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Re: Recently purchased / borrowed

PostPosted: September 4th, 2011, 12:02 pm
by Wanda
Wow, good for you! I just bought the first book lang muna to see. Enjoy!

Re: Recently purchased / borrowed

PostPosted: September 4th, 2011, 5:55 pm
by laila_6045
Wanda wrote:Wow, good for you! I just bought the first book lang muna to see. Enjoy!


Thanks Wanda...i will...which reminds me that ep. 3 of Game of Thrones will be showing tonite on HBO..im going to watch it!

Re: Recently purchased / borrowed

PostPosted: September 4th, 2011, 7:08 pm
by Wanda
Wow really? Too bad i wont be home.... :(

Re: Recently purchased / borrowed

PostPosted: September 5th, 2011, 8:35 pm
by laila_6045
i just picked up my first copy of the Dexter series..this is book two i believe...i was going to buy the rest of the books but then i won't be able to read them immediately...and NBS here have no more stock of the first one..and i don't like reading a series if i can't start at the beginning...mine is an orion paperback...there was another publisher the one like in the thumbnail...i just hope its just the same content. i wasn't able to check the other one coz it was sealed in a plastic..
also thanks to my fellow readers here for the recommendation...this series got great reviews so you had me convinced.

Re: Recently purchased / borrowed

PostPosted: September 6th, 2011, 12:16 am
by Memnoch26
too bad you dont have the first book yet...

but cheers to you...

welcome to dexter's world..

hehehe



laila_6045 wrote:i just picked up my first copy of the Dexter series..this is book two i believe...i was going to buy the rest of the books but then i won't be able to read them immediately...and NBS here have no more stock of the first one..and i don't like reading a series if i can't start at the beginning...mine is an orion paperback...there was another publisher the one like in the thumbnail...i just hope its just the same content. i wasn't able to check the other one coz it was sealed in a plastic..
also thanks to my fellow readers here for the recommendation...this series got great reviews so you had me convinced.

Re: Recently purchased / borrowed

PostPosted: September 7th, 2011, 8:50 pm
by laila_6045
was very lucky to find a printed copy of Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli at a book sale store earlier today...it's part of my reading list this year.

Re: Recently purchased / borrowed

PostPosted: September 8th, 2011, 1:01 pm
by laila_6045
i remember the movie was quite moving...i only saw it once...so this one i bought just this morning when i found it in a book sale store
...along with Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales : A new translation by Tiina Nunnally. It's a hardbound cover compiled by Andersen's biographer Jackie Wullschlager, who also contributes notes and illustrated it with Andersen's own paper cuts. This book is very nostalgic for me when I saw it on display...my grandma has a Readers Digest Edition of this Fairy
Tales compilation and she never did let me take it out of her home..hehehe..so if i want to read it i had to stay and read it a her home...needless to say i went to visit grandma a lot during my free time when i was a kid.

Re: Recently purchased / borrowed

PostPosted: September 8th, 2011, 3:33 pm
by Wanda
laila_6045 wrote:i remember the movie was quite moving...i only saw it once...so this one i bought just this morning when i found it in a book sale store
...along with Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales : A new translation by Tiina Nunnally. It's a hardbound cover compiled by Andersen's biographer Jackie Wullschlager, who also contributes notes and illustrated it with Andersen's own paper cuts. This book is very nostalgic for me when I saw it on display...my grandma has a Readers Digest Edition of this Fairy
Tales compilation and she never did let me take it out of her home..hehehe..so if i want to read it i had to stay and read it a her home...needless to say i went to visit grandma a lot during my free time when i was a kid.


Hi laila, A Mighty Heart, wasnt this the movie starring Angelina Jolie? I remember hearing about it, wasnt it a true story?

Re Hans Christian Andersen, nice! im a sucker for hardbound nostalgic compilations as well, especially if its illustrated! I tried looking for sample illustrations on the net but didnt find any. How are they? Which bookstore did you find this, by the way?

Re: Recently purchased / borrowed

PostPosted: September 8th, 2011, 4:34 pm
by laila_6045
Wanda wrote:
laila_6045 wrote:i remember the movie was quite moving...i only saw it once...so this one i bought just this morning when i found it in a book sale store
...along with Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales : A new translation by Tiina Nunnally. It's a hardbound cover compiled by Andersen's biographer Jackie Wullschlager, who also contributes notes and illustrated it with Andersen's own paper cuts. This book is very nostalgic for me when I saw it on display...my grandma has a Readers Digest Edition of this Fairy
Tales compilation and she never did let me take it out of her home..hehehe..so if i want to read it i had to stay and read it a her home...needless to say i went to visit grandma a lot during my free time when i was a kid.


Hi laila, A Mighty Heart, wasnt this the movie starring Angelina Jolie? I remember hearing about it, wasnt it a true story?

Re Hans Christian Andersen, nice! im a sucker for hardbound nostalgic compilations as well, especially if its illustrated! I tried looking for sample illustrations on the net but didnt find any. How are they? Which bookstore did you find this, by the way?


Hi Wanda! "A Mighty Heart" was indeed based on a true story of an abducted and then brutally murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl, who got caught in a conflict in Pakistan...his wife Mariane Pearl wrote the book with Sarah Crichton. The movie starred Angelina Jolie.

I got the Fairy Tales book at a Book Sale store! it was pure luck, it's one of the first few books I saw on display when i got in..i pulled it out and checked the condition..very minimal damage and only for Php130! here is the cover of the book i got from Amazon.
Inside Infos: There is a chronology about the life of Andersen, Introductions, Notes from the translator, then notes about the illustrations used which are pictures of the cut outs that Andersen himself made (he is good with this, it shows more of his artistic side). Each paper cut out illustrations are placed in every page preceding each fairy tale story. I like them, they are kind of unique and I can tell he is really a visual artist. There are thirty fairy tales compiled for this edition (some I have not read before):
** The Tinderbox
** Little Claus and Big Claus
** The Princess on the Pea
** Thumbelina
** The Traveling Companion
** The Little Mermaid
** The Emperor's New Clothes
** The Steadfast Tin Soldier
** The Wild Swans
** The Flying Trunk
** The Nightingale
** The Sweethearts
** The Ugly Duckling
** The Fir Tree
** The Snow Queen
** The Red Shoes
** The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep
** The Shadow
** The Old House
** The Little Match Girl
** The Story of a Mother
** The Collar
** The Bell
** The Mash King's Daughter
** The Wind Tells of Valdemar Daae and Hid Daughters
** The Snowman
** The Ice Maiden
** The Wood Nymph
** The Most Incredible Thing
** Auntie Toothache

I still love my grandma's copy, it was a hardbound cover, full out colored illustrations inside.

Re: Recently purchased / borrowed

PostPosted: September 8th, 2011, 4:54 pm
by laila_6045
Wanda wrote:
laila_6045 wrote:i remember the movie was quite moving...i only saw it once...so this one i bought just this morning when i found it in a book sale store
...along with Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales : A new translation by Tiina Nunnally. It's a hardbound cover compiled by Andersen's biographer Jackie Wullschlager, who also contributes notes and illustrated it with Andersen's own paper cuts. This book is very nostalgic for me when I saw it on display...my grandma has a Readers Digest Edition of this Fairy
Tales compilation and she never did let me take it out of her home..hehehe..so if i want to read it i had to stay and read it a her home...needless to say i went to visit grandma a lot during my free time when i was a kid.


Hi laila, A Mighty Heart, wasnt this the movie starring Angelina Jolie? I remember hearing about it, wasnt it a true story?

Re Hans Christian Andersen, nice! im a sucker for hardbound nostalgic compilations as well, especially if its illustrated! I tried looking for sample illustrations on the net but didnt find any. How are they? Which bookstore did you find this, by the way?


Wanda, I searched it on the net..i found it! the one that my grandma have...its illustrated. i found this on amazon.