Nollaig
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I'm just having a sandwich, I didn't feel like cooking after the trip to the shop. I have a massive sandwich, three slices of bread, mayo, corned beef, red onion and lettuce.
Edit: Now for dessert, I'm indulging in a gorgeous less-than-1.5%-fat chocolate milkshake - it's divine and low in Bad Things!
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there, favour returned, phew! *laughs*
Lmao don't say it if it's not true, honestly! My blog is just mindless rambling, but I really like yours, and I've told Chesilbeach before that I think her blog is brilliant. I always come away from both blogs adding to my Wishlist!
Bookbee actually does great reviews too, but doesn't have a BLOG!! Tut tut!
Anyway, this isn't a blog promotion thread, REVIEWS, people!
It's interesting that Chesilbeach doesn't review everything. I always review everything eventually, mostly because years down the line I don't want to forget what I thought. At times, I really don't want to do it, but it does also force me to really consider my thoughts on the book, which I like too.
What about everybody else?
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I love the sound of this! I must look into it.
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Welcome to the forum!
It can be a bit difficult to know where to start on such an active forum, but just dive right in, everyone's really friendly and you'll be amazed how quickly your To Be Read pile grows!
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Note for anybody who cares:
Chesilbeach and Chimera both write brilliant reviews about usually brilliant books. They're my favourite blogs to read - if they like something, you should probably read it.
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This is a brilliant topic, I can't believe it hasn't be done before!
When I started reviewing for my own blog, I used to write down random thoughts as soon as I'd closed the book for the day. Now I make mental notes which lead to an overall impression. I write down the basic mental notes, and then fluff them out to a desired length.
In my personal bookblog, I write the snyopsis, take from the cover or amazon, then a short ramble, which is an overview of my overall impression, and then a long ramble, which is an in-depth account of my specific opinions, so you can see how both the overall impression and specific notes both come into play.
For the reviews I do for Michelle, I don't like to be as ranty, I try to be more formal and generally focus on the positives. I usually write my personal review first, so I have all the info laid out, and then summarise it into a mid-length 2-3 paragraphs which I use for BCF's review blog.
I don't have any questions I always ask myself, I don't try to review books too formally or all with the same measuring stick, I just try to talk about exactly what jumped out most at me, or what I think the book has going for it, even if I don't like it. I was even very complementary about Twilight's base concepts and readability! Of course, if it's something like The Shack, which really cannot be saved, then I try to be somewhat constructive about it's attempt.
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Not sure, going to Tesco soon to do some shopping. Might have some mash, carrots, chicken, gravy... onions.... Ohh I must buy some beef slices to put in sandwiches! Maybe I'll just have a beef sandwich tonight? Hmmm. Decisions, decisions.
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Ah it's as much my own fault - it was reading people's opinions on the books that made me decide to read them, so I can't help reading the general comments people make - what books are good/bad/drawn out/most exciting/whatever. Makes me more inclined to continue reading them.
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I need to stop reading this thread lol, I'm seeing spoilers all over the place coz they're not tagged.
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I had to study this book last year in college, and I was really surprised by it; it was totally not what I was expecting at all, and Hollywood IS entirely to blame for that. I expected a classic horror story - it's nothing of the sort! It's a highly emotional and moving story! One of the best classics I've read.
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Taken from the Amazon page about 'The Soloman Key and Beyond':
It's a "mini" book in the sense that it is fairly thin - 96 pages to start with, although it will grow over time. (For example, detailed chapter-by-chapter analysis of The Solomon Key will be added soon after that novel is published.)The Soloman Key IS a book being written by Dan Brown, supposedly featuring Robert Langdon and the Freemasons, among other things. There are some confirmed facts about the content, just google it and it's easy to find all the theories. 'The Soloman Key and Beyond' is one of a couple books written about Dan Brown's books as a whole, analysing their content, and 'revealing secrets' about the content of Dan Brown's forthcoming novel. A guy on the set of 'Angels and Demons' supposedly said that Dan Brown's 'Soloman Key' is completed, but theres been no publish date as of yet.
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Well I'm only a little ways into it, don't get too excited just yet.
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So you are about twenty pages in then?!
Yup. Well, I was only testing it out. I knew I couldn't really get into it til my review books are done.
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Yes, they're Irish originally, but they have shops everywhere, I know theres a good few in the Uk. Pretty sure theres even one in China! But they're just soooooo goooooooood.
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They are not that great really. Tesco is a large supermarket -chain of them all over the UK. I prefer the ones from Boots - meal deal!
O Briens dammit!!
Best sandwiches evar!!
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Well considering that's pretty much how I cook my potatoes, I think this is pretty neat. Saves the few minutes in advance peeling everything.
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I've stopped reading Harry Potter again, because I need to focus on my review books. I haven't even gotten to Hogwarts yet.
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I started reading it, but to be honest I hated the main character so much I couldn't stand 'being in the same room' as her for the duration of the book
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Phantom Of The Opera - I've only seen the West End version in London, which IS the original, but I hear the Broadway version is actually better. I thoroughly enjoyed it, anyway.
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Stargate is brilliant. Period.
Guilty pleasures: O Brien's Sandwiches! Oh I love them, but they're so expensive and about 1000 calories per sandwich!!!
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I didn't even know who RP was until I saw Twilight. Luckily, I saw him in the movie before establishing that I don't like him as a person.
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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible -
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 1984 - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen-
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini -
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell -
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy-
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens-
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez-
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov-
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac-
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens72 Dracula - Bram Stoker-
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante-
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
80 Possession - AS Byatt -
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I've read 32, and have another 9 on my actual TBR.
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I still haven't read this!!! GRR!
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Ohh Fruits Basket is another anime I loved. Never read the manga though.
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Have you seen the Death Note anime? (Or, *giggle* the live action movie?)