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Would love a copy of this Magnus.
Prize Draw :: The King of Christmas ~ Carol Ann Duffy
Hello Chums...Magnus calling..and as you can see my days are busy, busy busy so I'm not really sure how I have found time to do this if I'm honest, and as you can see I have a new (larger) basket of which I am most fond... But this annual giveaway has become the loveliest tradition, I defi...
Glad to see you are enjoying life Magnus. Would love to have a copy of this book. Please enter me in the draw.
PRIZE DRAW - Ritual Lighting ~ Carol Ann Duffy
Hello Chums, Magnus here, long time no see...how's it all hanging. Here's me, alert as ever and at your service... the Longest Cat on the Longest Day... It's been a busy summer of chasing take-aways around the field and having my fill before coming home for some of the tinned stuff, but as yo...
Please add my name to the list of hopefuls.
Prize Draw copies of Four Sisters - Helen Rappaport
Hello Chums...well just look who it is...Magnus the Great here. Alright...alright enough of the sniggering...so they caught me asleep with Bolshoi Ballet paws. Firstly I have been tasked with sending purry thanks to Helen Rappaport for taking the time out during her busy book launch week to c...
Hope I'm not too late to enter?
Prize Draw copies of Bethlehem ~ Carol Ann Duffy
Hello Chums, Magnus here.... been busy, got far too many bird tables to watch plus I somehow keep finding myself on the wrong side of the bedroom window, and ha ha, they can't think how I get onto the Impossible Roof....and so what if I can't get back down again. Do I look terrified... Well d...
Sounds like a wonderful read for the summer.
Prize Draw copies of The Misunderstanding by Irene Nemirovsky
Hello chums, Magnus here... sorry it's too hot to be amusing, or even awake... ...and I've been in a bit of bother over an incident with some newly-planted sunflowers, so I'm sleeping my way out of trouble, and given that it was all a big Misunderstanding about the mouse and the dormouse a...
Hi Magnus please enter me in the draw.
Prize Draw copies of What Lies Within by Tom Vowler
Hello Chums, Magnus here... I'm dreadfully sorry but it's all too much of an effort to get out of my basket today. I baggsed the red one as you can see and I daren't surrender it... in fact I am What Lies Within (gettit?) I hear regular news on Facebook about the Vowler feline, Mouser by name...
I love short stories and am currently reading "Dear Life" short stories by Alice Munro. Now that the weather is improving here they are perfect for reading in between jaunts to the garden to do some spring clean-up. Hope to win a copy of this book.
Prize Draw copies of This Isn't the Sort of Thing... by Jon McGregor
Hello Chums, Magnus calling. Hrmph...did you see all those blog inches that stupid dog was given on Saturday?? Not that I'm envious but really, I mean some of us came from very humble origins, abandoned, rescued and have had to claw our way out of Feraldom. And forgive me for saying so but it'...
Would love to read this. My sister-in-law quilts and loves to read too so would definitely pass it on to her. I enjoyed Girl with a Pearl Earring when our library book club read it.
Prize Draw copies of The Last Runaway by @Tracy_Chevalier
Greetings chums, Magnus here and is there no end to my feline generosity. I have recovered from all that French last week and have been resting after exertions with the language... and you all know how much I love a nice quilt in progress... Harper Fiction have offered TWELVE ....yes that...
Please add my name to the list of hopefuls.
Prize Draw copies of John Keats by Nicholas Roe
Sonnet to Mrs Reynolds Cat by John Keats Cat! who hast pass'd thy grand climacteric, How many mice and rats hast in thy days Destroy'd? How many tit bits stolen? Gaze With those bright languid segments green, and prick Those velvet ears -- but pr'ythee do not stick Thy latent talons in me -- and...
Please enter me in the draw and thank you for introducing me to Angela Carter whose writings I am definitely going to explore after reading about her here on your blog.
Prize draw copies of A Card From Angela Carter by Susannah Clapp
My thanks to Bloomsbury for sharing the love today, and three copies of A Card From Angela Carter by Susannah Clapp are there for the winning and they can go worldwide. And now, having come over all wistful at the mention of cats like furry coffee tables in The Magic Toyshop, I couldn't resis...
A guide to reading Dickens would be amazing. I remember reading "A Tale of Two Cities " in high school and being so surprised by the ending. A Christmas Carol is an annual event in our house.
Prize draw copies of The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens.
Happy Epiphany, and I say that not only for those for whom the season has religious significance, but also for those who regularly feel those moments of secular epiphany as do I, and none more so than on my journey with Charles Dickens this year. For all that studying, and I have done my fair s...
Hoping to make the deadline this time for the contest.
I want to thank you for the recommendation of Oxford World Classics edition. I took your advice and purchased the Oxford edition of War&Peace for last years group read and loved the translation. Should I need to purchase a copy of Middlemarch I will again follow your suggestion.
Prize draw copies of Middlemarch
A copy of Middlemarch in the delicious new Oxford World Classics edition for six lucky Team Middlemarchers. The cover illustration is one I'm going to be very happy to have around the house for the next year, a detail from Lady in Grey 1859, by Daniel Macnee. This draw is open worldwide so add ...
Probably too late but just saw this. Would love a copy.
Prize Draw - The Christmas Truce ~ Carol Ann Duffy
Five copies of The Christmas Truce by Carol Ann Duffy which can go worldwide to very lucky homes. Names in comments as usual and we'll draw the winners on Thursday evening. All night, along the Western Front, they sang, the enemies - carols, hymns, folk songs, anthems...
With strong recommendations from you and Kevin this is a must read for me. Thanks for the opportunity to win a copy.
The Sense of an Ending ... and a prize draw.
So the skirmish is done for another year and I think we might all be heaving a sigh of relief that it's over. The judges didn't think Sebastian Barry's On Canaan's Side was as good as I did... a travesty, and we will all have one, but they did like The Sense of An Ending by Julian Barnes and tha...
I'll join in too. My daughter is a big fan of GE so Middlemarch sounds perfect. W&P was my first year long group read and I really enjoyed it. Did get in a bit of a panic at the end when I had fallen quite behind. Looking forward to the 2012 read.
Our 2012 Big Read ...Team???
I had a post ready to go live on Team Proust and the suggestion that we read In Search of Lost Time as our shared read, starting in January 2012... I had pictures of madeleines and recipes all lined up, nearly bought the madeleine tins to make some in But... I have been harbouring doubts and sev...
I was one of the readers who fell off and then climbed back on. I finished W&P the end of August and so have had time to mull over my impressions of the book. While the battle scenes were tedious reading for me at first as I progressed through the book I came to appreciate them more. I was a bit fed up by the end with the melodrama in the drawing rooms and have to say thoroughly detested Pierre throughout the book. As for the epilogue whew!
I thank you DGR though for a very enjoyable experience of my first group read. Looking forward to seeing what will be determined for the next year's read.
Team Tolstoy Troika Stop... the last... мы приезжали
That might say 'We've arrived' or it might say something else entirely, because you never can quite trust babelfish, but oh allelulia because I was seriously worried that the limping horses might not make it across the line but after a year on the troika WE HAVE FINISHED WAR AND PEACE Sorry t...
What a great opportunity. Please count me in.
Prize draw copies of The Return of Captain John Emmett ~ Elizabeth Speller
No prize draw at dovegreyreader complete without a picture of a cat, here's Tess, Rocky's very meek and gentle sister, also sixteen and his complete opposite in every way, and you may recall the one that got me into very deep water at the vets that time... So having thoroughly enjoyed The Retur...
For me the outstanding section was the visit to Uncle's after the hunt. The images still float in my mind of that spontaneous gathering, Uncle playing folk songs on his guitar with Natasha dancing while he played. What a contrast to the usual scenes of formal gatherings we have been exposed to so far.
In Chapter II we see the family visit dressed as mummers Pelageya Danilovna Melyukova. It is here that Nicholai finally 'makes up his mind ' about Sonya and determines to marry her.
I must admit to finding Pierre quite tedious by the end of this reading and hoping that he fades into the background in the next section. At the same time I was hoping for the reappearance of Denisov.
As others have stated I have concerns for Marya and her aspirations.
As for Pierre and Natasha I can't help but wonder about the outcome of this May/December romance.
I continue to find that completing the readings in chunks nearer to the 9th of the month works best for me although I find that when I get to the end of a section I always want to keep reading and am loathe to put the book away again.
Team Tolstoy - Troika Stop Five
For anyone who has stumbled in here today and is wondering what on earth is going on, you have arrived at Team Tolstoy's monthly sojourn in their year-long shared read of War and Peace. It's never too late to start, even if we're now on page five hundred and something, but you'll find our prev...
I continue to be amazed at how much more I'm getting out of W&P this time round. I ran a little behind last month but am caught up at last. It was Nikolai's allegiance to the Tsar that really caught my attention in this read. The actual appearance of Napoleon this early in the book was a complete surprise for me. I did not expect to be treated to his appearance on the battlefield. Thanks doveygreyreader for the heads up of a slightly longer read this month. Given I fell behind I shall start sooner I think, perhaps right after Christmas. I find I'm reading slower so as to savour the detail in Tolstoy's writing. Merry Christmas all.
Team Tolstoy ~ " Still the cannon-balls whistled and flopped..."
здравствулте! и как вы Team Tolstoy, and can it really be that we have survived yet another battle having barely had time to regroup after the last one? I must admit I wasn't expecting that quite so immediately, no sooner settled in the drawing room than off to fight at...was that the infamous B...
At our house the passion is kayaking and I so identify with your description of having to appear enthralled.Here I find myself studying the latest sail rigging should I venture into the office while research is underway. I wish I knew someone interested in fishing as this looks like the perfect gift for the fishing enthusiast. Congratulations to Bookhound and Fred Buller.
Sorry about this...it's fishing
I am so sorry about this but we have got to talk about a fishing book today or there'll be trouble, no logs, no building, no shopping, no cooking... you can see that's far too great a risk to take. I note that the last time I did this the blog post garnered one comment so I don't have high exp...
I received my OUP copy of W&P in mid October and am so glad that I decided to order it. I am finding that the notes are adding a richness to this read for me by providing background information I wasn't privy to the first time I read the book. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Tolstoy's vivid descriptions of the battle when he describes the troops being so close during the truce that they could see the faces of the enemy and after the battle Prince Andrei passing the poor horse by the canons writhing on the ground and screaming in pain.
I have to agree with everyone who feels that by reading this in chunks this month I felt more connected to the story and am looking forward to this month's read with great anticipation.
Team Tolstoy :: " Evewy bullet has its billet..." (Troika Stop Two)
"Every bullet has its billet" according to Denisov though shouldn't that really be "evewy" and we can only be gwateful he didn't have to talk about wifles or cawtwidges. So which battle was that then? Or was it just a minor skirmish unworthy of a name? I've read as far as Chapter 21 and the en...
A day late starting but better late than never.The temptation to surge ahead was great but I closed the book after reading 35 pages. I'm really enjoying everyone's comments and thanks so much for the wonderful book mark.
Ready, Steady, Tolstoy.
It's today, Tolstoy's 182nd birthday and we're off on our year-long shared read of Tolstoy's War & Peace and I can't tell you how much I am looking forward to this. I'm hoping everyone has made friends with a copy of the book which is to their liking, I'm already bonded with mine and can see ...
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