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'We Need To Talk About Kevin' by Lionel Shriver
Not sure how I would describe this book, very well written but another harrowing read. Description of the actual event was a bit gruesome and made my stomach churn! Hope my son never gets involved in anything like Kevin!!!
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'Turtle Moon' by Alice Hoffman
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'Lucky' by Alice Sebold
'The Scent of Water' by Alison Hoblyn (another Transita book)
Recommend them both. Lucky was a harrowing but compelling read.Again both were bookrings I joined on bookcrossing. 'The Scent of Water' was a lovely gentle read, based a lot of the time in Tuscany.
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Another fan of the book here too. I loved it. The Mermaid Chair was really good too by the same author.
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My sister is now reading it and is giggling/sniggering away to it the same way I did.
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Was a bit slow to start with and didn't know if I was going to enjoy it but then I started to relate to Jay and her family life....and then started to snigger my way through the rest of it...the last two chapters in particular.
What a laugh it was in the end.
Found myself laugh out loud on various occasions. The constant trying to lose weight syndrome, we have all been there I'm sure, but having the perfect cousin throughout your life doesn't help. The ups and downs of getting ready to meet her again after years apart becomes a bit of a chore but all turns out well in the end. -
'Size Matters' by Judy Astley
This was hysterical...I laughed out loud so many times. Can really relate to a lot of what she wrote....not sure if that is good or bad?!?!
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My Reading List So Far 2007
'The Joy Luck Club' by Amy Tan
'Emotional Geology' by Linda Gillard (really good read Transita book) based on Skye
Both bookrings on bookcrossing.
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'A Redbird Christmas' by Fannie Flagg
A feel good book for a Christmas read. A friend leant it to me. It is a bit goody goody in parts, but a nice easy read. Makes you feel like is this place too good to be true.
Amazon blurb
Oswald T. Campbell, aged fifty-two, down-and-out in a Chicago winter, is given only months to live unless he moves South. He finds himself in the small town of Lost River, Alabama, where the residents are friendly if feud-prone and eccentric to a fault. One of them, Roy, keeps a red cardinal, a once wounded bird called Jack, in the village store. Patsy, a sad, sweet little kid with a crippled leg, from the trailer park up in the woods, takes to dropping by the store - and falls in love with Jack. Flagg takes us on an emotional roller-coaster ride through the lives and hearts of an engaging crew of misfits, fixers and ordinary good-hearted folk, set against the vivid natural backdrop of a mellow Alabama winter, along the riverside where birds and fish abound. Her enchanting story culminates at Christmas time with surprises and a magical 'redbird' moment.
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'The Jigsaw Maker' by Adrienne Dines (bookring on Bookcrossing)
'The Mermaid Chair' by Sue Monk Kidd (as good as Secret Life of Bees)
Both good reads and thoroughly enjoyed them.
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Anyone else make....
'chuck it all in the pot and see what it comes out like soup'.....
My boys quite often ask what kind of soup is it today...!...and the answer is usually whatever I could find in the vegetables and a handful or two of lentils or split peas.
Makes the best kind....lol:mrgreen:
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Good to hear it was a 'good' read. How many pokes of sweeties did the boss get through this time.
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'In fact it is brown. Andy had said nothing. He turned and walked away'
Makes you wonder what that was all about....
will have to read on to find out....lol:lol: (ok it seems they were talking about hair colour 
)Secrets of a Family Album - Isla Dewar
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KT Tunstall
Sandi Thom (local lass comes good)
Nina Simone
and they are all good
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I loved being whisked away in the Famous Five & Secret Seven adventures....wanted to be in them.
Also discovered Little House on the Prarie books when I got one at Christmas one year.....always thought it would be a great series on the telly and was delighted when it happened (if a bit goody goody now when you watch it).
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'The Bookshop' by Penelope Fitzgerald
Another bookring from Bookcrossing
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Hey it sounds like a fun book, even for adults.
They are...we read the first one together...and he has read it again since.
Also in the series
How to be a Pirate (just as funny)
Hot to speak Dragonese
How to train your Viking by Toothless
The author is Cressida Cowell by the way.....lots of fun for boys especially.
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Just made my carrot soup for tea tonight and have the bread maker on for yummy crusty rolls....
Kitchen smells lovely and the weather is just right for having soup tonight. Miserable and wet:lol: -
Erm . . . chop a big leek into ickle bits, peel and dice a potato (also into ickle bits, like about 1cm cubed) and chuck in a big pan. Dissolve 3 veggie stock cubes in a pint of water (I sometimes use 2 veggie and a chicken, but I'm weird), pour over stuff in pan. Add a bit of salt and pepper (if you want to) and cook it 'till it's soft. I like to mush it up a bit with a masher so the soup's all thick and gloopy.
It's probably cheating, but it's tasty and quite healthy.
Should serve 4 (maybe).
I also make Leek & Tattie soup but we have grated cheese on the top of it...I use 2-3 leeks and a huge onion and loads of tatties chicken stock cubes and 2 pts of water....oh and don't forget the crusty bread with it.
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I actually read this book a while ago and was so taken by it I had to get my eldest to read it too. It had me in tears at some points.
All about WW1 and two brothers and the experience they have of growing up and taking part in the war. Was very well written. A must for any teenager doing WW1 at school:readingtwo: -
One I had never read but found it quick and easy. A nice story of true friendship between Wilbur the pig and Charlotte the spider who comes to help Wilbur in his time of need.
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This was the first book.
Hiccup is a viking and is about 11 years old. He is part of a tribe called the Hairy Hooligans.He has a dragon called Toothless. To become a full member of the tribe they have to pass the Dragon Initiation Programme. He has a friend called Fishlegs. They have to pass different tests and train their dragons. This is all their adventures they have on the way. Hiccup and Toothless save the day at the end.
It is very funny and full of vikings with funny names like Snotlout who is the son of Baggybum the Beerbelly.
(My son Kenneth did this review on another booksite)
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Carrot and Coriander Soup
3oz butter or marg
8oz onions, chopped
1 1/2 lbs carrots, sliced
3 Tblsp pl flour
2 pts chicken stock
salt & pepper
1 Tblsp ground coriander seeds
1 bay leaf
1 Tblsp lemon juice
1 pt milk
1/4 pt single cream
chopped parsley to garnish
Serves 10
Method
Melt marg, add onions, fry gently for 5 mins. Add carrots, fry 2-3 mins. Stir in flour and cook 1-2 mins then gradually stir in stock, bring to boil. Season with S & P, add coriander, bay leaf, lemon juice. Cover & simmer for 30 mins. Take out bay leaf, puree soup. Put in clean pot, add milk and bring to boil. Stir in cream and reheat gently. Garnish. Serve with freshly baked bread/rolls. Enjoy.
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I must like her I think. Have just finished my 3rd one of hers this year.
'The Blue Diary'
'Local Girls'
'Here On Earth'
Anyone else read any and if so what is your favourite.
Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin
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Phew...at last I am finished it. Can't say it was one of my favourite reads and found the way of writing a bit of a bind at times. I couldn't help but be on Eva's side being a mother of a 16 year old at the moment. How other mothers have come to terms with the tragedy of something their offspring has done like this is beyond me!!! Too many of these tragic kind of stories in real life though in USA isn't there?!?
Anyone else read it
Must stop reading such harrowing books.