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Wohoo! I hope you'll like it! :smile2:

 

 

I hope so too! I think I will :smile:

I also picked up Double Dexter ~ Jeff Lindsay, from the library today I'm so tempted to start it straight away but need to finish Clash of Kings first. :blush2:

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That's typical Kylie - everyone else is going "Oooooh, chocolate!", and you're "What books did you get?" :lol:

 

Anyway:

 

Great Expectations, Anna Karenina, Huck Finn, Moby Dick, The Lost Estate (Alain-Fournier - no, me neither :smile: ), Journey's End (R C Sherriff), Diary of a Nobody, Emma, The Woman in White, Gatsby, 1984 and Candide (which has a rather snazzy strip-cartoon style jacket introducing the characters and plot. Rather nice).

 

And, for the sake of completeness, 2x each of: White chocolate with strawberries, Milk chocolate, Fruit and nut dark chocolate, Dark chocolate with raspberries, Dark chocolate with ginger and orange, and Orange milk chocolate.

 

Hehe. Well, the chocolate topic had been covered so I was just asking the next logical question. For the record, I love chocolate about as much as I love books. :) I'm envious of the chocolate with strawberries and raspberries. Frankie gave me some Finnish chocolate like that once, and it was delicious. For some reason we don't get chocolate like that here, unless maybe from specialist chocolate shops.

 

I have The Lost Estate on my TBR pile. :) It's supposed to be quite good. That's a very fine selection of books you received!

 

I've read most of Shel Silverstein's Every Thing On It. Great book.

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Great Expectations, Anna Karenina, Huck Finn, Moby Dick, The Lost Estate (Alain-Fournier - no, me neither :smile: ), Journey's End (R C Sherriff), Diary of a Nobody, Emma, The Woman in White, Gatsby, 1984 and Candide (which has a rather snazzy strip-cartoon style jacket introducing the characters and plot. Rather nice).

 

Great selection of free titles, enjoy! :smile2:

 

I hope so too! I think I will :smile:

 

I think so too :giggle:

 

I also picked up Double Dexter ~ Jeff Lindsay, from the library today I'm so tempted to start it straight away but need to finish Clash of Kings first. :blush2:

 

Ooooh Double Dexter! I haven't read it yet. I can't wait to see if you thought it was great and up to par with the previous titles. :)

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That's typical Kylie - everyone else is going "Oooooh, chocolate!", and you're "What books did you get?" :lol:

Anyway:

Great Expectations, Anna Karenina, Huck Finn, Moby Dick, The Lost Estate (Alain-Fournier - no, me neither :smile: ), Journey's End (R C Sherriff), Diary of a Nobody, Emma, The Woman in White, Gatsby, 1984 and Candide (which has a rather snazzy strip-cartoon style jacket introducing the characters and plot. Rather nice).

ooh a Penguin Deluxe do you mean? .. I've got that one :smile: but it didn't come with chocolate .. there's something wrong there :D Great books.

 

And, for the sake of completeness, 2x each of: White chocolate with strawberries, Milk chocolate, Fruit and nut dark chocolate, Dark chocolate with raspberries, Dark chocolate with ginger and orange, and Orange milk chocolate.

You see, you didn't need to do that .. that's just rubbing it in :D .. two each??? .. you only need one surely?

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That's typical Kylie - everyone else is going "Oooooh, chocolate!", and you're "What books did you get?" :lol:

 

Anyway:

 

Great Expectations, Anna Karenina, Huck Finn, Moby Dick, The Lost Estate (Alain-Fournier - no, me neither :smile: ), Journey's End (R C Sherriff), Diary of a Nobody, Emma, The Woman in White, Gatsby, 1984 and Candide (which has a rather snazzy strip-cartoon style jacket introducing the characters and plot. Rather nice).

 

And, for the sake of completeness, 2x each of: White chocolate with strawberries, Milk chocolate, Fruit and nut dark chocolate, Dark chocolate with raspberries, Dark chocolate with ginger and orange, and Orange milk chocolate.

 

Ooh!!!..... Lusicous all you need now is a nice bottle of wine :D

 

Read the first few chapters of Killing Floor last night I think I'm going to like it :smile:

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Yesterday in the post I got my copy of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making by Catherynne Valente, which I won on here! It's a lovely book, and I haven't had a chance to start reading it yet but definately over the weekend!

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Haven't been on much this week that hasn't stopped me from reading, lets face it the weather is hardly condusive to sitting outside or gardening. So I have read

 

Colin Cotteril - Grandad there's a Head on the Beach.... loved it

 

but I also finished the even more lovely Wildwood - a journey through trees - Roger Deakin fantastic lovely and just peacful perfect for a chapter before bed.

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I've been sent a bunch of books for review - that always makes me smile. Just started The Secret Life of William Shakespeare - so far, so good!

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I finished Rules of Prey by John Sandford this morning, and have started Cloudstreet by Tim Winton in preparation for the July Reading Circle.

 

I have also pre-ordered the Kindle version of The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins.

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Sorry to hear about work cutting into your reading time, Alex. :friends3: I'm also about half-way through Around the World in 80 Days too (on my Kindle) and also nearly at the end of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Moab... is a brilliant book - I still have The Fry Chronicles to read. Too many books, too little time...

 

Completely coincidentally, I bumped into (literally, we were in a confined space...) Stephen Fry today at Tower Bridge. The people I was with (who I'd only just met) had seen his book fall out of my handbag earlier so all knew I was reading it and thought it was hilarious.

 

I've also read a big chunk of Moab and loved it, I love his writing style.

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Completely coincidentally, I bumped into (literally, we were in a confined space...) Stephen Fry today at Tower Bridge.

 

Oh wow! I'm so jealous!!! Did you talk to him?

 

I finished Every Thing On It last night. I misplaced my copy of Literary Trivia about a week ago, but I finally found it yesterday, so I'm back to reading that now.

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I finished The Warlock (the secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flammel) by Michael Scott last night. This is the second to last book in this series, which means yet another great series that I've read for years will be finished up this year. 2012 is fast becoming a series finishing year, it's sad really.

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I've had to give up on Birdsong for now, as I had a non-reading two weeks - and currently not in the frame of mind for it.

 

I completed The Black Pearl by Scott O'Deal, Morning Girl by Michael Dorris and Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - all wonderful wonderful reads.

 

Have just started on Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

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I was one of five winners for a Fathers Day gift set from bookreporter! I won 10 books (pre-chosen of course) a cooler, a beach towel, and coffee! Apparently its already been shipped, so hopefully arrives this week....I'll post titles and pics when I actually get them :D :D

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I have read 2 books so far this month - one set in India (Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai), and one in Scotland (The Panoptican by Jenni Fagan). Both are very different books but explore some interesting themes,the former female infanticide and honour killngs and the the latter problem teens, drugs and prostitution. Both quite gritty then, and definately not for the faint hearted.

 

I am off to the Isles of Scilly for 2 weeks tomorrow and have downloaded 7 books for company, since the Wifi can be a bit iffy there - again all of them are different.

 

1) Outrage - Arnaldur Indridason (Iceland) -this is the 7th in a series of 8 so far published

2) The Door - Magda Szabo (Hungary)

3) The Conseqences of Love - Sulaiman Addonia (Saudi Arabia)

4) Signs of Life - Anna Raverat (England)

5) Me Before You - Jojo Moyes (England)

6) Heart Shaped Bruise - Tanya Byrne (England)

7) Divergent - Veronica Roth (United States)

 

Not sure which one I will read first. I will have to see what I feel like when I get on the train tomorrow morning. If this weather carries on the way it has been, I may have to download some more as I won't get much walking done !

 

Kindle comes into it's own here doesn't it- can you imagine lugging around 7 books on holiday?

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Think I have had a couple of books nicked :( The lousy postman tends to leave a bundle of packages on top of the letter box which is downstairs at the bottom of my apartment block and the door is never locked so anyone walking past can walk in and pick them up. Normally I am home when expecting them but last week I was in Dublin for a few days and was expecting them at some point that during the week but when I got home done were there.

 

Thought maybe they were late but none of them have arrived, yet ones I have ordered since have come. It was my first Adam Nevill book which I was really looking forward to reading as well as Animal Farm. An X-box game as well but that doesn't matter compare to the books!

 

It takes a low sort of person to steal someone else's mail.

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That's horrible Timstar, karma will bite back to the person who stole it!

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Timstar, that's so annoying and evil, even! :(

 

Completely coincidentally, I bumped into (literally, we were in a confined space...) Stephen Fry today at Tower Bridge. The people I was with (who I'd only just met) had seen his book fall out of my handbag earlier so all knew I was reading it and thought it was hilarious.

 

So cool! Wow, I hope you brushed up to him good :giggle2:

 

I was one of five winners for a Fathers Day gift set from bookreporter! I won 10 books (pre-chosen of course) a cooler, a beach towel, and coffee! Apparently its already been shipped, so hopefully arrives this week....I'll post titles and pics when I actually get them :D :D

 

Yay, awesome fun! :D What an amazing prize, loads of books and a cooler and coffee!! I'm jealous :smile: I can't wait to see the pics.

 

I started reading yet another new book last night, Great Letters or what was the title, I just needed something romantisch and short chapters. I really need to stop starting new books and actually finish the ones I'm already reading!

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Oh wow! Did you ask him to sign your book?

 

It's a library book ;) I wonder if my library service relax their policy on writing in books if it's the author signature?!

 

Nah, he was rushing, I was meant to be showing great interest in a promotional video.

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