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Violet_Crumble

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19. I wasn't expecting to, but I've been pleasantly surprised...
Tue Feb 14, 2012, 06:11 AM
Feb 2012

Last November I got dragged along to the Harry Potter Exhibition in Sydney not knowing the first thing about it, and horrified my sister by musing that Bellatrix must be a pretty cool character. So I got the Harry Potter box-set for xmas and ordered not to watch it till I'd read the books

I'm no help on the easy yet not simple reading. I just turned round and checked out my bookcase and it's groaning under books on the Middle East and stuff by Chomsky and Benny Morris. I'll keep an eye out for the game of thrones, though, coz once I'm done with Potter, I wouldn't mind something else lightweightish compared to what I usually read...

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So what and who is everyone reading [View all] The empressof all Feb 2012 OP
rereading an old favorite by Atwood - Handmaid's tale LiberalLoner Feb 2012 #1
I'm reading Handmaid's Tale, too,,,,, KarenS Feb 2012 #10
The first time i read it MadrasT Feb 2012 #12
everyone says i need to read it. i am a big reader. but, seabeyond Feb 2012 #13
Barbara Ehrenreich, hands down obamanut2012 Feb 2012 #2
"Everything Katie" Politicalboi Feb 2012 #3
I'm not giving you my reading list maddezmom Feb 2012 #4
any authors i know? seabeyond Feb 2012 #14
right now I'm reading a Patricia Cornwell maddezmom Feb 2012 #20
"a discovery of witches", first book in the all souls trilogy. peacebird Feb 2012 #5
author seabeyond Feb 2012 #15
Deborah Harkness peacebird Feb 2012 #24
Jessica Valenti justiceischeap Feb 2012 #6
Handmaids Tale is a Powerful book The empressof all Feb 2012 #9
I'm slogging through a bunch of Dominionist twaddle as part of an ongoing research project, with LeftyMom Feb 2012 #7
you named one of my favourites--LOVE margaret and helen. niyad Feb 2012 #8
Nice one, empress Remember Me Feb 2012 #11
Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver Vanje Feb 2012 #16
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows... Violet_Crumble Feb 2012 #17
I hope you love it The empressof all Feb 2012 #18
I wasn't expecting to, but I've been pleasantly surprised... Violet_Crumble Feb 2012 #19
A LOT of drag in the "Song of Fire and Ice" series... PassingFair Feb 2012 #22
The last thing I read was a Stephen King novel, redqueen Feb 2012 #21
The Poisonwood Bible Lisa D Feb 2012 #23
I'll check that link out. xmas74 Feb 2012 #25
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