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I just finished a really cute little book called 'Flight of the Hummingbird' by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (with Wangari Maathai and the Dalai Lama) - it's a beautifully illustrated book based around the idea that no matter how small or insignificant you may feel in the world, you can still make a difference in terms of the environment and doing your bit.
Short but sweet read!
Now I'm reading 'Seasick' (another environment book  ) by Alanna Mitchell, which focuses more on how little we know about the ocean and what climate change will mean for its future. Very interesting!
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I'm reading three!
The Shelton Lea biography Delinquent Angel - yes, he is a (reluctant) member of the Darrel Lea dynasty.
The Asking Game by Rose Michael - a futuristic tale set against the backdrop of the Australian outback.
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment - a truly grueling read that I started 12 months ago.
But every now and then I manage to FINISH a book - I read Chris Cleave's The Other Hand which was refreshing and tear-inducing in equal parts. Acutally, MiNDFOOD interviewed the author recently: http://www.mindfood.com/at-chris-cleave-novelist-columnist-book-profiles.seo.
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I'm reading Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson. It can be likened to a cautionary tale of celestial magnitude when a civilisation develops to the point when they trash their planet and have the good fortune and technology to find another one which can sustain life. A party is sent to the new world to clear out some of the more predatory locals with disastrous consequences. What happens after that examines a kind of collective consciousness spanning time and space. Oh, and there is a love story as well.
I'm reading it for a second time as there is so much to ponder. A timely subject tackled with intelligence and wit.
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| Three books Ali!!! I can only ever concentrate on one at a time. The one I'm reading is Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. In fact I've just finished it. Pretty impressed actually. Considering that I'm not interested in crime fiction or fact, Capote managed to keep me enthralled right the way through the book. His investigation and representation of the people involved in the murders is unbelievably thorough. It's an easy read too, nothing taxing, and of course because it's true it keeps you fascinated.
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I agree and would go so far as to say it's his best book. The movie of the book (not the recent Capote) is not bad either.
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| If any of you have daughters or are interested in the kind of world our young girls are growing up in, you should try 'what's happening to our girls?' by maggie hamilton. it's really interesting, and scary at times, and isn't very biased. hamilton just presents the information she found from her research. very readable style too.
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I've fallen in love with this book I've just started reading called 'Nowhere Man' by Aleksandar Hemon.
The way he narrates is so beautifully messy and real, you can't not love it.
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| I'm reading "The Poisonwood Bible" By Barbara Kingsolver.
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| I'm up to page three of Alain de Botton's latest offering "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". It's about the phenomenon of work and how it defines us. Will let you know how I go with it.
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| Since reading Poisonwood Bible, (which took me a while to get into, but when I did really enjoyed it) I read Hunting Midnight By Richard Zimler. I always feel like I learn something from his books. I attempted Falling Man by Don DeLilo, and I enjoyed the disjointed conversational style of his writing to start with, but it started to drive me crazy about 3/4 of the way through. I realise this style was probably a literary tool to show the effect of 9/11 on these characters, which I appreciate, but it kind of annoyed me I just finished Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. I have read two other books by him which I loved, they were mystical, dark and beautifully written. Norwegian Wood is different to his other books, I kept waiting for the weird mystical twist, but there wasn't one. But it was a good read, a love story. Nicely written.
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