Search / 11 posts tagged orbis books

Title: Half of a Yellow Sun Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Date Finished: Sept 18, 2008 #54 Pages: 541 Rating: 4.25/5 I have been wanting to read this book for a long time--ever since Adichie was announced as the winner of the Orange Prize last year--so I jumped on the opportunity it read it with an online discussion group this month.

Indie Girl by Kavita Daswani 3 stars Reasons for reading: Orbis Terarrum Challenge; enjoyed one of her adult books Book description: "Fifteen-year-old Indie Konkipuddi has always dreamed of becoming a fashion reporter. She'd do anything to land an internship with glamorous Celebrity Style magazine -- even babysit publisher Aaralyn Taylor's two-year-old son.

Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray Author: Oscar Wilde Date Finished: July 31, 2008 #44 Pages: 165 Rating: 3/5 Why why why do I let things get so behind? I've been neglecting my reader this week because most of my spare time has gone into house hunting (which is proving to be futile).

From Barnes & Noble: "The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland." One would be hard-pressed to find many people that have not heard of Anne Frank and her story, including me.

Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy 3.5 stars Reasons for reading: read my first Maeve Binchy last year and loved it; Weather title for What's in a Name? Challenge and Irish author for Orbis Terrarum Book description: In a tiny Greek village, tourists enter a hilltop tavern, alone and in pairs, for a casual lunch.

This week’s Weekly Geeks #9 was to update your lists on your challenges. So here’s the breakdown (to learn more about each challenge, click on the name of each challenge): 1% Well-Read challenge The challenge is to read 10 books from the 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, two from each time

Persepolis: the story of a childhood by Marjane Satrapi 3 stars Book description: Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's . . . memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen,

Today’s question from Boston Bibliophile for this Tuesday’s Thingers for those who belong to LibraryThing (I guess) is about tags: do you tag? How do you tag? How do you feel about tagging- do you think it would be better to have standardized tags, like libraries have standardized subject headings, or do you like the individualized nature of tagging?

This week’s Weekly Geeks was to either catch up on reviews or something else. So I decided to catch up on a couple of things, starting with challenges. So late tonight or early this morning, depending on how you look at it, I joined the following: Orbis Terrarum Challenge as suggested by just add

Done: Joined Orbis Terrarum Challenge as suggested by just add books on her blog back on May 10: first five books: Sister Pelagia and The Black Monk by Boris Akunin (since I just finished Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog), representing Russia; Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg, representing