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and letting the tigers run for a while Hans Magnus Enzensberger http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silences-Hammerstein-German-List/dp/1906497222/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279379967&sr=1-2 as he is also a poet I will do some searches!

For the last book I forget to say "most incredible testimony about what it is to be a father "and" a husband"!

My current reading list includes "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark"; The Philadelphia Inquirer (local newspaper)and back issues of magazines and newsletters sent to me by animal-related cahrities.

Oh, and of course, this forum :-]

Hello Missklimt. Duddy, I've been meaning to get hold of Wolf Hall after hearing a review on radio 4.

Mrs Wookie "The Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins so i'm reading that. Very good read.

Except for the internet and the odd newspaper, not really reading anything right now.

just finished Hans Magnus Enzensberger's book. Hammerstein silence first one red of him, not the last. To put in any hands of those liking history, wonderful writting, a real "history teller", from those that never loose sight of the fact that "great history" crosses "little ones". an amazing mastering through writting of the complexity of the period 33 till now, seen from Germany. ***

Well, since a new series started on a cable channel, I'm reading (finally) The Pillars of the Earth

Flow Down Like Silver- Hypatia of Alexandria By the wonderful writer historic novels- Ki Longfellow http://www.amazon.com/Flow-Down-Silver-Hypatia-Alexandria/dp/0975925598/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280341898&sr=1-1 She also wrote- The Secret Magdalene Also reading~~ Awakening To Zero Point http://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Zero-Point-Collective-Initiation/dp/1889071099 and The Purposeful Universe. http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=GjW&rls=org.mozilla:en-US src="/_global/images/icons/smiley-eek.png" />fficial&channel=s&q=the+purposeful+universe&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=306762401200930190&ei=SHdQTOvDAsqNnQfCtsWPBw&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCsQ8wIwAg#

Terry Pratchett's most recent 'Unseen Academicals' funny, clever, sad and chaotic - one of his best I think. Even the fact football's involved didn't spoil it! :-]

Same period (the 30s) but from Spanish side this time A new Federico Garcia Lorca biography written by Benssoussan - may 2010 - a jewel ! English http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.fr%2FF%25C3%25A9d%25C3%25A9rico-Garcia-Lorca-Albert-Bensoussan%2Fdp%2F2070355837&sl=fr&tl=en French http://www.amazon.fr/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9rico-Garcia-Lorca-Albert-Bensoussan/dp/2070355837 Particularly loved the meeting between Neruda and Lorca the inconscious couple http://www.amazon.com/couple-inconscient-postcourtoise-Collection-Psychanalyse/dp/2717822208/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1281034000&sr=8-11 I didn't understand anything !!! this mystery will remain . . a mystery. :-] Next one how to draw thanks to your right brain - Betty Edwards English http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.fr%2FDessiner-gr%25C3%25A2ce-au-cerveau-droit%2Fdp%2F2870098006%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%26ie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1281034831%26sr%3D1-1&sl=fr&tl=en French http://www.amazon.fr/Dessiner-gr%C3%A2ce-au-cerveau-droit/dp/2870098006/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1281034831&sr=1-1 It works ! :-]

two years ago, I told Vampire Lily it would be a good thing to read that book. Just noticed the other day that it has been chosen as best book of the year by readers English http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.fr%2FNietzsche-pleur%25C3%25A9-Irvin-Yalom%2Fdp%2F2253129453%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%26ie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1281035209%26sr%3D1-1&sl=fr&tl=en French http://www.amazon.fr/Nietzsche-pleur%C3%A9-Irvin-Yalom/dp/2253129453/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1281035209&sr=1-1

Laurent Gaude "la mort du roi Tsongor" http://www.amazon.co.uk/mort-du-roi-Tsongor/dp/2742752986/ref=sr_1_48?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1281174487&sr=8-48 English title "The death of an ancient king" http://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Ancient-King-Laurent-Gaud%C3%A9/dp/0007170297/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1281174065&sr=8-11 but you can have a look also to Laurent Gaude "le soleil des Scorta" english two different titles The house of Scorta http://www.amazon.co.uk/House-Scorta-Laurent-Gaude/dp/0385663579/ref=sr_1_41?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1281174340&sr=8-41 The Scorta's sun http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scortas-Sun-Laurent-Gaud%C3%A9/dp/184391705X/ref=sr_1_37?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1281174487&sr=8-37 deutch die sonne der Scorta http://www.amazon.co.uk/Die-Sonne-Scorta-Laurent-Gaud%C3%A9/dp/3423136022/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1281174717&sr=8-7

The reading of "The death of an ancient king" will be a pure pleasure if you had enjoyed the reading of Garcia Marques "hundred years of loneliness" . wonderful book; Palestine - Hubert Haddad - Somewhere in the West Bank, between the Green Line and the "security belt", an Israeli patrol was attacked by Palestinian commandos. One soldier killed, another abducted by commandos soon in full flight . Wounded and shocked, the hostage loses landmark, forget his name. The sole survivor, undocumented, in civilian clothes and keffiyeh, the young man was treated and then adopted by two Palestinian women. It will now Nessim, Falastin brother, a student anorexic, and son of Asmahan, the widow of a politician shot dead in an ambush. Thus Nessim discovers and suffers the suffering of the occupied West Bank . A novel moving. http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.fr%2FPalestine-Hubert-Haddad%2Fdp%2F2253124443%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%26ie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1281423651%26sr%3D1-1&sl=fr&tl=en yes, moving. a real gift of writing, poetic and sparkling. I leaved the book full of the sounds and smell of the city of Hebron and the idea that real despair is always filled with the stubborn and "animal" reaction to keep looking for touches of beauty around.

begining. . . Ruiz Zafon - the shadow of the wind - In Barcelona at the post-civil war, "city of wonders" marked by the defeat, life is difficult, hatreds still lurk. On a misty morning in 1945, a man takes his little boy - Daniel Sempere, the narrator - a mysterious place in the Gothic Quarter: the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. The child, who still dreams of his dead mother, and is invited by his father, a modest shopkeeper used books, a strange ritual that is passed from generation to generation there must "adopt" a volume of hundreds thousands. There, he meets the book that will change the course of his life forever mark and dragged into a labyrinth of adventures and secrets "buried within the soul of the city" The Shadow of the Wind. With this history, learning novel evoking the emotions of adolescence, fantastic tale in the tradition of Phantom of the Opera or the Master and Margarita, where the mysteries puzzle fit together like Russian dolls, Carlos Ruiz Zafon inextricably combines literature and life. http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.fr%2FLombre-vent-Carlos-Ruiz-Zafon%2Fdp%2F2253114863%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%26ie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1281423825%26sr%3D1-1&sl=fr&tl=en

Jorge Luis Borges, The circular Ruins. http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jatill/175/CircularRuins.htm

The house of Asterion http://www.waggish.org/2007/08/19/borges-the-house-of-asterion/

yes I know, I have left once more a book begun, but this one was so small that I couldn't resist. anyway : Jeremia Johson told by some woody Allen, and so much more. . . Beware: you know when you begin it, and you also know when it will end. Not untill the reading of the last page. Wonderful. The Old man who read love stories - Luis Sepulveda - El Idilio is a small village close to the rainforest. A green hell populated by gold miners, adventurers of all kinds in search of El Dorado imaginary Jivaro Indians rejected by their people. The discovery by the Shuar Indians of a dead blond horribly mutilated set fire to the village. Despite accusations of the mayor who appointed early Indians, Antonio José Bolivar diagnosis in this death, not the hand of man, but the claw of a beast . The old man, accustomed to the mysteries of the forest and avid reader of romance novels is seen soon forced to embark on a hunt for all the dangers . Roman Ecological if any, the story weaves itself Luis Sepulveda throat of an imagination vivid and contains the following bit of magic tales.

Hmmm, cool stuff people, stuff I'll have to look into this winter perhaps. Still not reading, with the heat not really riding either, but hopefully this week will be better.