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I'm very lucky in that my fiancee works for Waterstones and I now receive lots of lovely proofs to get my teeth into! Happy days!
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Individually: we humans can be quite nice to one another; collectively: we seem to act appallingly towards one another. Tribalism sucks the big one.
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Individually: we humans can be quite nice to one another; collectively: we seem to act appallingly towards one another. Tribalism sucks the big one.
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Whoa! You're reading The Book Thief! I loved this book (I may have written about it on my Mac Reads thread). Hope all's groovy with you, Jessi.
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Is it dreadful that I have only read just one of these authors?!? What am I doing with my life?!?
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I'm not very good with self-help books, to be honest. I dealt with my debilitating anxiety after eventually becoming unconscious, waking up and thinking 'Hmmm, this is unusual!', calling the doctor and, finally, regularly meeting with a CBT specialist doctor. All sorted. Pretty much, anyway... Hope all's well with you.
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I love Holmes! I've never tried Kafka and maybe really ought to? This site is terribly dangerous for racking up books to live temporarily on my TBR shelf...
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Nice review, Brian. I'm tempted by this book and have realised I haven't really read anything on the differences between Islam and Christianity (mainly due to my considerable distrust of anything religious) even though I find the subject of theology very interesting. I need to buck my ideas up! Cheers!
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Greetings, Marcia, m'dear! C'est moi, your old pal Mac! Two things: Jo (she of whom I have written to you regarding) met Cassandra Clare a few months ago. Apparently quite a pleasant lady; have you started The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle yet? I cannot wait for you to read that! Big love, mate. x
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Tooth & Nail by Ian Rankin Because the first body was found in Wolf Street, because the murderer takes a bite from each body, the press have found a new terror, the Wolfman... Drafted down to the Big Smoke thanks to a supposed expertise in the modus operandi of serial killers, Inspector John Rebus is on a train south from Edinburgh. His Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn't too happy at yet more interference. It's bad enough having several Chief Inspectors on your back without being hounded at every turn by an upstart Jock. Rebus is going to have to deal with the racial prejudice as well as the predations of a violent maniac. When he's offered a serial killer profile of the Wolfman by an attractive lady psychologist, it's too good an opportunity to turn down. But in finding an ally, he may have given his enemies an easy means of attack. This is the third novel in the Rebus series and I enjoyed it immensely, rocketing through it and staying up really late at night to finish the flppin' thing. Rankin was new to me until introduced by my (then) girlfriend - now fiancee - who thinks he's the best thing ever. She's near the mark, certainly. The pace is excellent, the prose spot-on and the character development - particularly Rebus', as one would expect - well realised. I do get a little bored of the standard 'love interest' in novels and quite often skim over the obligatory 'sack time' where the protagonist manages to engage in some underpants charleston with the 'oh-my-gosh-an-attractive-lady' second fiddle. Aside from that (and I appreciate that to sell books, authors are obliged to write a section of this), this was a belter. If you're into crime and you've not read Rankin, I recommend that you have a shufty. Cheers for now.
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Hey, Sarah. How are things going? I like your post on love. I think love is a brilliant thing, and believe in it very strongly - as long as it's not me that falls into it!!! My heart turned to stone long ago. I'm a RIGHT grumpy b*****d now!
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has got a Facebook page. Please find me as Matt McKenzie. The profile picture is of me playing guitar at a gig in a black suit. Refine the search to Matlock and you should find me. Mmmmmwah! x
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I can't find you
Join the BCF group, then we can all track you down....! http://www.facebook.com/groups/21521956760/
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That is not a great deal of sleep, lady! Get some SnoozyTime in. It's good for you. I hope you're feeling much better soon. Xx
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I, too, am going to the doctors next Tuesday. Off 'til then. I'm quite happy (I have to be honest) to stay here at home and read/watch DVD's and snooze, though. There's a lot to be said for snoozing. I haven't done a lot of it up until now...xx
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Blimey. I disappear from the face of the world for 4 months and people go and change their names so I don't find them when I get back!
xHow are things with you, Abby?
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Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Mac replied to Kell's topic in Previous Reading Circle Books
I read this in the early Nineties, then again two years ago. I LOVED IT.
