Icecream
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They are all about Albania, and usually about the mad tribal stuff that still goes on in the highlands. In particular a number of books focus the blood feud, and its codified, formalised, legalistic description in the "Kanun".
Sounds interesting. I may give Broken April a try.
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Hi. What did you think of TheGod of Small Things? I read it last year. It seemed rather weird, but incredibly cultured, and informative..
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A Gemini like me!!
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Read in 2006 (since my university finals):-
Pride and Prejudice -Jane Austen
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazer
The Hobbit - J.R.R tolkien (Reread)
Emma - Jane Austen (50pg)
Angels and Christians - MJ White
Empress Orchid - Anchee Min
This Present Darkness - Frank Peretti
The Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
READ in 2007
The Hogfather - Terry Pratchett (cont'd)
The Vampire's Seduction - Raven Hart
Karma - Holly A Harvey
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
Mist Over Pendle - Robert Neill
My Sister's Child - Lyn Andrews
Cracking the Da Vinci Code - JL Garlow
1984 - George Orwell
Gosh You Look Just Like ME - Keith Richardson
Harry Potter 3, 4, 5, & 7
The House at Riverton - Kate Morton
The bookseller of Kabul - Asne Steierstad
The Book of the Courtier -Baldasare Castiglione
READ IN 2008
Out - Natsuo Kirino
The Vampire's Secret - Raven Hart
The Vampire's Kiss - Raven Hart
A Small Part of History -
Bonfire of The Vanities - Tom Wolfe
Entertaining Angels by Joanna Bell
After You'd Gone - Maggie O'Farrell (Bookring)
Strata - Terry Pratchett (audio)
Eragon - Christopher paolini
Nice Girls Don't Change The World- Lynne Hybels
Stargazing by Linda Gillard
Blood Ties - Sam Heyes (Bookring)
Emotional Geology - Linda Gillard (Bookring)
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
In Search of Adam - Caroline Smailes
ON MY TO READ SHELF
The End of Mr Y - Scarlett (Bookring)
Fanny Hill
A Christmas Carol (reading circle)
The Silmarillion J.R.R Tolkien
My Dark Eyed Girl - Wendy Robertson
Moby Dick Herman Melville
Moody - John Pollock
Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
The Divine Secrets of the Yaya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells
Shindler's List - Thomas Keneally
An Advancment of Learning - Reginald Hill
The Black Sun - James Twining
Hot Latin Lovers - Michelle Reid, Sara Craven and Sophie Weston
Poirot's Early Cases - Agatha Christie
Flesh and Blood - Jonathan Kellerman
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
Modern Music - Paul Griffiths
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
A Lifetime Burning - Linda Gillard
The Vampire's Betrayal - Raven Hart
Tolkien Illustrated Encyclopedia - David Day
Oscar Wilde - The Complete Works
Nine Coaches Waiting - Mary Stewart
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
The Lovely Bones - Alice Seabold
The Black Magician trilogy (bookring)
TO BE BOUGHT/LOANED
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H Lawrence
The Divine Matrix - Gregg Braden
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
VALIS - Philip K. Dick.
The Innocent - Posie Graeme-Evans
Broken April – Ishmael Kadare_
If on a winter's night a traveller - Italo Calvino
Mystical Paths and Glamorous Powers – Susan Howatch
The Debt To Pleasure - John Lanchester
Plain Truth - Jodie Picoult
The Golem’s Eye – Jonathan Stroud
Marius Brill 'Making Love - A Conspiracy of the Heart'
Cat Weatherhill – Barkbelly
Tainted Blood – Arnaldur Indridason
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Everville - Clive Barker
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman
Piercing the Darkness - Frank Peretti
The Rainbow Bridge - Aubrey Flegg
Jean M Auel’s ‘Earth Children’
A Piece of Cake - Cupcake brown
Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Before I die - Jenny Downham
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Escape- Carolyn Jessop
Pooh and the Philosophers - John Tyerman Williams
The Music Teacher - Barbara Hall
Freudian essay
Therapy- Sebastian Fitzek
The Last Empress by Empress Orchid
Currently reading:- Before You Hit The Wall by Danny Lehman
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It is good to know much more about lot's of things in the wizarding world from the last three books..
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Yes. I would like to read that book. The trouble with a memory like mine is that one forgets wat books one has seen that seem super. I now have a list on my computer..
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The little princess is my all time favourite film..
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From the first sentance you are carried along by the writing and the imagery.
Yes definitely
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I did have a thing for the silhouette sensation series when I was younger. They are classic girly love stories, but also a bit naughty though..
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I loved the secret garden film. It is actually my favourite film. Maybe that show my mental age, but I always did think a lot of me was shown in Mary.
I never did get round to reading the book..
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Thanks Michelle..
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I do not kow anything about this genre. Would someone explain it to me please? x
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I cannot remember if I ever heard this book or not (I say heard because I may have heard it in school but not sure).. Sounds like an good children's book to get my hands on!
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I have many children's books on my shelf unread as yet, because people bought so many as a child because they knew I loved reading that I could not get round to them all. I love reading my favourites to the children now. I would love to revisit things like the secret seven or read some I have not yet read, but I have to many more adult books to read. I always will love Enid Blyton though, and I am definitely a harry potter fan, no matter how basic the books seem for an adult. I love the fantastical element of children's books, and like making these kind of stories up myself.
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Make your own potato cakes. They are much cheaper than buying them. I'm not sure of the quantities. We just guess, but just mix your left over mash potato with flour, shape, grill, stick on your butter/cheese or whatever and there you go. We even thought of mix vegetables with them for an easy high energy nutritious meal.
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I like to read in the summer outdoors under a tree, or while the kids play or by a lake or something, and you can read outside till quite late too. I know my mood changes in winter, like a lot of peoples, but I do not think my reading changes much. It is more lifestyle, like being a student and having to read text books that does it..
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Fried and finely chopped turkey in Friday's left over korma sauce on a baked potato - gorge
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The divine secrets is on myto read list. Was it good?
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I gave audiobooks to my (at the time) boyfriends two Grandmothers. I thought it a good idea as one could not go out of the house and one is going blind.
Audiobooks are something I have often thought would be a good idea, but then I have always gone for the real thing whe I buy books and skipped over audio ones. I would obviously rather read. It would have to be well read for me to listen to it if I got one.
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I read these books years ago, but read the third one first because it was separate to the other two for promotion of the books. I bought the others the week after and took them all down to an army barracks to read.
I was uplifted, horrified and sypathetic all at once.
I have recently given my sister the first two. She never reads, but our older sister has told her she has to read these books so that she can do the same job as Sarah does. She told me last week that she really enjoyed the first one and felt for Dave. She was really up for talking about the book which is great for someone who will not normally touch books
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I think that the Goblet of Fire was the best film, ironically for the longest book so far, closest to the book, and outstandingly performed for achange..
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It's 14 children. Oldest 19, youngest almost 11 days old..
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Birthday: 12th June
Age: 21
Starsign: Gemini
Single/Married/Other? Committed
Children? Partner has 14
Where do you live? Burnley Lancashire (though am just leaving L'pool after studentdom
)Do you work? Not yet
Favourite author? mmmmmm.. tough one... nah! J.R.R. Tolkien
Favourite book? LOTR
How did you get here? followed a search engine to find out where I could tlk about my fave subject online, people's opinions on books, and also find out about new books..
Foreign food
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Well, while in Germany we were fed by Ute, Andy's second wife. It was mostly brotchen, wurst, and gouda (bread meat and cheese). We had this in the hotel for breakfast, and at Ute's for one meal. But our other meals were quite normal, pasta, fishfingers, paprika steak. However we went swimming on Sunday and had currywurst with chips. The curried sausage was gorgeous. I'm gonna get some next time.