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Thanks peace, I'm hoping to enjoy The God of Small Things as well It's actually one of the books that are on the Rory Gilmore reading list, we'll be doing a group reading on it in the future, me thinks

I went to the bookstore today, just to have a quick look. I didn't expect to find anything there really, but coincidentally there was this buy 3 books for 10e -sale, and I saw a paperback copy of Volter Kilpi's Alastalon salissa and I just had to have it, I've been trying to find a copy of it for years! I then chose to also get Rhett Butler's People which sounded really interesting, and then grabbed The Mephisto-club. Then I went to run some errands and then decided to treat myself to visiting a charityshop from where I happened to find The God of Small Things and The Decameron, and I had to have them as well An excellent trip!

I bought these today: Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig The Mephisto-club by Tess Gerritsen Alastalon salissa by Volter Kilpi The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio The first 3 novels I bought in this 3 books for 10e -sale, the last two I bought from a charityshop. I'm particularly pleased with Alastalon salissa, I've been trying to find that novel for many years now

Thanks Kylie

I agree, I thought I wasn't going to like Robin and she'd be portrayed as this ditsy no-brainer but she's in fact really clever and awfully sweet. She's played by Julie Benz who plays Dexter's girlfriend Rita in the series, which is an added bonus for me

No problem Kylie, it was a pleasure The Journals is really thick isn't it, lots of pages... But I can't help but think that it'll be a really captivating book, something that sticks with you for long. I'm glad you're enjoying Water for Elephants, can't wait to hear your thoughts on it

Great idea for a thread, I like it A Heartwarming Work of Staggering Genius Edit: Cannot help myself, must add another one: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Wow, episode 15 just aired last night in here, so we're only a week behind US schedule I can't believe it. Stephanie, you guys were ahead of us just last year and now we are. It's been so confusing with the minibreaks every now and then, I hate it. Kell,

I'd love it if we could do those polls and then we could just vote and read what the majority wants to read, like they always do with the BCF reading circles each month. However, since there aren't that many of us and we sometimes might be keen on reading more than one novel per month the polls might take over the forum? I say we read Wuthering Heights, and I suggest this purely because it's the shortest novel of the two. What say you?

Excellent new about the Fforde novel, Shin! I hope you enjoy A Faint Cold Fear as well

Has anyone read The Color Purple by Alice Walker? I'm on page 104 and there's this bit in the book that I didn't get at all and I was wondering if someone could explain it to me please? Here it is:

I am curious, where are you guys at with this series in the UK? Season 6 I presume, but which episode? I'm just wondering if we're behind you guys.

Took a lot of books back to the library and also left five of my books in the free book trolley, and I got me two psychology study books in return Happy me! Also borrowed some books, including Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy and Gold by Dan Rhodes. Also noticed that the library had bought J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood -series Now I can borrow the books at some point and not buy them.

It sure is and somebody was going to say it eventually Edit: or then I'm wrong and I am the only one with very bad taste in puns

Polish your Polish skills asap and get reading Algernon, you won't regret it!

Hello there! I was going through my uni literature courses and notes so I could find authors for Katrina's thread on black authors and noticed my From Utopia to Science Fiction notes and figured I might as well check them out while I'm at it to see if there's something I could suggest for your dystopian challenge. There were titles such as Brave New World, Frankenstein, Gulliver's Travels, The Principles of Newspeak (from 1984), The Bicentennial Man and The Time Machine. However, a sneak peek at your bookshelves on goodreads showed that you've either read all of these or then have them on your TBR. (I'm not completely surprised though ) Well, I did manage to find one title that wasn't on your TBR and it is E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops which you will find in Forster's Collected Short Stories

I'm glad to hear that there's now more variety in your bookshop I just realised that most of the names I mentioned in my post are not the most modern ones and therefor maybe not what you were looking for but maybe someone else who's interested in African-American literature will make something of it

Haa! Now I figured it out while I was doing a bit of a Rory Books research. I confused Property with The Lottery, both of which are on Rory's List. You've bought The Lottery Kylie, am I right? I think Paula was also talking about The Lottery So... What do we all think about March? I think that since Abby is still reading GwtW it would be better if we'd postpone reading Kavalier & Clay til she can join us In the meantime, should we go ahead and try Rebecca or Wuthering Heights or should we wait for a bit?

Oh I'd forgotten about that one! I saw the title once in the library, picked it up and the blurb sounded interesting. I didn't borrow it though because I had so many other books to borrow. But a couple of weeks ago this book was in the removed from the library collection -shelves and I got it for 20 cents only, what a bargain. I'm looking forward to reading it.

I would highly recommend it! It's also a really quick paced read and not that long either. (added bonus: you'll find the novel on the 1001 Books -list )

I'm picturing you doing this and laughing off me J.Lo bootie! Now that we've had a chance to voice our critique on the subject, we can take of our thinking-ideally -caps and put on the let's-be-realistic -caps and I see you've done that already. I agree, most people would be too busy thinking about what it all will mean to themselves instead of what they can make of it for the benefit of the society. And let me be fair, they have a good reason and a right to do that. It's only natural to think all the kinds of effects the operation will have and is having on oneself.

I wanted to raise this issue up again for two reasons: 1) Katrina, I feel like I owe you another apology because I googled the books you were talking about and they were indeed really pornographic. You see I thought you meant rather average novels with sexual scenes or then the kind of women's softer sexual novels that they read for pleasure. I didn't realise you were talking about such in-your-face books. Sorry I have more understanding now for where you were coming from. 2) I'm currently reading Alice Walker's The Color Purple and I'm really enjoying it and I thought I'd mention the novel as a great example of the kind of books you might want to have in your bookshop. It's also a Pulitzer prize winning novel I also remembered that we had a literature course on black authors and novels and the sense of Otherness, and I'm gonna go and find my course material on that and get back to you if I find something interesting or something that hasn't been mentioned before on this thread. Here's a list of the names I found: Toni Morrison Alain Locke Jean Toomer Langston Hughes Countee Cullen When I wikied these names, a lot of the names mentioned were part of the Harlem Renaissance which you might want to take a look at to find more about it

It truly is, I have no idea why I haven't read this before or why this hasn't been on one of our uni literature classes. Shameful! What I love about this novel so far is that the theme and events in the novel are truly awful and yet there are moments when I laugh out loud at how witty and clever Celie is. And the writing style is amazing, it's taken me right where the book is set. Edit: That's so great about your new bossie CaliLily!

I think CaliLily created a Gilmore Girls moment and we responded to it!