false 2261125 24 female Near Brighton, H9, The United Kingdom 04/2009 12/2009 7128 Jodi Picoult 10657 Enid Blyton 7717 Richard Adams 123715 Agatha Christie 6 95 79 true 5682873 read 1 true 4917193 currently-reading 15 true 4917192 to-read 17 false 5393879 children 15 false 5393977 saga 9 false 5393915 detective 5 false 5393934 1940s 4 false 5393931 non-fiction 4 false 5394019 fantasy---sci-fi 3 false 5393976 autobiography 3 false 5394004 death 2 false 5394048 animal 2 false 5394076 dark 2 false 6158846 love 2 false 5472887 politics 2 false 5393959 philosophy 2 false 9188206 christmas 2 false 5394058 illness 1 false 5394052 marine 1 false 5394045 history 1 false 5424283 religion 1 false 5424296 first-reads 1 false 5394055 time-travel 1 false 8089223 mystery http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/258767-best-book-on-d-day-overlord http://photo.goodreads.com/groups/1198408325p2/2059.jpg 2261125 Claire http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1240908849p2/2261125.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2261125-claire Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:58:06 -0800 Ramps Down, Troops Away! A Novel of D. Day and liked it, but as it is the only D-Day novel I have read I can't really say how it compares to others.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1768003-sam http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1236935567p2/1768003.jpg 2261125 Claire http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1240908849p2/2261125.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2261125-claire Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:22:42 -0800
Well if you say it’s a bit slippery where you are...think of that a quadruple it and you’ll just about understand how mad it is here! Seriously, I’ve never known it as scarey lol Our road is like a really thick (lumpy) ice rink because all the snow is compacted so tight that even rain and sun has failed to budge it. We’ve used all our house salt up and our path is barely walkable (luckily there is a fence and wall each side. My dad yesterday came down in the morning and said, “I swear that cars moved you know”...went out and it had moved about a meter down the road and stopped because the tyres were turned into the curb...otherwise we might have found the car down the bottom of the hill!! Apparently golf shoes are the thing to wear if you want to keep upright!
I don’t think we are going to have any more snow before Christmas, what about you?

Maybe you could wrap the gladiator belt up for xmas...think he’d guess what it was?! At least he couldn’t shake it to find out ;) If not...sending him to my street and I think it could have the same effect for cheaper *envisages those legs in cartoons which spin in circles*

Your neighbours may not like the stair replacement, but you might as you could turn it to full speed whenever you didn’t want from knocking on your door ;)

Baum’s xmas book isn’t that good, but I guess it would do for some seasonal reading – it is mainly a description of how all the things associated with Father C have come to be (the alternative version).

Only two more sleeps now haha

Claire
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When I meantioned fear opening Scrooges mind I was really referring to when Marley arrived - he was shocked my the chains and the awful wandering afterlife described etc which made him eager to hear how he could change this outcome for himself. I feel it took something like this to make him receptive to change, otherwise he would have cast aside the person's comments like he does everyone else and not taken them on board. Also the final ghost showing him his death cemented in his mind that he must change and straight away.

Regarding the poor, I agree Dicken's tried to bring their plight to the wider public's attention, but he did also show them in a bad light (as low as one can get?) - stealing from a dead man's body, but do you think this was to show how despute they really are, that they should need to? Perhaps the reader wasn't supposed to feel it was stooping low because Dicken's had made Scrooge nasty so he got is just desserts? Perhaps that he had bought it on himself and as there was no one who cared enough about him, what did it matter?]]> The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (Hardcover) by L. Frank Baum]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81059311 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177581660s/715058.jpg 2261125 Claire http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1240908849p2/2261125.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2261125-claire Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:46:23 -0800 At first I found this hard to get my head around as it seemed discordant with my ingrained version of the traditional description of Christmas and Santa C...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/27145-which-idea-do-you-like-best-for-a-down-page-the-one-that-shows-up-when http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1240908849p2/2261125.jpg 2261125 Claire http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1240908849p2/2261125.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2261125-claire Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:44:24 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/123815 http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1240908849p2/2261125.jpg 2261125 Claire http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1240908849p2/2261125.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2261125-claire Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:00:45 -0800