aquarius91
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Echo, those cherry blossom pics are gorgeous! I actually have cherry blossom as my wallpaper at the moment. So pretty!
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The Notebook
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Example- Won't go quietly
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I don't necessarily want to lose weight, but I wish I could be healthier. It always seems like such a lot of effort!
My worst habit is not drinking enough water. I can easily go all day without a drink and not be thirsty, never in my life have I had the recommended amount. And like bookjumper I don't like the taste either, so no, not weird!
Another thing is skipping breakfast..and occasionally lunch and end up stuffing my face (with entirely wrong foods) from 3-10pm. I've heard its supposed to be:
Eat breakfast like a King, lunch like a prince and tea like a pauper, whereas most people do it the other way round.
Luckily so far I have maintained a fast metabolism, and am not overweight despite my abysmal habits but I'm sure this won't continue as I get older.
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I finished The five people you meet in Heaven- Mitch Albom (which I thoroughly enjoyed-really got me thinking about life and death.)
..and I started One thing led to another- Katy Regan.
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Blue- Fly by
I'm ashamed to say I'm having a good old singalong to this.
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I'm not hungry but keep raiding the cupboards/frigde for anything I can find, which is currently a kit kat..any excuse not to do my essay.
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I watched the 1st 2 episodes this morning. I wouldn't say I was particularly blown away but I will keep watching and I'm sure I will get into it after a couple more episodes and knowing the characters more. It's definitely darker than twilight but they are a lot of similarities. Boy meets girl, boy is a vampire, boy and girl like each other, boy doesn't feed on humans anymore...and thats pretty much as far as its got.
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I read a few more chapters of Mitch Albom's The five people you meet in heaven.
I was in Asda yesterday and there were a huge amount of books for just
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Mines not that interesting..Aquarius as thats my starsign and 91 because I was born in 1991.
Echo is a brilliant middle name!
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I loved last night's episode. I've missed it so much, it feels like years and years ago since it was last on!
I did get rather annoyed though. A few people decided to try getting hold of me while it was on. From now on 10-11pm on a wednesday my phone is switched off!
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I am about halfway through The Road by Cormac McCarthy I'm enjoying it so far. It is quite easy to read but the content is tough in places. I desperately want these characters to be ok
I added this to my wish list just a few hours ago, will be interested to see what you make of it.
Joe- How are you finding Eclipse? I think I preferred it to new moon if I remember rightly.
I started The five people you meet in Heaven- Mitch Albom which has an interesting start to the story!
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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible -
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 1984 - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen-
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini -
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell -
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy-
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens-
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez-
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov-
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac-
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker-
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante-
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
80 Possession - AS Byatt -
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Total: 16
ETA: Quite a few are on my tbr pile, for example, Life of Pi, Handmaid's tale and the five people you meet in heaven. A lot of the others I don't think would interest me.
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Hitch, with the amazing Will Smith. I'd forgotten how much I love this film!
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Marmite toast.
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Chicken noodle soup.
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Born reader. I read lots when I was younger, and my reading age was always 3-4 years ahead of my actual age in primary school. I took to it really quickly and loved it. The book I remember most from my childhood is Enid Blyton's The magic faraway tree. Her old cottage is not even 5 minutes drive from me!
Between the ages of 10-17 not much reading occured at all, then eventually I got back into it. I don't think English lessons helped. The books we read were Lord of the flies and Hard times- Charles Dickens . I don't know if it was the age I was at but I found these quite boring and didn't inspire me in the slightest. I somehow still managed to get a B in English Literature despite not feeling I learnt anything at all.
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I finished Salem Falls- Jodi Picoult which I thoroughly enjoyed.
Now I'm going to go back to the book I started before Salem falls, which is Dean Radin- Entangled minds.
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I have spent the last 3 hours reading Salem Falls- Jodi Picoult, and wow, Im impressed. Theres so many twists and turns Im just dying to see how it all ends up. Its a shame I have to go to work tonight, I'm sure I'll be reading into the early hours. A book hasn't been this gripping for quite a while!
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Hello and welcome
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I have only briefly skimmed the list, but I only saw 1 book that I have actually read! Looks like I have my work cut out. Never again will I be stuck looking for a book to buy. I'm going to gradually work my way through the list and find the ones I am actually interested in reading.
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I have to say Twilight for me! I think Harry Potter is a great read but i did lose interest when i was reading the 4th one so i have to say Twilight.
Same for me. Harry Potter lost my interest in the 4th book. I didn't read the 5th or 6th but did read the 7th (the final one I believe?) to see how it ended. I haven't read the first few Harry Potter books since I was a young teen, maybe if I re-read them I'd love them all over again.
I have to say I don't care how badly people think Twilight is written, its managed to grab the attention of a lot of teens (and adults) and even got some teens reading that wouldn't otherwise, it deserves praise for that. Personally I judge a book on how much I enjoyed it and how quickly I got through it, and in that respect, Twilight did very well!
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I have issues with not finishing books. Even if I really dislike the book or find it boring I just have to stick with it, which is a waste of time really. I find myself wanting to get through it just so I can move onto the next one, which I'm sure defeats the object.
I'm not a fan of loooong and constant descriptions of things, I mean really long, a couple of sentences sure, they've got to set the scene, but when its paragraph after paragraph of describing how something looks I just find my mind wondering and that is when I get bored of a book and just want to finish it.
I did enjoy The Time travellers wife. I don't think I anywhere near appreciated as much as other readers have. Some people rave and rave about it.
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I'm 18 and none of my friends read (that I know of). They may pick up the occasional autobiography of someone they love but as far as reading novels or any other sort of book, well..they don't. They think I'm a geek for reading all the books I do but I don't care. I just tell them I'm more intelligent because of it.
I order all my books online. Book shops are dangerous! I love them though and can spend ages in there. Usually I find ones I like, make a mental note of the name and look it up online for less then half the price!
I certainly think a lot of teenagers read. Maybe closet readers? Its not as cool as partying, t.v or computer games.
Your Book Activity Today - Thread 9
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I finished Heaven can wait- Cally Taylor yesterday, which was a very light and enjoyable read.
I'm about 10 pages into Falling by Sharon Dogar, which I'm finding quite interesting.
I've also added 5 books to my wishlist but have so far resisted the urge to buy anymore until I've read at least 5 more books from my tbr pile!