Janet
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I don't think I've ever read/heard anyone say "I could care less" - only couldn't!
I do hate the word gotten when used in books set in the UK though - don't have a problem with it in books set elsewhere, but it's not an English word, although it does seem to be creeping into common parlance here.
I also hate "can I get...?" instead of "can I have" - but that's more a verbal thing, I think.
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My copy of Jane Eyre (a Puffin one - but unabridged - bought for the decent-sized print) is 643 pages.
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I'm currently not ironing for the same reason, Mac!
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I loved Enid Blyton and the C S Lewis' Narnia books but I think the one that stands out for me is Gobbolino the Witch's Cat by Ursula Moray Williams - I never tired of it as a child.
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Meep - I hope you get your wages sorted out, June. Can't they somehow give you the missing money? It's a bit unreasonable to expect you to survive on less money than you're meant to.
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It sounds great.
I wonder if my library has it?ETA: It's in the area covered by our library system - I've added it to my wish list.
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I can't quote above my post for some reason because it keeps adding another quote box!
Anyway, yes, Laurie Lee wrote Cider with Rosie, which I loved. I've read three others - this one is slightly different as it's a collection of random essays rather than his usual non-fiction books about collected events.
He's the one who wrote Cider with Rosie, right? I haven't read it yet, but I know people like the book, so you have my approval and there's no shame in the purchase
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Thanks - will do!
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That's really good - well done
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How many countries are on your list, June? I know it differs slightly from mine.
And how many countries have you completed so far? -
Portugal - The Elephant's Journey by José Saramago - 3/5
42 Countries - 18.03%
181 countries remaining
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The only one of those I've read is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, which I really enjoyed.
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It has been a weird fortnight for me (fortnight... the only reason I know that word is because of Pride & Prejudice..). I've been sick as I've said before, and I was supposed to get a thing going in the uni where they would consider me as a student and my want of studying the field of library and blah blah... and I knew about the due date for months and yet I left it til the last week... And by the time I got around to doing it, I realised it was really too late, there was too much to do, and I thought about it, and I realised it was my subconscious telling me this is not the way. I don't want to study this at the uni. So I didn't do it. Which means I'm going to study to become a librarian somewhere else, which means I might have to move... Which freaked me out for the day but I'm getting around to the idea and I'm getting more comfortable with it... But what's more important is that I feel I did the right thing. The Joensuu uni way wasn't my thing.
And they even looked at my bookcase with books I'm not getting rid of, and one of them asked about Stephen Fry...
It's been so long since I did it that I've forgotten how to do that multi-quote thing again. Oh boy!
It sounds like you've made the right decision for you re: Joensuu - I hope you get on a course somewhere that suits you. I hope you're soon feeling much better - you've been poorly for such a long time.
They wanted to deprive you of Mr Fry - the nerve!I practise Librocubicularism too - I love reading in bed!
I was going to say something else, but I've forgotten what it was! ETA: Oh yes... you said you got the word fortnight from P&P (enjoyable and educational!) - do you have a Finnish equivalent of a word for 'two weeks'?
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I found I Can't Stay Long by Laurie Lee for 50p today so I just had to buy it!
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I'm glad you enjoyed it, Laura.
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I've read 43⅓ of them and have 17 to read, either on my TR pile or my Kindle.
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For those of us who like lists, the TES have done a poll of Teachers' favourite reads - and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen came out top of the list!
Below is the list in full. Not too many surprises in the list!
TEACHERS’ TOP 100 BOOKS
1. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
3. Harry Potter (series) J.K. Rowling
4. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
5. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
6. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
7. The Lord of the Rings (series) J.R.R. Tolkien
8. The Book Thief Markus Zusak
9. The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
10. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
12. The Hunger Games (series) Suzanne Collins
13. The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
14. The Chronicles of Narnia (series) C.S. Lewis
15. Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
16. Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
17. His Dark Materials (series) Philip Pullman
18. The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
19. The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
20. Life of Pi Yann Martel
21. Tess of the d’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
22. Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
23. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon
24. Lord of the Flies William Golding
25. Matilda Roald Dahl
26. Catch-22 Joseph Heller
27. Millennium (series) Stieg Larsson
28. Animal Farm George Orwell
29. The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
30. Persuasion Jane Austen
31. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
32. Kensuke’s Kingdom Michael Morpurgo
33. Goodnight Mister Tom Michelle Magorian
34. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
36. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne
37. Little Women Louisa May Alcott
38. One Day David Nicholls
39. We Need to Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver
40. The Twits Roald Dahl
41. Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
42. A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
43. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
44. Frankenstein Mary Shelley
45. Great Expectations Charles Dickens
46. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis de Bernieres
47. George’s Marvellous Medicine Roald Dahl
48. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
49. Room Emma Donoghue
50. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
51. Atonement Ian McEwan
52. Emma Jane Austen
53. Middlemarch George Eliot
54. The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
55. The Color Purple Alice Walker
56. The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle
57. Brave New World Aldous Huxley
58. Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
59. The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
60. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
61. Charlotte’s Web E.B. White
62. Dracula Bram Stoker
63. We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury
64. A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
65. The Secret History Donna Tartt
66. The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery
67. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
68. The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
69. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
70. Skellig David Almond
71. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
72. Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
73. Game of Thrones (series) George R.R. Martin
74. David Copperfield Charles Dickens
75. Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
76. Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak
77. Twilight (series) Stephenie Meyer
78. Beloved Toni Morrison
79. The Help Kathryn Stockett
80. Sherlock Holmes (series) Arthur Conan Doyle
81. Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
82. Moneyball Michael Lewis
83. My Family and Other Animals Gerald Durrell
84. Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
85. On the Road Jack Kerouac
86. Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
87. Wild Swans Jung Chang
88. Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery
89. Les Miserables Victor Hugo
90. Room on the Broom Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
91. Private Peaceful Michael Morpurgo
92. Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman
93. Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee
94. Danny the Champion of the World Roald Dahl
95. Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell
96. The Magic Faraway Tree Enid Blyton
97. The Witches Roald Dahl
98. The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
99. Holes Louis Sachar
100. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde.
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I am about half way finished reading "Water For Elephants" by Sara Gruen.
Why hasn't anyone told me about this wonderful book. Or, have you and I didn't listen.
Aww, it's a lovely book - I'm glad you're enjoying it.
I've (temporarily) stopped reading Kiskadee Girl by Maggie Harris (World Challenge book - author born Guyana!) and have started The Elephant's Journey by José Saramago (WC Portugal and my Book Club book).
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It was a 99p Kindle Deal in December. It was told in current time with flashbacks at the end of each chapter in diary form. It was just such a good telling of a good story.
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Yesterday I finished Iceland!
House of Evidence by Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson which unlike my previous WC book was really good and a definite 4/5 
41 Countries - 17.6%
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I don't think it's been mentioned here yet.
Amazon to buy Goodreads. They already own Shelfari. Every time I log into that it tries to get me to link to Amazon.com. I always say no as I've only used the US version once or twice.
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Have you seen the film version? I read it for book club many years ago, when it was still called These Foolish Things - I'll be interested to hear what you think of it.
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I went to the library yesterday and got out a book called Estates by Lynsey Hanley. It's a non-fiction book about social housing and sounds really interesting (although I have to finish my current read and then read my book club book first!). I'm sure someone on here recommended it (it was on my library Wish List) but I've searched and can't find any mention of it. Odd!
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I read TTTW back in 2005 and thought it was an excellent read.
It took me a while to get my head around the time travelling aspect but what a good read.
Janet's Log - stardate 2013
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I'm way behind with my reviews again.
Since I last updated I've finished three books for my World Challenge, which I've yet to write reviews for.
I finished this yesterday. It was Roland Butter who recommended it - on Facebook, I think. I enjoyed it - and it was quite pertinent reading with it being about council housing - and my reading of it coinciding with Margaret Thatcher's death!
I've also managed to acquire quite a few new books.
I really wasn't going to let this year get out of hand, but I just can't seem to help myself! I've got:
Going Solo by Roald Dahl
I Can't Stay Long by Laurie Lee
The Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (I nearly chose this for Book Club, but decided against it - and then the person after me picked it!
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and today a friend gave me a copy of The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend, as she was given a duplicate copy!
That takes this year's tally of new 'tree books' up to 28. I'm never going to get to the end of my 'to read' pile.