Schooner Maggie B » What We Read http://schoonermaggieb.net Life Aboard the Schooner Maggie B as we head around the world Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:40:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 What We Are Reading en route to Chile http://schoonermaggieb.net/ships-library/books/what-we-are-reading-en-route-to-chile/ http://schoonermaggieb.net/ships-library/books/what-we-are-reading-en-route-to-chile/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:27:30 +0000 Frank http://schoonermaggieb.net/ships-library/books/captain/what-we-are-reading-en-route-to-chile/ Hannah – Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Robert – A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Kath – A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Frank – Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay

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Ben: At Risk: A Novel by Stella Rimington (ex-Head of MI-5)

Theresa: Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

Hannah: All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

]]> http://schoonermaggieb.net/ships-library/books/what-we-are-reading-en-route-to-tahiti/feed/ 0 What We Are Reading en route to NZ http://schoonermaggieb.net/ships-library/books/what-we-are-reading-en-route-to-nz/ http://schoonermaggieb.net/ships-library/books/what-we-are-reading-en-route-to-nz/#comments Sat, 05 May 2007 20:13:23 +0000 Frank http://schoonermaggieb.net/ships-library/books/captain/what-we-are-reading-en-route-to-nz/ Frank – Cochrane: Britannia’s Sea Wolf by Donald Thomas

Owen – The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes

Theresa – The Odessey Homer, the Fagles translation

Hannah – The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby

Bori – For Esme with Love and Squalor by J.D. Salinger

]]> http://schoonermaggieb.net/ships-library/books/what-we-are-reading-en-route-to-nz/feed/ 0 On the way to Tasmania http://schoonermaggieb.net/ships-library/books/on-the-way-to-tasmania/ http://schoonermaggieb.net/ships-library/books/on-the-way-to-tasmania/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:05:55 +0000 Frank http://schoonermaggieb.net/ships-library/books/captain/on-the-way-to-tasmania/ Books we are reading: Hannah is reading “Pride and Prejudice,” Bori — “The Soul in Tibet,” Owen — a Fremantle Historical Society publication called “The Globalization of Containerization,” and Frank — “Mayflower – Courage, Community and War.”

Recent DVD’s we have enjoyed off watch include “Cold Mountain” and “The Prairie Home Companion.”

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