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My best friend bought me the BDB handbook for Christmas 2008 Well worth reading if you can find a copy cheap, not sure how much it is now. I'm also a member of the forum they have going, some great conversations

Grilled salmon with new potatoes & roasted courgettes

I sat up last night and watched it at 1.45am, was a great opening ceremony but it must have been awful when that 4th torch didn't come up! Loved the ski jumping, patiently waiting the next event now

I just want it to be March 22nd so the dvd is here and I can watch it And for those of you who have a few thousand dollars to spare, have a look on eBay US for this item number - 150412697644 Just remember who you should give that second ticket to.....

Coraline

Spaghetti with garlic & tomato sauce

Call It A Ritual - Wolf Parade

The Owl Killers - Karen Maitland Blurb - England, 1321. The tiny village of Ulewic teeters between survival and destruction, faith and doubt, God and demons. For shadowing the villagers' lives are men cloaked in masks and secrecy, ruling with violence, intimidation, and terrifying fiery rites: the Owl Masters. But another force is touching Ulewic - a newly formed community built and served only by women. Called a beguinage, it is a safe harbor of service and faith in defiance of the all-powerful Church. Behind the walls of this sanctuary, women have gathered from all walks of life: a skilled physician, a towering former prostitute, a cook, a local convert. But life in Ulewic is growing more dangerous with each passing day. The women are the subject of rumors, envy, scorn, and fury until the daughter of Ulewic's most powerful man is cast out of her home and accepted into the beguinage - and battle lines are drawn. Into this drama are swept innocents and conspirators: a parish priest trying to save himself from his own sins.A village teenager, pregnant and terrified. A woman once on the verge of sainthood, now cast out of the Church... With Ulewic ravaged by flood and disease and with villagers driven by fear, a secret inside the beguinage will draw the desperate and the depraved - until masks are dropped, faith is tested - and every lie is exposed.

Me too

Good Lies - The Notwist

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Butterfly - Sonya Hartnett 3/5 Blurb - Growing up during the 1980s in the safe complacency of the Australian suburbs, Ariella "Plum" Coyle should be happy. But on the cusp of her fourteenth birthday - and on the fringe of her peer group - she lives in terror of the disapproval of her cruel and fickle girlfriends, and most of all, she hates her awkward, changing body with a passion.So when Plum's glamorous next-door neighbour Maureen, a young wife and mother, befriends Plum, Plum responds with worshipful fervour. Plum feels herself reinvented. With Maureen, she becomes the girl she's always wanted to be. But Maureen has an ulterior motive for taking Plum under her wing . . . This is an odd little book, I read it on the recommendation of a friend and to be honest I'm still not quite sure what I think of it. That I managed to finish it despite a waning mojo must say something! Wll ponder further over this one

I've not had trouble with my mojo since 2007 so I'm a bit worried! I've started another 7 books this week in the hope that something will give me some ooomph but I've only finished one I'm so excited to see the epic list, complete with sparkles & stickers

My GwtW reading has ground to a halt, I'm really struggling for some reason I'm hoping that I'll get back into it over the weekend so keep your fingers crossed!

I know! I might get to it after the weekend but my poor mojo is under attack

Hello and welcome

Book action this week! Bought - Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs Reading Lolita In Tehran - Azar Nafisi Late Victorian Gothic Tales - ed. Roger Luckhurst Ash - Malinda Lo Nightfall - Stephen Leather From the library - The Owl Killers - Karen Maitland Fall On Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald The Other Hand - Chris Cleave Ghost's Child - Sonya Hartnett Slow week for me, book wise

This is exactly what I thought of The Magus when I went back to it after an 18 year gap, I felt very let down I loved The French Lieutenant's Woman, we did this in our first year uni English and even did a mini trip to Lyme Regis - no luck spotting Jeremy Irons though

Welcome Heddy

Hi Kim, welcome to the forum

I Feel Better - Hot Chip

Welcome to the forum Kate

Lentil soup with homemade poppyseed bread