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The computer swallowed Grandma,
Yes, honestly it’s true!
She pressed 'control and 'enter'
And disappeared from view.
It devoured her completely,
The thought just makes me squirm....
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Embracing new things keeps you young I always say Grandad :up
I have been reading 'The Marsh Arabs' and from there I have reserved 'Arabian Sands'! I can't wait for it to come into my local library. Has anyone else here had the pleasure of reading this great...
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I agree with you on digital downloads, LLL! I don't think a day goes by where I don't download at least one free book from Amazon! :lol: With our local library, even if the book is available but is...
Grandad referenced in another post that he has a million stories from the past and should write a book. Have you ever? Have you ever thought about actually seriously sitting down and writing a book?...
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My girlfriend on her retirement has been trying to write a book on the role of women in the UK Army WWII era. She was a Captain, involved in the Suez incident etc etc. There is minimal written on...
As the oldest and largest book fair of the Arab world, the Cairo book fair has always claimed a dignified status. Despite the emergence of newer book fairs like Sharjah, which has threatened to...
When dusting my fiction bookcases one morning last week, something I don't do often enough :oops2: , I noticed Golding's Lord of the Flies and realised I hadn't read it for at least 40 years, so put...
Sorry - I'm being a bit lazy and doing a cut and paste job from a post I've just made on Luxor4u.
These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach
Also being marketed now as The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel...
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I've now watched the film and enjoyed it (except for the fact that I really don't like Bill Nighy and would not have cast him in that part). However, there is (to my memory) quite a bit missing -...
Was browsing the web and came across this site called Reading Fanatic :
Not sure if it is good or not and I guess it needs to be installed. Thought it might be useful :) :)
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:lol: :lol: no such thing as a free lunch, mind you we can now borrow ebooks from UK libraries providing you have something other than a Kindle, I might just get Mrs H a Kobo Glo for Christmas.
A friend of mine recently recommended a book to me so I looked it up online, and as soon as I saw the phrase 'purple prose' I just knew it wasn't for me! :( I also went to the author's website and...
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Wasn't that long ago the our local library (well the library in the USA I used) started to allow downloads to Kindle. I'm inclined to think that in the near future LOTS of other libraries will start...
You may be wondering who Anna Leon Owens is, but any devotee of the film 'The King and I' will no doubt of worked out she is the plucky heroin of the story.
The film 'The King and I' was based,...
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I'm glad you got it at last, Hepzi! Maybe you could treat it like one of those books that you dip in and out of?
During my recent visit to Egypt, I bought the following, all excellent memorials to the events of January 2011, and highly recommended. They are mainly photos. The first is particularly poignant,...
Got this message from our Jayway: The Kindle book, Kathryn Black and the Theban Curse , that is being sold to raise funds for AWOL is free on Amazon from tomorrow evening for two days. Anyone that...
I know we have a thread on what we are reading now but have you any books that you could read over and over again? I am a confirmed Rosie Thomas fan so any of her books that I acquire, I keep, and...
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I know this isn't quite what you're asking RS but for some reason I absolutely had to keep all my text books from University and my last year of high school. Not that I ever went back to really use...
Going along with the theme of Hepzibah's last thread these are some of my most favourite authors and the books they have written that I have found to be quite enjoyable, informative reading. Love to...
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LLL, I think that your own taste in authors may be a bit more restricted than most with that particular subject matter, it is obviously easier to get books by more popular main stream authors. There...
Recently been reading the crime novels of Australian crime writer Peter Temple and find myself stumped on one of the descriptions. Who or what is a branchstacker . Perhaps WI can come to my rescue....
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@H - Kindle was the last hold out here re: Kindle and libraries but about 3 months ago they finally caved in and now you can get library books on your Kindle. Mind this might also be because Kindle...
I do read all the time and usually there are a couple 'new' books out for the holidays. I haven't noticed any new ones lately so am curious what the readers amongst us are looking to read for this...
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