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What do you look for in a book?
What qualifies something as a "good read?"
Do you enjoy humour?Autobiographies?Historical novels?Non-fiction?etc,etc.
In past few years there seems to have been a...
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Sinse I got my kindle, I have become more open to reading any genre of book, as I just download the top 20 free books and work through them. If I particularly enjoy one, I will search the author and...
CAIRO: Egyptian renowned poet Abdel Rahman al-Abnoudi passed away in Cairo at 76 after a series of operations, the last of which was on his brain April 19.
President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi called the...
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Quite a character by all accounts. Thank you for posting this....
These are translations of his poem "Al Midan"
Version I
Dark Egyptian hands that know how to characterize
Reach out through the...
"The majority of humanity lives an existence of quiet desperation." Henry David Thoreau I am just re-reading Thoreau's Walden, a fascinating read, and in the current political climate I find it very...
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So if resignation is desperation - tell me in your own opinion - what are the actions of ISIS?
I remember the cheese of my childhood,
And the bread that we cut with a knife
When the children helped with the housework,
And the men went to work not the wife.
The cheese never needed a fridge,...
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I agree Hepzibah. I'm only 53, ( with a mental age of 10, maybe 12 at a push,) :up
I recall things pretty much the same as the coffin dodgers do.. :cg
OK, I lived in the country most of my life,...
Cleanliness is next to Godliness… This weekends little job!…. :cool:
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Here is Sabar 'Omda of our village and 'a right hard b**** he made all this possible, he now reckons we should hinge it on steel rsj's. "What like a swing ? 'nuts! we'll talk about it over a beer….....
I've not dabbled with any Haiku for a quite a while. This morning however I seem to be thinking about everything in a haiku pattern.
Have you ever had a go at haiku? It can be quite therapeutic....
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Cherry blossom falls
Confetti blown on the wind
Tears shed on pavement
Well it's been a muggy old day no electricity, so I thought I might as well, as I have been putting off attacking the memoirs for quite a few days.
Anybody who has more time than sense to read all...
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Thank you all for responses most useful, l will attempt to use all the advice given and thank you for your time in reading it, what bothers me is the fact I will probably be 'sick to death of...
Today is World Book Day.
What are your reading habits?
If you are currently (OK not at this precise moment) reading a book, what is it's title and author, and what are your thoughts on it?
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Michael Crichton, NEXT - Paul Johnston, THE BLOOD TREE - John Farris, MINOTAUR . Picked up yesterday from the charity shop, all pristine, 50 cents each. Halfway thro a Carl Haasen.
Mr Khachaturian lived with his wife and 2 daughters in the great farming lands of Georgia Russia. During the run up to winter Mr Khachaturian had to make a decision to sell...
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Now you think identity fraud is prevalent these days but was still active those days.
Our 'Y's woman over the following years groomed young Sophie in the arts of woman-ship, healing, decorum and the...
'Meetings with remarkable Mentors'
My new years resolution is to pen my autobiography, I have started by writing and listing timelines and finger walking the internet it's quite hard work but feel...
Harper Lee, the author of the much acclaimed novel To Kill a Mockingbird is, 55 years after this début novel to have another book published. It was written before To Kill a Mockingbird but never...
I've just finished reading this and found it educational as well as entertaining. It is not the first Tracy Chevalier I have read and one of the joys of...
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Her other books are:
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Falling Angels
The Virgin Blue
The Lady and the Unicorn
Burning Bright (I can't remember having read this one yet.)
I just spotted this article which I thought worth sharing. There are certainly a few titles there that I'd like to add to my 'Must Read' list.
10 Must-Read Books By Egyptian Writers By Nouran Allam...
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We have one book called "Rabbit Stew" that I swear I can recite in my sleep ;) THEY can recite it word for word and I can't even skip a page or miss a sentence without being told about it. Somehow...
THIS BE THE VERSE "They **** you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were ****** up in their...
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There are more nihilists/anti natalists around than you may imagine Newcastle, even if they're "closet" ones, and haven't actually "come out" as such. That is why I read a lot of the existentialist...
I recently looked at an old file of some of my own 'Lit Bits' and found my attempts at poetry which I submitted for one of L4U's earliest, if not first, poetry competition which was focussed on the...
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Of course a classic:
Osymanduis by Percy Bysse Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half...
This is a delightful book by Jonna Castle, one of the founders of the Egyptian Study Society ( ESS) at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and whose passion is evident in the book.
I had it...
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There is nothing worse than getting a quick and unexpected flash on the road in pitch blackness. :cg
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