Yay another "Booker" on the boards!!!!!

I know what you mean about not trying to bankrupt yourself on them. Nowadays I try ti find a balance between buying them second hand (onyl if they are still failry nice looking copies, they only cost me a few pounds each), buying 3 for two's (but then you have to be able to find 3 that you want or getting them off the net as they are cheaper there.

I love reading crime/mysteries and am building a collection of ghost story books (All in all I have about 30 of them so far... and have just found a website where they have some that are second hand and dirt cheap!!!!). Also like my classics (Dickens, Austen etc) and historical novels (I don't mean the soppy romances but a story set in the past, so you learn about how things were at that time.
At the moment I am reading The Boys From Brazil/Ira Levin and have To the Lighthouse/Virginia Woolf to get into next.

I can remember reading books from as soon as I could read and envying my sister that she got to go to school and learned to read. I have lots of them in storage at my mum's at the moment and on the last count I had about 75 around at the moment... aquired over the past 4 years.

Cloggs

I can still remember reading my first "chapter book". I felt so grown up and smart. It was a Bobsey Twins book. LMBO

I just started reading the books like 2 weeks ago. I don't think i have ran across Timothy Zahn yet.
I'm absolutely obsessed with Han/Leia--they are just so dang cute.

I will read anything I can get my hands on. My book case is full and I have taken to stacking books in my bedroom. My oldest sister and I trade back and forth. I always have a book in progress at one time or another. My son was never a reader and I couldn't understand why not. I finally got him interested in Larry McMurtry and he's working his way into other authors. I love when he calls to tell me he's at Borders or Barnes and Nobles.

Valley, was it something we said? Did we not give you the attention you need? Did we fail to make you feel loved and important? I have to ask, were they--were they better than we were? Maybe we could get some counseling? I know we can work this out, this relationship is too important to lose it over a cheap, one-night stand!




I LOVE Larry McMurtry. I think Lonesome Dove is my all-time favorite book. I read it about once a year. No matter how many times I've read it, the descriptions and dialogue just make me cry every time. I'm not sure why, but I like his westerns more than his modern-day novels. Gosh, that reminds me. I think its been over a year since I read Lonesome Dove--now, where is that book?

Ok, the titles are Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising & The Last Command. These three books started the Star Wars book explosion--but two major characters are married and expecting, plus you meet another future spouse, hmmmm I better leave it at that since I wouldn't want to give the books away. . .

Anybody else having any wacky weather? We had 73 degrees yesterday. Today it is in the 30's and very windy and we are under a winter storm watch until tomorrow night and tomorrow we are supposed to get 6-8 inches of snow. Weird March weather. Haven't seen the rest of the week yet. It could be 70 again by Thursday and the snow will be gone for all I know.

So this shippy thing is an on-going problem? Han and Leia belong together, always have - Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher had the heat and chemistry that you knew they would be together no matter what!



Have you read Commanche Moon? It's supposed to take place after Dead Man's Walk and before Lonesome Dove - absolutely mesmerizing. I couldn't put it down and it gave you more insight into Gus and Woodrow, along with Newt's mother, Maggie.

I think that is March. I know the south is getting some pretty strong storms right now...if any of you live in LA, Miss, or GA, I hope everything is ok.
On another note, speaking of cats, there was a cat at my backdoor this afternoon. He/She didn't have a collar but didn't look like a stray. It was really clean and its coat was in good shape. I checked with my neighbor, who has lots of cats, to see if one got out, but her husband said it was just a stray that his wife had been feeding. So I gave it some food and then it left. Cute little visit from the feline though. Funny, too, since we have a lot of cyber cats!

I used to love Lassie books (too many years ago). I actually bought a Lassie book on ebay last year, but it got lost in my last move.


spook

Yeah I guess it is March. Didn't know about the south getting storms.

Nice story about the cat. We have a neighbor who has a cat that roams from home to our porch and sometimes sleeps on my car or under my car. I have to check under my car every morning before I leave to make sure the cat isn't there. Don't want to run the poor thing over. I couldn't do it anyway having 3 myself.

I loved Comanche Moon. I think that's the only one I have in hardback--my son got it for me for Christmas one year.

Hey, my avatar did change finally. But now I don't know if I like it. Its too small to really see Bobby and Alex. I may have to change it.

My avatar change worked too. Changed it last night. I took Janx's advice but it took overnight instead of 3 or more days this time. I can live with that.

Tonight was Women's Dinner at my Mom's. My sister made dinner--although it was our niece's turn to cook, but she and our older sister had this long story about why they couldn't come tonight, so my middle sister had to make dinner. Boy, did she make sure we all knew that it wasn't her turn to cook! But then she is the middle child--they always have to do all the work, right? I was talking to her daughter about it and I said that since she has been the middle child for 50 years now, she really ought to be used to doing all the work and just quit complaining! But she made a good dinner: Chicken-Apple Salad (sounded gross to me, but it was yummy!) and French Bread. And Chocolate Banana Pie for dessert (also sounded gross, but was delicious). Now everyone else has left, and I really need to get home, too. 'Night all.

I am seeking a poster here under Susan12 who used to hang out NBC

Chicken Apple Salad? Never heard of that. You should share that with me one time

I adore Han & Leia, they are just amazing.
I wish they would've continued Star Wars just so i could watch those two.

Do you mean my buddy Susan 1212? She is registered here, you could pm her.

Enaka, I'll try & let her know that you are looking for her.

They're so goofy together it's cute. The writing has some strange lines but they make them work. That didn't really happen in the new trilogy. Goofy lines (i.e.I'm haunted by the kiss that you should never have given me.) were present and came off as...goofy instead of cool like when Han says stuff. (I actually tried to find a line that came off as goofy for him and I just couldn't. I laughed a lot looking at wikiquote but no goofy lines to be found.) Leia has some weird lines like "my hands are dirty".

Yeah!

"My Hands are dirty"
"My hand are dirty too, what are you afraid of?"
"afraid?"
"Your trembling."
"I'm not trembling."
"You like me because i'm a scoundrel, there aren't enough scoundrels in your life."
"I happen to like nice men."
"I'm in a nice man."
"No Your--" :kiss:

I've got that scene memorized down to a tee.

Thank you. I know you, too. You're also from another Forum. I have been away from forums because of work. But it is nice to see you again

Why is it that I can talk to guys online and they seem really cool and fun... But they all turn out to be total dorks in their pictures? I guess all the cool bishies are taken already... T_T

ooooo bad weather passed here last night, but we survived, anyone watched Unhitched last night? Interesting show.

You ought to see them in the books. . . . . . . . .

Yes, the dialogue in the original Star Wars may have been somewhat bad, but at least Leia and Han had chemistry, like everyone said. Annika and Padme had no chemistry whatsoever IMO in the prequals. Oh, and the dialogue? "I love you because you're beautiful." Um thanks, but I'd really hoped there was a more substantial reason... When I heard that (not to mention other awful lines) I had to remind myself that I'd paid good money for the movie and so should watch the entire thing.

Speaking of movies, I must go and watch Shrek for class before work tonight.

Anyone heard from KRod?

I haven't. The NoRomo shall send a search party out.


spook

I looked at her profile and she hasn't been on in a couple of weeks.

Maybe if we run a pair of Doc Goren's boxers up the flag pole we can get her attention and she will come back, Let me check my cabin, I think he left a few in there.

Really? Wow, RL must be pretty busy right now.....hope she's back soon. Maybe we should send her a pm and let her know the good doc is waiting in her cabin with a fresh shipment of whipped cream?

::grabs binoculars and scans horizon::

I have some too. And some tie clips. Lets make the pole out of tie clips.

I finished 'The Truce At Bakura', which was cute. I love the han and leia moments. I definitely bought these books out of order so i am waiting for my books that would be in order to come in via Amazon. I'm currently reading 'The Courtship of Princess Leia'---which is a bit out of character but oh wellz.

I am sure ciaddict is gonna come here soon I am going to post now. Have you ever tasted Crab Salad Sandwich? A good buddy of mine whom I thought was you had that for lunch today. Is it good? Man you sweet people really are making me hungry lol

I have, subway has them, also crawfish salad is good too. Anyone watch the new show New Amsterdam? About the NY detective who can't age or die until meeting his soul mate? Looks like a ok show, Dude aint too bad looking either.

Nope, not bad lookin' at all. The 1st episode was pretty good and I like the premise. In my mind I kept comparing his partner to Eames which isn't fair because as we all know Eames is incomparable.

Man, I didn't know it was THAT long. We should have already HAD a search party out.




You're so baaaad, Captain.


spook

I'm going to make a Han/Leia mash up.

I'm getting re-obsessed. Everytime i watch star wars i get re-obsessed with it.
It gets out of hand.

Can't wait to see the new Indiana Jones, that man still got IT.

I just don't like that the previews call him "New York's most brilliant detective". I always get mad and yell at the TV that Bobby is New York's most brilliant detective.

Harrison Ford?

Boo-YAH!


spook

Harrison Ford is HAWT.

Very definitely HAWT.




spook

very hot!!!!!!!!

Over on the SVU board, on the E/O shipping thread, someone just said "Oy, with the poodles already!" I about died laughing! My daughter and I used to say that all the time. We were big Gilmore Girls fans and that was a classic Gilmorism. Even though an Elliot/Kathy shipper takes her life in her hands venturing onto the E/O thread, I just had to respond!

Oy, with the poodles already.

I gotta start using that again.

I'm going to blow my whole pay check watch Indiana Jones 4.




AGREED.




::faints::

THUD! Even at 65, the man is hawt...

Thanks for posting, I was so bored.....now I'm

ITA

Long time no see.

Yer welcome. I didn't know HF was that old...

Still cookin' after all these years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXQEhqp69jA


That's my Han & Leia video.

Ya'll should watch my work.

Books are amazing things. The library was my haven as a child and as a teen. My gram was a nurse, so when I stayed with her I would read her nursing books, anatomy books and her PDR. I checked out every animal encyclopedia our library carried. I was so into learning how everything worked. My favorite storybooks when I was really young were the Black Stallion series. I was a bit of a horse freak. I still love them smell of the library or an old book store. Its comforting and feels safe to me somehow. I have a huge book collection, every room in my house has a book shelf. Yard sales are my favorite place to find books. Eventually, when I need to thin them, the ones I can part with I donate to the local library. My nephew hates to read and it breaks my heart. I cannot do much about it, since he lives states away from me, but for gifts I like to send him books. He reminds me of myself at that age and since books were such a comfort to me, I think if he could get into reading it would help him too. I hope my niece becomes a reader!




I have been asking about Krod for a week or more and have pm'd her several times. We talked a lot and I just missed seeing her here. I hope she is okay...




Yup, its been a while since she has been on...RL must be really rough or busy for her right now.

Oh, does anyone know for sure WHERE the new episodes will be shown? I thought USA had the LOCI series now... I know NBC has been showing the repeat of this season and dubbing them as "all new", which I guess they are to that channel. But will USA or NBC be airing the "new" new episodes?