My profile login | | Directory | Search | FAQs | Board home   Printer-friendly view   » Ship of Fools   »   » Oblivion   » Book Link (Page 50) Email this page to a friend or enemy.   Pages in this thread: 1  2  3  ...  47  48  49  50  51  52  53  54    Source: (consider it) Thread: Book Link Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        Dogzilla by Dav Pilkey The mice are terrorized by a monsterous, smiling corgi. -------------------- "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 Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Cara Shipmate # 16966 Posted                       The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth -------------------- Pondering. Posts: 898 | Registered: Feb 2012  |  IP: Logged balaam Making an ass of myself # 4543 Posted                           The Forsyte Saga, by John Galsworthy. -------------------- Last ever sig ... blog Posts: 9049 | From: Hen Ogledd | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Golden Key Shipmate # 1468 Posted                          The Never-Ending Story, by Michael Ende. (Saga. story.) -------------------- 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") Posts: 18601 | From: Chilling out in an undisclosed, sincere pumpkin patch. | Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged Cara Shipmate # 16966 Posted                       The End of the Affair by Graham Greene -------------------- Pondering. Posts: 898 | Registered: Feb 2012  |  IP: Logged Jane R Shipmate # 331 Posted                        The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Posts: 3958 | From: Jorvik | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                        The Daffodil Affair - Michael Innes -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne All about an affair and its aftermath. -------------------- "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 Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Cara Shipmate # 16966 Posted                       Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Scarlett O'Hara. -------------------- Pondering. Posts: 898 | Registered: Feb 2012  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead -------------------- "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 Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                        Making Mead - Brewing Your First Batch - Gregory Mahan -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged Cara Shipmate # 16966 Posted                       Beowulf (anonymous) The mead-hall. -------------------- Pondering. Posts: 898 | Registered: Feb 2012  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        The Cloud of Unknowing by Anonymous -------------------- "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 Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged L'organist Shipmate # 17338 Posted                           Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell Took me a while to get into it but then... WOW. And a great film too. -------------------- Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet Posts: 4950 | From: somewhere in England... | Registered: Sep 2012  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        I'll have to read that. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand I slogged through it in my freshman year. Never again. -------------------- "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 Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Cara Shipmate # 16966 Posted                       Cloud Atlas is wonderful, Mitchell brilliant. Random Harvest by James Hilton -------------------- Pondering. Posts: 898 | Registered: Feb 2012  |  IP: Logged L'organist Shipmate # 17338 Posted                           The Portrait of a Lady Henry James Although the Nicole Kidman/John Malkovich film got good(ish) reviews IMO the BBC dramatisation with Richard Chamberlain was better. Originally cast because of his previous fame as Doctor Kildare, Chamberlain was a revelation as Ralph: just brilliant. -------------------- Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet Posts: 4950 | From: somewhere in England... | Registered: Sep 2012  |  IP: Logged Cara Shipmate # 16966 Posted                       Would love to see that Chamberlain version of this wonderful novel. Will now always see Gilbert Osmond as Malkovich, though. Seriously creepy. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (double link!!) -------------------- Pondering. Posts: 898 | Registered: Feb 2012  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        Portrait of a Nude by Laura Annawyn Shamas Good play! -------------------- "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 Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Golden Key Shipmate # 1468 Posted                          Portrait Of Jennie*, by Robert Nathan. (RN did great, quirky, funny, poignant stories about spirituality and life. There's a good movie version of this one. Two more good RN stories: The Train In The Meadow and Heaven, Hell, And The Megas Factor.) *Or Jenny? [ 24. November 2013, 02:45: Message edited by: Golden Key ] -------------------- 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") Posts: 18601 | From: Chilling out in an undisclosed, sincere pumpkin patch. | Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged Cara Shipmate # 16966 Posted                       Jennie by Paul Gallico ( The Abandoned in the US.) wonderful book. Jennie is a cat. "When in doubt--wash!" -------------------- Pondering. Posts: 898 | Registered: Feb 2012  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                        The Snow Goose - Paul Gallico - the first Gallico I ever read, I was perhaps 10 years old at the time. -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        Mother Goose -rhymes chosen and illustrated by Tasha Tudor -------------------- "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 Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Jane R Shipmate # 331 Posted                        N or M? by Agatha Christie Slightly obscure, this one, but without giving too much away, nursery rhymes play an important part in the plot. Posts: 3958 | From: Jorvik | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        "M" is for Malice by Sue Grafton This from the Kinsey Millhone detective series. They are pretty entertaining. -------------------- "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 Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged L'organist Shipmate # 17338 Posted                           Malice Aforethought Francis Isles A classic who-dunnit from just after WWII. Track it down, worth reading. -------------------- Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet Posts: 4950 | From: somewhere in England... | Registered: Sep 2012  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                        A Death Divided - Clare Francis -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged Cara Shipmate # 16966 Posted                       Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather -------------------- Pondering. Posts: 898 | Registered: Feb 2012  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        The Archbishop in Andalusia by Andrew Greeley -------------------- "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 Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Golden Key Shipmate # 1468 Posted                          God's Smuggler, by Brother Andrew. -------------------- 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") Posts: 18601 | From: Chilling out in an undisclosed, sincere pumpkin patch. | Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        My Brother Michael by Mary Stewart -------------------- "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 Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                        Hare Sitting Up - Michael Innes -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged Cara Shipmate # 16966 Posted                       Watership Down by Richard Adams Double Link?! a) It's about rabbits, in same family as hares (Leporidae) and b) Up/Down -------------------- Pondering. Posts: 898 | Registered: Feb 2012  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett In which the AntiChrist is a nice kid named Adam. -------------------- "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 Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Golden Key Shipmate # 1468 Posted                          The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck. -------------------- 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") Posts: 18601 | From: Chilling out in an undisclosed, sincere pumpkin patch. | Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                        Earth Abides - George R Stewart -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged Cara Shipmate # 16966 Posted                       Stuart Little by E. B. White -------------------- Pondering. Posts: 898 | Registered: Feb 2012  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        A Little Book of Sloth by Lucy Cooke Sloths are cool animals! -------------------- "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 Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Golden Key Shipmate # 1468 Posted                          Julie's Secret Sloth, by Jacqueline Jackson. (Julie obtains a sloth, and hides it in her room. Good book.) -------------------- 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") Posts: 18601 | From: Chilling out in an undisclosed, sincere pumpkin patch. | Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                        The Secret Seven - Enid Blyton -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged agrgurich Shipmate # 5724 Posted                        The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad -------------------- Life is a comedy to those who think & a tragedy to those who feel.-Horace Walpole AJG Posts: 4478 | From: Michigan's Copper Country | Registered: Apr 2004  |  IP: Logged Golden Key Shipmate # 1468 Posted                          Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh. (Beloved kids' book. Part of a series. If you only know it from the movie version with Rosie O'Donnell as Miss Golly, please read the book!! I like Rosie, but IMHO she was wrong for the part.) -------------------- 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") Posts: 18601 | From: Chilling out in an undisclosed, sincere pumpkin patch. | Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming The Spy of spies. -------------------- "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 Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Cara Shipmate # 16966 Posted                       The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett Brilliant novella about how Her Majesty discovers a bookmobile and starts reading all sorts of books...books change everything.... -------------------- Pondering. Posts: 898 | Registered: Feb 2012  |  IP: Logged Jane R Shipmate # 331 Posted                        A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories by M.R. James Includes a story called 'The Uncommon Prayer-Book' Posts: 3958 | From: Jorvik | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Golden Key Shipmate # 1468 Posted                          The Canterville Ghost, by Oscar Wilde. -------------------- 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") Posts: 18601 | From: Chilling out in an undisclosed, sincere pumpkin patch. | Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson Twofer -------------------- "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 Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Cara Shipmate # 16966 Posted                       Brava, Lyda*Rose! Vice Versa by F. Anstey comic classic. Anson-Anstey--close enough? -------------------- Pondering. Posts: 898 | Registered: Feb 2012  |  IP: Logged Jane R Shipmate # 331 Posted                        Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers Same idea, different century... Posts: 3958 | From: Jorvik | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        The Mary Myth: On the Femininity of God by Andrew M. Greeley -------------------- "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 Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Pages in this thread: 1  2  3  ...  47  48  49  50  51  52  53  54    Printer-friendly view Go to: Select a board: Category: Ship's business -------------------- The Styx Category: Community discussion -------------------- Heaven Purgatory Hell All Saints Category: Special interest discussion -------------------- Ecclesiantics Kerygmania The Circus Dead Horses The Eighth Day Category: Ship's Locker -------------------- Glory Limbo Category: Things we did -------------------- Nativity Play Auctions The Laugh Judgment The Da Vinci Code Chapter & Worse Contact us | Ship of Fools | Privacy statement © Ship of Fools 2016 UBB.classicTM 6.5.0