tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-194502205241031272011-07-29T05:04:00.715+03:00Coyote was there, but Coyote was asleep. <br>That Coyote was asleep and that Coyote was dreaming. <br>When that Coyote dreams, anything can happen. <br>(T.King)Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.comBlogger571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-39014719840243713602010-02-01T13:40:00.000+02:002010-02-01T14:40:32.776+02:00

I read "A Company of Swans" in December 2009 together with "A Countess Below Stairs" by the same authors, when I just needed some not-too-stupid chicklit, basically comfort reads. Back from the library, I immediately sat down in my armchair and read bot."A Company of Swans" seemed to be the more elaborate of the two, as it not only gave insights to ballet, but also brought the reader to the

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One year ago, I just had finished a lot of light reading to get through the dark Icelandic winter, especially chicklit seemed to be on my mood, among others The Nanny Diaries, the very awful Sex and the City and the surprisingly good Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.Now, because of exams and a tighter schedule evolving around courses and their preparation and also rugby, not so many books

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Castle's lesson of the day...In this 11th episode of season 2 I am currently watching, one guy has been saved from a bullet by a copy of Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment in his inner jacket pocket.Beckett: "Good thing he reads"Ryan: "Good thing he reads Russian literature. If the guy was a Nicholas Sparks fan, he'd be dead."We get it: reading dense (in every sense) literature instead of

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At first I was sceptical about this BBC production (2008). A 21rst century Janeite does an Alice-in-Wonderland-kind of jump into the world of Pride and Prejudice and experiences what we all would love to: she takes Elizabeth Bennet's spot and meets another very handsome version of our beloved Fitzwilliam Darcy.Most of the story evolves around her efforts to put everything "right", that is how

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Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, I already finished just now in my beloved armchair. It is a good story to read and reread, the ending is quite different from the movie.If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.Two by Eva Ibbotson, A Company of Swans and A Countess below Stairs, both often recommended to me and I was n the mood to alternate literature and

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I am currently watching the 8th episode of The Middle and obviously it is about all the trouble a family can have on the glorious day of Thanksgiving.The ultra relaxed Axl goes with his brother Brick (yes..) to a corn maze, loses him there and completely freaks out: "He's got like a green jacket, a yellow hat and ... OMG, HE'S DRESSED LIKE CORN! We are never going to find him in here!" Turns

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It is maybe not the best thing to sign up for another challenge (even when it goes for a whole year) just when you admitted to have technically failed one.But it was just one book out of 5 for the Classics challenge! and almost every Austenite hates it! shouldn't have taken damn Mansfield Park, Fanny Price was unbearable once summer was over, in fall you need real women like Thursday Next in my

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Yes, ended (October 31st actually), but unfortunately not completed as I missed out on one: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen did just not flow with me and I couldn't finish it in time. I am not even reading it at the moment, I don't feel for it at this time of the year.So in the end, I have read- Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca [x May 31st 2009]- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey [x June 2009]- Leo Tolstoy,

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Since September, I have been really busy in every single aspect of my life. Classes at university started again and it was quite weird to go back to work, studying, reading regularly. I did not go back to my soccer team but started rugby where I am surprisingly not too bad at, actually not bad at all and am maybe even going to be one of the regulars as the right hand prop. Yay!Partying is

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1. He was a squirrelfan.2. Starting a new university year with new books, new courses, new colleagues and new social life is what I look forward to most this time of year.3. My best friend is nonexistent, I am more the type of having a few close friends than one best.4. I want to be in a world where you can expect people to be honest with you and be rightfully angry if they're not.5.

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Just to announce my immense satisfaction and relief: I have finished Anna Karenina!Yes, I loved it but no, it was not easy to read. Not because of the style, which was extremely good and very funny at moments but because of the content and Tolstoi's tendency to stress details, especially anything about: agriculture, spirituality, agriculture, the process of thinking without actually getting into

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Jennie at Biblio File is hosting this amazing challenge about China and I am all excited to make my list of books and things - yes, things! more on that later.The challenge runs from September 1st 2009 to September 1st 2010, which is even better as I am therefore having a "Chinese" year exactly between my 21st and my 22nd birthday!There are three levels, the Armchair Traveler, the Fast Train to

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1. Hypothetical question- you are in a building with famous works of art, old manuscripts of famous novels, and original sheet music from famous composers. The building is on fire and looks to be completely destroyed. Do you grab any of the famous works before fleeing, and if so what?Of course I grab as much as I can, but I would rather take paintings than manuscripts or original sheets, as long

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Jane Austen has surprisingly established herself over the years as one of my favourite authors and I have to admit my presence among the hardcore Pride & Prejudice and Mr Darcy devotees of which there are many in world. Knowing very well her "three big ones", Pride & Prejudice of course, Emma and Sense and Sensibility, I have recently decided to catch up with her other novels and bought

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Yesterday, Musing Mondays came up with this question:Do you have a favourite publishing house -- one that puts out books that you constantly find yourself wanting to read? If so, who? And, what books have they published that you've loved? Like most people I know, I do not have any favourite publishing house, I am in fact simply considering the whole range of book genres that interest me when

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It took some days for me even to figure out that it was impossible to comment on this new layout! But now it should be fixed and I even have the "posted by" back at the bottom I was looking for. When I will find some motivation again to look at the template code again, I will try to get the date header a bit down, there's too much space between it and the post title.

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1. Litchee juice is my favorite summertime drink.2. My favorite John Hughes movies is The Breakfast Club.3. Shark skin is something I love to touch.4. The full moon is the perfect moment to go out and have a midnight walk.5. I want to crawl back into my bed right now.6. When daylight fades, the sky is tainted in thousand colors.7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to enjoy

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Today's news are filled with trial reports about people who get indemnities because they put their cat into the microwave or drink burning coffee and no proper instructions told them not to.So just in case, take notes.

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Equal Rites is the third fantasy novel of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series and was recommended to me by my former professor of Icelandic folklore. Published in 1987, it explores the themes of female magic vs male magic, gender equality, institutionalised vs grassroot magic and the use of power.The story goes as follows: Drum Billet, a wizard, ends up in Bad Ass, a small village up the mountains

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1) If you don't frequent your local library, why not? At the moment, I am abroad in Russia and as I do not speak Russian well enough to read novels, I did no see the need to look for a local library.2) If you do visit the library, how often do you go? When I am in my city, I try to go every week. My "local library" is actually half an hour bus drive away so when I am very busy I

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I have wanted to read this Pulitzer-winning Middlesex for at least a year, not only because I had read and liked reading The Virgin Suicides maybe 3 years ago but because the story seemed fantastic. I have always been very fond of marginal people, different lives and I felt that this novel was about a literature-shaping character.In the end, the story turned out to be even better than "just" the

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1. It's time for coffee and biscuits.2. Work; it's not a bad place for filling out Friday Fill-Ins.3. I must be crazy to always come back to the same question whether I should go back to that bookstore again to "have a look" - my suitcase will not take all these books I buy here!4. Travelling is the best thing I have ever known.5. My office coffee cup is simply blue.6. The last time I laughed

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It has been a long while since I finished a book (last one was Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett maybe two weeks ago) and it is funny how I feel bad about that. I know that I read for the pleasure of reading and not only to make my TBR-list smaller, but apparently I need a regular "book ending" to happen, to give me a sort of structure.Plus, I hate to be reading so many books at the time. Anna

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I would quickly like to share this article by Deeplinking.net on bookish social networks. Written in 2007, it lists a number of different platforms I did not all know. What is even more interesting is the description following each mention. For example, Goodreads is a"Simple bookish social network that emphasizes book recommendations from other users."Others like ConnectViaBooks or LibraryThing

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Newsweek came up with this best of best-of-lists and even if it is again another list that stressed how many books I have not read, I like the concept enough to put it here. Enjoy.1. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoi2. 1984, George Orwell3. Ulysses, James Joyce4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov5. The Soung and the Fury, William Faulkner6. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison7. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf8. The

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#1311. When I heard my waking call I groaned and tried to forget work.2. Laughing is best medicine.3. It's late, but I want to see another episode of Pushing Daisies.4. Never or always.5. My eyes have seen many soldiers and militsya guys since my arrival and I don't like it.6. I need some coffee, strongly.7. -#1321. The last thing I ate was chocolate :) and some raisins.2. An artbook about

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Wow, it's been quite a while since my last post but I think that writing a new one immediately on the first evening I got wifi again qualifies me for being a willing blogger. I am now writing from the not-so-red-anymore city of Moscow, where I will be living until end of August. A change of scenery and of lifestyle that will undoubtedly affect my reading habits. The summer of doing nothing but

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I have finished Maggie's Southern Reading Challenge very much in advance, as it runs until August 15th. But I am quite glad to have one little reading success on this blog; I am doing so many challenges and my TBR-list is so huge that I need to get something done-done-done from time to time.Here again are the three southern books I have read:William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury. Maybe the

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Stephanie from The Written Word is hosting this perfect challenge for any Jane Austen fan. Running through six months from July 1st 2009 to January 1st 2010, six "Austen-themed" works have to be read or watched and I am terribly looking forward to do a very mixed list of Jane Austen herself, sequels and/or spinoffs by authors fans of Austen and some of the many movies/series that have been made

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1. She had a great smile.2. Even is not physically present because of the distance, my family is by my side, always.3. I know this: sleeping with socks feels weird.4. "Silent" in German is still.5. These words apply to me: "I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel." (Terry Pratchett).6. Until quite late in the evening, the sun was shining.7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking

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Huge chain bookstores, small but surprisingly well furnished used-books stores and flea markets - Berlin is extremely dangerous for booklovers who are not completely broke. After almost one week in Berlin, I leave this overall amazing city with these treasures:*from the Berliner Trödelmarkt (famous flea market on sat/sun)*John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men - Cannery RowDaniel Defoe, Moll FlandersE.M

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I am filling my list in the Goodreads "50 Books a Year" group, but I thought I could make it a post here too, slowly growing until December.1. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells [Jan 5]2. Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell [Jan 3] 3. Gods behaving badly, Marie Philipps [Jan 13] 4. Hectors Reise oder die Suche nach dem Glück, Francois Lelord [Jan 10] 5. The Nanny Diaries,

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As I was away on a trip without my laptop last WE, I missed one Friday Fill-In and make it a double Friday this time. Obviously no WE plans for the first one. :)#1281. I grew up thinking that I would always live near the same best friends, in the same towns around.2. Goodreads of course was the last website I was at before coming here.3. Why don't you put some lemon juice into your water?4. A

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I just came back from a weekend in Düsseldorf to visit family with several used and not so used books I found when strolling through the amazing bookshop Sternverlag there.So that's what's in my suitcase:- a 1962 Rowohlt edition of Hunger by Knut Hamsun- Oblomow by Iwan A. Gontscharow- Doctor Schiwago by Boris Pasternak- Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton (the only new one)and Mrs. Dalloway

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This sequel of the wonderful Little Women has been laying around for at least a year and it is in the middle of many challenges to finish that I pick it up to read it.The little women are now three years older, Meg is getting married, gives birth to twins very soon and is learning to become the perfect little housewife she is meant to be. Beth stays the quietest of the family members and slowly

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1. I never get so much done as when I am alone at home.2. My favorite thing for dinner lately has been a Chinese vegetables mix.3. I haven't heard bark! bark! bark! for a while, but several mooooooo!4. A nice long walk is finally possible again after days of cold and grey weather.5. I hope to get some good news about my visa soon.6. When all is said and done, it's time for some tea in peace.7.

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I bought this novel on my trip to New Orleans in March 2009 in the Voodoo Spiritual Temple along with Robert Tallant's other work Voodoo in New Orleans, a collection of accounts of Voodoo practices and believers.Here's the text on the back of the book:"Witch? Sorceress? Daughter of Satan? Murderer? Thief? Saint? Which label best fits Marie Laveau? Queen of the Voodoos, she is considered to have

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1. It's cold and too windy to read outside without a blanket.2. For me, a salad is spoilt with tomatoes.3. My favorite health and beauty product is Nivea cream, it simply works for everything.4. When we take enough good music with us, I can really enjoy a nice long ride.5. Well, first of all I am on vacation and I don't need to do anything - I love to say that every morning to myself because

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21. How many states have you been in?I guess, US states are meant. As I have been only once to the US, not many at all. I have traveled to Massachusetts, Florida and Louisiana and had stopovers in Pennsylvania and and Georgia. Makes 5.22. If a sexist Man is called a pig, what is a sexist Woman called?Why not also a pig?23. You see the one person who you absolutely despise. If you were guarentee'd

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It's time again for "What's On Your Nightstand?" in the suddenly very rainy and windy end of May.On my nightstand in May are not many books I am actually reading, because I am having a time in which I read one book at a time. So the other books besides my current reading Rebecca are all books that are waiting to be the next one.Rebecca, Daphne Du MaurierThe Voodoo Queen, Robert tallantMoscow, a

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I'm really happy my copy of Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier) has arrived so quickly and I'm looking forward to read it, as soon as I have finished Slumdog Millionaire (Vikas Swarup).So my reading plan for end of May->end of June should be the following:- finish Slumdog Millionaire (Vikas Swarup)- read Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier) for the Classics Challenge, Royal's Romance Reading Challenge and my Fill

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1. Moving furniture around is my dad's annoying quirk.2. Real holidays make you feel free.3. My best quality is my ability to adapt quickly and never get dependent on things.4. I haven't count the number of people that have gone mad because of the importance I can give to little details.5. In nearly 10 years, I want to have my own stable place and stop worrying about what happens to my

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Okay, the Classics Challenge (April 1rst 2009 - October 31rst 2009) is again another challenge but I totally need to sign up for this one as I tremendously love classics!But I'm also starting late and have other challenges to complete, so my list will only contain four classics for the Classics Snack level that will contain crosspostings:1. Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca [x May 31st 2009]2. Jane

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I think I've never been so slow reading a book as I am with The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. I've bought The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini I am very eager to start but this damn Faulkner novel doesn't want to let me finish it and go over to the next book! Terrible. I cannot even think how I am going to write a review about it, as it is difficult to read and doesn't tie me to the story

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1. If we had no winter I would forever be stuck in my (fortunately light) spring and summer depression.2. I can't stand those tourists whose favourite occupation is to stay in a perpetual astonishment.3. If I had my life to live over, I would rather not - I want to see what's next!.4. I'll be moving out of my place, moving into a friend's place with another friend's things and give these things

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Yes, I know it really doesn't look like me and more like someone hacked my blog, but to vary a little bit in the genre and try out the extra challenges in letters and such, I signed up for Royal's Romance Reading challenge.Oh, and I thought the picture was cute. Did I mention that I secretly have been a huge fan of Sarah Kay all my life? (Yes, it's still me, I happen to be more than

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Title: Sólskinshestur (Icelandic), Le Cheval Soleil (FR), Sonnenscheinpferd (DE), in English that would be Sunshinehorse, but it hasn't been translated yet.Steinunn Sigurðardóttir, is an Icelandic novelist and poet. I got this French translation from my Grandmother for last Christmas and did not read it until now. These last days I needed a book to fill the gap until the start of the Southern

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I'm getting quite fond of those perpetual challenges, as it is very easy to convince myself that I'll be able to finish them some time in my life.Sarah's Disney Literature Challenge is even better, because the point is just reading whatever I like from the books that inspired the Disney movies.Surprisingly, I have read more books than I thought, or maybe I just don't always link the book and the

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I'm joining a new challenge: Maggie's Southern Reading Challenge (15th May - 15th August)!I have already read several Southern novels as one can see on my Goodreads shelf and enjoy it immensely. It even starts to be one of my favourite settings in novels, especially when the story evolves around the Civil War period.As I have to read 3 fiction or non-fiction books in this period, I will choose

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Obasan is one of the books I had to read for the course "Canadian Literature & Multiculturalism" and deals with Canadian citizens of Japanese origin who are interned as public enemies during WW2. This highly autobiographical novel is stunning in its quietness. In fact, we encounter the injustice and horrors only through the timid eyes of Naomi, the little girl of the family, and through the

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1. Apples are to oranges as vanilla ice cream is to chocolate ice cream: it depends on your mood.2. There are days when not getting bothered and be considered invisible is simply your right and that's all I have to say about that.3. I think I hear the little bell the neighbour's cat has on his neck under my window.4. As I forgot to buy one when I was there, I am really looking forward to find a

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So, another perpetual challenge (list if from Entertainment Weekly), but isn't it wonderful: I've already read several of them - checking things off at the very beginning of a to-do-list of any kind is simply pleasant :)Here's the list (in bold the read books):1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006)2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000)3. Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)4. The

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1. The first rule of working in an office and getting along is have a lot of humor but not necessarily show it.2. Hope this summer my grandmother will prepare some clams.3. When I think of carnivals I think of colors everywhere.4. Violets are my favorite spring flower.5. Things on my desk include a little wooden horse with the Icelandic flag on it.6. The new Fringe episode makes me wanna get the

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15723030265830816881noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19450220524103127.post-3590471347347247192009-04-30T01:23:00.005+03:002009-04-30T02:56:07.414+03:00

I am one day too late, but anyway, joining this for next time as it is on the fourth Tuesday of each month - with the firm project of taking a picture of it.Just for fun (I won't take any picture now), my nightstand, currently a brown cardboard box, has these books on it:- Tracy Chevalier, The Lady and the Unicorn [currently reading]- Robert Tallant, Voodoo in New Orleans [currently reading]- Y.G

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Becky is hosting this challenge and set it from April 2009 to March 2010. I've put myself in the category of one to three books as I prefer not to push it too hard at the beginning - I am not even set on the challenges I am going to participate in!I decided that I would not re-read something, as for me the point of challenges is getting to know new books. Re-reading is okay for me only in

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So I guess I will have to put some work in building my reading lists for the challenges I am interested in, even if I am a late joiner. I hope that nobody will chase me during this, as I'm somewhat busy with schoolwork (yep, exam time!) and will be content with my own pace.However, even the simple list building will be a challenge, as I absolutely love making lists, but have tons of books I want

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