So, what is everyone reading right now? After all, this is the reading room. It needs a thread like this! Please tell us its title, author, and what you think of it!
The depository for chronicling the texts you have acquired, whether through capitalistic excess, or having the book/s in question given to you by some kind soul. (Other means of procurement also apply.) I've been on a bit of a book-buying binge in the last two days, spurred by the good prices of...
As I've read a number of good books lately that I'd love to share, I thought I'd create this thread where others can post their own recommendations. This isn't necessarily a review thread so much as an area to post books that are (in your opinion) must reads. A rough template: Title:...
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I'm not sure how many of you are aware of the existence of ebooks and free online texts. The concept is that the copyright has run out on these books, they were never copyrighted, or they have been made available for public consumption. This includes the classics and some more recent books (see:...
Hi, I want to know what books you would recommend to a year 10 that doesn't like reading and would like to improve his Reading. cheers.
Who loves sci-fi, and I mean the purist sort like that published in the magazines of the 30's and 40's.
Anyone read the series stated in the title? I really like it!! My fav character is Jace haha XD I hear there might be a movie for it...lets hope so
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Just curious as to wonder what people think as the most annoying book of all time is.
i'm quite fond of reading during my spare time and im just interested in hearing what is/are your favourite book(s). it may give me some ideas of what to look for next time i go down to the local library.
Who is your favourite author/poet and - if you can be bothered - what is your favourite passage/sentence/poem that they wrote? Mine: Oscar Wilde "Her hair was as a wet fleece of gold, and each separate hair as a thread of fine gold in a cup of glass. Her body was as white ivory, and her ...
Alright, if you haven't read this you should. I'm not into futuristic adventure novels usually, but this was EXCELLENT. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. The sequal, Catching Fire, has just come out and the third one's coming out later in the year. Basically, without giving too much away,...
Top 3 favourite Books: 1st-Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur Golden 2nd-The Constant Princess- Phillipa Gregory 3rd- The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier Top 3 favourite Genres: 1st- Historical Fiction (preferably modern) 2nd- Crime Fiction 3rd- Fantasy
I've been looking around for a good anthology of short stories to read. Anyone care to recommend one they've read? :)
i'm currently reading nothing. but when i start and finish something, i'll review it. go go go go go go go go go go go
ok. i haven't read a decent book in over a month and i'm starting to go crazy! any hints? faves = looking for alibrandi before i die fallen the tomorrow series shiver basically young adult fiction, romance, fantasy...etc
what is your definition? i think a few of these books would rate as cult classics: the catcher in the rye american psycho the virgin suicides high fidelity nineteen eighty four a clockwork orange
what's this book like? i've only heard a little about it and heard that it is epic (1,000+ pages) and ii'm not sure about the difficulty level. what's it about? is it a non-fiction/essay or fiction? and ratings please! :)
Hi, i have a giftcard from a book store called"borders". I want to buy a recent or not very ancient romance book. Can you please recommend me some? Thanks a lot in advance :)
Hello Friends I'm one of the new member of this Forum,this is well sectioned forum and I found it really very Intresting for myself.
which books made you cry your tears out ?
Did anyone read the Grug books by Ted Prior when they were younger and do you still like Grug? They had about 4 words on each page and an illustration. I used to borrow them all the time when i was small. Just the other day i borrowed "grug has a birthday' from the library. The librarian...
so would you? say it's your most precious books and you been raving about it to your friend and then they ask you if they could borrow it, would you let them borrow it? we are talking about one of those book that you like so much that you dont think you can let anyone touch but want them to read? ...
Hi all, Just wondering how many of you have done speed reading courses. Are there any ones you would recommend?
Has anybody read this and thought it was over-rated? Or did you think it deserves all the hype around it? I'm posting this because after I got 3 quarters the way into the book, I got bored and fed up with it, as I found it boring and not as good as what I expected. But that's just my humble...
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
For all the fans of the Eragon/Inheritance Books: Who do you think will be the next Rider in the 4th Inheritance Book? Also Does anyone know when its coming out?
It's happened to my French dictionary and it becomes very annonying when I'm searching for a French word to translate into English. The whole front cover is creased and it bends almost perpendicularly when I'm going to look for a word on the French side of things. Does anyone know how to repair a...
the new/ish book by melina marchetta.... anyone read it. i picked it up in our library at school today. and havent yet turned the pages. so i guess i was just wondering if any of you out there have read it and or your thoughts on it? i shall keep you posted when i have finished?
are they overrated?
Doesn’t it get light early at the moment? I woke just before the dawn, which broke at about half past four, astonishingly, and found myself thinking about this post and how to write it. I’ve decided to take an extended blogging break, probably until the end of summer, and it wasn’t at all...
The British Museum Reading Room, situated in the centre of the Great Court of the British Museum, used to be the main reading room of the British Library. In 1997, this function moved to the new British Library building at St Pancras, London, but the Reading Room remains in its original form....
The British Museum Reading Room has become iconic. It is the subject of an eponymous poem, The British Museum Reading Room, by Louis MacNeice. Much of the action of David Lodge's 1965 novel The British Museum Is Falling Down takes place in the old Reading Room. Alfred Hitchcock used the Reading...
wheres some good books on the history of philosophy? thanks
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