bethany725
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Urgh. Don't you just hate it when people say 'I'll wait for the film to come out'. The movies can rarely, if ever, live up the books. I hope my nieces and nephews read. I already buy them books and they're all younger than five.
Blah.. my own husband says this! "I'd rather watch the movie.. it only takes an hour and a half." I used to battle with him and say that was true but it's NEVER as good.. but he seems quite content so I let it go.
Some people just don't like to sit down and focus on a book for long periods of time. He's been sitting on "Pillars of the Earth" for like 3 weeks and hasn't cracked it open. I've read 3 books in that time.
To each his own, I guess..
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I have been arrested. For winning a quiz show.
"Q&A" - Vikas Swarup
(Okay, so sue me... It's TWO sentences!
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Sushi
Oooh that's one of my favorites! Do you have an aversion to eating raw fish or just haven't gotten around to trying it yet?
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Hey hope you don't mind me posting on your shelf!
I have all those three on my TBR pile and I'm looking forward to reading all of them. Especially The Time Traveler's Wife which I think will be next up for me!
I read The Last To Know and enjoyed it as
the twist was completely unexpected!
But I'm reading Never Say Never by her at the moment and it's nothing special so far. And I'm on Page 203!
I read Testimony by Anita Shreve and thought it was very good. Just in case you were a fan of hers and hadn't read it, thought I'd recommend
You can absolutely write on my shelf! Please do, in fact!
Ooooh I loved The Last to Know also.. this was my first intro to Melissa Hill as I can't get my hands on her books very easily in the US.. found it here in India and LOVED it. I can't wait to look into more of hers. I actually saw where you posted you were having trouble w/Never Say Never and I felt disappointed for you.
But you're right.. maybe the twist will come soon and you'll be all better! Let me know how you do w/it after a bit omre. 
Thanks also for the rec on Testimony.. I haven't read it; actually only read one of hers, but loved it. So far, I now have recs for The Pilot's Wife and Testimony. Exciting!! I have to go add Testimony to my "Look Up" section of my TBR list now. : )
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Close. Daddy Dearest. *laughs* It's a joke on the whole "daddy's credit card" thing... I still call him Daddy, as a joke, whenever I want something big. I pull the whole 'spoiled little daddy's girl' act, just to give him perspective and help him realise that it's really not much to ask for (whatever it is I'm asking for at the time)... I mean, I could be asking for a hockey club instead of hockey tickets!
My dad would laugh in my face if I pulled the "daddy" card when I wanted something.. Too bad it doesn't work for us all!
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It was the dirty jokes, wasn't it? *laughs* works every time!What I'm always amazed about with many people who do not have English as their first language, is the amazing grasp they DO have of it. Even to the extent of plays on words and sayings ...things that you not normally think they would understand. And very good grammar and spelling, often far surpassing native English speakers.
I wonder why this is.. Do you think it's just because English is so widely available and easily accessible by most people everywhere??
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*cracks up* I hope you speak French, then. I tell the dirtiest jokes in French. I once said that I curse in Finnish, fight in English and make love in French, which is pretty good description of it. I don't use the word 'love' in Finnish. I shop more liberally when speaking French (seriously, I went shopping with my two equally shopaholic friends, one French, the other English-speaking, and I shopped more frugally* with the latter. Weird.)... I speak more in English, but I like to discuss important personal things in French (drives BF crazy!). I'm more political in English...
Of course part of it is the people I hang out with in each language. But even taking that into account... I debate more in French, but joke more in English, for example. Even with same people!
* highly relative term here!
So far, the "French ii" is definitely leading the pack for me! Hands down win, all around.
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OH = Other Half (in my case, husband yes )I don't kill over skipped sporting events. Neglected wardrobes, perhaps, but not over sports... *laughs*
OH = other half .. I get it now.
and DD = dear dad, right?
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It's small things, really. I'm a bit more reserved in Finnish, for example. I'll have to think about it, how to explain it, though. I've just noticed that I've done or said something that's been slightly 'off' and realised I wouldn't have done that in Paris/NY/BF's/Finland (circle which applies). I'll try to come up with examples, which, of course, now escape me. *laughs*
Still neat.. Let me know if you come up with any.
Then I'll pick the most "sassy" personality as my favorite!
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Interestingly though, I've also noticed that I have slightly different personalities in each language. That's odd!
Okay, this is REALLY interesting. How do the personalities differ?? That's so unique!
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A teacher at school once advised that if you knew nothing about rugby, to just drop little intelligent comments in once in a while. Things like 'There's no 'beg your pardons' about that ruck!' Well I tried it once in a packed pub, during a fairly important part of the game. Unfortunately, it wasn't a ruck, it was something else and boy did I get some filthy looks.
Should have stuck to reading my book again.Bless your heart.. at least you tried! ii's going to kill all 3 of us when she realizes how much we've read at sporting events!
And is "OH" -- own husband ???
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Yes... it was a very academic school. That was the extent of fun we had, together with writing poetry analysis on a poem by Emily Dickinson explaining how the poem was about the WWII. It was a solid, well-built and well argued analysis, too! (well, excluding the year the poem was written)
Kill me now....
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That sounds REALLY confusing and hard to keep straight when speaking and writing. I'd be a MESS. Constantly.
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It's not bad....well what i've read of it isn't bad. I think i couldn't get into it because the films gave me the wrong idea of what to expect. I'm going to try it again though. Never give up! Never surrender!
I will forge ahead, undeterred!! *brave music playing*
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Actually, I think your story about your husband, Bethany, just showed that in the end both Poppy and I were talking about the same thing. Parents and surroundings are the same thing, if your parents speak a different language than your school, for example, when growing up. So it's about language-specific exposure. If you're only hearing one accent per language, you pick that up (like your husband did with Hindi). But if you're hearing several accents (like he did with English, what with the Southern and his parents Hindi-influenced English, and what else there were around), they sort of negate each other and nothing sticks.
For me personally it's also because of the different languages. I didn't learn to rely on only one language, I switched from one to another several times a day (French at school, English when DD was around, French with maman, Finnish with the nanny/au pair. Or when we lived in an English-speaking country it was English at school, French at home, Finnish with the nanny again...) so it was hard to stay 'tuned' to one accent. I heard several, and more importantly, I switched not only accents but languages. (speaking of which, that's the easiest way to make your kid crazy, seriously, it totally messes with your mind.)
This makes perfect sense! It was all confusing when I was writing it, but between you and my husband, it really makes sense why you can swap accents easily, and he can speak perfect English but only accented Hindi.
You guys *need* to hear the accent where I'm from. Fortunately I don't have it, but it is what is affectionately known as a 'Kerry/Farmer's/Bogger' accent. Its thick, its rough, its hard to understand, it usually employs terrible grammar and is usually spoken by farmers or people who live up mountains, which is essentially where I grew up.Even ask Crotalus about the Kerry country accent (as opposed to the Townie accent, which isn't QUITE as bad) and I'm fairly sure he'll probably start smacking his head off the wall at the mention of Kerry people
Or Cork people.
Or Limerick people.
Actually, we pretty much all hate each other round here
This sounds..... dreadful.......
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Funnily enough i have just started trying to read Jane Eyre and i couldn't get into it. I've known the story since being very young as my mum is a big fan and we would watch loads of the oldie films together.
Oh dear goodness.. and here I am looking sooo forward to it. I hope I am able to get into it. Now I am worried!
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Dead Russian Dudes. (we read a lot of Russian classics in high school.)
hahha.. funny!! Now I know!!
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*waves at poppy and bethany*
Over here.
Hiiii! Yoo hoo! Here I am
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Seriously, you'd be surprised! A lot of people have 'gaps' in their reading of classics. (including me.) Anna Karenina has featured a lot on people's TBR lists, for example. I'll put that to the DRD poll for May books (see above)... *laughs*
Great! Thanks!.. and whats DRD mean?
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When I was young my family had season tickets to the rugby league. I hated footy so I brought a book along to every game and buried my head in it while everyone around me screamed and cheered. When we scored my Mum would haul me to my feet and I'd politely clap for a minute before returning to my book. Ah, those were the days!
Hmm, you'd think with a past like that I'd be able to concentrate on books in a noisy environment these days, but I seem to have lost that ability.
Haha, Kyle.. this is great that your mom kept up with you and made you cheer during a score. Hilarious mental image.. I bet we would have been so boring together at sporting events!
I have Interstitial Cystitis that developed in 2004. Sadly it's not something that can be cured, and so now it's just fingers crossed that something can be found that at least eases it a little. So in answer to your question, yes, I couldn't not have coped with the last 4 1/2 years without reading and music. Due to having this, I'm in constant pain, so find it hard to leave the house and do "normal" things, and so reading and listening to music is my comfort. I suffer from pretty bad depression at times too, and find I read even more during these periods, I need to immerse myself in something else to cope kind of thing.I struggle a lot with depression and at the moment i'm going through a bad patch. I have ll sorts of things that i use to try to escape life, as i find them easyier to cope with. Most 'real' stuff at the moment gives me panic attacks and leaves me feeling so tierd it's like i have been up for days on the run! I watch a lot of drama series and really get into the characters and plot. Reading i love, but it has to be something i'm really in the mood for. Writting fiction is brilliant because it allows me to write about how i feel from a different third person angle.Lexie and Jewell ...
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If there's some you'd like to "be forced" to tackle, just let us know, and we'll put them up on a poll for CC. Seriously, don't think of it so much as 'nominating' as 'making requests' or 'wishing'. We'd be happy to have your hopes and wishes! And if you're lucky, that way you won't up with a poll from "ii's Classics TBR -list"!
I'm sure I'm so far behind in the classics that everyone has already read the "easy" ones I'll be starting with. In my dream world, I would nom either "Anna Karenina," "Jane Eyre," or "Wuthering Heights." But I'm sure 90% of this board has read them anyway. *waving from the back.. all by myself..*
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I am actually designing my own, as I...type(?).
Show us what you come up with!!
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I hope you enjoy the book - it's SO much better than the film!
I hope so, too! I plan to see the film, after reading the book, of course.. but I am going to go in with NO expectations and hopefully I won't have far to fall off of the disappointment ledge.
Was the film REALLY bad??
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Mine is to simply get through my TBR pile which never seems to shrink. I did aim to read three classics this year also as I've never read one.
Don't hide.. you sound like me!
I haven't read a classic since I was in college, and don't think I've EVER read one on my own without the instruction and direction of a teacher/professor. I'm going to this year, though! (I'm going to start with either "Wuthering Heights" or "Jane Eyre.") You're not all alone over there! 
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I can't wait to get my hands on these.. I REALLLY miss the library where things were so easy to get! Sometimes I run across great surprises in India, but if there's something that's not avail in a store here, there's just no getting it. Even shipping thru Amazon, etc is really expensive I think..
Glad you liked them, too, Janet.. it's even more encouraging to move them up the list after I get such good feedback on them!