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I've not read this book, infact I've only just really become aware of it - even if it is taking the nation by storm! I read an amusing article about the book in The Sunday Times Style Magazine at the...
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Sounds a load of rubbish and the hype puts me off anyway, so I won't be bothering.
E-Readers - Kindle, Kobo, Nook etc - it looks like they are here to stay!
Do you own one? What are your thoughts about them? Will the really replace books? Do you find the book downloads cheap? Are...
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Correct!!!
But I have also downloaded some from the Internet Archive, and Project Gutenberg in EPUB format. The Kindle cannot read them, but there are free programs that convert them to MOBI format...
I wonder if anyone has read the above book. I hope many have. If not I can recommend it as a beautifully written description of modern Cairo with nods to its past and monuments. What stands out is...
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When you see her, if you know her, please tell her that her book on Cairo if liked a lot, even in Australia.
A conversation with God: An Uncommon dialogue. Neale Donald Walsch
Just finished reading this, and now need to re-read it again, and probably again and again,
In this book, God talks with the Author...
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Quote:am sorry to hear you lost her at such a young age.
Don't be, my memory to date is still rubbish where's this where's that? it's amazing what one can lose....:cool:
I have been happily indulging in this 1OOO page book by Gregory David Roberts, in my pool and given to me last week by our local ex-rock star and supreme host of JJ's Bar Axel, who read it twice back...
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I read this on one of my trips to Luxor and it is brilliant, well worth reading once or twice :-)
Nawal al Sadawi- what could you tell me about her and her writings?
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I went through my Amazon wishlist and bit the bullet and bought a couple of her books - Woman at Point Zero and Zeina. I've just finished reading Woman and Point Zero and couldn't put the book down....
You may be wondering who Anna Leon Owens is, but any devotee of the film 'The King and I' will no doubt of worked out she is the plucky heroin of the story.
The film 'The King and I' was based,...
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Not really about them 'looking stupid' Hepz. The Siamese, apparently through diplomacy more than anything else successfully resisted colonisation by Western powers such as the British during an era...
Looks an interesting read:
This account of life in Cairo is sex and the city with a difference. Young Cairene women are as elegant and as sex-obsessed as their New York counterparts but their every...
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Iris and Ruby is written by Rosie Thomas and a wonderful read - but I AM a Rosie Thomas fan! :lol:
This is a fascinating insight into the life of the Fellahin written by the Jesuit priest and sociologist Father Henry Habib Ayrout. Father Ayrout established the Catholic Association for Schools in...
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Thank you very much for that Stan. I will report back on the book once I've read it.
A few weeks ago I discivered Laurie R Kings 'O Jerusalem' the adventures of Holmes and His young wife Mary Russell and really enjoyed it. I am now reading 'The beekeepers apprentice' the first of the...
"If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one...
The book I've just finished reading has had me gripped ever since picking it up to read a few weeks ago. During my 35 minute train journey into work and back home again, plus the occasional snatched...
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If those that wrote the cheques had helped instead of deliberately hindered him in every way possible his thoughts on construction for 2/3rds of the World that live in Adobe houses would be a hell of...
I am currently reading her novel "Forty rules of love" and have also read "The ******* of Istanbul" - Anyone else read these and what do you think of them?
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I've tried to read "The b*****d of Istanbul" a couple of times, but just can't get on with it. I prefer Ayse Kulin, particularly "last Train to Istanbul", and Alev Croutier "Seven Houses". I also...
Anyone with a Kindle can download this great book by Lady Duff Gordon for free...its such a great read. Oh, maybe all of you know know about it and its old news but i thought id share anyways!
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Anthony Sattins' Letters from the Nile are better as Florence gets her rocks off over her dragoman....8)
just read twixt the lines...
I've oft heard said that there is a book in all of us. I'm not so sure about a book but there is usually a good story or two to be told!
Have you ever had a go at writing 'your' story? What about...
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I think there is possibly a book in all of us, but unfortunately very few of us have got the talent of presentatiion like Miriam Khalifa showed us last night at the Book Club. "Nude in Hijab" was a...
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