February 2012
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“Life changes every minute of everyday. You lose friends. You gain friends. You...”
– Unknown (via myquotelibrary)
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I have fairly particular habits when it comes to books and reading.
- No breaking the spines
- No dog-earing pages (people who borrow from me are warned that I may kill them if they do this to one of my books)
- Donate any books I’m not likely to read again
- Return borrowed books in a timely fashion, usually before they’re missed
- Don’t form opinions until you have read...
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Just had a very busy weekend. On Saturday, I was meant to go to a hen’s kitchen tea for Red’s friend’s fiancée while Red went on the bucks day and night. Because I didn’t know anyone and wasn’t feeling too well, I cancelled (sending her present along with Red). I then drove halfway across Sydney and hung out with my grandmother, had lunch with my aunt at...
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It’s actually kind of depressing when your boyfriend leaves while you’re still in bed and then is already in bed when you get home from work…
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seraphicseduction:
when I’m rich I’m only going to wear Agent Provocateur
And Mimi Halliday, Fifi Chachnil, Chantal Thomass, Lula Starr and Lascivious. All from Dirty Pretty Things, of course!
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30 Day Book Challenge - Days 29 & 30
Day 29 – A book that makes you cry and Day 30 – Your favourite book of all time They’re the same book so now I’m a day ahead on my schedule! Persuasion by Jane Austen never fails to make me cry with happiness at the end, and also is a book I can constantly go back to, over and over. For the uninitiated, who are too lazy to go back and read Day 10, where I talk about this book,...
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30 Day Book Challenge - Days 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 &...
Day 23 – A book you wanted to read for a long time but still haven’t Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde has been on my list ever since I read The Eyre Affair, but I just haven’t found the chance to do it so far. It’s actually sitting on my nightstand as I type this and I’m about to start a new book…so maybe today is the day! Day 24 – A book that you wish more people...
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30 Day Book Challenge - Day 22
Day 22 – The book that made you fall in love with reading I honestly can’t remember a time that I didn’t love reading. My grandmother taught me to read at two and a half, and in my childhood, I read anything I could get my hands on. But maybe I should talk about the book that propelled me from strictly fiction and mostly kids novels to the definitively adult world, and that is Jeffrey...
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30 Day Book Challenge - Days 19, 20 & 21
Day 19 – Favourite book turned into a movie I actually saw the movie of Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer before I read the book, and I have to say, the movie was better. It cut out a lot of unneeded waffling, keeping only the best bits of the film, and the art direction was absolutely stunning. Elijah Wood was extraordinary as a shy young man who comes to Eastern Europe to find...
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30 Day Book Challenge - Days 17 & 18
Day 17 – Favourite quote from your favourite book I’m going to go off my list of ‘favourite book by favourite author’ list here - it makes things a little easier… The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry: “The world is unkind to the shoeless and frolicsome.” Persuasion by Jane Austen: “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am...
January 2012
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30 Day Book Challenge - Days 15 & 16
These were actually the hardest two days so far, simply because I’d never thought of either of these as subjects for recommendation… Day 15 – Book that should be on high school/college required reading list This is actually a tricky one, because I can’t remember off the top of my head what I read back in high school that was actually high school appropriate. I guess I’d...