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    What are you eating just now?

    in Food, Cooking & Recipes

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    I'm eating possibly the most awesome fat free yoghurt in existence.

     

    I always eat Muller Light yoghurts coz they have less than 1g fat per tub. I used to eat the 'vanilla' ones as I liked them best. The other day, I discovered 'vanilla with chocolate sprinkles', and I thought that was fantastic.

     

    Today I discovered 'vanilla with chocolate sprinkles and a black cherry underlayer'. IT SOUNDS LIKE A CAKE, NOT A YOGHURT! And it's delicious! Kudos to Muller.

    Favourite Words

    in General Chat

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    I also love the word 'thistledown'. I know I have loads but I can't think of them now :lol:

    One favourite is an Irish word, 'feilestram', which is the flower wild iris.

    'Rustle' - it makes me think of leaves in autumn

    'Illustrate/illuminate' - just coz they sound nice

    'Defenestration'- because it means 'to throw out a window',

    'Inexorable' - because it reminds me of something I read somewhere, about time's inexorable march onward or something.

    Oscars 2010

    in Music / TV / Films

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    Personally, I'm really not bothered about seeing it at all because the clips of the animation I've seen in trailers don't look all that great to me. I know, I know, I'm not seeing it with the fabulous, all-singing-all-dancing 3D, but seriously, the creatures don't look "real" to me, so it would probably spoil the whole film for me. Hence, I won't be bothering with it. It's just Pocahontas on another planet anyway, so I don't feel I'm missing all that much. :lol:

     

    Yup, yup and yup. I agree on all counts. Although where you say 'Pocahontas' I say 'Dances With Wolves'. I've heard the world is amazing, and that it doesn't matter that the story is utterly generic and predictable, but I don't know. I can't imagine thinking it's that great. Though I'm tempted to go see it just to prove it. I definitely don't think it should get Best Picture.

    Your Book Activity Today - Take 8!

    in General Book Discussions

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    I'm absolutely loving it, Scarlette! I'm only a fraction of the way in but there's lots of lovely facts on art and mythology so far, and the first section is set in Washington, DC so it's really interesting for me. Not to mention the fact that I love Kostova's writing style. I hope you get to read it soon! :lol:

     

    Sounds great Marcia. :lol: I'm resisting the temptation to start it as it's over 500 very large pages, and I'm still working on Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. I'd rather stick to shorter reads alongside that.

    Your Book Activity Today - Take 8!

    in General Book Discussions

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    I went to Waterstones in the vain hope of finding Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger & Tonto Fightfight In Heaven, but as I suspected none of his books were there. Refusing to come out empty handed (which probably isn't actually a good thing) I looked around and discovered Elizabeth Kostova's The Swan Thieves reduced to half price, €7.75, until today only! So I grabbed that, and also decided to FINALLY invest in a Murakami, so I chose Norwegian Wood as I remember Mac specificially recommending that one to me. Happy days.

    Show your bookshelf

    in General Book Discussions

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    I see Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell! Middle case, second shelf from the top, far right :D And Billy Connolly's biography above it and to the left. First books I've identified other than Harry Potters & Twilights on people's shelves. I love the first picture. I'd love cases like that and enough books to put in em.

    Sex in Books

    in General Book Discussions

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    My opposition to violence might not stem from my personal experiences, but it stems from my human nature. There will always be exceptions, my point is that perfectly normal sex (not like, say, that in The End Of Mr. Y because that was about having a masochistic nature) is more likely to cause, say, a topic discussion on a book forum than the nature of the endless crime, thriller, horror and dark fantasy novels which engage in graphic violence. Personally, I've read very few books with sex that I felt was over the top and a defining factor within the book, and I've read a lot that have made me cringe or put the book down due to graphic violence. Neither disturbs me, and I myself have had more negative experiences with sex than with violence, but violence is more unsettling for me because it's not in my nature as a human. Sex is. And I don't get why sex causes a bigger hubub among unaffected people than violence.

    Sex in Books

    in General Book Discussions

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    I agree that those are the reasons each event is treated in the way that it is, but it's still a bit messed up. Unfortunately the level of exposure you described is accurate in real life, but when it's fiction, and being written or portrayed for entertainment purposes, it's a bit sick to think violence is more acceptable than sex. I can understand a level of both discomfort and acceptance for both - I have a high acceptance level for both myself in fiction, but less for violence than sex, and that sex should be the more censored of the two is just messed up.

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