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... You don't want to know
Well, had my hearts yesterday! Mmmm, so very tasty!
Oh, and I forgot an item off my list from before. I have also had lamb brains! Sounds nasty, but pretty nice. Soft, like marrow!
Enough of that. Go to your room. Yuck!!!
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Check out the Terry Pratchett thread under Authors. You will get a good idea of the sequences for reading the books and books that everyone likes....heck, we like all of his books.
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Got another three birthday books today:
A Tale Etched in Blood & Hard Black Pencil by Christopher Brookmyre
Girl With a One-Track Mind by Abby Lee
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Looking forward to all three of them immensely!
I am curious. Have you read The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde yet. If so, what did you think of the book.
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That's not foreign to us! In fact this summer I have made spaghetti with sea urchin sauce a lot of times.......and we eat sea urchins evey time we go snorkelling.
How do you eat sea urchins while you are snorkeling.
actually maureen, I remember you telling about making the spaghetti with sea urchin sauce. I was too embarrassed to ask about it as I had never had that before.
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he and his brother remind me a little of my brother and myself when we were kids. Unwrapping the Christmas presents and looking and then re-wrapping them.......unsuccessfully. My brother and I found where our Christmas toys were hid and had the toys worn out before Christmas and then re-wrapped them....unsuccessfully.
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Wow louiseog, I am impressed with the number of books that you read. How many do you normally read in a year. Hmmm, I don't remember seeing any Pratchett on you list, or did I miss them as I sped through.
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Rumor has it that we may have another convert to Terry Pratchett. I hear via the grapevine that perhaps "poppy" may be reading a Pratchett book.
If true, I wonder which book she is reading.
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Painterly - what a great word to describe his writing.
Reminds me of Charles Russell...........put er down Charlie before she's gone.
the great western painter.
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Nibble a Nuggle!
Stop that!!!!
Care for a little glass or two or three of wine.
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I do recommend that y'all give "Ten days That Shook The World" a try. Like I mentioned, it was a long time ago that I read the book but do still remember that it was very good.
Dogmatix, I see that Nabokov mentioned you on page 39 in speak, Memory.
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I've been looking at our bottle of Don Darias for a couple of days now, I might have to open it soon. :D
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I had the "$12.99 Valminor - Albarino White Spain" with dinner last night and was dissapointed. It is OK but the similar in style "Nora" wine is much better.
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I'm lucky if I get to go out for a meal costing
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the next one is a lot simpler. Another Vinho Verde called Casal Garcia....From the extensive vineyards of the Vinho Verde Region, selected grapes from the best varieties are brought to our winery. The result is Casal Garcia, a young, fruity and delicate white wine, ideal as an aperitif or with light dishes. It should be served chilled.
http://www.portuguesefood.com/acatalog/Casal_Garcia_White_Wine.html
I have a couple bottles in my cellar. i enjoyed the wine.
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Yes, i am interested. Please let us know how you enjoyed the wine. I assume it is a red wine since it has a ruby color. it sounds a bit unusual for a red to have tastes of vanilla and coconut.
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I love JF, have just bought all of the books to keep and I never keep books!!!
You have good taste. Congratulations.
I got The Eyre Affair last weekend - i'm looking forward to getting into it!Let us know how you enjoy the book, perhaps in the Jasper Fforde topic.
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John Fowles is one of my favorite authors and this was one of his best -- or so I thought. (It was a long time ago.) I'm rereading The French Lieutenant's Woman at present, and I loved The Magus way back when.
My wife read The French Lieutenant's Woman years ago and enjoyed the book. We just donated it to the library along with 176 other books.
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We sometimes vacation in Bar Harbor, Maine and usually dine several times at this restaurant. The food is excellent. Check the menu, prices are in U.S. $$$ of course.
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This reminds me, did any of you read the book "Ten Days That Shook The World". I forgot the author but remember that it was a great book that I enjoyed and I think I still have the book.
I'm not familiar with it. Is this the one you mean?
Yes, that is the book. I thoroughly enjoyed the book although it has been many years since I read it. This is the Amazon.com review:
Amazon.com
The situation in St. Petersburg was growing more and more tense. The People's Revolution had begun by overthrowing the corrupt Tsarist regime in March 1917, but the workers and the peasants felt the revolution had much farther to go. Tired of fighting a war that meant little to them, the soldiers also grew restless: "When the land belongs to the peasants, and the factories to the workers, and the power to the Soviets, then we'll know we have something to fight for, and we'll fight for it!"
Lenin pressed the Bolsheviks to seize power. On the night of October 24, an organized mass of workers, soldiers, peasants, and sailors stormed the Winter Palace. On the following day, at the opening of the second Congress of Soviets, Trotsky announced the overthrow of the provisional government. Counterrevolutionary forces marched on the capital, but the Revolutionary Army triumphed. After all, "[t]his was their battle, for their world; the officers in command were elected by them. For the moment that incoherent multiple will was one will."
In Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed tells the story of Red October and the Russian revolution from a unique, firsthand perspective. Reed, an American journalist, was on assignment in Russia for The Masses--then the principal radical journal in the United States--and spent his days walking the streets, reading and collecting handbills, newspapers, and posters, and talking to people. As a result, Ten Days crackles with energetic immediacy. At its best moments it reads like a novel: Reed recounts conversations and arguments, details political machinations, and speculates on personal motives. Though this is no mere piece of propaganda, Reed's enthusiasm for the revolution infuses the text (some readers may be put off by Reed's florid prose), casting each counterrevolutionary act in a negative light. Helpful notes flesh out the background for those less familiar with the preceding events and render this a solid work of history. Ten Days That Shook the World is a stirring account of a stirring event. --Sunny Delaney
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This reminds me, did any of you read the book "Ten Days That Shook The World". I forgot the author but remember that it was a great book that I enjoyed and I think I still have the book.
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Is muggle not a man????Yikes -- again, with these funky usernames -- how's anyone to know????
To the basement with you.
Are you calling muggle not a girl?! heheAnd you would laugh. I just knew it.
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dogmatix,
Go back and re-read everything. I am just starting chapter two and you are ahead of me already. :oops:
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I found the recipie thread, Thanks Michelle...for the gently poke in the right direction..
Favoritism, favoritism!!!! Michelle gives you a gentle nudge while she always gives me a swift kick in the butt.
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One thing I have noticed while reading the book is that Nabokov's mother was a very perceptive woman. Everyone seems to talk about Nabokov and his father but the mother seems to be quite a woman, at least from the little that i have read so far.
Terry Pratchett
in Horror / Fantasy / SF
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Bumping this up so some of the readers just starting Terry Pratchett books can get an idea where to start.