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A safe place for bookworms, nerds, wordies, grammar-Nazis and would-be members of the Literarty.
What is this?
The CNG Lending Library doesn't actually exist - not in the physical sense. It is more a concept. A fellowship.
It is about sharing works of literature. It is about combining the libraries of four journalists who between us, figured we probably had enough titles to keep each other amused without a visit to A&R/Dymocks/Borders.
It is about afternoons wrapped-up on the couch under a doona with Dickens. It is about evenings cocooned in bed with Atwood or Picoult or Kerouac.
The rules are simple:
1. Loan and lend in good faith.
2. Respect the volume, the owner and the author.
3. Never take a book into the loo.
4. Always return promptly.
New parties are welcome to join by application: cnglendinglibrary@gmail.com
What's on the bedside table?
- Rachel: The Post Birthday World
- Lindsay: Howard's End
- Kate: Dorothy Sayers short stories. She's mistress of the genre.
- Dan: Catch 22, Joseph Heller
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9 comments:
I have a unnatural and undisguised hatred for Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano. He was an alco who lived in a trailer park and boy, did it show in his writing. But I shall have to think on that one..
I think The Book Thief is super overrated. It's a good story and an interesting idea but MAN is it pretentious.
I think it is obvious that the Da Vinci Code is the most over-rated book of all time.
I really liked the book theif. I've never been interested in Jane Austen at all - at all. I also agree with Dan and think that Dan Brown should indeed be killed in the most painful and horrible way for polluting the world with that crap.
Yeah my sister loved,loved The Book Thief but I just sort of enjoyed the read but was distracted by what I didn't like about the language. I don't know why it is. I'm a real fan of less-is-more prose along the lines of Hemmingway so sometimes I get frustrated when I feel like the author has the pen in one hand and is wanking with the other.
No I love richer language. Although I probably won't anymore now I have a visual of Zusak wanking.
Because I like rich language I get irritated with people like Alexander Macall Smith. I would call him over-rated
Zusak is cute. I saw him in the comedy debate at the Perth Festival.
I'd watch him wanking. LOL
I think a lot of Alexander Macall Smith's stuff is patronising but strangely I do quite enjoy his books every once in awhile.
Zusak may be cute but at the talk he gave at the Perth library he said he likes to put a "little gem" on each page (ie: a turn of phrase that he likes). Wanker. And not the romantic explosion kind.
I didn't mind No 44 Scotland Street so much, but it was like something I'd read when I couldn't be bothered reading. It's like a mills n boon for the literary minded.
oops. Sorry kate, was that a "gem" a la Zusak? lol
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