kitty_kitty
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Pasta veggie as my friend is coming for tea
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I have just got this out of the library
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I love Alan Carr but i missed it this week i was watching QI
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My OH has just got me into graphic novels and i love them, in fact i am addicted here are some of my favs so far.
What do other people recommend
From Hell
Wuthering Heights
Maus
The League of Extraordinary gentlemen
The gunslinger born
Heroes
The dark knight returns
v for vendetta
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I have just read this and what i thought was very sad was thinking of the poor jews who did not have anything to bribe or to buy anything with.
I also did not like Vladek at all i am sorry but i agreed with what artie said
about him being a steroetype of the money grabbing jew Even during the war when they family were upset as they could not have grand meals. All i could think about the other poorer jews who were either dying or starving
I did enjoy this book but it another one of thewar books and films which is YEs the Americans saved the world
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I do not like Keeley Hawes but i find her less annoying in this than other things but her daughter is very annoying and funny looking
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Did she?
No but she is blissfully happy single and does not regret it one minute she will be 70 soon and mad as a box of frogs!!!
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I am terrible with the library at the moment i am getting out loads of books but i do not seem to be reading them all. I suppose it is like buying books you kind of keep coming back to them before you read them.
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Is it a book that my poor brain can cope with first thing in the morning on the bus on the way to work?
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Life of Pi really, really annoyed me.
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I have no real understanding why it's so popular, unless people are obsessed by blathering on about faith, and the focus on why believing is so important.
The opening section was unutterably tedious. The middle section was kind of interesting and fun, to be honest. But it was then ruined by the idiotic ending that told you it was all basically a lie but that it was good lie because believing the better story is better than having a dour, unspiritual life which has no colour or vibrancy. It's just a pile of
. The ending had me wanting to rip the book to shreds.The opening section is necessary, of course, to lay the groundwork for all the nonsense about faith at the end.
The play with colours is important - the green for Islam on the island, the orange for Hindism in the lifejackets and things, the white of the boat for Christianity, the idea that he needs all three colours, all three thing to keep him alive. But it's just clever-clever nonsense in the middle of a stupid book.
God, it annoyed me.
I agree it was the sort of the book that i find very pretentious and i felt like the author was trying to make a look how intelligent i am sort of point.
I read it very quickly as i wanted it to be good
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I still have this book to read but i will have to read it when i am off as i can see myself roaring crying on the way to work
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Entered but i should get my mum to enter as she wins everything
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Reading loads on the journey too and from work at the minute
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Meat balls and spagetti with olives too yummy as my OH made for me.
He did it one handed as his arm is in a sling
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Yes, Lidl's great. They have lots of continental stuff that you don't see in the big chains, and usually at attractive prices too - that really appeals to the sauerkraut-munching Teuton in me
. In fact, most of the so-called "budget" chains are worth a look - you can often come out with some real bargains (obviously, I exclude "Ghetto" from that statement ....)I also bought aload of knitting cotton and my mum got a sewing machine last time we were there!!
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I love Lidl too they often have fab offer like 75% all fruit and veg and they are so cheap for olives, olive oil, cheeses, etc
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Stew made in my slow cooker with mashed normal and sweet potatos
yummy
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If you like buddhist books then look here at amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books-uk&field-author=Geshe%20Kelsang%20Gyatso
I have read some of these books by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and attended some classes about his teachings with a buddhist monk and they are really interesting some of his books have mantras and meditations
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I read that one and yes it probably did change my life too in a way.
Me too, it changed the way i think and handle challenges i have read some good Buddhist books too
Wuthering Heights changed one of my friends lives, it made her realise she was not happy in her marriage and leave her marriage and embark on finding a passionate love!!!!
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They are just the normal trashy quick read type books, good for not having to think alot but i think it takes a while for the characters to develop.
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Thank you very mush keep them coming!!
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Coraline - Neil Gaiman
Synopsis
Despite being mostly known for his fantastical graphic novels and adult fiction, Neil Gaiman's first book for children is everything that you would expect from such a massive imagination as his. It's special and wonderful and very weird indeed. Described by some as the new Alice in Wonderland, Coraline is actually more bizarre than that, much more frightening and its modest length definitely adds to the book's undiluted potency.
Shortly after moving into an old house with strange tenants above and below, Coraline discovers a big, carved, brown wooden door at the far corner of the drawing room. And it is locked. Curiosity runs riot in Coraline's mind and she unlocks the door to see what lies behind it. Disappointingly, it opens onto a brick wall. Days later, after exploring the rest of the house and garden, Coraline returns to the same mysterious door and opens it again. This time, however, there is a dark hallway in front of her. Stepping inside, the place beyond has an eerie familiarity about it. The carpet and wallpaper are the same as in her flat. The picture hanging on the wall is the same. Almost. Strangest of all, her mum and dad are there too. Only they have buttons for eyes and seem more possessive than normal. It's a twisted version of her world that is familiar, and yet sinister. And matters get even more surreal for Coraline when her "other" parents seem reluctant to let her leave.
I really enjoyed this book and it is a fantastically wierd and quich read about 160 pages. A good wierd modern fairy tale and quite big print which was handy for me being half asleep in the morning.
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I love anything to do with Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I.
Which books do people recommend about them.
I have read:
The other Boleyn girl
The Boleyn Inheritance
The Queen of Subtleties - Suzannah Dunn
The secret Diary of Annne Boleyn
That is all i can remember off the top of my head
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For a few Demons More - Kim Harrison
Synopsis
The fifth and latest instalment of the urban fantasy-thriller series starring Rachel Morgan. A pacey and addictive novel of sexy bounty-hunting witches, cunning demons and menacing vampires. Bargaining with demons has left Rachel Morgan in constant danger of losing her soul. As if being famous in the underworld - for all the wrong reasons - and sharing her home with a vampire and her jealous girlfriend didn't make her vulnerable enough, one night Rachel finds demons ransacking her home with no fear of sanctified ground. They are searching for something they believe Rachel to possess - a danger that Rachel thought was well hidden and secret. But when the human morgue starts to fill up with partially-turned lupine women who have been brutally murdered, Rachel realises that someone else knows the Focus still exists and that she may have been betrayed.
Fifth book in the series. A really good fast paced read. They are not the best books in the world but thoroughly enjoyable.
What's for Dinner Tonight?
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That sounds lovely