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Me too on both counts. It's nice to keep cards though, I found some cards from my great aunt who died earlier this year which was quite nice. 1. When my sister was little she couldn't say Rachel properly and called me Doddle instead. My dad still calls it me now. 2. I'm a vegetarian. 3. I am actually obsessed with Russell Howard. It's the "wonky eye and funny teeth" (according to Heat magazine) that do it for me. And the fact that he's hilarious. 4. I love to make lists and have a little notebook that I write down my to do list in. 5. I have two tattoos and three facial piercings yet belly button piercings freak me out big time.

Russell Howard Live: Dingledodies

Finished This Charming Man - Marian Keyes this afternoon. Started Christmas In Seattle - Debbie Macomber, already just over 100 pages in.

Everyone remembers where they were the day they heard that Paddy de Courcy was getting married. This Charming Man - Marian Keyes

Great song. Love the french version. Laid - James (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams I Should Be So Lucky - Kylie Minogue The Heart Never Lies - McFly Feeling This - Blink 182 I'm In The Mood For Dancing - The Nolans Breathless - Aiden All That I've Got - The Used Walk Away - Funeral For A Friend And Love Said No - HIM

Finished Kiss - Jill Mansell this afternoon. Started Confessions of a Reluctant Recessionista - Amy Silver, not very far into it though. Oh and I added Picture Perfect - Jodi Picoult to my TBR pile along with COARR.

83. Kiss - Jill Mansell Synopsis from Waterstones: When Izzy is knocked off her motorbike she doesn't just lose her dignity - she loses as a result not one but two long-term boyfriends, her job and, to boot, her extremely bijou flat. Gina, who caused the accident, has more important things to worry about - her husband's mistress is pregnant and she's suddenly on her own. Why should she care about Izzy? Yet somehow the well-heeled Gina finds herself opening her home to Izzy and her spirited teenage daughter. And it's there that Izzy meets heart-stoppingly handsome Sam, whose lingering kiss is all it takes for her to find the true love that has always eluded her - though there are just a few obstacles between that first kiss and the 'happy ever after'... Started: 28th October Finished: 1st November 503 pages Rating: 6.5/10

82. Salem Falls - Jodi Picoult Synopsis from Waterstones: Jack St. Bride was once a beloved teacher and soccer coach at a girls' private school - until a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation and robbed him of his career and reputation. Now, after a devastatingly public ordeal that left him with an eight-month jail sentence and no job, Jack resolves to pick up the pieces of his life. He takes a job washing dishes at Addie Peabody's diner and slowly starts to form a relationship with her in the quiet New England village of Salem Falls. But just when Jack thinks he has outrun his past, a quartet of teenage girls with a secret turn his world upside down once again, triggering a modern-day witch hunt in a town haunted by its own history ... Started: 24th October Finished: 26th October 472 pages Rating: 9/10

I only caught about an hour of it last night. I tend not to watch it as it can freak me out sometimes although I don't know why. My mum and dad are watching it downstairs, which means I missed a brand spanking new episode of House this week because they're watching it....

Started reading Salem Falls - Jodi Picoult for the about the third time yesterday. Thankfully this time I've managed to get into it and I'm already 100+ pages in. I also bought From Dead To Worse - Charlaine Harris thinking it was the next one in the series and it's not . Thankfully I realised before I read it this time so I'll have to buy the next one first...

81. The Sister Diaries - Karen Quinn Synopsis from Waterstones: Although they couldn't be more different, Amanda, Serena and Laura Moon have always been there for one another. Amanda sizzles in the high stakes arena of New York City real estate - but drags herself home each night to a cold, empty bed. From top executive at Prada, Serena is now an over-the-top stay-at-home Mum, plunging her marriage into crisis and her four-year-old into therapy. Laura spent the last six years caring for their dying mother. Now she is trying to breathe new life into her abandoned music career. Emotions explode when the sisters learn that their mother left everything - the multi-million dollar family home and a priceless painting - to Serena. But why? In an effort to make sense of the bequest, the girls journey to glamorous East Hampton to unravel the mystery behind their mother's past, setting off a chain of events that threatens the very core of their sisterhood. Started: 20th October Finished: 23rd October 471 pages Rating: 8/10

80. The Witch Of Portobello - Paulo Coelho Synopsis from Waterstones: This is the story of Athena, or Sherine, to give her the name she was baptised with. Her life is pieced together through a series of recorded interviews with those people who knew her well or hardly at all -- parents, colleagues, teachers, friends, acquaintances, her ex-husband. The novel unravels Athena's mysterious beginnings, via an orphanage in Romania, to a childhood in Beirut. When war breaks out, her adoptive family move with her to London, where a dramatic turn of events occurs! Athena, who has been dubbed 'the Witch of Portobello' for her seeming powers of prophecy, disappears dramatically, leaving those who knew her to solve the mystery of her life and abrupt departure. Started: 14th October Finished: 20th October 323 pages Rating: 6.5/10

79. The Book Of Tomorrow - Cecelia Ahern Synopsis from Waterstones: Tamara Goodwin has always got everything she's ever wanted. Born into a family of wealth, she grew up in a mansion with its own private beach, a wardrobe full of designer clothes and all that a girl could ever wish for. She's always lived in the here and now, never giving a second thought to tomorrow. But then suddenly her dad is gone and life for Tamara and her mother changes forever. Left with a mountain of debt, they have no choice but to sell everything they own and move to the country. Nestled next to Kilsaney Castle, their gatehouse is a world away from Tamara's childhood. With her mother shut away with grief, and her aunt busy tending to her, Tamara is lonely and bored and longs to return to Dublin. When a travelling library passes through Kilsaney Demesne, Tamara is intrigued. Her eyes rest on a mysterious large leather bound tome locked with a gold clasp and padlock. What she discovers within the pages takes her breath away and shakes her world to its' core. Started: 8th October Finished: 9th October 320 pages Rating: 8/10

78. Letters To A Love Rat - Niamh Greene Synopsis from Waterstones: What do you do when the love of your life turns out to be a good-for-nothing love rat? a) Pour your heart out to him in private letters that he'll never see. (Secretly you think it's a big fat waste of time but your therapist says it's the prefect way to express your inner rage and who are you to argue with science? Pretend it's not happening and carry on? (The pressure to act normally will almost kill you of course - but it would be much worse if anyone ever suspected that your life was less than perfect.) c) Create a blog and tell the whole world about your problems? (You need advice and, if he won't listen to you, there are plenty of people out there who will. What harm can it do? Especially if you keep your identity top-secret.) Three very different women have one thing in common - a good-for-nothing Casanova called Charlie. When he betrays them, they choose three very different ways to cope. But can they ever get over him? And will the love rat ever learn his lesson? Started: 6th October Finished: 8th October 325 pages Rating: 8/10

77. Twenty Times A Lady - Karyn Bosnak Synopsis from Waterstones: What's your number? No, not your phone number. Your number. You know what I'm talking about, don't you? Nope, wrong again. Not your age. Not your salary either. Your 'number', silly. Do I have to spell it out for you? How many men have you...you know...done it with? When Delilah wakes up one morning in a bed that's not her own, she experiences the biggest regret of her life. Not only did she have drunken sex with her disgusting former boss Roger (who fired her the day before) but in doing so she hit her self-imposed 'number limit'; she's had sex with twenty men. The one spot she had left was supposed to be saved for the man she would marry. Refusing to give up on her number limit, she goes and tracks down all the men she's ever slept with. Somewhere amongst them must be The Man, only she didn't realise it at the time...She embarks on her stalker-like search amongst the twenty former lovers, which involves walking the dog (first having to buy a dog, of course), enrolling in a cookery course, joining a gym, visiting a jail (he gets out in a month - it was worth a shot) and even checking into rehab. And in the end, of course, Delilah comes to realise that numbers don't matter and that true love comes when you're open and ready for it. Started: 4th October Finished: 6th October 382 pages Rating: 7/10

76. Dead As A Doornail - Charlaine Harris Synopsis from Waterstones: Sookie's got just a month, before the next full moon, to find out who wants her brother dead - and to stop the fiend! Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life, mostly. She's a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar; she has a love life, albeit a bit complicated, and most people have come to terms with her telepathy. The problem is, Sookie wants a quiet life - but things just seem to happen to her and her friends. Now her brother Jason's eyes are starting to change: he's about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. She can deal with that, but her normal sisterly concern turns to cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population. She afraid not just because Jason's at risk, but because his new were-brethren suspect Jason may be the shooter. Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who's behind the attacks - unless the killer decides to find her first. Started: 1st October Finished: 3rd October 295 pages Rating: 7.5/10

What a shocker that was. I was convinced it was Phil. I nearly fell off the chair in shock. I really wasn't expecting that, he seems a bit too young for Heather...

Mock The Week: Too Hot For TV. Hilarious, can't wait for the next dvd to come out.

I'm so looking forward to reading Frankie Boyle's book. I read an extract from it the other day and chuckled my way through. Not too sure about the Peter Kay one, I'd be a bit disappointed if it wasn't as good as his first (which made me chuckle).