Easy Reader
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I somehow missed the big announcement
I hope you are very happy togetheras for what order you read your books in I think you should line them up and both start at opposite ends and meet in the middle a bit like lady and a tramp with the spaghetti
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I finally caught up with it all and I am really glad I did. It was much better than I was expecting it to me (apart from the 5th episode but I guss that was gearing up for the final)
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I had to try salted peanuts and coke (the drink) together after reading "The Secret Life of Bees" and I have tried salted nuts and chocolate in the same handful together but can't remember where I came across that one both of these I will indulge in every now and again.
I read a book which contains the making (and drinking and taste) of Whiskey. And the drink was described so good that I wanted to drink some.
AND I HATE WHISKEY and knew it at that time!
But that's the magic of words, isn't it?
I don't like coffee and find some books the main characters have coffee every five pags or so to the point I start thinking yeah I'll have a coffee too, particularly The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo I was getting a real taste for coffee and sandwiches
now I like buttered toast but for some weird reason the hot in front of it always makes me think that thats just too much butter ??? Now if it was hot buttered crumpets then I would be there and I would happily sit at a table where the food just appears in front of you.When I read the bits in the first Harry Potter book where they're having those big banquets (as far as I can remember there's a dinner one when they first get to Hogwarts and a breakfast one a bit later on) I wanted to eat absolutely everything described, particularly 'hot buttered toast' (one of the things I can actually make) mmmm...
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Nicholas Sparks . I read The Notebook first, which I thought lacked the emotion .
My list is getting longer (I didn't bother with the film after reading the book)
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Ah! I KNEW I couldn't be the only person who didn't like The Curious Incident. I had heard so many good things about that book, that I really looked forward to it. Was totally disappointed!
I found it very average, although I would never say never with another of his books I am in no hurry to go there again.
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Sorry the picture is so large I never have much luck with posting them
This is an Emma Bridgewater Design that my sister asked me to stitch for her (she collects EB china) so she can turn it into a cushion.
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Antia Shreve ~ On another book forum she got mentioned a lot and seemed really popular so I did pick up 3 or 4 of her books as I came across them in charity shops. First one I read "Eden Close" was blah, I read the whole thing thinking that at the end it will all be worth it but alas no I was just glad to finish it. I do every now and again look at the other books on my shelf thinkging I should give her a second chance but I just can't seem to do it.
me too and this is also a book I find a lot of people recommend to me thinking I will like itafter reading 'P.S I Love You' by Ceclia Ahern, I have developed an aversion to her work as well.
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I think Saul is the double agent I wouldn't trust him one bit and I think he is using Carrie for his own gains (thats probably why he hasn't shot her yet)
I was starting to go off the show as it seemed to dip a bit but thorught the lie detector bit this week was brilliant I was very nearly on the edge of my seat when Brody blatantly lied.
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I know that thats why I have mentioned that its western(ish) I shall even go back and bold that for you.
it read like a western therefore it counts as a western
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See, I'm the complete opposite, I think Morena Baccarrin is fab in it. I interpret the 'emptiness' as a wonderful stillness to her performance, it's all in her eyes and her posture, whereas - to me - Danes chews the scenery too much.
Ah well, each to their own
but she chews it wellfor the record I am reading "stillness" as "lifeless"
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I'm enjoying it very much. The only thing I'm not so keen on is Claire Danes's performance, it's not quite working for me, especially when everyone else is so good.
A friend of mine doesn't like her and agrees with you that she isn't quite working but I think she is perfect. I do have a problem with Brody's wife I find her performance very "empty" I think we should get that she feels something after having her husband return from 8 years of who knows what while she is having an affair with his best friend. I don't even think she cares if Brody knows about the affair or not.
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True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
I never really knew the story of Ned Kelly, my previous knowledge had been based on a weetabix advert from the 80's (the police had Ned surrounded and he had his metal head guard on and warned the police off because he was about to eat his weetabix only to find he couldn't fit the spoon into the mouth slit of his head guard) and a breif mention of his story in a Bill Bryson book where he travelled across Australia which I don't remember much of what BB said other than he made it sound interesting. When this book came up on Kindle's daily deal I thought I would get it as you never know one day I might read it. When I finished the Sisters Brothers for my March Western I thought I had enough time left to read another western(ish) so gave it a go.
I was gripped from the beginning. The books is written as if Ned Kelly himself had written notes/memoirs to his daughter and as I have mentioned on another thread I was under the impression that he really had written it himself until I read some reviews and found the error of my ways. I was disappointed to find that it isn't actually a true account but I soon overlooked that and carried on reading it as it it was. I found some of the writting hard to get to grips with at the start of the book and then again at the end as all the action started to heat up but I got the general gist. I was frequently looking up stories on the internet to see how much of what was in the book was true and found it all a little but confusing as there does seem to be lots of conflicting point of view of what really happened.
This is easily the best book I have read in ages I really enjoyed it and would love to find out more about Ned Kelly - the first thing I would like to know is did he ever really have a daughter everything I have read online so far hasn't mentioned her. 10/10
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Thank you!!!!! Just a general interest, although I have done some background reading on her life, and it's fascinating material.
I am going to assume that you have read her autobiography. I would like to read it at some point but I don't know if I should wait until I have read all (or the majority of) her books or if I could read it a lot sooner than that. I don't want to read it if there is anything that will influence my opinion of any of the books. So far I have only read about 7 or 8 of hers.
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if you get a chance to go to the tour then do
I went a couple of years ago and it was fab, I even met Dan 
I had a look was hoping to see Brighton on there but its not my geography isn't that good I think all the other places are too far away (not that Brighton is close)
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I havent seen the final yet, but I know who won. I think this year the standard of skating was really great this year
I think with Matthew and Jorgie being so good so early on it gave the others something to work towards and thats how Chico ended up being 3rd with his positive thinking and knowing what he had to aim for. I keep meaning to look up where the tour is going a friend of mine wants to go and I am hoping she will invite me to go along too :fingers crossed:
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If you can find some of the Pocket Books editions from the 70s, they add a list of characters in order of appearance. It helps a LOT, believe me.
They do sound helpful, thank you. You seem to know a lot about Agatha Christie have you studied her or is it just a general interest? Welcome to the forum Jim in NYC.
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I got bored a few years ago but renewed my interest about half way through this year I like the new panel line up
the guy who won yesterday was good at skating etc but I just couldn't like him I would start to watch him and then my mind would wonder off and before I knew it the panel were saying how brilliant he was and I couldn't remember any of his routine. Found all the others enjoyable though and could really see the improvements from one week to the next.
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If you go onto Amazon you can download Kindle onto your computer and read books on your computer. Downloading Kindle is free and samples are free.
Well thats the case for Amazon UK anyway
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Mine is easy - a copy of my own book, hot off the press, which I received about 2 days after it was printed in June 2006.
wow not everyone can say that
my special book is I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou I studied this book for my English A Level and its a bit beaten up and has loads of notes and underlinings in it (none of whcih make any sense to me now) but the real reason its special to me is this is the book that made me a reader. I never really read as a child but always wanted to but it wasn't until I did my A Level English that I really got the hang of reading.
Also this thread has reminded me of a picture dictionary I had as a child where W was represented by a Witch and the picture was so scary my sister had to cover it with a square of paper
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I would say the same with regards to the Kindle app to get a sample
I have read one Nicholas Sparks book and would say (from memory) that it was straight forward in language so I am sure you will be able to understand it.
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oh yeah glass collection is noisy where I work we can hear the glass collections doing the rounds
we don't get glass re-cycled at home we put it into our normal rubbish as apparently that gets turned into road survacing now we don't put food into it anymore which I think is much better than going to land fill.
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Thank you Easy reader for the advise on ringing the council ,I will do that today and see what they come up with .
I think we stuff like this if they don't have a solution and enough people phone up with the same problem then they realise that they need to find a solution, well hopefully anyway.
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I do it when I am tired I take it as a sign to stop reading.
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We have similar
we have green wheelie bin for card, paper, tins and plastic
a black wheelie bin for general rubbish
these get collected on alternate weeks
garden rubbish gets collected same week as recycling and you can have another wheelie bin for that (but you have to pay a yearly fee) or you can buy particular garden bags from local post office they wont take any old bag
and we have a little food bucket which gets collected weekly
our bins are so roomy I even take card home from work and my mum brings her recycling over to put in it too
Do you not have a collection point anywhere you can take your card to or have you tried phoning council see if they can come up with any ideas
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I think that's a brilliant idea, you could at least give it a go, as they say you don't know until you have tried it. I love reading the review slips in book shops as I like to think that that person chose to review the book after having read it whereas the reviews on the back are because someone was told to review it not because they wanted to.