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I've heard of a few of the books on the list but have not read any. I don't have the desire to either, there are far too many great books out there to read ones you're not that keen on.
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Agree with ones been said already, totally agree with Sir David Attenborough, without a doubt the national treasure imo.
I can't think of a woman really.....Julie Walters is one lady that comes to mind.
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The Book People were in our building today and I didn't buy anything!
Truth be told there weren't many decent books out. All there seemed to be were childrens books and cookery books.
I've noticed at my work and my mum's work the book people keep taking kids books and cookery books or other bits and bobs in, never adult fiction these days,when they have plenty of them in stock, maybe if they did they would sell more.
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Oo I didn't know you could make some lists private while others stayed public
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The last thing I had was a bacon and egg sandwich with brown seeded bread, lettuce and peri peri sauce, ah it was sooo good
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I have 500 plus books on my amazon wishlist , about 100 non-fiction, the rest fiction of all types and thats not even every book I wish for. I would post a link but it would feel like someone was reading my diary
I'm always on there (wasting time) browsing, adding and deleting, slight addiction probably.All of the below were found in my amazon basket ready to be bought at some point in the last year but I haven’t clicked the button yet as lack of funds, so seems these are the ones i'm wanting the most lately, liable to change-mainly the fiction list.
Non-Fiction
1 Tales from the Underground: A Natural History of Subterranean Life – David Wolfe
2 Describing Species: Practical Taxonomical Procedure for Biologists – JE Winston
3 Comparative Biogeography: Discovering and Classifying Biogeographical Patterns of a Dynamic Earth (Species and Systematics) – LR Parenti
4 Oxygen: The molecule that made the earth – Nick Lane
5 The Ancestor’s Tale – Richard Dawkins
6 Micrographia or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies - Robert Hooke
7 Elements of Pantheism – Paul Harrison
8 Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite supermodel – Lucinda Hawksley
9 Vincent Price: A Daughters Biography – Victoria Price
Fiction
1. Going out – Scarlett Thomas
2. Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut
3. The Gormanghast Trilogy – Mervyn Peake
4. Wildfire – Sarah Micklem
5. The Outsider – Colin Wilson
6. World’s End – Mark Chadbourn
7. The Labyrinth – Catherynne M. Valente (one of many by author)
8. Fishy-Fleshed – Carlton Melick
9. The Green Man: Tales from the mythic forest – Collection of authors
10. Ann Veronica – H. G. Wells
11. The Collector – John Fowles
12. The Suicide Club – Robert Louis Stevenson
13. Book 4,5,6 of The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness - Michelle Paver
14. Mythago Wood – Robert Holdstock
many, many more wanted....
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Have you looked up that book title on the website amazon and looked at the customers who have bought this item also bought, other titles there seem to be of a similar theme such as books by Gil McNeil, Mary Kruger, Debbie Macomber (not read any myself but having a look there seems like a good start)
One book I came across while looking for you sounded quite good:
Yarn Harlot by Stephanie Pearl-Mcphee
Synopsis:
The Secret Life of a Knitter moves beyond instructions and patterns into the purest elements of knitting: obsession, frustration, reflection, and fun. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's humorous and poignant essays find humour in knitting an enormous afghan that requires a whopping 30 balls of wool, having a husband with size 13 feet who loves to wear hand-knit socks, and earns her "yarn harlot" title with her love of any new yarn - she'll quickly drop an old project for the fresh saucy look of a new interesting yarn. Since the upsurge in knitting began in the early '90s, the number of women under 45 who knit has doubled. Knitting is no longer a hobby for just grandmothers-women and men of all ages are embracing this art. Describing its allure is best left to Stephanie who explains: "It is a well-known fact that knitting is a sparkling form of entertainment, as spiritual as yoga as relaxing as a massage, and as funny as Erma Bombeck trapped in a PTA meeting."
There are some 5 star reviews on it on amazon, hope some of this helps.
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Great to hear you loved all of Michelle Paver's books, I've read the first 3 and adored them too
I must get hold of the other 3 asap after reading your review. The amount of research she must have done is apparent in her writing I agree, beautiful books.Just thought i'd mention for some useless information I noticed not long ago all of Paver's books on display in a glass case in the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, twas nice to see
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One book that sticks out in my childhood which I read to myself but I have heard of parents reading it too their kids and their kids enjoying it themselves afterwards for many years is A Necklace Of Raindrops - Joan Aiken with illustrations by Polish artist Jan Pienkowski. They re-released the same book but with different illustrations a few years ago which imo ruined the magical feel of the book so they have re-released it recently with the old illustrations again. I had an old copy of A Necklace of Raindrops but I lent it to my best friend when younger and she never gave it back so ever since I have been trying to get a decent enough copy which isn't ex-library and thankfully I found a good one on ebay the other day and won it so I'm very happy right now.
I'm also tempted to get the new copy with the old illustations though, i'll see how greedy I feel.Synopsis from amazon:
Here are eight classic stories to treasure and enjoy. Beginning and ending with a birthday, this spell-binding collection conjures up a world filled with magic, where wishes can come true. A necklace of raindrops that keeps its owner dry in the heaviest rainstorm; a tiger that runs faster than the wind; a huge floating apple pie with a piece of sky in it; a baker's cat who swells to the size of a whale when his mistress feeds him yeast; and, a house that stands on one leg - these are just some of the objects and characters that figure in these delightful stories.
It fed my imagination as a child and has stayed with me. I can't wait for my copy to arrive in the post to re-live it again
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A work colleague kindly gave me two books she was going to give to charity, she enjoyed them but said she doesn't keep books, they are:
Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse and Peter Hoeg - Miss Smilla's Feeling Snow
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Ooo pickle, I love that illustration you have as your desktop, tis lovely!
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@Cookie: Ah yes forgot there was one there... reorganising books tis a good way to pass time as any
one that I got my Dad to modify so I could lay it on its side.
@Kylie: Yeah the Billy series! They are brilliant, that sounds like a good idea to modify them. I was tempted to get the black graffiti one when I was last there, think thats in Billy series too, but thought against my childish want.
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I have convinced OH to take me to Ikea so I can buy a new book case. He whinged "can't you get it from Argos?" but I was firm and told him no, I need a black one to match the two other bookcases I have. It's not too badly priced
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Oh thats one I've not read myself, a stand alone of Tess'. I hope you enjoy it so you try some of her others, maybe even her brilliant series.
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So true, ned!
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The USS Make Sh*t Up - Voltaire
Spirit Of The Forest -Korpiklaani
The Somber Lay - Eluveitie
Death In Fire - Amon Amarth
Words From The Asylum - Emilie Autumn
I Am Human - The Smiths
Wolf Moon - Type O Negative
Wytches Brew - Omnia
The Home That I Will Never See - Hagalaz Runedance
This Too Shall Pass - Danny Schmidt
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Stumbled across this quiz, just a bit of fun, why not have a go and see what you get.
Read each question carefully, pick the answer closest to how you (as a human) would really react, and then press the submit button to find out which Pok
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I have a few oldish books, some I just found, all three hardback are:
The Dog Crusoe and His Master: A Story of Adventure in the Western Prairies by R. M. Ballantyne (Illustrated by R. B. M. Paxton) Published by Blackie And Son Limited (London Glasgow, Bombay) not sure of published date but there is a note written in ink on the inside of the front page saying:
'Percy Hughes, for the gathering of 13lbs of blackberries during 1918 for the army & navy. Collection at Ryton on (Lunsinor?) School - J. G. Rowland (Head Teacher)' so thinking its published around 1918, definitely that year or before.
The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner by Daniel Defoe (published by same as The Dog Crusoe above) This also has no publication date but has a sticker inside the front cover says:
'Awarded to Alfred Timms, 1922, Bubbenhall sunday school'- I think it says) so this has to be 1922 published or before.
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare - published 1934
My Mum also has some Beatrix Potter books which were over 100 years old, a few years ago.
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My Mum told me about this place a couple years ago, there was an article in the Sunday paper about a place in Wales with bookshops everywhere you looked, multiple on the same street, it sounded like heaven. I haven't been yet but I really want to but need to make plans before like a car with a big boot* (not book - see books on the mind too much) and lots of money.
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Watched a few dvds over the weekend. Both series (every episode) of Spaced, first series of No Heroics and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - all great!
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Will do
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What you bidding on??
I'll tell you whats annoying the
out of me now is my internet connection, I type a reply and then press submit and the connection goes off and what i've typed is lost for eternity.Bid/won
real bat skeleton, unidentified to species level but from Russia, also won another bat skull from Russia last night too, hoping they are both insectivorous as the two I already have are frugivorous. Will be a challenge to identify them to species level, nothing better than a challenge. 
and bras, god damn them, such a pain in more than one way! -
Summer of 2008: Wax + me + bf = hell!
What bugs me (getting back on topic before someone shouts at me) is needing the loo at times of inconvenience like now as i'm waiting for a bidding on ebay to end, I can't move or i'll loose it I just know it.
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My god if it was underwear I'd actually die. No, mostly toiletries, or if I didn't bother cleaning the hair out of the bath after washing it (you know yourself, it's like we're molting with hair as long as ours when we wash it!) We all know girls have razors and wax strips and deoderants and (if you're me) more warpaint than you can wear in a year, but NOBODY wants to see them! War paint! Yeah hair is a pain in ze arse, especially when long its never ending pulling out of the plug....wax strips are evil!
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The Amber Spyglass is the best of the three imo, (close call) I loved it, I hope you do too when you feel ready to tackle it, don't let the size put you off.
I wanted it to go on much more, especially in the Mulefa's world.