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Julia K

Julia K

I am a student who has returned to the shelves after a few years departure. My money issues are figuring out how many books I can afford at the local second-hand book shop.

Your life is sometimes a stone in you, and then,
a star - Rilke

“Life has a will of its own, I've come to understand, and it is not easy to... more »
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  • Ainsley M

    Ainsley M says

    Uhm yeah thrift stores. like Salvation Army, or Value Village, or Goodwill, things like that. its the same as second-hand.
    oh i know ! :) and they have just a certain smell to them. uh, love it.

    posted 17 hours ago. ( send a note )
  • Ainsley M

    Ainsley M says

    sweeet :) i love old books. haha i buy some from thrift stores because i love the smell ect. of them lol and i dotn even read them ;P
    awh, thats kinda sad. i still have a great grandma whos 104 or something like that.

    posted 2 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Paris L

    Paris L says

    elsewhere by gabrielle zevin is just beautiful. i think its at the whitfords library. i highly reccomend it :)

    posted 3 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Ainsley M

    Ainsley M says

    lol thats good :) what else did chya get?
    mine was pretty good. except that one set of my grandparents couldnt come to my house for christmas (like they do almost every year), which kind of sucked. but i visited them today, so its alllll evened out :)

    posted 3 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Ainsley M

    Ainsley M says

    definitely make it soon. its one of those movies that you cants top thinking about for days after.

    posted 6 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Black Taffy Hughes

    Black Taffy Hughes says

    I totoaly agree although give me Jane Eyre any day =p. i've just brought a book that tells the story of rochesters wife I cant wait to read it!
    I'm not sure what made it so great for me i just really enjoyed finanly seeing what the story was about!
    BTW if i dont speak to you before i hope you have a fantastic christmas and a great new year!!!

    posted 8 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Ainsley M

    Ainsley M says

    oh yeah, that is a good point. lol i just wish they would make me happy :)

    nah, i just saw it the normal way. but i bet you it would be even better in 3D.

    posted 9 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Ari

    Ari says

    You can be sure of it ;)

    posted 10 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Ari

    Ari says

    That's true, but he's hailed as such an amazing author and all that. Maybe one day in the future I'll pick up a book by him. I mean, I'll have to read through all his synopses to see which book sounds the most amazing first. But for the sake of curiosity...

    posted 10 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Black Taffy Hughes

    Black Taffy Hughes says

    Haha I hardly watch my versions of Pride & Prejudice i'm not a huge Austen fan I find her novels a little lacking in passion compared to say Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights (although I dont like Wutherhing Heights lol!) I do enjoy Austen when i'm between books though her novels are quite easy to get through and arnt as complicated as the 2 examples I just gave.
    Ooh thanks for that I should probably go end some questions now =)
    And sorry I just realised you asked me question earlier on, yes Atonement does switch narators quite often through the book and I cant really remeber much about the story but I think that might have been the main reason it confused me so much! and probably the reason I loved the film so much!

    posted 10 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Black Taffy Hughes

    Black Taffy Hughes says

    I love colin firths version I have it on dvd, it seems to have alot more details from the book where as the movie misses lots out and changes important bits, thats why I really didnt like it.
    Thanks for your opinion, i'll check that one out. No I havent closed the question (tbh I dont know how lol =p) Is John Green a book or an author either way i'll be sure to check it out. =)

    posted 11 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Ainsley M

    Ainsley M says

    oops haha. i accidentally sent it. oh well ;)

    anyway, i wasnt expecting it be as good as it was! it was actually frickin AMAZING! i wanna see it again now ;)

    posted 11 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Ainsley M

    Ainsley M says

    oh i know what you mean. i hate when movies ruin the books. I dont blame them for trying to make a good movie, but they never come into comparison with the novel.
    i know :) I saw avatar yesterday. i wasnt expecting it to be

    posted 11 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Ari

    Ari says

    Oh see that does suck, I didn't know that. But the video stores here are just raising their prices more and more. Next thing you know, the cost or rending a film will match the cost of buying one.

    Yea, lol. I wasn't too fond of that movie, but watched it cause I really like John Cusack. Never read a Grisham film book either.

    posted 11 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Ari

    Ari says

    lol, Don't you just love it when that happens?

    Yea I guess that's the one good thing about it. But, then again, if the lawyers have some sort of trick up their sleeves then at least one person in the jury might not be as unbiased as one might think, and at the time of deciding on a 'guilty' or 'innocent,' that could make the whole difference.

    posted 12 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Ari

    Ari says

    I think I saw the movie trailer for that somewhere. I really loved Ruper Grint in the Harry Potter films, though I've not watched him in anything else.

    Yes, it's absolutely horrible. It's a whole day of sitting around waiting to be called in if you're chosen, and then once you're chosen there's a preliminary (they call at least 20-40 people at a time) of endless questions asked to you and everyone with you one by one (which takes hours) to see if you fit the bill to be part of the jury. This is if the case is a criminal one. If it's something like tax fraud or whatever...something light...odds are that if you're called in then you'll be jury. But those are quick cases and they send you back to the huge jury pool to wait again and see if you'll be called. Even after you've been picked, if they don't choose you for big cases, you have to return to the jury pool and wait throughout the day 'til it's all over.

    They did this to me the last time I was there, lucky me (it was a criminal case), and I was in that freakin' court chamber from 10 a.m. -6:30 p.m. I was an hour and a half late for class, and gained nothing by it (thankfully I wasn't chosen as part of the jury). Now, I have to be on jury call for 2 freakin' weeks, which means I have to call every day after 5 p.m. to see if I have to go in the next day.

    posted 13 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Ari

    Ari says

    Not with all. I've been lucky so far to watch movies there that are of good quality as a whole (both And Then There Were None as well as Arsenic and Old Lace--I love me some Cary Grant!). I'm a student, despite the fact that my current graphic design teacher keeps joking that I should teach *g* I'm currently enjoying my lovely 15-day break before I have to return to school on the 4th...and start jury duty along with it.

    Awww, understandable. I should just open a thread in one of the groups I'm part of to see what people might advise :)

    posted 13 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Black Taffy Hughes

    Black Taffy Hughes says

    I've always liked keira knightly but after atonement i started looking at her as a bit more of a serious actress, i didnt really like her in pride and prejudice! its one of the very few books i wouldnt recommend, some people seem to really love it but i really just couldnt bare to read it it wasnt written very well in my opinion, it was just all over the place which made it confusing.

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Ainsley M

    Ainsley M says

    lmao yes, my vacation passed amicably ;)
    haha oh man, how can you read politics? i can barely even bear hearing about it. hahahahah, but sherlock holmes. legendary. are you planning on seeing the movie?

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Ari

    Ari says

    I don't think I should start with the comedy version of Robin Hood if I've never seen anything of it before, lol (Men in Tights, right?). But I do want to watch the Disney version. I actually came across the whole film on youtube the other day but was too busy with my class's final project (thankfully already finished and presented!) to watch it then.

    By the way, do you know of any Robin Hood novels worth reading?

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )


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