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Cara
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A Streetcar Named Desire play by Tennessee Williams
(recently saw the Vivien Lee-Marlon Brando film of this all the way through for the first time. Extraordinary.)
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Leorning Cniht
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William Blount - William Henry Masterson
Blount was, among other things, first US senator from Tennessee
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Chorister
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Just William Richmal Crompton.
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Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
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'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
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The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
They both explain how the elephant got his trunk.
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"Perhaps an invincible attachment to the dearest rights of man may, in these refined, enlightened days, be deemed old-fashioned" P. Henry, 1788
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Leorning Cniht
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The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens
Not about elephants.
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Cara
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No More Meadows by Monica Dickens
(Descendant of Charles, better known for memoirs eg One Pair of Feet ; this is a novel.)
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ArachnidinElmet
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The Death of Grass by John Christopher
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'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
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Chorister
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The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm MacKay.
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Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.
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Boadicea Trott
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A Rose For Winter by Laurie Lee
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X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett
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Welease Woderwick
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To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Lyda*Rose
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I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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ArachnidinElmet
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Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
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'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
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Dolly and the bird of Paradise by Dorothy Dunnett
[ 27. February 2013, 06:36: Message edited by: jacobsen ]
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Golden Key
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Bird By Bird, by Anne Lamott.
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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ArachnidinElmet
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The Last Dodo by Ann and Reg Cartwright
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'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
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Cara
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Dodo by E. F. Benson
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jacobsen
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It ends with revelations by Dodie Smith
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Jane R
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The Starlight Barking by Dodie Smith
(HINT: there's a good link to one of Diana Wynne Jones' early books here, but you have to have read this to 'get' it...)
[ 04. March 2013, 09:48: Message edited by: Jane R ]
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Lyda*Rose
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The Star Dancers by Spider and Jeanne Robinson
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
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Life is a comedy to those who think & a tragedy to those who feel.-Horace Walpole
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Golden Key
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Men at Arms, by Terry Pratchett.
(Lyda--great to see someone else knows the Star Dance trilogy!)
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Cara
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A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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ArachnidinElmet
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The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
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'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
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Golden Key
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The Long Summer, by Louise M. Fitzhugh.
(One of the sequels to "Harriet the Spy". This one is about Beth, though Harriet and the gang are there, too.)
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Cara
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Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
(a beloved (by me) childhood classic. I fear I may have mentioned it before...sometimes I think we, or at least I, repeat ourselves on this book link, but.....never mind!)
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Jane R
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Dolphin Summer by Monica Edwards
(we probably do repeat ourselves, but who's going to wade through 40 pages to check? Don't think I've posted this one before, anyway)
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Cara
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Well I know we've already had the first one that leaps to mind, Elizabeth Goudge's Green Dolphin Country (or Green Dolphin Street as it was called in the US).....so.....
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother by Madeleine L'Engle
(which we may have had as well, but never mind!!)
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A City in Winter by Mark Helprin
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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jacobsen
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The city lies Foursquare by Edith Pargeter, aka Ellis Peters.
Long out of print, and if anyone could point me to or source me a copy, I'd be so grateful!
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Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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ArachnidinElmet
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The City & the City by China Mieville
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Boadicea Trott
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The City of Bells by Elizabeth Goudge
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ArachnidinElmet
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The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein
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Golden Key
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A Ring of Endless Light, by Madeleine L'Engle.
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Welease Woderwick
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Ring of Bright Water - Gavin Maxwell
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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You Know Me Al - Ring Lardner (whose publisher was Maxwell Perkins, if you want a double connection)
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(and other stories) by Ring Lardner
What sort of a name is Ring?
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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"Haircut"
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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The Doorbell Rang by Rex Stout.
[Although I apologize. I know we really need to get off the "ring" chain and onto something new. I just didn't know where else to go.]
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"We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it."--Pope Francis, Laudato Si'
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The Four Million, by O Henry. (Whose real name was William Sydney Porter. Stout, porter- get it?)
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Cara
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The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason
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Lyda*Rose
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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) by Don Miguel Ruiz
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Hedgehog
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The Wisdom of Father Brown, G.K. Chesterton (1914).
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"We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it."--Pope Francis, Laudato Si'
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Golden Key
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The Tao of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff.
(Tao...Wisdom. Fun, lovely, and thought-provoking book. A classic.)
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Lyda*Rose
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The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Cara
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
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Pondering.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureshi
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'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
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