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mjacobs

I enjoy the social networking side of Shelfari a lot, but if you send me a frienship invitation, I expect you to also send me a note with some personal content, explaining why you want my friendship.
About me: I love reading, photography, painting and drawing, and (hill)walking.
I like classic literature as well as fantasy, crime,...more »
  • Gent, Belgium
  • member since Tuesday, October 17 2006

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  • merle

    merle says

    Highsmith wrote RIPLEY...I like her STRANGERS ON A TRAIN...but not for teenagers...too dated....

    posted 8 days ago. ( send a note )
  • merle

    merle says

    oops...grammar error...and I'm an English teacher!!

    teens' interest....

    posted 8 days ago. ( send a note )
  • merle

    merle says

    I need suggestions for mysteries for teenage readers.
    Can you recommend a title of Hillerman's or Kellerman's that would really grab teen's interest?
    I am teaching an English elective in fall ..Mysteries and Crime Fiction.
    Right now I am reading TALENTED MR. RIPLEY and I may use that one..Best...from VA...USA..merle

    posted 8 days ago. ( send a note )
  • JudithAnn

    judithann says

    Hoi Monique, ja, nog bedankt voor je suggestie. Ik vond het heel grappig. Toch altijd weer gek, om bij zo'n boekverslag te schrijven dat het "een heel leuk boek over zelfmoord is". Dan denk ik wel eens of iemand daar wat minder blij mee zou kunnen zijn. Maar ja, het IS gewoon zo. Net als bij "A long way down" (Hornby), die had jij ook gelezen, dacht ik?

    posted 8 days ago. ( send a note )
  • sthurner

    sthurner says

    Hello Monique, I haven't heard from you in a while, but I like to peek at your shelves and see what you're reading. I haven't read very much this summer, and I can't say why, because I am not drawing as much as usual either, and I am certainly not going to the gym to work out. Summer is a good time to break routines, though, so that must explain it. We have had flooding here, complete with fish swimming up Main street. The river has gone down now, so people are starting to repair damage to the streets, businesses and homes. We were not damaged, since we live far from the river on a hill. Have you been to Wales this summer? I think that's quite interesting. We're headed out Thursday for 10 days in the Rocky Mountains and then the Badlands/Mt. Rushmore area. Let's hear it for bison and prairie dogs! I'm taking along Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh for the plane trip.
    Cheers,
    Sherry

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Monique

    monique says

    Ik vond trouwens nog een ander weerwolvenboek voor je:

    Bareback van Kit Whitfield (Nederlandse titel is De uitzonderlijke belevenissen van Lola Galley. Ik vond het wel een aardig boek. Het begin leest wat zwaar, maar later wordt het beter.

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Monique

    monique says

    Ja, het is een beetje raar met Twilight. Wij hebben hem bijvoorbeeld niet eens in de winkel liggen, wat ik persoonlijk buitengewoon jammer vind. Misschien wordt het anders als de film uit is, maar dat is voor jou natuurlijk veel te laat. Dan maar The 5th Elephant & Carpe Jugulum. Wat een straf ;o) Maar mocht je Twilight nog tegenkomen, dan zou ik hem zeker lezen. Ik heb hem net uit (maar laat het noteren nog even achterwegen tot ik bij de juiste tag ben) en ben er echt weg van.

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  • Ladyslott

    ladyslott says

    I discussed the true crime tag with Anita- we will alott you 14 points, (a little more than half, since that is about how much you finished). We will consider the tag finished, however for "Most books read" this one will not count. Sound fair??

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  • Coyotemusic

    coyotemusic says

    Have you read Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum? I looked through our "books in common" but didn't see it.
    It's totally different than her Brodie books, but it's an amazing read.

    posted 3 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • J R

    j r says

    Hi mjacobs! I see you are a very well rounded reader! And the quantity is astounding. I'd have more on my shelf, but I would rather read than try to list what I've read. I add some when I look at other peoples shelves and fondly remember the book. I am an graphic artist and painter. I'm also a granny, of one. I haven't been out of the U.S. much, Montreal, Canada and Rocky Point, Mexico. Would like to see Europe.
    Jeri

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Alta

    alta says

    Hi,

    and thanks for answering. Yes, the website was done on purpose like that, to blur the distinction between reality and fiction--or rather, it uses my short stories as material for my biography. But most of my stories are based on my life, albeit slightly fictionalized. I am at origin from northern Romania (close to Ukraine and Hungary), but I lived in many places.

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  • Alta

    alta says

    I posted the following note on the World Lit discussion group (topic: real Japan), then, when I looked at the date, I realized you'll never read it, since you posted on this topic over a year ago; so: Did you read Amelie Nothomb in French or in English? I assume in French, since you are Belgian. She has been translated into English, but here (in the States) she is totally unknown.

    Alta

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  • Bluetiful Hadeel

    bluetiful hadeel says

    Hi there :)
    So glad you have joined us in Kuwaiti BOOKWORMS. Feel free to participate, start your own discussions or just relax and watch :D
    Have a wonderful day.
    Hadeel

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  • Hermione ff-ff

    hermione ff-ff says

    We spent some time there, in winter, at a time when North Wales was in dire straits; towns dying, people leaving, streets of empty houses...

    The people we knew there were a small, thin Englishman & his enormous German wife-I mean really enormous, had to sleep on a mattress on the floor as a bed couldn't hold her-and their large family of children, at least 7. They used to travel around in a motorbike & sidecar-Lord, I wish I'd seen them in it. How the sidecar didn't lift the bike off the ground I don't know, nor how they all got in...it's so good to know such odd people, they were something out of a book. Lived on a small block of land & were basically self-sufficient, ate their own goats etc...

    A very dear friend here is Welsh & when I hear him say words like Llangollen I can see that the way of saying it is akin to Flemish. But I'd rather say it in the English way than try to sound Welsh & sound silly instead.

    It does seem odd to see Eeklo-made chocolate here in New Zealand-memories ! We do indeed live in a village.

    Give my love to John of Gaunt's castle...that was such a thrill.

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  • Hermione ff-ff

    hermione ff-ff says

    I didn't mean to read your mail-but the word Wales leaped out at me.

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  • Hermione ff-ff

    hermione ff-ff says

    I infuriated a Welsh friend with the assumption that LLangollen was only famous for The Ladies of Llangollen-well, how was I to know that the world-famous annual Eistedfodd was held there ?

    My chemist sells those little bars of Cavalier chocolate-made in Eeklo where we used to live.Ah, memories...

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • miekeh

    miekeh says

    Hoi,

    Leuk dat je de boeken ook goed vind. Ik heb dat ook een keer gedaan, de boeken herlezen en toen gedurende een vakantie in Wales een aantal plekken bezocht, heerlijk! Haar boek over Richard III is ook erg goed.

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  • ophelia

    ophelia says

    I've just read your review of Sacred Games. it's interesting for me because I had yet to read a review that was really enthusiatic. i was amused to see thzat some reviewers thought the book was worthless because it was "full of profanities" (I just wish books never got worse than this one).
    Who knows, maybe we'll be lucky with discussions of Indian authors at "Indian writing and Indian authors" and we can discuss "Sacred Games" after "a Suitable Boy"?

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Miriam Q

    miriam q says

    what part of Wales? I've only been once, to a town in south Wales called Abergavenny. I had an English boyfriend in grad school whose grandparents were from that town. I thought it was beautiful there, though I understand it's not even the most picturesque part of Wales. We went down an abandoned coal mine, now a museum.

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • ophelia

    ophelia says

    hello mjacobs,
    Thanks for your post about the "suitable Boy" discussion.
    I had seen you posting in a few groups I belong to, and I'm glad you are joining .

    Not many people seem to have read "Sacred Games", what did you think of it? There are not so many novels (that I've heard of) that deal with India in the present times, and that's one of the things that had attracted me to it.

    I'm extremely impressed by Tharoor's "India from Midnight to the Millenium"-- i've written a short review of it at shelfari.
    It's so well-written that I have bought his novel "The Great Indian Novel": the reviews say it takes characters and action from the Mahabharata epic and is also a satire of Indian politics; I've only read a few pages so far, this might prove to be difficult.

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )


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