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I saw the English language film of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ; I fancied seeing the films first, but they seem stuck in development hell. I suppose I could always watch the Swedish ones. This looks good - This is your life, Harriet Chance ! And a couple would be how many ?

Sweet !

#109 The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party - Alexander McCall Smith Book 12 in the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series, set in Botswana. At this stage, it`s not about the mysteries as much as the ongoing adventures of Mma Makutsi ( and her shoe trouble, plus ongoing saga with her nemesis Violet ), Mma Ramotswe ( and her van trouble ) and Charlie the apprentice mechanic ( and his women troubles ). It`s a lovely, gentle, slow-paced read ( quotes here ) and very funny.

Thank you - she has such a sweet nature too. Some goodies to pre-order there. Must not look closely.

Ooh ! A `new` Murakami ! *slavers* Shall have a proper look once I`ve hidden my credit card somewhere.

Wait till they start rummaging through your fridge and peeking in your medicine cabinet.

Have you had a tortie before ? They`re so different from `regular` cats.

Exhibitionist Cat flashes invisible body.

Books read : 107 TBR 796 New Books Bought : 132 Total Cost : £ 385.26 I pre-ordered the latest Maddy Hunter book , From Bad to Wurst, I also got Fleur de Lies, and added in Guardian of the Horizon - Elizabeth Peters to get free p&p. £19.66 altogether.

Welcome Anna. Ooh, you like time travel books ; have you read Timebound ? I read it recently and really enjoyed it.

Here`s a pic of Xiao-Xiao from around Easter - it`s two years today that she became a furry family member.

" Mum ! Why you read books instead of play wiv me ".

Supposed to be warmer again by Friday ; it looks cooler in Holland now too.

Xiao-Xiao used to wake me up by sitting on the windowsill and playing with the windchimes. Then she realised that shredding the back of the curtain was even more effective. Just looked up your weather - 33C ! Your poor cats. Do they lose weight in the heat ? I`ve realised that I have a huge amount of excuses for book buying. The favourite one is ` there`s only one book left ! I must buy it now, `cos it`ll never, ever be available again anywhere !! `

`Funsies` sounds so much better than `reading for entertainment`.

Cold enough to wear a jumper today - the cat has been able to sleep on my bed for the past couple of nights ( previously, she was sleeping dowmstairs in the sitting room on her ottoman, where it was cooler ). The credit card statement came today - 3 supermarket charges, 1 magazine renewal ( Oprah ) , 1 pre-paid prescription thingy, and 24 charges for books. Oopsies.

Quick plug for these free Wizard of Oz books ; I remember loving the series when I was maybe 7 ( the library had the full set, brilliant ! )

Erm, I don`t know now if they were TV movies or long episodes ; anyway, they`re the ones with Rolf Thingysson, so I think we`re talking about the same ones.

Aww, torties rule ! Great pic ! I have to sneak up on my Furry Princess to get a photo ; she hates the clicky noise and the flash.

Whoo-hoo ! Many congrats, Gaia ! I love the covers of your latest reads.* * Except for the scary Baantjer one.

Thank you ! * nom nom nom* I`m pretty much done with yesterday`s newspapers now ( with new ideas for books to look up, what with all those ` what you must read this Summer` articles... ) No actual book-reading again. Shall be better prepared next month and get the papers out of the way before hand. Congrats to all the other read-a-thoners !

Managed a grand total of 0 pages yesterday , though I`m now up to date with the newspapers ( I was behind on 8 days of papers, and it`s paper recycling this week... ).

Oh ! Happy 4th of July, Kate !

I`m up to page 243 of A Discovery of Witches ( that was about 4 hours of re-reading ; I hope to finish it this weekend, then read the next two in the series ). It was even better than I remembered it.

Ditto - I gave up on a book series `cos something happened to a cat in it - The Light Years : Elizabeth jane Howard. Avoid it !!