Anna Begins
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Here it is just school , school and school work! Peri's birthday is this month too. I also have to save up for my mom's Christmas present. We sorta combine our finances, so I want to buy it next month- as the missing money would be suspicious in November or December (Its a collector edition of her favorite, Count of Monte Cristo, which she shared with my brother).
Don't know whats on the agenda for now but one thing is for certain. It IS Monday and one cuppa just wont do.
Ugh- enrolling kids in school is a big, fat pain! You need Labor Day off!!
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I've started to read Dave Nasser and Lynne Barrett-Lee - Giant George: Life with the World's Biggest Dog, a biography about George (who's in the Guinness Book of Records) and his family. I bought it on the book fair thinking it sounded nice, so far it's nicely written and I'm enjoying reading about George
. Has anyone else heard of it?You mean THIS George???
I remember him in the news!
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Altruistic Suicide- From wiki
Altruistic suicide is suicide committed for the benefit of others. Falling on a grenade is one such example or some noted tribal people sometimes see it as their duty to commit suicide, as when a wife kills herself after her husband dies, or a man kills himself in old age. Altruistic suicide has a long history in India, even being noted in the Dharmashastras. Some perceive self- immolation as an altruistic or "worthy" suicide.
Hm. Never heard of that before. Only a Chuck Palahniuk book, right? Also learned:
Magic realism- From Wiki:
is a genre where magic elements are a natural part in an otherwise mundane, realistic environment. Although it is most commonly used as a literary genre, magic realism also applies to film and the visual arts. The term is broadly descriptive rather than critically rigorous: Professor Matthew Strecher defines magic realism as "what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe.
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I haven't yet settled on which book to read next. I'd prefer to not start a really big book because it's the read-a-thon next weekend but on the other hand it's a read-a-thon every month and this way I might not often get around to bigger books. I'm also not yet sure which genre I feel like reading. I'm currently reading a magazine so I'll be finishing that first most likely and then I should hopefully be able to pick something to my liking.
I read long books! And I usually start them after the read- a- thons, take a break during the book for the read- a - thon or just simply use that as my read-a- thon book. I mean, the purpose is to see how much you can read in a certain amount of time, right? So, really, you could do it either way. Sometimes, I've even read two books and switched off.
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Just finished some more short stories from Burnt Tongues. I can already tell, I'd recommend this to someone who likes the bizarre and different.
Mine is 340 but the typing is small, which I don't think is helping! But yes, it's a trilogy of short stories, allegedly twists on the detective novel. Pfft, I'm not sure it should be marketed like that, although the lead characters are engaged in detective work that's not really the point of the story so if you're reading for that you will be sorely disappointed.
I'm midway through the second one now.That sounds interesting- I love short stories. I'm getting the sample and when I check it out, maybe my dad and I can read it at the same time- although he reads much faster than I do! I'd really have to step it up! I'll wait for your review!
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Mine was from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
Your one Anna is truly bugging me. I know I have read that, but for the life of me I cannot place it. '...and another genre.....' ? I am now both stumped and intrigued.
Let me go wrack (or perhaps whack) my brain.
Hmmmm... pretty safe to say, nearly everyone on here has read it.
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I'm wondering if it is to "magic realism" for my taste. Drat. I'll wait for a cheap second hand copy I suppose. I think I'd love some sections, and not others.
Interesting, I did not know the term! I rejected The Bone Clocks for that reason. In fact, it turned me off so, I reconsidered reading Cloud Atlas out of fear!
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Made a start on Harvest by Jim Crace this morning.
I went to Amazon and got the sample for this- it sounds good- looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
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Finished Stephen Kings Thinner, good book!
I'm glad you liked it!
Next up . .....
I can't wait to get to Trainspotting. ^^ sounds... um... different lol Is it in Scottish too?
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I wanted to go with The Da Vinci -code but I'm pretty sure that's not it, and I think it was published in the 21st century, too
What was Chrissy's quote, as well?
Good guess, but mine is mid 20th Century.
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Thanks Anna
! That is a small font indeed. I can read it but I have to squint a bit. Some of those topics sound pretty interesting, though .(I do have a Twitter account but I haven't used it much the past two years).
I don't post, just lurk! I like seeing what everyone else picks- I even got some suggestions from it. And during the Earthquake, Twitter was a blaze with tweets on it, it was very informative. I haven't really looked around that much though, although I want to find more books sites. Tomorrow is Best Book of the Month... I think I know what you'd choose
I wish more people would've done yesterday- Was totally worth the Hype. I think I might have picked Pillars of the Earth for that one, but some days, I just like to meditate on the topic. Today is best back to school book and I'm not sure what that means! -
I like it! Did you write in Dutch and then Translate or did you write in English? In any case, I think you organized it well and stuck to the topic with supporting claims throughout.
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Great review! If I liked more SF, I would totally give it a go! It sounds like something you'd like- with the gaming and all.
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The read-a-thon is next weekend (5th 6th 7th), I'm looking forward to it and hope I'll do better and have more fun than the previous few times. I have some short stories on the Kindle I want to read as well as some shorter paper books I want to read. Aside from Anna (have you decided yet what to read?), will anyone else be joining?
I'm in a Chuck Palahniuk mood lately, so maybe Choke or Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey. Both are short, under 350 pages. Maybe I can read them both
It'd be 638 pages, I don't think I can do that in 3 days! 
Hopefully I will be done with Burnt Tongues by then, but if not, I'll finish it and then read one of the above. I should have all my school work done by then! I have a lot! -
I missed this one on Jeopardy tonight
Final Jeopardy (none of the people got it either)
Category: 20th Century Novel Quotes
Question: "It was one of those pictures... so contrived that the eyes follow you...beneath." (The picture was this 5 word quote.)
Anyone guess?
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^^ Love that cover!
The hardcover of Clive Barker's Imagica:
Close up of middle image:
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I just started Burt Tongues, a collection of transgressive fiction short stories. The first two have been really good- the stories were picked by Chuck Palahniuk.
I'm struggling through The New York Trilogy - for me, it's trying to be a bit too clever and it ends up pretentious.
Is the trilogy more like short stories? Amazon has it listed as 390 pages- is that right?
I just started reading 'Looking for Alaska' by John Green.
Ahhh- I want to read this so bad!
Oh- hey- didn't you say you read the Once trilogy? How good is the 3rd book?
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Oh, god, the film.
It's not a bad film . . . it's just not WWZ. I think there are literally 2 things from the book that made it into the film - it didn't deserve to be called WWZ at all. 
I'm glad you say that because everyone I know loved it and bought it, but they didn't read the book! I didn't mind the movie, but wish it wasn't called WWZ.
Personally I found it fascinating because it almost made me believe it had actually happened.
I read it twice and still talk about a zombie apocalypse- in jest, mind you lol- my mom thinks I'm nuts, I probably am
Woohoo for grandma- a gift voucher is the best present of all! I hope you like Horns as much as I did (my cover is totally different and the new one is a movie cover
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It is shaping up to be an interesting year then for me. A few days ago my favourite Icelandic airline emailed me to let me know they had a sale, and being unable to resist a bargain (and knowing I also have 2 more weeks annual leave to use up before the end of March) I have booked another trip for the beginning of March next year, The Northern Lights season has already begun with some good sightings already.
In the meantime of course, it looks like another Icelandic volcano has started to erupt - it has been threatening for about a month now, and having looked at the live webcam it is pretty spectacular.
I heard about that volcano and thought of you and your trip! My mom's life dream is to see the Northern Lights- have you seen them before?
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And I went and got some wine for the night, and I got carded at the shop
Don't you just love when that happens? Here it is 21 and I'm like, Ummm I do not look 20!
I'm glad you are connecting with all your friends! How far is it to Helsinki? I assume you take the train... wish we had some trains in the US...
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Where are they posted?
Here is the one for August- today is it was totally worth the hype.
https://twitter.com/sdowdtrust/status/495307673400016896
And here is the one for September, although the font is small, I think they will make it larger September 1st. I don't know why it is so ridiculously small!
https://twitter.com/welovethisbook/status/505306762170601472/photo/1
Here is the link for what people are saying today- just search on Twitter for bookadayuk.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/bookadayuk?src=hash
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She had never watched it because she thought it was a martial arts movie.
Visions of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. -
I don't think I wish to read this book a second time
Maybe it's time to finish up the Once series. Anyone read the third one? -
Reading has come to a halt at the moment, issues with nerve pain - MS related. Been put back on 24/7 opiate based pain patches again - that combined with the morphine or forte (depending on the day) is leaving me extremely tired. Its bugging me because I am so close to the end of A Clash of Kings! I am even tempted to ask my partner if he would read the last few pages out loud to me.
Oh, hon, I'd totally read to you if I was there! I am sorry you are in so much pain.
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He was really cool- I love that he had his own queen bed! How on earth could you sleep with a dog like that
Although I would try 
(another plus to being single lol) I love his "blue" color too! Gosh I love dogs 