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    Weight Loss and Getting in Shape

    in General Chat

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    I tried the master cleanse once... have any of you done it? It was horrid! You're supposed to do it for a whole week, where you're only allowed to drink a mixture of lemon water, maple syrup and cayenne pepper. I lasted three days and fell off the wagon.

     

    It did, however, drop 2kgs off of me. And they've stayed off, too. But still! So, so awful.

    Weight Loss and Getting in Shape

    in General Chat

    Posted · Edited by Hyzenthlay

    I just found an amazing website: http://myfitnesspal.com

     

    It creates a diet depending on how much you want to gain/maintain/lose, and allows you to track your calories. It lets you plot in your exercise, and subtracts it. It gives you long-term goals etc, AND it has an ipod/ipad app! Brilliant! Someone join so we can be MFP-friends!

    Terra Nova

    in Music / TV / Films

    Posted

    I've watched it, I wasn't extremely impressed but stuck with it anyway. The concept is exactly the kind of thing that intrigues me. However, I have to say that even though it did pick up I'm let down. So much potential. They could have been so subtle and made it so great, but instead they went for all the wrong effects, I thought.

     

    No, I can't say I like it.

     

    I bet somewhere there's a sad, crying script writer who's had his show re-written by ignoramuses.

    Jenny's Brave New Booklist 2012

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted · Edited by Hyzenthlay

    "The Wandering Fire" - by Guy Gavriel Kay

     

    The Fionavar Tapestry book 2 of 3

     

    Synopsis from amazon.co.uk:

     

    This is the second book in the Fionavar trilogy. It finds the evil Rakoth threatening the existence of Fionavar. To stop him, Kimberly Ford and her companions from Earth must summon the Warrior. But desperate measures can have desperate consequences when curses and prophecies are involved.

     

    My opinion:

     

    A beautiful trilogy. It's the third time I am reading through it, and it is still as intricate and wonderful as ever. The characters are real and compelling, the heroes are heroic, the sacrifices big. If I have any critique at all I'd say there are not enough character flaws - all of their weaknesses are too smooth, too cleverly explained. Still, I believe the world of Fionavar is complex enough to match other epic fantasy works, and yet the author has somehow managed the incredible feat of keeping the books short enough. I have a hard time putting these down. Not to mention the use of language is beautiful - it has flow and rhythm, which is important to me.

    Guy Gavriel Kay

    in Horror / Fantasy / SF

    Posted

    I'm re-reading the Fionavar Tapestry, and I'm about to start the third book.

     

    So good. I'm having the best time with them. And then I'm moving on to The Lions of Al-Rassan, which I have never read before, so that should be interesting!

    Weight Loss and Getting in Shape

    in General Chat

    Posted

    It's that time of the year, isn't it? My 2nd New Year's resolution is to start working out again, since I've had a slight break to put it mildly.

     

    I'm going to join the gym down the street from me, and do spinning classes there! What about the rest of you lot? Any health-related NYE resolutions out there?

    What do you stubbornly refuse to read, and why?

    in General Book Discussions

    Posted

    I don't read much crime. I don't know why. When I was a kid I was always pretty bored with the genre.. although I did appreciate ms. Marple and Sherlock Holmes and The Five... but those are more... I don't even know. I mean the typical, blood-gushing, horrible murderer type crime novels. Anne Holt and the like.

     

    No idea why. Stubborn, I guess. They were what everyone read when I was young and rebellious, and so I didn't, because I didn't want to be like everyone.

    What are your top three classics?

    in The Classics

    Posted

    1. Pride and Prejudice - how could it not be? I've read this book so many times, too many to even count.

    2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick

    3. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

     

    2 & 3 are classics, right? I've read a fair amount of classics, other Austen novels, Russian authors, Dickens, Twain, Salinger.. But these 3 are my pure favourites.

    Jenny's Brave New Booklist 2012

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted · Edited by Hyzenthlay

    Okay. Introductory post. Well I've tried doing these type topics twice before, and both times turned to nothing, more or less. I rather liked the happy place with the cabin and whatnot, but it disappeared in the myriad of active and wonderful topics that are going on here, and I never searched for it to post another update. Sorry about that. I'm bad with follow-up.

     

    But this time I want to catalogue what I've read and what I want to read 2012.

     

    I'm home for Christmas right now, and - would you believe it - NOBODY gave me books! Isn't that just shocking? Don't these people know me? It's always a bit of a weird experience being home. It's so great at first, because I feel so safe (like a child), but of course everything is not perfect and eventually I am disillusioned (by anything - a fight usually), and then I just want to run away. Even though home is great, I still want to escape from here.

     

    So here I am, holed up in my old room, staring at mostly empty walls and sitting on bedsheets that aren't mine. Didn't I even leave a mark here? This place is so sterile. All my things are tucked away in an attic. Even my Harry Potter poster is gone. Where are my nicks and nacks? I don't feel at home. I feel like a prop. Right on cue, teenage angst is coming back to haunt me. Time to start listening to Breaking Benjamin and Alexisonfire.

     

    But nevermind that. Sorry about that. I ramble when I'm angsty.

     

    About book wish lists and reading lists:

    The truth is, I've never done these. I've picked up books at random or by recommendation, but I've never kept track. I've never systematically worked my way through any kind of reading list, but rather read when I've felt like it, which usually has been fairly often. Sometimes, I become obsessed with finding a book (Boy's Life and The Many-Coloured Land spring to mind), and then I search and search for it.

     

    I'm going to try to keep track of where the books I want to read are from, this year. Which country, that is. Be interesting.

     

    Let's get to readin'!

     

     

    BOOKS I WANT TO READ: (finished are underlined, current reads in bold)

     

    1. "The Many-Coloured Land" by Julian May (in progress)

    2. "Wuthering Heights" by Charlotte Bronte

    3. "One hundred years of solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marques

    4. "The Wandering Fire" - The Fionavar Tapestry book 2 by Guy Gavriel Kay (re-read)

    5. "The Darkest Road" - The Fionavar Tapestry book 3 by Guy Gavriel Kay (re-read)

    6. "The Lions of Al-Rassan" by Guy Gavriel Kay

    7. "A Song for Arbonne" by Guy Gavriel Kay

    8. "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" by Amy Chua

    9. "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien (re-read)

    10. "Alice's adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carol

     

    FAVOURITES THIS YEAR:

    Hello

    in Introductions

    Posted · Edited by Hyzenthlay

    Hi and welcome! I wanted the same thing when I came here, and trust me, your needs will be fulfilled! Just "hanging out" online, with like-minded people, is awesome :D

    How many languages do you know?

    in General Chat

    Posted

    Being Scandinavian is kind of like cheating, because I read and comprehend fluently Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.

     

    And then there's English, which I know very well (I've studied in English for six years altogether, so if I didn't, I'd be worried).

     

    I also know Polish. Not fluently, but enough to converse if people talk slowly. I'm learning also, I take classes every week.

     

    I had French in school but don't remember anything from those four years. So, no French except random phrases. Mais oui! Aujourd'hui! Tout de suite! Je ne sais pas!

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