Over to You?

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/SoIPhwzyfFI/AAAAAAAAHFo/c2MUCDkBW-8/s1600-h/Quagga.JPG"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/SoIPhwzyfFI/AAAAAAAAHFo/c2MUCDkBW-8/s400/Quagga.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368870778491272274" border="0" //abr /Must admit - am feeling a little tired and uninspired at the moment, and am busy with teaching practice observation which has me dashing off to schools all over the city. Time I think to throw things over to you guys - what are you reading and what do you think of it?br /br /I've been in a very nibblish mood lately, reading bits and pieces of things but finding it hard to settle to a whole book. I've been mighty impressed by J.D. Salinger's short stories (my copy is one of Dina Zaman's pre-loved books) . Am also reading - among other stuff - a href="http://thebookaholic.blogspot.com/2009/07/adelines-debut.html"Adeline Lee's short stories/a and a href="http://thebookaholic.blogspot.com/2009/06/indiepenance-day.html"span style="font-style: italic;"Malaysian Essays 2/span/a, and about to embark on Hilary Mantel's span style="font-style: italic;"Wolf Hall/span. I'm also enjoying a compilation of the short short stories a href="http://thebookaholic.blogspot.com/2008/11/show-them-your-shorts.html"that won the Writers Digest competition last year/a - my own entry not among them (but now am beginning to understand what they were looking for). br /br /The wonderful bookstairs above were found by Tan Twan Eng At a href="http://www.professionaltravelguide.com/Destinations/Cape-Town/See-and-Do/Shopping/Stores/Bookstores/Quagga-Art-and-Books-p1731925"Guagga Art and Books/a in Cape Town. (The bookstore's site appears to be down at the moment.)div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7912730-6492819037989907664?l=thebookaholic.blogspot.com'//div

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