Comments on: Shelf-Awareness Reading Questionnaire

By: athomewithbooks.blogspot.com/

athomewithbooks.blogspot.com/ — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:55:18 +0000

That is so funny – Paradise Lost was the only book in college I faked that I read. I tried and tried and then my husband (boyfriend at the time) bought me the cliff notes and said enough was enough.

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:02:02 +0000

Glum — it is. But I got paid $25 for moving boxes from them, and then I bought $30 worth of books, so it’s like I only spent $5 for all of those. Right? Right.

By: smsbookreviews.blogspot.com/

smsbookreviews.blogspot.com/ — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:56:56 +0000

I love your answer to the american writers quesiton! Also the canadian history book I put on my TBR list. I don’t like history, find it boring, but feel I should know my own countries history so i’ll check out that book (some day anyway, my tbr list is LONG)

I must say though, we disagree on the book Yellowknife. I only gave it 3 stars.

By: glumpuddle

glumpuddle — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:50:14 +0000

Trinity Book Sale? Is that how you got all the goodies? I’m being self-controlled and not going.

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:56:09 +0000

In grade eight, we studied Confederation for an entire year (!!). It was dismal. But I agree — the Canada: A People’s History videos are great. I’d love to get my hands on some of them…

By: Joanne

Joanne — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:33:47 +0000

Lol – all through school I thought ‘omg we live in the most boring country’ but it was only because the curriculum was so incredibly boring. I’m so happy my kids are learning more about Canada, especially through the wonderful CBC series Canada: A People’s History.

Yellowknife was amazing! Steve Zipp was awesome to send me a copy for the Canadian Book Challenge and I devoured it.

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:11:20 +0000

I read the same, back in first year, and enjoyed it very much. England, England was particularly recommended to me by someone at work, so I snagged it ($3!).

And this could well be my fourth or fifth copy of Marchbanks. As far as you know. Ba ha.

By: Osbert Parsley

Osbert Parsley — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:20:11 +0000

How do you like Julian Barnes? I read “A Short History of the World in 12 1/2 chapters” last summer, and liked it enough to pick up “England, England” on a recent shopping expedition. Haven’t had time to start it yet.

BTW I am moderately shocked that you only just purchased “The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks”.