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My library will be closed the whole July for summer holiday
so this morning I took as many books I could:Stieg Larsson trilogy, Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen, The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey, and a french contemporary book written by Laurence Cossè.
I'll be a bit busy for a while..
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I've just seen this topic and that's only because of Frankie and Athena. Anyway, her's my list:
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible -
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 1984 - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gome with the wind - Margareth Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen-
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini -
38 Captain Corelli�s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy-
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens-
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez-
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov-
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac-
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight�s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante Alighieri
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt -
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor HugoI have read some Shakespeare's work and big parts of the Bible.
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Frankie, you're soo sweet! I just love the way you talk about dogs... so lovely. Lily is back to her normal life, that is to say she runs here and there. I'm sorry I can't post any pics of her. I'm still trying to understand why I can't.
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I ususally wait to see the puppy's personality before I give her/him a name. I named my lady dog Lily because she's really protective, just like Lily Potter.
My other old lady is Tabitha after the soap Bewitched.. because of that funny nose thing.
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OMG, soo lovely!!!
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Last night I started and finished Susan Fletcher's Corrag. I really thank my insomnia because it's such a lovely intense book who deserves to be read in no time.
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What?! You're at season 5? Castle is stopped at the middle of season 4 here in this stupid useless country and we don't even know when it will be on again. I'm stll waiting for the end of season 1 of Once Upon a Time, not a great series, I must admit, but I have to see everything with Robert Carlyle or I'd explode.
Anyway, just seen the end of Lost. Again. But I always love it, I'm so Lost-addicted.
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So let's hope you just had a wrong first impression, Frenkie. I truly hope you won't be disappointed, because it's so annoiyng when it happens.
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Here is the list of the artists and writers of the 2013 edition I know you don't even ever heard of the half of them, but you can see how huge the festival is by this list.
Francesco Abate,
Eraldo Affinati, Simonetta Agnello Hornby, Jim Al-Khalili, Roberto Andreotti, Antonella Anedda, Josephine Angelini, Carlo Annese, Giuseppe
Antonelli, Marco Archetti, Antonia Arslan, Corrado Assenza,Liliana Babbi
Cappelletti, Eugenio Baroncelli, Luca Beatrice, Marco Belpoliti, Anna Beltrametti, Alfonso Berardinelli, Alessandro Bergonzoni, Stefania
Bertola, Riccardo Bertoncelli, Laura Bettini, Enzo Bianchi, Giovanni Bietti, Stephanie Blake, Giuliano Boccali, Shani Boianjiu, Anouk
Boisrobert, Ginevra Bompiani, Achille Bonito Oliva, Stefano Bordiglioni, Dario Bressanini, Terry Brooks, Andrea Buffa, Giulio Busi, Annarosa Buttarelli,Atilio Caballero Menéndez, Massimo Cacciari, Miriam Camerini, Peter Cameron, Chiara Carminati, Paola Caridi, Maite Carranza, Emmanuel Carrère, Luciana Castellina, Francesco M. Cataluccio, Carmine Catenacci, Marco Cattaneo, Cristiano Cavina, Davide Ciccarese, Luigi Ciotti, Massimo Cirri, Gianni Clerici, Chiara Codecà, Gabriele Coen, Paolo Cognetti, Luca Colombo, Federico Condello, Matteo Corradini, Francesco Costa, Lella Costa, Pino Costalunga, Guido Crainz, Matali Crasset,
Azzurra D'Agostino, Paolo Dall’Oglio, Andrea De Benedetti, Luca De Biase, Maurizio De Giovanni, Diego De Silva, Marco Del Corona, Tijana Djerković, Sékou Ogobara Dolo, Paul Doswell, Corrado Dottori, Margaret Drabble,
Mathias Énard, Francesco Erbani,
Vittoria Facchini, Maurizio Ferraris, Edgarda Ferri, Giuseppe Festa, Luca Ferrieri, Laura Fidaleo, Enrico Fink, Peter Florence, Alessandro Fo, Giuseppe Fochi, Marcello Fois, Ivano Fossati, Enrico Franceschini, Tiziano Fratus, Carlo Freccero, Andrea Fumagalli,
Chicca Gagliardo, Sofia Gallo, Bruno Gambarotta, Santiago Gamboa, Silvana Gandolfi, Marco Garzonio, Fabrizio Gatti, Stas’ Gawronski, Fabio Geda, Marta Gerardi, Paolo Giordano, Gene Gnocchi, Silvino Gonzato, Almudena Grandes, Silvana Greco, Delphine Grinberg, Franca Grisoni, Giorgio Grossi, David Grossman, Wendy Guerra, Gustavo Gutiérrez,
Mohsin Hamid, Jamila Hassoune, Chris Haughton, Clinton Heylin,
Antonio Imbasciati, Maarten Inghels, Luce Irigaray,
Francesco Jodice, Mimmo Jodice, Meirion Jordan,
Nadine Kaadan, Sam Kean, Moussa Konaté, László Krasznahorkai, Tuomas Kyrö,
Jhumpa Lahiri, Anna Lavatelli, Alessandro Leogrande, Stefano Levi Della Torre, Davide
Longo, Francisco López Sacha, Carlo Lucarelli, Dan Lungu, Sergio Luzzatto,Makkox, Elia Malagò, Marco Malvaldi, Marco Mancassola, Stefano Mancuso, Dacia Maraini, Andrea Marinelli, Giacomo Marramao, Michela Marzano, Christian Mascheroni, Beatrice Masini, Alexander Masters, Francesco Mastrandrea, Ángeles Mastretta, Paola Mastrocola, Luisa Mattia, Beatrice Mautino, Peter May, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Melania Mazzucco, Luca Mercalli, Barry Miles, Luciano Minerva, Mauro Minervino, Renato Minore, Robert Misrahi, Damiano Modena, J. R. Moehringer, Luca Molinari, Tomaso Montanari, Marissa Morelli, Antonio Moresco, Elisabetta Mori, Matteo
Motolese, Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Marie-Aude Murail, Michela Murgia,Piero Negri Scaglione, Andrés Neuman, Giovanni Nicolini, Nadia Nicoletti, Marino Niola, Anna Nogara, Paolo Nori, Alberto Notarbartolo,
Piergiorgio Odifreddi,
Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Boris Pahor, Piersandro Pallavicini, Riccardo Panattoni, Raul Pantaleo, Federica Pedriali, Federico Pedrocchi, Cyril Pedrosa, Jordi Pérez Colomé, Marco Petrella, Per Petterson, Giovanna Pezzetta, Daniele Piccini, Paolo Piccirillo, Marilia Piccone, Massimo Picozzi, Kari Polanyi Levitt, Gérard Pommier, Karen Press, Antonio Prete, Giovanni Previdi,
Guido Quarzo,
Liliana Rampello, Jørgen Randers, Luca Rastello, Carlo Ratti, Massimo Recalcati, Louis Rigaud, Andrea Rodighiero, Stefano Rodotà, Riccardo Romani, Max Rommel, Giuseppe Rosolini, Valerio Rossi Albertini, Nella Roveri, Luca Ruini, Paolo Rumiz,
Farian Sabahi, Alessandro Sanna, Stefano Scansani, Laura Scarabelli, Giorgio Scaramuzzino, Luca Scarlini, Francesca Scotti, Taiye Selasi, Will Self,
Salvatore Settis, Beppe Severgnini, Vandana Shiva, Giorgio Signoretti, Massimo Siragusa, Ahdaf Soueif, Giovanni Sofri, Flavio Soriga, Paola
Splendore, Elena Stancanelli, Guy Standing, Ulf Stark, Benjamin Stein, Felix Stephan, Karla Suarez,Federico Taddia, Massimiliano Tappari, Bianca Tarozzi, Antonella Tarpino, Massimo Temporelli, Marina Terragni, Lilian Thuram, Emanuele Torquati, Mario Tozzi, Sandro Triulzi, Hans Tuzzi,
Clara Usón,
Chiara Valerio, Giulia Valerio, Andrea Valente, Pia Valentinis, Roberto Vecchioni, Juan Villoro, Serena Vitale, Andrea Vitali, Francesco Vitelli,
Binyavanga Wainaina, Günter Wallraff, Ronaldo Wrobel,
Kim Young-ha,
Piero Zardo, Zerocalcare, Mary Zournazi.
The meetings are usually translatedin english.
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I have plenty of hot burning sunshine.. I can send some if you give me some rain. I could do with a little wind.
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I finished reading Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and am now reading Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
I loved The Curious Incident.. one of the best book I read last year, it really describes the world of autism. I hope you'll enjoy it Athena!
I finished an italian classic I had to read for my Book Group. Now I'm not too sure what to read next.
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Not a nice day today. I need something to cheer me up
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I can't post any photos because a pop-up says I'm not allowed. I have to find another way to show you my Lily.
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I hope you'll feel better very soon Athena.
Some friends of mine went to Robocup too as they were on holiday in Netherlands, they had a good time.
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If you haven't read Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky, I can't recommend it highly enough. It's not exactly contemporary - it tells the story of a Jewish family's flight from occupied Paris and is more or less autobiographical - but it's one of the most powerful and moving books I've read.
I really loved it!! Nemirovsky is such an interesting author.. well, was interesting. I read ok, let's call it The Ball (in italian is Il ballo) and Suite Francaise.. both nice, but not contemporary, i must admit.
There's another french writer, he's contemporary but I don't know if his book are translated in english nor in finnish. It's called Emmanuel Carrere. His last book is a sort of biography called Limonov. I haven't read it yet, but a friend of mine have and he says the book is fantastic.
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How sweet Mrsmac!!
Hayley, Oscar is soooo cute!
Emelee I think you should give it a try.
I can't say a single thing on snakes, 'cos they're not my style, but I have a great news: my Lily is out of danger!!! She is back to her usual and the infection is definitely over. I didn't realise how strong she is before coming through a thing like this. Pyometra is really nasty and it's not so easy to survive, but Lily is as strong as a bull, my little baby. I will post you a picture asap.
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Croatia is a wonderful place, I really love it!
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Well.. I'm still listening to Boyzone.
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Ooh, I love Nick Hornby too!! Welcome SM!
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I'm italian, so if I couldn't cook I would probably be arrested or something. We have food in our DNA! But I also have a serious disease linked with food so I'm a sort of Two Face cook: When I have friends here I do every tasty recipes on the typical italian menu, like pasta, lasagne, risotto, tiramisù and so on; but when I cook for myself (and I can't eat oil, butter, salt, sugar, eggs, any fat nor meat) I'm a little depressed and my "fantasy in kitchen" is really low.
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What a blast from the past!
Yeah, definately!!
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Oh my.. I forgot about Blossom!!! I was young when it was on tv. I want my childhood back!!
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Read a bit more of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. I really hope to finish it this weekend.
Is it good so far? I have it on my wishlist but I haven't found it in the library yet.
I finished Long John Silver and I must admit I loved it really much. I wasn't too sure about it when A friend suggested me this book but I was wrong 'cos it's really enjoyable. What is more I'm still in the middle of Gabaldon's Outlander.. I love it. Every year, in July, there's a huge Celtic Festival not far from my home and I love going there. I've met a lot of new friends through the years and now I can imagine Gabaldon's characters with the face of people I know: warriors, food, swords, sweat.. it's all much too real now. Ok, I'm definitely going slightly mad!!
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Memoirs of a Geisha and Rebecca are on my TBR list, but I can't find Birdsong and Swallows and Amazons.. I'm not sure they were translated in italian, so I'm searching them in english too. Thanks Chaliepud!!