The Next Best Book Club discussion
Non-Book Related Banter
>
Random Thread of Naughty Thoughts
Laura good to here that Extremely Loud is good. I couldn't find it at my B&N so I have to go to another bookstore.
Okay now I am so craving sweets. Which I have a chocholate cake with chocolate fudge filling in the kitchen. Self control self control
Okay now I am so craving sweets. Which I have a chocholate cake with chocolate fudge filling in the kitchen. Self control self control
Good night Kellie!
I should go to bed too. I need to get some reading in & some eating!!!
But I am also enjoying being on line.
I should go to bed too. I need to get some reading in & some eating!!!
But I am also enjoying being on line.
ok Petra.... ROFLMAO!!! I thought for sure that it was supposed to be a Brittney Spears Barbie :)Leppaluoto -- My Dad retired from the Coast Guard. Other than him, I don't know any. Were you a Coastie?
I'm really signing out for real this time. Must eat & read!
Goodnight all or Good morning depending on where you are! :)
Goodnight all or Good morning depending on where you are! :)
I feel so full but actually didn't eat too much. Just polenta for lunch and a really good fresh pizza margherita. That's it, oh and some roasted chestnuts. But even today I just feel sooo full. Apparently the three hour walk(supposed to have been twenty minutes) didn't change anything about the full feeling. And as I am alone this afternoon with the fire palce on, I think I won't manage to not eat the liquid mascarpone dessert that is still in the fridge for me....need to choose a book in the house that I can be 200% sure I will finish before the 19th of November! But which one?????
Is there something interesting going on there in the world out of where I am????it is soooocalm on TNBBC today and the past two days.....:-((((
Hi Jeane - I just started percolating, and I'm eating my very healthy and non-cheesy Special K cereal. How are you?
Sounds good for a dreary day. How close are you to finishing Jane Eyre & what are you planning 2 read next?
Hi Laura, I am okay today. Just have painful ligaments form my 20 becoming 3hours walk and my bum hurts of it too!!!!
Well, there used to be a castle around here, up in the hills/mountains. A bit above the village. But for a really really long time people say that there is nothing left, maybe four stones or so. But I don't care, I jsut wanted to walk tere once, be where once there was a castle. So we asked my boyfriend's niece if she would like to make a walk with us to the place. She makes a lot of walks and knows well the paths to take... But we ended up somewhere high where it wasn't, then came a bit back and went up to the other side. Suddenly when coming down again we saw a woman and asked if she could tell us where it was. She told us to go back the path till almost the village and go right....so completely abck from where we came in the beginning and then completely up and not an easy path either. It was great,even if it are only some ruins. But coming back wasn't good as my ligaments of my right knee of course had to start hurt and then I can hardly walk. But I amde it and it was great. Just that it should be a 20 minutes walk(I think half an hour) and we made it a 3 hour walk! :-)
Hmm, well you can pick 'em Fiona! If you wanna suggest any more Brit Lit for me, I'd be much obliged to ya.
British Classics. Haven't read a classic in awhile. I like Austen, Dickens, DuMaurier...I liked I Capture the Castle too. Anything you pick w/b good.
This place wouldn't be the same (or even close!) w/out you, Fiona!Must.get.work.done. and must.take.shower!
CYA :)
I feel like a fake, I haven't been on GR that much these days...I've been doing NANO, and chatting on YA for Obama, but I haven't been keeping up to date here at all!
I feel gulity.
I'll be back in December for sure though!
LOL Jeane! I love to walk, I used to walk all the time. I still walk a little bit, but not as much.
I love Mrs. Gaskell as well. Cranford is my favourite (very Jane Austen) but also Ruth which is about an unmarried mother and not at all Jane Austen.What kind of eye is that?
I didn't look at the next page.GAH!
Must. Get. Back. On. GR. Track.
I have a ton of stuff under my keyboard. I'm afraid to look.
Sorry sorry....There's just so many THREADS.
I love you all, but you spend way to much time on here! (So do I).
I'm going to only write 667 words today and then add 1000 words to tomorrow's word count. Because I'm lazy.
Thanks Fiona, I did just that: fire place, book and a cup of green tea, well two cups.Emma, those walks are great. The village is surounded by a national parc and about two kilometres from here there are the mountains. If you cross them you come in Tuscany. When I left London and went back Belgium for half a year, I started walking every day about two or three times a day. Which meant every time at least an hour. But here they don't have a dog anymore, so I started to go for a walk every morning immediately after getting up and would walk every day a little bit more. It is a great way to start the day. And since I started it in belgium it made me loose so much weight too. And I feel really energetic afterwards!!:-)
:) I find that walking helps me think. And think deeply. My spiritual side always breaks out when I'm walking alone. It also feels good, and the scenery is great! (It sounds beautiful where you are).
Emma, when I suddenly realised I have been walking far it is because i have been thinking a lot during the walk. Oh, the view here is fantastic:-))))
I walk a lot in these mountains in the rainforest overlooking the islands in the Caribbean sea.Well I don't really but I keep meaning to. I don't like mountain-walking though because of the uphill bits. The view is better appreciated when standing still on my drive anyway. (Its quite a walk to the top of my drive so that counts).
Ok I'm lazy and Jeane and Gemma and everyone are not.
I'll take any sea at all!I think it was Jeane's comment about her long walk that got me to take a walk for the first time in a long time today. Thanks Jeane! (I'm gonna try & make it a habit, since giving up my pal c.c. is not an option.)
Next time you run into writer's block, try taking a notebook to the sea. Supposedly there's a chemical reaction that takes place around moving water, which makes you more creative. That's why things come to you in the shower.
Anytime I'm around the sea I breathe the ozone in deeply and .... wanna lie on the beach or go home and sleep. Since I am never far from the sea perhaps the ozone is the reason I am so lazy and its really not my fault.who's a twit who who?
Yes, Fiona I tend to talk to myself- I also tend to rammble on & on.
And it's dark because it's winter. I hate how it's so dark all the time. It's the one depressing thing about winter.
And it's dark because it's winter. I hate how it's so dark all the time. It's the one depressing thing about winter.
Supernoodle looks just like Ramen noodles. I love the oriental flavor & the chicken flavor! Great with crackers!
Wow Jeane 3 hours that's great. I'm just always sitting on my butt-eating!
Fiona: what does "fag smoke poo" smell like?
I don't like when books smell like rotting flesh! yuck!
I don't like when books smell like rotting flesh! yuck!
Jeane: you are making me really want to come to Italy! Sounds wonderful!
I should have used a . I sit on my butt & eat. I use to go for bike rides a lot-10 mile rides but I have been reading and then found GR it is so much easier to sit down.
I say poo all the time- I get the "you must be a mother". Which is true.
Emilee, it is wonderful here.Fiona, that is one of the few things I miss from Belgian: te sea during winter. Every winter they have at the saside the risk that the water will get over the walls...I would so want to see that one day. It looks great(and dangerous) on the news.
I am freezing here in this room...and we are all so stupid(but saving) to say we can stay without the heating in the room as long as we put the fire on in the living room..... It is 15degrees celcius in this room but it feels like ten. of course i am sitting still and my hands don't move a lot...brrrr
Poor Jeane, I don't know how you could stand it so cold. I went back to the UK in March four years ago and it was terrible. The wind bit my cheeks and my toes turned blue.Here, the sea walls - usually big rocks, but sometimes low rock walls you can sit on, goes over every time there is a storm or if its only rough. It does look beautiful but if you are driving past you have to go and get your car washed as the salt drying on the car will rust it. I didn't used to bother so my vehicles are in a terrible state.
I hope the sun comes out for you today. I think a really cold bluesky day with sunshine is stunningly beautiful.
Petra, no sun for me today. It is also colder here because it's one of the three valleys. And, well Italy in November is normally colder than now. But they have cold houses, so you feel it even more. But this way I work on my condition: every now and then, maybe every half hour or so I run to the living room, stay a bit in front of the fire palce and read a bit, then back here. And I stay less in front of the computer too!
Oh Jeane you are like me. I have my heat on 65 F but it was on 60F so the pipes wouldn't freeze. I sadly don't have a fireplace. I just keep wrapped up in blankets drinking hot tea or hot chocolate (with marshmellows of course). Though i think it is much colder for you!
Oh, I saw the cutest game yesterday- Bookopoly! I so have to get it. $30.00 american dollars. Instead of trading property you trade classic books.
Yes, Emilee: fire place, lots of hot thea, blankets, running around and just be cold:-) But if that's the price to pay for being in Italy, I don't care.Bookopoly???!!!!! Where did you see that!!!! I neeeeeeed it. Even if I am the only one crazy about books and the one who adores most board games...which might again be a problem to play, but is about books...need to have it. Why can't google already be looking for it for me?
Books mentioned in this topic
The Queen's Fool (other topics)Howl’s Moving Castle (other topics)
Anne of Green Gables (other topics)
Gone with the Wind (other topics)
Gone with the Wind (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
Elizabeth Gaskell (other topics)Kristin Cashore (other topics)
Kristin Cashore (other topics)
Elizabeth Gaskell (other topics)
Elizabeth Gaskell (other topics)
More...



Fiona: I think that Winter is my problem, I do tend to eat more in the winter & not excercise.