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...I have set up the following reading lists on Librarything. First five books in each category under the cuts. (There are some overlaps.) a : books I have already read and haven't reviewed on-line, ranked by LT popularity. Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter and the goblet of fire The...

I enjoyed this much more than I had expected to, and indeed I enjoyed the end more than the rather slow start. It must be the closest Shakespeare gets to slapstick humour, with Falstaff getting covered in dirty laundry, dumped in the Thames, forced to disguise himself as an old woman, beaten up by the husband of one of the women he is pursuing, and then humiliated by a flock of fake fairies. I would...

I mistakenly started on this well-known novel under the false impression that it was a classic sf text; it isn't - it is a novel of didactic philosophy, but entirely about architects in New York in the 1920s and 1930s, with no sfnal elements at all. Rand's Objectivist philosophy, as epitomised by her heroic architect Howard Roark, is frankly repulsive. Her viewpoint characters utter tedious tirades...

Short version. Livejournal has today fired about half of its US based staff, including several people that I'd say are key, if not crucial to the operation. This means that while SUP/LJ Inc have the right ideas about where to take the site, they're running out of money (and paid over the odds anyway) and can't afford to do it. I suspect that LJ itself will continue, as it has ongoing revenue, but...

Happy Birthday to rachel1975 ! Alarming news regarding Livejournal (via nhw After Livejournal a while back, Facebook now also bans pictures of breastfeeding mothers and babies on the grounds that it is objectful material and obscene.

One of the many attractive features of Librarything is that you can compare your own library with the libraries of famous dead people , including the likes of Thomas Jefferson and Mary Queen of Scots. I score best in comparison with Ernest Hemingway , with whose bookshelves I have the following in common: Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen The Imitation...

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Dear God, a Doctor Who story set in Belgium , featuring Marcel Proust ??? Why did nobody tell me about this before????? Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant as Six and Peri check into the Hotel Palace Thermae in Ostende in the year 1913, and find other guests played by Maureen "Vicki" O'Brien, Michael "Vila" Keating, Adjoa "Martha's mum" Andoh, and most of all Paul Brookes, who I hadn't previously heard...

1) The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates , by Des Ekin On 20 June 1631, pirates from Algiers descended on Baltimore in County Cork and kidnapped over a hundred of its inhabitants, most of the population, bringing them back to Africa and selling them into slavery. Ekin describes this as "the most devastating invasion ever carried out by the forces of the Islamist jihad on Britain...