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message 1: by Bettie (last edited Jan 21, 2011 07:11AM) (new)


Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Rats. Another Sony clip that I can't open ...

GREAT picture, though!!


message 3: by Bettie (last edited Jan 21, 2011 07:32AM) (new)

Bettie

Oh Noes! - you can sing along to Island in the Sun by Harry Belafonte without viewing the stills whilst I try and find you something else. Fingers crossed

How about this Cook Islands Dance - Rakahanga


Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Yep -- that worked. Nice one, too! And yet another nice pciture as well ...

Off home (finally) now. Phew!!


message 5: by Bettie (new)

Bettie Themis-Athena wrote: "Yep -- that worked. Nice one, too! And yet another nice pciture as well ...

Off home (finally) now. Phew!!"



jeepers - midnight - you are Cinderella :O((

Wish you were close enough to call in for some friendly vicissitudes


Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Oh ... just think of me as one of those dancing princesses from that other fairy tale -- fingers dancing on the keyboard, that is! :)


message 7: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Apr 27, 2013 12:29PM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) I noticed Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (no. 86) on this list. I wouldn't quite consider Tasmania 'desert islands/tropical and exotic island location', beautiful as it is...


Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Well, it's an island, and from a European perspective it IS a rather exotic location ...


message 9: by Kim (new)

Kim Even from an Australian perspective, Tasmania can be a pretty exotic location!

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Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Wow. Indeed ... beautiful picture!


message 11: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Mar 01, 2015 11:25PM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Kim wrote: "Even from an Australian perspective, Tasmania can be a pretty exotic location! "

Couldn't agree more :-) But I didn't vote for any books set on Tasmania though (like Gould's Book of Fish), as I doubt this is what the creator of the list had in mind when she said "tropical and exotic" :-0


message 12: by Nenad (new)

Nenad Pavlović Try Salvation on Peril Island by Nash Knight. It's a book about (among other things) a handful of plane-crash survivors stranded on a desert island in the Caribbean, with a very feelgood tone, colorful characters and plenty of wacky humor.


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