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Dec 14, 2003 13:14:31 GMT -5
Post by TJ on Dec 14, 2003 13:14:31 GMT -5
Original Thread started on: Nov 23rd, 2003, 3:27pm By: TJ Tell Us Those Awesome
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Dec 31, 2003 0:41:27 GMT -5
Post by TJ on Dec 31, 2003 0:41:27 GMT -5
« Reply #1 on: Dec 17th, 2003, 10:50am By: MAC » I've just finished a book from Jacob Hein, a German children's psychiatrist. He wrote about his childhood in the DDR before the Wall came down.
The book is titled 'My first t-shirt' but I'm not sure if its translated in English too.
The book is a whole bunch of short and funny stories about life in general in Ost-Berlin. As a kid Jacob is quite an obeying, easy-going kid. That is untill he get interested in punk-music. There's even an encounter with the Stasi as a result of that new passion.
But Jacob is never bitter about his youth. He says : 'We just didn't know better.' On the other hand there's no sense of 'Ostalgy' in this book either.
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Mar 26, 2004 13:53:56 GMT -5
Post by Mac on Mar 26, 2004 13:53:56 GMT -5
I've just finished a book from Joanne Harris (wrote 'Chocolat' too) which is called 'Five quarters from the orange'. It is about an older woman who looks back upon her childhood in a small French village, during World War II. She, her sister and her brother were friends with a German soldier, but this friendship ends in a tragedy. Also her relationship with her mother, who is a very problematic woman, is an important issue.
It's a book that touched me deeply, but there is also humour in it and cooking and eating (which always interests me) are major themes in this novel.
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Jun 14, 2004 12:55:01 GMT -5
Post by Zinkx on Jun 14, 2004 12:55:01 GMT -5
Just started The Dragon Riders of Pern series by: Anne McCaffrey will have a review of dragonsflight volume I in just a couple days
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Jun 14, 2004 15:09:53 GMT -5
Post by TJ on Jun 14, 2004 15:09:53 GMT -5
I've just finished a book from Joanne Harris (wrote 'Chocolat' too) which is called 'Five quarters from the orange'. It is about an older woman who looks back upon her childhood in a small French village, during World War II. She, her sister and her brother were friends with a German soldier, but this friendship ends in a tragedy. Also her relationship with her mother, who is a very problematic woman, is an important issue. It's a book that touched me deeply, but there is also humour in it and cooking and eating (which always interests me) are major themes in this novel.  Have To See If We Have It Here
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Oct 19, 2005 11:29:30 GMT -5
Post by Zinkx on Oct 19, 2005 11:29:30 GMT -5
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Well, I'm hooked I've just purchased the next 2 books in the Dragon Riders of Pern series there are thirteen in this series but, from a little investigating I see that Anne McCaffrey has alot of books about dragons( I love the subject btw 
) so it looks as if I have found my new featured artist for a while
I waited to write about him because I had to make sure his first book Eragon wasn't a fluke. He's a 19 yr old boy from Montana and he is writng a trilogy about a Dragon and her rider. They are to rise up and overturn the dark overlord of the land Alegesia...The boy is talented!!! I just finished Eldest which is book number II and cannot wait for book three in the inheritance trilogy. So if you like dragon fantasy novels with drawes, elves, and humans these are you books.... You can find out more at