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Kylie

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  1. I actually finished Tomorrow, When the War Began last week. It was an easy read but pretty enjoyable. I snapped the first 5 books up on Kindle years ago when they were 99p each and have only just got around to reading it. I will start on the 2nd one soon.

     

    Great to hear, Tim. They really do get better as they go along, so hopefully you'll enjoy the next four books even more. :)

     

    Oh great- the 1st makes you automatically want to read the 2nd?  :doh:  :giggle2: It's my next read. 

    Knowing me, I'd want to read all 7 :rolleyes: At least the first 3!

     

    :giggle2: They're such quick reads though, and so much shorter than many YA reads these days. The first three books combined are probably still shorter than Divergent!

  2. I finished Jon Ronson's The Men Who Stare at Goats. Crazy stuff.

     

    I have one book on the go from my book jar and I still have another to start, but I couldn't resist choosing yet another from the jar. It's Haruki Murakami's Underground, in which he interviews people involved in the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995. I'm a few chapters in and it's really interesting.

  3. From the post today came Anastasia Krupnik (3 books in 1) :smile: !!

    The cover design is different from the one in the Amazon used section, but that's okay, it was cheap as chips .

    The book was printed in 1992, and the fashion of clothes and spectacles of Anastasia are so 90's :D . I can remember wearing specs of that size at the late 80s/ early 90's, and they were so fashionable then. :giggle2:

    The Anastasia covers are so terribly hideous. :( I have the same type of covers. I really hope they republish them with nicer covers one day. The books deserve it!

     

    I used to have huge glasses in the late 90s. Whenever my mum now sees a photo of me from that time she apologises for putting me in those glasses. :D

  4. We have to turn our clocks back for the end of daylight saving on Easter Sunday. Does that mean I get to stuff my face with chocolate for an extra hour? :D (Probably not. I'll be at Mum's place and I'm sure she'll be trying to ration my chocolate so I don't go overboard.  :blush2:)

  5. The World's End

     

    Having a lead character who has no redeeming characteristics was a bold choice, and sadly one that failed.  This is no Shaun of the Dead, or even Hot Fuzz.

     

    Definitely not the best Pegg/Frost offering, but I enjoyed it enough to have watched it a couple of times. The ending is a little odd though.

     

    I did like the ending a lot, Kylie, it was very fitting, I felt :D

     

    Yes indeed!

  6. Yesterday a local cookbook was released. My dad is in it, along with quite a few other people from this city (they interviewed him and took photos, I met the interviewer and photographer too.).

    Very cool! You should get him to autograph it. :)

  7. Forgot to take my reading glasses to work today. :doh: My eyes aren't too bad with my normal glasses, but I did have to sit further back from my computer at work to be able to make out the font … then had to increase the font on my Kindle to MASSIVE so I could read at lunchtime. :lol:  Glad to be back at home with them on now and actually being able to see the screen clearly.

     

    Gosh, I feel for you. I can work without my glasses, but I still feel totally lost if I misplace them. And all I can think as I look for them is 'searching for my glasses would be so much easier if I had my glasses on'.  :giggle2:

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    I'm just watching the highlights now! :D  I already know the result, but I was at work, so only saw the scores, so it's quite good to watch some of the play this evening.

     

     

    Then you probably know that I'm a very happy chappy right now! :D It should be a good game against New Zealand on Sunday! Can't wait.  :exc: NZ beat us in an earlier round (our only loss) so hopefully that'll put the wind up the Aussies to fight even harder this weekend.

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