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czwartek, 28 sierpnia 2008

"Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore

It was one of the first books which I’ve exchanged on the Polish website similar to BookMooch. It was waiting quite long for being read ;)

It’s a nice, funny, mostly light story in a form of new Gospel, written by a friend of Jesus, who was vitalized by an angel to create it. It focus mostly on the years, where are not really well known and well described in the Bible, wonder why ;) So, we’re getting to know Jesus childhood, growing up to his teenager years and then being an adult. On the way from Jesus childhood to his last days he has incredible amount of adventures –learning how to heal people, how to kick demons from them etc. When both of them are teenagers they decide to go and find 3 wise men, who were welcoming Jesus after he was born. So, they spend years and years on finding them and learning new knowledge and skills from them (with a lot of funny and not funny adventures.
Jesus in this book Is close to being an “ordinary person” – he has his doubts, fears, sins, temptations and so on. He is funny, sarcastic, with a sense of humor. You could have a pal like he :)

Of course, it’s just a funny fiction story, but it’s well written, keeping the attention of the reader all the time, giving a lot of fun while reading. I recommend reading it :)

poniedziałek, 28 lipca 2008

Books to be read by Aga

Ok, now I'm trying to create a list, which is not so easy as you know ;) After some time of thinking I hope to reach 8 books in all of those 8 categories above. I already wrote some books in a few categories as I'm sure I would like to read them in this year. Some categories are empty and I'll be very flexible during next months to fill them :) So...

I. Already owned:
  1. "Elephants can remember" by Agatha Christie
  2. "The clocks" by Agatha Christie
  3. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo
  4. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Truman Capote
  5. "Uśmiech Dalidy" by Dominika Cosic
  6. "Panther in the Basement" by Amos Oz


II. Around the World:

  1. "Snow Flower and the secret fan" by Lisa See (02.08.08) - review here
  2. "Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin (13.08.08) - review here
  3. "Forbidden City" by William Bell
  4. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (19.08.08) - review here
  5. "Porte De LA Paix Celeste" by Shan Sa (14.08.08) - review here
  6. "Dreams Of Trespass: Tales Of A Harem Girlhood" by Fatima Mernissi
  7. "The Bookseller of Kabul" by Asne Seierstad


III. Books in Polish:

  1. "Tata, one i ja" by Manula Laicka ("Dad, them and me")
  2. "Zniewolony umysł" by Czesław Miłosz ("Subdued mind")
  3. "Trzepot skrzydeł" by Katarzyna Grochola (22.08.08) - review here
  4. "Jadąc do Babadag" by Andrzej Stasiuk


IV. Books in English:

  1. "Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)" by Jerome K. Jerome (11.08.08) - review here
  2. "Bollywood Nights" by Shobhaa De (09.08.08) - review here
  3. "Bergdorf Blondes" by Plum Sykes
  4. "Notting Hell" by Rachel Johnson
  5. "South of the Border, West of the Sun" by Haruki Murakami (22.08.08) - review here
  6. "The fifth woman" by Henning Mankel


V. Exchanged books (via http://www.podaj.net/ or http://www.bookmooch.com/):

  1. "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore
  2. "Dangerous Liaisons" by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  3. "Winter's Tales" by Karen Blixen
  4. "The last promise" by Richard Paul Evans
  5. "L'Anneau du pêcheur" by Jean Raspail
  6. "Promise Me" by Harlan Coben


VI. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (my proposals for today only!):

  1. "Jacques the Fatalist" by Denis Diderot
  2. "The Monk" by M.G. Lewis
  3. "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton
  4. "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf


VII. Classics:

  1. "Crime and punishment" by Fiodor Dostoyevski (31.07.08) - review here
  2. "Plague" by Albert Camus


VIII. Popular Reads:

  1. "The Nanny Diaries" by Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin (22.08.08) - review here
  2. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
  3. "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J.K. Rowling


So, now just need to read 64 books and write reviews, easy :D