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Okay so I decided to get back into my Angel watching (stopped 9 episodes into the second season, not sure why) and though I was a little hesitant as I had to skim wiki to get my head in the right place for where I'm about to pick up, I am 1:56 minutes into this episode and already I'm like BEST SHOW EVAAAAAR!

Algernon has a FANTASTIC story. Kylie: I've never read Bradbury before, but I'll definately be getting more. And thanks for the author name

I need to read that. I know the story already and saw a movie adapation years ago. What's the author's name? I'll have a look in Waterstones.

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It's one box of cereal lol, surely you could remember not to buy cereal for a while?

.....Or you could just buy another box now and not open it until you need it? I'm eating WINE GUMS! And they're surprisingly soft.... my teeth approve!

I haven't found myself hungry enough for dinner. =/

It's a great idea to be fair. The kid's book is 'Out of Nowhere' by Gerard Whelan, and it's about two kids who wake up in a monastary somewhere outside Dublin. Apart from the monks and some insane people, all human and animal life has been removed completely - and nobody knows why or how. So it's about them trying to work it out, and about why this bubble of land has been evacuated except, accidentally, for them. Tis great. I'm glad I didn't buy Under The Dome now. I was tempted by it's sheer size. (I like long books). But I haven't read much King (one and a half books) so I'd rather stick to the highest recommended stuff at first!

Wait, so, Under The Dome is about a small community suddenly cut off from the outside world? I know a great kid's horror/sci-fi book that does that. And it's BRILLIANT. Also, SKM just added a little bit of spoiler tagging to the end of your post, because anyone who is in the middle of reading it might know who you're talking about/might be spoiled by it.

They still taste exactly the same as always.

So irrelevant I then deleted my post, but anyway It's a lovely little place though.

He won't care if there are!

That's the one.

Annie is the singer, and the reason I can't ever remember the author's name!

Northanger Abbey is a hilarious book! I had to study it in college. There's actually a similar book, about a somewhat deluded girl who is obssessed with novels and heroes and so on, called 'The Female Quixote' which is worth a read if you like Northanger Abbey. Can't think of the author's first name but the surname is Lennox.

I'm 130 pages (halfway) into Something Wicked This Way Comes, still absolutely loving it. Must and will buy more Bradbury a.s.a.p. I'll probably have this finished by tomorrow.

Hug your books?

He's superb! Why did you not tell me about him before you heathen??

Sheesh.... 18? How could anyone bear to keep trying that long without seeking help?

Awwww that's so awesome! Kylie, I meant to ask you - was the Good News Week episode the one with the running milking-horse gag? Because I managed to watch most of that on youtube. It was HILARIOUS!

Ahh that's still a bit away yet. I didn't go see Avatar. I didn't go see Daybreakers. I need a cinema trip.

Haha it's no bother, book-discovery tangents are always welcome! It'll get back on topic easily. Here I'll stick in another quote from this book to do so. This is a description of the main two characters, the more adventurous of the two (Jim) leading the other (Will) who follows by default of friendship. Sometimes you see a kite so high, so wise it almost knows the wind. It travels, then chooses to land in one spot and no other and no matter how you yank, run this way or that, it will simply break it's cord, seek its resting place and bring you, blood-mouthed, running. So now Jim was the kite, the wild twine cut, and whatever wisdom was his taking him away from Will who could only run, earthbound, after one so high and dark silent and suddenly strange. I love this guy's way of writing.

It's a great book J.C.W., one of Bradbury's novels as opposed to short story collections, and it features the Illustrated Man from one of said short story collections. It's a really great read so far.

You must read To Kill A Mockingbird soonish. It's an absolutely beautiful book, and it has a wonderful black and white film adapation starring Gregory Peck! It really is great though. It makes me cry, and it's rare a book will do that to me.

I have no idea why it's so gratifying to see tickets being issued! I guess it's something about seeing who people stupidly (and in some cases, dangerously) chance their arms receiving SWEET JUSTICE!