What was the last book you bought?
- Thread starter Haggis McBagpipe
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Lisa said:
Maybe :sign7: . . .when you have finished your reading, you could give us a book report? Initialize a Book Reports thread?
Book reports threat good idea. As long as there are no rules to the size or contents of the report; just what you thought of the book in question!
Really good idea!
Really good idea!
researchok said:
What? I'll? You mean you think I can? Or you can?
(and yes I am blonde and not too bright *lol*
Lisa said:
When you put yours up, you have my commitment--I'll have re-read Caroline Alexander's book, "Endurance," and support you. It's the best thing I've read in many a year. And, it will get me away from the television!
owkeej, I am now reading Orlando from Virgina Woolf. It is a bit boring so, it can take a while to finish it. I will make a report as soon as I finished it.
I'm going to reread "The Power of one" by Bryce Courtney. If you have not read this book, you must. It's an unbelievable story about the power of the human soul.
Verslag.
Ik heb niet veel tijd dus ik moet snel werken. Werk je aan het verslag?
Ik spreek vloeiend Nederlands. :wink:
Lisa said:
Ik heb niet veel tijd dus ik moet snel werken. Werk je aan het verslag?
Ik spreek vloeiend Nederlands. :wink:
Exactly!!
Um. Yes. Did I mention I love to read? I think maybe I'll go do that right now...oh no wait, I must post and catch up from all the posting I missed while I was working instead of posting!
Have any of you read "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein? Now there is one crazy man!!
Um. Yes. Did I mention I love to read? I think maybe I'll go do that right now...oh no wait, I must post and catch up from all the posting I missed while I was working instead of posting!
Have any of you read "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein? Now there is one crazy man!!
It sure is. All Silverstein's books are great! There's a poem in one of them about a set of bagpipes, it is hilarious. Diamond Sun, do you recall it?
It's a childrens poetry book, but it's just so bizarre, like Dr. Seuss but not.
This is one of my favourites:
Sick
"I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
"I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox
And there's one more--that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut--my eyes are blue--
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I'm sure that my left leg is broke--
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button's caving in,
My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,
My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My nose is cold, my toes are numb.
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There is a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is--what?
What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is. . .Saturday?
G'bye, I'm going out to play!"
This is one of my favourites:
Sick
"I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
"I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox
And there's one more--that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut--my eyes are blue--
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I'm sure that my left leg is broke--
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button's caving in,
My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,
My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My nose is cold, my toes are numb.
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There is a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is--what?
What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is. . .Saturday?
G'bye, I'm going out to play!"
Diamond Sun said:
Oh, yes, yes, yes. He is a genius! How about Maurice Sendak's, "Where the Wild Things Are?" Have you seen Bergman's "The Magic Flute," with the Sendak woodland critters?
Laura Esquivel's Sweet as Desire is laying under my sleeping apparatus. Has been for months, not a slur on her, I am having trouble getting to it.
Same author wrote Like Water for Chocolate, good book.
I only have eyes for simple trash these days, Marian Keyes, don't-make-me-think stuff, sometimes fluff is grand.
I assume this too will pass.
Same author wrote Like Water for Chocolate, good book.
I only have eyes for simple trash these days, Marian Keyes, don't-make-me-think stuff, sometimes fluff is grand.
I assume this too will pass.
"I only have eyes for simple trash these days, don't make-me-think stuff, sometimes fluff is grand".
Don't make-me-think stuff can be just what the doctor ordered sometimes, speaking of which the girl's guide to hunting and fishing was very funny. Your right this to shall pass without a doubt
Don't make-me-think stuff can be just what the doctor ordered sometimes, speaking of which the girl's guide to hunting and fishing was very funny. Your right this to shall pass without a doubt