatgrrl 18 yrs ago
As I recall, Babybee is in the Phillipines (or was it Malaysia?). I sent her a book last year, and it took about four months to reach her from British Columbia, Canada, but she was very faithful in journaling it. Maybe…
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes » US & CANADA- Bookring - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson CLOSED » Re: US - Bookring - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
goatgrrl 18 yrs ago
If there's any possibility of extending this ring to Canada, I would love to be included. I live in British Columbia, and would be happy to mail the book anywhere in the world when I'm finished. Please let me know if y…
Fun and Games » In Honor of our new forum! :-) Brand New Game: The Person Underneath. » True ...
goatgrrl 18 yrs ago
... but only as far as Cranbrook, British Columbia (1 hour flight from my home), on Wednesday. The person underneath me remembers where he/she was when the comet Hale-Bopp was visible in the sky (1997).
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness » Two current San Francisco city guides available for trade
goatgrrl 18 yrs ago
I have two up-to-date San Francisco city guides (one is part of the Lonely Planet series, the other is a Let's Go city guide to San Francisco). Both are copyright 2004, which I'm fairly certain makes them the most recen…
Book Talk » Looking for fat books - any tips? » Re: Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett or Witching Hour by Anne Rice, both very good!
goatgrrl 18 yrs ago | 4 replies
"Pillars of the Earth" would be my nomination, too. What an excellent, excellent book.
Book Talk » Can reading be an addiction (in the real, i.e. negative sense of the word)??
goatgrrl 18 yrs ago | 22 replies
A friend and I were chatting over lunch the other day about the number of teenage boys we know with hard-core computer addictions (the sixteen year old I live with can barely be persuaded to leave his room, and it's the …
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes » Anyone else want to take a look at "42-Up" before it comes home to me? Please PM!
goatgrrl 18 yrs ago | 2 replies
This is the companion volume to Michael Apted's popular "Up" film series (28-Up, 35-Up, 42-Up, etc.). It's an international ring, and the book is currently in Washington State, en route back to me in British Columbia. …
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes » New Bookring - Snow by Orhan Pamuk » Re: New Bookring - Snow by Orhan Pamuk
goatgrrl 18 yrs ago
I would love to join - I'm PMing your right now. Thanks very much for offering this book as a ring!

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