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There's Kate Griffin's A Madness of Angels.
It's an urban fantasy about a dead man who came back to life. This man doesn't know who he is, who killed him or why.
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chicken and vegetable soup and an orange for dessert.
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Hi,
I've read;
To Kill a Mockingbird
To have and have not
Carrie
Interview With a Vampire
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Pollyanna
Of the authors list it'd be;
John Grisham
Harper Lee
John Steinbeck
Earnest Hemmingway
Anne Rice
Nora Roberts
Stephen King
Mark Twain
Dan Brown
Herman Melville
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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I love the Muppet Christmas Carol too,.
I like the part where Kermit meekly asks Scrooge for a piece of coal for some heating and Scrooge shouts, "
How would you like to be UNEMPLOYED!"
Mice in hula skirts appear around Kermit singing,
"This is my island in the sun"
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Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
Pet Sematary, Stephen King
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
These are the ones that on the list that I've read. I didn't find Moby-Dick hard going. Pet Semetary was a bit disturbing. To think I brought this book up in a child psychology discussion at uni. I don't think I'd read Battle Royale, watching the movie was disturbing enough. I'm not inclined to read The Silmarillian either. I picked it up one day and couldn't get past page two. I decided it was not for me even though I've read The Lord of The Ring and The Hobbit.
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I'm just getting some peppermint. I don't really like hot drinks so this is all I can handle. I mostly stick to plain water.
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What didn't I eat? We all brought in a dish as part of an international food day. There was food from the Caribbean, Poland, Hungary, USA, Philippines, Spain, Italy, UK, South Africa, Greece and Turkey. I'm holding my full belly now.
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The book can be read by all ages though the target is older readers because of the content. It's not a light read and it is enjoyable.
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Fresh fruit muesli
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I have read the Earthsea Quartet. I think they were great.
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I have family living in Staffordshire. They have oat cakes eaten with any filling you may wish
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Yes Kebab is Turkish. We get a lot of it plus curries. Curries as we know it today were really invented for the British by peoples of the Indian asian sub continent.
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I've done that in as little as 2 hours but if I don't have the time to do it in one sitting or I'm not up to reading that fast it may take a few days.
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I don't have a tbr pile. That's because I don't get more books until I've read all that I already have. I also use the library a lot. If I find I'm having trouble reading a book that I've borrowed I return it and get one that I'm most likely to finish. I'm due for another clear out of books to the charity shop. I just have to make sure I don't end up bringing back as many as I've taken there.
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The Hobbit 1
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We have some quick home baked/fried breads that we call bakes. There's usually baking powder or bicarbonate of soda for a raising agent. Coconut bake has a recipe similar to soda bread except we use coconut milk instead of sour milk.
7. Buljol on a Coconut BakeCoconut milk and fresh grated coconut in the roast bake provide a subtly sweet counterpoint to the saltfish/tomato/onion/pepper salad inside. Before you ask for extra pepper sauce, remember the name means “burn mouth.”
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Here's one of the roti versions, paratha (buss-up-shot).
5. Curry Goat with Buss-Up-ShutScoop up a chunk of tender meat and put aside all preconceptions: This goat’s neither tough nor gamey, and the strips of “buss-up” roti are perfect for capturing every last bit of sauce. Photographer’s note: The shredded roti is said to look like a busted up shirt. The Trini accent is thick like chutney, and if you don’t say buss-up-shut (in the dialect)
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My favourite thing to eat growing up was a chow, Its a spicey fruit salad. I liked mango chow a lot. Here's someone making pineapple chow.
Magic happens when you mix chunks of fresh fruit with lime juice, hot pepper, salt, garlic, andchadon bene, a first cousin to cilantro. -
I grew up in the Caribbean. We have many dishes that everyone eats even though they were originally from other countries. Sometimes its hard to say where things really originated.
There's pellau, a rice dish with pigeon/gungo peas and meat. There's a debate whether it originated from Spain/France/India. There's Callaloo, a sort of spinach like greens cooked with pumpkin, ochroes, pepper and coconut milk. Sometimes there's smoked meat in it or crab. It is thought to be of African origin. Cassava is indigious to the Caribbean, we have it steamed/boiled in soup or as a side dish with stewed meat. It can be grated to make a sort of flat bread or a cake which is really like a pudding. We have pastels, originally from south America. Its cornmeal/polenta with a meat filling. Its wrapped in banana leaf and boiled/steamed. They're called hallaca in Venezuela, there they wrap them up in corn leaves. From India we got rotis (flat bread usually served with a spicey filling), dahl/dal, Polourie (fluffy fried pea dough balls) along with some sweets. We also have something called doubles, its two fried bits of dough that has spicey chick peas and a sort of salsa/chutney. Its a popular street food. From a part of China, we got fried rice, chow mein and pow (pao-tzu, large steamed dumpling with a filiing, usually meat). There are local wild meats, such as Deer, Iguana, Manicou (Opossum), Tatou (Armadillo), and Agouti (similar to a Guinnea Pig).
pastelles
Doubles1. DoublesA pure Trini invention. “Deh best,” says Jesse, have pillowy-light bara bread sandwiching tender curried channa (chickpeas) – not too runny – finished with a spoonful of tamarind or mango and a kick of pepper. And they must be assembled so you get some of each flavor in every bite.
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Mercedes Lackey does have a series that have some elves in it. Bedlam's Bard.
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Ender's Game.
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Here's another, Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow and Thorne series starting with The Dragonbone Chair.
"A thrilling, heartstopping quest that blends the machinations of a king gone mad with the politics of empire, breathtaking suspense with the pity of war, a brilliantly conceived world of ancient days with the joys - and terrors - of magic ..."
I read this years ago. There is an ancient race. They just don't call them elves.
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Terry Brook books, The Magic Kingdom or Landover series starting with Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Kingdom-For-Sale-Sold/dp/1857232569/ref=pd_sim_b_4
Landover was a genuine magic kingdom, complete with fairy folk and wizardry,
just as the advertisement had promised. But after he purchased it for a million
dollars, Ben Holiday discovered that there were a few details the ad had failed
to mention.Such as the fact that the kingdom was falling into ruin. The barons refused
to recognize a king and taxes hadn't been collected for years. The dragon,
Strabo, was laying waste to the countryside, while the evil witch, Nightshade,
was plotting to destroy no less than everything. And if that weren't enough for
a prospective king to deal with, Ben soon learned that the Iron Mark, terrible
lord of the demons, challenged all pretenders to the throne of Landover to a
duel to the death - a duel no mere mortal could hope to win. But Ben Holiday had
one human trait that even magic couldn't overcome. Ben Holiday was stubborn...There's the Shanara series starting with The Sword of Shanara
Long ago, the world of the Four Lands was torn apart by the wars of ancient
Evil. But in the Vale, the half-human, half-elfin Shea Ohmsford now lives in
peace - until the mysterious, forbidding figure of the druid Allanon appears, to
reveal that the supposedly long dead Warlock Lord lives again.Shea must embark upon the elemental quest to find the only weapon powerful
enough to keep the creatures of darkness at bay: the fabled Sword of Shannara.
THE SWORD OF SHANNARA is the first volume of the classic series that has
become one of the most popular fantasy tales of all time. A masterful work from
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Can I offer some advice Kreader?
If you want to try jogging I would suggest following a couch-to-5k plan. They start off with say 30 seconds of jogging followed by walking for a minute which is repeated a number of times. Over the weeks the length of time spent jogging increases and the number of walking breaks reduce. It can feel slow going at first but it ensures that you don't do too much too soon as this often leads to injury.
There are loads of smartphone apps which give you audio prompts as to when to run and when to walk and I used one of these when I started running. I went for a plan which gave me a set time to run for rather than a distance as pace varies between people.
Thanks Brian,
I have seen some of the coucht-to-5K plans. I do intend to try it out.
Female love interest with a speech impediment?
in Book Search and Reading Recommendations
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Hi Greeny,
I think I've only encountered one, Ill Made Mute, its the first of the Bitterbynde trilogy writtten by Cecilia Dart-Thornton. Its an epic fantasy adventure romance. She's mute for some time.