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A list of books

posted by [personal profile] tadorna at 09:55am on 21/01/2007 under ,
Here is a list of all the books lying around cluttering up my bedroom in a state of unreadness/half-readness:


  • Prime, Poppy Z Brite

  • Untold Stories, Alan Bennett

  • The Rough Guide to Classical Music

  • Doctor Who, Kim Newman

  • The Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon

  • Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times

  • The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Dorothy L Sayers

  • Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman

  • Never the Bride, Paul Magrs

  • The Ode Less Travelled, Stephen Fry

  • Giving Up the Ghost, Hilary Mantel

  • The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova

  • Summoned by Bells, John Betjeman

  • The Taste of Britain, Laura Mason and Catherine Brown

I also have one on its way from eBay, plus a number of ebooks stored on my flash drive, just in case...

EDIT: Actually, now I look at it, that list is disappointingly small. I must go and buy more books!
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posted by [identity profile] birdgerhl.livejournal.com at 12:29pm on 21/01/2007
a duck story for you:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6283677.stm

b.x :)
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posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 04:26pm on 21/01/2007
omg, thanks! I love duck stories! :)
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gramarye1971: stack of old leatherbound books with the text 'Bibliophile' (Books)

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posted by [personal profile] gramarye1971 at 03:20pm on 21/01/2007
*waves Alan Bennett flag* Untold Stories is great.
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posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 04:28pm on 21/01/2007
Isn't it? That's one of the ones I've actually started reading. His writing about his parents, in particular, I found very moving.
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gramarye1971: Abbey Road street sign in London, marked with fan graffiti (Abbey Road)

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posted by [personal profile] gramarye1971 at 05:36pm on 21/01/2007
Have you read Writing Home? I can't recall if you have or not. Definitely worth reading, if you haven't already.

I was particularly moved by his account of his treatments for bowel cancer -- it's personal and moving without making you feel like a voyeur as you're reading it. That takes particular skill, I think.
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posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 09:01pm on 21/01/2007
No, I haven't read that - I shall have to put it on my list for when I finish this one.
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posted by [personal profile] lazulus at 05:04pm on 21/01/2007
Paul Magrs wrote a rather lyrical teenage novel that I am very fond of. :)

You should see my TBR pile! Every now and again our book group category is for each of us to read one from our piles. ;)
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posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 09:09pm on 21/01/2007
Ah yes, I know of that one, although I haven't read it. I bought this after reading an interesting piece about him in the paper. I knew his name from various Doctor Who novels I haven't actually read (plus I knew he'd written a DW audio play called 'Horror of Glam Rock'). This is about the Bride of Frankenstein, who now goes by the name of Brenda and runs a B&B in Whitby. How the hell was I supposed to resist?
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posted by [personal profile] lazulus at 07:30am on 22/01/2007
There is abslutely no way you could have resisted in the face of sucvh temptation!

I think I knew he wrote DW novels! Bizarre. O.o
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posted by [identity profile] natika.livejournal.com at 07:17pm on 21/01/2007
It's always good to have many unread books around, in case of emergencies!
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posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 09:09pm on 21/01/2007
Exactly! :)
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posted by [identity profile] shirecreature.livejournal.com at 04:52pm on 22/01/2007
I read The Historian, it was pretty good, very beautifully descriptive.
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posted by [identity profile] lobelia321.livejournal.com at 05:08pm on 23/01/2007
I love the eclecticism.
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