Chrissy

Ooo, thanks for that, I may give that a go at some point, although I can't see mine looking half as good as yours. My cakes tend to look exceptionally homemade.

An episode of the quiz show 'Pointless'.

That looks so good! How did you not win? Can you be persuaded to make a few more, and maybe send them south by cab?

This rings a bell, but for the life of me I can't think of it right now. I will have a good think about it.

Do they taste as good as they sound?

I've had double choc cookies before, but not triple. How does it work? Two types of chocoate in a chocolate cookie or something? (My mouth started to water as I typed just then!)

YUMMY!!! That's all I can think to say, the pics look like deliciousness wrapped in yumminess.

Ok, the old thread was chocka, so a nice new one! Elin ended the last thread with,

Midnight Train To Georgia ~ Gladys Knights & The Pips Roland, how many people now would know what the DHSS is?

Back In The USSR ~ The Beatles

My poor old hound has gastroenteritis. I took him to the vets today and was told that he also has a heart murmur, and arthritis in his back legs. So we have a probiotic paste to go on his bland diet of eggs, chicken and rice, and we have disgusting tasting tablets (vet's words, not mine) that I have to get him to eat. This'll be fun. Once his tummy is OK I will get him started on medication for his joints. It feels like we have turned a corner, and we will now be 'managing' his health and comfort. He has really aged in the last six months (he is 12 years old), and is now an old dog rather than just a dog, if you know what I mean. We won't tell him his old though, cos if he knows he might stop having his occasional bouts of behaving like a puppy. Who'd have thought that a lumbering hound with foul breath could be so cute?

You have my heartfelt sympathy Vladd. I am coming out the other end of a 6+ month long lost mojo, so I truly feel your pain. Know this though ~ IT WILL PASS! It really will.

^ The best review of it yet! You have truly summed it up as best as one can. It's that kind of read.

Amazon (UK) have them in stock, as do Amazon (US).

Janet, I love, love, loved the Baz Luhrmann (Leo) version of Romeo and Juliet. I hope you like it! I'm in a book quandry, but for perhaps the first time in months it's over what to read, rather than what might get my mojo back! I'm a happy reader.

Hello frenemy and welcome to the forum. There are a number of African writers that I have read and can recommend; 'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe, 'The River Between' by Ngugi Wa Thiongoand anything byBen Okri. They may not be Wilbur Smith'ish but all three write wonderfully. Off the top of my head there is also Alexander McCall Smith has written lots of books with Africa as it's central location. Karen Blixen's'Out Of Africa'. A useful tool to use would be something like Literature Map, where you jot the name of your favoured author in the box, and it will come back with similarly styled / themed writers, or that's the theory! The links for the authors lead to fantasticfiction, a great site that also will show you author recommendations, and authors that were looked at in conjunction with the one you're viewing ~ a handy addition! I know there are hundreds and thousands more, but my brain is sluggish today, and I'm out of ideas. Good luck.

Three parcels slid through the cat flap today! The 'Hunger Games' trilogy of books. I had just ordered the first one, but having read the reviews I took the plunge.

I haven't properly organised my Amazon wishlist yet, but seeing yours there lopeanha has inspired me, and aside from the books in German / English lists and the DS games, I'm going to steal your list titles and maybe add one or two more of my own. *sneaks off to steal list headings*

I had to laugh when I read this! So many many books at the Book Fair, and you are still having some arrive by post! Told you, you are The Mistress Of Books.

I watched 'Angels & Demons' for the second time this week. It worked better on a second viewing, but not by an enormous amount.

I finished 'Being Dead' by Jim Crace. An extraordinary book. A great read, although I am struggling to think to whom I could recommend this book It's essentially a love story of death. The main characters are not particularly likeable, but you are drawn to them and their moments of poignancy. Their deaths and the days following are described in detail, but don't ever appear gratuitous or too grossly graphic, and the author has even created his own cultural references surrounding the mythology of death. Original and touching.

How are you going to get these babies home? A great selection, I'd did a number of variations of "Ooooo, that looks like a good one!" as I read your list.

I have not read 'the Birds Fall Down', but I did read 'The Return Of The Soldier' by the same author and I enjoyed it.

Hello Jadees and welcome to the forum. I hadn't heard of 'Searching For Adam', and looked it up. My goodness, that sounds like a harrowing read.

I had tried to start a number of books from my vast TBR pile this week, but none of them 'took'. Today I picked up 'Being Dead' by Jim Crace. So far it is absolutely wonderful.