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2009 in books

I just fin­ished my first book for 2010 and realised I didn’t post my read book of 2009. Although I didn’t read that much, I picked good ones. Not all, of course, that would be inhu­man but still.…I did good overall.
year/month author stars title
2009-02 Pink & Ten Pas The adven­tures of Johnny Bunko
2009-02 Ura­sawa Mon­ster — vol­ume 5
2009-02 Ura­sawa Mon­ster — vol­ume 6
2009-02 Ura­sawa Mon­ster — vol­ume 7
2009-02 Ura­sawa Mon­ster — vol­ume 8
this is a pre­view of 2009 in books. read the full post (316 words & 42 images, esti­mated 1:16 mins read­ing time)
January 12, 2010 – 14:01 | by eb | posted in book talk, reading tips | tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 17 views comments (0)

literary vacation update #3

I’ve finally arrived at a camp­ing site with unlim­ited free wifi, so now I can update you all with­out any hurry.
I left you all just before I went to see Ice Age 3 in a cin­ema in Dorch­ester. Loved the movie, but I’m a total nut (notice the pun…?) when it comes to ani­ma­tion. Although not as good as the first Ice Age (and the sec­ond for that mat­ter) I had a lovely time.
The next day I headed for Mon­key World again. Didn’t see the com­plete park the first time and I had to say a proper good­bye to Sally (didn’t feel sat­is­fied with the first good­bye).
It maybe sounds corny, but that’s just the way I am, deal with…I have ;-) .
After my depar­ture from the first camp­ing site, I headed to Wilton House. One of the houses used in the 2005 film Pride and Prej­u­dice. Some of the rooms were used as rooms in Mr. Darcy’s estate Pem­ber­ley. And I can totally agree with that…the rooms were lovely. They even had some orig­i­nal Rembrandt’s hang­ing on the wall.
Still being in total aw, I drove to the place where my home would be set up next, obliv­i­ous of my sur­round­ings. It was only in the cor­ner of my eyes, that I saw some­thing that resem­bled Stone­henge. And what do you know…it was Stone­henge. Check…seen it, just in time to make some pictures.

this is a pre­view of lit­er­ary vaca­tion update #3. read the full post (409 words & 12 images, esti­mated 1:38 mins read­ing time)
July 11, 2009 – 19:37 | by eb | posted in news | tagged , , | 7 views comments (2)

literary vacation update #2

Quick update:
Well, the days fly when you are hav­ing fun, and I do have fun. Since the last update I have seen Bath, the place with the Jane Austen Cen­ter and the houses she lived in. Sal­is­bury (Jane Austen Museum and also used to be home to her) and the Win­ches­ter cathe­dral (Austen’s last rest­ing place) have yet to be seen.
Yes­ter­day I went to a Swa­nary and sub­trop­i­cal gar­den in Abbots­burry and today I spent in Dorch­ester.
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(Sorry for let­ting you tilt your head, but a lit­tle exer­cise hurt nobody.)
And while Hardy was watch­ing over ‘his’ Cast­er­bridge, I went to the old Crown Court and the mil­i­tary museum and am about to check out Ice Age 3 in the local cin­ema.
Bye for now.

this is a pre­view of lit­er­ary vaca­tion update #2. read the full post (133 words & 1 image, esti­mated 32 secs read­ing time)
July 6, 2009 – 20:34 | by eb | posted in news | tagged , | 9 views comments (0)

literary vacation update #1

Finally found a wifi spot that is not secured so I can update some infor­ma­tion.
Some change in plans have been hap­pen­ing and the vaca­tion will prob­a­bly be less lit­er­ary than I thought at the begin­ning. The lit­tle book­shop town Hay-on-Wye will not be vis­ited by me this time around, but Bath is still one plan I have not med­dled with yet. Fur­ther­more, I will prob­a­bly visit two or three houses and gar­dens were the Hol­ly­wood peo­ple shot the film Pride and prej­u­dice.

this is a pre­view of lit­er­ary vaca­tion update #1. read the full post (158 words & 1 image, esti­mated 38 secs read­ing time)
July 2, 2009 – 14:54 | by eb | posted in news | tagged , | 12 views comments (2)