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  1. Nollaig
    I must have been very young, coz 13 seemed really grown up to me then! I don't know really. I still think 16 would have been okay.
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    I just looked them all up. Claudia was always my favourite, and I liked Stacey as I said coz she was 'sophisticated'. I can't believe they were only 13! Who in their right minds would hire 13 year olds to babysit?? 13 year olds NEED babysitting! They should have been about 16!!
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    I want a mini chocolate caaaaaaaaaaaaake
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    I know I'm really excited! I'm about to settle down in my armchair by the patio now in the sunshine and reeeeeeeeeeeeead
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    I don't remember Dawn very well actually, I'm going to have to go wiki the characters
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    Yeah I have a feeling I'm not going to get a lot done until I finish it, so that's what I'm doing!
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    Shouldn't these really be in two seperate threads? Anyway, I loved the Babysitters Club, but didn't like the other series. I didn't really like Mary Anne to be honest, she annoyed me a bit. I liked the more mature ones, including Stacey. I don't remember most of them to be honest... I remember hating the younger girls when they appeared, and I remember loving the description of Claudia's complexion... while hating her for having her own phone line in her room
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    "Someone had certainly moved it since I'd been there last. I glanced suspiciously at the skull in the glass case, but it gave back a bland, anatomical gaze." I just had to say, that cracked me up! I don't know whether it was supposed to be funny, but it was just the description of a 'gaze' being 'anatomical', because it's a skull, not a person. It's like the skull is saying, 'don't look at me, I'm just a skull, how could a piece of anatomy move a book?' ETA: Okay, I have to have a mini ramble about this book. I actually skipped the intermediate narrative to see what happened! It's dropping hints (which may or may not be true) all over the place! 1. 2. Also, I like Barley.
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    Give in Charm, you know you want to.
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    Midnight Sun HAHA!
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    I've had it since I read the books last year.
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    I'd never even heard of it! I must admit, the only story I've read in that collection is The Canterville Ghost, but I'll be sure to look the book proper up now!
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    I'm 98 pages in now, and I'm totally loving it. Much as it's capturing my attention with the constant little twists and turns, as well as the very slowly mounting information about the dark figure as he were, I can't help but wonder what will the strict regulations turn out to be, or whether they'll actually be disclosed. The author happily relates the exact conditions of Bram Stoker's Dracula's existence. I have to admit I'm hoping various unlikely/impossible events which have been occuring, will be explained outright.
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    Yeah it's no problem in this case, as I haven't a clue who you were talking about it's just in case you accidentally spoil something, I nearly do it myself sometimes, get carried away discussing and forget maybe some people don't want to know
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    If you're going to included spoilers in your posts, you need to wrap spoiler tags around the spoiler, for people who haven't actually read the book, like me.
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    I love it already. I'm trying really hard to study now as I have an exam at 4.30pm, but I think I'm going to squeeze in one more chapter
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    I've just started reading this - 40 pages in and I AM HOOKED! I have an exam tomorrow and I'm still staying up to read another chapter. I love everything about it so far. I find it very interesting to see what people thought was hard to get through, some thought the middle dragged, some found it hard to get into at the start.... I'm a bit obsessed with Vladdy boy generally, so I think I'm just going to love love love the whole thing ETA: There's a 'Giulia' in it! I'd never heard the name before our resident possessor of it, and now here it is again.
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    I haven't read it actually, I had a copy years ago but I couldn't get into it at the time - I've always wanted to give it another go though, and I had planned on giving it a go after The Historian, so that's perfect! :friends0::friends0: I should be able to post The Graveyard Book to you early next week I think.

    Hows you?

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    Charm, you're an absolute legend! I can't believe you sent me Dracula too!!! If you keep going at this rate I'll never be able to repay you!! Thank you, so so much. I can't wait to start The Historian!! :D

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    Could you maybe tell us who wrote it, and give just a brief synopsis of the story? It's great to hear thoughts about books, but it helps to know a bit about the book too I'm always intrigued by books that take some enduring but can be enjoyable. I tend to buy them an awful lot - I probably shouldn't Edit: Haha, you got there. Still don't know what it's about though??
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    That's horrible. :friends0: It's terrible that people treated you like that, it doesn't matter how thick-skinned someone may actually be, nobody WANTS to be overweight.

     

    No one has ever made fun of my weight, but when I go into clothes shops I won't try anything on, and I don't wear nice clothes and so on. I don't feel like I deserve to. I feel like if I TRY to look nice, people will take one look at me and think, 'ugh, why is she even bothering? State of her'.

     

    Thank you for your kinds words. I really appreciate it, and like I said in my thread, the more confidence people have in me, the more I feel like I can't let them down. That sounds shallow, but it's the motivation I need to work towards something I know in my heart that I want to do.

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    I've always had self-perception issues - when I was 16/17, I was a size 10-12 and I thought I was overweight. I wasn't. I was 9 stone. I had the teeniest bit extra on my tummy, and I thought I was fat. I was so convinced I was, that when I got fat, I didn't notice.

     

    Your girlfriend sounds like my best friend. She is a tad overweight, I think she's about 11/12 stone, and big framed like me. She's also an inch taller. But she fits size 12 clothes, and she moans to me about being fat. It makes me want to give up.

     

    You're right about reminding yourself though. I think I'm going to print pictures of what size I was, and put them on my wall. I'm also going to be 100% honest in my thread - I've been cheating myself for years, and for what? To be kept up all night the day before an exam? I don't need that cr*p, and no one is doing it but me.

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    Thank you, it really means a lot to me to read messages like that.

     

    50 pounds??? That's amazing!! Even with carrying 'a little extra' that's still an incredible achievement - exactly the kind that does inspire some bit of hope in me, so I really appreciate you sharing it.

     

    My biggest fear right now is, once my current pain goes away, that I won't be able to stick to it. I've been almost this determined before, and failed. So I just hope I can do it this time.

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    You're not here.

     

    This makes me sad.

     

    =< <- Sad Noll.

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    That made me crack up. I haven't actually read Digital Fortress, it's the only one I don't yet own, but I will get around to it, for consistencey's sake.
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