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Post by PigsnieLite on Jul 23, 2010 19:52:29 GMT -5
I wuz footling this afternoon around Pigsnootles library when I found this book PEONY IN LOVE by Lisa See. Waaah, how come I never noticed this book when it wuz first published? Becuz it looks really good -- I like the prose style, its a historical novel of 17th century China; there are great descriptions of customs & traditions, and, best of all, half of this book involves the Chinese Afterlife! Aaarffff, I love it. Except I haf to disguise the cover wid a Spidey wrapper when I read it during lunch, becuz the cover has a pretty lady wearing a ginormous flower in her hair. Eeeek. I would be teased like mad.  |
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Post by Avril on Jul 23, 2010 21:52:55 GMT -5
Hmm, that's how I felt when I was reading Meeting Fairies by R Ogilvie Crombie.  www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=94&book=9781741759907Even though it's a serious and lovely book, about a genuine man who walked with the great god Pan and helped found Findhorn of the Giant Scottish Vegies, I was still a wee bit embarrassed to be seen with it. But, I loved it. |
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jul 23, 2010 21:59:25 GMT -5
I thought meeting the Great God Pan drives peeple nuts. You know, the Other World should not be seen by us ignorunt beasties or we will lose our minds!  [PLite notes down MEETING FAIRIES in his black book of Books to Read before his Eyesight Deteriorates.]  |
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jul 23, 2010 22:05:36 GMT -5
WTF! I busted into my dads room to borrow his box of macaroons (for research prurposes, you understand) when I happened to mention that book MEEETING FAIRIES. And he said that somewheres in the library is another book by Crombie called THE GENTLEMAN AND THE FAUN: ENCOUNTERS WID PAN. Haf you read this book, Avrilly? |
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Post by sunfrog on Jul 23, 2010 23:33:03 GMT -5
I am not reading a book and every time I read the title of this post it makes me feel guilty!
Wait, The Complete Bike Book. Does that count?
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Post by Avril on Jul 24, 2010 0:18:11 GMT -5
WTF! I busted into my dads room to borrow his box of macaroons (for research prurposes, you understand) when I happened to mention that book MEEETING FAIRIES. And he said that somewheres in the library is another book by Crombie called THE GENTLEMAN AND THE FAUN: ENCOUNTERS WID PAN. Haf you read this book, Avrilly? No, but Meeting Fairies is posthumous, so the one you mention is probably an earlier edition with some of the same material. See if you can find it! Where is that dancing woolly sheep emoticon when you want it! |
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jul 24, 2010 4:51:35 GMT -5
I am not reading a book and every time I read the title of this post it makes me feel guilty! Wait, The Complete Bike Book. Does that count? Why shouldnt it count? Its a Book! I cant find that GENTLEMAN & THE FAUN book in Pigsnits library. It might be back in the ancestral home. Papa says it has a cover photo of a man walking in the woods and its rather thin, which, to us, means below 300 pages. Har.  |
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jul 31, 2010 17:33:44 GMT -5
Yeechhh but utterly fascinating. SKIN MEDICINE by Tim Curran. This dude writes the nastiest descriptions of monsturs & killings Ive ever read -- Smith could see his rancid yellow breath, see graveyards and gallows reflected in those green sucking pits it had for eyes ...  |
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Post by Avril on Aug 1, 2010 1:08:51 GMT -5
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Post by Wart on Aug 1, 2010 20:58:55 GMT -5
Reading Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth. These are about cavers who rappel in the dark in unmapped caves that go on for miles.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Aug 1, 2010 22:22:28 GMT -5
Wouldnt you like to visit that Cave full of Giganto Crystals? I thought that is the Most Beautiful Place in the Earth!
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Post by Avril on Aug 1, 2010 22:51:16 GMT -5
Wow, how incredible!
(Avril puts 'La cuerva de los cristales, near Chihuahua, Mexico' on her bucket list.)
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Post by PigsnieLite on Aug 1, 2010 22:53:02 GMT -5
Too bad they dont allow tourists right now. Becuz that cave should be on everyones bucket list. Unfortunately, it is also super hot inside!
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Post by Avril on Aug 3, 2010 14:29:33 GMT -5
I'm re-reading Neuromancer by William Gibson, for the third time. Might follow it up with some early Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon. For some reason I can't get into Stehenson's later books.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Aug 18, 2010 19:47:56 GMT -5
Finally starting PEONY IN LOVE. Will read that on the couch so no one will see. At work, Im reading HIVE/ by the grotesquely descriptive Tim Curran, a more booky version of the John Carpenter film THE THING. HIVE wuz written years after the movie, but it looks like a good Gruesome Read wid winged cylinder type monsturs wid 5 eyes & sech. |
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