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katie

katie

has 86 followers and is following 76 people

cities, coffee, conversation, dancing, gigs, letters, libraries, london, music, nighttime, philosophy, reading, ryan adams, sad songs, the smiths, travelling, wine, winter, writing to no-one, yellow roses

http://www.last.fm/user/threehours
  • York, UK
  • member since January 1, 2008

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  • Yosemite009

    Yosemite009 says

    Katie,
    I love your take on your books - likes and dislikes. I, too, was disappointed in "Matilda" and "Everything is Illuminated;" and I love Kundera and "Middlesex." I'll check back to your shelf when I need some more good ideas for my next read.
    Pura vida,
    Jeff

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Marc Tinkelenberg

    Marc Tinkelenberg says

    Nice shelf, and good to see a fan of Polly Jean here! Please allow me to lend an idea or 2 from your shelf...

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Jassafari

    Jassafari says

    Hello'

    Katie!

    JASS

    Whatcha reading?

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Irish Jeff

    Irish Jeff says

    I just wanted your take on Pulp.
    Judging by the lack of stars it was not one of your favorites by Hank.
    I came across it once and grabbed Hot Water Music instead but I have not seen it since.
    Suppose I have to travel to the big city and shop at a real overpriced bookstore.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • leigh

    leigh says

    oh, i did like it! it was such an interesting story. but i think there was just a little too much flowery description about moths, it was the only thing i didn't like too much.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • elle n'est pas parfaite

    elle n'est pas parfaite says

    Excellent! For Christmas I received 'The Secret History' and 'The Little Friend' a huge volume of JG Ballard, a new shiny copy of Hamlet, letters of Ted Hughes, Fast Food Nation, another copy of Moby Dick (I now have 3) and some french plays my friend compiled for me. It doesn't really look that much now that I've typed it out but the pile of reading is huge!

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • elle n'est pas parfaite

    elle n'est pas parfaite says

    Hello!
    I'll be interested to hear what you think of The Alchemist. I've got a mountain of books to read from Christmas and I want to read it eventually!

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • James M

    James M says

    you seem to have quite an interesting taste in literature. here's the real test though; are you well-read and well versed enough to know that the poetry posted below is bullshit?

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • The Ancient One

    The Ancient One says

    THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS

    When despair for the world grows in me
    and I wake in the night at the least sound
    in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
    I go and lie down where the wood drake
    rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
    I come into the peace of wild things
    who do not tax their lives with forethought
    of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
    And I feel above me the day-blind stars
    waiting with their light. For a time
    I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

    — Wendell Berry

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • uplandpoet

    uplandpoet says

    Welcome to Better than Starbucks! Look around, make yourself at home, start a new thread or dig up an old one or just read and jump in on the more active ones.

    We are honored to be one of your first groups!

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Jassafari

    Jassafari says

    Thanx for the friendship'

    JASS!

    What are you reading?

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Ashley Rae

    Ashley Rae says

    You must read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn when you get the chance. It is a wonderful book. I've read it twice, and it's definately worth a third read!

    I hope you've been well!

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Louise

    Louise says

    Thanks for adding me. You seem very nice, and into good music and books too! I see you're reading Great Expectations, it's one of my favourite books, i hope you enjoy it as much as i did!!

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Louise

    Louise says

    Yeh Tom Waits was exactly one of those artists where i'd listened a bit to him, but not much and found him a bit odd. But then one day i just couldn't believe why i didn't listen to him properly.
    I can't wait to see Laura Marling at all. Some friends of mine who live in London have seen her a million times, i'm so jealous. But i finally get to see her.
    As for Emmy the Great, I found most of her stuff through http://elbo.ws/ You can search for artists and it will bring up a selection of links to mp3's you can download. So i just rooted around for her stuff through sites like that.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Louise

    Louise says

    oh, and also get listening to Jeff Buckley. amazing artist.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Louise

    Louise says

    hi there, looking at your last.fm i think you would like Emmy the Great, Johnny Flynn and i also think you should try listening to Tom Waits. He sounds weird at first but then you really appreciate the beauty of his music. I think you'd like his tracks 'Widows grove', 'Hows it Gonna End', and 'Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis' - momentarily perfect that one.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • elle n'est pas parfaite

    elle n'est pas parfaite says

    Ah, it's one of those types of books! I'm like that with Girl, Interrupted. I read the book when I was fifteen and read it on a monthly basis for a while, I tried reading it again last week and it felt like a chore.
    Thanks for letting me know what you thought of Speak. I'll have to give it a read!
    Oh and would you like to be friends on Shelfari?
    x x

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )

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