I just finished reading Mary Bryant : the impossible escape, it was very true and factual not a fictionalised account of her experiences like some books are and the fictionalised parts in the book were clearly labelled. So then I decided to watch the 2005 miniseries, which I have on DVD but I had never actually gotten around to watching the second ( Read more... )

So I have been sucked into this thing called facebook, its' all Melly, Schultz and the Jonas Brothers fault. Well... mostly the Jonas Brothers as I really wanted to join in on their live chat thing ( Read more... )

I have just finished reading the book Betrayal, which is a Star Wars book set in the time period called the Legacy of the Force which is set 13 years or so after the Yuuzhan Vong war.
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1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

"I always want you," I reminded him, with perhaps a little more intensity than the ( Read more... )

"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them

1. Pride and ( Read more... )

Well finished the Hallows and I have to say the epilogue was lame. I saw someone on here do a stream of consciousness thing while they read. I tried to do that too but gave up after a while. But I'll post what I did have.

What's with the body?
I knew Remus and Tonks would get together
Hey! I have a HP character called Charity
God Moldywart is so lame
Ha ( Read more... )

The people, who have not read the book, should read it because the differences are so vast that apart from the names, the book and the movie might as well be two completely unrelated stories. And the book is the better medium by a long shot. The only way you are going to know this is tell you what the differences are.

Firstly Char has no evil ( Read more... )