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Lol Weave .....I went to push the LIKE button

I love Weave's latest one. I think that's the little girl off Mary and Max? I've only seen about half of the movie but it was delightful

The Autumn Effect by 10 Years. Am very impressed with this album, they are a band I've only heard of recently.

I haven't seen the movie either Sofia, but I can't imagine these two fitting any role in the book.

Better Together ~ Jack Johnson

Let's Spend the Night Together ~ David Bowie

What would be even more annoying is if there was absolutely no reference to a hedgehog whatsoever. Has the title got any relevance to the story?

In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence ~ Procol Harum

In France They Kiss On Main Street ~ Joni Mitchell

Weetbix, milk and sugar. I've been eating them for years and I still love them. I can't really be bothered having anything else unless I'm away on holiday. Usually I sit with my first cup of coffee, after taking daughter to the school bus down the road, and eat my weetbix while checking out the computer to see what exciting things have happened overnight.

There's lots of elephant jokes. How do you shoot a blue elephant? With a blue elephant gun. How do you shoot a pink elephant? You spin him round and round until he turns blue and then shoot him with a blue elephant gun. How do elephants camouflage themselves on a billiard table? They paint their toenails green. Have you ever seen an elephant on a billiard table? Good camouflage eh?

Very well explained Kell See Chrissy, being tired and crabby sometimes has it's benefits, saves you from a power of explanations

A Passage to India by E.M.Forster is considered a classic. The Far Pavillions by M.M.Kaye is another, although I haven't read it, so can't give a recommendation. What I have read by her are her autobiographical books Part 1: The Sun In The Morning 1990 Part 2: Golden Afternoon 1997 Part 3: Enchanted Evening 1999 These tell of her childhood and marriage in India during the early 1900's. I found these a fascinating account of the British lifestyle in India during this time. Another author is Helen Forrester. She married an Indian doctor and for a time lived in India. This provided the background for two of her novels Thursday's Child (1985) The Moneylenders of Shahpur (1987)

I really loved it but realise it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea. I watched the movie of this book which included such great actors as Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliot, Helena Bonham Carter and Judi Dench and I think this really brought the book alive. Let us know what you think of the next Graham Greene you read. I've always meant to read more.

I very much enjoyed this book too but it is the only one of his that I've read. I did read though that this is the only book he wrote for fun, so maybe his others wouldn't have quite the same humour. I wonder if you might like E.M.Foster's Room With A View.

It wouldn't be this person would it ?..... just did a quick Google search http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/printers-row/2010/09/rachel-pedens-journals-of-farm-life-republished.html

When you do, Easy Reader, let me know what you think. I don't think I've seen anyone else comment on this book.

Walking back, the sky turned indigo and crackled and then growled. 'Jove's throwing things,' Thomas said. I expect he's committed a marital indiscretion and Juno's in a rage.' ~ The Other Side of You by Salley Vickers

What a tragedy in Japan. Footage of the tsunami is like watching an apocolyptic movie, absolutely unbelievable. My heart goes out to the Japanese people. There have been quite a few Japanese students killed in the Christchurch earthquake and Japan sent over a team to help us. I hope we can do the same for them.

Celtic Swing by Van Morrison. Saw a video of this years ago with a little boy dancing in the rain in a park. Then I heard it again in 'The Lovely Bones' movie. It's a lovely haunting piece of music. Celtic Swing

Janet, she was a NZ poet, that's probably why it's not familiar. I love the poem's simplicity and I must look up some more of her poetry

I started to watch Shutter Island the other night but couldn't hack it. When it got to the part where I decided it just wasn't for me. A very odd and unsettling movie.

1800s 940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen * 938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen * 937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen * 936. Emma – Jane Austen * 922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo * 906. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray * 904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë 902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë 892. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell * 879. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot 873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo 872. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley 863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott 859. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope 794. Dracula – Bram Stoker 1900s 772. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster 769. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy * 761. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster * 754. Howards End – E.M. Forster * 708. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster * 699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald * 695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie * 650. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons * 649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 642. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers * 639. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse * 632. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers * 619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell * 614. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen) * 610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien * 608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck * 603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier * 592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck * 564. Animal Farm – George Orwell 563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh * 552. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton * 547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell 526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham * 510. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley * 508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding 486. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak * 477. The Once and Future King – T.H. White 470. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute * 467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote 459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee * 456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee * 436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey * 408. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote * 303. The World According to Garp – John Irving * 272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker * 190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 156. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje * 116. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink * 2000s 42. Atonement – Ian McEwan What a big job!! I think there's 55 there. I seem to have read predominantly older 1900 books. I've put an * beside the ones I particularly like.

The latest figures are 113 dead and 228 missing. What is so heart-warming is the assistance being offered by countries overseas. About 600 specialist search and rescue people from Australia, Japan, USA, UK, Taiwan and Singapore have arrived to help and that just means so much to us.