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Book 4: The 7 Professors of the Far North

It’s been a while since I updated this, but I have actually been reading quite a bit (thank you Kindle, and flooded car park).  This book was read at some point before the flooding though, and is an...

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Book 5: Muse and Reverie by Charles de Lint

Charles de Lint is an author I have been reading off and on for the last 15 years or so.  His books usually center around the fictional Canadian town of Newford.  Muse and Reverie is a book of short...

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Random notes

Look it is Thursday, might as well be random. Went to “Dynamic yoga”today- it is like yoga on steroids.  I am seriously the least bendy person in the class, including the pregnant lady. Still a fun...

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Books I have read

There is a big pile of books to be gotten rid of by the front door, and it has been a nagging idea that one was a book my mother might like.  But I couldn’t find it.  Then it occured to me that the...

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Books I have been reading:Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance

I actually read this book a couple of weeks ago, and have been pondering the review ever since.  I really like Lois McMaster Bujold’s work (she would be the author).  However I have been avoiding her...

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What I have been reading

Rain and illness have contributed to quite a bit of reading. This is not necessarily the order in which they were read, rather the order and collection they were in as I put them in my book journal....

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Current reading and thoughts

I am in the process of reading a book called the secret life of pronouns:what our words say about us by James W. Pennebaker. It’s fascinating, about how our words, spoken and written, reveal our inner...

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What I have been reading and thoughts

One of the books I read on the train journey was Brandwashed by Martin Lindstrom. I liked buyology a few years ago, and this one was also interesting. Basically all about how brands form a fundamental...

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10 books

So, there is this meme going around farcebook about 10 influential books, or movies.  I have been tagged.  But I am not a fan of posting on the book of face.  So, putting it here. Books that have stuck...

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books I have been reading

Well, a book I have read.  I have been reading a lot of romances in Scribd, but I can’t take pictures so easily. 1215 The year of the Magna Carta is by Danny Danziger and John Gillingham.  It’s a light...

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Microblog Monday- book discovery

I recommended an author to someone at work last week, and today I got an email following up, plus with a commentary about struggling to find new authors.  It got me thinking about authors I recommend....

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