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My kid is much more beautiful than that gothic guy!!



Jxxx

I'm sure u have Em. Thanks 4 telling us about it.

ellijay wrote:

My kid is much more beautiful than that gothic guy!!



Jxxx

I bet he is Jane!

I finished reading a really good book last night. Namely mthe opening book of a fantasy series called Stravaganza. The author is Mary Hoffman and the book is called City of Masks. It's a story that just takes you a long. It moves on two different levels in the present day and in 15th century Talia - place which is lot like our Italia, but located in other dimention. The main character is 15 year old Lucien, who is suffering from serious illness and with a help of Venetian notebook he gets into a unbelievable adventures between two different dimentions. It's a story full of political conspiracies, empresses and emperors, a story about life and death, a story about friendship. The city of masks hides behind its mask thousands of secrets that are slowly revieled to the reader. I've never before read anything like this. I give 10 out of 10 to this story.

Glad u liked the book there Em. Thanks 4 telling us.

I'm nowadays really hard reader, lately I've read a really funny book by Terry Prachett called Masquerade, it's actually an old story in new covers. Namely as the base of the story is Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the opera, but the way that Prachett tells the story is really unique and full of humour. The book is full of witches, goblins and other unbelievable creatures and once you start reading the story you just cannot put the book away from your hands. It's almost like a fairytale for the adults - no wonder that this author has been called as the Charles Dickens of the 21st century.

I've also read while ago a book called Tiger's moment by Finnish author Nina Banerjee-Louhija. It was a touching story about life and death and the fragility of human mind with the pictorescue scenery of italian villa and countryside village.

At the moment I'm reading a criminal novel by Donna Leon called A nobel radiance. A sceleton is found with a sealring from a italian field. And this brings the kidnapping of a son of a Venetian nobel family back to the daylight. And this forces inspector Brunetti to research the busines relations and other secrets of the nobel family from dangerously close...

Thanks 4 telling us Em of what ur reading or have already read there. Yet u reading Masquerade and mentioning witches and goblins is quite appropriate considering that Halloween is coming up soon. Lol.

I finished the Donna Leon criminal novel on Saturday morning and now I'm reading Diana Gabaldon's Lord John and the private matter, a historical romantic thriller which takes place in London year 1757. It's a story about a murder and question of honour. A story about network of secrets and deseave.

I'm readig the book "Is anybody out there" by Marian Keys. I don't know if I like it yet.

Well thanks 4 telling us what u were reading there and what u're reading now guys.

I like reading...and i like many books...
but i will always recommend The Phantom
of The Opera by Gaston Leroux...
this is the book i love the most.
i could read it over and over again.

Thanks 4 telling us that Anamaria.

Very interesting there Darijas. Thanks.

I just finish "the war of the worlds" by H G Wells !

I really like it !

Many things are different from the movie...
And, really, i prefer the book !!

Thanks 4 telling us Chief.

For more informations about "the war of the worlds" :

http://books.google.fr/books?id=1HoBYmku9uQC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=twopage&q=&f=false

(you can read the book online)

and :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds

Also, i just finished the book "Entre deux ames" ("between two hearts")

It's a french book by M Delly publish in 1913 and i don't know if we can find it in english...

It's a romance.

" The women surrounded it by impassioned admirations, to which, till the time
here, it was remained insensitive. It was let adore with an ironic
indifference, while having fun only sometimes to excite, by a
transitory attention, these female jealousies. Time with other, it
engaged a flirt, which never lasted more than one season. His
friends knew whereas the novelist had discovered a type curious to
study and qu' they would find it, dissected with an incomparable
control, in its next novel. Very fine and very corrosive ironist, it
revealed word, in its words or in its writings, all weaknesses, all
ridiculous, and its mocking remarks sharp-edged, which wrapped
exquisite forms when they were addressed to the women, were dreaded of
all, because they disabled the surest people of themselves"

http://oriane_carnet.space-blogs.com/blog-note/98965/delly-m-entre-deux-ames.html

Here you can download the book, but it's in french :

http://manybooks.net/titles/dellym2785527855-8.html

I have to say that, instead of i don't really like romance, i really like this book...

On War Of The Worlds: Great pic Chief.

Entre Deux Ames (Between Two Hearts): Thanks 4 telling us about it.

Damn. I haven't finished reading Jorge Lorenzo's book yet. Really must start to read it soon.

at the moment i'm reading Anna Karenina

actually, i read "Dr House, why is he so wicked"
it's really interesting, it's also speak about the new serials...

The french title is "Dr House, pourquoi est il aussi mechant"

http://www.amazon.fr/Dr-House-Pourquoi-est-il-m%C3%A9chant/dp/2356360794