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Thanks for the memeries

Because I just can’t resist a book meme.
Total number of books owned:
According to LibraryThing, 1654. This is just my books, not FH’s. At last count he has around 300 or so, mostly music-related non-fiction, some modern history, a lot of Peanuts.
Last book bought:
As recently reported, I splurged with birthday book tokens recently and [...]

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March 2, 2010 by Kirsty in memes, personal
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Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood (1988)

Given that I’m reading an exceptionally long book at the moment, and given that time keeps slipping away from me and I’m not getting through it very quickly, I thought I’d resurrect my occasional series of posts about books wot I have loved in years past.
I remember very clearly when I read Cat’s Eye by [...]

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January 11, 2010 by Kirsty in book thoughts, feminism, fiction
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Margaret Atwood pulls out of Book Festival in Censorship Protest

This from BookBrunch:
It appears that Margaret Atwood has pulled out of the Emirates Airline International Festival of Literature, launching in Dubai next week. The move follows reports that Geraldine Bedell was told that she could not launch her novel The Gulf Between Us at the festival owing to Bedell’s depiction of a gay sheikh. Atwood [...]

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February 18, 2009 by Kirsty in fiction
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