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Quinoa, pronounced keenwah, can be cooked like cous cous or the same way you'd make some spicey rice. It can also be cooked with milk/water and a little sugar to make a breakfast porridge. It works in salads too. It also contains iron.
Here's some recipes from the bbc
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Well, I've read "Ghost Story" now and there's "Cold Days" to read next. Mouse was great in "Changes".
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I voted that I do read some fantasy but I'm not likely to read A Game of Thrones. I have tried before but just couldn't get into it. I'm not sure why that is.
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I saw Hunger Games.
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I've never read The Princess Bride but I did see the movie and it was great. Here's the trailer on you tube, you have to watch the ad first. Its a family film suitable for young children as well.
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I've read Night Watch and tried to watch the movie. The book was good, complicated but good the movie version on the other hand was awful.
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Happy reading, I've put up some information on Ender's Game, the first book of the series.
Ender Wiggin is Battle School's latest recruit. His teachers reckon he could become a great leader. And they need one. A vast alien force is headed for Earth, its mission: the annihilation of all human life. Ender could be our only hope. But first he must survive the most brutal military training program in the galaxy...
http://readitswapit.co.uk/BookDetails.aspx?BookID=325702
Winer of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the -
Hi,
have you tried any Ilona Andrews, Kate Daniel series books? It starts with Magic Bites.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Bites-Kate-Daniels-Novel/dp/0575093935/ref=pd_sim_b_1
Future Atlanta is an interesting place to live: one moment magic dominates, and cars stall and guns fail. The next, technology takes over and the defensive spells no longer protect your house from monsters. Here skyscrapers topple under the onslaught of magic; the Pack, a paramilitary clan of shapechangers, prowl through the ruined streets; and the Masters of the Dead, necromancers driven by their thirst for knowledge and wealth, pilot blood-crazed vampires with their minds. Kate Daniels likes her sword a little too much, and she has a hard time controlling her mouth. The magic in her blood makes her a target, and she's spent most of her life hiding in plain sight. But when Kate's guardian is murdered, she must choose to do nothing, and remain safe, or to risk her life by pursuing his preternatural killer. Hiding is easy, but the right choice is rarely easy . . .
Then there's Magic Burns http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Burns-Kate-Daniels-Novel/dp/0575093943/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b
Down in Atlanta, tempers - and temperatures - are about to flare . . . As a mercenary who cleans up after magic gone wrong, Kate Daniels has seen her share of occupational hazards. Normally, waves of paranormal energy ebb and flow across Atlanta like a tide. But once every seven years, a flare comes, a time when magic runs rampant. Now Kate's going to have to deal with problems on a much bigger scale: a divine one. When Kate sets out to retrieve a set of stolen maps for the Pack, Atlanta's paramilitary clan of shapeshifters, she quickly realizes much more at stake. During a flare, gods and goddesses can manifest - and battle for power. The stolen maps are only the opening gambit in an epic tug-of-war between two gods hoping for rebirth. And if Kate can't stop the cataclysmic showdown, the city may not survive . . .I think there's 5 or so books in the series so far.
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Hmm,
this is difficult. I'd say every song in the Dirty Dancing movie.
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I read a lot as a teen. In secondary school almost everyone in my class of 31 liked reading and we'd recommend books to each other. There were lots of bookworms in the family going back a few generations. My brother read the least as a teen but even so he had his moments. My oldest nephew read a lot as a teen and his sister who had trouble learning to read so was a late reader began to read a bit for pleasure in her late teens. Now, the 15 year old nephew gets through at least 5 books a week. We talk books and sometimes swap some between us. We've been doing this since he was about 8. I do try to keep the books I swap more to his age group though but as he's getting older I can ease up on that. There'll always be readers of all ages. Yes there are those who can't see the appeal but that's life. Each to his/her own.
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Try Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game.
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I was going away on a long weekend and since we were driving to get there I packed, PD James Children of Men and Lynsay Sands A Quick Bite. I glanced at my mother and she had the 50 Shades trilogy whilst my brother's Girlfriend had Kafka on the Shore.
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Christaa,
is it erotica in genral that you're after or is it specifically BDSM erotica books?
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Well, I've read it
And liked it, it wasn't half bad actually. I had expected a kobayashi maru approach on letting her and Peetah escape but more spontaneous duel suicide idea worked good enough. They never really make clear why they so desperately need a winner though. Wouldn't it be much smarter to let them both die and deny district 12 their prize? In that way, any contestants who think of pulling the same stunt in the future have not only themselves but also their entire district to worry about making it very unlikely that it will be faked or repeated by future contestants.I liked the book too. It was the director who got sentimental and let them get away with suicide stunt and he was punished for that by being executed. Others wouldn't have let them get away with it especially Snow.
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I read the lot curtesy of my local library. I never thought I'd be interested in the life of a torturer before these books.
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None,
I can always replace books, I only have one life.
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I suppose Children of Men by P. D. James would be something you'd be interested in.
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I read for many reasons, escapism is just one of them. Sometimes its the opposite, reading not to escape but to analise real life head on. I do learn a lot from reading fiction. I tend to wonder where the author got their ideas from and check out the history and science behind the story. I find I understand polictics, some sociology, some psychology, languages from just reading fiction. Many of the authors have studied this and have used it to show working models of how some constructs/situations could work. Whilst I was reading this fiction I was helping lil sis with her her homework when she did a degree in cultural studies. I'd come across many of the concepts that she was just being introduced to from reading years ago and I had been reading for fun.
Some may chill out watching tv and get hooked on soap operas, me, I'll read and give that a miss. Each to his/her own.
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Being greedy, I'd like to be in a triathon or heptathon. I suspect my build would best throwing the shotput or with an improved diet and training, a sprinter.
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I've merged the two self-help threads.
I think people can be quite cynical towards self-help books, but there's a big market for them, which means they sell well, and I don't think they'd sell if they weren't helping people in some way.
If they can help people to view things differently/in a better light for even for a short time, I'd say that's a good thing.
The only self-help book I can remember reading is Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...and it's All Small Stuff. Everything in it was common sense (and it was quite repetitive, as I recall), but It helped me to put a few things into perspective at the time.
Thanks,
I hadn't seen the first thread before I started mine.
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Mostly I try to keep it to one but I have had two on the go at times and when I was studying it was more.
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I've read some self help books and find some bits helpful but others annoying. Do you think they're a good thing? I do like the ones that can introduce a new hobby to you especially the arts and crafts ones. When it comes to emotional health I find these books embarrassing to be seen with even if they can be helpful. I can't see myself ever boasting about those books. What are your views on this?
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I too have ended up with a few old school books that I'm too embarrassed to return. Its been over a decade since I left school. I've even got one art book from college. I did manage to return another art book to that college and in doing so I found out that the books were supposed to be reference books never to have left the building. I hadn't known as they weren't kept in the college library but in the art department. I do sometimes think of posting that art book back only that college site is now closed down.
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I started of with Wyrd Sisters then read Mort.
What Did You Have For Breakfast?
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I made myself a banana, yogurt, milk and oat smoothie for breakfast. It was so thick that it can keep my stomach busy for over 5 hours before I feel the need for a next meal.