Icecream
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Tonight I got creative and marinated some meat with spices, yoghurt, and other things using a recipe from the tv, and served it with rice mixed with mint, onion and carrot, with lettuce and tomato on the side. It was delicious.
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This sounds like my kind of book.
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1984 is a good read. It would be good to discuss it if the two of you get round to reading it.
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I am interested in hearing people's thoughts on this book, when it has been read.
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I am about half way through, but already I can see Sarah starting to grow up. It certainly is a good account of moving across the country, with all the hardships endured.
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I am half way through. It is a great book. I will share my thoughts when finished.
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I am having fun writing this: horsemeat. If cooked properly, it is really delicious! anyone ever tasted it?
No, the closest thing I have eaten is probably Zebra. I ate quite a few different meats in Africa, so I would probably give it a try.
We had cod, chips and veg tonight.
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Welcome:)
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Welcome to the forum.
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Welcome:)
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I was wondering when you posted whether you would see the twist Maureen. I cheated and read an article on this book that had the ending in, but I might get the book one day.
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Yes, please do. It would be good to discuss them.
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Well Linda, Emotional Geology sounds great to me, when you put it like that!
If females characters were all great looking stereotypes with no depth, they would be very boring in deed. Who is like that in real life? And show me a woman who has not drunk any alcohol whatsoever in pregnancy. OK, so maybe there are a few who have managed it, but what I am trying to say is that life is never so perfect that anyone can be goodytwoshoes all the time, and books are supposed to be an escape, but not dull. It is these things that make characters. I don't like characters that don't do anything but what is expected. I'm sorry if this response seems cut a little short. The baby is crying and I can't think, so I must go and see what the children are doing to each other. -
Wow, thank you Echo!
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I too must disagree wholeheartedly about Lord of the Rings. Like Echo, this is my all time favourite book. How can you dis such quotes as, "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us"? The scene between Smeagol and Deagol shows two wonderful characters. The fellowship story shows a gripping journey full of friendship, betrayal, and great scenes such as Boromir's death, and the end of all things. The books would not be the same without the descriptions. Tolkien created a whole new world, and a beautiful world full of character at that. I love Tolkien's world, his real, and not so real characters, and his sheer brilliance.
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Michelle, I am just like that. I used to love books for the stories, for example, I read Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban in one night because it was scary and mysterious and I had to get to the end of the story to find out what happened. Now though, I am wanting to read books to find out what happens with characters, how characters are formed, and how they interact with each other and grow through time. I NEED to know what happens with them, because I often relate with them in some way and have to know how they handle things or how they evolve.
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You are in for a treat Gyre. I might be buying this one soon, along with some other books I want.
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Orwell is certainly a great writer. He gives readers a lot to think about. I will take a look at Gissing too.
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Now, there is something annoying. I don't have a dentist either, and neither do the girls, because there aren't any. We have been on a waiting list since Katie was three months old.
Ahem, anyway, I am not very intelligent, so I only see obvious things. I have seen one or two things others haven't such as the two secrets in The House at Riverton, or
the baby thing in The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
. I have started to understand characters a lot more recently though, so maybe that will change.
Kell, I too knew
that something would have to come of the Neville thing.
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My Mum went ot where Heartbeat is filmed last year. She said that all the shops are real shops, and the garage is a gift shop. She brought me back some very nice fudge.
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His Dark Materials trilogy.
Or Lord of the Rings
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Last night I was rather cheeky. I made baked potatoes, but OH never eats the skin, so before I put them in the oven I put pesto sauce as well as butter in the tinfoil and told him to try it. He ate the whole lot!
Tonight is corned beef hash. Yum yum.
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I didn't read very much over the winter. I hope my will to read is coming back now. After opening and closing quite a few books on my pile, I decided to continue The Savannah Vampire Chronicles, with the second and third books in the series, and they brought back my reading mojo. They are absolutely brilliant books, with lots of great (and very real) characters. I think that is what I like about them. The characters have a way of being real, even though the main ones are vampires and shapeshifters.
I am now reading A Small Part of History by Peggy Elliot, an early reading book, due for pulication in August, which I am reading thanks to this lovely forum:D. It is supposed to be a serious book, but it is also very funny in places. It hasn't quite got going yet, but promises to be a good read.
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Welcome to a very friendly and well read group of people Kehs.
Moving threads into the specific genre sections..
in General Fiction
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Decisions relating to genre are very hard to make, as so many cross over. It is the same with music. Each idea is born of another and everything intermingles. If you asked whether I had read any horror, I would say no, because the Raven Hart books wouldn't spring to mind as horror, but thinking more about them , they do have some very scary events in them, though they come across on the whole as more romantic than horrific. I guess when all is said and done I would expect to find them in the horror section. Where else would they go? I was going to say maybe we could try to define a set of rules for each section, but I know that that is impossible for many books.