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So, OK WelshStudent, this was your idea to start a new thread on this. So where shall we start, I think New Gal is winning, having read the serious through six times - any advances on six :P
Just so we don't bog down the Twilight thread with cross-fandom discussion here's a Harry Potter one. Come on in and contribute guys...just remember to use the spoiler...
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i was disappointed in the film as well missed so much out that was important. I am going to start re reading my harry potter books much better than the films
Finally managed to track down all three so am really looking forward to spending my weekend curled up with these!
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You all just reminded me that I have the whole trilogy just waiting to be re-read . . . I got a hard-back volume with all 3 so that should be a balancing act for bedtime reading.
Anne Mustoe, bought this in Aboudi's turned out very good the lady is a great word-smith plus a happy surprise the editor, Kerri is an old pal... 8)
isbn 0 7535 0813 3
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If this is the book I think it is, I've owned a copy for years and still not got round to reading it. :roll:
The term `Old Woman' occurs in a number of Great Master Dogen's Chinese poems, as a metaphor for the Eternal Buddha Nature, the Unborn. The following is one such poem:
SYNOPSIS: 20th century scholar Edward Said in his controversial book Orientalism, uses the term to describe a Western tradition, both academic and artistic,...
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Edward Said, Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World.
SYNOPSIS: A penetrating look at the way in which experts, policy-makers and the media have...
I couldn't get the whole thing in the subject box, sorry!
But how fab is this?! If you haven't read it, I recommend it wholeheartedly, one of my fave books, bit of an epic,...
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His work is amazing, takes you beyond the usual realms if imagination. I’ve read ‘A Suitable Boy’ many many times even though it’s a huge book to get through but you really feel as though you...
Bought it 7pm yesterday and had finished it by 10.30, fab book, would highly recommend it although it does enforce cynicism in the 'love' myth. Right up my street! LOVED it and you know I never caps...
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Author: Rajaa Alsanea
Synopsis: This book provides an inside peek into a hidden world: four young women navigate the narrow straits between love, desire and Islamic tradition. Every week after...
I was out buying a birthday present for my cousin's daughter earlier - I got her 'The Magic Faraway Tree' by Enid Blyton...and I wondered what were THE books that you loved as a child? Which ones...
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Jane - you are the only person I have come across who knows The Family From One End Street.
I didn't list all my favourinte childhood books but you've pretty much done it for me, and I've still got...
Inspired by New Gals post on films you can watch again and again - last night when I picked up my extremely battered copy of Lord of the Rings I wondered - what are your most battered and well read...
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i love those little history books - shire books, very thin - sort of pocket histories - got quite a few of them
I have decided to open the New Year with another Writing Competition.
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Dear.................. A letter to my favourite Egyptian personality.
As we all have to write letters at some point...
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The deadline for entries has now closed.
We've had 216 views to date to this thread but sadly only 2 entries - thank you to them for having the enthusiasm to submit their letters.
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