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I have loads of series that I love to read ~ Kelley Armstrong - Women Of The Otherworld Charlaine Harris - Southern Vampires (Sookie Stackhouse) and Harper Connelly series P.C. & Kristin Cast - House Of Night Stephenie Meyer - Twilight Saga JK Rowling - Harry Potter series Patricia Cornwell - Scarpetta series Kathy Reichs - Brennan series Tess Gerritsen - Rizzoli/Isles series To name but a few

Yes I think I'd like too I really enjoyed it. Doing the Around The World challenge has opened me up to some books I'd never have picked up before, like this one, and so it's been great in that respect

I finished Girls Of Riyadh and now will start Jack Kerley - The Hundredth Man

Girls Of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea No. of pages: 300 Rating: 4.5/5 Synopsis: Gamrah's faith in her new husband is not exactly returned. Sadeem is a little too willing to please her fiance. Michelle is half-American and the wrong class for her boyfriend's family. While Lamees works hard with little time for love. The girls of Riyadh are young, attractive and living by Saudi Arabia's strict cultural traditions. Well, not quite. In-between sneaking out behind their parents backs, dating, shopping, watching American TV and having fun, they're still trying to be good little Muslim girls. That is, pleasing their families and their men. But can you be a twenty-first century girl and a Saudi girl? Review: This is the story of 6 years in the life of four friends ~ Gamrah, Sadeem, Michelle and Lamees. Following their stories of trying to fall in love and get married whilst sticking to their strict cultural rules, which doesn't make it easy for them at all. Covering issues such as divorce, infidelity, pregnancy, love before marriage and being an independent woman in a male dominated culture, this book, although fiction, is written by a Saudi Arabian woman giving insight to culture so different from our own. This book was not what I was expecting at all, but it was a great surprise. It is essentially a chick-lit book set in a culture far different from our own, and so the situtations and problems the characters faced were not ones we would necessarily face. For example, if we fall in love with someone, we have the freedom of our own choice to do what we want, no one can stop us. However, if it happens in Saudia Arabia, it has to be in secret unless the male asks for the female's hand in marriage, and even then it's usually only with his family's permission. It was really interesting to read about the culture, although it was hard to imagine such a strict life because the way we live is so completely different. It was a great read though, and something I'd recommend to people interested in other religions or cultures.

Beauty & The Beast - The Enchanted Christmas

Love, Actually is an amazing film I must dig out my DVD and give it a watch in the next few days

I want to watch Avatar too, looks good

X Factor

I agree with the lost in translation bit too, I felt that too. Great review though hun x

Have you enjoyed it? x

A Winter Book by Tove Jansson No. of pages: 205 Rating: 1/5 Synopsis: Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is a Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer's prose, scattered with insights and home truths. The Winter Book features 13 stories from Tove Jansson's first book for adults, The Sculptor's Daughter plus 7 of her most cherished later stories. Review: A book of 20 short stories, written from the perspective of a young girl growing up in Finland. I really did not enjoy this in the slightest, in fact I really struggled to read it, because I found it so incredibly boring. Granted it has lovely descriptions of the Finnish coastline, but that's about the only positive thing I can say. I found it quite confusing that random characters would pop up, but there was never anything to tell you who they actually were or where they came from. I'm interested by reading one of the Moomin books by this author, but wont bother reading any of her other fictional books.

It was lying between the coal dump and the goods wagons under some bits of wood and it was a miracle that no one had found it before me. Tove Jansson - A Winter Book

I wasn't in the mood for But I'm Screaming Inside, so I put that to the side for now, and now I'm about half way through Tove Jansson - A Winter Book and then I'll be moving on to Rajaa Alsanea - Girls Of Riyadh which I'm quite looking forward too

I have an awesome NM 2010 calendar

I'm having the same problem, my bookcase is overflowing

Either fish or chicken with southern fried curly chips yum

So true and I agree I would hate to have a freezing cold boyfriend, I hate being cold and I bet snuggling with Jake would be heaven! <3

I really want some of the collectable things, I might get some in the new year

Isabel picked at the ragged threads that once hugged a shiny button on the front of her blazer. Elizabeth Flock - But Inside I'm Screaming

Finished re-reading the sookie books which was highly enjoyable, now I'm starting Elizabeth Flock's But Inside I'm Screaming.

I don't I can't stand him at all, I think he's vile