tbain
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Excellent, thanks.
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Does anybody use this site and what are their opinions? I have signed up today and have made a started listing all my books and reviewing some. My username is the same as here .
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Hello and welcome to the forum. Love your avatar.
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Finished reading Hidden Lives and have just started Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.
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There isn't really a thought process for me, it is just whatever is next on the shelf or jumping out at me at that particular moment
Same for me. Sometimes the next read just stands out to me on the bookcase.
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Rex and Belinda have been nominated for eviction. The housemates in heaven are getting all this nice food and Rebecca keeps going in a huff! They also had a huge food and drink fight last night and the house looked in a really big mess.
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I have found it quite boring to watch over the past few days. Maybe this leader of the house thing will liven things up a bit.
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BF is taking me out for Mexican tonight...mmm
Enjoy your meal out.
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As a History graduate I have had to study the Holocaust in quite some depth and there are loads of inconsistencies and inaccuracies such as Hitler visiting a commandants house and especially just visiting with his wife and no bodyguards. The biggest one that I felt dubious about was Bruno was nine and although he is just a child, having a father in that position he would be familiar with Hitler and wouldn't mispronouce words such as Fuhrer and Auschwitz. But having said all that I still loved the book and know that it is meant to be a touching tale of Bruno and Shmuel's friendship rather than a historical account of what occured .
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Saturday night so a Chinese takeaway ( and a night off the diet!)
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I buy Now and Closer magazines most weeks and occasionally buy the BBC History magazine.
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I loved this book. It was really clever how there was no synopsis of the book, which had me intrigued .
Although it is not historically accurate in places, it does not matter as that is obviously not its intention anyway.
It is so well written and incredibly moving, one of the rare books which made me tearful at the end.
Although quite a short book, it's very powerful and stays in your mind. Will definitely keep my eyes open for more of Boynes work.
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Glad that Mario is going but still want Rebecca to go as she is just so irritating.
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I vividly remember reading Lord of the Flies in school and being gripped. I don't think I've read it since but can remember a lot of it so clearly, far more so than most books.
Cider With Rosie we read too... Bleak House... Macbeth...
Obviously I was far more interested in Just Seventeen, Smash Hits and Stephen King books at the time to appreciate them!
I remember reading Just Seventeen every week!
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Annie Hall
Withnail and I
A Fish called Wanda
Sleeper
Woodstock (film of the festival)
Big Time (Tom Waits)
Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads)
Most films by Woody Allen
I love Woody Allen films as well. My favourites are Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sisters.
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well i thought i wanted Bex to go but having seen how Mario has been this week with Lisa I am not sure! he is horrible to her - always putting her down i think she's lovely -plastic yes but also lovely:mrgreen:
I agree. His treatment of her was horrible. It seemed to me that he was taking it all out on her because he was nominated and not her.
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I have this book in my TBR pile. Looking forward to reading it.
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Do you win many of them?
I started in April and have had just a few wins:
4 tickets to Playhouse Disney.
A leatherbound journal.
A National Trust Family pass.
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Me and Elliott ( my two year old) are having pizza for lunch. Elliott keeps calling it a 'big pie'!
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steak and eggs and pierogies
What are pierogies?
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Not at the same time, I hope!
No, I have to emphasize I do them both separately!
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Another five facts about me:
1) I have Counselling qualifications and used to be a trainee counsellor.
2) I enter a lot of online competitions (at least 100 per week)
3) I collect magnets. ( Not sure why just end up buying them from different places!)
4) I exercise every week and like to do a minimum of 3 hours per week.
5) Two of my main hobbies are driving and sleeping!
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Have updated my list. Highlighted ones are the ones I've read:
Twilight- Stephanie Meyers. 7/10
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova.
Escape - Carolyn Jessop. 8/10
The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas- John Boyne 9/10
Midnights Children- Salman Rushdie.
The Handmaids Tale- Margaret Atwood. 9/10
I Have always Lived in the Castle- Shirley Jackson
How I Live Now- Meg Rossof
Sick Notes - Gwendolin Riley.
Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain by Simon Garfield 7/10
Plain Truth- Jodi Picoult
Don't Look Back - Lesley Pearse.
The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter.
White Oleander - Janet Fitch
The Memory Keepers Daughter- Kim Edwards.
Oryx and Crake- Margaret Atwood. 6/10
Just In Case- Meg Rosoff.
Chinese Cinderella- Adeline Yen Mah.
The Crimson Petal and The White- Michael Faber.
Confessions Of an Ugly Stepsister- Gregory Maguire.
Travelling Light- Katrina Kittle.
Address Unknown- Kressmann Taylor.
We Were The Mulvaneys- Joyce Carol Oates.
My Sisters Keeper- Jodi Picoult
The Secret History- Donna Tartt.
Year of Wonders- Geraldine Brooks.
The Edible Woman- Margaret Atwood.
The Rose Of Sebastopol- Katherine Macmahon
Veronika Decides To Die- Paul Coelho. 8/10
The History Of Love- Nicole Krauss.
Out byNatsuo Kirino.
Starter For Ten- David Nicholls.
No Shame, No Fear- Ann Turnbull
Fried Eggs With Chopsticks by Polly Evans.
The Birth House by Ami Mckay
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
One Big Damn Puzzler- John Harding.
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I read Twilight a few weeks ago and although it was good, I agree with the others and found it wasn't as great as people make out. I found it quite drawn out and I found the dialogue between Edward and Bella a bit dull.
Moonlighting
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I used to love watching Moonlighting. I remember watching it every Thursady night on BBC2 after Clarence!