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I drink either Twinings Assam (like a stronger, maltier tasting blended tea like PG Tips or Typhoo, so suitable with milk) or Ceylon (lighter and a sweeter taste, but still good with milk). I also love peppermint tea, green tea and also lemon flavoured green tea.

Decided I'd read a library book so started Frostbite by Richelle Mead late this afternoon ... and I've just finished it

I finished the B&J Cookie Dough on Sunday, so I've got B&J Baked Alaska for dessert tonight

Catching up with The Book Show

You did indeed, Weave. Have a gold star and go to the top of the class.

I finished Flush during my lunch break, so need to decide what to start next decisions, decisions ... eeny, meenie, minie, moe ...

Stranded in a Limousine - Paul Simon

But I didn't ask what your favourite tracks were! I wanted to know which track you most associated with the film. It's like when I hear Possibility I immediately think of New Moon, and vice versa. It's not my favourite track, but it's the one that I think of as the signature song for the film. Sorry to be so strict, peacefield, but you really must pay attention (Ooo, that was out of character for me, all my friends call me docile and placid ... we're still friends, right? )

After all the talk of it on another thread, I watched You've Got Mail again last night. It has so many flaws, and it so predictable, but I just love it.

Hello!

The deputy told me to empty my pockets: two quarters, a penny, a stick of bubble gum, and a roll of grip tape for my skateboard. It was pitiful. Flush - Carl Hiaasen

A Jurassic slice

I have no idea who the Valeyard is, but I've heard other people say the same thing this morning! That is absolutely why I prefer Tennant (although I'll qualify that with "... so far") because he was the first Doctor to make me love the programme because I was able to identify and connect with him. However, it did make me appreciate the programme more, and I was able to view Eccleston in a new light too. Matt Smith may yet prove to be my favourite, but that will rely on the wider crew of writers, directors and producers as well as just him, as no matter how good the actor is, without the great stories and highest production values, it will never be great.

Hot, Hot, Hot - Arrow

I read it when it first came out, and was pretty underwhelmed. I didn't think it was particularly original, and it reminded me a bit of a Adrian Mole, but overall I thought it was pretty average, and I can't say I'd recommend it to anyone.

You're right, Jessi - I didn't miss Erik in the slightest. It was much more interesting to see the story from the other characters points of view as well, especially my new favourite, Aphrodite.

I'll join in on the love for You've Got Mail - I want to own a bookshop just like "The Shop Around The Corner" (and then if that's successful, maybe add another one like the "Fox Books" ) My other favourite book related films: One of my top three films ever is A Room With A View with Judi Dench as author Eleanor Lavish, whose book provides an uncomfortable time for Lucy, while the supercilious, unctuous Cecil delights in his pompous reading of it. Notting Hill - lovely little travel book shop I absolutely adore Crossing Delancy partially set in a bookshop. Stranger Than Fiction was not wholly successful for me, but unusual and interesting. The completely lovely Little Women where Jo understands how to become a great writer. 84 Charing Cross Road is simply a classic. I'm sure I'll think of some others too!

I'm agreeing with Raven and Nollaig. Matt's Doctor is different from Chris and David's but that's only for the good in my mind. I love that he has an aloofness and he's always an outsider, never quite fitting in, unlike the "learning to live again" ninth Doctor, or the "man of the people" tenth Doctor. David will always be my favourite, but I'm certainly not disappointed with Matt. I thought last nights episode was great. Toby Jones was fabulous, really brought the story together, and the shot at the end where you see his reflection in the console was actually quite chilling. Good stuff.

Being a teenager in the 80s, that's obviously got a massive place in my heart, but I can't deny that I know the stuff I loved is mostly devoid of musical merit! I love 50s jazz and my interest in contemporary music of all sorts of styles has been rekindled in the last few years, so the 2000s are also pretty prevalent on my iPod too! But if I had to pick only one, I guess it would have to be the 50s; Ella Fitzgerald et al at Verve Records - I'm not sure it gets better than that for me.

I read Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination when it first came out, and I loved it. It's a light, easy read, but great fun, as long as you like that sort of thing

I read this a couple of years ago, and really didn't see why she wrote the book telling the tale backwards. I couldn't see any point to it, but then I wasn't actually that bothered by the story anyway. It was a book group choice, and most people thought it was okay, but some of the older women didn't like the sexual descriptions (but not because it was lesbians, just because it was a bit too graphic for them).

Went out this morning, and while in the coffee shop finished The Gathering by Anne Enright, then picked up Eleven Minutes Late by Matthew Engel where I'd left off earlier in the year, and finished that off too. This left me bookless, and as I'd already wandered round Waterstone's and been very good and resisted the temptation to buy anything, I nipped into Oxfam bookshop and bought Flush by Carl Hiassen and made a start on that.

Winifred Watson

I haven't read it, but there's a thread about it here ETA: A nice kind mod has moved our posts into the thread now, so the link will take you here anyway