Kylie's Literary Adventures in 2011

[poppyshake]

I think my font is corrupting everyone else's

Hopefully you will enjoy it, poppyshake, I won't mind being proved wrong at all! Actually, thinking about the two books I threw away has prompted me to buy the other one again - Have the Men Had Enough? by Margaret Forster - because I do remember it being very well written, just totally depressing (it's about a grandmother's descent into dementia and the effect it has on various family members). So far I have no urge to re-purchase Veronika, but who knows...

Excellent job on finding AHWoSG! I remember how you really liked the sound of that when I mentioned it in my book haul post. VdtD is not a laugh a minute -read like you said, but in my opinion it was readable. I don't remember much about it, but I remember it not being too depressive. Let's just say I read it, and I survived And it was certainly loads better than Alchemist, which I loathed.

I'll give it a go, if it makes me too 'heavy boots' (I've picked this expression up from Oskar in 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close') then I'll have to give it the elbow (I picked that one up from my Dad )

[frankie]

I think my font is corrupting everyone else's

 

YES! For a while now, everytime I answer your posts, I'm like, aaah poppyshake, if I didn't like you so much and if I didn't have so much to say to you, I wouldn't bother with the replying because of your corruptive font

 

 

I'll give it a go, if it makes me too 'heavy boots' (I've picked this expression up from Oskar in 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close') then I'll have to give it the elbow (I picked that one up from my Dad )

 

This reminds me I need to read ELaIC, if it's anywhere near as good as EII! As for VDD, just take a deep breath, get that fire in your belly (I picked that one up from The Biggest Loser Australia ) and READ!

[poppyshake]

YES! For a while now, everytime I answer your posts, I'm like, aaah poppyshake, if I didn't like you so much and if I didn't have so much to say to you, I wouldn't bother with the replying because of your corruptive font

I'm sorry Frankie I don't know why it happens. Sometimes when you reply there is something that says font/colour just after the quote name I think .. and if you delete it it solves the problem ... it's not always there though. I will make a concession to friendship, and only write on my own blog in blue Verdana .. it will give me 'heavy boots' but it's for the best (it is doing my own head in anyway.) I must apologise in advance for answering some of the posts on your blog already this morning in blue Verdana ( such is the power of this font that even those four words will probably corrupt anyone's reply.) I'm beginning to suspect it of having superpowers ... I'm not quote sure what they are yet except for one is the ability to p*ss people off without trying

This reminds me I need to read ELaIC, if it's anywhere near as good as EII! As for VDD, just take a deep breath, get that fire in your belly (I picked that one up from The Biggest Loser Australia ) and READ!

I'm enjoying EL&IC .. it is just like EII .. the same kind of style. Very weird and wonderful.

[vodkafan]

Are you still reading Freakenomics Kylie ?

[Kylie]

Once upon a time, a book addict named Kylie bought Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels by Nancy Mitford. She did not pay much attention to the Other Novels because she's generally a very unobservant person. Kylie took her new purchase home and happily, even lovingly, shelved her new book.

 

 

One day, a few weeks later, Kylie found some more novels by Nancy Mitford that had particularly pretty covers. These books were called The Pursuit of Love and The Blessing. She also saw Love in a Cold Climate with a matching pretty cover but resisted buying it because she knew she already owned a copy (albeit less pretty). Kylie was a happy chappy regardless, and lovingly shelved her two new Mitford's alongside the unmatching one she already owned.

 

 

In hindsight, and after some comments from one Poppyshake, Kylie decided that she really should have bought the pretty Love in a Cold Climate when she had the chance. Happily, Kylie found a cheap copy in another bookshop a few days later and snapped it up. 'Oh well', she reasoned, 'what's one extra edition in the scheme of things?'

 

 

When Kylie was lovingly shelving her duplicate (but much prettier) copy of Love in a Cold Climate between her other pretty Mitford's and the less pretty Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels, she finally cottoned on to the fact that there were Other Novels that she owned and was not aware of. Kylie excitedly opened up Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels to find out what unexpected Mitford delights she had unwittingly purchased. They were...(drum roll please)...The Blessing and The Pursuit of Love (along with, of course, Love in a Cold Climate).

 

Kylie feels a little foolish for buying three separate copies of Nancy Mitford's books (and getting quite excited about it) when she owned them all along in one neat package, but she is comforted in the knowledge that her foolishness will not be known to anyone else. She doubts she could have resisted the pretty covers anyway.

 

[Kylie]

Are you still reading Freakenomics Kylie ?

 

Yes I am, VF, and I'm loving it. It's very entertaining and interesting. I found the sequel, Superfreakonomics, last week and snapped that up as well.

[frankie]

I'm sorry Frankie I don't know why it happens. Sometimes when you reply there is something that says font/colour just after the quote name I think .. and if you delete it it solves the problem ... it's not always there though. I will make a concession to friendship, and only write on my own blog in blue Verdana .. it will give me 'heavy boots' but it's for the best (it is doing my own head in anyway.) I must apologise in advance for answering some of the posts on your blog already this morning in blue Verdana ( such is the power of this font that even those four words will probably corrupt anyone's reply.) I'm beginning to suspect it of having superpowers ... I'm not quote sure what they are yet except for one is the ability to p*ss people off without trying

 

Oh I'm so sorry I said anything, I didn't want you to go and change things! I do hope that you only changed it if it was bothering yourself too, definitely not on my or anyone else's account, not that anyone else has said anything about it.

 

I'm enjoying EL&IC .. it is just like EII .. the same kind of style. Very weird and wonderful.

 

That's really good to hear, the style in EII was so unique and charming. Definitely need to read it at some point!

 

Oh Kylie...That was such good, although rather tragic story about your Nancy Mitford escapades. I'm sorry :empathy:But now you have copies with pretty covers! And, I feel as if it all had to happen. Consider the title of your reading blog. Kylie's Literary Adventures. If you'd just had the book on your shelf and read it, would it've been so adventurous? I doubt it. (And there were pretty pictures included in the story, for those who you lost after the first sentence )

Edited May 9, 2011 by frankie

[poppyshake]

Once upon a time, a book addict named Kylie bought Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels by Nancy Mitford. She did not pay much attention to the Other Novels because she's generally a very unobservant person. Kylie took her new purchase home and happily, even lovingly, shelved her new book.

One day, a few weeks later, Kylie found some more novels by Nancy Mitford that had particularly pretty covers. These books were called The Pursuit of Love and The Blessing. She also saw Love in a Cold Climate with a matching pretty cover but resisted buying it because she knew she already owned a copy (albeit less pretty). Kylie was a happy chappy regardless, and lovingly shelved her two new Mitford's alongside the unmatching one she already owned.

 

In hindsight, and after some comments from one Poppyshake, Kylie decided that she really should have bought the pretty Love in a Cold Climate when she had the chance. Happily, Kylie found a cheap copy in another bookshop a few days later and snapped it up. 'Oh well', she reasoned, 'what's one extra edition in the scheme of things?'

 

When Kylie was lovingly shelving her duplicate (but much prettier) copy of Love in a Cold Climate between her other pretty Mitford's and the less pretty Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels, she finally cottoned on to the fact that there were Other Novels that she owned and was not aware of. Kylie excitedly opened up Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels to find out what unexpected Mitford delights she had unwittingly purchased. They were...(drum roll please)...The Blessing and The Pursuit of Love (along with, of course, Love in a Cold Climate).

 

Kylie feels a little foolish for buying three separate copies of Nancy Mitford's books (and getting quite excited about it) when she owned them all along in one neat package, but she is comforted in the knowledge that her foolishness will not be known to anyone else. She doubts she could have resisted the pretty covers anyway.

 

Ahh Kylie you won't regret it .... I hope you could read a different copy in each room (put one in the loo ) and I'm going to have to get the new nice covers at some point too because who could resist them I got the book down off of the shelf the other day after I'd talked to you about it and just started flicking through it ... I'm now on Page 78!! and I'm still laughing at jokes/situations that I've read about a hundred times before.

Oh I'm so sorry I said anything, I didn't want you to go and change things! I do hope that you only changed it if it was bothering yourself too, definitely not on my or anyone else's account, not that anyone else has said anything about it.

As I've said, you mustn't worry It was bugging me something rotten or I wouldn't have mentioned it. I'm sure I'll have lapses every now and then but I've already got used to typing in Arial and we've made friends (it's a sad life when some of your friends are fonts )

[Kylie]

Day 01 – Best book you read last year

 

My favourite read of 2010 was a modern Australian classic called Cloudstreet by Tim Winton. I've found in recent years that I love to read epic family sagas that span generations, and this one certainly fits the bill. Cloudstreet is set in Perth in the 1940s-1960s and tells the story of two struggling families who move into one very old house. It chronicles their joys and sorrows, trials and tribulations. The prose is beautiful and the story is touching and very Australian.

 

Cloudstreet has recently been made into a TV mini series, which I'm dying to watch. Unfortunately, it's airing on pay TV, so I'll have to wait until it's out on DVD.

 

Other favourites from 2010 include:

 

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Edited May 19, 2011 by Kylie

[Roland Butter]

Yes, Cloudstreet was a good 'un, wasn't it? I wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did, but I'd certainly recommend it.

[poppyshake]

Day 01 – Best book you read last year

 

My favourite read of 2010 was a modern Australian classic called Cloudstreet by Tim Winton. I've found in recent years that I love to read epic family sagas that span generations, and this one certainly fits the bill. Cloudstreet is set in Perth in the 1940s-1960s and tells the story of two struggling families who move into one very old house. It chronicles their joys and sorrows, trials and tribulations. The prose is beautiful and the story is touching and very Australian.

 

Cloudstreet has recently been made into a TV mini series, which I'm dying to watch. Unfortunately, it's airing on pay TV, so I'll have to wait until it's out on DVD.

 

Other favourites from 2010 include:

 

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Ooh *scribbles it down hastily* I need to read 'Cloudstreet', it just occurred to me that I haven't read many, if any, books set in Australia .. and this being the mistress's favourite book last year, it seems as good a place to start as anywhere I love family saga's. I loved all the one's I've read of your 'other favourites' too so, of course, must make a note of the ones I haven't.

 

Btw Kylie, have you seen the claymation film 'Mary and Max' by the Australian director/animation writer Adam Elliot? It's about a lonely Australian girl who starts writing to an elderly American man from New York. I saw it the other weekend and have since bought it on DVD, it's just so endearing and funny (but not a children's film .. very adult humour.) I just love claymation movies, Wallace & Gromit are among my screen heroes

[Weave]

Great choice Kylie I love 'Cloudstreet', I just bought a new copy not long ago.

[Kidsmum]

I so need to get Cloudstreet down off my shelf

[Kylie]

Great, Poppyshake! I really hope you'll like Cloudstreet. I'm pretty confident you will. Kidsmum, yes, you definitely need to read it soon!

 

Thanks Roland and Weave for agreeing with me.

 

I haven't seen Mary and Max, but I've heard great things about it. Hopefully it will appear on TV soon. Have you seen Harvey Krumpet? I can't recall if that one is also by Adam Elliot, but it's an excellent claymation movie. I'm also a huge fan of Wallace and Gromit.

Edited May 20, 2011 by Kylie

[Weave]

I haven't seen Mary and Max, but I've heard great things about it.

 

Hi Kylie, how are you? I watched 'Mary and Max' last night (there is an Australian film season at the moment on film four), I agree with Poppyshake, its endearing and funny. I hope you get a chance to see it hen.

Edited May 20, 2011 by Weave

[Kylie]

I needed a pick-me-up today so bought the following:

 

Fiction

Mitch Albom: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Winston Groom: Forrest Gump

Erich Seagal: Oliver's Story

 

Non-Fiction

Oliver Harris: The Letters of William S Burroughs 1945-59

Robert McCrum: My Year Off

Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran

Jan Stradling: Bad Girls and Wicked Women

Edited May 24, 2011 by Kylie

[frankie]

Mitch Albom: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Excellent!!

Winston Groom: Forrest Gump - Yay, where did you find it?!? Wohoo!

Erich Seagal: Oliver's Story - Heheee! I hope you knew this is a sequel and you need to read Love Story first. LS is a Rory read BTW

 

 

Oliver Harris: The Letters of William S Burroughs 1945-59 - !! I'm jealous.

Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran - Yes yes yes! Maybe we could do a Rory group reading of this one in the near future? I think we were supposed to do that a year ago...

Jan Stradling: Bad Girls and Wicked Women - I don't remember what the book is about but I do remember you've been wanting to get a copy of this for a while now, and I think it's also on my wishlist.

 

What a most excellent haul! I'm very, very happy and proud

 

Edit: Yep, checked my wishlist and here it was: Bad Girls and Wicked Women: The Most Powerful, Shocking, Amazing, Thrilling and Dangerous Women of All Time. Should be an interesting read!

Edited May 24, 2011 by frankie

[frankie]

Day 01 – Best book you read last year

 

 

 

 

Is pretty! I remember seeing my bedroom in your house for the first time, and seeing the flowers on top of the night table, and the pile of books ... I can still remember how the carpet felt against my bare feet, and how easy it was to turn off the light, I had my very own remote control for that... And the native birds chirping in the morning, waking me up with their beautiful noises... To be in Australia again!!

My favourite read of 2010 was a modern Australian classic called Cloudstreet by Tim Winton. I've found in recent years that I love to read epic family sagas that span generations, and this one certainly fits the bill. Cloudstreet is set in Perth in the 1940s-1960s and tells the story of two struggling families who move into one very old house. It chronicles their joys and sorrows, trials and tribulations. The prose is beautiful and the story is touching and very Australian.

 

I really want to get to this, I love epic family sagas as well, Middlesex for example, and Gone with the Wind etc... I'm fairly certain I'll enjoy this one!

 

Cloudstreet has recently been made into a TV mini series, which I'm dying to watch. Unfortunately, it's airing on pay TV, so I'll have to wait until it's out on DVD.

 

I'm sorry that you can't watch it without buying the DVD... but... I remember a certain Aussie lassie having such a laugh at the way Finns need to pay for their TV watching. I'm afraid the joke's on you now!

 

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

 

Great selection! Haven't read them all and wouldn't pick Algernon as one of my favorites, but all in all excellent choices each and every one!

[Kylie]

Mitch Albom: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Excellent!!

I forgot you had read this one.

 

Winston Groom: Forrest Gump - Yay, where did you find it?!? Wohoo!

Yep, I knew you'd be pleased! I got it at that secondhand bookshop that opened locally around the time you were here. Do you remember they had a section devoted to books made into movies? I found this and the Seagal book there.

 

Erich Seagal: Oliver's Story - Heheee! I hope you knew this is a sequel and you need to read Love Story first. LS is a Rory read BTW

Yes, thankfully for once I knew I was buying a sequel! I don't have the first book yet, but I reckon it should be easy enough to find in a secondhand bookshop.

Oliver Harris: The Letters of William S Burroughs 1945-59 - !! I'm jealous.

I'm totally into letters to and from authors now (even though I don't think I've yet read a single collection I own). Because I already have a few letter collections I nearly passed this up, but when I flicked through and saw letters to Allen Ginsberg, I just knew I had to have it. Burroughs would have to have written such interesting letters!

 

Robert McCrum: My Year Off

I know you didn't comment on this, but I wanted to add some comments of my own. I've recently become an admirer of Robert McCrum, who writes articles for the Guardian and has written books on the English language that I have on my TBR pile. I haven't known much else about him, so I was intrigued to find he has written an autobiography. It turns out that he used to be a highly-regarded editor (my dream profession!) and he suffered a stroke 16 years ago at the age of 42. I had no idea. He must have made a remarkable recovery indeed. I look forward to reading about how he dealt with it all.

 

Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran - Yes yes yes! Maybe we could do a Rory group reading of this one in the near future? I think we were supposed to do that a year ago...

Definitely! For some reason I actually thought you had already read this and really loved it; that was the main reason I bought it! Maybe I got you confused with someone from the forum. Glad to know it's on the Rory list. I thought it had to be on one of the lists...

 

Jan Stradling: Bad Girls and Wicked Women - I don't remember what the book is about but I do remember you've been wanting to get a copy of this for a while now, and I think it's also on my wishlist.

Yes, it's a book (or rather, topic) that I've been interested in for a while. I visited an exhibition last year or the year before called Femme Fatale, on the bad girls in Sydney's history. I passed up this book once before and have been kicking myself for it ever since, so of course I couldn't pass it up again! Actually, I wasn't 100% sure this was the exact same book, so thanks for confirming it for me!

I'm glad I could you make you proud. I knew you'd be pleased!

 

I received Bill Bryson's At Home in the mail today. I can't wait to read it, but I still have a couple of other Brysons that I should read first.

Edited May 24, 2011 by Kylie

[Kylie]

Is pretty! I remember seeing my bedroom in your house for the first time, and seeing the flowers on top of the night table, and the pile of books ... I can still remember how the carpet felt against my bare feet, and how easy it was to turn off the light, I had my very own remote control for that... And the native birds chirping in the morning, waking me up with their beautiful noises... To be in Australia again!!

Aww, it's so nice that you have those memories! I'm glad you didn't mention the door that didn't close properly.

 

I really want to get to this, I love epic family sagas as well, Middlesex for example, and Gone with the Wind etc... I'm fairly certain I'll enjoy this one!

 

I'm fairly certain you'll enjoy Cloudstreet too. But I'm also scared. I hate recommending my favourite books to my favourite people because I know I'll be sad if they don't like it!

 

I'm sorry that you can't watch it without buying the DVD... but... I remember a certain Aussie lassie having such a laugh at the way Finns need to pay for their TV watching. I'm afraid the joke's on you now!

 

Ah now, that's different! We don't have to pay for all of our TV, or have licences or whatever you have. A lot of our TV channels are free-to-air and only in the last 10-15 years they have introduced pay TV, which provides more channels for (if you ask me) an exorbitant price. Most of the stuff you get is complete rubbish and to get the good channels you have to pay the most money.

 

I don't know if you remember how many channels we have here (I would count 12 main channels that I watch reasonably often, but there are probably double that). That's a big improvement on just a few years ago, when he had about 5 channels.

 

Haven't read them all and wouldn't pick Algernon as one of my favorites

 

Ah well, nobody's perfect!

[frankie]

- Mitch Albom: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Excellent!!

I forgot you had read this one.

Now worries, I nearly didn't remember myself

 

- Winston Groom: Forrest Gump - Yay, where did you find it?!? Wohoo!

Yep, I knew you'd be pleased! I got it at that secondhand bookshop that opened locally around the time you were here. Do you remember they had a section devoted to books made into movies? I found this and the Seagal book there.

Ah, that excellent bookshop! Yes I remember the books made into movies section, at the corner. I think it's an excellent idea for it's own section. There one will find books that wouldn't even think of otherwise.

 

- Erich Seagal: Oliver's Story - Heheee! I hope you knew this is a sequel and you need to read Love Story first. LS is a Rory read BTW

Yes, thankfully for once I knew I was buying a sequel! I don't have the first book yet, but I reckon it should be easy enough to find in a secondhand bookshop.

Good thing! And yep you should find it easily enough at some point or another. For some reason I find a copy of LS every other time I visit a secondhand bookshop. And now you know where you can look for the book and where you might find it

 

- Oliver Harris: The Letters of William S Burroughs 1945-59 - !! I'm jealous.

I'm totally into letters to and from authors now (even though I don't think I've yet read a single collection I own). Because I already have a few letter collections I nearly passed this up, but when I flicked through and saw letters to Allen Ginsberg, I just knew I had to have it. Burroughs would have to have written such interesting letters!

Yes I thought you would be, hehe! I just found out about this person who's letters have been collected into a book and in which you might be interested, but it's a darn shame that there aren't any copies on play.com and the adlibris copies are a bit on the expensive side... Hmph!!

 

- Robert McCrum: My Year Off

I know you didn't comment on this, but I wanted to add some comments of my own. I've recently become an admirer of Robert McCrum, who writes articles for the Guardian and has written books on the English language that I have on my TBR pile. I haven't known much else about him, so I was intrigued to find he has written an autobiography. It turns out that he used to be a highly-regarded editor (my dream profession!) and he suffered a stroke 16 years ago at the age of 42. I had no idea. He must have made a remarkable recovery indeed. I look forward to reading about how he dealt with it all.

I was almost going to comment, just to say that this is the only book I haen't heard of before but it must be a good one, because you bought it, of all the people Sounds intriguing, yes!

 

- Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran - Yes yes yes! Maybe we could do a Rory group reading of this one in the near future? I think we were supposed to do that a year ago...

Definitely! For some reason I actually thought you had already read this and really loved it; that was the main reason I bought it! Maybe I got you confused with someone from the forum. Glad to know it's on the Rory list. I thought it had to be on one of the lists...

Abby has read it and liked it, so maybe you're thinking of her. Oh you didn't even remember it was on the Rory list? Tut tut!

 

- Jan Stradling: Bad Girls and Wicked Women - I don't remember what the book is about but I do remember you've been wanting to get a copy of this for a while now, and I think it's also on my wishlist.

Yes, it's a book (or rather, topic) that I've been interested in for a while. I visited an exhibition last year or the year before called Femme Fatale, on the bad girls in Sydney's history. I passed up this book once before and have been kicking myself for it ever since, so of course I couldn't pass it up again! Actually, I wasn't 100% sure this was the exact same book, so thanks for confirming it for me!

Well now you can stop the kicking and the bruises in your behind can start fading away!

 

- I received Bill Bryson's At Home in the mail today. I can't wait to read it, but I still have a couple of other Brysons that I should read first. - And bloody hell, another treasure!! What a great book week!

Edited May 24, 2011 by frankie

[frankie]

Aww, it's so nice that you have those memories! I'm glad you didn't mention the door that didn't close properly.

 

Of course I didn't and wouldn't

 

I'm fairly certain you'll enjoy Cloudstreet too. But I'm also scared. I hate recommending my favourite books to my favourite people because I know I'll be sad if they don't like it!

 

But when has that ever happened??

 

Ah now, that's different! We don't have to pay for all of our TV, or have licences or whatever you have. A lot of our TV channels are free-to-air and only in the last 10-15 years they have introduced pay TV, which provides more channels for (if you ask me) an exorbitant price. Most of the stuff you get is complete rubbish and to get the good channels you have to pay the most money.

 

They'll be moving all the good shows on the pay TV channels soon, I tell you! And then you'll be sorry for mocking our system.

 

I don't know if you remember how many channels we have here (I would count 12 main channels that I watch reasonably often, but there are probably double that). That's a big improvement on just a few years ago, when he had about 5 channels.

 

I didn't exactly remember but I always figured you have roughly about the same amount of channels as we do. It was when I moved to Joensuu back in 2000 when I got a chance to see channel 4 for the first time, before that we had 3 different channels in Nurmes. And there were other new channels for me as well, I remember doing nothing but watching new channels and shows during the first few weeks at the uni when I didn't have any friends yet. Good times!

[Kylie]

Ah, that excellent bookshop! Yes I remember the books made into movies section, at the corner. I think it's an excellent idea for it's own section. There one will find books that wouldn't even think of otherwise.

That nice older gent who owns it came into the shop as I was paying for my books. He was happy to see me buying so many and said they had been getting worried because the store had been so quiet. I'm worried they will close down.

 

I just found out about this person who's letters have been collected into a book and in which you might be interested, but it's a darn shame that there aren't any copies on play.com and the adlibris copies are a bit on the expensive side... Hmph!!

Oooh, what is it? I'm dying of curiosity here!

 

- Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran

Abby has read it and liked it, so maybe you're thinking of her. Oh you didn't even remember it was on the Rory list? Tut tut!

There are too many lists and too many books to remember!

 

- Jan Stradling: Bad Girls and Wicked Women

Well now you can stop the kicking and the bruises in your behind can start fading away!

 

- I received Bill Bryson's At Home in the mail today. I can't wait to read it, but I still have a couple of other Brysons that I should read first. - And bloody hell, another treasure!! What a great book week!

Yep! And I should be receiving one more book this week too.

It's really bad, but I'm getting rather tempted to visit another bookshop in the city before the week is out. Why is it so bad? Because my TBR pile has reached 998 and I always buy heaps of books from this particular shop.

Ooh, I just remembered that the shop sent me an email last week saying they were going to be having an outdoor sale this week! Although I guess that will have been cancelled because it's been windy and raining all day.

[Kylie]

But when has that ever happened??

 

I don't think it has happened yet, but there's a first time for everything! It has probably never happened before because I generally try not to talk books up too much.

 

They'll be moving all the good shows on the pay TV channels soon, I tell you! And then you'll be sorry for mocking our system.

 

Never! I'll just turn to my trusty DVDs; I have enough of them to keep me going for a very long time. Think of all the Gilmore Girls I'll get to watch! I was planning on starting season 1 again on the weekend because I needed some cheering up, but I went with True Blood instead once I realised that I've only watched part of season 1 and not all of seasons 1 and 2 like I originally thought! No wonder I was having trouble remembering much about the show.

 

I remember doing nothing but watching new channels and shows during the first few weeks at the uni when I didn't have any friends yet. Good times!

 

New channels are so much fun! We seem to have new channels being added a few times a year. It's always exciting to see what sort of programs they have scheduled. Sometimes it leads to huge disappointment, but I was pretty excited to see our latest channel was airing the Brady Bunch, the Love Boat and Seventh Heaven (three of my guilty pleasures from years gone by).

[Weave]

I love Bill Bryson too Kylie, have you read 'The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid'?