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X~men origins: Wolverine

1. I may have mentioned this before, (if so, apologies), I do not have my ears pierced because I am too scared to do it, despite having numerous tattoos, I think I have a weird thing about my ears. 2. My Great~Grandad was very superstitious, he believed in banshees, etc and that every house should have a cat, as you know, my family are a cat family 3. I fall asleep (when I sleep) at the drop of a hat, I can sleep standing up! I also fell asleep getting a tattoo done and I had to be woken up. 4. I have a very dirty laugh, I am so self conscious about it, I try not to laugh. 5. The older I get the more embarrassed I get.

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Yeah I am enjoying it, I kind of stopped and then went back to it

I just started watching 'Gilmour Girls', so I can understand the confusion

I just switched the channel and Supernatural is on ~ Dean!!!!

I am still reading 'Touching from a distance' by Deborah Curtis (Ian Curtis of 'The Joy Divison' wife), its interesting reading

The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer The Chloe Summers series by Kelley Armstrong The Women of the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong The Harper Connelly series by Charlaine Harris The Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris

Good times

Great review Lexie, do you think you will read more books like it?

Thanks hen x

I did enjoy 'A Winter Book' but it was not my favourite of the year so far.

I am Legend

I remember reading 'Gideon' by Stephen Laws the morning I got married and that book was about a man who ruins women's relationships ~ nice.

A Winter Book ~ Selected Stories by Tove Jansson ~ Started: 09.12.09 ~ Finished: 12.12.09 Synopsis ~ Written with such a lightness of touch that it seems miraculous, these stories are a further revelation of Tove Jansson's heart warming genius. As smooth and odd and beautiful as sea-worn driftwood, as full of light and air as the Nordic summer. We are lucky to have these stories collected at last by Philip Pullman. Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is a Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer's prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and is introduced by Ali Smith. The Winter Book features 13 stories from Tove Jansson's first book for adults, The Sculptor's Daughter (1968) plus 7 of her most cherished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), translated into English and published here for the first time. I am relatively new to the writings of Tove Jansson, the author of the very popular Moomin books (I just read ‘Moominland Midwinter, which I enjoyed immensely). I am very conflicted about ‘A Winter Book’, I enjoyed aspects of it, you can tell from the stories that Tove had a very happy childhood and her personality shines through, a very brave and individual woman who brought a lot of happiness to people but I found some of the stories quite hard to read, I knew what she meant and the characters mentioned were well written, it was just at times the stories did not make sense, they were beautifully written, hence my conflicted feelings. There is no doubt that Tove Jansson was an excellent writer and I did enjoy ‘A Winter Book’ but I feel the stories were lost in translation. My favourite story was ‘correspondence’, the letters to Tove from a fan, the letters were lovely and I understand that Tove answered every one of her letters, which I thought was lovely and shown what kind of person Tove was, caring, funny, spirited and individual. An interesting read but not a book for everyone.

Good review Lexie, I am almost finished it