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What is the square root of 9,835,578,121?
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1. Someone asked me the other day if I was an optimist. I said I hoped so. 2. I'm currently training my lettuce to take dictation. 3. My right eye-brow has a life of it's own and won't call me for days on end. 4. A mixture of gravy and custard on my steak makes me feel queasy. 5. I invented a new type of electric jam, but it tastes a little tart.
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Aloha. All the Dexter books are excellent (so far - this is the third) and I'm enjoying this one also. I sometimes have to leave books at home so I don't get them out at work and this is one of them. The kids would feel disgruntled if I were to pay more attention to a novel than them.
"Aw, Sir! You're really boring!"
"Yeah? Well, you're a prat, but I can put my book down!"
Idiots.
xx
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The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova How do I convey what I feel about this book? It's taken me a long time to get through it, that's for sure, but a major factor in this is that I've been tremendously busy and have been falling asleep after only a few pages each night, and it's a thick book. It's beautifully written, and Kostova has clearly done some serious research into art and its history. The way it swings from one narrator to another is handled well and makes the novel interesting, with different voices for each. I became (perhaps irrationally) irritated by, and I apologise for this, the use of the word "gotten" and other Americanisms in areas of the novel where the dialogue is supposed to be French. Also where a character states "He wrote me on several occasions...", but these are minor things. I'm not even sure why they annoy me so. Anyway. It's a great novel. Not as captivating as The Historian, but a novel I'm very pleased to have purchased and read. I think I need something a little lighter and fun next, though. Maybe a bit of Dexter. 7.5/10 - Worth buying and taking your time over.
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What's your job, working girl? (That sounded wrong - I meant 'girl who works', not the other definition of the phrase...oh...I'll shut up now...
)So, I'm wanting to change jobs - you could have mine, if you wanted! I'm not sure what I really want to do. Life has thrown some spanners occasionally which have threatened to derail me, so I'm wanting to make a good decision for once.
I hope this finds you very well. Take care and enjoy!
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I pootled about my garden, having some 'me' time. I don't get a lot of that! I'm sorry you're feeling under the weather, Sarah. I hope you're feeling a lot better now! x
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Mac replied to RCee's topic in Crime / Mystery / Thriller
Totally agree. Amazing chap. Got all of his films. C'est vrai, lady. As I say, she's proper bo! -
Mmmmm...Cheetarah! (and she didn't wear any clothes half the time!)
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The curry was excellent, thank you. I felt a little rough around the edges this morning, though. Finished what I'd started, didn't I! Still, I've got loads of jobs done. I stuck some stuff in the slow cooker for my dinner tonight, I've cleaned my house, I've ironed enough shirts and stuff to last for more than two weeks and I've read the Sunday Times to a satisfying degree. Nice.
So, how are you? xx
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Oooh! Hark at her!
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I've just completed throwing stuff into the slow cooker for dinner tonight and I'm going to completely clean the house, as it's pashing at doon ootside, as they say. Do you fancy having a look at my Coast to Coast journal? If you do, pm me your email address and I'll send it over to you. Don't worry if you don't fancy it. It's a load of balls anyway!
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Five sensible facts: 1: I live on the edge of the Peak District in England, so have easy access to hills and moorland. 2: I volunteer two nights a week as a Scout Leader and an Assistant Explorer Scout Leader in which I train, supervise and assess the Duke of Edinburgh's Award. 3: I'm divorced and still have no idea where I went wrong six years down the line. 4: I grew up in a tiny village that I'd love to move back to but can't afford the house prices (but I'm there 6 out of 7 days a week, as it's where I teach and volunteer). 5: My cat holds regular parties for the neighbourhoods Pet Union, where they begin with a meeting covering different aspects of their work within the community, which they end by getting terribly drunk and marauding the neighbouring cul-de-sac. The naughty things. Okay. I couldn't resist putting something ridiculous in. Sorry.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Mac replied to RCee's topic in Crime / Mystery / Thriller
I'm absolutely inclined to agree (although she has proved to be a versatile actress, so one never knows). What irks me somewhat is the fact that there has to be a remake. I understand that a lot of people don't enjoy watching foreign films with subtitles but, because I loved the books so much, I am a little concerned with how Hollywood will handle the source material. -
I'm the same, Zumii. My house is full of different genres and authors. It's a good thing for the soul, a bad thing for the bank balance. It's like an illness!
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Sam Rockwell is a superb actor - chameleon-like! I don't think it's weird at all. Saying that, this comes from a chap who's attracted to Belle from Beauty & the Beast...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Mac replied to RCee's topic in Crime / Mystery / Thriller
The one you saw kicking about the states was probably the original Swedish jobbie. I've still got to see that. There is an American remake being...erm...remade at the moment. Might be alright. -
By the way, I have Library of the Dead on my TBR shelf(s). Any good? Will I like? How would you know? You're brand new and don't know me from Adam, do you? You could check out my threads McRecommends and Mac Reads, then you'd have a fair idea, but otherwise I could be a complete berk with no social skills, a beer belly and an inescapable urge to belch every 4 minutes.
None of the above is true. Except the stuff that is. Which isn't the social skills, the beer belly nor the belching. Although sometimes I do belch. If I've had a drink of coke or if I've got, like, indigestion or something like that.
Sigh.
*sounds of Mac sticking his head into a bucket of water...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Mac replied to RCee's topic in Crime / Mystery / Thriller
You see? I'm a wealth of information. A positive mine! -
(Dammit! I wanted to guess! I thought it was a game - I was going to guess Ghandi, or somebody else just as ludicrous (the guess being ludicrous, not Ghandi))
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One has to find the humour in life, otherwise it would swallow one as an ocean of misery would swallow one who has been treading water for as long as possible with a smile on their face. I can be terribly inappropriate with my black humour precisely because I've worked in Mental Health and secure hospitals all my working life (all 15 years of it - not much, I know, but it's all I've got!).
I'm a bit tiddly now, so I'm feeling fine. The door is locked, though, and I haven't left the house at all. It's one of those days, I'm afraid. Bizarre. Nothing wrong with me, you know. I just, on occasion, feel unable to meet the world. Or my friends. Or my family. xx
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I made and consumed a rather tasty curry (not too hot, so you can still taste the loveliness of it all) accompanied by a bottle of Rioja - red with a chicken dish isn't the done thing, I know, but you don't see me complaining!