Icecream
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Hi Mad Leprechaun.
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Welcome Papermoon. Yay for independent book stores! Enjoy the forum.
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Well if she wasn't she is insane!
Even my music has taken second place to my children. My cornet pratice has never taken second to anything before.If the girls get some proper enjoyment out of my books one day, then I don't mind them looking used, as long as they are not ruined.
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If I borrowed book from someone then I would return it in the same condition, but I often read while breastfeeding the baby, and it is impossible to look after a book well while feeding a baby, so my books are not looking too good at the moment.
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Welcome Welshman
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I read this last summer (after having had dream where I went and bought it). It was a brilliant read.
I agree that Grace was rather selfish not being content with her lot in life, but it would be only too easy for her to be envious of the life she could have had, if it were not for the selfishness and bureaucracy of her family, so I can't help feeling sorry for her. Life is not about regrets though. These things only make us worse as people, not better.
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The narration can be quite annoying, but also cute. I love Pushing Daisies, It has a lot of things to say about life (and death).
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Welcome to a great forum. You will certainly find more authors, and possibly new tastes for books while you are here.
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Welcome to the forum.
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Welcome Toadstool.
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Well, yuo seem to be dealing with the numbers better than I, Jen - I still tell paople I'm 20+11 - I cannot bring myself to say the actual number in realation to myself!
My Mum still tells people she is 29 even though she has a 23 year old daughter. I keep telling her I will catch up one day but she won't listen.
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Now I reckon that would work! You gotta love Raven!
Very true Nici. I hardly read anything over the winter. I just couldn't get into anything (though I too was reading my magazines and the bible too). Raven Hart seems to have got me out of it, as I knew she would. Question is, where do I go next?
On second thoughts, I have joined a book ring on here I am rather looking forward too.
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That is true.
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Well I have to say, that having two young children means I keep throwing my book down where I can, forgetting about bookmarks, and either quickly throwing in whatever is to hand, or putting the book down open and flat. Katie sometimes asks for my books too, so the state of my books is terrible right now.
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I will be 24 in four weeks. I feel a lot older since I had two children though.
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Sometimes, when I have been exhausted and not read all day, I have opened my book, wanting to read, only to fall asleep as soon as I do. Most often I will lose my place by putting a book down when the children want me (which nearly every time I pick up a book).
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I don't know about grinders. We have a senseo machine, that takes coffee pods. They do gorgeous coffees.
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Chicken fried rice and not not a take away home made
I make chicken fried rice too. I used to make it a lot for me and OH, but I think I have only done it once since having Katie.
OH has gone to Wales today, so me and Katie brought a pizza home from shopping and got some garlic bread out of the freezer. Naughty!!
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I have had quite a bad start, but I had an awful lot to do at the start of the year to do with my finances, Katie's 1st birthday and having the new baby, amongst other things. I am currently reading The Vampire's Secret and it is the first book I have really enjoyed in a long time, which saddens me somewhat. I hope things will pick up from now on.
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It is good to see your pets enjoy reading;)
I was going to say that I am the biggest reader in our house, but Katie gets through a fair few books a day. She must look through at least five a day properly. Millie is a big reader for her age too.
The only books my children could recommend though are for babies, although I did catch Katie looking through The Vampire's Secret, and the three of us read the bible together each morning too.
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Well, my sister said I was a "yummy mummy" when I got a new hairstyle about three months after Katie was born but then I keep trying to convince her there is more to bringing up children than matching them with your handbag, to no avail.
So what do we classify as chic-lit? There are a lot of different books out there. Plenty of books, I think, fall into a classic style of woman has problem, woman meets man, woman gets rescued sort of thing, and probably not many of those are read. Once you have read one, you have read them all, but there are also lots of books labelled as chic-lit that have something more to say, and do have character development, which as Michelle says, are missing out on an audience.
These books obviously need another/other label(s). As has been said, there are other labels arising, but where does that leave chic-lit? What exactly is chic-lit and where is the cut-off point?
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I was going to say that there aren't any books I wouldn't read in public. There is only one though, and I can't even say on here what it is, but I will say I absent mindedly left it on the coffee table once and a friend noticed it. She didn't say anything though.
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Welcome Jude
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I think I know who you mean...
Was she one of the first ones on (if not the first), and she stood in a really ungainly way with her legs apart and stomped around really gracelessly?
(Oh dear, that sounds rather nasty! But it was true.)
I think I know who you mean. It could be a great way to play Nancy, if it was acted right, but that girl just had no style whatsoever.
Does anyone know when this is being staged? My Mum was saying today that she would like to get my sister west end tickets for her 21st in October.
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