Kylie
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Don't know if this will help, Oblomov, but there's a small section on culinary use at Wikipedia.
I haven't tried them myself (I prefer the chocolate variety
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Hi Evelyn and welcome! Nice to have you here
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The Babysitter's Club series by Ann N. Martin - my favorite character was Abby because she was humorous and it was funny how Ann Martin would write her dialogue in "stuffy nose" speak (like J.K. Rowling did when Neville had a bloody nose in Harry Potter and, uh, the Half Blood Prince I believe). My favorite book was the big one where all the babysitters took a trip together around the USA.
I also read the Babysitter's Little Sister series; I had big pink glasses just like Karen, the seven-year-old main character, when I was in third grade!
I was a big fan of the BSC books too CoG! I still have all of mine but I stopped collecting shortly after Abby entered the series. I recently bought the final book from a book fair, along with (I think) the one where they go around the USA. I haven't read them yet though. And wow, you did look like Karen!
I used to have a couple of picture books by Graeme Base called Animalia and The Eleventh Hour. They are beautifully illustrated children's book. Animalia is an A-Z and The Eleventh Hour is a story about an elephant inviting 10 friends to his 11th birthday on 11 November at 11am - then his great feast goes missing and the reader has to try to figure out who stole it. There are clues and things to look out for in every picture. Wonderful stuff! I can't believe I ever gave my copies away. Now I'll have to track them down again.
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I'm so glad you liked Pride and Prejudice Pontalba! I read it last year (it was also my first Austen) and it's now one of my very favourite books. I found myself flicking forward to see what would happen next - something I very rarely do! I agree that her writing and insights translate well into the present day.
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Wow, you must live in a town of fast readers! Or are you allowed to borrow for a couple of months at a time or something?
I'll be interested to hear what you think of DBC Pierre. I haven't read any of his work but I've been curious about it.
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Because my books are so scattered, and I have them on a couple of shelves here and a couple of shelves there, I really can't organise them very well. I do have my Wordsworths together (all 3 of them!), and my Penguin modern classics (with the grey covers) and then my Vintages (with the white covers), then my Jane Austens (which are all Penguin Read Reds). After that, it kind of degenerates and they're all a mess, although I do have one shelf for sci-fi, which is badly overflowing.
I like the idea of colours, but if I had the room I would probably end up arranging alphabetically in genre or something.
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Karen, if you really want to find it, go out and buy another bookmark. When you return home, I guarantee your other one will turn up!
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Sounds like everyone has been busy rearranging books for more space! I moved a few books around on my shelves but I don't think it created any more space - it just looks a bit better now because I've grouped more books together that are the same height.
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Journals and Papers - or was it Papers and Journals?
Can't imagine how you could forget such a riveting title Judy
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Instead of getting a new bed, you could get some bricks (if the colour is bad for your room, paint them, get creative) and lift your bed on those.
Hmm, that's a very interesting idea ii! My dad's quite the handyman so I might talk it over with him. Thanks for the idea!
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We had some fried rice and leftover chicken so added it together with tandoori sauce. Yum. That was yesterday and I'm having more for lunch today.
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I saw Miss Saigon last night. It was a brilliant performance and very cleverly done. I got a bit teary a couple of times. I've never seen it before and didn't even know the story so it was all a surprise.
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Chocolate! It might be bad for me, but nothing will ever induce me to try and give it up. Life's too short, and eating it makes me happy, so why not? I probably eat a bit every day, but not in copious amounts.
I also crave chicken (I'm surprised at how many of us there are!) I will eat it in any way, shape or form.
Why hasn't anyone brought out chicken-flavoured chocolate? I bet it wouldn't taste as gross as it sounds!
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Bought two books yesterday (the ones I mentioned in an earlier post):
Magical Mystery Tours: My Life With The Beatles by Tony Bramwell
Mapping The World by Michael Swift
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I used to read under the covers with my torch too, until I got caught and got into a lot of trouble
I have memories of my Mum standing in the hallway between my brother's room and mine, and reading Roald Dahl poetry out to us when we were in bed. She was very good at it
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Mmm, yum, Echo! We make English muffin pizza at home sometimes (meatlovers - heavenly!)
I'll be having a toasted ham and tomato sandwich.
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I have a stack of Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie novels on my TBR pile. Glad to hear you're enjoying Poirot - it makes me want to get a move on to start reading them!
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Hi Miguel and welcome to the forum! I like sci-fi too but haven't read many different authors yet. Do you have a particular favourite in sci-fi?
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I completely agree about Ray, Kell. Do you think the character was written this way on purpose or did something go amiss in Mark Haddon's characterisation? Because if I was supposed to dislike this character the way the other characters did, well, it didn't work!
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Bought four brand-new books cheaply yesterday.
Aldous Huxley: The Grey Eminence
Aldous Huxley: Those Barren Leaves
Donovan Leitch: The Hurdy Gurdy Man (Autobiography)
Geoff Tibballs: No-Balls and Googlies: A Cricket Companion
Saw a couple of others that I might go back and get too. One was another 'insider's account' of someone's time with The Beatles (can never have too many of those!). And the other was a big (huge!) book of maps. I adore looking at ancient maps, and this one has gorgeous full-page reproductions. I think it weighs about a ton (at a conservative estimate), so I might have to pick this one up on the way home from work one day - the book shop is near the train station so I won't have to lug it too far. Oh, and there were a handful of cheap Wordsworth editions of various classics, such as War and Peace, that looked mighty tempting
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Reading order sounds good to me! I can't wait to get stuck into it
It'll be great to compare the heroines of the different novels - to see what similarites and differences exist between them and other characters.
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Me too Adam! I was looking through my beloved IKEA catalogue last night for solutions and thought I'd found it: some nice boxes to slide under my bed. Then I looked at the gap under my bed and realised I'd overestimated how big it is! Back to the drawing board!
Maybe I'll buy a new bed. One that's high off the ground so I can put drawers or something under it. Man, this is turning into an expensive hobby
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Aw, what a lovely post GSH! Very nicely written
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1. Favourite Main Meal - Roast chicken and vegies or sausages and mashes potato with onion gravy
2. Favourite Starter - Herb bread
3. Favourite Dessert - Mudcake and sticky date pudding
4. Favourite Pizza Topping - Meatlovers
5. Favourite Bread - White
6. Favourite Vegetable - Tomato
7. Favourite Fruit - Tomato
8. Favourite Cheese - I HATE cheese!
9. Favourite Takeaway - Satay chicken and rice (my little takeaway shop does the nicest you'll ever eat!)
10. Favourite Chocolate Bar - I'll take any! I'll take a leaf out of Janet's book and say that Chunky Caramel Kit-Kats are pretty good!
11. Favourite Sandwich - Club sandwich
I'm sooo hungry now!
a.book.in.the.life -Reading List 2007
in Past Book Logs
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To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my very favourite books
And Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is right up there too. They're the only ones from your list that I've read. What did you think of Enduring Love? I have that one on my TBR pile.