Ravenwood
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When I am particualrly stress or tired I retreat back into the books I loved as child. Partly becuase they are easy to read, but also they remind me of the joy I had of escaping into them, curled up in my bedroom.
Me too!
It's CS Lewis, and Tamora Pierce for me. Plus my second childhood with JK Rowling!
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In my bag, beside my bed, on the arm of the sofa, on the table.... and stacked two deep on the shelves lining the walls of the kids' playroom: I so envy that library Nellie!
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I'm thanking the lord for Sky+ - am loving Little Dorrit!
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Is it just me or are they trying to make Sylar sympathetic to cash in on his impending mega-fame as ol' pointy ears Spock? Still can't beat Hiro Nakamura, though!
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ER is ending???? Bummer
I do watch Gray's too - has Rose spoiled it for Meredith?? - but ER is the best.
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Thought it was good to jump ahead 5 years - I think everyone would have moved out of Wisteria Lane if there kept being major disasters/scandals there every 6 months!
And as a mother of two I'm glad to see that Gaby looks dreadful too!
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Books from childhood make me happy when I go back to them - Narnia, The Little White Horse, Tamora Pierce's stuff.... I'm on very good terms with my inner child!
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Gutted that DT is going, but felt the same when CE left.
Might be controversial, but maybe it would be good to have a Doctor who we don't all (well, almost all) fancy?
That was something I really liked about Donna - she just wasn't interested in him that way!
[i listened to a couple of Dr Who audio books that came with the Radio Times a while back, and it was a bit funny to hear DT talking about the doctor's intense brown eyes and boyish good looks!]
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I've just finished The Book Thief and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - yes October was just a barrel of laughs.
Before that we had Mister Pip, and now I'm onto The Book of Lost Things.... think I see a pattern developing here.
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Yes, a wonderful book, so easy to read, funny and shocking at times. I had a hard time placing the setting within the last twenty years, partly because it seemed so colonial, but also because I had no memory of the events described (bless Wikipedia for a quick history lesson of Papua New Guinea for the woefully ignorant like me).
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Gelfling! Glad to find someone else who's read Pilo - definately a book that will stay with me! Anyone else out there? Whenever I reccommend it, and I try to describe it you can see people starting to edge away.....
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Once read a Freya North book..... never again
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Oh dear I feel so old now!
Loved watching this when I was at school
What do you stubbornly refuse to read, and why?
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Any kind of "celebrity" autobiography.
And I also avoid (waiting for howls of derision) anything that looks vaguely chick lit-y (you know the type from the front cover photo & font!)