The Virtual Pub
Come Inside... => The Library => Topic started by: TG on November 01, 2008, 10:08:03 PM
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I am presently reading 'The Barefoot Emperor-an Ethiopian tragedy by Philip Marsden. Utterly fascinating.
I have a small barrage of exchanges from readitswapit.co.uk and my next 3 books will be:
Mimi & TouTou go forth - Giles Foden
The Lost Men - The harrowing story of Shackletons's Ross sea party - Kelly Tyler-Lewis
The suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House - Kate Summerscale
What are you reading?
Just curious like.
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What are you reading?
The 2009 John Deere catalogue. redface:
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John who? What time is it? Who are you?
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Currently swapping between Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and Chaos by James Gleick.
I'm not sure about Chaos though. Three chapters in and not one mention of Nick so far... whistle:
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The Letters of Evelyn Waugh ~ gorrit in a book sale in the Charminster village hall whilst in Dorset ~ 50p
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Mayhew. London Labour and the London Poor
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In same book sale bought a complete set of The Waverley Novels by Walter Scott. Published in 1886. Some have never been opened, their pages are still uncut.
I am open to offers over £200 whistle:
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I am currently reading the "Library" section of the Virtual Pub whistle:
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TMR is being a bit odd today rubschin:
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Pissed prolly. whistle:
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Pissed prolly. whistle:
That would be an expensive night out
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cussing:
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The Vets - Stephen Leather
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Does that involve steamy goings on with hamsters?
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Does that involve steamy goings on with hamsters?
noooo:
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Budgies?
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Correspondence etc all up to date, kids all at school and wife has just gone to work thus I have the afternoon to myself (until 3.30 anyway).
Time to settle down with "Brideshead Regained" by Michael Johnston which picks up where Evelyn Waugh left off.
It was published in 2003 but I have only just come across it in the public library.
I foresee a cloud9: afternoon.
Keep painting BM whip:
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Keep painting BM whip:
He can't paint as long as the pod keeps 'breaking down'. Something tells me that if LL had a go on it the rig would work perfectly.... whistle:
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I am rereading Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. I really need to go to the library.
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Call it a hunch but I'm guessing something NOT on BM's reading list is the instruction manual to the paint pod. whistle:
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Call it a hunch but I'm guessing something NOT on BM's reading list is the instruction manual to the paint pod. whistle:
I read it! Banghead
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Call it a hunch but I'm guessing something NOT on BM's reading list is the instruction manual to the paint pod. whistle:
I read it! Banghead
But it didn't mean much Λοβός χρωμάτων whistle:
According to Babelfish that's Greek for Paint Pod
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Call it a hunch but I'm guessing something NOT on BM's reading list is the instruction manual to the paint pod. whistle:
I read it! Banghead
But it didn't mean much Λοβός χρωμάτων whistle:
According to Babelfish that's Greek for Paint Pod
It was in English... ::)
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You have to do more than just look at the pictures though point:
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He prolly coloured them in ~ that's why they won't give him his money back.
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They may have done if he had managed to stay within the lines.. whistle:
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They may have done if he had managed to stay within the lines.. whistle:
In his state? ~ Hic!
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He's been drinking the hair tonic again hasnt he.. noooo:
At this rate I'm going to have to make the 'Do not drink' warning larger than the bottle itself. whistle:
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evil:
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Keep your hair on old boy, its just a joke.. whistle:
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I have just started the latest 'Dalziel & Pascoe' novel by Reginald Hill. I don't read much fiction these days, let alone crime fiction but Hill is in a class of his own.
Forget the TV adaptations and dip into the books.
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Re-reading Alan Bennett "Lady in the Van"
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Teenage vampire trash. redface:
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"Riding Rockets (The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut)" ~ Mike Mullane
Selected as a Mission Specialist in 1978 in the first group of shuttle astronauts, Mike Mullane completed three missions and logged 356 hours aboard the Discovery and Atlantis shuttles. It was a dream come true. As a boy, Mullane could only read about space travel in science fiction, but the launch of Sputnik changed all that. Space flight became a possible dream and Mike Mullane set out to make it come true. In this absorbing memoir, Mullane gives the first-ever look into the often hilarious, sometime volatile dynamics of space shuttle astronauts - a class that included Vietnam War veterans, feminists, and propeller-headed scientists. With unprecedented candour, Mullane describes the chilling fear and unparalleled joy of space flight. As his career centred around the Challenger disaster, Mullane also recounts the heartache of burying his friends and colleagues. And he pulls no punches as he reveals the ins and outs of NASA, frank in his criticisms of the agency. A blast from start to finish, Riding Rockets is a straight-from-the-gut account of what it means to be an astronaut
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I am having enormous fun rereading PG Wodehouse. I dip back into his stuff every few years and find it as funny now as the first time I read it. Excellent for "in bed" reading, short(ish) stories that do not tax the brain but make me laugh.
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I am rereading Paxo's The Political Animal. I will send it to Snoopy once I have done. Excellent book