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RenHoek said: The War Within, riveting...
Oooh, I flipped through the pages when it came out. Is it any good? I finished a lot of books lately. Just mindless pleasure I derived from reading the Tremeraire books by Naomi Novik. It's fantasy, it's Hornblower, it's a mix! I like them lots. There are four books in the series, I read the first three. 
Then some old books from my father, most between 1920 and 1939. I am now browsing 150 Culinaire Meesterstukjes, a cook book with pre-war cooking like 'lever pudding'. Ewwwww. It's got Bambi's mother on te cover. Mjum! And I am very happy with my very cheap Roget's Thesaurus, a 2002 Penquin edition. I breowse through it and am elated to find words like 'oscillated', 'gridiron' and 'mousseux' still printed. 
For the rest not many new books, except one crime novel by Kirino and another fantasy book waiting for me. |
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Ritual by Mo Hayder.. but not read much yet.
She is a bit sick in the head. 
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peb319 said: the Qur'an...
a co-worker who is of course Muslim,invited me to come to the Masjid with them during Ramadan one year(2006) i returned this year and attended near the end and also at Eid ( a holiday that marks the end of Ramadan)and this year i was given (as a gift) a copy of the Qur'an,which i promised her i would read. (it was another sister who gave me the book.)i would not have taken it from her as a gift and NOT read it!! i'm in chapter 3 now,it's been slow reading...even for an english translation...i read for an hour or two every sunday... my co-worker is a convert,and sometimes finds it hard..even though they will call each other brother and sister, i noticed that there was a difference when it came to her..but at least this time she seemed less alone..they are warming up to her i was told by her and her husband,that 3 of the brothers had asked them if i was looking for a husband!!
i read things people don't understand sometimes..like encyclopedias...just be cause i haven't read it before...  i think that's just fine. i read the Qur'an in 1997 and it took me something like 6 or 7 months to get through it. i don't think it's meant to be read in a single sitting anyway, lol. it's just like with the bible, there is so much there that you can't take it all in if you read it too quickly and too much at one sitting. and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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Aannastesia2 said: org threads...
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HamsterHuey said: Then some old books from my father, most between 1920 and 1939. I am now browsing 150 Culinaire Meesterstukjes, a cook book with pre-war cooking like 'lever pudding'. Ewwwww.
It's got Bambi's mother on te cover. Mjum! And I am very happy with my very cheap Roget's Thesaurus, a 2002 Penquin edition. I breowse through it and am elated to find words like 'oscillated', 'gridiron' and 'mousseux' still printed.
lever pudding  my god, and the picture on the cover 
how extraordinary that you would pick "oscillated", that's one of my fav words ever. but it's so pretentious to weave it into your everyday language, especially if your native language is dutch and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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IstenSzek said: peb319 said: the Qur'an...
a co-worker who is of course Muslim,invited me to come to the Masjid with them during Ramadan one year(2006) i returned this year and attended near the end and also at Eid ( a holiday that marks the end of Ramadan)and this year i was given (as a gift) a copy of the Qur'an,which i promised her i would read. (it was another sister who gave me the book.)i would not have taken it from her as a gift and NOT read it!! i'm in chapter 3 now,it's been slow reading...even for an english translation...i read for an hour or two every sunday... my co-worker is a convert,and sometimes finds it hard..even though they will call each other brother and sister, i noticed that there was a difference when it came to her..but at least this time she seemed less alone..they are warming up to her i was told by her and her husband,that 3 of the brothers had asked them if i was looking for a husband!!
i read things people don't understand sometimes..like encyclopedias...just be cause i haven't read it before... i think that's just fine. i read the Qur'an in 1997 and it took me something like 6 or 7 months to get through it. i don't think it's meant to be read in a single sitting anyway, lol. it's just like with the bible, there is so much there that you can't take it all in if you read it too quickly and too much at one sitting. exactly!  I've been working on that bible one for-----awhile now...
but it's been put away for now...when it comes to a book like that-- one at a time...  'why y'all trying to say goodbye? I didn't go anywhere, I'm right here, im all around you,always..'
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IstenSzek said: how extraordinary that you would pick "oscillated", that's one of my fav words ever. but it's so pretentious to weave it into your everyday language, especially if your native language is dutch But I write in English. It's imponderable that I do not use language that is befitting my status as major twat. |
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