Ooo, I’m so in trouble here! On the Sunday nappy shop, I found a half-price copy of ‘Breaking Dawn’ in the supermarket and now I’m hooked in again! I promised I wouldn’t do this … promised, promised, promised! I was going to get it from the library. I wasn’t going to buy any more of [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Monday Guilt Trip
Posted in Books, Reading on October 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
- The header picture is a shot I took looking out onto Chesterman Beach, Tofino on Vancouver Island ... the place I would most like to be looking out at whilst reading books.
Recent Tweets from The Book Gnome
- .. Have to go and buy coat for Jr as I left it in the kitchen. She may have learnt some new choice phrases from Tata this morning in the car 5 hours ago
- Spent over an hour digging car out of drive and road this morning ... won't be able to get back up hill if snow stays ... 5 hours ago
- just added The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer: Abacus (2007), Edition: New ed.. http://bit.ly/71RYMz to #librarything 8 hours ago
- just added Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald: Penguin (2002), Edition: New Ed, Paperback, 4.. http://bit.ly/5UvEM3 to #librarything 8 hours ago
- Another few cm of snow fell between hometime & now & it's still going - road's like glass below - not looking forward to commute tomorrow 20 hours ago
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor
The Taker and Other Stories by Rubem Fonseca
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Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Beowulf (Norton Critical Edition) translated by Seamus Heaney
Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewiecz
The Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski

