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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #675 on: May 20, 2006, 12:37:02 PM »
Quote from: AnneR on May 20, 2006, 12:33:31 PM
Ahhh. I think I may have to add some Ultravox to the Ipod this weekend. I'm a bit slow getting everything I have on to it, and that hasn't made it quite yet. I think it's time.

/hijack

sorry... hijack not quite over!  ;)
My ipod's got Reap The Wild Wind, One Small Day, White China, and Dancing With Tears In My Eyes!

Okay... im finished.   sorry for the extended hijack.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #676 on: May 21, 2006, 10:02:24 PM »
Quote from: Quarter-Gill on May 20, 2006, 12:31:30 PM
I still do...  [smiley=smitten.gif]

I enjoyed the book... pretty much devoured it in about 3 days.
I especially liked reading about his early life in Glasgow, and his early bands like Salvation and Slik.
Reading the book caused me to go and buy a DVD of Ultravox videos!

My boss's daughter goes to school with his daughter Kitty in Bath.  Does it say where he lives now?
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #677 on: May 22, 2006, 12:13:53 PM »
Just finished Marley and Me.  It was adorable.  :)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #678 on: May 22, 2006, 03:11:19 PM »
Quote from: carolyn_b on May 17, 2006, 04:21:51 PM
Oh HME, I am glad that you posted.  I was just thinking about this -- do you have any suggestions on finding a good book club here in Leeds?  There was one in our little local bookshop (on our street) but this particular one just didn't seem like my kind of thing.  I may be just too picky though.

I think there's one in Borders in town, and I know there's one in the library in Headingley. Have you tried Horsforth library?
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #679 on: May 22, 2006, 03:33:18 PM »
Quote from: HME on May 22, 2006, 03:11:19 PM
I think there's one in Borders in town, and I know there's one in the library in Headingley. Have you tried Horsforth library?

Thanks -- I will ask in at the library.  Didn't think of that.  Borders would be convenient as well when I start working again (June 5) as I'll then be going into city centre every day.  I think I just need to get my feet wet (with a book club) but I'm a little shy, I guess.  I was put off the one offered at our local bookshop...well it was the only 'open' one & looking down the list was a book something to do with rugby & another to do with soccer -- and that's just soooo not me. :-X  So many books, so little time -- I'm willing to give a little because I guess you have to within the context of a book club...but absolutely no interest in wasting my time reading books about rugby & soccer.  I don't know if a particular genre club would be more what I'm looking for...I don't really know what I'm looking for...lol. :)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #680 on: May 22, 2006, 03:48:54 PM »
Any book club that included a book about sport would have me running a mile in the other direction!

Perhaps we should meet in Borders for a coffee some time?
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #681 on: May 22, 2006, 03:55:36 PM »
Good, so I'm not the only one!  I miss the little poetry reading group/club that I used to be involved with in Florida, but those are times gone by now.

We should get that coffee sometime.  I'll give you a shout when I'm coming back into the city regularly.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #682 on: May 23, 2006, 09:50:51 AM »
Quote from: Hopster on May 21, 2006, 10:02:24 PM
My boss's daughter goes to school with his daughter Kitty in Bath.  Does it say where he lives now?

No... it's 2 or 3 years old.  But i believe he was in Bath at the time of writing.   :)
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #683 on: May 23, 2006, 08:51:24 PM »


I just finished Middlesex and can't recommend it highly enough! Fantastic book! Definitely read it if you have the chance!!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #684 on: May 24, 2006, 11:17:54 AM »
Quote from: Twistedncynical on May 23, 2006, 08:51:24 PM
I just finished Middlesex and can't recommend it highly enough! Fantastic book! Definitely read it if you have the chance!!

One of my all-time favourite books!

I just finished reading a dire mystery for my Book Club. Thank goodness it's over so I can move onto something I really want to read! No offense to anyone who enjoys Donna Leon's writing, but I thought Doctored Evidence was dreadful!
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #685 on: May 24, 2006, 08:19:57 PM »
Quote from: Lola on May 22, 2006, 12:13:53 PM
Just finished Marley and Me.  It was adorable.  :)


Bawled throughout the book... loved it!!  Both of my dogs have had Marley in them. 

Quote from: Twistedncynical on May 23, 2006, 08:51:24 PM

I just finished Middlesex and can't recommend it highly enough! Fantastic book! Definitely read it if you have the chance!!

Excellent book... Better than The Virgin Suicides IMO.

Currently reading O Pioneers! by Willa Cather.  After reading English novels for basically the last 5 years, I decided to read something American.  It's ok..
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #686 on: May 24, 2006, 08:28:16 PM »
Quote from: Kristi on May 24, 2006, 08:19:57 PM
Excellent book... Better than The Virgin Suicides IMO.

I agree!

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Currently reading O Pioneers! by Willa Cather.  After reading English novels for basically the last 5 years, I decided to read something American.  It's ok..

Really like Willa Cather. Lots of desolate, midwestern imagery.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #687 on: May 24, 2006, 09:36:04 PM »
Quote from: Twistedncynical on May 24, 2006, 08:28:16 PM

Really like Willa Cather. Lots of desolate, midwestern imagery.

Me too - re-read My Antonia last year...liked it quite a bit more than I remembered.
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #688 on: May 25, 2006, 08:32:45 AM »
Quote from: Twistedncynical on May 24, 2006, 08:28:16 PM
  Really like Willa Cather. Lots of desolate, midwestern imagery.

Hahaha!  I recognise that imagery from more than 30 years of first hand experience... ;) [smiley=laugh4.gif]
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Re: What ya reading
« Reply #689 on: May 26, 2006, 06:33:20 PM »
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