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yeah, sounds much better, Dex!! I saw Book of Lies in my library. But there was something that just didn't catch me.. now I know I won't give it a chance

Oh, add to the list of the "places I have to visit, absolutely, now!!" It's so wonderful!! Thanks Chrissy.

Interesting!! I should follow those advice and finally have more of one photo taken. Just joking.. but the article and the video are really interesting.

I loved The Snow Child, Athena! It's a little slow at the beginning, but then it just turns wonderful. Hope you'll like it.

Yes I Can!!! Thank you Ben: you're the hero of the day!! Hugs!

Silly Google.it .. no Doctor Who on our version

You're right ladies!! Sheldon is one of the funniest character tv ever made. And his interaction with Amy are just so incredible. Lovely. Anyway, I tried the "three knock thing".. you know, the "Knock knock knock Penny" but people don't seem to appreciate. I have to Sheldonize my friends. Sari, I know what you mean..so frustrating. When I posted the clip, I thought about you because once you said you were watching Blossom. And know we have the grown up Blossom

This is one of my favourite series, so funny!! We're a little (yeah, right, let's say a -l-o-t!!) late in Italy, we've just finished seasons 3 here, but I watched the other seasons on the web. This is my absolute favourite scene.. just don't look at it if you're afraid of spoilers .. I'm not sure which season is. I love Sheldon's look at 2:20..

You're so cute and lovely, Frankie!!

Yes, we only have one copy in the Manotva libraries circle (which has 40 libraries, more or less). We're not living a great moment for culture, in Italy. Only 2% of public founds are given to culture, that includes books, history, music, theaters... It's a big deal to have one copy of a book in this situation Such a shame. We invest money on rubbish (sometimes literally) but not an euro on culture. Ok, stop complaining. Usually a library has to wait a specific time - I guess it's 18 months - before declaring a book "lost". In that case the person who lost it has to pay for it or buy another copy. But I guess 18 months have not passed yet. Anyway, I added Dry to my wishlist for Santa.. just in case

Thanks Frankie.. very kind of you. It's really odd indeed because he seems to have a great success here, I must admit thanks to the movie version of RwS too. I believe the one who had the copy of Dry somehow lost it and didn't admit the fault. It's been so long since I requested it. I think I'll look for some Christmas book sales.

Running with Scissors is one of my favourite books of all time, I can't wait to read his other books.. but not every one you listed here, Frankie, has been published in Italy. I'm wondering why, he seems to have a great success in the libraries (I'm still waiting for Dry.. and it's been almost a year since I requested it) .

And wonderful eyes!! Well, you're really pretty, but your big eyes are the best part, Sonia. Wonderful pictures, everybody.

I dare say there's a great piece of italian literature missing.. or at least, we are taught it's a masterpiece in our literature, but I'm not too sure because everytime I try to read it I can't go further than page 30: Foucault's Pendulum written by Umberto Eco. I never haven't heard of some of the books in the list, not even published here, but I think there are some books that shouldn't have been mentioned. They're just long, such as Moby Dick, but not difficult.

Excuse me, does "any1" stand for "anyone"? I know it's a silly question, but sometimes it's hard to fully understand this kind of .. short forms .. for a non-native english. I just want to be sure I got it right.

Just added most of the books discussed here on my wishlist.. the one I will accidentally drop where Santa can read it I usually have a lot of Santas complaining about how difficult is to give me a book because I read too much (!!!), so I'll make their lives easier! Finished The Book Thief and it's really wonderful!!! Really well written and it's so touching (ok, I confess: sometimes cried). I'm finishing T.S.Eliot's Middlemarch tonight, just a few pages left.. high literature, really enjoyed it. I'll go to the library tomorrow so I have to decide what to read next.

See the bright side, Poppyshake!!

Thank you Well, you have a great taste in music too, Frankie I was a very sad girl when I was younger, maybe that's why Anathema entered in my life. I'm a lot happier now, but there's still a place for them in my life

I use rice, normal common rice, Vodkafan. First I put some kitchen towel between the pages and then I put the book - with the towel still in - in a big bowl full of rice: it will absorb the humidity out of the pages.

I love their atmosphere!! Maybe my fave album is The Silent Enigma: it was one of the first album I've ever bought..and I was 13 or 14. But I love Underworld too, from A Fine Day to Exit... exactly the one with Barriers.

It's always the right moment for an Anathema phase, Frankie! Poppyshake, Tori Amos is so amazing, Iove her music so much..touching and sofisticated at the same time. Thank you for posting!!

I'm reading a collection of horror short stories written by a young italian writer. The one with the creepy clown is really scary. Answering to Julie's question, I add a huge Yes I do. I personally witnessed some odd things happened, that kind od strange things you can't explained with rationality. Personal story following, maybe a little boring.. I thought to put it in spoiler but it's not working properly today and some functions here are simply blank. For example, some years ago my family and I moved in this house, the one we still live in. It's a huge old farm, with a lot of wide rooms, built for the first time in 1790 or so (during the years it had to go through a lot of changes and re-buildings) surrounded by nothing but acres of country. In the 1950s the house was split in three parts and a large family of farmer lived in each of the part. The last grandsons of that ancient family decided to move to Verona in 1995 and the house stood empty until our house owner bought it and found us as a sort of keepers in 2004. We moved into one of the parts and we were all so busy with the boxes and stuff we didn't mind to have a glance to the other two parts. Every evening during dinner, we used to hear a soft music in the air: a slow sad touching piano song. We thought our neighbours (who live almost 500 m from us) were great players and that's all. One day our neighbours came to visit us and we were all "Oh, who plays the piano so greatfully?" "It's so wounderful to have dinner with your playing as background". The housband looked at his wife and then "None of us can play the piano. We don't have one. What's more we don't like music and we don't even have a radio". My brother went white as a blanket, as we say it in Italy. My best friend and I (she was having dinner with us every evening at that time.. well, no, she still does) decided to have a look at the closed room. And in the living room of the third part of the house, the one in the east, we found a smashed piano laying broken on the floor and a picture on the wall showing a young lady playing. There was a lot of rubbish on the broken piano.. we removed it and tried to fix some of the parts, but the damages were serious and we gave up. When we told the story to my family my brother - who's the bravest in the world - really freaked out and refuse to sleep in his bedroom that was the closest to the other part of the house. I took it. I've been sleeping here for 9 years now and nothing odd ever happened. We never heard the piano playing since that very evening. Not a note. But after all these years I can't still find a rational answer to explain what happened. It's not a Halloween story, believe me. My friend still have a white key of that musical instrument.

And finally I have my copy of The Book Thief.. seems so "yummy" I think I'll eat it instead of read it. Already read 20 pages on my way home from the library I can't wait for this evening: a cup of lemon tea, the soft quilt mom made me and this book. Life can be simply perfect sometimes.