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Hi Andrea. Just whizzing in to say hi and see how you're doing. I am sitting very quietly in my living room, trying to generate an atmosphere of calm because I have picked a cat up from the RSPCA today - he's called Frank - and he's currently hiding under the bed in the spare room. I'm hopeful that a chilled vibe might entice him down.
How're things with you? What's new? 'Owt or nowt? x
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Hoooooo. So, nope, I just drove along the M5, the A30 and the A39 to Helston, then along some other road to Porthleven. I pop down two to three times a year. Love it. The weather was gorgeous.
Funnily enough, I hate Social Networking Sites also. Take things like this for example: Kathryn (my cousin) is soooo happy that she's found her favourite sofa in Borders available
Kathryn is soooo pleased to be arriving home after the trials of shopping
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Kathryn is soooo down on this whole walking the dog in the rain issue
WHO CARES, YOU NARCISSISTIC MORON?!?
And what's with all the sheep throwing? If someone chucked a sheep at me, I'd be tempted to punch them in the teeth, the bloody idiots.
Anyway. How're you doing? It must be difficult with OH being 3,000 odd miles away.
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You have just described me, Noll!
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Good morning, CW. How are you doing? I have returned from Cornwall where the sun shone, the beer flowed and the books...erm...read well(?). I was due to drive back this morning, but something made me decide to come home last night. Upon waking this morning, I discovered the world had turned completely white and silent.
It would have been a total pain to come home today. How lucky am I?
What's happening in Groovetown, Lady? x
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Yesterday, my GF and I finished watching all - yes, all - of Buffy. It's taken us months to get through but, by gum, what an awesome programme. We're going to get all five series (seasons?) of Angel now. My GF has a real thing for Spike. And Giles. And Xander ("Why can't Xander be my boyfriend?"!!!) and she simply goes to pieces when Angel comes back now and again... ...sigh...
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There's more! There's more! Check out post number two!
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Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay A charming monster. A macabre hero. The serial killer who only kills bad people is back on the prowl – at least he would be if he could shake off his permanent shadow. Ever since their paths first crossed, the handsome, charming homicidal maniac Dexter Morgan has been pursued by Sergeant Doakes. Dexter may well be a Miami PD blood-spatter analyst, but Doakes has a pretty good idea of how Dex likes to spend his free time, and he’s determined to catch him in the act. Then a body turns up, horribly mutilated and barely breathing. To trap the torturer, Doakes and Dexter will have to work together – and one of them will have to be the bait… I like this author. He is sharp, witty and quick-paced. I enjoy the character of Dexter and the ambiguous nature if his proclivities. He recognises that he doesn’t feel things in the same way that ‘normal’ people feel, but by that token he feels them somewhat vicariously and Jeff Lindsay has a knack of allowing the reader to feel this too. There are some disturbing scenes in this novel – if you’re squeamish, I would possibly avoid this (it certainly made me go “urgh” more than once!) – but Lindsay seems to appreciate his audience and pushes only so far before he moves on to other things. I wouldn’t call this novel gratuitous, though. I felt that the grim bits were appropriate for the plot and pace. I have the next two to read and am already looking forward to meeting our man Dexter again. 8/10 – pacey and fun, with a bit of grit.
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Norwegian Wood was the first book I reviewed on this little thread - I loved it, but you're right in that it is a little different from his other works. Don't give up on him! Try Kafka on the Shore, this was the very first of his I read and became a huge fan from this novel. Now then, I've been on my jollies down in Cornwall so haven't been here for a week. However, I read a couple of books, so here's what I thought of 'em... The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom On his eighty-third birthday, Eddie, a lonely war veteran, dies in a tragic accident trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. With his final breath, he feels two small hands in his – and then nothing. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. I am sitting, as I write this, in the large bay window of a pub – The Atlantic – forever looking up and gazing at the huge expanse of ocean. It’s most distracting. The village I’m staying in, Porthleven in Cornwall, is peaceful yet industrious with its team of Fishermen, the shops filled with local produce, the pubs full of music and laughter. My family have had a cottage here for the best part of twenty years, and I adore it. The sun is setting, orange and blue collapsing together, roiling clouds grasping at the last rays of light and scattering fire across the sky. It’s really quite indescribably beautiful. And why am I trying to paint this picture? The Five People You Meet In Heaven is perhaps the perfect book to finish whilst sitting in a pub with a pint of fine ale by your side and the sun sinking towards the horizon. As I closed the book, my attention was drawn towards the sea and the sky and I’m thinking about the big things: life; love; purpose and connection. This novel inspires depth of thought from the outset. Albom writes in such an easy style that it feels as though he’s beside you, chatting away. I’m going to have to go and buy his other stuff now. 9.5/10 – wonderful.
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Ahoy there. I have (rather fortuitously) returned from Cornwall 12 hours early and have awoken this morning to find the world covered with about 6 inches of snow. I'm not even sure why I decided to drive back last night!
How are you doing? x
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Morning Janet. I hope you're well and having a good weekend! I'm just dropping by to see if you know where the thread "On How Women Are Portrayed In The Media"'s gone. I can't find it. I might well be being incredibly dim, which wouldn't be unexpected, to be honest. If so, sorry about this...
Anyway. Have a great Sunday - I'm at a Scout presentation thing this afternoon at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. Should be fun.
Take Care.
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Breathless by Dean Koontz This is a story about new life being created from a heaven-like realm beyond our understanding and materialising on Earth to unite the people in love and harmony. I am beginning to think that old Dean's going off the boil a little bit these days, not having turned out a real belter since From the Corner of his Eye and this disappoints me. I feel that, because he bangs 'em out ten to the dozen, he has stopped crafting them so well. Sure, it's easy to read and poetic with characters you quite like (or sort of dislike) but they seem to lack the substance they used to have. 6/10 Not a bad read, but not a brilliant one either.
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Hmmm, this is a tricky one...
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Hmm, I have this on Mount TBR. Maybe I'll bump it up towards the top. Cheers, fella!
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Yo, Rach! How's it going? La la la la la (that's me doing my little 'Hey! It's Rach!' song)
That's all, folks!
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But they were ACE, Janet! Like Silas and Heidi!!! Eeee, I used to have a thing for Heidi. She may even have been my first crush... On topic, though, Stieg Larsson is officially one of my heroes. What a trilogy. I sincerely hope that they use subtitles instead of dubbing, too. Can you imagine Cinema Paradiso dubbed?!?
