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Bellatrix LeSnape!

Bellatrix LeSnape!

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Morning Campers - Kirsty's the name and books is the game (well not game but favorite past time and what you will most often catch me with whenever I get a spare minute.)

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  • Nat S

    Nat S says

    Yeah it's been a while. I had a pretty good christmas. I got a really awesome bag(one that's big enough to actually hall a book around in. I just cleaned up the office at work today... my life is getting that booring. there are a few new male aquaintances in my life, but they are just that aquantances. My parents seemed to have imagined a "crush/connection" between me and one of them. who by the way has a girlfriend and smokes. what the? let me know how the kindle goes. you should totally read the vampoire academy series. I have read the first two and the first one in the spin off series bloodlines and am falling in love. ..

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Nat S

    Nat S says

    hi. long time no see.
    i have read so many books this year. 74 if you count rereading 2 favourites. How are you going? what are you doing for christmas?

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Princess Dana

    Princess Dana says

    You are a Helena Bonham Carter fan :) I think she's a brilliant actress! I like your blogs.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • sid_rw

    sid_rw says

    Afternoon, Kirsty! That's quite a user-name you have for Shelfari :) Found you requesting suggestions for a classic and thought I would drop by and view your shelf. Happy reading!

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Nat S

    Nat S says

    The great gatsby is a classic. it's about a guy named gatsby who owns a big house and holds a lot of parties. The narrator "nick" lives next door in a much smaller house. Nick goes out partying and hears rumours that gatsby is a murderer. After getting to know gatsby he learns that this musn't be true. The whole novel is about how rumours get way out of hand. it's set in the glamourous Jazz age and is beautifully written.

    I don't know if i'm going to even finish it. if i do though i think i might try and get it published. i have a bit of a phobia that someone would try and pass my story as their own if i put it online. If it ever gets to that stage though i'd definitely send you a free copy to review on your blog. I'm telling you though, i'm very far from that at the moment.

    Yeah a lot of reccomendations. i'll reccomend gatsby while i'm at it. i haven't read all of the ones i reccomended to you. some of them are ones that i was planning to read. I'm reading "prophecy of the sisters (i reccomended it you ) now and i think it is going to be awesome.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Nat S

    Nat S says

    I just referenced your blog on my blog . hope you don't mind. here is the url: http://quirkygirllikesvintage.blogspot.com/2011/08/classics-recommendations-and-pretty.html I finished the great gatsby and thought it was great. I want to read more by that author now.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Terry B

    Terry B says

    Well, best wishes that something comes up. You never know what can happen - I'll send good wishes your way !

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  • Nat S

    Nat S says

    cool. I have never really gotten into fan fiction before, but when i get my laptop i will definitely have to. I have a lot more ideas for my story now, but i'm still unsure about the ending. I think once i get into the writing it will change a bit and grow on itself. At the moment i am reading "the great gatsby and it is taking me forever (3 days). the book is only 175 pages long, but i just can't stay interested.

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  • Nat S

    Nat S says

    sorry About your job.

    Year Teenage reads are always so good for that. I'm really liking the "eicked lovely" series right now. I'm on to the second book "ink exchange". The first book is about a girl who lives in a city and can see Faeries. She is the only one that can see them when they are in their usual state. They aren't beautiful or nice fey either. Some of them look like tree people or have vines growing on them and one of them looks like a snow queen and walks around with a woolf. And then she gets chosen as a future faerie queen and has to either become a worshipping summer girl who will perish without the presence of the summer queen or she can choose to become the winter queen, but if she is not "the one" she will risk winter's chill and become a winter girl who has to warn every future summer queen against choosing to be queen and will carry the uncomfortable chill until one of them decides.

    I'll be happy to give you a list of some YA reads that I liked or heard was good if you like.

    The book I was writing is a sad attempt at magical realism. It's about how dreams affect peoples lives and how peoples lives affect their dreams. I haven't written much on it lately, because i'm waiting until i can afford a laptop. The main character is sort of antisocial and ghoul like. she is a little bit like me in some ways. I think this book is really showing the influence of alice hoffman in my reading repetoire. I'm not sure about whether it's going to be a love story or not. all i've sort of got in my head is a begining and some characters.

    Yeah Kate Morton's books are descriptive and do take a while. But I think they are worth it. I have read all of her books, but I think "The distant hours" is the best. They all jump back and forth in time to reveal some sort of secret.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Miss Suzie

    Miss Suzie says

    I know what you mean; especially on the internet xP. And I totally agree; the over-all idea is a good one but it's just not believable at all. I mean I know it's meant to be a fable but you're dealing with a war-time story all the same. I think the sister annoyed me even more than the boy; she was basically a teenager and still knew nearly nothing about it ].[ I don't know. Maybe if we were younger we might have enjoyed it more? What do you think?
    Haha yeah, I'm alrighty! Oh and I also agree with you again, for the most part on 'The Lovely Bones'. Although it was a lot better than her other book 'The Almost Moon' to be fair xD.

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  • Terry B

    Terry B says

    So sorry to hear about your job ! I hope you can find something quickly. Check out the library, we got ours at the library from my daughter's school.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Nat S

    Nat S says

    I finished "the shifting fog" and then read "wicked lovely" and then i read a really dodgy 50's attempt at a sci-fi romance. never again. I think by reading Young Adult books in between my adult ones I am somehow managing to speed up the pace of my reading.

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  • Terry B

    Terry B says

    What's wonderful about the view of the child is that some of it is so innocent. We know what's going on, or we get it, but the child doesn't for a while. It does get heartbreaking, but it's a heartbreaking time.

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  • Miss Suzie

    Miss Suzie says

    Hello there! It's not often I leave comments (lol, socially awkward~). But I read your review on 'The Boy In The Striped Pajamas'- and I couldn't agree more. I'm glad that someone else feels the same way about it! I wanted to read it for so long after hearing countless good reviews but like you, I didn't feel it was executed very well. That and it wasn't very believable; I mean, I know he was young but I just don't believe someone like him with his dad being who he was could be that ignorant about the things around him. I don't know; it's not a horrible book! But I just wish I could have enjoyed it more and I guess you feel the same way xP. Anyways I thought I'd go leave this over here on your page. Anyways sorry about this being totally random and everything. I hope you are well! ^.^

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  • Miss Suzie

    Miss Suzie says

    Hello there! It's not often I leave comments (lol, socially awkward~). But I read your review on 'The Boy In The Striped Pajamas'- and I couldn't agree more. I'm glad that someone else feels the same way about it! I wanted to read it for so long after hearing countless good reviews but like you, I didn't feel it was executed very well. That and it wasn't very believable; I mean, I know he was young but I just don't believe someone like him with his dad being who he was could be that ignorant about the things around him. I don't know; it's not a horrible book! But I just wish I could have enjoyed it more and I guess you feel the same way xP. Anyways I thought I'd go leave this over here on your page. Anyways sorry about this being totally random and everything. I hope you are well! ^.^

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Terry B

    Terry B says

    I don't think you'll be disappointed. Enjoy !

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  • Nat S

    Nat S says

    well i finished imaginary girls and loved it. and i finished another book and loved it too. I read them really fast, but teenage novels are always quicker reads. My cousin got me a boxed set of the wicked lovely series which i am so keen to read. I have so many unread books to read and i can never decide on a readinglist and stick to it.

    at the moment i am reading "the shifting fog" by kate morton. One of my favourite authors.

    and i am kind of attempting to write a book, but i don't think that will last very long. lol.

    my friend (the one who only contacts me when she wants something) was supposed to come over today. she forgot. and itexted facebooked etc and she didn't reply. I still haven't given her those books i don't want. I feel like just giving them to the salvos and then when she asks for them say "oh . i forgot they were supposed to be given to you, sorry."

    ok. gotta go. tea time

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Terry B

    Terry B says

    Hello ! I read your review of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, since I have been debating about reading it. Based on the fact that you were disappointed, I'd like to recommend a very different book set in the same time period. The Book Thief. I found it to be a truly wonderful book, told from the perspective of children living through it in Germany. Wonderful wonderful book. Hope you like it !

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  • Nat S

    Nat S says

    oh and there is a quote i saw from a movie called "the history boys" which i know isn't a book or author quote but it relates to reading.

    "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours" — Alan Bennett

    I have never seen this movie or heard of it until i read this quote and all of a sudden i am very interested.lol.

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  • Nat S

    Nat S says

    sure you can put it on your blog. publicity is good...

    hmm I am not to sure about authors quotes. I think sylvia plath has some good ones. there is a quote section on goodreads that has tonnes. and radiohead isn't exactly and author but he says some pretty interesting stuff. I guess i'll have to think about that one and get back to ya.

    I know what you mean. i have had "shirley" sitting on my shelf for a while. I have started it before and each time i close it and put it back on the shelf. Maybe thats because i have so many other books that i am way more excited to read. I hope to get around to it one day.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )

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