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Mirian

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  • Birthday 12/06/1979

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  1. Does that mean I can have Darcy? I like Persuasion too, there's a melancholy or something in it that's missing from the other books. Perhaps its just that it's built around missed opportunity. I loved the Illiad. Read it to and from work for a while, and I missed my stop a few times.
  2. Twilight when you need to dream for an hour or two. Harry Potter when you need a really well written, magical series!
  3. I find Anna quite a mystery still. Sometimes I think I get why she chooses how she does, and sometimes I'm sure I don't get her at all. But she seems very real to me. But I see what you mean about Anna and Wronsky. The first time I read the book I thought that Anna and Wronsky was the relationship you thought you'd want, but it could never last. And Kitty and Levin was the one that seemed a bit boring, but had a depth that you needed to get close to understand.
  4. A library room for myself would be perfect. For now I'm just drawing my own bookshelves - and I've had two of those built. But I sometimes think it would be nice working with books.
  5. I have several. I've got lots of booksmarks that people have given me, and they end up i my law books, my fiction and everything else. There's a celtic themed one I'm very fond of and one of green leather. Though my most used bookmark is my sofa - I just hang the book open on the back of the sofa and pick it up and continue next chance I get.
  6. Hi Mirian! Just passing through & thought I'd pop in & say "Hi & welcome to the forum!"

  7. I live close to two branches of the public library. Both are meant to be a local library, while the big library is in the city center. I loved my local branch when I was younger, and I remember most kids did. Even now the two branches focus on children a lot, but they don't just do books. Oh, no. There's storytelling, reading from books, family days, youth corner (where teens pick the books). There's music and films, magazines... computer access. Both branches do regular topic tables - books about a war, a person, a genre, for readers. The libraries also organise reading-help - recruiting booklovers who do volunteer work by reading at hospitals, homes for the elderly and ill and generally where people can't read themselves. I still like going there once in a while and get some book advice, but generally the local branches don't have that much of a supply. But - you can order whatever you like and have them delivered to you local branch. That is something I really like. It's great to browse the big libraries as well.
  8. Welcome and Happy Easter

  9. Hi and welcome! I haven't read the book, but you made me curious so I hope someone answers soon
  10. Hello and ! Hope you enjoy it here. I'm new too and my reading list is already growing
  11. I completed the survey for you. Hope you'll post about your conclusions at some point
  12. I read about half my books in one sitting, can't put them down. Sometimes things like sleep and meals and work get in the way though.
  13. I watch some, the ones where there's a bit of fact involved. Learned a few tricks from cooking reality, and sometimes it's a fun way to study humanity. I tend to check out an episode of a new concept to see what it's about. But really I'm bored by them. It's predictable who'll disappear after a while and reality gets boring. Then I usually pick up a book.
  14. Welcome! I know exactly what you mean. I registered yesterday too and spent a lot longer browsing than sleeping.
  15. I've reread the series a few times and I always seem to spot a new hint early that J.K.Rowling leaves. I agree with Binary Digit about the final books. Can recommend the series to anyone, unless magic in books really annoys you. The characters are well written, the books are easy to read and the story is good.
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