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This is my bookmark. It's one that my mum cross-stitched for me years ago!
Feel like making a similar one. It was so beautiful.
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It's interesting seeing everyone's top three
. I haven't yet read any Agatha Christie books, though I have a couple on my TBR. None of those have been mentioned, but I hope they'll still be nice. Who knows, I might find some of these more famous ones, some time .You can't go wrong with any of those mentioned. And I think you can't go wrong with any Agatha novels. I do, however, prefer her Poirot novels over Miss Marple.
And I think everyone should sometime read And then there were none.
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It really hit me when I did the list of her work that she's written insanly many novels! I got exhausted just making the list. One novel a year for many years. That is very impressive.
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I think I'd have to agree with you, Emelee, for my top 2 (although the order could change at any given moment!):
1. And Then There Were None
2. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
3. Murder on the Orient Express
The only other Christie I've read to date is the play The Mousetrap. My partner acted in it last year and I watched rehearsals, so I've watched/read it many times and really love it.
I have many more of Christie's books on my TBR pile. I think I'll try to read one every couple of months next year so I can make a dent in the pile.
I could have easily had The murder on the orient express as my #3. I chose between that and ABC murders. But I chose the ladder because it was my first Christie novel, and therefore I have a soft spot for it.
How fun with the play you were in. Sounds like something I would love to try.
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1. And then there were none
2. The murder of Roger Ackroyd
3. The ABC murders
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I don't know that much about politics, but I hope things get better in your country soon, Emelee
.One could hope. I am so sick of polititians acting like they're in a sandbox. Especially the right-wing parties. At least the current Prime Minister is taking responsibility. He tried to reach out his hand to everyone but the rasists. The opposition refused. Why they have so many voters is so beyond me.
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I don't really see a new year as a new chapter in life. So I'll just go on as if 2015 is just a continuation of 2014. Which it is.
I am not looking forward to January. IMO, the worst month of the year where nothing fun ever happens. Looking forward to February instead. The huge annual book sale in Sweden. Hallelujah!!!!!!
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Political chaos
The opposition let the nationalist (aka rasist) party create a chaos so big that the government had no choice but to announce a new general election. The rasists said "we will vote down every budget proposition until the immigration pace is slowed down". The opposition parties didn't care, and together with the rasists voted no on the new budget.
Frickin sandbox and playground behavior!!!!!!!
After failing to get the government suggested budget approved in the Swedish parliament this afternoon, Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven from the Social Democratic Party held a press conference with education minister Gustav Fridolin, from the Green Party.
There, they announced that the government will proclaim new general elections.
The election will be held on March 22 next year.
– We want to give the voters a new possibility to take stand in this new situation, said prime minister Stefan Löfven.
Yesterday the nationalist Sweden Democratic party announced it would support the budget suggested by the opposition parties. After voting in the parliament, it was clear that the government suggested budget had fallen.
– We regret that the Sweden Democracts have driven a political crisis, and that the opposition alliance refuse to cooperate, said Gustav Fridolin. -
I post one author - you guys post a top 3 list of the novels (or shortstories) by that author that you like the best.
Here you can discuss your top 3 list more in detail and discuss with others about their top list of Agatha Christie´s works.For this, the third of the Novel Top 3 threads, is the classic crime author
Agatha Christie
Born September 15, 1890 as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Torquay, Devon (England) to parents Frederick Alvah Miller (1846-1901), an American stockbroker and Clara Boehmer (1854-1926). As a child, Christie loved to read and she was very inspired by Louisa M Alcott (Little women), Edith Nesbit (The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Railway Children), thrillers, detective novels, Wilkie Collins (The woman in white) and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Her childhood was often spent alone or with her pets. As she grew older, she started searching for a husband. After five short relationships, she met Archibald Christie (1889–1962) who she married. The couple moved to London. However, in 1926, her husband had fallen in love with another woman and asked for divorce. It had been a rough year for Christie, who disappeared and was missing for over a week. She was later found under a false name in a Yorkshire hotel. The Christies divorced but Agatha kept her husband's surname and full custody of their daughter Rosalind Hicks Pritchard (1919–2004). Agatha went on and married archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan (1904-1978) in 1930 in a marriage decribed as happy. During the second world war, Christie worked in a pharmacy and later used her newfound knowledge of poisons in her novels.Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976 at age 85 from natural causes at her Winterbrook House, survived by her husband, daughter Rosalind and grandson Mathew (born in 1943).
Works by Mrs Christie;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie_bibliography
Novels
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920The Secret Adversary, 1922
The Murder on the Links, 1923
The Man in the Brown Suit, 1924
The Secret of Chimneys, 1925
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926
The Big Four, 1927
The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928
The Seven Dials Mystery, 1929
The Murder at the Vicarage, 1930
The Sittaford Mystery, 1931
Peril at End House, 1932
Lord Edgware Dies, 1933
Murder on the Orient Express, 1934
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, 1934
Three Act Tragedy, 1935
Death in the Clouds, 1935
The A.B.C. Murders, 1936
Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936
Cards on the Table, 1936
Dumb Witness, 1937
Death on the Nile, 1937
Appointment with Death, 1938
Hercule Poirot's Christmas, 1938
Murder is Easy, 1939
Ten Little Niggers aka And Then There Were None,
Sad Cypress, 1940
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, 1940
Evil Under the Sun, 1941
N or M?, 1941
The Body in the Library, 1942
Five Little Pigs, 1942
The Moving Finger, 1942
Towards Zero, 1944
Death Comes as the End, 1944
Sparkling Cyanide, 1945
The Hollow, 1946
Taken at the Flood, 1948
Crooked House, 1949
A Murder is Announced, 1950
They Came to Baghdad, 1951
Mrs McGinty's Dead, 1952
They Do It with Mirrors, 1952
After the Funeral, 1953
A Pocket Full of Rye, 1953
Destination Unknown, 1954
Hickory Dickory Dock, 1955
Dead Man's Folly, 1956
4.50 from Paddington, 1957
Ordeal by Innocence, 1958
Cat Among the Pigeons, 1959
The Pale Horse, 1961
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, 1962
The Clocks, 1963
A Caribbean Mystery, 1964
At Bertram's Hotel, 1965
Third Girl, 1966
Endless Night, 1967
By the Pricking of My Thumbs, 1968
Hallowe'en Party, 1969
Passenger to Frankfurt, 1970
Nemesis, 1971
Elephants Can Remember, 1972
Postern of Fate, 1973Curtain, 1975
Sleeping Murder, 1976
Both written over 30 years earlier, but not published.Short stories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_short_stories_by_Agatha_Christie
Romance novels, written under the name Mary Westmacott
Giant's Bread
Unfinished Portrait
Absent in the Spring
The Rose and the Yew Tree
A Daughter's a Daughter
The Burden
Plays, many of them based on her novels
Black Coffee
And Then There Were None
Murder on the Nile/Hidden Horizon
Appointment with Death
The Hollow
The Mousetrap
Witness for the Prosecution
Spider's Web
A Daughter's a Daughter
Towards Zero
Verdict
The Unexpected Guest
Go Back for Murder
Rule of Three
Fiddler's Three
Akhnaton
Chimneys
The Yellow Iris
Three Blind Mice
Butter in a Lordly Dish
Personal Call
Wasp's NestPoetry
The Road of Dreams
Star Over Bethlehem and other stories
PoemsCollaborative Works
Behind The Screen.A radio serial written together with Hugh Walpole, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, E. C. Bentley and Ronald Knox of the Detection Club. Published in book form in 1983 in The Scoop and Behind The Screen.
The Scoop.A radio serial written together with Dorothy L. Sayers, E. C. Bentley, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts and Clemence Dane of the Detection Club. Published in book form in 1983 in The Scoop and Behind The Screen.
The Floating Admiral.A book written together with G. K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers and certain other members of the Detection Club.
Towards ZeroA West End theatre dramatisation of her 1944 novel co-written with Gerard Verner
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"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
- Little women, Louisa May Alcott.
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And these
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These are too cute! They are corner page bookmarks
http://tallystreasury.com/2011/02/corner-page-bookmarks-3/
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I am looking to origami for a bookmark idea. I don't do origami, but I am feeling very creative. I've seen these so far that I found easy enough for me to make
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Have you seen any "Honest Trailers" on YouTube?
They do "what I really think of these movies" trailers that are funny.Main page for their trailers:
http://www.youtube.com/user/screenjunkies/videos
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I smile when I see Sofias book tree avatar. The colors are just uplifting!
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Thankful to live in a country where I am free to express my opinions without getting arrested or anything.
I just can't with people who punish people to an extreme for not agreeing with them. -
With the Internet, all addresses are very public. I can find out where everyone in this country lives.
The public principle or whatever it translates to, is part of one of the 4 constitutions that Sweden has, the freedom of the press legislation. That is why Stieg & Eva didn't marry. Back then, before the Internet, it was more difficult to find out where people lived.
Sweden is a very open country. Former Prime Minister Olof Palme lived in a normal house, like any normal person. It wasn't until 1986, when he was killed on an open road, that the PM got more protection. And not until 2003 when Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was killed in a shopping mall that ministers got more protection.
You can have hidden address if you are under protection from someone specific. But that's the only think I've heard of having a hidden address. And you need a court order for that.
All I need to find out where any celebrity or person lives (in Sweden), is to search for the person's name on ratsit.se or another site.
BUT, Stieg could have written a will, giving everything to Eva. He did write a will, but no one witnessed it. Therefore it wasn't legal. However, in the will he wrote, he wanted his financial assets to go to the Socialist Party in the city of Umeå. So in his will, that wasn't legally binding, he didn't leave anything to Eva.
So I don't know why Eva was fighting. The law is very clear. A will has to be witnessed to be legal, and if you have no will, your wife/husband - children - parents - siblings - grandparents - aunts/uncles will inherit.
If anyone should have fought, it should have been the Socialist Party in Umeå. But they wouldn't have had a leg to stand on because the will was never witnessed and therefor not legal.
Why people are so extremely blind when it comes to important things such as who gets your assets when you die is just beyond me. Everyone should find out if they don't know.
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Good for you! And for the good health too! Did you know if you get tattoo's you can't give blood in the US? I usually end up with one a year so I can't give
And that is super cool about the party/ gifts/ discounts... 
just for moving there?? I think I need to seek out this Sweden 
In Sweden, you are allowed to give blood if you have a tattoo, but 6 months must have passed between getting a tattoo and giving blood. I have a tattoo.
You get gifts for moving to a new municipality. I think all municipalities send some kind of gift. Mostly discounts. But some go further and arrange parties for new people. I think especially small towns do that, because they are so happy to get more people.
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Considering they lived their whole life in Sweden, you'd think they know the system. I have not heard of anyone writing a will in Sweden. Maybe celebs or rich people do that, I don't know. But commoners like me don't ever write wills.
In Sweden, it is forbidden to ignore children. If you have a will that states that you want your all your money to go to a charity for example, then 50% of your money will still go to your children. Forced heirship.
A will you write shall also be witnessed by at least two without conflict of interest parties. There are certain protocalls you have to follow for your will to be legal.
So, if there is no will:
1. Husband/wife and if the deceaced had a child from previous relationship, that/those children get their share with the spouce. Husband & wife´s shared children get nothing yet. Not until the other parent dies.2. If you are not married, your children get everything.
3. Not married, no children, your parents or siblings inherit. If your parents are dead and you have no siblings, your grandparents or uncles/aunts inherit.If there is a legal will:
1. Your children still get 50% of your inheritence.
2. You can give anyone you want the other 50% in your will, as long as that person is alive when you die.
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Today I officially became a blood donor. My first time giving blood. It went excellent. Blood count, iron and everything was perfect. They found a perfect vein and they spoiled me. I got 3 lemonades and 2 sandwiches. They were thrilled that I have A+ blood group too, since it's the most wanted/common. So I feel happy about today.
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My municipality is arranging a party for me!
Well, not only for me. For all of us that has moved here this past year.We'll get food and Christmas beverage and cookies, entertainment, the municipal commissioner etc will greet us and we'll get a gift.
I thought all discounts I got after moving here was enough. That's usually what you get when you move to a new municipality. Last time I moved, I got like 50 discounts for different stores. But now I get discounts AND a party AND a gift.
I should move more often!
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50 shades of grey sums up the weather.
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I think that's quite nice
.I had no idea his wife didn't get anything of the inheritance and that his family is getting it instead.
It's because they were not married. If you aren't married, then your family inherits. Children first, parents if you have no children or siblings if you have no children or parents alive. Swedish people seldom have wills. We mostly go by who the law says we are closest to. 1. Wife/husband 2. Children 3. Parents 4. Siblings 5. Some other relative. Everyone knows this. So why Stieg never married Eva is beyond me, if he really wanted her to inherit everything in case he were to die.
I know that my parents were to inherit everything I own if I were to die, because I am not married and I don't have children. My parents are not married, and they know fully well that if (when) one of them dies, I will inherit.
That is why I don't understand this battle for Stiegs inheritance. If he wanted Eva to have everything, he should have married her. He had 30 years to do so.
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Thanks!
Now that my b-day has passed, it's time to look forward to Christmas with the music, the decorations, the tinsel and glow of the holidays.
Do you in the UK celebrate advent?
In Sweden, we celebrate the 4 Sundays of advent. 1st advent is November 30th this year. The first candle is lit.
And of course, 1st of December is the beginning of the Christmas countdown with the Advent calendar or Christmas calendar (usually for children, but I buy a chocolate calendar each year. Once piece of chocolate a day).
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