• Welcome to BookAndReader!

    We LOVE books and hope you'll join us in sharing your favorites and experiences along with your love of reading with our community. Registering for our site is free and easy, just CLICK HERE!

    Already a member and forgot your password? Click here.

Recently Purchased/Borrowed

Yesterday I got:

Mort by Terry Pratchett
Captives/Breeding Ground by Shaun Hutson (a double book)
Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
Madame Wu's Art of Chinese Cooking by Sylvia Wu
Whit by Iain Banks
Canal Dreams by Iain Banks
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
 
Recently purchased

If I Don't Write it Nobody Else Will: - Eric Sykes' autobiography.

Fascinating background to one of my comedy heroes.
 
Talking of trilogies, I just bought The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy:

  • All The Pretty Horses
  • The Crossing
  • Cities Of The Plain
 
Half a dozen more Bond books:

Live and Let Die
Diamonds are Forever
Dr No
Moonraker
Thunderball
Goldfinger

The General of the Dead Army - Ismail Kadare
Selected Stories - Julian Maclaren-Ross
 
These came in for me at the library the other day:

Comfort Woman: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese Military-Maria Rosa Henson

Marcel-Erwin Mortier
 
abecedarian said:
Comfort Woman: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese Military-Maria Rosa Henson
Click to expand...

Omigosh, abc. What a thought-provoking title. Comfort Woman. :eek:

Makes me think of the seventeen heavenly virgins who are anxiously awaiting Saddam's execution. (And I use the word anxiously advisedly.)

Please tell us about this woman's story after you have read it?
 
Stewart said:
Talking of trilogies, I just bought The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy:

  • All The Pretty Horses
  • The Crossing
  • Cities Of The Plain
Click to expand...

I recently read the border trilogy, Stewart, and although McCarthy is revered as an amazing writer, I have read where one reviewer pointed out that some of his stories were to be "endured" rather than enjoyed. I have to agree with that assessment. Life can be grim in McCarthyland.
 
StillILearn said:
Omigosh, abc. What a thought-provoking title. Comfort Woman. :eek:

Makes me think of the seventeen heavenly virgins who are anxiously awaiting Saddam's execution. (And I use the word anxiously advisedly.)

Please tell us about this woman's story after you have read it?
Click to expand...

I will..the term 'comfort women' was the title given by the Japanese military, I believe.
 
StillILearn said:
Makes me think of the seventeen heavenly virgins who are anxiously awaiting Saddam's execution. (And I use the word anxiously advisedly.)
Click to expand...
According to Robin Williams, he's more likely to get beat up in heaven because they misintepreted the holy text wrongly... it's 17 Virginians!


ds
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top