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Freshwater Fishing Tips and Techniques by Gene Kugach (ordered it). I'm not great at fishing and this book is supposedly excellent for "city-folk"
I chose this one becuase it has illustrations. Posts: 2275 | Registered: Dec 2009
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Sash I ordered books from Amazon today..... but they were for someone else. Impressed.. You should be Posts: 4476 | From: Scotland | Registered: Mar 2006
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Between American holidays and Kiahk, I've been pretty occupied but I did start "Growing Up Bin Laden: Osama's wife and son take us inside their secret world" by Najwa Bin Laden, Omar Bin Laden and Jean Sasson. The book has been very interesting while at times disturbing to the point where I have to put it down and pick up something more positive. Both Najwa and Omar seem like very good people. I'm sure there are a lot of Jean Sasson fans here!
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Oh yeah- also started "Mother of the Believers" by Kamran Pasha. I'm not usually a big fiction person but sometimes to chill out...
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Three Cups of Tea ..Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
This is just such a wonderful and inspiring book.
Greg Mortenson was helped by a village in Pakistan to recover after a failed attempt at climbing K2. He was so moved by their kindness that he returns to build a school and ends up dedicating his life to building schools in the Northern region of Pakistan and also Afghanistan after the war starts there. He very much champions the cause of education for girls.
The book looks at the way a normal balanced education can help to combat the wave of extremist Islam being taught in the madrassas springing up all over the region , and how this can be a far more effective approach to the problem of terrorism than ever the bomb can be.
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I just finished a very controversial booked titled The Shack. It delves into the Christian believe of the Holy Trinity...God the Father, God the Son & God the Holy Ghost.
Many pastors here are preaching very heavily against the book. One Egyptian Christian pastor Michael Youseff has a 12 week series of sermons on it!!
I felt if was a great book...I like to think God can take human form and come to earth..whether it be an African American woman, an Arab man, an Asian woman..etc
Then again...I am very much into controversial stuff! That's why I love ES!!
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Im currently reading ¨Cairo:City of Sand¨,by Maria Golia. Highly recommend it. Some excerpts from it:
¨....if Cairenes appear the most agreeable of yea-sayers it´s because ¨no¨implies confrontation,or worse,dissapointing the interlocutor.This is a culture where the art of determining what others want or need to hear is inculcated,perhaps compassionately,from birth.Egyptians are past masters at bending truths to create soothing speeches.¨
Wonderful, amazing, crazy, funny, and extremely creative. I am reading the German original and have no clue how it was possible to translate it into English since the author invents all those really hilarious names and things.
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Ohhh,Oum Kalthoum,the legendary voice of Egypt. [/QB][/QUOTE]
My husband loves her music and often plays it when we are in the car, it took me a few listens before I went from finding it strange to liking it. He said the same thing happened when he was a kid his parents used to play it and he hated it until he got older.
I am currently reading a whole series of "Babylon" books by Imogen Edwards Jones, author of Hotel Babylon....she gets anonymous people from various industries from tourism to travel to the music industry telling what really goes on and there is lots of interesting gossip..so far I have read about 5 of them, air babylon being my favourite.
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My friend's brother worked high up in a very posh hotel in London and he had the luck to put a very drunk Mr Depp to bed 'Nine Parts of Desire' is finished. Very enjoyable. Just deciding what to read next Posts: 4476 | From: Scotland | Registered: Mar 2006
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quote:Originally posted by young at heart: My friend's brother worked high up in a very posh hotel in London and he had the luck to put a very drunk Mr Depp to bed 'Nine Parts of Desire' is finished. Very enjoyable. Just deciding what to read next
One book less from your pile. I read that one almost 9 years ago Posts: 3833 | From: here,there,everywhere | Registered: Nov 2007
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My new hobby at the moment is audiobooks...there are numerous sites on the web where you can download them for free and I've joined audible.com which is owned by Amazon, not free but good prices. They have lots of audio books I like.
Now that I am a jobless layabout with nothing to do all day, much of my time was spent reading because I don't really watch TV, all of my friends have jobs so there is nothing much to do on weekdays. At least with these audiobooks I can walk the dog and do other stuff at the same time as listening.
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For the first time I am reading "The Handmaid's Tale". Margaret Atwood died a little while ago and her book details are starting to emerge in my nations headlines.
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quote:Originally posted by young at heart: Currently reading 'Nile' by Laurie Devine. Looking to buy 'Married to a Bedouin' by Marguerite van Geldermalsen. I'm waiting 3 books on order from Amazon which are biographies on women's lifes in Egypt and Saudi.
On the same line of the subjects you like to read,did you read this one?If not,get it,you will enjoy it.
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Just started 'A Week in December' by Sebastian Faulks. It's set in London and follows the lives of various people over 7 days. Enjoying it so far.
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It was one of those books once you start you can't put it down Basically it's about a english woman who gives up everything in the UK to go and live with her holiday romance only to find it isn't quite as she expected. You follow them through their journey of culture difference, class difference.....a great, easy read that I would recommend Posts: 1244 | From: we come in peace | Registered: Nov 2006
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Currently reading "The Name of the Rose". I've been reading some of Umberto Eco's non-fictionial stuff for work-related reasons lately, and that reminded me that I have never read that book before and never watched the movie. Thoroughly enjoying it, btw.
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My favourite book is 'Faulcaut's pendulum' by Umberto Eco. One of those books, I suspect, plagiarised for the Da Vinci Code. Sadly don't have a copy here now. One of those books you simply have to read twice, or your brain starts to ache. Currently reading My Name Is Red, by Orhan Pamuk, think he won a Nobel. But phew! Good but heavy going so far.
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I have decided to re read Inside Egypt, The Land of the Pharoahs on the brink of a revolution as it so pertinent to what is happening at the moment.
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i just Finished "Reunited in the desert" by Helle Amin.It's about how Helle succeded to get back her sons from Saudi Arabia.
An other similair book about an Australian case where the mother lost her son and daughter to their father in Malaysia"Once I was a princess" by Jacqueline Pascarl
Both easy to raed and quite interesting.
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quote:Originally posted by young at heart: I have decided to re read Inside Egypt, The Land of the Pharoahs on the brink of a revolution as it so pertinent to what is happening at the moment.
God,exactly was i was thinking yesterday,YAH!That book gives a lot of insight of what is happening now in Egypt.Reading it again now would bring it up into perspective.
By then ,i didnt know much about the tortures part.
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Great minds think alike Sash! I've finished re reading it and it certainly made things clear and so topical.
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Kitcheners last volenteer.........Fancy reading about the British history of WW1 and life here in the late 1800's- early 1900's exerpt from book ''the year 1896 saw the first person in Britian fined for speeding.Walter Arnold was driving through Paddock Wood in Kent at 8mph- 4x the 2mph limit imposed on built up areas by the locomotive act 1865- when he was spotted by a local constable who was having his lunch in a nearby cottage. The constable donned a police helmet and chased the car on his bicycle. He eventually apprehended Mr Arnold, who was later fined 1 shilling. There were just 20 cars in Britain at the time. Amazing imagine that LOL and it was real life a long time ago I would love to read cairo-city tapogragh will do a little search on amazon to see if its available in UK as it sounds a good read x
OMG now i remember why i wanted to read this book so much its based very close to where i actually live and work...(when not on maternity leave) WALTHAMSTOW Shanta have u read this book ? we both know the area well Posts: 634 | From: the Moon........... | Registered: Mar 2007
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quote:Originally posted by Mo Ning Min E: Currently reading My Name Is Red, by Orhan Pamuk, think he won a Nobel. But phew! Good but heavy going so far.
Loved loved loved that book. Snow? Not so much.
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The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler. I find him a witty writer, and considering it was written in 1903 some of the things he says are so pertinent to today (I don't mean in the context of the Egyptian situation). Only problem is, it's taken me 3 weeks to read 100 pages - just can't concentrate.
@Murray Mint - no I haven't. I do have back in Blighty a big dense heavy but fascinating book on that area of town. Especially around WWii and how it suffered during the Blitz.
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quote:Originally posted by Sashyra8: Im currently reading ¨Cairo:City of Sand¨,by Maria Golia. Highly recommend it. Some excerpts from it:
¨....if Cairenes appear the most agreeable of yea-sayers it´s because ¨no¨implies confrontation,or worse,dissapointing the interlocutor.This is a culture where the art of determining what others want or need to hear is inculcated,perhaps compassionately,from birth.Egyptians are past masters at bending truths to create soothing speeches.¨
Completely kick @ss book. I used golia as a username because of the excellence of her book.
I ordered "Modern Cairo" by Naguib Mahfouz 1-31-11 but it has yet to arrive. Its making me crazy to wait.
In the meantime I am reading Teddy Kollecks's memoir "For Jerusalem". I've read alot of non-fiction biographies/autobiographies in regards to Palestinian experience and I needed to understand the POV of the leaders who created the situation for Palestinians.
I tried to plow through Abba Eban's book but it was obviously written in Hebrew first and translated; very dry, dense and humorless. I can't imagine he was different as a person. Amazing how early Israeli leaders have such a widely different polarizing view of the same events while Palestinians have a unified view.
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