jappsie
Junior Member
Don't seek and Don't expect
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Post by jappsie on Oct 4, 2008 12:05:39 GMT 3
I'm reading "Blossoms in The Wind: The Human Legacies of the Kamikaze"
The title says it all...very interesting book. It's a historical and biographical account of the fallen and surviving special attack pilots during the 2nd World War and the stories behind the kamikaze attacks. It's a non-fiction but it has the pace of a lively novel but the true accounts and the real people involved make it a bit depressing and sad. It's like seeing the other side of the coin...
It's really good! Very educational too especially for those into history and war stories. I'm actually trying not to read too fast so as not to finish it yet. I'm having a case of separation anxiety ;D
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Post by safinbgfan on Oct 5, 2008 14:32:35 GMT 3
I like pretty much Sydney Sheldon's books  |
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safin4eva
Full Member
DAVAI MARAT!!! Save Colin the Whale!!
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Post by safin4eva on Oct 7, 2008 2:34:48 GMT 3
Im currently obsessed with Aussie Football books; Including Football Journalist Matthew Hall's book 'The Away Game' which is an insight into how Aussie stars are making it big overseas and tells of their Personal Lives (Hello Lucas Neill!! ;D  ) Also Ive just finshed another Journo's book: '7 Days in June' by Jessie Hall which is about our campaign in the 2006 World Cup and the history of Soccer in Australia.. which suprisingly is very interesting!!  |
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Post by annie on Oct 7, 2008 6:13:22 GMT 3
Just finished reading Tom Clancy's Net Force(the first book of the series) ...why is it that they always make a Russian villain in those kind of books? Anyway, I've also started reading Sergei Lukyanenko's Twilight Watch...the third in his Watch series...
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Post by Natasha on Oct 7, 2008 15:21:12 GMT 3
im reading a book called "No Time For Goodbye" by Linwood Barcaly, very good indeed!
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Post by maryb on Oct 26, 2008 22:42:27 GMT 3
I'm in my classics phase now ... reading 'Forbidden Fruit, from the letters of Abelard and Heloise', translated by Betty Radice.
It'll end in tears.
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Post by annie on Oct 27, 2008 10:49:41 GMT 3
Almost at the end of Net Force - Night Moves
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Post by maryb on Nov 10, 2008 23:58:30 GMT 3
Jumping in and out of 'The anti-ageing bible'. Nature's secret weapons against the ageing process.
Granted I'm doing it with a glass of red wine in one hand ... and a packet of dorritos in the other. Haven't yet reached the chapter where it recommends this ...
Nothing surprising in it so far - mainly advocates a veggie diet, which I follow anyway.
With any luck, I'll live until I'm 102 ... ;D The Big Yin has taken about 30 years off me so far though. LMAO. ;D
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Post by tinuviel on Nov 13, 2008 16:51:12 GMT 3
Just discovered this thread - don't know how I managed to miss it before. Perhaps I just don't always scroll that far down the page.
Thanks maryb for starting it and for all your entertaining comments. I can just picture you with the wine and dorritos, waiting for that to turn up as a health tip. LOL!! ;D ;D
I'm just re-reading Dr Zhivago - one of my all time favourites - so weepy in places. Can I help it if I'm just a big softee at heart?
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Post by annie on Nov 14, 2008 5:57:45 GMT 3
Hey you big softee! LOL glad you can join us here too!
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Post by tinuviel on Nov 14, 2008 15:49:58 GMT 3
Thanks a lot for the welcome
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Post by annie on Jan 18, 2009 9:35:43 GMT 3
I'm reading "The Russians" by Hedrick Smith who has won a Pulitzer in 1974 and a veteran New YOrk Times correspondent. It's about...well, the Russians and the Russian life...particularly in the 70's. So I think it's very very different from the Russia of today....but i suppose it's good for a little 'recent history' lesson...
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Post by jenhatter06 on Mar 5, 2009 4:37:14 GMT 3
just finished reading Sampras' autobio A Champion's Mind -- good read ... found out that there's a lot I didn't know about Pistol Pete ... fun to read his thoughts on different rivals and particular matches ;D
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Post by Annie on Mar 5, 2009 10:19:14 GMT 3
Oooooooooooooo Jen fun fun ;D Need to order that from amazon I have just finished "Moab is my washpot" - an autobiography of Stephen Fry written by the guy himself. Absolutely spectacular read like most of his work ;D Witty, intelligent, a true pleasure Started "Revolutionary Road". Enjoying it very much so far ;D |
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Post by Dina on Mar 5, 2009 16:16:01 GMT 3
just finished The Reader by Bernhard Schlink; have to say the book's better than the movie! I also read the Twilight Saga; don't know how I started it but I just loved it!!! must be my age giving me away....
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