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Well I have recently joined a gym again for the first time in about a year and a half. I did a lot of zumba before that, twice a week very intensely, but due to meds (antidepressants) I had to stop, side effects gave me zero muscle power and shaky legs plus very bad balance. Meds are gone for months now, and have put on weight since my life is still not back on track. I have a healthy BMI but don't like my body shape, so I'd like to lose 7-10 kg. Eating more healthy would help, or at least stop with the sweets. But stress makes me eat bad things, always been like that. So when my life is back on track (hopefully soon, applied for an internship at the university), and I am finishing my studies I will be more active and will have less time to sit at home munching bad stuff. Now I just hope the exercise will give me more energy, cause that is seriously lacking these wintermonths. So for now, it's zumba once a week and maybe some yoga or bodyshake here and there.

Haha, don't know it. Have just become a bit of a crazy cat lady since the previous nick, so tadaa.

I watched Ghostbusters 1&2, that's been years. Fun! Wanted to watch something that old again after watching Stephen King's The Langoliers. Sometimes there is nothing better than watching movies almost as old as you are.

Have seen these books come round and round again on Goodreads (cant search for apocalyptic books without running into them I guess) but the last thing I was looking for (and expecting in these books) were books with too much teen romance and angels falling in love with humans. But it's not about that? Heh.. I was expecting something like, big bad angels coming to earth and one runs into human girl, she seems special, angel falls in love with her even though it's not done/forbidden, blablabla.. it's not that? Then I'd might give them a go If there is not too much sappiness. Do you spell it that way?

Fantasy is such a large genre, have seen books come by in this genre that I abhor and books I love, also.. they're very different. Classic fantasy in my opinion is the Tolkien-esque idea of a magical, medieval world with sorcerers and elves etc. Then there are books like Harry Potter, sorcery but very.. mundane. Jack Vance and Anne McCaffrey are partially science fiction. Juliet Marillier is good fantasy if you love celtic fairy tales, don't know if her books are under 300 pages though. There are many books comprised of fantasy stories by above authors, stories of max 100 pages, maybe that's an idea, to sample several different authors that way?

The creepy places in Stephen King's Talisman. And I mean the Territories places, with the creatures, the worms, just, yuck. Also, anything with huge amounts of flesh eating zombies, the thought of being eaten/torn apart alive is just scary.

I have yet to read a horror book that scares me these days. Maybe because I was reading King by the time I was 9? Heh. Gore can just disgust me, usually I like gore but when it's too much, nah. I do like watching The Walking Dead but the same amount of gore in a book is too much. Ghost stories are good, psychological horror does the most for me though. Books like American Psycho freak me out, and not because there is too much gore but the sheer amount of pointless malice was too much for me. The homeless guy/doggy scene, well that was where I quit the book to never return.

Heh, I do know the middle one, not read it but know of, will look up the others, thanks! And erm, oh I suck at responding to multiple posts, let's see, thanks for all the welcomes! @Anna Begins, yup, Hugh Howey and his Wool series are much loved, haven't read it completely yet because I keep switching books but am now reading Shift. This really is what I like, though sometimes a bit too much of the same. Margaret Atwood is on my ereader now but haven't got around to it hehe, I don't mind (actually love) strange books. As for sci-fi, am reading Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars now and liking it, so am not against hard sci-fi or long off futures, actually love the Dying Earth genre too. Had to get used to the.. gosh how do you say this.. daily surroundings of the people being so alien, no solid surroundings, controlling things via thoughts etc. But the idea of mankind developing for all those billions of years, yay! Honestly I don't think we'll last that long but hey.

Have never found a book that scared me much, even the scariest ones. So yes, no problem for readin them at night with just some candles on. Then again horror films dont scare me either, unless it's scary ghost films but then it's more my own imagination that does it. Strangely I don't have that problem when reading ghost books..

Used to be vampires before they got all Twilight/Anita Blake-y.. I loved the Vampire Chronicle vampires but not the urban fantasy ones. Zombies, nah not so much in books, on telly yes. Werewolves I have never been a fan of. Ghosts or scary humans it's for me these days, or aliens

Haha well thanks for the welcome guys, used to be under the name Univerze that I was a member and yup, Nollaig is still one of my fb friendsies I live in Nijmegen by the way, not that far off from.. Erm darn i forgot your nick and am posting on my phone now so not able to scroll back to see. My fellow dutchy Just on my way home from work today so quite tired and no idea if I'll get anymore reading done today, not even YA, which are usually my books of choice when I am uber tired or something

Hi to all! I'm Renate, have been a member in the past but since that has been years and I've lost my account info plus am not using the emailaddress I used to make my other account anymore.. so I figured it was time for a new account. Some of you I still know and even still am friends with on FB but it's always nice to get to know new book loving people. I'm 33 by now and live in the Netherlands. Where I used to love mostly fantasy and horror, these days I read more sci-fi, mostly dystopia's and post-apocalyptic novels. One of the reasons I am here is to get new ideas what to read in these genres without ending up in the YA books.. I mean I love several but am getting sick of them by now and Goodreads seems to know nothing but YA books these days hehe.. Well enough with the intro for now, my tablet is being not so very nice to me and very slow with keeping up with my typing. Also, have to leave for work in half an hour so..