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If I have to read another jane austen novel I'll squirt toothpaste in my eyes.
good god! unbelieveable stuff. Mansfield park. Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiich.
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum |
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lobber of scimitars
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Currently reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time - Mark Haddon Came in a bag of donated books. I'm "screening" it for the unit. I didn't know anything about it before I started, but it's very interesting.
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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Blood Diamonds. It is pretty good. Better than the movie, as usual.
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Possession - A. S. Byatt and LOVING IT
the Anglo Files by sarah lyall. very funny.
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum |
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I hear them call the tide
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it was funny, but -despite her protestations- she really hates Brits and it gets a little grating after a while Polo by Jilly Cooper, for the umpteenth time.
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~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~
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I need a good book to read otherwise I'll be forced to buy An Echo and the Bone. I suppose I can find one for half the cover price.
Wolf: I read the Angel Experiment. I didn't know it was a teenage read when I bought it. I thought it was pretty good if simple. Mistborn caught my attention but if it is tooo fantasy it doesn't keep my attention. No offense because neither did the L.O.T.Rs. Social science fictions ok though. I am thinking about World Without End. I would probably like The Blood Diamond. ![]() I think I'll mess my place up just so I can clean it up. Hurry up spring so I can go outside and play in the dirt! Last edited by skysidhe; 01-16-2010 at 02:28 PM. |
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But! she married one! She LIVES there!!
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum |
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I hear them call the tide
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right. and she wishes she didn't. she may say otherwise ...but she has to.
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i just started it but I DO see your point.....
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum |
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It gets worse... and she gets more and more into politics. It IS funny though, and she's very accurate in her observations, but I eventually stopped about 3/4 of the way through.
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We have to go back, Kate!
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What is it she doesn't like about us?
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so far I think she;s making observations that are pretty broad - even stereotyping. I'm not all the way thru the book yet - but stuff that could be said about ANY culture, reeally. She's going on about teams (cricket?) or stag parties getting drunk. Well, yeah. Duh. she talks about the booze culture in the UK- and with exactly NO first hand experience of the UK booze cx, all I can say is that it sounds a hell of a lot like the booze culture over here.
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum |
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We have to go back, Kate!
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Ahhh. To be fair our booze culture is a little over the top. *grins* the government tried to do away with the whole 'last orders' melee in towns and bring about a little inner city and towncentre, nightlife revival by changing the licensing laws. instead of having all the pubs shutting at 11 o'clock, they extended the opening hours and allowed late licences, and 'all day drinking' (previously, there was a limit on licensing hours so that you could drink for a while during the day and then all the pubs closed until evening then opened again and shut at 11pm). The basic idea was that we'd end up with a less hysterical approach to alcohol consumption....maybe even foster a kind of European style pavement bar culture....
Bless. How naive. We are not French. We have a different relationship with alcohol than the French do. Giving us an extended number of hours in which to consume alcohol will not make us French. It just allows us to drink more :P
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The Secret of Shambhala - James Redfield
Heart of the Christos - Barbara Hand Clow Both recommendations from my boyfriend. Id be interested to know if richlevy or his wife has read Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, since the main character/storyteller is an autistic teen. The writing seem "authentic" to me.
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