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This is the place to discuss your favourite books, poems and authors. We are blessed with talented people on the forum and this is the place for you all to add your own poems, short stories and...
I have never been an avid reader but have always enjoyed poetry which I find a very expressive literary form.
Just recently, for some vague reason, my wife quoted the first two lines of 'Leisure' by...
This section is for members to tell us about the books they are currently reading or have just read. A chance to give a personal review and what's the 'experts' say about it.
I will start us off...
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Just saw advertised - A House Without Windows a new novel by Nadia Hashimi. Again a story of a woman in Afghanistan.
Am seeing this as an electronic E-book for Kindle so will put it onto my wish...
I love this book which I rediscovered recently while sorting out. I've never read it all the way through I must admit, but, side tracked by unlikely titles and first lines of recipes I have enjoyed...
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Am sure your book is more than interesting ;) (Not that I've heard of it before)
I came across this today and thought I'd get my Grandson to read it. Bet he won't read it aloud - I know I'm evil. :lol:
The Chaos - Gerard Nolst Trenite (1922)
Dearest creature in creation...
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I like word games and puzzles as I'm usually fairly decent at them. I don't ever play shoot 'em up games. There was on a few years ago that was on E4U that was matching up a cube. Don't remember the...
Am posting this in the Literary section as it isn't a joke and is quite an short but contemplative read. It is also translated from Arabic. I can't see how the Author is but I liked it when I read...
Years ago I tried to watch the first ever TV series of Wallander but gave up. Whether it bored me because of the script, the acting or the settings I have no idea. Suffice to say, after the first...
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His books are so popular that all of them have been made into films, unfortunately with sub-titles, but none the less enjoyable. I also see that his estate has employed another Swedish author to...
Just thought I would resurrect his topic! :) At the moment I am re-reading the Laurie Lee trilogy, and it's been so long since I last read it that it's almost like reading a new book. What's everyone...
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I loved Catch 22 and have read it a couple times. Not lately but it was a really terrific book that had an excellent take on things.
I read all the time but I haven't really come across a book that...
Whilst rebuilding my new PC and installing stuff back on again I came across a folder with some of my poems in it. Some time back I wrote this one about a Luxor taxi trip and included references to...
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JoJo!! How absolutely lovely to see you posting. Love to hear your stories of life. They always cheer me up immensely as it gives me faith I'm not alone ;) (and kindred spirits will know of what I...
Just started reading this book which is a recounting of the Behghazi attack that killed the US Ambassador to Libya that Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State tried to cover up.
It was an awful event...
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Interesting. All the real men have been on the TV News circuit talking about what happened. I'm thinking I probably will try and go see this. Dunno I'll make it out to a theatre but I will watch it...
I think that the place was the Luansemfwa River, but time has dimmed my memory slightly. What I do remember is that a group of us had gone for a long...
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Yes I have seen lots of programs about the problems in Florida in particular with Burmese Pythons :o
There’s a hell of a smell in Dingly Dell
The pixies are washing their socks.
They were treading on grapes
For the wine that they make,
When one of them stamped on a...
Africa has lots of rivers, some large some small, those like the mighty Congo, Niger and Zambezi both drain and irrigate the central...
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An adult chimp is far stronger than most humans are can could easily rip a mans arm off. Recent research also shows them hunting other small monkeys for food and literally tearing the prey apart.
I mentioned earlier this week that I had come across a few little vignettes that I had jotted down quite some time ago, so I will post a few for you to read. My apologies if some contain a slight...
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Kiya, very often they will eat only the one meal in a whole year, they have a very slow metabolism.
It was December 1970 and I was preparing for the arrival of my parents who would be spending a month with us. I had come to work in Zambia as an expatriate engineer; it was a beautiful country...
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This family was black, they had a free plane ride to Portugal, I think it was from Namibia?,
Yes Jay that would be correct as it was the most direct route into South Africa from Angola at that time...
When copper is mined a huge quantities of mineral ore is removed and for every tonne of copper actually produced they will extract maybe 25 tonnes of rock from below ground. This creates massive...
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Thanks to everyone for their kind comments :up
You may be pleased (or not) to know that whilst delving into the depths of some older document folders I came across a couple more short stories about...
They say that nature is Red in tooth and claw, but Africa is just red, the soil is red, the dirt roads are red, the bush is red, just about anywhere that you see bare earth, it is red. The correct...
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:lol: :lol: Thanks Jay, no never published, I just put it on here for you all to read ;)
A gently slap, slap, slapping of water against the hull of my boat awoke me from my snooze, but as was customary I pushed my bush hat back off my face and kept my eyes tightly closed against the...
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They are not really stories Jay (as in made up) just ordinary things that I did, or happened to me while I lived there. ;)
Just started a book by a new to me author. The author is Ahdaf Souief and the book is called 'The Map of Love'. It is three stories in one, insofar as it tells the story of three different women of...
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I'm seconding RS request - I'd definitely enjoy hearing your stories H!! AND - as I've been reading Msomi and Me it has definitely reminded me of you :)
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