Kell
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I'm not sure but.. what does eating cheese in particular have to do with remembering your dreams
?It's the whole "If you eat cheese before going to bed you'll have bad dreams" thing - LOL!
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I love Barter Books in Alnwick (shown in the first link). It's the most beautiful place - totally magical. You can spend an entire day in there and feel like time has stood still the whole time as you get totally lost in the books. And there are lovely little rooms to one side which have fires burning in the hearths, where you can sit and read. It's the most delightful little place and I'm so glad I now love pretty close to it (I'm in Blyth - it's about a 40 minute drive at most, depending on traffic - we always seem to hit some, hence the 40 minutes - LOL!). I used to visit almost every time we came down to visit, but I haven't had a chance to go since we moved down a year ago. I suppose because I know it's right there... I really must go soon though!
I would LOVE to own a little book shop. If I ever win the lottery, that's exactly whatI'll do - and it shall be called Books of Kell.
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You can buy the complete DVD box set for around £48 from Amazon.
I used to have them on video too - not all of them though, I think I somehow missed the last season (possibly two!) and have never seen those later episodes. Tell you what though, they repeat Sex and the City over and over again on the telly - I wish they would repeat NE!
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Scary books and films have never bothered me. In fact, I've spent my entire adult life trying to find a book or film that will totally creep me out and give me the heebiejeebies. It's not happened yet. I can watch/read alone, in the dark, no bother and have absolutely no recollection of having ANY dreams, not even if I eat cheese before bed.
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Finally getting somewhere in our quest to buy a house - signed some papers last night and hopefully we'll hear something regarding a date for completion and exchange of contracts/getting the keys some time in the next week or so.
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The Stand is one of my all-time favourite novels, but please make sure you read the complete and unabridged version. It's longer, at over 1000 pages, but it's so much richer and more satisfying.
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Ira Levin is awesome - his books have a real chill factor.
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I don't remember ever not liking "scary" stuff - I was brought up watching Dracula and Frankenstein (Hammer Horrors) from being 6 or 7 years old. Even books like Funny Bones, when I was just starting to read, tickled me pink by being about a family of skeletons. I quickly moved onto Point Horror (well before I hit my teens), and then started borrowing my Mam's Stephen King and Dean Koontz books by the time I was 12 or so. Richard Laymon was maybe by the time I was 15 or 16, because he tended to feature more sexual horror, but I read Dracula and Frankenstein before my teens too. Today, I don't tend to be keen on zombies or Mummies (which I think are basically gift-wrapped zombies), but on occasion I'll read and enjoy one. I love vampires, but they tend to be sexy rather than sinister these days, which is a shame. I love post-apocalyptic novels, especially as we live in a time when so many man-made horrors could spell the end of the world as we know it - nuclear war and man-made diseases are just as likely to wipe us out as a natural disaster. Psychological horror where people's minds are played with gives me more of a thrill than blood and guts. I like a really sinister story...
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I don't mind a bit of blood and gore (especially where vampires are involved), but I don't find those scary. I'm more inclined to get a shiver down my spine from clever mind games and psychological terror.
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I think Castle Rock has to be the scariest town to live in - many of Stephen King's novels take place there or make mention of things that have happened there!
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My eldest son, Xander, who just turned six, is spending this month doing a sponsored read-a-thon for Sendacow.org.uk through his school - he's very enthusiastic and has vowed to read his first book of the month this evening. Hubby has sponsored him 50p per book, and I am sponsoring him 5p per page. Very proud of him!
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OMGs! I read loads of her books when I was a kid. I might have to get a few of them for my Kindle and re-read them as an adult. Favourites were Iggie's House; Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret; and Starring Sally J Freeman As Herself.
I remember a battered copy of Forever dong the rounds when I was in my mid-teens, because it featured a sex scene. I laughed and laughed at everyone's reactions, because I had already read it a few years before - my own Mum bought it for me! I think she approved of the portrayal of Cath and Mike being in love before making love - it's definitely a positive view of being ready before you commit yourself to a physical relationship, and I think all young people need to know about that kind of thing, and to learn to respect their own bodies as well as each others.
I was also really touched by Deenie, and Blubber, both of which I thought were great at showing how kids try desperately to fit in.
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I cannot believe this book would be banned! It's a beautifully written book that is incredibly real, speaking of young love, loss, and the realisation that we are none of us immortal. It's a tactful portrayal, but it doesn't pretty things up or condescend. It's exactly the kind of book teens SHOULD be reading!
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I think it's a lovely idea - it's a concept that's certainly growing in popularity. There are social places that have book swap shelves, where you can take a book for free and/or leave a book they've finished with.
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Updated to reflect another arrival and a move to England.
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I LOVED that show! I still have fond memories of episodes like the one where Chris wants to fling a cow, or where Holling hasn't had a poo at 7am sharp like he has done every day since he was tiny, and he thinks something must be horribly wrong - LOL! The whole will-they/won't-they of Joel and Maggie was way better than the Ross and Rachel one in Friends (and predated it by quite some time too!), and Ed's sweet innocence was so refreshing. I really must go back and watch it all again - I haven't done so in well over a decade and it's long overdue!
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Currently enjoying the new series Outlander, based on the book of the same name by Diana Gabaldon. Totally swooning over the delicious Jamie!
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This constitutes almost my entire unread collection at the moment. Our place is so tiny that all my permanent collection is still in storage till we get a moving date for our new house (please, soon!).
I do have others on my Kindle, but these are the few actual books I have to hand. They're not even on a shelf - they live on the hearth in the living room, as I don't actually even have a bookcase/shelf here. This is why this flat will never feel like a home to me.
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Hope it all went well Kell, and congratulations on your exams Anna.
It went really well, thanks - I've been asked to sing at the Battery Xmas dance, so I'm going to do it.
Had Xan's 6th birthday party tonight - sea themed party in a lighthouse on an island. They all climbed to the top of the lighthouse then went rockpooling before coming back in for sea-themed party food. They all had a fabulous tie and Xan was so exhausted that he fell asleep within minutes when he went to bed - LOL!
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Maybe we could come to some kind of arrangement between us. I'm certain we'd be able to keep Stu happier than Frannie.
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Stu Redman from The Stand.
You'll have to fight me for him - I've been having a love affair with him for 22 years.
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Well done, Anna! Good on you/
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Rather enjoyed that episode - best one yet. Thought Xan might get a bit scared, but he enjoyed it and it didn't phaze him at all. Next week looks like Keeley Hawes is in is, so that could be good...
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OMGs! I am totally bricking it - I will be performing, live, for the first time in eleven years tomorrow lunchtime. There's a local war re-enactment, and I've agreed to sing a couple of wartime numbers, so I'll be warbling my way through Chattagnooga Choo Choo and We'll Meet Again. However, the nerves are now setting in, and I have that horrid sinking-stomach and restricting throat sensation already. Now, if I can just remember the words when the moment comes, I might be OK. Wish me luck!
Going to a book club without reading the book
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Then why bother going at all? The whole point in a book group is to read and discuss books, not to spout off someone elses opinions of a book you haven't read, just so you can sound "clever", because it's NOT clever - it's lazy.