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I am going to get some pumpkin soup.

The character is that way Fishandchips, but as sad as it it may be, there are many people in the world like that. Paige is a very real character.

Pride and Prejudice was my first Austen too. I think she has some good characters and you are right, she does have some good insights into human nature, but I am not over keen on her writing.

I hope so Inver. I haven't read any of his books, but I think I will now. He seems quite an interesting character himself.

I love that poem. We definitely have one in our house. Shoes everywhere, things getting broken, the toilet light left on. I could go on for ages. Children! Katie has no sunlight into her bedroom because her older brother was swinging on the curtains and broke the rail when visiting for his sister. Of course Mr Nobody had done until I made them own up to it.

I am in Lancashire too. I couldn't borrow 20 books at once though.I wish I still had the luxury of time to read. It is a great help to my mental health!

Don't worry Angerball, I haven't posted mne yet and it is overdue.

Aye, colour might look good. I have some order to my textbooks (subject and similar types within subject together) which makes them easier to pick out, but not to the others. I want to put my books in my room that are currently in the spare room but I need to move the empty wardrobe. To do that I need to clear the boxroom of all the junk which means finding places to put everything. I also want that room decorated for the new baby when it is ready for its own room. Lot's to do. As for Autumn cleaning, I tend to these things when Katie will let me and when my pregnancy will let me. oF course, I was pregnant this time last year but about 5/6 weeks ahead.

Only ever in pencil, and I usually rubbed it out. Everybody does it at uni, plus wasn't that good at concentrating and i ad to.

Lord of The Flies was incredible.

I asked a lady who gave Katie a book when she was born to write in the front, so Katie would know that it was her book and who it was from. I like to see messages from people inside the covers of books. They tell stories of their own. As for other things like annotation, I don't write in fiction books, and have only written in textbooks in the library at uni. I don't think I have written in any of my own. Howver, you should see the state of my bible.

I use the BBC recipe pages Louise. They are great. Yes KW, you just put lemon juice on and sprinkle sugar.

In England, we simply just use eggs milk and flour. then fry a thin layer across the bottom of the frying pan. They are good, and go with lemon and sugar, fruit, chocalate, or even sacoury fillings like mince, but I think mostly people have sweet toppings.

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Yum! I want one! I missed lunch today because i fell asleep after putting Katie down for a nap, but for elevenses I had a cheese, banana and crisp sandwich.

I usually drink coffee, but there is nothing like a cup of tea sometimes. I like Yorkshire and Earl Grey best. Tetleys is also good. I haven't been able to drink PG tips for years so no idea what it is like. My absolute fave though has to be rooibos.

Pizza is great in the morning, very naughty though! Judy, I know how you feel about Germany. I went there to visit 5 of OHs children last year. I couldn't live there and eat sausage, cheese and bread all the time.

I miss audio books since The Bookseller. I love holding a book and turning each page, feeling the world in my hands as I immerse in it, but with me not having much time at the moment for reading it was great to grab some time with a book whilst getting ready in the morning.

Yeah I think it is a sort of long list. I shall have to have a look. I used to buy loads cheap at the CU bookstall while at uni. I have some by authors you have mentioned too, including Boy Meets Girl. I find those christian relationship books are very thoughtful but do not releate to real life at all, so are pretty pointless.

I get that one. A Mummy cannot do anything relaxing while the baby is awake.

Of course, they were written by humans, (weren't they:lol:) That is because human nature has never changed. Fish and chips, you had a good answer there. I particularly liked your bit about relating to things that are going on in your life. Books that have been special to me have been so because I have related to the character or situation (for instance when I read Susan Howatch's The Heartbreaker I had a great need for healing) or because I have felt a strong relationship with the author through the way they write (as in Dave Pelzer's books). Maybe the reason I love fantasy so much is because it takes you into another world where you are anything but alone. I always felt alone until recent years and fantasy provided a loving, welcome escape for me during that time.

I have just read The Bookseller of Kabul, and it was OK, but the reader really was awful at times. Her accents were terrible, but the indian ones were not as bad as the american one. She just didn't read as the text would sound in real life. It sounded far too pretentious. The narration was OK mostly, but the speech was not.

It is strange. When I have thought about this I always thought it would be someting I have always wanted to read and not done, like catching up on Tolkien's works. When I saw Kell's post I thought it would have to be the Grove Music Dictionary, but the only option for me a this point in life would be to have the one book that has never let me down and is always a part of my life, my bible, that is, if it is still going by then. It is in a bit of a state from everything I have put it through.