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February 04
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September 05, 2008
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Anneke Dubash
gave  to:
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by
David Sedaris
bookshelves:
biography-autobiography
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read in September, 2008
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Anneke Dubash
marked as to-read:
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by
David Sedaris
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bought----next-in-line,
to-read
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Anneke Dubash
is currently reading:
The Rule of Four (Mass Market Paperback)
by
Ian Caldwell
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currently-reading
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Anneke Dubash
gave to:
Salamander (Paperback)
by
Thomas Wharton
bookshelves:
fiction
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read in September, 2008
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August 11, 2008
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Anneke Dubash
gave to:
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Hardcover)
by
Alison Bechdel
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June 09, 2008
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Anneke Dubash
gave  to:
DÆMONAMANIA (Paperback)
by
John Crowley
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Anneke said:
"Definitely more going on in Daemonomania, Volume 3 of the Aegypt series.
Still, I do wish someone would get to the bloody point in the book. At least this volume is moving at a faster pace than the first two volumes. I just wish that Crowl...more
Definitely more going on in Daemonomania, Volume 3 of the Aegypt series.
Still, I do wish someone would get to the bloody point in the book. At least this volume is moving at a faster pace than the first two volumes. I just wish that Crowley didn't feel the need to fill the reader in on things that went before in the previous volumes, as though he expects the reader to have a short memory. If you didn't bother reading the first two volumes, you shouldn't be reading this one.
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May 22, 2008
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Anneke Dubash
gave to:
The Solitudes (Paperback)
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John Crowley
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my rating:
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read in May, 2008
Anneke said:
"I am about half way through the book and am enjoying it. However, I find that, unlike "Little, Big", it isn't moving along as swiftly as I would like. I find myself dozing off in parts, particularly in the bits which SHOULD be interesting, ...more
I am about half way through the book and am enjoying it. However, I find that, unlike "Little, Big", it isn't moving along as swiftly as I would like. I find myself dozing off in parts, particularly in the bits which SHOULD be interesting, where he is laying out the whys and wherefores of Ægypt...
However, I persevere.
Interestingly enough, I had never heard of Dr. John Dee before and the other evening, I was watching a documentary of odd things at the British Museum. I switched away at a commercial and when I switched back, they were talking about Dr. Dee. I would have liked to have seen a whole program or at least a more lengthy segment on him. Quelle coinkidink...
At the very least, they showed a number of the obsidian mirrors and balls used at the time for "scrying", including a mirror owned by Dee, himself, later owned by Horace Walpole.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dee
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Post reading...
I am still reserving judgment. After starting to read "Love and Sleep", I am somewhat Ho-hum about this, the "first", volume.
Apparently, Crowley was dissatisfied when the originally published trilogy was published as a single volume and the three parts assembled differently from his intention. However, the "first" volume doesn't see to get anywhere much. Unless I completely change my mind after this and the "third" volume, much of this book could have simply been incorporated into "Love and Sleep" without too much difficulty.
I think I find his decision to start our introduction to Pierce, the main character, in adulthood rather arbitrary and it becomes that much more difficult to get to know him.(less)
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