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Books for sawp

Think-Twice — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:33:55 +0300

Hi,

Let me list some of my books that are available for swap first:

- Invisible cities by Italo Calvino
- Once upon a more enlightened tinme by James Finn Garner
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
- Eats, shoots and leaves by Lynne Truss
- Kite runner by Khaled Hosseini

There are some non-fiction that is available for swap too, but I need sometime to sort them out ...

Anyone interested could pm me. Also welcome others to list their books for exchange too.

Thanks.

Think2

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selling my books expat leaving

charmed — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:59:18 +0300

selling many of my books on saturday between 10 - 4 please email me if you are interested and i shall email you the list and location

all books are english

also have a huge amount of enid blyton books which are for sale as a collection offers considered for these wont seperate them! inclusive of a first edition!!

my books need good homes!

sadly selling due to being relocated and i have far too much stuff too ship

happy reading

ps dvds for sale also

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If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs

jauntie — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:53:41 +0300

Legs manual wins odd title prize

The manual places emphasis on the importance of lower limbs

A self-help guide called If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs has been voted the oddest book title of the year.

The book beat off competition from I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Queen to win The Bookseller magazine's prize.

Cheese Problems Solved took third place in a poll which attracted 8,500 votes.

Joel Rickett, deputy editor of The Bookseller, said of the winner: "So effective is the title that you don't even need to read the book itself."

SELECTION OF PAST WINNERS

The Joy of Chickens

American Bottom Archaeology

Versailles: The View From Sweden

Re-using Old Graves

Highlights in the History of Concrete

The Joy of Sex: Pocket Edition

Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers

The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories

People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It

The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification

He added that it "makes redundant an entire genre of self-help tomes".

The manual, whose author is named Big Boom, is described as a "self-help book, written by a man for the benefit of women".

Bookseller's contest began in 1978, and the roll-call of previous winners includes High Performance Stiffened Structures, Living with Crazy Buttocks and How To Avoid Huge Ships.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7317933.stm

I thought this was quite amusing, particularly when you read the SELECTION OF PAST WINNERS! Not to mention the titles which were 'beaten off' :D

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Book Swap

Oryx — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:08:29 +0300

Every time I try to organise a general book swap I fail!

Anyway any one interested - pm me!

Also could swap jigsaws?

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What are your latest book acquisitions?

Pepe — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:23:23 +0300

Show them off here! :)

Here's mine.

Chronicler of the Winds- Henning Mankell
Samurai William, The Englishman Who Opened Japan- Giles Milton
Isaac Asimov's "Aurora"- Mark Tiedemann
Isaac Asimov's "Robot City"- William Wu
The Red Badge of Courage- Stephen Crane
The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini (currently reading)
Smoke and Mirrors- Neil Gaiman

I am so excited!

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Afghanistan - Books

Oryx — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:39:44 +0300

This certainly must be a beguiling country due to the plethora of books inspired.

It isn't just morbid Taliban curiousity but books about Afghanistan seem to be testament to the amazing human spirit and resourcefulness.

Have you read any of the following (or others) and what do you think?

Bookseller of Kabul

Beauty School of Kabul

Swallows of Kabul

Sewing Circles of Herat

1000 Splendid Suns

The Kite Runner

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Book exchange

Think-Twice — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:40:12 +0300

Hi,

I have moved to Doha for a few months, together with my collections of books. They are not antiques but I have spent days and nights reading them. Some are fiction, some are non-fiction on business, society, nature and, my favourite, geography.

If anyone is interested to share or exchange, please let me know.

Thanx.

Think2

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GIBRAN

alma wad — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:13:43 +0300

KHALIL GIBRAN was born 124 years ago as an Arab from Lebanon .Later he emigrated to the USA and wrote his novels in English, in Arabic .
I read from him The Prophet ,The Madman and I liked them very much however the Broken Wings did not impress me at all .
I know that he is very popular in the USA .Can anyone tell me how popular is he in the Middle East ? Is he known ,loved taught at school ?
Thank you ..

"You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen,—the seven masks I have fashioned an worn in seven lives,—I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting, “Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves.”

Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me.

And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top cried, “He is a madman.” I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed my own naked face for the first time. For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, “Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks.”

Thus I became a madman.

And I have found both freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief."

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Bookcrossing.com - My bookshelf

trinity — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:50:03 +0300

Hi, all Book Club members. Bookcrossing.com is a wonderful site where you can "catch" and "release" books all over the world. I have a virtual "bookshelf" there. My sn is echenena - take a peek and if there's something that strikes your fancy, let me know.

T-

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adverbs?

butterfly — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:07:56 +0300

Hi there?

Anyone read "Adverbs" by Daniel Handler? It has been sitting in my bedside table for a few days now and I just don't find the motivation to start to read it...

Would you recommend it?

Last book I read has been a total waste of time... the latest of Pablo Cohello, I don't know why I even bother with him any more...He just plays this role of spiritual guru and I find his stories a complete nosense (except for the alchimist, I liked that one).

Anyways...I'm looking for a good read. Something that when I'm done with it, I can be glad I spent some nights with. Any book you enjoyed lately?

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