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I collect books. I'm obsessed. * sounds of deep sighing from Mac...
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Good luck with the interview than, Sarah! I'm sure they'll snap you up in a heartbeat (working in a Library! That's my dream job!)
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Crumbs, Frankie. You've got some good ones there! I often wish that I had learned another language to the point where I could read a novel in it's original form. I'm awash with admiration for you.
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Sarah! My friend! How are you? What are you up to currently? What's the square root of 32,879? I like what you've done with your ears. Very fetching. I might get mine done. x
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BCF's "20 Books Everyone Should Read" 2010
Mac replied to Nollaig's topic in General Book Discussions
I choose: Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Book Thief - Markus Zusak His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber But saying this, there are approximately 9,473,202 books that I feel people ought to read - I guess everyone has this issue, though! -
No, Janet. Although there are plenty of folk on here that would happily... ...aaaand I'll leave that there, just hanging around...
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Steve, mate. Have a look throughout the site. This isn't a forum full of your standard whack-jobs. Everyone here is very well read, very bright and very friendly. You could check out my thread named McRecommends (the hilarity of it's name!) for some other recommendations, if you like. Or if you want to read some reviews, have a look at Mac Reads (started 2009). There's tonnes of guff on there to get your juices flowing!
Also, you could check out Nollaig's blog for her reviews, which are always excellent. Chrysalis_stage reads similar stuff to me, as does Lexipiper.
Hope this helps.
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I thought that was how one got to Carnegie Hall...
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Hiya Kate. What did you make of The Lost Symbol? Do I bother with it? Do I buy one simply to chuck over my shoulder? I've got a Lindwood Barclay book to read, but might slide it a bit lower down Mount TBR... Hope you're well. x
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It is a sad thing when anyone dies. I wonder about the 'accidental' nature of a drugs overdose, though. Surely, unless one intends to commit suicide, any drugs overdose is accidental? How does one get to the stage where it's possible to ingest enough to kill oneself anyway? It also makes me think of the pressures of fame and what it does to charcters who are less strong than others. Poor old boy.
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(part 2) I have a cat. He's called Frank, he's seven years old and as I type he is at the vet's having what I like to euphemistically call "having his wheels clamped", bless him.
It's a necessity imposed upon him by the RSPCA when they hand him over to a new home. I think he's been a stray for all these years. Believe me, were it up to me, I'd never do it to the poor little fella.
I hope you are very, very well and lovely (of this last, I am sure).
Take care.
Mac x
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Bonjour, Genevieve. It's been a while since I last caught up with you, so here I am.
What's been happening with you? Many good things, one hopes, and nothing to cause you grief or distress.
I have been tremendously busy, almost to the point where I've ground to an obstinate halt. I seem to fill my entire days with scouts, Duke of Edinburgh's Award, teaching or school. No time for yours truly. But, saying this, the weather has been astonishingly good whilst I've been outdoors, gadding about over the hills and moors and I have encountered little to pose a challenge, so who am I to complain?
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Aloha, Michelle. Just scooting by to say a very belated Happy Birthday and a good luck with the leaving work thing (one assumes that it's a good thing and through choice due to the countdown factor...)
Of course, it might not be through choice - maybe you're prescient and foresaw a point where you're trapped beneath something heavy, a wardrobe, or a Gnu, say, and had the decency to hand your notice in to save the embarrassment of having to explain why you weren't there for the past few weeks - a Gnu, of all things! What were you thinking?!?
*sounds of Mac dropping his marbles all over the living room floor and, look, there, a few of them definitely plummeted through the floorboards...
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Poor old John Prescott is terribly upset that the public view him as an unsophisticated northern oik, so he talks to his mate Tony to seek some advice. "Tony," he says. "I'm terribly upset that the public view me as an unsophisticated northern oik. What can I do?" "Well," says Tony (for it is he). "You could try getting some culture down you once in a while..." "That's all very well, Tone, " says Prezzer. "But how in the name of Zeus's beard do I do this?" "Take in a ballet or an opera or something, you know?!?" Tony shakes his head. "I would," speaks John. "But I'd choose the wrong thing, the press would find out and I'll be pilloried again!" Poor John's face creases in anguish as he gnashes his teeth. "Look," says Tony in an attempt to mollify his oafish friend. "Go to Covent Garden. Join the box office queue. There'll be a well-dressed couple in front of you. Simply order what they order and Bob's your Uncle!" "He is," sniffs John. "He really is!" So off he toddles in one of his Jags down to Covent Garden and, sure enough, standing in front of him in the box office queue is a wonderfully well-attired couple. The gentleman reaches the kiosk and says: "Two tickets for Romeo and Juliet, please." "Brilliant!" Thinks good old John and when he arrives at the kiosk himself he says: "Two tickets for John and Pauline, please."
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I am clinically unable to give/throw books away - I find it hard enough lending them out (my friend Andrea still has my copy of Kafka on the Shore, dammit!) - so consequently have many shelves full of books. My garage is heaving with them as well. Worryingly, I put them in author order as well. Don't get me wrong - I don't alphabetise them, just put them together. I wouldn't want Dexter loose amongst my Lecter's... I do, however, alphabetise my CD's and DVD's - but this makes sense to me. Say, for example, I want to listen to the second album by Fat Freddy's Drop I simply search along my CD's (of which I have hundreds) for F's and bingo there we are. The same for my DVD's. Imagine the panic I'd suffer if I couldn't immediately find Wall-E!!! I'm a freak. A freak, I tell you!
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You ought to try Chuck Palahnuik and Glen Duncan as authors. They are dark people indeed. See what you think.
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Hiya Kate. Of course, you PM'd me and I completely got sidetracked and forgot to write back - I'm really sorry.
I'm not 'feeling' the Charlaine Harris books at the moment - not sure why. It might be just one of those odd Macthings I get. Would you like to post it on to the next person on the list?
How are things with you, my friend? Lovely wedding picture top left, by the way - love the hair! x
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Mmm...Dushku... *sounds of Mac sighing wistfully into his hot chocolate...
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I shall await contact and will provide any service or advice to which I am able. Stay well, Giulia, my friend. x
Kel!