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BOOKS GLORIOUS BOOKS!!!!!

by skyla777 @ 2008-01-29 - 13:23:49

I ALSO WANT TO START AN ONLINE BOOK CLUB IF ANYBODY IS INTERESTED? I KNOW THAT ALOT OF YOU LOVE TO READ SO ANY SUGGESTIONS FOR BOOKS WOULD BE GREAT!!!!
HERE IS MY LIST SO FAR:
MY FAVE, AND ONE I HAVE ALREADY SUGGESTED: WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES :CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES
THE GIFT: LEWIS HYDE
TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE: MITCH ALBOM
HALF OF A YELLOW SUN: CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHE
M.K GHANDI: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
THE PLAY ETHIC: PAT KANE
THE FABRIC OF THE COSMOS: BRIAN GREENE
SEPULCHRE: KATE MOSSE
THE LOVELY BONES: ALICE SEBOLD
WHITE TEETH: ZADIE SMITH
THE TAO OF WILLIE: WILLIE NELSON
THE SENSE OF BEING STARED AT: RUPERT SHELDRAKE
THE LUCIFER CODE: MICHAEL CORDY
SNOW: MAXINE FERMINE
THE GIRL FROM CHIMEL: RIGOBERTA MENCHU AND DANTE LIANO
THE WITCH OF PORTOBELLO: PAULO COELHO
THE ESSENTIAL JUNG: ANTHONY STORR

IF YOU HAVE ANY YOU WANT TO READ THAT YOU COULD SUGGEST OR HAVE READ FOR THE LIST, LET ME KNOW!
THE FIRST BOOK TO READ WILL BE THE GIFT BY LEWIS HYDE. IT IS A BOOK ABOUT CREATIVITY AND HAS JUST BEEN RE RELEASED BY POPULAR DEMAND. IT IS SUITABLE FOR EVERY ONE AND IS MEANT TO INSPIRE ANY ONW WITH THEIR MORE CREATIVE NATURE!
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THE BLURB READS:
A BRILLIANTLY ARGUED DEFENCE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF CREATIVITY IN OUR INCREASINGLY MONET- ORIENTATED WORLD. THE GIFT IS A MODERN CLASSIC. IT IS EVEN MORE RELEVANT TODAY THAN WHEN IT ORIGINALLY APPEARED TWENTY YEARS AGO. ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED BOOKS FO THE YEAR, BELOVED BY ARTISTS, WRITER AND THINKERS, THE GIFT WILL TRANSFORM THE WAY YOU LOOK AT THE WORLD.
QUOTES FROM THE CRITCS: BUY SEVERAL COPIES, ONE FOR YOURSELF AND THE REST FOR YOUR FRIENDS INTERESTED IN, WELL ANYTHING! GEOFF DYER

HOPEFUL, BEAUTIFUL AND PROFOUND, IT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU LOOK AT EVERYTHING; INDEPENDANT ON SUNDAY

TIGER BALM FOR TIRED MINDS; SUNDAY TIMES

A MASTER PIECE MARGARET; ATWOOD
REMINDS US OF OUR CULTURAL GIFTS AND OUR RESPONSIBILTIES TO THEM, A MANIFEST FO SORTS: ZADIE SMITH

SO THERE YOU ARE! INTERESTED IN READING IT TOO? LET ME KNOW AND WE WILL READ IT ALL TOGETHER!!!!!


 
 

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deleted user [Visitor]

2008-01-30 @ 12:20

Wow you wright a lot! thats a good thing!
dancing queen!

deleted user [Visitor]

2008-01-30 @ 12:21

Wow you wright a lot! thats a good thing!
dancing queen!

silentplanetsilentplanet [Member]
2008-01-30 @ 16:48

Try The thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. A lady friend of mine really rated it then lent it to me. I thought it was pretty good too and I don't usually read that sort of thing either.

mat0calmat0cal pro
2008-01-30 @ 18:40

My favourites of the moment are:

A Fine Balance (Rohan Mistry??)
Shantaram (forgot who it's by)
and The Magus!

NotBobNotBob [Member]
2008-02-04 @ 16:52

The best book I've ever read is "Pradise" by Mike Resnick.

Either that or try anything by Terry Pratchett. :)

NotBobNotBob [Member]
2008-02-04 @ 16:54

Sorry, that should have been "Paradise"

I knew there was something wrong in there somewhere. :roll:

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