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Jun. 30th, 2010 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I'm in the library, surrounded by books, which is a bit overwhelming after six years in a country where the best places to acquire books are a record store and an office supply store.
So... what should I be reading?
So... what should I be reading?
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Date: 2010-06-30 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-06-30 10:10 pm (UTC)And yes, the Sharing Knife books are very different. I fell madly in love with the characters after I quit approaching them with my Vorkosigan expectations.
For that matter, her other series about Chalion is awesome, too.
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Date: 2010-06-30 08:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-30 09:02 pm (UTC)I ended up checking out the latest Terry Pratchett and a book fo short stories by Haruki Murakami.
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Date: 2010-07-01 12:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-30 08:46 pm (UTC)do you mean: "books that I can read"?
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Date: 2010-06-30 08:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-30 09:21 pm (UTC)So, in other news, as difficult as it is to find good English-language books in Qatar, the situation is equally grim for Arabic-language books.
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Date: 2010-07-03 11:13 pm (UTC)that caused me to go on a mini-rant in my Arabic class. "Mini" because my arabic skills are too limited to fully express my frustration. In English it would have been a full-sized rant.
~caryl
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Date: 2010-07-05 06:37 pm (UTC)That human development report does talk some about the role of censorship in inhibiting the book trade in Arab countries. It can't be fun to run a book past 22 countries' censorship ministries before publishing it.
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Date: 2010-06-30 09:51 pm (UTC)Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
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Date: 2010-06-30 09:56 pm (UTC)I seem to have Edward Abbey's Brave Cowboy on my wishlist, which I assume you recommended at some point.
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Date: 2010-07-01 12:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-30 10:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-30 10:21 pm (UTC)2 suggestions
Date: 2010-07-01 03:27 am (UTC)http://goatmilkblog.com/2010/06/28/young-imam-is-the-reality-show-creating-all-the-buzz-in-malaysia/#more-4288
It is a blog "GOATMILK: An intellectual playground edited by Wajahat Ali"
As far as books, I enjoy Louise Erdrich, my favorite is "Th last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse"
Best wishes.
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Date: 2010-07-01 12:11 pm (UTC)Lawrence Lessig - Free Culture
William Gibson - his older work