Building Sustainable and Inclusive Democracy.Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health, and Immunizations.Energy, Climate Change, and Environmental Impacts.Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation.Defense Industry, Acquisition, and Innovation.Intelligence, Surveillance, and Privacy.One for the hydrologists The_Ryan_Girl debbrownbee 3 days ago I don’t know duolingo … I just don’t see myself using this phrase much.
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My chain veered off into wartime evacuees – it is here: Ģ014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 American audiobook Australian author talk AWW book group Bookish (and not so bookish) Thoughts book list book review British Charlotte Wood chick-lit cooking COVID-19 eighties fiction film German gin grief-lit historical holidays Irish John Irving Melbourne Melbourne Writers Festival memoir movie music nonfiction podcast reading challenge review Sample Saturday short story Six Degrees of Separation Stella Prize swimming television Top Ten Tuesday translated twitter Twitter Updates Would that make sure books came back though? I’m not convinced. I recently saw a kind of embossing tool that you can use to imprint your name onto the title page or wherever. These days I’m trying to have a more relaxed attitude, though there are some books I just would not lend – my Persephones, my (few) Folio editions, and many of my very old children’s books. Lending books is a tricky one – I too feel a bit riled if someone doesn’t return something, but I have to hold my hand up and admit that I know I done it myself from time to time. I don’t remember Virginia Andrews’ books doing the rounds at my school, though a few girls were very keen on Georgette Heyer’s Regency romances, an enthusiasm I did not (and still don’t) share – but I’m told that her detective stories are good too and I’d be keener to try those. I don’t think I could cope with The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and I haven’t read any of your other books – I did try to read The Secret History but it annoyed me so much I gave it to a charity shop! I probably just wasn’t in the right mood – the characters seemed so self-obsessed (but maybe they were supposed to?). Next month (January 1, 2022), we’ll start with a story that begins on New Year’s Eve – Rules of Civility by Amor Towles. Where will other chains go? Link up below or post your link in the comments section. I’ll finish on a less-grumpy note – Boyne’s The Heart’s Invisible Furies was one of my favourite books of 2018 – absolutely everything I want in a novel. I guess I won’t be re-reading that one!Īnother book I lent to someone that never found its way back was The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne – disappointing because the first edition of that book had no blurb, so you really didn’t have any hint of what was ahead. I lent My Sweet Audrina to a friend and it was never returned.
In the eighties, I read everything that Andrews wrote, and each book passed around at school. So, two rereads in 2021… Rereads are rare for me – my last was way back in 2014, and it was Flowers in the Attic by V. I’m rereading it now and it’s as good as I remember. Tartt’s inspiration for The Secret History was drawn from her time at Bennington.
It was a re-read for me, and I chose it because I’m engrossed in the Once Upon a Time at Bennington College podcast, which explores Ellis’s time at university with fellow student, Donna Tartt. This month we begin with the classic novella, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton – picked because I figured many would have read it as part of Novella November (#NovNov)Įthan Frome links to Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis, my first book for this year’s #NovNov. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up.
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